Seminars
SPRING 2009
Wednesdays - 4:00 pm, PY 101
February 18
Jonathan R. Wolpaw, M.D. (Host: David Koceja)
Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Title of talk: "The CNS mechanisms and therapeutic uses of a simple motor skill"
Homepage: http://www.wadsworth.org/resnres/bios/wolpaw_pubs.htm
March 25
Jeffery Mogil, Ph.D. (Host: Heather Bradshaw)
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Title of Talk: " Pain, sex, and your mother s"
Co-Sponsored with the Linda & Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Homepage: http://paingeneticslab.ca/4105/02_01_jeffrey_mogil.asp
April 1
Colleen A. McClung, Ph.D. (Host: Andrea Gillman)
Department of Psychiatry, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas
Title of Talk: "A Role for the Circadian Genes in Psychiatric Diseases"
Homepage: http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/professional/0,2356,50081,00.html
April 8
D. James Surmeier, Ph.D. (Host: Heather Bradshaw)
Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
Title of Talk: "To go or not to go: dopaminergic modulation of striatal synaptic plasticity"
Co-Sponsored with the Linda & Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Homepage: http://www.physio.northwestern.edu/Secondlevel/Surmeier.html
April 15
Tibor Harkany, Ph.D. (Host: Ken Mackie)
University of Aberdeen, School of Medical Sciences, and the Karolinska Institutet
Title of Talk: " Endocannabinoid signaling during brain development"
Co-Sponsored with the Linda & Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Homepage: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ims/staff/details.php?id=t.harkany
April 22
Klaus Armin Nave, Ph.D. (Host: Heather Bradshaw)
Max Planck institute of Experimental Medicine
Title of Talk: "Axon-glia interactions and mouse models of human myelin disease"
Co-Sponsored with the Linda & Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Homepage: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/58012.html
FALL 2008
Wednesdays - 4:00 pm, PY 101
September 10
Jean Decety, Ph.D. (Host: Luiz Pessoa)
University of Chicago
Title of talk: "Empathy and its Modulation: Cognitive neuroscience investigations"
Homepage: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/jdecety.shtml
September 17
Nephi Stella, Ph.D. (Host: Ken Mackie)
University of Washington, School of Medicine
Title of Talk: "Targeting enzymes that hydrolyze endocannabinoids for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases"
Co-Sponsored with the Linda & Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Homepage: http://depts.washington.edu/stellalb/index.shtml
October 15
Margaret McCarthy, Ph.D. (Host: Heather Bradshaw)
University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Title of Talk: "Multiple mechanisms, one goal-secual differentiation of the brain"
Homepage: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/FACULTYRESEARCHPROFILE/viewprofile.aspx?id=2774
October 22
George D. Pollak, Ph.D. (Host: Laura Hurley)
University of Texas at Austin
Title of Talk: "TBA"
Homepage: http://www.utexas.edu/neuroscience/Neurobiology/GeorgePollak/index.html
November 5
Ruth I. Wood, Ph.D. (Host: Greg Demas)
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Title of Talk: "Anabolic steroid addiction? Insights from animal
studies"
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University
Homepage: http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/util/directories/faculty/profile.php?PersonIs_ID=1282
November 12
Tibor Harkany, Ph.D. (Host: Ken Mackie)
University of Aberdeen, School of Medican Sciences, and the Karolinska Institutet
Title of Talk: "Endocannabinoid signaling during brain development"
Co-Sponsored with the Linda & Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Homepage: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ims/staff/details.php?id=t.harkany
PAST TALKS
SPRING 2008
Mondays - 4:00 pm, PY 101
March 31
Ted Abel, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Title of talk: "The molecular mechanisms of long-term memeory storage"
Homepage: http://www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/abel.htm
Andrea Hohmann, Ph.D.
University of Georgia
Title of talk: "Cannabinoid mechanisms of pain suppression"
Homepage: http://www.uga.edu/psychology/faculty/ahohmann.html
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
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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