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Neuroscience Seminar Series

Seminars are held in the Pharmacology Library,
NE401-Med/Dent from 12:00pm until 1:00pm on
designated Tuesdays. 
All seminars are co-sponsored
by the IPN and the Department of Neuroscience.

Click to View Seminar Schedule in  September, 2009     
                                                                         October, 2009

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Sept 8 Dr. Jacqueline Crawley
  Chief, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience
National Institute of Mental Health

"Mouse Models of Autism to Test Hypotheses about Causes and to Discover Treatments"

Dr. Crawley's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Barry Wolfe
  ____________________________________
   
Sept 22 Dr. Linda Friedman
Co-sponsored
by UCB Pharma
and The Epilepsy Research Program
Department of Neuroscience
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

"Long-Term Consequences of Recurrent Early-Life Seizures:  Role of Glutamate Receptors"

 

  Host: Alexei Kondratyev
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Sept 29 Dr. Mark Cookson
  Cell Biology and Gene Expression Unit
Laboratory of Neurogenetics
NIH

"Pathways to Parkinsonism"

Paper for Journal Club: PLoS ONE 4:e5701, 2009
Journal Club 9am Pharmacology Library (bagels etc.)
Buffet lunch with the speaker for interested students 
1 pm
NE403

Dr. Cookson's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Kathy Maguire-Zeiss
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Oct 13 Dr. Stefan Posse
  University of New Mexico
Department of Neurology

"High speed MR spectroscopic imaging at high field: State-of-the-art and future perspectives"

Paper for Journal Club:  NeuroImage, in press
Journal Club 9am Pharmacology Library


Dr. Posse's HOMEPAGE

  Host: John VanMeter
  ____________________________________
   
Oct 20 Society for Neuroscience Meeting
   
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Oct 22 Dr. Gregory Kent Bergey
Thursday

Special Seminar
1:00 pm

NE403
Med/Dent

Professor of Neurology
Director, Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"Studies of the Epileptic Seizure Dynamics and Propogation"

Sponsored by UCB Pharma
and The Epilepsy Research Program

Food will be served

 

  Host:  Alexei Kondratyev
  ____________________________________
   
Oct 23 Dr. Chou Po Hung
Friday

Special Seminar
1:00 pm

Department
of Neuroscience
Library

National Yang Ming University
Taipei, Taiwan

"The visual shape alphabet and its neural population code"

1:00 pm in the Department of Neuroscience Library

 

  Host:  Max Riesenhuber
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Oct 26 Dr. Yasuji Matsuoka
Monday

  Special
 Seminar
  12:00 pm

Department
of Pharm Library

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Georgetown University
and
GlaxoSmithKline
Shanghai, China
 

"Drug Discovery and Academic Science"

Noon in the Department of Pharmacology Library

 

  Host:  Bill Rebeck
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Oct 27 Dr. Xiao-Ming Xu
  Scientific Director, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group
Stark Neurosciences Research Institute
Indiana University

"Therapeutic interventions after spinal cord injury: neuroprotection and axonal regeneration"

Paper for Journal Club:  Glia 57:1178, 2009
Journal Club 9am Pharmacology Library
Buffet lunch with the speaker for interested students 
1 pm
NE403

Dr. Xu's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Junfang Wu
  ____________________________________
   
Oct 27 Dr. Iiro P. Jaaskelainen
   Special
  Seminar
   2:00 pm
Neuroscience
   Library
   WP07A
Professor of Information and Natural Sciences
Dept. Biomedical Engineering and Computational Sciences
University of Helsinki, Finland

"Effects of speach reading on auditory processing in the human"

 

  Host:  Josef Rauschecker
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Nov 5 W.C. DeGroat
Thursday
4:00 PM

 

 

Department of Pharmacology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

SPECIAL SEMINAR

"Nitro-fatty Acids, a New Class of Signaling Molecules, Activate TRP Channels in Sensory Neurons"

 

  Hosts:  Richard Gillis & Melissa Herman
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Nov 6 Melissa Herman
 Friday
 2:00 PM
(correction)
 

 

IPN Ph.D. Student

THESIS DEFENSE SEMINAR

"GABA in the mNTS:  Central control of gastric motility and modulation by endogenous opioids"

 

  Mentor:  Richard Gillis
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Nov 10 Dr. Gerwin Schalk

 

 

Research Scientist
Wadsworth Center, Neural Injury & Repair
Associate Professor of Public Health
New York State Department of Health

"Using Subdural Signals for Communication and Diagnosis"

No Journal Club

Dr. Schalk's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Alexei Kondratyev
  ____________________________________
   
Nov 12 Dr. Ron Lesser
Thursday
 1:00 pm

  NE403
 
Med/Dent

 

 

"Brain Responses to Cortical Stimulation"

Sponsored by UCB Pharma
and The Epilepsy Research Program

No Journal Club

  Host:  Alexei Kondratyev
  ____________________________________
   
Nov 17 Dr. John Houle
  Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Drexel University School of Medicine

