2008
- 2009 Lecture Series |
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Date |
Speaker |
Lecture |
Host |
September 9, 2008 |
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September 16, 2008 |
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September 23,
2008 |
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September 30, 2008 |
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October 7, 2008
Cancelled |
Pascal
Dournaud, PhD
INSERM U676
Hôpital Robert-Debré
Paris, France |
Trafficking of the somatostatin type 2 receptor in neurons:
cellular mechanisms and pathological consequences in epilepsies |
Thomas Stroh |
October 14, 2008 |
Fahmeed
Hyder
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
Yale University School of Medicine |
Energetics of neural signaling and
fMRI activity |
Bruce Pike |
October 21,
2008 |
Alicia Soderberg,
PhD
Princeton |
DJ Killam Lecture
The Birth of a Supernova: X-rays mark the spot |
David Colman |
October 28, 2008 |
John Ngai
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley |
Molecular Approaches to Olfactory
Function and Development |
JF Cloutier |
November 4, 2008 |
Tim Murphy
Department of Psychiatry
Brain Research Center
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC |
Insight into stroke damage
and brain rewiring from in vivo imaging of individual synapses
and circuits in mouse somatosensory cortex |
Ed
Ruthazer |
November 11, 2008 |
Qiufu Ma
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Dept. of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA |
Molecular control of
nociceptor development and pain behavior |
Stefano Stifani |
November 18, 2008
Note: SFN Washington, DC
November 15-19 |
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November 25, 2008 |
Sumantra Chattarji
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India |
The fear of fear itself: impact of
stress on the amygdala |
Massimo Avoli |
November 26, 2008
Wednesday
11:00 am |
Susan Ackerman
HHMI
Investigator
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine |
MNI Killam/Centre for Research in Neuroscience seminar
The role of the Unc5 netrin receptors in cerebellar development |
Ken Hastings |
November 28, 2008 |
Dr. Catherine Bushby Action Research Professor of Neuromuscular
Genetics
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
Francis McNaughton Lecture
Limb Girdle Muscular
Dystrophies; Major beneficiaries of molecular science |
George Karpati |
December 2, 2008 |
Barth Grant, PhD
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ |
Worming our
way through the endosomal system: C. elegans as a model
for membrane traffic |
Peter McPherson |
December 9, 2008 |
Mathew Rasband
Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston TX |
The functional organization of
axons in health and disease |
Tim Kennedy |
December 16, 2008 |
Jeffery Twiss, MD, PhD
Nemours Biomedical Research
Alfred I du Pont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, Delaware |
Spatial and temporal regulation of
mRNA localization in regenerating axons |
Phil Barker |
2009 |
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January 6, 2009 |
Greg DeAngelis
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY |
Seeing in 3D:
roles of area MT in depth perception |
Christopher Pack |
January 13, 2009
Tuesday
Cancelled |
Esther Shohami
The Hebrew University School of Pharmacy
Pharmacology Department
Jerusalem, Israel |
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Eva Andermann |
January 14, 2009
Wednesday |
George Davey Smith, MD
Dept Social Medicine
University of Bristol
Bristol, UK |
Mendelian
randomisation: how genetic epidemiology can contribute to
identifying environmentally modifiable causes of disease |
Gabriel Leonard |
January 20, 2009 |
Hal Blumenfeld
Neurology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven CT |
Epilepsy and consciousness: Why
are patients with absence seizures absent? |
Jean Gotman |
January 27, 2009
Cancelled |
Abdelhamed
Benazzouz
Laboratoire Mouvement - Adaptation - Cognition
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
Bordeaux, France |
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Abbas Sadikot |
February 3, 2009 |
Henry Paulson, MD,
PhD
Lucile Groff Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI |
Toward
understanding polyglutamine neurodegeneration |
Edward Fon |
February 10, 2009
Postponed |
Edward Ziff, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
NYU - School of Medicine
New York, NY |
Synapses, Scaffolds, Cadherins and
Trafficking of AMPA Receptors |
David Colman |
February 17, 2009 |
Avi Chaudhuri
Dept. of Psychology
McGill University |
Neural Substrates of Face
Perception in Primates |
Christopher Pack |
February 24, 2009 |
Spyros
Artavanis-Tsakonas
Department of Cell
Biology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA |
Notch signaling
and the control of metazoan cell fates |
Stefano Stifani |
March 3, 2009 |
William Snider, MD
Director, UNC Neuroscience Center
UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC |
Genetic dissection of GSK-3 and
ERK/MAPK pathway functions during brain development |
Alyson Fournier |
March 10, 2009 |
Bill Gehring
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI |
20 years of ERN research:
What have we learned, and what is next? |
Lesley Fellows |
March 17, 2009 |
Yimin Zou
Division of Biological Sciences
University of California, San Diego |
Wnt and Cell Polarity Signaling
Pathways in Growth Cone Guidance |
Tim Kennedy |
March 24, 2009 |
Lyanne Schlichter
Division of Genetics & Development
Toronto Western Research Institute
Toronto Western Hospital |
Microglia activation and inflammation in stroke |
Philippe Séguéla |
March 31, 2009 |
John Duncan
Head of Department of
Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Institute of Neurology
London, UK |
Structural and functional imaging
in epilepsy |
Andrea Bernasconi |
April 7, 2009 |
Regina
Armstrong
Dept. Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland |
Signals regulating
progenitor cell responses during demyelination and remyelination |
Jack Antel |
April 14, 2009 |
Daniel Goldman,
PhD
Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
Department of Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI |
An HDAC4/Dach2/Myogenin
Signal Transduction Cascade Controls Activity-Dependent Gene
Expression in Muscle |
Ken Hastings |
April 21, 2009 |
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April 28, 2009 |
Rémi Quirion, PhD
Scientific Director,
Douglas Hospital Research Centre
McGill University
Scientific Director, INMHA (CIHR)
Montreal, QC
Vice-Dean for Science and Strategic Initiatives and Senior
University Advisor on Health Sciences Research, McGill
University |
KAC Elliot Lecture
Novel genes
possibly involved in memory and its alteration in old age and
Alzheimer’s Disease |
Barbara Jones |
May 5, 2009 |
Shernaz Bamji
Department of cellular and Physiological Sciences
Life Sciences Institute
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC |
Regulation of
Synapse Formation and Elimination by Adhesion and Guidance
Molecules |
Phil Barker |
May 6, 2009
Wednesday |
Esther Shohami
The Hebrew University School of Pharmacy
Pharmacology Department
Jerusalem, Israel |
Endocannabinoids: Their role in neuroprotection after traumatic
brain injury |
Eva Andermann |
May 12, 2009 |
David Linden
Department of Neuroscience
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD |
Cellular and molecular substrates
of motor learning in the cerebellum |
Philippe
Séguéla |
May 19, 2009 |
Yoland Smith
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University
Atlanta, GA |
Metabotropic
Glutamate Receptors:
Novel Targets for Parkinson's Disease Pharmacotherapy? |
Abbas Sadikot |
May 26, 2009 |
Tirin Moore
Stanford University
Medical Center
Palo Alto, CA |
Neural Mechanisms and Control of
Visual Attention |
Dan Guitton |
June 2, 2009 |
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Director, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain
Stimulation, Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA |
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Amir Shmuel |
June 9, 2009 |
Robert D.
Blitzer, PhD
Dept. of Pharmacology & Systems Therapeutics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY |
The Role of
Coordinated mTOR and Wnt Activity in Regulating Translational
Capacity During Synaptic Plasticity |
Wayne Sossin |
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