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Neuroscience Seminar Series, Fall 2009-Spring 2010

Date Location Presenter Topic
Aug 25 MERF Daniel Tranel, Ph.D., Neuroscience Graduate Program Director
Neurology
"Welcome to Neuroscience Seminar"
Aug 25 MERF Steven Anderson, Ph.D.
Neurology
Program and Course Evaluations
Sep 1 2189 MERF Pamela Wernett "Molecular Mechanisms of MED12 in Neurodevelopment and Disease Processes"
Sep 8 2189 MERF Kanchna Ramchandran "The market protects the aging brain"
Sep 15 MERF Yuriy Usachev
Pharmacology
"Regulation and Function of TRPV1 and TRPM8 Channels in Sensory Neurons"
Sep 22 Neurology Institute Conference Room, C-724 Robert D. Gray
Program Director, Department of Applied Psychology, Arizona State Univeristy
Sensory Integration: Basic Mechanisms, Neuropsychology & Applications
Sep 29 MERF H. A. Jinnah, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Neurology & Human Genetics, Emory University
Lesch-Nyhan Disease as a Developmental Disorder of the Basal Ganglia
Oct 6 MERF Francois Abboud, Ph.D
Internal Medicine, and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
"Sensory signals in the development of neurogenic hypertension"
Oct 13 2189 MERF Audrey Dickey "Mitochondrial Morphogenesis in Neuronal Development and Behavior"
Oct 27 101 BBE Steven Green
Biology
Culture of noise: an in vitro model of acoustic trauma"
Nov 10 Institute of Neurological Disease (7th floor GH, C724) Dr. Amita Sehgal
University of Pennsylvania
"Circadian clocks - a link between metabolism and sleep?"
Nov 10 2117 MERF Stephen J. Korn, Ph.D.
NIH
"Funding Opportunities at the NIH: the review process and tips for achieving success:
Nov 17 2189 MERF Huy Nguyen "Dystroglycan in cerebellar development and disease"
Nov 24 Seminar will not be held today Seminar will not be held today
No Seminar
Dec 1 2189 MERF Ellen van der Plas "Side of cleft matters: The effects of unilateral clefts on brain structure and related behavior."
Dec 8 2189 MERF Long-Sheng Song, M.D.
Internal Medicine
CANCELLED
Dec 15 No Seminar today Seminar will not be held today
No Seminar
Jan 19 1117 MERF Kara Gordon "TorsinA and Protein Quality Control"
Jan 26 1117 MERF Joshua Weiner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
"Regulation of Spinal Cord Development by the Diverse Gamma-Protocadherin Adhesion Molecule Family"
Feb 2 1117 MERF Tim Koscik "Social Inference as a Driving Force in Human Brain Evolution"
Feb 9 1117 MERF Laurie McCormick, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Pathophysiology of Anorexia Nervosa
Feb 16 1117 MERF Cancelled
Seminar is Cancelled
Feb 23 101 BBE Mark Lobas "Molecular heterogeneity in the choriod plexus epithelium: the 22- member y-protocadherin family is differentially expressed, apically localized, and implicated....
Mar 2 1117 MERF Melissa Duff
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
"Hippocampal amnesia impairs creative thinking"
Mar 9 2117 MERF Albert La Spada, M.D.. Ph. D., FACMG
Professor & Division Head of Genetics, Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California - San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy
"Cellular and Molecular Basis of Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 7"
Mar 16 None None
Neuroscience Seminar will not beheld during Spring Break Week, March 15 - 19
Mar 23 101 BBE Michael Dailey
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
"Microglia on the Move: Imaging Glial Cell Responses in Injured Brain Tissues"
Mar 30 1117 MERF Marlene Cano Pharmacological Dissection of Opioid Mechanisms of Antinociception and Anti-hyperalgesia
Apr 6 1117 MERF Bradley Taber-Thomas The insula in political judgment
Apr 6 1117 MERF Matthew Yorek CANCELLED
Apr 20 1117 MERF Michael Levine, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesResearch Center, Semel Institute, University of California - Los Angeles
"From Genes to Circuits in Huntington's Disease: Every Neuron Needs Good Connections"
Apr 27 101 BBE
Kuan-Hua Chen
Atulya Iyengar
Cory A. Massey
Rotation Talks
May 4 2117 MERF Kerry Ressler, MD., Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Behavorial Neuroscience, Emory University
"Neural Mechanisms of Fear and its Inhibitions: From Mice to Men"
May 11 1117 MERF
Austin B. Keeler
Jake C. Kurczek
Hayley S. McLoughlin
Rotation Talks
May 18 1117 MERF
Calvin Carter
Georgina L. Moreno
Jeffrey M. Plume
Rotation Talks
Jun 16 1117 MERF Jerome Sackur
Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Cognitive Studies, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris France
Cognitive Analysis of Introspection

“The people here are exceptional—the faculty, program administrators, and students are outstanding both in and outside of neuroscience.”