MINS
Colloquium

THE MAHONEY INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

presents its:

Neuroscience Colloquium Series

Fall 2009

also sponsored by:

The Behavioral Neuroscience and
The Systems & Integrative Biology Training Grants

Date	Speaker	Title	Faculty Host
Sept 16	Bill Carlezon McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School Affiliate	*Role for Sprouty2 in hippocampal neurogenesis and stress resistance in rats*	Tracy Bale
Sept 23	Lisa Monteggia UT Southwestern Medical Center	Role of MeCP2 & HDACs in regulating synapse function and behavior	Julie Blendy
Sept 30	Matthew Rasband Baylor College of Medicine	*The functional organization of axons in health and disease*	Steve Scherer
October 7	Kelly Jordan-Sciutto University of Pennsylvania	Alternative roles for cell cycle proteins in neurons and neurodegeneration
October 14	Kristin Scott University of California, Berkeley	*Taste recognition in drosophila*	Minghong Ma
October 28 Class of '62 Aud., John Morgan Bldg.**	Roger Nicoll FLEXNER Lecture UCSF	Synaptic plasticity and the trafficking of glutamate receptors	Irwin Levitan
November 4	Ed Callaway Systems Neurobiology Salk Institute	*Unraveling cortical circuits with photostimulation and rabies virus*	Matthew Dalva
postponed until 3.10.10	Tracey Shores Rutgers	*Stress, learning and the anatomy of a sex difference*	Tracy Bale
November 18	Elly Nedivi MIT	*Plasticity genes and circuit remodeling in the adult brain*	Rita Balice-Gordon
December 2	Thomas Schwarz Harvard-Children's Hospital	*Transporting Organelles and Signals*	Ed Cooper
December 9**Class of '62 Aud., John Morgan Bldg.	Ben Barres Stanford	How do astrocytes induce CNS synapse formation?	Jeffrey Golden

4:00 p.m. Wednesday (refreshments - 3:45 p.m)
Barchi Library 140 John Morgan Building
Except Where Specifically Noted**

For general inquiries and information, please contact Jane Hoshi.

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