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Upcoming

Spring Hippocampal Research, Verona, Italy

Engrams and Ensembles in Learning and Memory, Dublin, Ireland

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Montreal, Canada

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Location TBD

Yale Molecular Psychiatry's Seminar Series, New Haven, CT

Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity, Fiji

NIH Neuroscience Seminar, Bethesda, MD

2024

Westchester Medical Center (Virtual)

RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan

Korea Brain Institute, Daegu, South Korea

Keynote, Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference, Tuscany, Italy

Science Day, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Cognitive Neuroscience Society Symposium, Toronto, Canada

North Atlantic Microscopy Society Conference, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Utah Women in Neuroscience (UWiN) Speaker Series, Salt Lake City, UT

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

2023

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL

Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC

Tufts University, Boston, MA

McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Exploring the Amygdala in Pathology and Physiology, Gordon Research Conference, Barcelona, Spain

Spring Hippocampal Research Conference, Verona, Italy

Memory Dogmas Reexamined, New York University, New York, NY

Janelia Causes and Implications of Representational Drift Meeting, Howard Hughes Research Campus, Ashburn, VA

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Workshop, Montreal, Canada

Sunposium, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, West Palm Beach, FL

Psychology Department Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, NY

Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Park City, UT

Bioengineering Seminar Series, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity, Los Cabos, Mexico

Society for Neuroscience minisymposium, Washington, DC

2022

ISN School on Miniaturized Fluorescence Microscopy, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Student-Nominated Speaker: Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin

Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

GRC Neurobiology of Cognition, Newry, ME

Sculpted Light in the Brain, Boston, MA

American Society for Cell Biology Committee for Postdocs and Students (ASCB-COMPASS) Webinar (Virtual)

McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, Aspen, CO

NeuroWire Virtual Club (Virtual)

Neurizons, Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences (Virtual)

Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (Virtual)

Trainee Health and Wellness Committee, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Virtual)

Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin (Virtual)

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Workshop, Cascais, Portugal

Department of Neuroscience, Pennsylvania State University (Virtual)

2021

Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin

Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA

NSF-sponsored Rocky Mountain Summit, University of Colorado, CO

Klingenstein-Simons Foundation Annual Meeting, New York, NY

Department of Engineering, Duke University, Raleigh-Durham, NC

Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY

Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Connectome Conference, Virtual Event

Cybertalk Seminar, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, FL

Neurophotonics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA

2020

Neurosciences Graduate Program Seminar Series, University of California-San Diego

Neurophotonics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Winter Brain Conference, Big Sky, MT

Department of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Swammerdam Lecture Series, University of Rotterdam, Amsterdam

IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience Meeting, Daegu, Korea

Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (MCCS) Asia, Seoul, South Korea

2019

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Meeting, Orlando, FL

Department of Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

Center for Developmental Neuroscience, College of Staten Island, CUNY, New York, NY

Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, City University of New York-Manhattan (CUNY), New York, NY

Neuroscience Center Retreat, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

One Mind Rising Star Music Festival, Napa Valley, CA

European Behavioral Pharmacology Society, Braga, Portugal

Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

Oxford Neuroscience, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Hippocampal Research Conference, Taormina, Italy

Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

SPIE Neurophotonics West Conference, San Francisco, CA

2018

Allen Institute/Salk Institute Meeting, La Jolla, CA

Pavlovian Society Meeting, Iowa City, IA

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Berlin, Germany

NeuroFutures Conference, Seattle, WA

International Conference on Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, CA

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) Conference, Denver, CO

Winter Conference on Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Park City, UT

2017

Allen Institute Showcase, Seattle, WA

NIEHS Neurobiology Seminar Series, Durham, NC

Center for the Memory and Brain Seminar Series, Boston University, Boston, MA

Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Hippocampal Research Conference, Taormina, Italy

Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Mind/Brain Institute, Baltimore, MD

Department of Neuroscience, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA

Department of Neuroscience, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Montreal, Canada (2023)

Calcium and Voltage Imaging Dynamics, Panelist, New York, NY (2023)

ISN School on Miniaturized Fluorescence Microscopy, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022)

Co-Organizer, Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference, Newry, ME (2022)

2021 Virtual Miniscopes Workshop, Hosted by Metacell (2021)

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Workshop, Virtual presentation (2021)

Miniscope Workshop, Israeli Society for Neuroscience, Tel Aviv, Israel (2020)

Department of Neuroscience, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (2019)

Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (2019, 2018)

