2012 - 2013 Seminars

September 10, 2012


“Dynamic reconfiguration of retinal circuits”

Marla Feller, PhD, UC Berkley






September 17, 2012

“Common Pathways in neurodegeneration:

focus on lysosomes”

Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD, MGH Harvard University






October 1, 2012


“Pathogenesis of Selective Neurodegeneration in Huntington’s Disease:
Insights from Designer Mouse Models”

X. William Yang, MD, PhD, UCLA






November 12, 2012


“Using stem cells to understand and treat Alzheimer’s disease”

Lawrence Goldstein, PhD, UCSD






November 19, 2012


“A new C. elegans cell death program:implications for neurodegeneration”

Shai Shaham, PhD, Rockefeller University






December 3, 2012


“Structural plasticity of GABAergic circuits in adult visual cortex”

Elly Nedivi, PhD, MIT






December 10, 2012


“Constructing and maintaining excitatory synapses”

Matthew Dalva, PhD,  Thomas Jefferson University






January 14, 2013


“Epigenetic mechanisms regulating memory formation in health and disease”

Li-Huei Tsai, PhD, MIT






January 28, 2013


SACKLER LECTURE 

“Optical Deconstruction of Fully-Assembled Biological Systems”

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Stanford University


February 18, 2013        




March 29, 2013


"Genome-wide Profiling of Translation Initiation and Protein Synthesis"

Nicholas Ingolia, PhD, Johns Hopkins University


"Regulation of synaptic function in health and disease"

Patrik Verstreken,PhD, KU Leuven, Center for Human Genetics


April 8, 2013


“The Workings of Glutamatergic Synapses:  Motors, Receptors and Auxilliary Proteins”

Villu Maricq, MD,PhD, University of Utah






June 10, 2013


“TBD”

Frank Bradke, PhD, DZNE