Past Seminars

2007-2008

September 18: Ege Kavalali, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; Department of Neuroscience, Center for Basic Neuroscience
"Multiple Vesicle Recycling Pathways in Central Synapses and Their Impact on Neurotransmission"

October 16: Carolyn Houser, Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Department of Neurobiology
"Vulnerability and Plasticity of the GABA System in Epilepsy"

November 20: Jerry Silver, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; Department of Neurosciences
"Functional Regeneration Beyond the Glial Scar"

December 18: Marianne Bronner-Fraser, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology; Division of Biology
"Gene Regulatory Interactions in Neural Crest Formation"

January 15: Gordon Fishell, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine; Department of Cell Biology, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology
"Making Up Your Mind: The Developmental Origins of Cortical Interneurons"

February 19: Mriganka Sur, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
"Plasticity and dynamics of neuron and astrocyte networks in visual cortex"

March 28: Paul Glimcher, Ph.D., New York University; Center for Neural Science
"The Neural Basis of Decision-Making"

April 15: Constance Cepko, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Department of Genetics; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Cell Fate Determination in the Vertebrate Retina"

2006-2007

October 12: Gareth John, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Department of Neurology, Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis
"Reactive astrocytes as regulators of inflammatory CNS demyelination"

November 14: Steven Sine, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Physiology and Biophysics
"Coupling of agonist binding to channel gating in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors"

December 5: Andreas Burkhalter, Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis; Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences
"Area Maps and Processing Streams in Mouse Visual Cortex"

January 23: Pietro De Camilli, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine; Department of Cell Biology, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical
"Endocytic mechanisms and phosphoinositide metabolism at neuronal synapses"

February 20: Steven H. DeVries, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University; Department of Ophthalmology; Physiology
"Special circuits in the mammalian retina for signaling rapid change"

April 17: Glenn Rall, Ph.D., The Fox Chase Cancer Center; Division of Basic Sciences
"Interfering with the Interferon Response: Disease and Immunity within the Measles-Infected CNS"

2005-2006

October 18: Oswald Steward, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
"Localization and Local Translation of mRNAs at Synapses"

November 17*: Brian Litt, M.D., University of Pennsylvania; Departments of Neurology and Bioengineering
"Seizure Generation and Devices for Epilepsy"

December 13: Eric A. Newman, Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Department of Neuroscience
"Conversations Between Glia, Neurons, and Blood Vessels in the Retina"

January 17: Laura E Lillien, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; Department of Neurobiology
"Cell type specification in the developing cortex"

February 21: J. Anthony (Tony) Movshon, Ph.D., New York University; Center for Neural Science, Department of Psychology
"The Elements of Visual Cortical Receptive Fields"

March 21: Daniel R Storm, Ph.D., University of Washington; Department of Pharmacology
"The Molecular Basis of Memory; Role of PI3 Kinase, MAP kinase Calcium-Stimulated Adenylyl Cyclases"

April 18: Teresa Nicolson, Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University; Oregon Hearing Reseaarch Center
"The Molecular Basis of Hearing and Balance in Zebrafish"

2004-2005

September 21: Lian Li, Ph.D., Emory University; Department of Pharmacology
"Ubiquitination, Vesicular Trafficking, and Neurodegeneration"

October 19: Randall Reed, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medical School; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
"Building a Regenerating Sensory System: Mechanisms of Odorant Detection and Gene Regulation in Mammalian Olfaction"

November 16: Roberto Malinow, M.D., Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
"Synaptic plasticity mechanisms"

December 7: Ed Giniger, Ph.D., Fred Hutcheson Cancer Research Center; Basic Sciences Division
"Deconstructing Notch: The double life of a developmental regulator"

January 18: William Zagotta, Ph.D., University of Washington; Department of Physiology and Biophysic

February 15: Liqun Luo, Ph.D., Stanford University; Department of Biological Sciences
"Wiring Specificity of the Olfactory Circuit"

