Neuroscience Seminar Series- Past Events

Past NSGP Speakers

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Date

Speaker

Title

May 9, 2013Michael Shadlen

University of Washington

Believing and Time: A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making
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May 2, 2013Michael Long

NYU

New Methods for Manipulating and Recording from Motor Circuits
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Apr 25, 2013William Catterall

Bench to Bedside

Insights into Epilepsy and Autism from a Mouse Model of Dravet Syndrome
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Apr 18, 2013Amy Arnsten

Yale

Molecular Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex: Flexibility and Vulnerability in Mental Representations
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Apr 4, 2013Jonathan Fritz

University of Maryland


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Mar 21, 2013Sacha Nelson

Brandeis University

Physiological genomics of cortical circuits
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Mar 14, 2013Miriam Goodman

Stanford University

Deconstructing Touch and Pain Sensation
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Mar 7, 2013Richard Ivry - CANCELLED

Berkeley


Feb 28, 2013Betsy Quinlan

University of Maryland

What is critical about the critical period for ocular dominance plasticity?
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Feb 14, 2013Brad Schlaggar

Washington University School of Medicine

Development of the Brain's Functional Network Architecture
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Feb 7, 2013Mustafa Sahin

Harvard

Neuronal Connectivity in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
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Jan 31, 2013David Bereiter

Bench to Bedside

Painful Light
Jan 24, 2013Ricardo Dolmetsch

Stanford


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Jan 10, 2013Kim Huber

UT Southwestern

Mechanisms of Synapse Elimination by Autism-linked genes
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Dec 13, 2012Mark Bear

MIT

Cortical Synaptic Plasticity: From Amblyopia to Autism
Dec 6, 2012Serena Dudek

NIH

New insights into regulating synaptic plasticity from an unexpected place: Hippocampal CA2
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Nov 29, 2012Wilson Truccolo and Rees Cosgrove

Epilepsy
Nov 8, 2012Daniel Feldman

Berkeley

Plasticity and processing in rodent somatosensory cortex
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Oct 25, 2012Mary Carskadon & Katherine Sharkey

Bench to Bedside

Narcolepsy
Oct 4, 2012Donald Katz

Brandeis University

Cortical taste processing: a systems-level view
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Sep 27, 2012Andrew Blum & Barry Connors

Bench to Bedside

Epilepsy
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Sep 20, 2012Cori Bargmann

The Rockefeller University

Genes, Circuits, and Decisions: Using Fixed Circuits to Build Flexible Behaviors
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Sep 13, 2012John Donoghue

Brown University

Neocortical function: A personal perspective viewed across the history of Neuroscience at Brown
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May 3, 2012Dr. Gina Turrigiano

Brandeis University

The Self-tuning Neuron: Homeostasis in Developing Cortical Networks
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Apr 12, 2012Bench to Bedside - Dr. Daniel Dickstein

Brown/Bradley Hospital

Bipolar Disorder
Apr 5, 2012*CANCELLED* Dr. Marina Picciotto

Yale

Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Behaviors Related to Nicotine Addiction: Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Contributions to Reinforcement, Feeding and Depression
Mar 22, 2012Dr. Elizabeth Buffalo

Emory University

Neural Codes for Memory and Space in the Monkey Medial Temporal Lobe
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Mar 15, 2012Dr. Kerry Ressler

Emory University

Translational Neurogenetic Approaches to Understanding PTSD and Fear-Related Disorders
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Mar 14, 2012Miriam Goodman

Stanford University


Mar 8, 2012Bench to Bedside - Dr. John Krakauer

Johns Hopkins University

Stroke and Rehabilitation
Mar 1, 2012Dr. Frances Jensen

Harvard Medical School

Cognitive Consequences of Early Life Epilepsy: Exploring Shared Synaptic Mechanisms in Epilepsy and Autism
Feb 16, 2012Dr. Kristin Scott

UC Berkeley

Taste Recognition in Drosophila
Feb 9, 2012Bench to Bedside - Dr. Stephen Salloway

Brown/Butler Hospital

Alzheimers Disease
Jan 26, 2012Dr. Deanna Benson

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Making, Breaking & Modifying Synapses
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Jan 19, 2012Dr. Kamran Khodakhah

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Cerebello-basal Ganglia Interactions in Health & Disease
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Jan 12, 2012Bench to Bedside - Dr. Albert Lo

Brown/VA Hospital

Multiple Sclerosis
Dec 15, 2011*CANCELLED*Bench to Bedside - Dr. Stephen Salloway

