Past NSGP Speakers
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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| May 3, 2012 | Dr. Gina Turrigiano Brandeis University | The Self-tuning Neuron: Homeostasis in Developing Cortical Networks | View Video |
| Apr 12, 2012 | Bench 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, 2012 | Dr. Elizabeth Buffalo Emory University | Neural Codes for Memory and Space in the Monkey Medial Temporal Lobe | View Video |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Dr. Kerry Ressler Emory University | Translational Neurogenetic Approaches to Understanding PTSD and Fear-Related Disorders | View Video |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Bench to Bedside - Dr. John Krakauer Johns Hopkins University | Stroke and Rehabilitation | |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Dr. Frances Jensen Harvard Medical School | Cognitive Consequences of Early Life Epilepsy: Exploring Shared Synaptic Mechanisms in Epilepsy and Autism | |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Dr. Kristin Scott UC Berkeley | Taste Recognition in Drosophila | |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Bench to Bedside - Dr. Stephen Salloway Brown/Butler Hospital | Alzheimers Disease | |
| Jan 26, 2012 | Dr. Deanna Benson Mount Sinai School of Medicine | Making, Breaking & Modifying Synapses | View Video |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Dr. Kamran Khodakhah Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Cerebello-basal Ganglia Interactions in Health & Disease | View Video |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Bench 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, 2011 | Dr. Craig Montell Johns Hopkins University | TRP Channels: From Animal Behavior to Neurodegenerative Disease | |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Dr. Chiara Cirelli University of Wisconsin-Madison | Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis | View Video |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Bench to Bedside - Dr. Donald Simone University of Minnesota | Tumor-nerve Interactions in a Model of Cancer Pain Note: Seminar held in Biomed Rm. 202 | View Video |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Dr. Aude Oliva MIT | Visual Scene Understanding | View Video |
| Oct 27, 2011 | Dr. Alberto Pereda Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Synaptic Transmission Mediated by Gap Junctions; Properties and Plasticity | View Video |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Dr. Gabriel Kreiman Harvard Medical School | Selectivity, Tolerance and Speed in Human Visual Cortex During Object Recognition | View Video |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Bench 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, 2011 | Noelle L'Etoile UC Davis | Spatial, Temporal and Small RNA-Mediated Control of Neuronal Adaptation | View Video |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Samer Hattar Johns Hopkins University | Atypical Mammalian Photoreceptors Influence Circadian Rhythms and Mood | View Video |
| Sep 15, 2011 | Gregory Petsko Brandeis University | New Insights into Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) From Studies in a Model Organism | View Video |
| Sep 8, 2011 | Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer University of Rome | On-line control of movement in the parieto-frontal system | View Video |
| May 12, 2011 | Dr. Li-Huei Tsai Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Epigenetic Mechanisms in Memory | |
| May 5, 2011 | Dr. Mark Laubach Yale University | Medial Prefrontal Cortex: Executive or Coach? | View Video |
| Apr 28, 2011 | Dr. Rita Balice-Gordon UPenn | Synaptic Plasticity | View Video |
| Apr 21, 2011 | Dr. Joe Fetcho Cornell University | Motor Control in Zebrafish | View Video |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Dr. Russ Poldrack University of Texas Austin | Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas | View Video |
| Apr 7, 2011 | Dr. Nirao Shah University of California, San Francisco | Sexually Dimorphic Circuits in Mice | |
| Mar 24, 2011 | Dr. Michela Gallagher Johns Hopkins University | Neurocognitive Aging: Uncovering Functional Mechanisms for Memory Impairment | |
| Mar 17, 2011 | Dr. Takao Hensch Harvard University | Shaping Brain Function by Early Experience | |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Dr. Steve Waxman Yale University School of Medicine | Chasing Men on Fire: Sodium Channels and Disorders of the Nervous System | View Video |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Dr. Gary Bassell Emory University | mRNA Traffic, Local Translation and Fragile x Syndrome | View Video |
