2011 - 2012 Seminars

October 6, 2011

Synaptic Dysfucntions and activity-dependent neurodegeneratin in knock-out mice lacking Cysteine String Protein-alpha
Rafale Fernandez-Chacon MD, PhD
Institute for Biomedicine in Seville

12:00 noon
BCMM 206/208

October 10, 2011

Blind men and an elephant: observations on the cellular mechanisms of autism
Joshua Tractenberg PhD
UCLA

12:00 noon
BCMM 206/208

October 17, 2011

Signaling Networks Regulating Survival and Death in the Brain
Valina Dawson, PhD
Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine

12:00 noon
BCMM 206/208

October 24, 2011

Damage Control: Role of Pink 1, Parkin in Mitochondrial Authophagy and Parkinson’s Disease
Richard Youle, PhD
NINDS, NIH

12:00 noon
BCMM 206/208

November 11, 2011

Membrane scaffolds in synaptic vesicle exo-endocytosis – from molecules to systems
Volker Haucke, PhD
Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology

2:00 pm
SHM C428

December 12, 2011

Activity-dependent plasticity at C. elegans synapses
Joshua Kaplan, PhD
Mass General Hospital

12:00 noon
Hope 110

January 12, 2012

Molecular mechanisms that assemble neural circuits in the developing visual system
Jeremy Kay, PhD
Harvard University

12:00 noon
BCMM 206/208

January 30, 2012

SACKLER LECTURE
The Genetic Control of Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans
H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D
MIT

12:00 noon
TAC N107

February 6, 2012

Identifying molecular links between neural development and disease: Unlocking the secret (ase) of Presenilin in building neural circuits
Ge Bai, PhD
Salk Instititue

12:00 noon
BCMM 206/208

February 20, 2012

Neuromodulation, zebrafish, and the next generation of voltage indicators
Adam Douglass, PhD
Harvard University

12:00 noon
BCMM 206/208

March 5, 2012

The role of genetics and activity in the specification and maturation of cortical interneurons
Gordon Fishell, PhD
NYU

12:00 noon

Brady Auditorium

March 19, 2012

Mechanisms of Autoimmune Synaptopathies
Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD
UPENN

4:00 pm
Brady Auditorium

April 16, 2012

Dissecting neural computation in the fruit fly visual system
Thomas R. Clandinin, PhD
Stanford University

12:00 noon
Hope 216

May 15, 2012

TBD
Albert La Spada, PhD
UCSD

12:00 noon
Brady