Neuroscience Graduate Program
Seminar Series Calendar 2007-2008

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Date

Speaker/Institution

September 6, 2007

NSGP Faculty Trainers Meeting

September 13, 2007

Sebastian Seung – MIT
"Toward a new science of connectomics
"

September 20, 2007

Robert Gereau – Washington University School of Medicine
"Spinal mechanisms of pain sensitization: receptors, kinases, and ion channels"

September 27, 2007

Russell Epstein – University of Pennsylvania
"Mapping the map in the brain: fMRI studies of place recognition"

October 4, 2007

Mriganka Sur – MIT

  October 11, 2007

Bryan Hains – Yale University
"Modulation of pain after spinal cord injury by remotely activated thalamic microglia"

  October 18, 2007

Michael Crair – Yale University
"Mechanisms of sensory map development"

October 25, 2007

Michale Hasselmo - Boston University
" Cortical oscillations, grid cells and episodic memory"

November 15, 2007

 Anna Dunaevsky – Brown University
"Neuron-Glia interactions in the developing cerebellum"

November 29, 2007

Joshua Kaplan – Mass General Hospital
"A tour through the C. elegans brain: microRNAs and seizures"

December 6, 2007

John T. Isaac – NIH
"Long-term synaptic plasticity and the development of the layer 4 barrel
cortex circuit"

December 13, 2007

Joel Richter – University of Massachusetts Medical School
"Translational control of synaptic plasticity"

January 24, 2008

Jaime Anoveros - Northwestern University

January, 31, 2008

John Maunsell - Harvard Medical School
"How attention alters sensory representations in monkey visual cortex"

February 7, 2008

 

February 14, 2008


March 6, 2008

Daniel Salzman - Columbia University

March 13, 2008

Pablo Castillo - Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
"New tricks at old structures: novel forms of plasticity in hippocampus"

March 20, 2008

Sheri Mizumori - Univerity of Washington

April 3, 2008

Earl Miller - MIT

April 10, 2008

Alison Barth - Carnegie Mellon University

April 17, 2008

Rob Burgess - Jackson Labs

April 24, 2008

Anne McKinney - McGill University

May 1, 2008

Karl Deisseroth - Stanford University

May 8 , 2008

Vivian Budnik - University of Massachusetts