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Colloquium


THE MAHONEY INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

presents its:


Neuroscience Colloquium Series

Spring 2010

also sponsored by:

The Behavioral Neuroscience and
The Systems & Integrative Biology Training Grants

Journal Club

Date
Speaker
Title Faculty Host
Jan 20

Oliver Hobert
Columbia University
Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Making, Keeping and Breaking Neurons in C.elegans:  Tales of Transcription Factors and Ion Channels
Nancy Bonini
Feb 3

Rachel Wilson
Harvard
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

Olfactory Processing in Drosophia
Minghong Ma
**Feb 11, Surgery Theater Rm, Ground Fl. White Bldg HUP

POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER

ELLIOTT----Thursday, NOON
Adrian Owen
Senior Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience Cambridge UK

When Thoughts Become Actions:  Functional Imaging in Disorders of Consciousness
Geoff Aguirre
Feb 24
Alex Kolodkin
John Hopkins University
Professor of Neuroscience
Guidance Cue Control of Dendrite Development, Synapse Formation, and Axon Pathway Assembly
Jon Raper
March 3
David Ferster
Northwestern
Professor of Neurobiology/Physiology
How Threshold and Inhibition Shape Receptive Field Properties in Cat Visual Cortex
Diego Contreras

POSTPONED

March 10

POSTPONED

Tracey Shors

Saving Your Brain:  How Learning Keeps New Neurons Alive
Tracy Bale
March 17

Marc Freeman
UMass Medical School
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

Neuron-glia Signaling After Brain Injury in Drosophia

Greg Bashaw
March 24

Jill Goldstein
Harvard
Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine

 Fetal Hormonal Programming of the Brain:  Implications for Understanding Sex Differences in Depression and its Comorbidity with Cardiovascular Risk

Teresa Reyes

**Monell Ctr, 1st Fl lecture room, 3500 Market St March 31

MONELL
Debra Fadool
Florida State University
Associate Professor of Department of Biological Science
Neuromodulation of Olfaction-Interactions with Metabolism, Endochrinology and Obesity
Johannes Reisert

April 7

Allison Doupe
UCSF
Professor of the Department of Psychiatry

What Songbirds can Teach us about Circuits and Signals for Learning
Matthew Dalva

April 14

Nicholas Schiff
Cornell
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience

Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Recovery From Severe Brain Injuries
Diego Contreras
April 21
Gord Fishell
NYU
Professor of Cell Biology
Making up your mind:  the developmental and genetic origins of cortical interneurons
Jeff Golden
May 5
Julie Kauer
Brown University
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology
TRPV1:  Hot New Channels and Long-term Synaptic Depression
Mike Nusbaum

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