Neuroscience Graduate Group

MINS Seminar Series

Spring 2013 Neuroscience Colloquium Series

presented by

MAHONEY INSTITUTE for NEUROSCIENCES
The Behavioral Neuroscience Training Grant
The Systems & Integrative Biology Training Grant

Unless otherwise indicated, seminars are held
every Wednesday from 4 – 5 pm in Barchi Library (140 John Morgan building)

First-year NGG students: Journal Club papers are listed here

Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 30

Paul Kenny

The Scripps Institute, FL

Micro RNAs and Drug Addiction

Feb 20

Massimo Scanziani

University of California (San Diego)

Cortical Inhibitory Circuits and Visual Processing

Feb 27

Richard Huganir

Johns Hopkins University

Regulation of Receptors, Synapses and Memory

Mar 7

Elliott Lecture
Arthur Kramer
University of Illinois
UPHS Surgery Theatre on Ground White, 12pm

Take a Hike: Exercise, Brain & Cognition
Mar 13

Ivan Soltesz

University of California (Irvine)

Organization and Control of Hippocampal Chronocircuits

Mar 20

Steven Siegelbaum

Columbia University

Integrating Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampal Circuit

Mar 27

Bernardo Sabatini

***CANCELED***

Harvard Medical School

 

Apr 3

Jeffrey Lorenz Neul

Baylor College of Medicine

Rett Syndrome: Autism, autonomic dysfunction, and advances in treatments

Apr 10

Tamas Horvath

Yale University

“Hypothalamic Hunger-Promoting Neurons
Regulate Higher Brain Functions and Longevity”

Apr 17

Ron Frostig

University of California (Irvine)

“Of Whiskers, Sounds, and Blood: How does sensory stimulation completely protect the cortex from an impending stroke?”

Apr 24

Miguel Nicolelis

Duke University

"Principles of Neural Ensemble Physiology and Brain-Machine Interfaces "