| Feb 17, 2011 | Dr. David Leopold National Institute of Mental Health | Probing the Thalamocortical Circuitry of Visual Perception Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research | View Video |
| 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, 2011 | Dr. Miguel Holmgren NINDS | Regulation of the Gating Mechanisms in Potassium Channels by RNA Editing Co-sponsored by Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology Dept. | View Video |
| 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, 2010 | Dr. Kevin Currie Vanderbilt University | Regulation of Calcium Channels and Neuroendocrine Secretion | View Video |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Dr. Carlos Aizenman Brown University | Functional Regulation of a Developing Neural Circuit | |
| Oct 28, 2010 | Dr. Valentin Dragoi University of Texas Medical School at Houston | Population Coding in Visual Cortical Networks | View Video |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Symposium Brown Institute for Brain Science | The Future of the Brain: Celebrating 10 years of Brain Science at Brown Click Here to Register | |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Symposium Brown Institute for Brain Science | The Future of the Brain: Celebrating 10 years of Brain Science at Brown Click Here to Register | |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Dr. Marla Feller University of California, Berkeley | The Development of Functional Circuits in the Retina Co-sponsored by the Center For Vision Research | View Video |
| Sep 30, 2010 | Special 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. | View Video |
| Apr 29, 2010 | Dr. Gregory Quirk University of Puerto Rico | Overcoming Our Fears: Neural Circuits of Fear Extinction | View Video |
| Apr 22, 2010 | Dr. Randy Buckner Harvard University | Explorations of the Large-Scale Architecture of the Human Brain Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research | View Video |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Dr. Piali Sengupta Brandeis University | Pheromone Signaling in C. elegans: Mechanisms and Consequences | |
| Apr 8, 2010 | Dr. Richard Horn Thomas Jefferson University | Exploring Block and Gating with Unnatural Amino Acids | View Video |
| Mar 25, 2010 | Dr. Pat Levitt University of Southern California | Neurodevelopmental Implications of the Autism Risk Gene, MET Receptor Tyrosine Kinase | View Video |
| Mar 18, 2010 | Dr. Richard Andersen Grass Traveling Scientist | Cognitive Neural Prosthetics Co-Sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience | |
| Mar 11, 2010 | Dr. Sabine Kastner Princeton University | Representation of Object Information in Human and Monkey Visual Cortex Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research | View Video |
| Mar 4, 2010 | Dr. Amy Bastian Johns Hopkins University | Does our Current Understanding of Motor Learning and Memory actually Help Patients? | View Video |
| Feb 18, 2010 | Dr. Angelique Bordey Yale University | Homeostatic Regulation of Postnatal Neurogenesis | View Video |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Dr. Jeffrey Macklis Harvard University | Molecular Logic of Neocortical Projection Neuron Development and Repair | |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Dr. Venkatesh Murthy Harvard University | Synaptic Circuits and Odor Processing in the Mouse Olfactory System | View Video |
| Jan 21, 2010 | Dr. Eve Marder Brandeis University | Beyond Optimality to Individual Variability | View Video |
| Dec 10, 2009 | Dr. Dawn Taylor The Cleveland Clinic Learner Research Institute | Adaptive Control of Neural Prosthetics | |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Dr. Maria Karayiorgou Columbia University | Dissecting the Genetic Complexity of Schizophrenia | View Video |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Dr. Lisa Stowers Scripps Research Institute | Molecular Biology of Innate Behavior | View Video |
| Nov 12, 2009 | Feng Zhang, Ph.D Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard University | Neuroengineering: Molecular and Optical Axis of Control | |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Doug Black, Ph.D. UCLA | 12:00 PM MCB Graduate Program Seminar | |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Dr. Ching Hwa-Sung Cornell University | Membrane trafficking and morphogenesis of mammalian photoreceptors Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research | |
