Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, January 26, 2026
Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
How Serotonin Organizes Behaviors Across Timescales
Recommended Readings:
Feng, Likui, et al. “Context-dependent serotonin signaling links dietary quality to foraging decisions.” Nature Communications 16.1 (2025): 10479.
Marquina-Solis, Javier, et al. “Antagonism between neuropeptides and monoamines in a distributed circuit for pathogen avoidance.” Cell Reports 43.4 (2024).
Scheer, Elias, and Cornelia I. Bargmann. “Sensory neurons couple arousal and foraging decisions in Caenorhabditis elegans.” Elife 12 (2023): RP88657.
Stern, Shay, Christoph Kirst, and Cornelia I. Bargmann. “Neuromodulatory control of long-term behavioral patterns and individuality across development.” Cell 171.7 (2017): 1649-1662.
Flavell, Steven W., et al. “Serotonin and the neuropeptide PDF initiate and extend opposing behavioral states in C. elegans.” Cell 154.5 (2013): 1023-1035.