Neuroscience Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (2018)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Imaging Course (2018)

Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC (2018)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitӓt München, Munich, Germany (2017)

Molecular Cellular Cognition Society, San Diego, CA (2017)

“Asian American Women in Science and Medicine,” The Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY (2021)

“Addressing the Leaky Pipeline in Science: Issues Facing New Moms,’ Society of Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting (2018)

“Is it Really Harder to Be a Woman in Neuroscience?” Diverse Brains Seminar Series, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2018)

Elected Secretary, Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (2024 - present)

Co-Director, Computational and Systems Neuroscience Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2024 - present)

Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee, COSYNE Annual Meeting (2023-2025)

Member, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee, COSYNE 2024 Annual Meeting

Elected Member, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2022)

Appointed Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2020 - present)

Elected Member, Memory Disorders Research Society (2021)

Chair, Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference (2021-2022)

Vice-Chair, Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference (2019-2020)

Co-Chair, Hippocampus Meeting Symposium (2019-2022)

Co-Chair, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Conference Panel (2019)

Member, Women’s Task Force, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2019)

Co-Chair, Allen Institute Next Generation Leader Council (2018-2019)

Elected Associate Member, American College of Neuropsychomarmacology (2017)

Appointed Member, UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Fellow (2024 - present)

Functional Assays Working Group, Psychedelics Research Initiative, Coalition for Aligning Science (2024 - present)

Appointed Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars (MSNseminars), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2022 - Present)

PhD Thesis Committees (Internal and External Reviewer): 15 (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Labs: Kiraly, Goate, Nicolas-Harony, Russo, Schiller, Slesinger, Shaefer)

Appointed to Mentoring Team for the NIH FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) Cohort Initiative at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2021)

Appointed Member, Committee on Anti-Asian Bias, ISMMS (2021 - present)

Appointed Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience (2020 - present)

Appointed Member, Diverse Brains Committee (2020)

Appointed Co-Chair, Faculty Retreat, Friedman Brain Institute (2020)

Co-Mentor for K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award – Dr. Sarah Stern; postdoctoral fellow, Friedman Lab, Rockefeller University; PI Stern Lab, Max Planck Institute, FL

Co-Mentor for K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award – Dr. Kirstie Cummings; postdoctoral fellow, Clem Lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; PI Cummings Lab, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Appointed Chief, Center for Affective Neuroscience, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience (2018)

Appointed Member, Department of Neuroscience Faculty Search Committee (2018)

Appointed Co-host, Annual Friedman Brain Institute Retreat (2018)

Program Committee, Emerging Neurotechnology Course, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

At ISMMS: Neurocore 3, Co-director

Invited Lecturer, Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Adjunct Instructor, UCSD Department of Psychology, San Diego, CA

eLife, Reviewer

Behavioral Neuroscience, Consulting editor

Biological Psychiatry, Reviewer

Cell, Reviewer

Cognitive Computation, Reviewer

Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Reviewer

Journal of Neuroscience, Reviewer

Molecular Psychiatry, Reviewer

Nature, Reviewer

Nature Communications, Reviewer

Nature Methods, Reviewer

Nature Neuroscience, Reviewer

Neuron, Reviewer

Neuropsychopharmacology, Reviewer

PLOS Computational Biology, Reviewer

Science, Reviewer

Reviewer, NIH BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits, 2022

NIH, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Learning, Memory, and Decision Neuroscience (2019-2020)

Volunteered at a booth open to local students and community members

Panelist for a seminar course

Panelist on two panels: Managing Money, Time, and Information and Leading Your Lab

Presented a seminar about issues and successes for women in STEM during the UW Center of Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion Seminar Series

The Cai Lab has hosted 3 high school interns, including Anthony Imbert (Posse STEM Scholar), as part of the Sherman Scholars Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Served as a mentor during a Society for Neuroscience-sponsored social for underrepresented people in STEM

Hosted by the Trainee Health and Wellness Committee at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The Cai lab hosted students from the Harlem Educational Activities (HEAF) Program for a 6-week program of remote learning about foundational concepts in neuroscience and themes related to careers in neuroscience. Undergraduate interns, PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows served as near-peer and senior mentors.

Invited presentation (via Zoom) to the Board of Trustees and Major Donors hosted by the Friedman Brain Institute and the Office for Development at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to discuss the importance of basic science and translational research in trauma.

Invited presentation hosted by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation in New York for guests from the Philanthropists Circle of China and from prominent science research funding agencies in the US.