Killam Lectures

Killam Seminar Series 2008-2009

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2008 - 2009 Lecture Series

Date	Speaker	Lecture	Host
September 9, 2008
September 16, 2008
September 23, 2008
September 30, 2008
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
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
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		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		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
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		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