Neuroscience Graduate Group

MINS Seminar Series

Fall 2012 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

Sept 19

William Snider

University of North Carolina

Cell Type Specific Disruption of ERK/MAPK signaling in the Developing Nervous System

Sept 25, 2 pm note date & time change

Charles Chavkin

University of Washington

Therapeutic Potential of Kappa Opioids in Stress-Resilience, Pain and Addiction

Oct 1 BRB Aud, 12:15 pm (Liu Lecture)

Larry Zipursky

UC(Los Angeles)

Cell Recognition and Wiring in the Brain

Oct 2, BRB Aud, 4 pm Special Seminar

Hitoshi Sakano

University of Tokyo

Basal Activity of Odorant Receptors Directs Targeting of Olfactory Neuron Axons

Oct 3
Special Seminar: Student-Invited Speaker

Greg DeAngelis

University of Rochester

Constructing 3D Visual Representations:  Neural coding of depth-from-motion and motion-in-depth

Oct 10

Andre Fenton

NYU

Mind Games: Cognitive control and neural coordination

Oct 24

Susan Amara

University of Pittsburgh

A New Take on Uptake: Neurotransmitter transporters and the activation of cellular signaling pathways by amphetamines

Oct 30

Dennis Selkoe

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Molecular Basis of Synaptic Failure in Alzheimer's Disease: The path to prevention

Oct 31

CANCELLED

Amy MacDermott

Columbia University

Inhibition in the Dorsal Horn where Touch and Pain Meet

Nov 7

Scott Sternson

HHMI, Janelia

Deconstruction of Neural Circuits for Hunger

Nov 14

Quifu Ma

Harvard University


Generation of Somatic Sensory Neuron Diversity and Coding of Pain versus Itch

Nov 28

Ione Fine

University of Washington

Do Early Blind Individuals ‘See’ Auditory Motion?

Dec 5

Baljit Khakh

UC( Los Angeles)

Determining the Rules for Astrocyte Engagement in Neural Microcircuits