Killam Seminar Series 2007-2008

 

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2007 - 2008 Lecture Series

 
Date Speaker Lecture Host
September 11, 2007
Prakash Kara, PhD
Neurosciences
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC USA
Visual processing in complete cortical microcircuits revealed with two-photon calcium imaging in vivo Christopher Pack

September 18, 2007

Afonso C. Silva, PhD
Head, Cerebral Microcirculation Unit
Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health, USA
Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling Edith Hamel
September 25, 2007
     
October 2, 2007 Ivar Mendez, MD, PhD
Chief of Neurosurgery, Director Brain Repair Centre
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Halifax, NS
New horizons in neurosurgery: brain repair and robotics  David Sinclair
October 9, 2007 Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Dept. of Neurological Surgery and  Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, CA USA
  Stefano Stifani 
October 16, 2007 Ralph Adolphs, PhD
Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Caltech
Pasadena, CA USA
 

Lesley Fellows

October 23, 2007
at the Centre Mont Royal
Kim Nasmyth
Allan Ronald
Marie Filbin
Gairdner Foundation Program
& DJ Killam Lecture
David Colman
October 30, 2007 William D. Gaillard
Pediatrics and Epilepsy, George Washington Univ
ersity
Children's
National Medical Center
Washington, DC USA
Epilepsy and functional reorganization of language during development  Marilyn Jones-Gotman
  Ivan De Araujo, PhD
The John B Pierce Laboratory
Yale University
New Haven, CT USA
  Alain Dagher
       
November 6, 2007
Note: SFN San Diego
November 3-7
     
November 13, 2007 Jeff Binder, MD
Department of Neurology,
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI USA
The Neuroanatomical Organization of Semantic Memory Robert Zatorre
November 20, 2007 Baljit Khakh, PhD
Dept. Physiology
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA USA
Molecular physiology of ATP-gated P2X receptors Philippe Séguéla
November 27, 2007      
December 4, 2007 Keir Pearson, PhD
Deptment of Physiology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Memory and context-dependent modification of stepping in walking quadrupeds Dan Guitton
December 7, 2007
9:00 am Friday in the Jeanne Timmins Ampitheatre
Thomas Rando, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Francis McNaughton Lecture
 
George Karpati
December 11, 2007 Alan Fine, PhD, VetMD
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
How long term synaptic plasticity is expressed: observations on individual visualized synapses in hippocampus

 

 
Wayne Sossin
December 18, 2007      
2008      
January 8, 2008      
January 15, 2008 John Kalaska
Département de physiologie
Université de Montréal
How long term synaptic plasticity is expressed: Observations on individual visualized synapses in hippocampus Chris Pack
January 22, 2008 William Dauer, MD
Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology Columbia University Neurological Institute of New York, New York, NY USA
Movement Molecules: Molecular Pathways of Motor System Disease Edward Fon
January 29, 2008 Michael W. Weiner MD
Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease VA
Medical Center
 San Francisco CA USA
Multimodality imaging of Alzheimer's disease: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Alan Evans
February 5, 2008 Randall Reed, PhD
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Stem Cells and Smell Cells: The Developmental Pathways, Regenerative Properties and Cellular Specializations Underlying Olfaction Jean-Francois Cloutier
February 12, 2008 Stephen D. Miller, PhD
Department of Microbiology-Immunology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL USA
A Critical Role for Epitope Spreading in the EAE Model of Multiple Sclerosis:  Implications for Human Immunotherapies David Colman
February 19, 2008
Cancelled
William Snider, MD
UNC Neuroscience Center
UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC USA
Genetic dissection of RAF/MEK/ERK and GSK-3 signaling pathways in the nervous system Alyson Fournier
February 26, 2008 Mu-Ming Poo
Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology
Head of Division of Neurobiology in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Spike-timing dependent plasticity of neural circuits - Hebb's postulate revisited  Ed Ruthazer
March 4, 2008 Armen Saghatelyan, PhD
Centre de Recherche Universite Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG)
Beauport, Quebec
Neuronal migration in the adult brain Abbas Sadikot
March 11, 2008

Matthew Rushworth, D.Phil.
Dept. of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Action value and social value in the anterior cingulate cortex Lesley Fellows
March 18, 2008 Richard H. Finnell, PhD
Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Texas A&M Health Science Center
The Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine, TX USA
Neural tube closure defects:
Evidence for protective role of B vitamins-case not closed
Eva Andermann
March 25, 2008 Geirmund Unsgaard, MD
University Hospital of Trondheim, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  Louis Collins
April 1, 2008

Stephen G. Waxman, MD, PhD
Dept. of Neurology
Yale University
New Haven, CT USA

Playing with Fire: Sodium Channels and their Roles in Diseases of the Nervous System  Catherine Bushnell
April 8, 2008 Serge Marchand, PhD
Faculty of Medicine
Department of Neurosurgery
Sherbrooke, QC
Normal and Abnormal Pain: The Major Role of Endogenous Pain Modulation Thomas Stroh
April 15, 2008 Ian Meinertzhagen
Neuroscience Institute
Department of Biology and Psychology
Life Sciences Centre
Dalhousie University 
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The tadpole larva of Ciona: the miniature brain of an ancient chordate Kenneth Hastings 
April 22, 2008 Bruce H. Appel, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University,
 Nashville, TN USA
In vivo imaging and genetic analysis of vertebrate glia development Tim Kennedy
April 29, 2008

Paul W. Glimcher, PhD
Center for Neural Science
New York University
New York, NY USA

Herbert Jasper Lecture

The neural basis of decision-making

Barbara Jones
May 6, 2008      
May 13, 2008 Denis Paré, PhD
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
 Aidekman Research Center, Rutgers State University
Newark, New Jersey USA
Intercalated amygdala neurons mediate extinction of conditioned fear responses  Massimo Avoli
May 20, 2008 Kelsey Martin, MD, PhD
Gonda 3506c
UCLA BRI
Los Angeles, CA USA
Signaling between synapse and nucleus during synaptic plasticity Wayne Sossin
May 27, 2008
Tentative-Canadian Neuroscience Meeting (Montreal)
     
June 3, 2008 Dana M. Small, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT USA
From fear to food: The role of the human amygdala in taste, flavor and feeding Marilyn Jones-Gotman