Seminars

Thu- Mar 31, 2011
12:00 PM
SHM I-304
Visual Experience and the Development of Cortical Direction Selectivity

David Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Scientific Director and C.E.O.
Director, Dept. of Cortical Circuit Function
Max Planck Florida Institute
Mon- Feb 28, 2011
12:00 PM
BCMM 206
GABAergic Transmission and Spontaneous Network Events in the Neonatal Hippocampus

Kai Kaila, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Biological & Environmental Sciences
University of Helsinki
Finland
Mon- Feb 24, 2011
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304

New Evidence for Aluminum Neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's Disease
J.R. Walton Ph.D.
Professor,University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine

Australia

Thu - Feb 17,2011
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
The Role of Neural Precursor Cell Heterogeneity During Development of the Mammalian NeoCortex
Tarik F. Haydar, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Boston University
Thu - Feb 10,2011
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Physiological Genomics and the Problem of Cortical Cell Types
Sacha Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Brandeis University
Mon - Jan 31,2011
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
The Human Connectome Project: Opportunities and Challengees in Mapping Human Brain Circuitry
David C. Van Essen, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine
Thu - Jan 27,2011
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
The Other Sixth Sense: What Aristotle Didn't Know
Dora E. Angelaki, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine
Thu - Jan 20,2011
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Starting at the Top: Inputs and Interneurons in Layer 1 of Neocortex
Barry W. Connors, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
Brown University
Thu - Dec 2,2010
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Associative Memory Formation and Consolidation in the Human Brain
Lila Davachi, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
New York University
Thu - Sep 30,2010
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Visualizing the Neuronal Orchestra: Optical Studies of Neural Dynamics in Behaving Subjects
Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D.
Depts. of Biology and Applied Physics
Stanford University
Tue - Aug 10,2010
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Metamemory and the Prefrontal Cortex
Shintaro Funahashi, Ph.D.
Kokoro Research Center
Kyoto University
Thu - Apr 8,2010
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Molecular Understanding of Major Mental Illnesses: Advantages and Pitfalls of Candidate Gene Approaches
Akira Sawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Program in Molecular Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
Thu - Dec 17, 2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Inhibition in the Developing Visual System

Hollis T. Cline Ph.D.
Dept. of Cell Biology & Chemical Physiology
The Scripps Research Institute
San Diego, CA
Thu - Oct 29, 2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Dynamics of Cortical Networks

Henry Kennedy Ph.D.
Dir., Stem Cells & Brain Research Inst.; Dept. Integrative Neuroscience
Inserm U 846 Stem Cells & Brain Research Inst.
France
Thu - Oct 15,2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Allelic Variation and Alternative Transcripts In Human Brain Development and Schizophrenia
Joel E. Kleinman, M.D., Ph.D.
Neuropathology Section, Clinical Disorders Branch
National Institute of Mental Health
Thu - Oct 8, 2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Molecular Biology of Social Interactions

Yi Rao Ph.D.
Dean, Peking Univ. School of Life Sciences; Assoc. Dir., Nat'l Institute of Biological Sciences
Peking University
China
Thu - Sep 24, 2009
4:00 PM
Hope 110
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Addiction

Eric J. Nestler M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Mount Sinai Brain Institute; Chair, Dept. of Neuroscience; Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

2009 Goldman-Rakic NARSAD Distinguished Lecture
Thu - Sep 17, 2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Subcortical Neurons Representing Motivational Value and Salience

Okihide Hikosaka M.D., Ph.D.
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
NIH, National Eye Institute
Bethesda, MD
Thu - Sep 3, 2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Wiring the Brain via Eph-Ephrin Bidirectional Signaling

Mark J. Henkemeyer Ph.D.
Center for Developmental Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Tue - May 12, 2009
12:00 PM
BCMM 206
The Frontal Cortex and the Switching and Inhibiting of Behavior

Matthew F.S. Rushworth D.Phil.
Dept. of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford
Thu - Apr 23, 2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Circuits for Cognition in the Primate Brain

Marc A. Sommer Ph.D.
Dept. of Neuroscience; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
University of Pittsburgh
Thu - Apr 2, 2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Coordinating Excitation with Inhibition in Space and Time

Massimo Scanziani Ph.D.
Division of Biology
H.H.M.I.; Univ. of California, San Diego
Thu - Feb 12, 2009
12:00 PM
SHM, I-304
Construction and Function of the GABA Inhibitory Circuits
Z. Josh Huang Ph.D.
Neuroscience
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory