Seminars
FALL 2007
Mondays - 4:00 pm, PY 101
October 1
Keith W. Sockman, Ph.D. (Host: Jim Goodson)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of talk: "Neuroecology of mate choice in songbirds"
Homepage: http://http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/sockman/
November 26
Marcus E. Raichle, M.D. (Host: Olaf Sporns)
Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis
Co-Sponsored with the Grass Foundation Lecture Series
Title of Talk: "Two Views of Brain function"
Homepage: http://www.nil.wustl.edu/labs/raichle/
December 3
Anna W. Roe, Ph.D. (Host: Preston Garraghty)
Vanderbilt University
Title of Talk: "Imaging the Modular Basis of Perception in Primate Cerebral Cortex"
Homepage: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/psychological_sciences/roe
PAST TALKS
SPRING 2007
Mondays - 4:00 pm, PY 101
February 19
Wayne D. Bowen, Ph.D. (Host: Michael Walker)
Brown University
Title of talk: "Sigma-2 Receptor-Mediated Apoptosis in Human SK-N-SH Neuroblastoma Cells"
Homepage: http://bms.brown.edu/mppb/faculty/bowen/index.html
April 23
Steven Hsiao, Ph.D. (Host: James Craig)
Johns Hopkins University
Talk: "Neural Mechanisms of Size and Shape Perception"
Homepage: http://www.mb.jhu.edu/hsiao.asp
FALL 2006
Mondays - 4:00 pm, PY 101
September 25
Bonnie L. Firestein, Ph.D. (Host: Anne Prieto)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Title: "Regulation of Dendrite Patterning in Hippocampal Neurons"
Homepage: http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~molbiosci/Professors/firestein.html
October 2
Marco Atzori, Ph.D. (Host: Laura Hurley)
University of Texas, Dallas
Title: "Muscarinic Control of Synaptic Function in the Neocortex"
Homepage: http://www.utdallas.edu/~marco.atzori/
November 6
Michael A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Host: George Rebec)
University of Kansas
Title: “Mechanisms of Altered Neurotransmitter Release in Huntington’s Disease”
Homepage: http://www2.ku.edu/~chem/johnsonm/
November 20
Alex D. Reyes, Ph.D. (Host: John Beggs)
New York University
Title: “Relation Between Synchrony and Firing Rate in Neural Networks”
Homepage: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/corefaculty/Reyes.php
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