Killam Lectures 2006-2007

Killam Seminar Series 2006-2007

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2006 - 2007 Lecture Series

Date	Speaker	Lecture	Host
September 12, 2006	Eric Racine Neuroethics Research Unit IRCM Montreal, QC	Neuroethics: A collaborative approach to promote excellence in research and patient care	John Robson
September 18, 2006 Monday		Neuro Convocation & Lifetime Achievement Awards
September 26, 2006	Pascal Maires Institut Cochin INSERM U567, Département de Génétique, Développement et Pathologie Moléculaire Equipe génétique et développement du système neuromusculaire Paris, France	Transcription factors Six and Eya activate the fast-glycolytic gene expression profile in skeletal muscle fibres	Ken Hastings
October 3, 2006	Daniela Melchiorri Dept. Human Physiology and Pharmacology The University of Rome "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy	Molecular mechanisms underlying self-renewal and differentiation of embryonic and neural stem cells	Abbas Sadikot
October 10, 2006	Inderjit Singh, PhD Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital Charleston, SC	Lovastatin mediated protective mechanisms in neuroinflammatory diseases	Jack Antel
October 14-18, 2006		Society for Neuroscience Meeting Atlanta, Georgia
October 24, 2006 Centre Mont Royal	Linda Buck, PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physiology and Biophysics University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA	DJ Killam Lecture & Gairdner Foundation Program Odor and pheromone sensing in mammals	David Colman
October 31, 2006	Martha McClintock, PhD Director, Institute for Mind and Biology, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago Chicago, IL	Human scents and Pheromones: Effects on Fertility, Sexuality and Emotions	Marilyn Jones-Gotman
November 7, 2006	Jonathan Wolpaw, MD Wadsworth Center New York State Department of Health and State University of New York, Albany	Brain-Computer Interfaces for Restoring Communication and Control	Jean Gotman
November 15, 2006 Wednesday 4:30 pm Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre	Philip Crawley Publisher The Globe and Mail Toronto, ON	Wilder Penfield Lecture The Impatient Patient: A Consumer's View of Canadian Health Care	David Colman
November 21, 2006	Gerald Zamponi, PhD Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Calgary Calgary, AB	Regulation of N-type Calcium Channels in the Pain Pathway	Philippe Séguéla
November 28, 2006	Josh Sanes, PhD Molecular and Cellular Biology Paul J. Finnegan Family Director, Center for Brain Science Harvard University Boston, MA	Genetic analysis of synapse formation in mutant and fluorescent mice	Ken Hastings
December 1 Friday at 9 am	Sergio Pena, MD, PhD Belo Horizonte Universidade federal de minas gerais	Francis McNaughton Lecture The evolution and world wide distribution of human genetic diversity	George Karpati
December 5, 2006	Heidi McBride, PhD Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Ottawa Heart Institute Ottawa, ON	The emerging role of SUMOylation in mitochondrial dynamics	Eric Shoubridge
December 12, 2006	Peter Forsyth, MD Department of Oncology and Clinical Neurosciences The University of Calgary Calgary, AB	Oncolytic Viruses and Invasion in Gliomas	Tim Kennedy
December 19, 2006


January 9, 2007	Johnny Huard, PhD Director, Growth and Development Laboratory Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	Regenerative medicine based on muscle derived stem cells	George Karpati
January 16, 2007	Stephen Ferguson, PhD Robarts Research Institute London, ON	Metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling complexes	Thomas Stroh
January 23, 2007	Roman Giger, PhD Department of Biomedical Genetics University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY	Spinal Cord Injury Research: Molecular Analysis of Inhibitors of Axonal Regeneration	Alyson Fournier
January 30, 2007	Marco de Curtis Department of Experimental Neurophysiology Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Milan, Italy	Functional Organization of the Parahippocampal Region	Massimo Avoli
February 6, 2007	Jon Laman, MD, PhD Department of Immunology University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands	Brain inflammation and the periphery: antigen drainage, bacteria, and dealing with lipid	Jack Antel
February 13, 2007	Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD, MSc Unit for Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, NIMH, Bethesda, MD	Imaging genetics of the human social brain	Alain Dagher
February 20, 2007	David Chan, MD,PhD Division of Biology California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	Mitochondrial dynamics and neurodegeneration	Eric Shoubridge
February 27, 2007
March 6, 2007	Lori Isom, PhD Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI	Sodium channel b subunits: channel modulators and cell adhesion molecules	David Ragsdale
March 13, 2007	Paul De Koninck, PhD Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard Quebec City, QC	Spatial and temporal dynamics of CaM kinase II in neurons	Ted Fon
March 20, 2007	John Maunsell, PhD Department of Neurobiology & Howard Hughes Medical Institute Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	Attention and neuronal responses in monkey visual cortex	Christopher Pack
March 27, 2007	Phyllis Hanson, MD, PhD Department of Cell Biology Washington University, St. Louis	Unraveling the role of AAA+ ATPases in membrane trafficking and neurologic disease	Peter McPherson
April 3, 2007	Leonardo Belluscio, PhD National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD	Understanding the Olfactory Intrabulbar Map	Jean-François Cloutier
April 10, 2007
April 17, 2007	Naweed Syed, PhD University of Calgary Calgary, AB	Synaptic Plasticity: From Neurons, Silicon Chips to Behavior	Wayne Sossin
April 18, 2007 Wednesday in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre	Tamas L. Horvath, DVM, PhD Chairman, Section of Comparative Medicine, Professor of Comparative Medicine, Ob/Gyn and Neurobiology Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT	Jerzy Olszewski Lecture Synapses: renewable building blocks of energy homeostasis regulation	Barbara Jones
May 1, 2007	John Rubenstein, MD, PhD Genetics, Development & Behavioral Sciences The University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, CA	Genetic studies of forebrain development	Stefano Stifani
May 7, 2007	Lizabeth M. Romanski, PhD Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences University of Rochester	Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience Encoding and Integration of faces and voices in the frontal lobe	Michael Petrides
May 8, 2007	Ponnada Narayana, PhD The University of Texas Medical School at Houston Houston, TX	Cortical plasticity in experimental spinal cord injury: combined fMRI and DTI studies	Barry Bedell
May 15, 2007	Beverly Wendland, PhD Department of Biology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	From cargo sorting to vesicle budding: temporal progression of endocytosis	Peter McPherson
May 22, 2007	James Zheng, PhD Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ	Spatial signaling and directional control of nerve growth cones during axon guidance	Tim Kennedy
May 29, 2007	Stephen Cannon, MD, PhD Chairman, Neurology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX	Myotonia and Periodic Paralysis: A Model System for Understanding Channelopathies	Amit Bar-Or
June 5, 2007	Dr. David S. Park Associate Professor Neuroscience East Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI)	Mechanisms of dopamine neuron loss in models of PD	Dr. Fon
June 12, 2007	Liqun Luo, PhD HHMI Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA	Mechanisms of Axon Pruning	Edward Ruthazer