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Seminar Series - 2007
Kennedy Room 901
Wednesday, Feb. 6th
Dr. Paul Glimcher
Center for Neural Science
New York University
Seminar: "The Neural Basis of Decision-Making"
Host: Dr. Jose Luis Pena
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Glimcher's website
Wednesday, Feb. 13th
Dr. Martha Constantine-Paton
Professor of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachussets Institute of Technology
Seminar: "Developmental Plasticity: From Open Eyes to NR2A Knock-Out Mice"
Host: Dr. Suzanne Zukin
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Constantine-Paton's website
Wednesday, Feb. 20th
Dr. Jennifer Morgan
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Seminar: "Cytoskeletal Regulation of Nervous System Function"
Host: Dr. Diana Pettit
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Morgan's website
Wednesday, Feb. 27th
Dr. Dominick P. Purpura
Dean Emeritus
AECOM
Seminar: "In Search of a Neuroscience of AUTISM"
Host: Dr. Alberto Pereda
Time: 12:30pm
Wednesday, March 5th
Dr. Peter Brink
Professor and Chairman
SUNY at Stony Brook
Seminar: "Role of Gap Junctions in Tissue and Organ Repair"
Host: Dr. Vyto Verselis
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Brink's website
Wednesday, March 12th
Dr. Julie Kauer
Professor
Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Brown University
Seminar: "TRPV1: a hot new mechanism required for hippocampal synaptic plasticity"
Host: Dr. Suzanne Zukin
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Kauer's website
Wednesday, March 19th
Dr. Thomas Hedberg
Department of Neurology/Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Seminar: "Botulinum Neurotoxins and CNS Pharmacotherapy: New Possibilities"
Host: Dr. Don Faber
Time: 12:30pm
Monday, March 24th
Dr. Javier DeFelipe
Instituto Cajal (CSIC)
Seminar: "The pyramidal neuron in cognition"
Host: Dr. Alberto Pereda
Time: 12:30pm
Wednesday, March 26th
Dr. Cheryl Frye
Professor
Department of Psychology
The University at Albany - SUNY
Seminar: "Neurosteroids...of the nervous system, by the nervous system and for the nervous system"
Host: Dr. Jana Veliskova
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Frye's website
Wednesday, April 2nd
Dr. David McCormick
Department of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Seminar: "Combined analog and digitial communication in the brain"
Host: Dr. Pablo Castillo
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. McCormick's website
Monday, April 7th
Dr. Valeria Cavalli
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Hope Center for Neurological Disorders
Washington University in St Louis
Seminar: "Sunday Driver: Linking Axonal Transport to Nerve Regeneration"
Host: Dr. Donald Faber
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Cavalli's website
Wednesday, April 9th
Dr. Joseph Cheer
Department of Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience
Albany Medical College
Seminar: "The neurobiology of internal bliss: What do cannabinoid receptors have to do with it?"
Host: Dr. Alberto Pereda
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Cheer's website
Wednesday, April 16th
Dr. Sarah Woolley
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Columbia University
Seminar: "Neural Coding of Vocalizations in Songbirds"
Host: Dr. Joes Luis Pena
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Woolley's website
Wednesday, April 23rd
Dr. Okihide Hikosaka
Section of Neuronal Networks
National Institutes of Health
Seminar: "Integration of Cognition and Motivation in the Basal Ganglia and Surrounding Structures"
Host: Dr. Saleem Nicola
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Hikosaka's website
Wednesday, April 30th
Dr. Katherine Roche
Investigator
Receptor Biology Unit
National Institutes of Health
Seminar: "Regulation of Glutamate Receptors: Trafficking and Phosphorylation"
Host: Dr. Suzanne Zukin
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Roche's website
Wednesday, May 7th
Dr. Gina Turrigiano
Professor of Biology
Brandeis University
Seminar: "Hebb and Homeostasis in Nueral Circuit Function"
Host: Dr. Pablo Castillo
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Turrigiano's website
Wednesday, May 14th *CANCELLED*
Dr. Daniel Johnston
Professor of Neurobiology
School of Biological Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
Seminar: "Bi-directional changes in dendritic excitability accompanying LTP and LTD in hippocampal neurons"
Host: Dr. Pablo Castillo
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Johnston's website
Wednesday, May 21st *Distinguished Neuroscientist Lecture*
Dr. Rodolfo Llinas
Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience
NYU Medical Center
Seminar: "The Thalamo-Cortical System. Thoughts on its Function and Dysfunction"
Host: Dr. Dominick Purpura
Place: Price Center Auditorium
Time: 4:00pm followed by a reception
Dr. Llinas' website
Wednesday, June 4th
Dr. A.J. Hudspeth
Professor
Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience
Rockefellar University
Seminar: "Making an Effort to Listen: Mechanical Amplification by Myosin Molecules and Ion Channels in Hair Cells of the Inner Ear"
Host: Dr. Mike Bennett
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Hudspeth's website
Wednesday, June 11th
Dr. Ava Udvadia
Assistant Professor
Developmental and Molecular Neuroscience
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Seminar: The “Regeneration Gap”: GAP-43 Gene Regulation During Zebrafish CNS Development and Regeneration
Host: Dr. Diana Pettit
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Udvadia's website
Wednesday, June 18th
Dr. Peter Narins
Professor
Department of Physiological Science
University of California at Los Angeles
Seminar: "Ultrasonic Sensitivity in an Old World Frog: A Neuroethological Approach"
Host: Dr. Jose Lius Pena
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Narin's website
Wednesday, June 25th
Dr. Byron D. Ford
Neuroscience Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine
Seminar: "Neuroprotective roles for Neuregulin-1 in Ischemic Stroke and Nerve Agent Neurotoxicity"
Host: Dr. Anne Etgen
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Ford's website
Works in Progress Meetings
Kennedy Room 901 - 12:30-1:30pm
September 6 - WIP Meeting
September 20 - Collene Lawhorn
September 13 - Stacy Reeber
October 4 - Lucien Alexandre
October 11 - Carmen Flores
October 12- Mana Mirjany
October 18- Joe Abrajano
October 25- Greg Hoge
November 1 - Dan Scott
November 8 - Neuroscience
November 15 - Christina Aguirre-Chen
November 29 - Kurt Marsden
December 6 - Hunki Paek
December 13- Ali Sharma
December 20-
January 10 - Kathryn Harper
January 17 - Volkan Granit
January 24 - Ed Carlin
January 31 - Dimitri Ofengeim
February 7 - Paola Calderon
February 14 - Tejinder Kaur
February 21 - Manuela Polydoro
February 28- Julia Grushko
March 6 - Nozomi Sakai
March 13 - Michelle Antione
March 20 - Mario Penzo
March 27 - Marmur Symposium
March 28 - Tanya Casimiro
April 3 - Daniel Basilio Seyler
April 10 - Rebecca Jones
April 17 - Latha Swamy
April 24 - Johanna Dizon
May 1 - Frank Diaz
May 8 - Arlene Bravo
May 15 - Cristin Davidson & David Hunt
May 22 - Xiaoxuan Jia
& Stefanie Wissig
May 29 - Matt Micsenyi & Veera Mahadomrongkul
June 7 - Graduation
June 12 - Melissa Rampino & Louisa Steinberg
June 19 - Sung-Min Park & Gregory Gutin
June 26 - Giang Nguyen
Journal Club
Kennedy Room 901 - 12:30-1:30pm
February 8 - Gregory Hoge
March 7 - Arlene Bravo
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