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Departmental Seminar Series 2008-2009
Tuesdays, 12:00 noon, Room 6014 BST3 (unless otherwise noted)
| Date | Speaker | Research Interests | Talk Title |
| 09/08/09 | Rebecca Seal, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco, CA more |
Glutamate transporters, pain, and the auditory system | "Unraveling mammalian sensory circuits: insights from an unconventional glutamate transporter" |
| 10/06/09 | Mark M. Rasenick, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois more |
Cytoskeletal modulation of neuronal signal transduction | G protein signaling, lipid rafts and the neuronal cytoskeleton: Implications for the biology of depression |
| 10/07/09 Wednesday |
Mark M. Rasenick, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois more |
Cytoskeletal modulation of neuronal signal transduction | Advocacy for biomedical research: Amalgamating policy, politics and passion |
| 11/17/09 | Garrett B. Stanley, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University Atlanta, GA more |
Electrical activity of neurons | Decoding the Thalamocortical Circuit in the Visual and Somatosensory Pathways |
| 11/24/09 1495 BSTWR |
Bevil R. Conway, MMSc, Ph.D. Wellesley College Wellesley, MA more |
Neural basis for color vision | "Neural mechanisms of color" |
| 12/01/09 | Wei-Dong Yao, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School Boston, MA more |
Synaptic function and plasticity | Open or Close: Dopamine as a Gate for Synaptic Modifications in the Prefrontal Cortex |
| 01/19/10 | John Martin, Ph.D. Columbia University New York, NY more |
Development of corticospinal system & its dependence on activity | TBA |
| 02/02/10 | Anna Wang Roe, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN more |
Understanding the neuronal circuitry underlying vision and touch | "Imaging modules of perception and attention in Macaque visual cortex" |
| 03/09/10 | Marina Picciotto, Ph.D. Yale University New Haven, CT more |
Addiction, depression, learning | "Intracellular signaling pathways downstream of nicotinic receptors in addiction- related behaviors" |
| 03/16/10 | Jun Chen, M.D. University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA more |
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal cell death | TBA |
| 03/30/10 | Alex Kolodkin, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD more |
Semaphorins | "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Establishment of Neuronal Connectivity" |
| 04/06/10 | Geoffrey Schoenbaum M.D., Ph.D. University of Maryland Baltimore, MD more |
Reward learning, decision making (goal-directed behavior) | TBA |
| 05/04/10 | Beatriz Luna, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA more |
Changes in brain function that subserve maturation of cognition | "Neuroimaging Evidence of Immaturities in Cognitive Control, Reward Processing, and Brain Connectivity During Adolescence" |
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