Brown/Butler Hospital

Alzheimers Disease
Dec 8, 2011Dr. Craig Montell

Johns Hopkins University

TRP Channels: From Animal Behavior to Neurodegenerative Disease
Dec 1, 2011Dr. Chiara Cirelli

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis
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Nov 10, 2011Bench to Bedside - Dr. Donald Simone

University of Minnesota

Tumor-nerve Interactions in a Model of Cancer Pain
Note: Seminar held in Biomed Rm. 202
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Nov 3, 2011Dr. Aude Oliva

MIT

Visual Scene Understanding
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Oct 27, 2011Dr. Alberto Pereda

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Synaptic Transmission Mediated by Gap Junctions; Properties and Plasticity
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Oct 20, 2011Dr. Gabriel Kreiman

Harvard Medical School

Selectivity, Tolerance and Speed in Human Visual Cortex During Object Recognition
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Oct 13, 2011Bench to Bedside-Dr. Barry Kosofsky

Weill Cornell Medical Center

Mechanisms underlying persistent alterations in brain structure and function following prenatal cocaine exposure in mice and (wo)men
Sep 29, 2011Noelle L'Etoile

UC Davis

Spatial, Temporal and Small RNA-Mediated Control of Neuronal Adaptation
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Sep 22, 2011Samer Hattar

Johns Hopkins University

Atypical Mammalian Photoreceptors Influence Circadian Rhythms and Mood
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Sep 15, 2011Gregory Petsko

Brandeis University

New Insights into Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) From Studies in a Model Organism
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Sep 8, 2011Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer

University of Rome

On-line control of movement in the parieto-frontal system
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May 12, 2011Dr. Li-Huei Tsai

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Epigenetic Mechanisms in Memory
May 5, 2011Dr. Mark Laubach

Yale University

Medial Prefrontal Cortex: Executive or Coach?
Apr 28, 2011Dr. Rita Balice-Gordon

UPenn

Synaptic Plasticity
Apr 21, 2011Dr. Joe Fetcho

Cornell University

Motor Control in Zebrafish
Apr 14, 2011Dr. Russ Poldrack

University of Texas Austin

Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas
Apr 7, 2011Dr. Nirao Shah

University of California, San Francisco

Sexually Dimorphic Circuits in Mice
Mar 24, 2011Dr. Michela Gallagher

Johns Hopkins University

Neurocognitive Aging: Uncovering Functional Mechanisms for Memory Impairment
Mar 17, 2011Dr. Takao Hensch

Harvard University

Shaping Brain Function by Early Experience
Mar 10, 2011Dr. Steve Waxman

Yale University School of Medicine

Chasing Men on Fire: Sodium Channels and Disorders of the Nervous System
Mar 3, 2011Dr. Gary Bassell

Emory University

mRNA Traffic, Local Translation and Fragile x Syndrome
Feb 17, 2011Dr. David Leopold

National Institute of Mental Health

Probing the Thalamocortical Circuitry of Visual Perception
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research
Feb 10, 2011 *CANCELED* Dr. Elba Serrano

New Mexico State University

Probing Inner Ear Organogenesis with a Systems Approach
Feb 3, 2011*CANCELED* Dr. Gina Turrigiano

Brandeis University

The Self-tuning Neuron: Homeostatic Plasticity and Experience-Dependent Development
Jan 27, 2011*CANCELED* Dr. Deanna Benson

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Protein Synthesis Dependent Regulation of Developing Synapses
Jan 20, 2011Dr. Miguel Holmgren

NINDS

Regulation of the Gating Mechanisms in Potassium Channels by RNA Editing
Co-sponsored by Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology Dept.
Jan 13, 2011*CANCELED* Dr. Gregory J. Bix

Texas A&M University

Matrix Revolutions: Perlecan Domain V as a Novel Stroke and Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy
Dec 2, 2010Dr. Kevin Currie

Vanderbilt University

Regulation of Calcium Channels and Neuroendocrine Secretion
Nov 4, 2010Dr. Carlos Aizenman

Brown University

Functional Regulation of a Developing Neural Circuit
Oct 28, 2010Dr. Valentin Dragoi

University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Population Coding in Visual Cortical Networks
Oct 14, 2010Symposium

Brown Institute for Brain Science

The Future of the Brain: Celebrating 10 years of Brain Science at Brown
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Oct 13, 2010Symposium

