Speaker: Emine Eren Koçak Time: January 22, 2026,16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: One of the most fundamental questions in psychiatry is why certain individuals develop mental disorders after exposure to stressors while others don’t. This talk explores the neurobiological basis of stress susceptibility. Dendritic atrophy is well-demonstrated after chronic stress exposure in medial […]

Speaker: Bilge Mutlu (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Time: January 6, 2026,11:00 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: Human-robot interaction is often framed in terms of interfaces, autonomy, or task performance. In this talk, I argue that HRI is more productively understood as the study of distributed cognitive systems where cognition emerges across humans, machines, and […]

Title: Keeping in Mind What’s Worth Keeping: How the Mind Reactivates What Matters Speaker: Eren Günseli (Sabancı University) Time: December 11, 2025, 16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: Working memory is often described as a mental workspace that actively keeps task-relevant information online. Yet, sustaining such activation is metabolically costly and […]

Title: Neural Mechanisms of Multisensory Behavioral Control Speaker: İsmail Uyanık (Hacettepe University) Time: November 6, 2025, 16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: The central nervous system (CNS) processes sensory information obtained through various sensory structures in the body. These include signals with a wide variety of spatiotemporal features, such as different […]

Title: Using Language Models to Explore Semantic Representation in the Brain Speaker: Emin Celik Time: 9 October 2025,15:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract:  Can language models help us make sense of how our brains process language when we read or listen? In this talk, I will tell you about how we […]

Below is a list of seminars we will be hosting during the 2025 Spring Semester. All are cordially invited. Contact our administrative staff for the Zoom links. POSTPONED: 15 May, 16:30 Yildiray Yildiz (in person)

Bilkent University will have an Open House on 25 March 2023 to introduce the graduate programs to prospective students. The Neuroscience program will have a session, too. See the program website: http://gradopenhouse.bilkent.edu.tr/index.html Register for the event from here: https://stars.bilkent.edu.tr/mfbe-openhouse/

25 October 2022, 17:00, Prof. Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University “Neuroergonomics: Towards Ubiquitous and Continuous Measurement of Brain Function during Everyday Life” 23 December 2022, 17:30, Dr. Can Barış Top, ASELSAN Research Center, Sensors and Imaging Technologies “Towards Human Sized Magnetic Particle Imaging”