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2004 - 2005
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Date |
Speaker |
Lecture |
Host |
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September 21, 2004 |
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September 28, 2004 |
Dr.
Aric Agmon
Department of Anatomy
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV |
The Green Glow of GABA: Inhibitory
Neurons and Circuits in the Cerebral Cortex |
Massimo Avoli |
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October 5, 2004 |
Dr. Greg Bashaw
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine |
Mechanisms of Slit and Netrin-mediated
axon repulsion in Drosophila |
Alyson Fournier |
October 12, 2004
4:30 pm in the
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Principal Heather Munroe-Blum
McGill University |
Dorothy J. Killam Lecture
Leadership: McGill in a new century |
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Monday
October 18, 2004
4:30 pm
Lecture will take place at the Centre Mont-Royal
(2200
Mansfield) |
Dr. Sydney Brenner
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,
2002;
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla |
Hughlings Jackson Lecture
/ Gairdner Foundation Lecture
Humanity's Genes
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October 19, 2004 |
Dr. David E. Krantz
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Brain Research Institute UCLA |
Studies of vesicular neurotransmitter
transporters in Drosophila |
Edward Fon |
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October 26, 2004 |
Society for Neuroscience Meeting
October 23 - 27, 2004 |
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November 2, 2004 |
Dr. Lennart Mucke
Director,
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
Joseph B.
Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience
University of California,
San Francisco |
Alzheimer's Disease
and Related Proteinopathies-From Investigative Challenges to Therapeutic Opportunities |
Edith Hamel |
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November 9, 2004 |
Dr. Gina Turrigiano
Department of Biology
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA |
Homeostatic Plasticity in Developing
Cortical Networks |
Barbara Jones |
Thursday 4:30 pm
November 18, 2004
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Dr. Daniel C.
Dennett
Director, Center for Cognitive Studies
University Professor Austin B.
Fletcher Professor of Philosophy
Tufts University |
Wilder Penfield Lecture
My Body Has a Mind of its
Own |
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November 23, 2004 |
Dr. Stefano Schiaffino
Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine
Padua, Italy |
Activity-dependent gene expression in
skeletal muscle - Signaling pathways controlling fibre type
switching and ubiquitin ligase-mediated muscle atrophy |
Ken Hastings |
Friday
November 26, 2004
9:00 am
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Dr. Michael Rudnicki
Senior Scientist & Director
Molecular Medicine Program
Ottawa Health Research Institute |
Francis McNaughton Lecture
Molecular Mechanisms
Regulating
Regenerative Myogenesis |
George Karpati |
Monday
December 6, 2004
4:00 pm
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Dr. Nikos Logothetis
Director, Dept. of Physiology of Cognitive Processes
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tubingen, Germany |
Thomas Willis Lecture
Seeing and Perceiving: Phenomenology and Physiological Mechanisms |
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December 14, 2004 |
Dr. Erin Shuman
Cal Tech |
Protein Synthesis at the Synapse
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Wayne Sossin |
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January 11, 2005 |
Dr. Wendy
Suzuki
Center for Neural Science
New York University |
Associative memory signals in monkey
medial temporal lobe |
Angel Alonso &
Michael Petrides |
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January 18, 2005 |
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January 25, 2005 |
Dr. Maurice Ptito
Université de Montréal |
An eye on the tongue: crossmodal
plasticity in congenital blindness |
Dan Guitton |
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February 1, 2005 |
Dr.
Jay Gottfried
Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease Center
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Chicago, IL |
Anatomy of a Smell: fMRI Studies of
Human Olfactory Cortex |
Marilyn
Jones-Gotman |
Monday
February 7, 2005 |
Dr. Bob Wurtz
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
National Eye Institute, NIH
Bethesda MD |
A Neuronal Mechanism for Visual
Spatial Attention |
Dan Guitton |
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February 8, 2005 |
Dr.
