Spring 2008 Seminars

January


Monday, January 14th
CLM Recruitment Seminar
Leon Reijmers, Ph.D
University of California, San Diego
"Genetic Tools for Studying Memory Circuits."
MBB 1.210, 4 pm

Hosted by Dan Johnston

Tuesday, January 22nd
CLM Recruitment Seminar
Hiroshi Nishiyama, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
"Axonal motility in the intact, adult cerebellum."
ACES 2.402, 4 pm
Hosted by Dan Johnston


Monday, January 28th
CLM Recruitment Seminar
Gabe Murphy, Ph.D.
University of Washington
"Signals and Noise in Parallel Retinal Circuits."
MBB 1.210, 4 pm
Hosted by Dan Johnston

February

Monday, February 4th
Fulton Crews, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Neurodegeneration and regeneration in Alcohol
Dependence and Recovery"
MBB 1.210, 4 pm

Hosted by Adron Harris


Tuesday, Febraury 5th
CLM Recruitment Seminar
Yingxi Lin, Ph.D.
Harvard University
"Activity-dependent regulation of inhibiory synapse devleopment."
SEA 4.244, 4 pm
Hosted by Dan Johnston

Thursday, February 14th
Ian Forsythe, Ph.D.
University of Leicester
"Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal excitability in the auditory brainstem."
ACES 2.402, 4 pm
Hosted by Nace Golding


Monday, February 18th
Richard Mooney, Ph.D.
Duke University

"Mirror neurons and phantom feedback: neural circuits for learned
vocalizations"
MBB1.210, 4 pm
Hosted by Dan Johnston


Thursday, February 21st
Neurobiology Recruitment Seminar
Aaron McGee, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
"Inhibition of plasticity in the injured and intact CNS"
ACES 2.402, 4 pm
Hosted by Rick Aldrich


Monday, February 25th
CLM Recruitment Seminar
Farah Lubin, Ph.D.
University of Alabama
"Epigenetic Gene Regulation in the Adult Hippocampus: 
Implications in Memory Formation and Epilepsy"
MBB 1.210, 4 pm
Hosted by Dan Johnston



Wednesday, February 28th
CLM Recruitment Seminar
Norbert Fortin , Ph.D.
Boston University
"Episodic memory in animals: role of the hippocampus."
ACES 2.402, 4:30 pm
Hosted by Dan Johnston

March

Monday, March 3rd
John Lisman, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
"CaMKII: evidence for it's role as a molecular memory."
MBB 1.210, 4 pm
Hosted by Dan Johnston

Monday, March 17th
Cindy Jordan, Ph.D.
Michigan State University
"Motoneuron Disease: New direction for therapeutics."
MBB 1.210, 4 pm
Hosted by Harold Zakon

Thursday, March 20th
Neurobiology Recruitment Seminar
Jonathan Pierce-Shimomura , Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
"Neurogenetic basis of complex behaviors in C. elegans"
ACES 2.402, 4 pm
Hosted by Adron Harris


Tuesday, March 25th
Neurobiology Recruitment Seminar
Ryan Bachtell, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Role of cocaine-induced adaptations in the nucleus accumbens on addictive behavior"
ACES 2.402, 4 pm
Hosted by Adron Harris

April

Thursday, April 3rd
Neurobiology Recruitment Seminar
Kwoon Wong, Ph.D.
Brown University
"Cells and circuits setting the mammalian biological clock"
ACES 2.402, 4 pm
Hosted by Rick Aldrich

Monday, April 7th

David Gadsby , Ph.D.

The Rockefeller University
"Mapping the ion pathway through the living Na,K-ATPase pump in situ"

MBB 1.210 , 4 pm
Hosted by Richard Aldrich

Tuesday, April 8th
Neurobiology Recruitment Seminar
Adi Inbal , Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
"Genetic regulation of forebrain development in zebrafish: lessons from Six3"
ACES 2.302, 4 pm
Hosted by Seema Agarwala & Wes Thompson


Thursday, April 10th
Neurobiology Recruitment Seminar
Matthew Voas, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Genetic analysis of myelinated axon development in zebrafish."
ACES 2.402, 4 pm
Hosted by Rick Aldrich


Postponed

Monday, April 14th
Arturo De Lozanne , Ph.D
University of Texas at Austin, MCDB
"Regulation of Membrane Trafficking by BEACH Proteins"
MBB 1.210, 4 pm

Hosted by Nigel Atkinson


Monday, April 21st
Boris Tabakoff, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
"The genomics of alcohol preference."
MBB 1.210, 4 pm

Hosted by Adron Harris


Monday, April 28th
Susan Dymecki, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School

"Cell fate to cell function in the brainstem."
MBB 1.210, 4 pm
Hosted by Seema Agarwala

May

Monday, May 5th
Kim Huber, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center

“Synaptic plasticity and dendritic protein synthesis”
MBB 1.210, 4 pm
Hosted by Kim Raab-Graham


Monday, May 12th
James Surmeier , Ph.D.
Northwestern University
"Dopaminergic modulation of striatal dendritic and synaptic plasticity"
MBB 1.210 4 pm
Hosted by Hitoshi Morikawa


Monday, May 19th
Mark Konishi, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
"Neural mechanisms of sound localization in owls"
MBB 1.210, 4 pm
Hosted by Nace Golding