| Sep 24, 2009 | Dr. David Linden Johns Hopkins University | Molecular substrates of cerebellar motor learning | View Video |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Dr. Moshe Bar Harvard University | Predictions in the Cognitive Brain Co-Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research | View Video |
| May 14, 2009 | Dr. Alcino J. Silva University of California - Los Angeles | Molecular Addresses for Memory Storage in Neurocircuits | View Video |
| May 7, 2009 | Dr. Benjamin Philpot University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | Synaptic Plasticity in Development and Disease | View Video |
| Apr 30, 2009 | Dr. Peter Crino University of Pennsylvania | Developmental Pathogenesis of Focal Cortical Dysplasias | View Video |
| Apr 23, 2009 | Dr. Lisa Monteggia University of Texas - South West | Role of MeCP2 and HDACs in Regulating Synapse Function and Behavior | View Video |
| Apr 9, 2009 | Dr. Leslie B. Vosshall Rockefeller University | Body Odor and Insect Repellents: The Genetics of Smell | View Video |
| Apr 2, 2009 | Dr. Reza Shadmehr Johns Hopkins University | Computational Motor Control and the Timescales of Memory | View Video |
| Mar 19, 2009 | Dr. Emery Neal Brown Harvard University | Solving the Mystery of General Anesthesia | View Video |
| Mar 12, 2009 | Dr. Karl Kandler Pittsburgh University | Organizing Inhibition: Lessons from the Auditory System | View Video |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Dr. Susanne J. Sterbing - D'Angelo University of Connecticut | Neuronal Control of bat flight: role of sensory hairs on the wing membrane | View Video |
| Feb 26, 2009 | Dr. Richard W. Tsien Stanford University | Activity-dependent adaptation of CNS synapses | View Video |
| Feb 19, 2009 | Dr. Dirk Bucher University of Florida | Maintaining the temporal patterns of neural activity | View Video |
| Feb 12, 2009 | Dr. Matthew Wilson Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Hippocampal memory reactivation: Moving at the speed of thought | View Video |
| Feb 5, 2009 | Dr. Timothy C. Cope Wright State University | Injury Signals Inducing Spinal Synaptic Plasticity | View Video |
| Jan 29, 2009 | Dr. Diane O' Dowd University of California - Irvine | Neurobiology in Drosophila: Small Brain, Large Potential | View Video |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Dr. Ayako Yamaguchi Boston University | Sexually Distinct Vocal Pattern Generators | View Video |
| Dec 11, 2008 | Dr. Michael Goldberg Columbia University | On the Agnosticism of Spikes: Saccades, Salience and Attention in the Lateral Intraparietal Area | View Video |
| Dec 4, 2008 | Dr. James Knierim University of Texas - Houston | Memory Formation in the Hippocampal Formation: A Multiregion Analysis | View Video |
| Nov 6, 2008 | Dr. John Kalaska University of Montreal | The Enigma of the Primary Motor Cortex | View Video |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Dr. Jeffery L. Twiss University of Delaware | Spatial and Temporal Regulation of mRNA Translation Durring Axonal Regeneration | View Video |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Dr. Robert B. Darnell Rockefeller University | Brain RNA Maps | View Video |
| Oct 16, 2008 | Dr. Alfredo Kirkwood Johns Hopkins University | Neuromodulation of Synaptic Plasticity in Visual Cortex | View Video |
| Oct 9, 2008 | Dr. Catherine Dulac Harvard University | Sex and Smell: Molecular Biology of Pheromone Perception in Mammals | View Video |
| Oct 2, 2008 | Dr. Rachel Wilson Harvard University | Olfactory Processing in the Drosophila Brain | View Video |
| Sep 25, 2008 | Dr. Kenneth Pugh Haskins Lab & Yale University | Neuroimaging Studies of Reading and Language Development: An update on Recent Findings | View Video |
| Sep 18, 2008 | Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg University of California,? Los Angeles | Dendritic Growth and Retraction in Mature Cortex | |
| May 8, 2008 | Vivian Budnik University of Massachusetts | ||
| May 1, 2008 | Karl Deisseroth Stanford University | View Video | |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Anne McKinney McGill University | View Video | |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Rob Burgess Jackson Labs | ||
| Apr 10, 2008 | Alison Barth Carnegie Mellon University | View Video | |
| Apr 3, 2008 | Earl Miller MIT | ||
| Mar 20, 2008 | Sheri Mizumori Univerity of Washington | View Video | |
| Mar 13, 2008 | Pablo Castillo Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University | New tricks at old structures: novel forms of plasticity in hippocampus | View Video |



