All seminars held in Lipsett Amphitheater and can be viewed via NIH VideoCasting  .
Seminar Series Dates: September 8, 2008 - June 15, 2009
To arrange to meet with an invited speaker, contact the host for that speaker (see seminar schedule for hosts). |
September
8
, 2008
12 Noon
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JOHN WILLIAMS, PH.D.
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health Science University
Mechanisms of dopamine transmission in the VTA
Host(s): Mike Ladarola
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September
15
, 2008
12 Noon
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DAVID GOLDMAN, M.D.
Lab of Neurogenetics
NIAAA/NIH
Multilevel effects of functional loci in complex behavior
Host(s): Jordan Grafman
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September
22
, 2008
12 Noon
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RICHARD ANDERSEN, PH.D.
Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Free-choice activates decision circuits
Host(s): Robert Wurtz
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October
20
, 2008
12 Noon
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DAVID YUE, M.D., PH.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Decoding calcium at a calcium cocktail party--How calmodulin listens as it regulates calcium channels
Host(s): Joe Mindell
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October
27
, 2008
12 Noon
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CATHY PRICE, PH.D.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London
Institute of Neurology
Using structural MRI to map the functional anatomy of language and reading
Host(s): Barry Horwitz
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November
3
, 2008
12 Noon
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JOHN AGGLETON, D.PHIL.
School of Psychology
Cardiff University
Extending the hippocampal memory system: Beyond the fornix
Host(s): Betsy Murray
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November
10
, 2008
12 Noon
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No Seminar
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November
24
, 2008
12 Noon
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KIMBERLY HUBER, PH.D.
Department of Neuroscience
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Metabotropic glutamate receptor dependent plasticity: Mechanisms and mental retardation
Host(s): Chris McBain
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December
1
, 2008
12 Noon
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DIANE LIPSCOMBE, PH.D.
Department of Neuroscience
Brown University
Optimizing calcium ion channel function exon by exon and neuron by neuron
Host(s): John Isaac
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December
8
, 2008
12 Noon
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*** The Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Lecture ***
ROD MACKINNON, M.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Laboratory of Neurobiology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University
Ion channels and cell membranes
Host(s): Kenton Swartz
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December
15
, 2008
12 Noon
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ALAN GELPERIN, PH.D.
Monell Chemical Senses Center
A role for nitric oxide in olfactory information processing in the mouse
Host(s): Mark Stopfer
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January
5
, 2009
12 Noon
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CORI BARGMANN, PH.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Rockefeller University
Dissecting a circuit for olfactory behavior
Host(s): Story Landis
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January
12
, 2009
12 Noon
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JAMES HOWE, PH.D.
Department of Pharmacology
Yale University School of Medicine
TARPs and KARPs: auxiliary proteins that modulate AMPA- and kainate-receptor kinetics
Host(s): Mark Mayer
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January
26
, 2009
12 Noon
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*** Cancelled ***
LI-HUEI TSAI, PH.D.
Picower Institute of Learning and Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cantoni Memorial Lecture : Chromatin remodeling in neurodegeneration and neuronal repair
Host(s): Zheng Li
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February
2
, 2009
12 Noon
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J. ANTHONY MOVSHON, PH.D.
Center of Neural Science
New York University
Brain mechanisms of visual motion processing
Host(s): Bruce Cumming
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February
9
, 2009
12 Noon
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JOHN MAUNSELL, PH.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
How attention alters sensory signals in the visual cerebral cortex of monkeys
Host(s): Okihide Hikosaka
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February
23
, 2009
12 Noon
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PAT LEVITT, PH.D.
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development
Translational studies on the met tyrosine kinase receptor system in the autisms
Host(s): Ron McKay
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March
2
, 2009
12 Noon
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RESCHEDULED TO JUNE 15, 2009.
TBA
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March
9
, 2009
12 Noon
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No Seminar
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March
16
, 2009
12 Noon
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RACHEL WONG, PH.D.
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Imaging circuit assembly in the developing retina
Host(s): Wei Li
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March
23
, 2009
12 Noon
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DAVID FITZPATRICK, PH.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University
Imaging experience-dependent emergence of functional circuits in visual cortex
Host(s): Leonardo Belluscio
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March
30
, 2009
12 Noon
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DAEYEOL LEE, PH.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Primate Cortico-Basal Ganglia Network and Decision Making
Host(s): Barry Richmond
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April
6
, 2009
12 Noon
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TBA
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April
13
, 2009
12 Noon
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KEITH KENDRICK, PH.D.
Department of Cognitive and Behavorial Neuroscience
The Babraham Institute; University of Cambridge
Face encoding by neural networks in inferotemporal cortex
Host(s): David Leopold
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April
20
, 2009
12 Noon
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MICHAEL FANSELOW, PH.D.
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
Competition and Compensation Between the Neural Circuitry that Supports Pavlovian Fear Conditioning
Host(s): Jacki Crawley
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April
27
, 2009
12 Noon
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JAMES TRIMMER, PH.D.
Departments of Neurobiology, Physiology, Biology
University of California, Davis
Ion channel phosphorylation and dynamic regulation of neuronal excitability
Host(s): Kenton Swartz
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May
4
, 2009
12 Noon
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GEORGE KOOB, PH.D.
Committee of the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders
The Scripps Research Institute
Brain stress systems and addiction
Host(s): Markus Heilig; Jacki Crawley
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May
11
, 2009
12 Noon
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RICHARD MORRIS, D.PHIL.
The University of Edinburgh
Elements of a neurobiological theory of hippocampal memory function: automaticity, synaptic tagging and schemas
Host(s): Kazu Nakazawa
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May
18
, 2009
12 Noon
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KARL KANDLER, PH.D.
Eye and Ear Institute, Department of Otolaryngology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Refinement of inhibitory circuits – new lessons from the auditory system
Host(s): Leonardo Belluscio
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June
1
, 2009
12 Noon
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SUSAN ACKERMAN, PH.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and
The Jackson Laboratory
Forward genetics reveals novel mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Host(s): Kenneth Fischbeck
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June
8
, 2009
12 Noon
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*** Guroff Memorial Lecture ***
RICHARD HUGANIR, PH.D.
Department of Neuroscience
Howard Hughes Medicial Institute; The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Receptors, Synapses and Memories
Host(s): Katherine Roche
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June
15
, 2009
12 Noon
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RITA BALICE-GORDON, PH.D.
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Cell-cell signaling underlying synapse formation and function
Host(s): Susan Wray
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