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NEUROLUNCH SCHEDULE

                                                        Academic Year Fall ‘07/Spring ’08

 SEMINARS ARE FROM NOON until 1PM  on
 WEDNESDAYS in NE401 Med/Dent
EXCEPT WHERE NOTED!

  Click month to see the schedule for:
  OctoberNovember, December, January, February, March, April, May

*The first scheduled presentations in each semester will be given by new students just
 starting in the program.  They will present techniques learned or data generated in their rotations.  Each talk will be approximately 10-12 minutes with a 5 minute question and answer period.  For information regarding the structure of these talks, click here.

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Friday
September 7th
IPN Retreat
Prince William Forest




 

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  Brandon Martin                              Rotation talks
Brian Wolff
Monika Mellem
Dawn Joseph
Drew Emery
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Leah Lozier                                     Rotation talks
Michael Ortiz
Clara Scholl
Tanya Gerner
Evan Gordon
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Saturday
September 8th
IPN Retreat
Prince William Forest

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Elizabeth West                               Rotation posters
many others



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September 12th   Debi Basu, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Neurobiological bases of face and word processing"
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September 19th    
     
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September 26th   Craig Dietrich, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "Protons as transmitters in synaptic signaling"
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October 3rd   Ana Pocivavsek, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "ApoE signaling mechanisms"
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October 10th   Casandra Cartagena, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  “Cholesterol 24-hydroxylase regulation in neuronal injury and glial activation”
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October 17th   Esther Krook-Magnuson, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "B is for Barrel and GABA Receptors: Adventures with paired recordings in cortical circuits"
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October 24th   Elizabeth Lacey, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "Maintenance of New Learning in Aphasia Rehabilitation "
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October 31st   Angela Holmes, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "The control of non-human primate motor behavior"
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November 7th   NO SEMINAR/Society for Neuroscience Meeting

 
   
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November 14th   Laurie Glezer, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "Investigating the Neural Code for Single-Word Reading"
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November 21st   NO SEMINAR/ THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
     
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November 28th   Tom Naumann, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Responses of the Amygdala to Social Calls: Auditory
Cues for Adaptive Behavior"
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December 5th   Kristen Ade, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "Inhibitory GABAergic Control of Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons"
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December 12th   Laura Cocas, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Cellular and Molecular Interactions at the Telencephalic Cortico-Striatal Border During Embryonic Development"
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December 19th   - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
December 26th   - NEW YEARS HOLIDAY   (time to get experiments done)
January 2nd   - NEW YEARS HOLIDAY   (time to get experiments done)
SPRING 2007  
 
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* January 9th


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  Evan Gordon                              Rotation talks
Clara Scholl
Tanya Gerner
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* January 16th
 

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  Leah Lozier                                 Rotation talks
Michael Ortiz
Drew Emery
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* January 23rd
 

 

  Brandon Martin                          Rotation talks
Brian Wolff
Monika Mellem
Dawn Joseph
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January 30th   Ericka Ruiz, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Understanding what captures the ADHD brain's attention"
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February 6th   Amber Leaver, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Representations of Auditory "Objects" in Superior Temporal Cortex"
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February 13th   Mark Chevillet, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Specificity and Invariance in the Human Auditory System"
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February 20th   Filip Vanevski, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Regulation of Local BDNF Synthesis in Dendrites"
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February 27th   Melissa Herman, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "GABAA Receptor Activity in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarius (NTS)"
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March 5th    
     
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March 12th   Danielle Evers, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Regulation of NSF and AMPA receptors by serum inducible kinase (SNK)"
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March 19th   Stefanie Maxfield, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "The role of proprioception in upper extremity motor control"
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March 26th   Mary Adedoyin, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "The role of NAAG in the amygdala"
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April 2nd   Hilary North, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Eph-ephrin Signaling and Progenitor Cell
Proliferation during Cortical Development"
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April 9th   Sakura Minami, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "The role of Fyn in the pathogenic processes of Alzheimer's disease"
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April 16th   Emily Waterhouse, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "Obesity susceptibility: how dendritically synthesized BDNF controls energy balance"
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April 23rd   Scott Paluszkiewicz, Graduate Student, Prethesis
    "Dysfunctional Inhibitory Circuits in a Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome"
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April 30th   Gary Marcus, Ph.D.
    Professor, Department of Psychology, NYU
Special    
Seminar   "Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind"
     
    Dr. Marcus' HOMEPAGE
    Sponsor:  Michael Ullman
     
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May 7th   Lauren Ullrich, Graduate Student, Prethesis
    "Dissecting anomia: Investigating the functional
  breakdown(s) in subtypes of anomia"
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May 14th   Iain DeWitt, Graduate Student, Prethesis
    "Of sonorants and fricatives: investigating segmental speech processing"
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May 21st   Meredith Clifford, Graduate Student, Prethesis
    "Stage Specific Eph/ephrin Interactions in Neuronal Maturation"
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May 28th   Elizabeth West, Graduate Student, Prethesis
    "The Role of Nonhuman Primate Orbitofrontal Cortex and Amygdala in Reward Devaluation"
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June 4th   Li Feng, Graduate Student, Prethesis
    "The role of gene and environment interaction in Parkinson's Disease"
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June 11th   Gil Palchik, Graduate Student, Prethesis
     
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June 18th   Patrick Forcelli, Graduate Student, Prethesis
    "Limbic and Striatal Sequelae of Perinatal Anticonvulsant Drug Treatment: Physiology, Biochemistry and Behavior"
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June 25th   Jeremy Purcell, Graduate Student, Thesis
    "The Neurobiological Basis of Keyboard Typing"
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