March 15: William Catteral, Ph.D., University of Washington; Department of Pharmacology
"Structure and Regulation of Sodium and Calcium Channels by Signaling Complexes"

April 19: Mark Ellisman, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; Department of Neuroscience
"Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System with Advanced Cyberinfrastructure"

May 17: Thomas Christensen, Ph.D., University of Arizona; ARL Division of Neurobiology
"Making Scents Out of Spatial and Temporal Coding in Olfaction"

2003-2004

September 16: David Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Duke University; Department of Neurobiology
"Columns, connections, and representations: anew look at the functional architecture of primary visual cortex"

October 21: Sean Morrison, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Department of Internal Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology
"The self-renewal and differentiation of neural stem cells"

December 2: Stuart Lipton, M.D. Ph.D., The Burnham Institute; Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience and Aging
"Paradigm Shift in Neuroprotective Srtategies: Memantine, Nitrosylation, and Beyond"

January 20: Morgan Sheng, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Department of Biology
"Molecular mechanisms of the dynamic synapse"

February 17: Cecilia Moens, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Division of Basic Sciences
"Mechanisms of patterning and boundary formation in the zebrafish hindbrain"

March 16: Eric I. Knudsen, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine; Department of Neurobiology
"Mechanisms of Learning in the Auditory System of the Barn Owl"

2002-2003

September 17: Christine Gall, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
"Synaptic integrins and glutamate receptors: partners in adult hippocampal neuroplasticity"

October 15: Mary B. Kennedy, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology; Division of Biology
"Putting the synapse back together"

November 12: Matt Wilson, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Department of Biology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
"Hippocampal plasticity, memory, and sleep"

December 10: Allison Jane Doupe, M.D. Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco; Department of Psychiatry and Physiology
"Songbirds: A Model System for the Study of Learning and Basal Ganglia Function"

January 21: Eve E. Marder, Ph.D., Brandeis University; Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience; Department of Biology, Benjamin & Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems
"How Networks are both Stable and Plastic"

February 18: Alexandra L. Joyner, Ph.D., New York University Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institution, Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine; Department of Cell Biology, Physiology, and Neuroscience
"Cellular and genetic control of CNS development and patterning"

April 15: Ruth Heidelberger, M.D. Ph.D., University of Texas Medical School, Houston; Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
"Mechanisms of synaptic vesicle dynamics at a retinal ribbon synapse"

2001-2002

October 17: Robert C. Malenka, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
"Mechanisms of long-term depression in the hippocampus"

November 28: Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
"Visualizing Synaptic Competition at the Developing Neuromuscular Junction"

December 12: Gregory E. Lemke, Ph.D., The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
"Eph receptor signaling and the topographic mapping of neural connections"

January 16: Bertil Hille, Ph.D., University of Washington, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
"Calcium Dynamics and Intercellular Compartments in Excitable Cells"

January 23: Joshua M. Kaplan, Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
"Protein trafficking at C. elegans synapses"

March 20: John L. R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D., University of California - San Francisco, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
"Forebrain Development"

April 17: Joshua R. Sanes, Ph.D., Washington University, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
"Studying synapse formation with mutant and fluorescent mice"

May 7: George J. Augustine, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology
"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic vesicle trafficking"

2000-2001

October 18: Mani Ramaswami, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Neurobiology
"Vesicle formation and fusion: mechanism and regulation of transmitter release."

November 22: Cynthia M. Czajkowski, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison Medical School, Department of Physiology
"GABA-A Receptors: Structure and dynamics of the GABA binding pocket"

December 13: Ted M. Dawson, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience
"Nitric Oxide Signaling and Regulation in Neuronal Survival and Death"

January 17: Michael E. Hasselmo, D. Phil., Boston University, Department of Psychology; Program in Experimental and Computational Neuroscience Center for BioDynamics
"What is the function of hippocampal theta rhythm?"

