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Departmental Seminar Series
2004-2005

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
September 21, 2004	William Bialek, Ph.D. John Archibald/Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics Princeton University	Optimal Estimation: From Counting Photons to Learning Rules
September 28, 2004	Wade Regehr, Ph.D. Professor Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School	Short-Term Associative Plasticity Mediated by Endocannabinoids
October 12,2004	Sebastian Seung, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Neuroscience Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Theory of Gradient Learning with Empiric Synapses
October 19, 2004	Joe Loturco, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physiology And Neurobiology University of Connecticut	Revealing New Migration Pathways in Cerebral Cortex with NNAi
November 9, 2004	Martha-Constantine-Paton, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	PSD-95 Trafficking and Long-Term Potentiation in the Developing Visual Pathway
November 30, 2004	Laurence Trussell, Ph.D. Professor Oregon Hearing Research Center & The Vollum Institute Oregon Health & Science University	Regulation of Transmitter Release by Presynaptic Ionotropic Receptors at the Calyx of Held
December 8, 2004	Magdalena Goetz, Ph.D. Director Institute of Stem Cell Research Neuherberg/Munich, Germany	Glial Cells Generate Neurons: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neurogenesis
January 11, 2005	Rita Balice-Gordon, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania	Neuromuscular Synaptogenesis in Wild Type and Mutant Zebrafish
January 18, 2005	Michael P. Stryker, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Physiology University of California	Changing Your Mind: Substrates and Mechanisms of Rapid Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex
February 8, 2005	Marla Feller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Neurobiology University of California	The How and Why of Retinal Waves
March 1, 2005	John A. Cidlowski, Ph.D. Chief, Laboratory of Signal Transduction National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC	Cellular Mechanisms Inhibiting Apoptosis: Defining the Road Bumps Towards Death
March 15, 2005	Ulrike Heberlein, Ph.D. Professor Department of Anatomy University of California	Molecular and Neural Bases of Drug-Related Behaviors in Drosophila
March 29, 2005	Suzanne Zukin Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience & Director Neuropsychopharmacology Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York	Bidirectional Regulation of AMPA Receptor mRNA Trafficking in Dendrites
April 5, 2005	Robert Margolskee, Ph.D. Professor & Investigator Department of Neuroscience Howard Hughes Medical Institute Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York	What Taste May Tell Us About Gastrointestinal Chemosensation
April 12, 2005	John Dani, Ph.D. Professor Department of Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas	Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Mechanisms Underlying Nicotine Addiction
April 19, 2005	Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D. Professor Department of Pathology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	Two Tales of a Kinase: Cdk5 in Synaptic Plasticity and Neurodegeneration
May 10, 2005	Paul Forscher, Ph.D. Professor Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Yale University New Haven, CT	Molecular Dynamics of Guided Axon Growth
May 17, 2005	Michael Hausser, Ph.D. Department of Physiology and Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research London, UK	Single Neuron Computation
May 24, 2005	Michael Granato, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Cell & Developmental Biology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	Making the Right Turn: Axonal Pathfinding and Motor Behavior Regulation in the Zebrafish
May 31, 2005	John A. Cidlowski, Ph.D. Chief, Laboratory of Signal Transduction National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC	Cellular Mechanisms Inhibiting Apoptosis: Defining the Road Bumps Towards Death