Brown Institute for Brain Science

The Future of the Brain: Celebrating 10 years of Brain Science at Brown
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Oct 7, 2010Dr. Marla Feller

University of California, Berkeley

The Development of Functional Circuits in the Retina
Co-sponsored by the Center For Vision Research
Sep 30, 2010Special Lecture: John M. K. Mislow Memorial LEC

Brown Institute for Brain Science

Dr. Andres Lozano, Toronto Western Hospital
BIBS/Brigham & Women's Hospital Neurosurgery Dept.
Apr 29, 2010Dr. Gregory Quirk

University of Puerto Rico

Overcoming Our Fears: Neural Circuits of Fear Extinction
Apr 22, 2010Dr. Randy Buckner

Harvard University

Explorations of the Large-Scale Architecture of the Human Brain
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research
Apr 15, 2010Dr. Piali Sengupta

Brandeis University

Pheromone Signaling in C. elegans: Mechanisms and Consequences
Apr 8, 2010Dr. Richard Horn

Thomas Jefferson University

Exploring Block and Gating with Unnatural Amino Acids
Mar 25, 2010Dr. Pat Levitt

University of Southern California

Neurodevelopmental Implications of the Autism Risk Gene, MET Receptor Tyrosine Kinase
Mar 18, 2010Dr. Richard Andersen

Grass Traveling Scientist
California Institute of Technology

Cognitive Neural Prosthetics
Co-Sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience
Mar 11, 2010Dr. Sabine Kastner

Princeton University

Representation of Object Information in Human and Monkey Visual Cortex
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research
Mar 4, 2010Dr. Amy Bastian

Johns Hopkins University

Does our Current Understanding of Motor Learning and Memory actually Help Patients?
Feb 18, 2010Dr. Angelique Bordey

Yale University

Homeostatic Regulation of Postnatal Neurogenesis
Feb 11, 2010Dr. Jeffrey Macklis

Harvard University

Molecular Logic of Neocortical Projection Neuron Development and Repair
Feb 4, 2010Dr. Venkatesh Murthy

Harvard University

Synaptic Circuits and Odor Processing in the Mouse Olfactory System
Jan 21, 2010Dr. Eve Marder

Brandeis University

Beyond Optimality to Individual Variability
Dec 10, 2009Dr. Dawn Taylor

The Cleveland Clinic Learner Research Institute

Adaptive Control of Neural Prosthetics
Dec 3, 2009Dr. Maria Karayiorgou

Columbia University

Dissecting the Genetic Complexity of Schizophrenia
Nov 19, 2009Dr. Lisa Stowers

Scripps Research Institute

Molecular Biology of Innate Behavior
Nov 12, 2009Feng Zhang, Ph.D

Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard University

Neuroengineering: Molecular and Optical Axis of Control
Oct 28, 2009Doug Black, Ph.D.

UCLA


12:00 PM
MCB Graduate Program Seminar
Oct 1, 2009Dr. Ching Hwa-Sung

Cornell University

Membrane trafficking and morphogenesis of mammalian photoreceptors
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research
Sep 24, 2009Dr. David Linden

Johns Hopkins University

Molecular substrates of cerebellar motor learning
Sep 17, 2009Dr. Moshe Bar

Harvard University

Predictions in the Cognitive Brain
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research
May 14, 2009Dr. Alcino J. Silva

University of California - Los Angeles

Molecular Addresses for Memory Storage in Neurocircuits
May 7, 2009Dr. Benjamin Philpot

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Synaptic Plasticity in Development and Disease
Apr 30, 2009Dr. Peter Crino

University of Pennsylvania

Developmental Pathogenesis of Focal Cortical Dysplasias
Apr 23, 2009Dr. Lisa Monteggia

University of Texas - South West

Role of MeCP2 and HDACs in Regulating Synapse Function and Behavior
Apr 9, 2009Dr. Leslie B. Vosshall

Rockefeller University

Body Odor and Insect Repellents: The Genetics of Smell
Apr 2, 2009Dr. Reza Shadmehr

Johns Hopkins University

Computational Motor Control and the Timescales of Memory
Mar 19, 2009Dr. Emery Neal Brown

Harvard University

Solving the Mystery of General Anesthesia
Mar 12, 2009Dr. Karl Kandler

Pittsburgh University

Organizing Inhibition: Lessons from the Auditory System
Mar 5, 2009Dr. Susanne J. Sterbing - D'Angelo

University of Connecticut

Neuronal Control of bat flight: role of sensory hairs on the wing membrane