"Axon Regeneration and Activity Dependent Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury"

Journal Club in the Pharmacology Library at 9 am
Paper for Journal Club:  J Neurotrauma 26:721, 2009

Dr. Houle's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Larry Kromer
  ____________________________________
   
Nov 24 Dr. Madhav Thambisetty
  Staff Clinician
Clinical Research Branch
NIA/NIH

"Novel approaches to peripheral biomarker discovery in Alzheimer's disease"

No Journal Club

Buffet lunch with the speaker for interested students

1pm in NE403

  Host:  Scott Turner
  ____________________________________
   
Dec 8 Dr. David C. Plaut
  Departments of Psychology and Computer Science
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Carnegie Mellon University

"Surface Dyslexia and Semantic Dementia:
Beyond Single-Case Studies in Cognitive Neuropsychology
"

Paper for Journal Club:  Cognitive Neuropsychol. 19:603, 2002
Journal club in Pharmacology Library 9 am.

Dr. Plaut's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Max Riesenhuber
  ____________________________________
   
Dec 15 Dr. Dietmar Plenz
  Chief, Section on Critical Brain Dynamics
NIMH

"The 'tipping point' of neuronal avalanches"

Journal Club in the Pharmacology Library at 9 am
Paper for Journal Club:  tba

Dr. Plenz's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Rhonda Dzakpasu
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Jan 12 Dr. Douglas H. Smith
  Department of Neurosurgery
Director, Center for Brain Injury and Repair
University of Pennsylvania

"tba"

Dr. Smith's HOMEPAGE

  Host: Tim Mhyre
  ____________________________________
   
Jan 19 Dr. Sheila Blumstein
 
Albert D. Mead Professor
Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Brown University
"tba"
Dr. Blumstein's HOMEPAGE
  Host:  Max Riesenhuber
  ____________________________________
   
Jan 26 tba
  tba

"tba"

  Host:  Larry Kromer
  ____________________________________
   
Feb 9 Dr. Karen Duff
  Department of Pathology
Columbia University

"tba"

Dr. Duff's HOMEPAGE

  Host: Mark Burns
  ____________________________________
   
Feb 16 Dr. Michale Fee
  Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT

"tba"

Dr. Fee's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Jag Kanwal
  ____________________________________
   
Feb 23 Dr. Gabriella D'Arcangelo
  Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
State University of New Jersey

"tba"

Dr. D'Arcangelo's HOMEPAGE

  Host: Sook Hoe
  ____________________________________
   
Mar 9 Dr. Daniel Ansari
 

Canada Research Chair in
     Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Department of Psychology and
     Graduate Program in Neuroscience

University of Western Ontario

"Numeracy and arithmetic in the brain: the roles of development and individual differences"

Journal Club 9 am (pharmacology library)
How is phonological processing related to individual differences in children’s arithmetic skills? Dev. Science 2009, pp1-13

Dr. Ansari's HOMEPAGE

  Host: Tanya Gerner & Guinevere Eden
  ____________________________________
   
Mar 16 Dr. Andy Singleton
  Chief, Molecular Genetics Section
Laboratory of Neurogenetics
NIA

"tba"

Dr. Singleton's HOMEPAGE

  Host: Timothy Mhyre
  ____________________________________
   
Mar 23 Howard Eichenbaum
  Director, Center for Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
Boston University

"tba"

Dr. Eichenbaum's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Rhonda Friedman
  ____________________________________
   
Mar 30 Dr. Chris Rochet
  Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Purdue University

"tba"

Dr. Rochet's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Kathy Maguire-Zeiss
  ____________________________________
   
Apr 13 Ted Teng, Ph.D.
  Director, Laboratories of Spinal Cord Injury
                        & Neural Stem Cell Research
Harvard University

"tba"

Dr. Teng's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Jean Wrathall
  ____________________________________
   
Apr 20 Dr. Brandon Harvey
  NIDA
Neural Protection and Regeneration Section
Baltimore, MD

"tba"

 

  Host:  Seung Lim
  ____________________________________
   
Apr 27 Dr. Troy Hackett
  Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University

"tba"

Dr. Hackett's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Josef Rauschecker
  ____________________________________
   
May 11 Susan Ackerman
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jackson Laboratories
Bar Harbor, Maine

"tba"

Dr. Ackerman's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Baoji Xu
  ____________________________________
   
May 18 Jocelyne Bachevalier
  Professor
 Emory University

"tba"

Dr. Pachevalier's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Ludise Malkova
  ____________________________________
   
May 25 Dr. Martha B. Denckla
  Director, Developmental Cognitive Neurology
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Professor of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University

"Reading Comprehension, A Complex Developmental Task"

Journal Club article:  tba
Journal Club 9am Pharmacology Library
Buffet lunch with the speaker for interested students
Dr. Denckla's HOMEPAGE

  Host:  Rhonda Friedman
   
   
   
   
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