Seminar Series

Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesdays, 12:00 noon, Rm 1495, BST

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
October 25, 2005	Xandra Breakefield, Ph.D. Professor Department of Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital Neurogenetics Unit Boston, Maine	How does mutant torsinA cause torsion dystonia - exploring functions
November 29, 2005	Bruno B. Averbeck, Ph.D. Research Scientist Center for Visual Science Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences University of Rochester	Prefrontal representation of learning in a sequential decision making task
January 10, 2006	Joseph Gleeson Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurosciences University of California San Diego	Mechanisms of neuronal development mediated by the doublecortin gene family
January 31, 2006	Arnold Kriegstein, MD, Ph.D. Director, Institute of Stem Cell and Tissue Biology University of California San Francisco	Neural stem and progenitor cells in the developing cortex
February 14, 2006	Bai Lu, Ph.D. Senior Investigator Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, NICHD Porter Neuroscience Research Ctr. Bethesda, Maryland	BDNF regulates both short-term and long-term memory
March 7, 2006	Peter Somogyi, Ph.D. Professor Department of Neurobiology MRC Unit Director Oxford, UK	Cell type and brain state dependent spike timing in hippocampal network oscillations
April 4, 2006	Nicholas C Spitzer, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biology University of California, San Diego, California	Activity-dependent transmitter specification and receptor matching
April 11, 2006	Joanna L Jankowsky, Ph.D. Professor Division of Biology California Institute of Technology	Modulating the progression of Alzheimer's disease: How mouse models can inform our expectations of human interventions
April 17, 2006	Andrea G Hohmann, Ph.D. Associate Professor Neuroscience and Behavior Program, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia	Role of Cannabinoids in Nociceptive Processing
April 20, 2006 Thursday 11:30AM	Randy Bruno, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg, Germany	Strengths & Weaknesses of Thalamocortical Synapses in Vivo
May 2, 2006	Mary C Mullins, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Cell & Developmental Biology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	Patterning and morphogenesis of the vertebrate embryo: BMPs and behyond

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