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 MINS
Colloquium


THE MAHONEY INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

presents its:


Neuroscience Colloquium Series

Spring 2008

also sponsored by:

The Behavioral Neuroscience and
The Systems & Integrative Biology Training Grants

Journal Club

Date
Speaker
Title Faculty Host
January 9

Steven Mennerick
Dept of Psychiatry
Washington University

Adaptive Synaptic Responses to Neuronal Dysfunction
Doug Coulter
January 16
Raquel Gur
University of Pennsylvania
Schizophrenia: Mind to Molecule
Steve Siegel
January 30

CANCELLED

Miriam Goodman

 
Mike Nusbaum
February 6
Jeff Milbrandt
Dept of Pathology
Washington University
Axonal Degeneration: Mitochondria, Energy, and Redox
Steve Scherer
February 13
Jane Taylor
Dept of Psychiatry
Yale University
Reward-processing in the Addicted Brain: Sex, Drugs and Genes
Tracy Bale
February 27
Brian Popko
Dept of Neurology
University of Chicago
ER stress modulates the response of oligodendrocytes to inflammation
Steve Scherer
March 5
Toni Shippenberg
Dynorphin and the Pathogenesis of Drug Addiction
Tracy Bale
March 12

Nadia Dahmane
Wistar Institute
POSTPONED

Brain Growth, Patterning and Cancer
Bryan Crenshaw
March 20
Nikos Logothetis
Frank Elliott Lecture
From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition:  A Bridge Too Far?
NOON ---- HUP's Ground White the 76ers and Flyers Surgery Theater
March 26
Michael Graziano
The Organization of Behavioral Repertoire in the Motor Cortex
Joshua Gold
April 2
Mark Bear
Modification of Cerebral Cortex by Experience
Matthew Dalva
April 9
Nahum Sonenberg
McGill University
Translational Control of Learning and Memory
Amy Brooks-Kayal
April 16
Shelley Russek
Department of Pharmacology
Boston University
Mapping Gene Regulatory Networks that Control Neurotransmitter Receptor Expression
Amy Brooks-Kayal
April 23
MINS Annual Retreat
 
April 30
Isabel Muzzio
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Attentional effects of task contingencies influence the stabilization of representations and phase locking in the dorsal hippocampus
Marcos Frank
May 7
John Donoghue
Neuroscience Department Brown University
Turning Thoughts Into Action:
Neural Interface Systems to Restore Movement in Humans With Paralysis
Irwin Levitan
May 14
Grace Stutzmann
Department of Neuroscience Rosalind Franklin University

Contributions of Early ER Calcium Dysregulation to Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
Kevin Foskett

4:00 p.m. Wednesday (refreshments - 3:45 p.m)
Barchi Library 140 John Morgan Building
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