Killam Lectures 2005

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Killam Seminar Series 2005 - 2006

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2005 - 2006 Scheduling Calendar
Date	Speaker	Lecture	Host
April 11, 2006	Craig Garner, PhD Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA	KAC Elliott Lecture Cellular mechanism of synapse assembly and function	Barbara E. Jones
April 18, 2006	Alaa El-Husseini, Ph.D. Brain Research Centre University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC	Protein traffic at nascent neuronal contacts	Ted Fon
April 25, 2006	Doug Munoz, PhD Eye Movement Laboratory Queen's University Kingston, ON	Using eye movements to probe brain function and dysfunction	Dan Guitton
May 2, 2006	James Salzer PhD, MD Professor of Cell Biology and Neurology Skirball Institute Program of Molecular Neurobiology NYU Medical Center New York, NY	Axo-Glial Interactions that Direct Assembly of Myelinated Nerves	David Colman
May 8, 2006 Monday	Dr. William T. Newsome Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Neurobiology Stanford University School of Medicine	2006 Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience Reward, value and decisions: Neural mechanisms of decision-making in rhesus monkeys	Michael Petrides
May 9, 2006	Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil MD, PhD Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Piscataway, NJ		David Colman
May 16, 2006	Eric Klann, PhD Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX	Translational Control Mechanisms in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Memory	Wayne Sossin
May 23, 2006	David Ginty, PhD HHMI Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD	Growth and survival signals controlling development of the peripheral nervous system	JF Cloutier
May 24, 2006 Wednesday	Naomi Halas, PhD Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, Rice University	Dorothy J. Killam Lecture	David Colman
May 30, 2006	Ivan Soltesz, PhD Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology University of California Irvine, CA	Activity-dependent plasticity of endocannabinoid signaling	Massimo Avoli
June 6, 2006	Dan Feldman, PhD Division of Biology University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA		Ed Ruthazer
June 13, 2006	Stéphane Oliet, PhD Inserm U378 Institut François Magendie Bordeaux, France	Neuron-glia intercations in the hypothalamus	Ted Fon
November 28, 2006	Josh Sanes, PhD Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Paul J. Finnegan Family Director, Center for Brain Science
Date	Speaker	Lecture	Host
September 27, 2005	Charles L. Wilson, PhD Department of Neurology UCLA Seizure Disorders Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA	Pathological High Frequency Oscillations in the Human and Animal Epileptic Hippocampus	Jean Gotman
October 4, 2005	Victor Faundez, MD, PhD Department of Cell Biology Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, Georgia	Mechanisms of neuronal endosome traffic	Peter McPherson
October 11, 2005	James Herman, MD The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MA	DNA Methylation: Silencing Genes Affecting Cancer Phenotypes and Response to Therapy	Rolando Del Maestro
October 18, 2005	Jordi Perez-Tur, PhD Institut de Biomedicina de Valencia Valencia, Spain	A genetic approach to Parkinson's diseases: Neurodegeneration due to dardarin mutations	Phil Barker
October 24, 2005 Monday	Mortimer Mishkin, PhD Brenda Milner, DSc Endel Tulving, PhD	Hughlings Jackson Lecture / Gairdner Foundation Program
November 1, 2005	Daniela Rotin, PhD Program in Cell Biology The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ontario	Regulation of axon guidance and muscle synaptogenesis by the ubiquitin system	Ted Fon
November 8, 2005 Special Time 1:00 - 2:00pm	David Eidelberg, MD, PhD Director, Center for Neurosciences North Shore - LIJ Research Institute Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery New York University School of Medicine	Brain Networks in Parkinson's Disease: Natural History and Treatment Effects	Antonio Strafella
November 15, 2005		Society for Neuroscience
November 25, 2005 Friday 9:00 am Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre	Charles A. Thornton, MD Dept. of Neurology University of Rochester, NY	Francis McNaughton Lecture RNA Mismanagement in Neurological and Muscle Diseases	George Karpati
November 29, 2005	Mike Merzenich, PhD University of California San Francisco, CA	Developmental and 'adult' plasticity; basic principles and therapeutics	Ed Ruthazer
December 6, 2005	Robert M Shapley, PhD New York University Center for Neural Science New York NY	Dynamics of visual responses and 'oscillations' in primary visual cortex	Chris Pack
December 13, 2005	Diomedes Logothetis, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York	The signaling phospholipid PIP2 as a central regulator of ion channel function	Philippe Séguéla
January 10, 2006	Gary M. Mawe, PhD Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology University of Vermont Burlington, VT	Lessons from the Little Brain in the Gut: Mechanisms of inflammation-induced neuroplasticity in the colon	David Colman
January 17, 2006	Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD Director MS Program University of California Irvine, CA	Genetic and Metabolic Regulation of Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease by Mgat5 N-Glycosylation	Amit Bar-Or
January 24, 2006	Louis-Eric Trudeau Department of Pharmacology Centre for Research in Neurological Sciences Centre de Recherche Fernand Seguin Université de Montréal Montreal, QC	Exploring dopamine-glutamate co-transmission in midbrain dopamine neurons	Philippe Séguéla
January 31, 2006	Charles Greer, PhD Department of Neurosurgery Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT	Regulatory events in olfactory system development	Alyson Fournier
February 7, 2006	Dan McIntyre, PhD Department of Psychology Carleton University	Genetically based sensitivities for and against kindled epilepsy: comorbid personality attributes	Massimo Avoli
February 14, 2006	Keith Murai, PhD Assistant Professor, Tier II Canada Research Chair Centre for Research in Neuroscience Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery McGill University Health Centre	Unraveling neuron-glial communication and dynamics at hippocampal synapses	Alyson Fournier
February 21, 2006
February 28, 2006	Ron Liem, PhD Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY	The Role of the Cytoskeleton in Neurodegenerative Diseases	David Colman
March 7, 2006	Avindra Nath, MD Department of Neurology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	Interplay of T cells and Neurons: The T cell is the Winner	Jack Antel
March 14, 2006	Peter Stys, MD Ottawa Health Research Institute Ottawa, ON	Pathophysiology of axo-glial injury: ion channels and glutamate receptors	Amit Bar-Or
March 21, 2006	Paul Forscher, PhD Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Yale University New Haven, CT	Molecular Dynamics of Guided Axon Growth	Alyson Fournier
March 30, 2006 Thursday	Carlos Ibanez Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute Sweden	GDNF signaling pathways regulating neuronal differentiation, migration and synaptogenesis	Phil Barker
April 4, 2006	Timothy A. Ryan, PhD Department of Biochemistry The Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, NY	The coupling of exocytosis and endocytosis at CNS nerve terminals	Peter McPherson