All seminars held in Lipsett Amphitheater and can be viewed via NIH VideoCasting  .
Seminar Series Dates: September 24, 2012- June 3, 2013
To arrange to meet with an invited speaker, contact the host for that speaker (see seminar schedule for hosts). |
September
24
, 2012
12 Noon
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EYAL SEIDEMANN, PHD
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Decision related activity and top-down attentional modulations in primate VI
Host(s): Bruce Cumming
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October
1
, 2012
12 Noon
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RON KOPITO, PHD
Department of Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Protein homeostasis and aggregation in neurodegenerative disease
Host(s): Richard Youle
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October
22
, 2012
12 Noon
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DAVID GINTY, PHD
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The organization and development of neurons that underlie the sense of touch
Host(s): Mike Iadarola
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November
5
, 2012
12 Noon
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NIRAO SHAH, MD, PHD
Department of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco
The genetics and neurobiology of social behaviors: understanding how we mate, fight, and parent
Host(s): Leo Belluscio
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November
19
, 2012
12 Noon
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MICHELE BASSO, PHD
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior UCLA
Cognition, Movement and Parkinson's disease
Host(s): Richard Krauzlis
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November
26
, 2012
12 Noon
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BRIAN KASPAR, PHD
Department of Pediatrics
Ohio State University School of Medicine
Cellular Culprits and Mechanisms Involved in ALS
Host(s): Bryan Traynor
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December
3
, 2012
12 Noon
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*** Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Lecture ***
ANN MARIE CRAIG, PHD
Department of Psychiatry
University of British Columbia
Synaptic organizing complexes
Host(s): Craig Blackstone
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December
10
, 2012
12 Noon
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ANTHONY LAMANTIA, PHD
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Specification of olfactory and forebrain stem cells during early embryonic development
Host(s): Susan Wray
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December
17
, 2012
12 Noon
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SACHA NELSON, MD, PHD
Department of Biology
Brandeis University
Physiological genomics of cortical circuits
Host(s): Chris McBain
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January
7
, 2013
12 Noon
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KAMRAN KHODAKHAH, PHD
Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Cerebello-basal ganglia interactions in health & disease
Host(s): Zayd Khaliq
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January
14
, 2013
12 Noon
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EMMANUEL MIGNOT, MD, PHD
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Stanford University School of Medicine
Narcolepsy, Autoimmunity and Influenza
Host(s): Kathleen Merikangas
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January
28
, 2013
12 Noon
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PIETER ROELFSEMA, MD, PHD
Department of Neurobiology of Cognition and Behavior
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam
Algorithms for perceptual grouping in the primate brain
Host(s): Bob Wurtz
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February
4
, 2013
12 Noon
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DAVID VAN ESSEN, PHD
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University in St. Louis
The Human Connectome Project: progress and perspectives
Host(s): Kevin Briggman
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February
11
, 2013
12 Noon
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*** Robert J. Wenthold Memorial Lecture ***
RICHARD HUGANIR, PHD
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Regulation of glutamate receptors and synaptic plasticity in the brain
Host(s): Avi Nath
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February
25
, 2013
12 Noon
 |
ANDREA HOHMANN, PHD
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University Bloomington
Harnessing the endocannabinoid system to suppress pain
Host(s): Miles Herkenham
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March
4
, 2013
12 Noon
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ELLEN LUMPKIN, PHD
Departments of Dermatology and Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Mechanisms of sensory signaling in a mammalian touch receptor
Host(s): Andrew Griffith
|
March
11
, 2013
12 Noon
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JONATHAN FLINT, MD
Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology
Merton College, University of Oxford
Genetic Analysis of Depression in 6,000 Cases of Recurrent Depression in Chinese Women
Host(s): Kathleen Merikangas
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March
18
, 2013
12 Noon
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SUZANNE HABER, PHD
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
University of Rochester Medical Ctr School of Medicine and Dentistry
Neurocircuitry of incentive-based learning: linking connectivity to function and disease
Host(s): Elisabeth Murray
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March
25
, 2013
12 Noon
|
Cancelled
|
April
8
, 2013
12 Noon
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RUSSELL POLDRACK, PHD
Department of Psychology and Neurobiology
University of Texas at Austin
Relating mental and neural representations using multivariate fMRI analyses
Host(s): Peter Bandettini
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April
22
, 2013
12 Noon
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ULRICH MUELLER, PHD
Department of Cell Biology
Scripps Research Institute
Molecular constituents of the mechanotransduction machinery of cochlear hair cells
Host(s): Bechara Kachar
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April
29
, 2013
12 Noon
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TIBOR HARKANY, PHD
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Karolinska Institute
Molecular dissection of cannabis sensitivity in the developing brain
Host(s): Chris McBain
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May
6
, 2013
12 Noon
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PIETRO DE CAMILLI, MD
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
Membrane Dynamics and Phosphoinositide Signaling in the Endocytic Pathway
Host(s): Tamas Balla
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May
13
, 2013
12 Noon
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*** Location is moved to Masur Auditorium Building 10 ***
TIMOTHY RYAN, PHD
Department of Biochemistry
Weill Cornell Medical College
What your brain uses to think: the biology of synapses and their control
Host(s): Ling-Gang Wu
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May
20
, 2013
12 Noon
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ANNA DEVOR, PHD
Department of Neurosciences and Radiology
University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Neurovascular coupling: noninvasive imaging "signatures" of microscopic mechanisms
Host(s): Peter Bandettini
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June
3
, 2013
12 Noon
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EHUD ISACOFF, PHD
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Light-gated glutamate receptors: transmission and plasticity
Host(s): Kenton Swartz
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