Michael D. Ehlers
Director, Neuroproteomics Lab
Dept. of Neurobiology
Duke University Medical Center |
Endosomes, Intracellular Sorting, and Plasticity Mechanisms at
Glutamatergic Synapes |
Edward Fon |
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February 15, 2005 |
Dr. Gord
Fishell
Developmental
Genetics Program
Skirball Institute
NYU Medical Center |
Making up your mind: the assignment of
cell fate in the developing brain |
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February 22, 2005
Cancelled |
Dr. Charlie Greer
Yale University |
Mechanisms of Early Development in the Olfactory Pathway |
Alyson Fournier |
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March 1, 2005 |
Dr. Hugh Perry
Director of Research
The University of Southampton |
Impact of systemic inflammation on
brain inflammation |
Trevor Owens |
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March 8, 2005 |
Dr. Eric Holland |
Mouse Models of Brain Tumours:
Expanding the Horizons |
Rolando Del Maestro |
March 15, 2005
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Dr. Franck Polleux
University of
North Carolina
Neuroscience Center
Dept of Pharmacology
Chapel Hill, NC |
New
insights into the molecular mechanisms specifying the dendritic
morphology of cortical neurons |
JF Cloutier |
March 22, 2005
Cancelled! |
Dr. Carlos F. Ibanez
Division of Molecular Neurobiology
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute |
GDNF signaling pathways regulating
neuronal differentiation, migration and synaptogenesis
Cancelled! |
Phil Barker |
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March 29, 2005 |
Dr. Dennis Winge
Dept. of Medicine and Biochemistry
University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Salt Lake City, UT |
Assembly Of
Cytochrome C Oxidase: Proteins Involved In Metallation Of The
Copper Centers |
Eric
Shoubridge |
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April 5, 2005 |
Dr. Stewart Anderson
Dept. of Psychiatry Dept. of Neurology and
Neuroscience
Weill Medical College
of Cornell University
New York, NY |
Specification of Cortical Interneurons |
Abbas Sadikot |
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April 12, 2005 |
Dr. Lindsay Hinck
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California |
From repulsion to attraction: a role
for receptor trafficking in regulating axon guidance |
Phil Barker |
April 19, 2005
10:00 am
special time |
Dr.
Sam Pfaff
Salk Institute
La Jolla, CA |
Transcriptional regulation of spinal
neuron cell fate and the role of receptor tyrosine kinases in
establishing connectivity |
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April 26, 2005
12:00 noon
special time |
Dr. Douglas Cheyne
Senior Scientist
The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
Associate Professor
Dept. of Medical Imaging University of Toronto |
Spatial filtering approaches to
neuromagnetic source reconstruction: Theory and applications |
Bruce Pike |
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May 3, 2005 |
Dr. Mark Hallett
Chief, Human Motor Control Section
NINDS, NIH |
Human Motor Learning |
Antonio Strafella |
May 10, 2005
4:00 pm
in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers
The
State
University
of
New Jersey
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Herbert Jasper Lecture
Oscillatory Control of Cell
Assemblies in the Hippocampus |
Barbara Jones |
Monday
May 16, 2005
in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Associate Professor in Neurology
Director, Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
2005 Brenda Milner Lecture in
Cognitive Neuroscience
What blindness teaches us about seeing |
Michael Petrides |
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May 17, 2005 |
Dr. Nelson Spruston
Northwestern Institute for Neuroscience |
Dendritic excitability
is essential for the function of hippocampal pyramidal neurons |
Angel Alonso |
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May 24, 2005 |
Dr. Paul Thompson
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Brain Mapping
Division, and Biomedical Engineering IDP
UCLA School of Medicine
University of California
Los Angeles, CA |
Analyzing Brain Changes in Alzheimer’s
Disease, Development and Schizophrenia |
Louis Collins |
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May 31, 2005 |
Dr. John A. Dani
Division of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine |
Cholinergic and Dopaminergic
Mechanisms Underlying Nicotine Addiction |
Philippe Séguéla |
Thursday
June 2, 2005 |
Dr. Sandra Black
Head, Neurology
Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre |
Donald W. Baxter Lecture |
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June 7, 2005 |
Matt S Ramer, PhD
BC Neurotrauma Fund
Professor Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar
ICORD (International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries)
The University of British Columbia Vancouver BC |
A Fine Balance:
Optimizing plasticity in the injured spinal cord |
Phil Barker &
Alyson Fournier |
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