February 21: Richard M. Harland, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology; Division of Genetics and Development
"BMP antagonists in vertebrate development"

March 21: John G. Hildebrand, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, ARL Division of Neurobiology
"Explorations of a model olfactory system"

April 11: Amy Brooks-Kayal, M.D., Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, Neuroscience Research
"GABA-A Receptors in Development and Epileptogenesis"

May 16: Stephen Maren, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program
"Neurobiology of emotional learning and memory"

1999-2000

September 10: Charles W. Luetje, Ph.D., University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology
"The structural basis for pharmacological diversity among neuronal nicotinic receptors"

October 13: Melanie Tallent, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Neuropharmacology; CN-12
"Somatostatin depresses excitatory synaptic function in hippocampus"

November 16: Jerry Silver, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Department of Neuroscience
"A robust potential for CNS axon regeneration exists beyond the glial scar: fact or fantasy"

December 15: Haig S. Kesheshian, Ph.D., Yale University, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
"Neuromuscular development in Drosophila: A pupil perspective"

January 19: Don Cleveland, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Ludwig Institute
"Mechanisms of neuronal growth and death: Neurofilaments, SOD1 and Lou Gehrig's disease"

February 2: Kathleen Dunlap, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology
"Ca channel modulation"

March 8: Anirvan Ghosh, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Department of Neuroscience
"Patterning of connections in the developing cerebral cortex"

April 19: Thomas C. Sudhof, M.D., University of Texas, Southwestern, Department of Molecular Genetics
"Synaptic vesicle exocytosis: Mechanisms and regulations"

1998-1999

September 23: Richard B. Levine, Ph.D., University of Arizona; ARL-Division of Neurobiology
"Pre- and post-synaptic remodeling at the neuromuscular junction during insect metamorphosis"

October 14: Marla B. Luskin, Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology
"Neuronal progenitor cells of the postnatal mammalian forebrain"

November 18: King-Wai Yau, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Department of Neuroscience
"Phototransduction in hyperpolarizing and depolarizing photoreceptors of vertebrates"

December 9: Marianne Bronner-Fraser, Ph.D., Caltech, Division of Biology
"Development of the neural crest"

January 13: Howard B. Eichenbaum, Ph.D., Boston University, Department of Psychology
"The hippocampus and mechanisms of declarative memory"

February 10: John Heuser, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology
"New strategies for studying membrane recycling in the synapse"

March 10: Fred H. Gage, Ph.D., The Salk Institute, Laboratory of Genetics
"Neurogenesis in the adult nervous system"

April 14: William T. Newsome, III, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology
"Cortical area MT and the perception of stereoscopic depth"

1997-1998

October 8: Andrew T. Ishida, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
"Transient and sustained portions of voltage-gated inward currents of retinal ganglion cells"

November 12: Carol L. Colby, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neuroscience
"Cortical mechanisms of spatial representation"

December 10: Leslie P. Tolbert, Ph.D., University of Arizona, ARL Division of Neurobiology
"Neuron-glia interactions in the development of olfactory glomeruli in an insect brain"

January 28: Marc G. Caron, Ph.D., Duke University, Department of Cell Biology and Medicine
"Probing the physiological roles of monoamines in transporter knockout animals"

February 11: Dennis D. M. O'Leary, Ph.D., The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
"Retinal axon guidance and development of topographic maps: Mechanisms and molecules"

March 11: Linda B. Buck, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School, Department of Neurobiology
"Odor and pheromone detection in mammals"

March 18: Richard W. Tsien, Ph.D., Stanford University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
"Fast track signalling from synapse to nucleus"

April 22: Jeffrey D. Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neurology
"Stumbling, shakes and twitches: Disorders of glutamate transporter subtypes"

May 12: Thomas A. Reh, Ph.D., University of Washington, Department of Biological Structure
"Mechanisms that pattern the developing vertebrate eye"

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