Killam Lectures

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Killam Seminar Series 2011-2012
Scheduling Calendar

Date	Speaker	Lecture	Host
2011
September 6, 2011	Rejji Kuruvilla, PhD Department of Biology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD USA	Target-derived neurotrophins: trafficking, signaling and functions	Jean-François Cloutier
September 13, 2011
September 20, 2011		IPN Retreat
September 27, 2011	Kurt Haas, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, CANADA	Direct in vivo Imaging of Experience-Driven Structural and Functional Plasticity and Metaplasticity within the Awake Developing Brain	Edward Ruthazer
October 4, 2011	Susan M. Resnick, PhD Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience National Institute on Aging, NIH Bethesda, MD USA	Distinguishing Between Normal and Pathological Brain Aging: Neuroimaging Predictors of Cognitive Decline and Resilience	Marilyn Jones-Gotman
October 11, 2011	Frank Longo, PhD Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA USA	Targeting Alzheimer’s Mechanisms with Neurotrophin Receptor Small Molecule Ligands	Phil Barker
October 13, 2011 Thursday		Denis Melançon Neuroradiology Lecture
October 18, 2011	Donald W. Gross, PhD Division of Neurology University of Alberta Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA	Characterizing the Extent of the Epileptic Network	Abbas Sadikot
October 25, 2011	Zelma Kiss, MD, PhD University of Calgary Health Research Innovation Centre Calgary, Alberta, CANADA	Why therapeutic electrical brain stimulation improves movement disorders	Abbas Sadikot
November 1, 2011	Peter J. Roy, PhD Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, CANADA	MADD-4 is a Secreted Cue Required for Midline-Oriented Guidance in Caenorhabditis elegans	Tim Kennedy
November 8, 2011	Volker Haucke, PhD Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, GERMANY	Membrane scaffolds in synaptic vesicle exo-endocytosis - from molecules to systems	Peter McPherson
November 15, 2011		Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting Washington DC Nov 12-16
November 22, 2011	Daniel Côté Département de Physique Centre de Recherche Université Laval Robert Giffard Québec City, Québec, CANADA	Live animal optical imaging of the spinal cord: cellular biomarkers of multiple sclerosis	Jack Antel
November 29, 2011	Eero Castrén, PhD Sigrid Jusélius Professor in Neuroscience University of Helsinki FINLAND	Reactivation of developmental plasticity in the adult brain through neurotrophin signaling	Phil Barker
December 6, 2011	Elizabeth A. Jonas, MD Department of Internal Medicine Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT USA	Life, Death and neuronal metabolism	Ted Fon
December 13, 2011	Antoine Adamantidis, PhD Douglas Mental Health Institute Department of Psychiatry McGill University Montreal, Québec, CANADA	Optogenetics probing of sleep-wake circuits	Philippe Séguéla
December 20, 2011	Rajesh Khanna, PhD Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology STARK Neuroscience Research Institute Indianapolis, IN USA	Curbing a calcium channel	Alyson Fournier
2012
January 10, 2012	Xiaoping P. Hu, PhD Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Endowed Eminent Scholar in Imaging Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Tech and Emory University Atlanta GA USA	Granger Causality Analysis of fMRI Data: Technical Advances, Applications, and Caveats	Amir Shmuel
January 17, 2012	Stefan Jakobs, PhD Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Department of Nanobiophotonics Goettingen, GERMANY	Super-resolution microscopy: Focusing on mitochondria	Thomas Stroh
January 24, 2012 Postponed	Dr. Francisco Quintana Assistant Professor of Neurology Center for Neurologic Diseases Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School		Amit Bar-Or
January 31, 2012	Yves DeKoninck, Ph.D Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRQ) Beauport, Québec CANADA	A new tool for single cell optogenetics in the intact brain	Barbara Jones
February 7, 2012	Philippe Roux, PhD Institute for Research in Immunology & Cancer (IRIC) University of Montreal Montreal, Québec, CANADA	Phosphoproteomic analysis reveals emerging roles for RSK in cell growth and proliferation	Phil Barker
February 14, 2012	Robert T. Knight, MD Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience Director, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Department of Psychology University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA USA	Cortical Mechanisms of Cognition: Insights from Intracranial Recording	Lesley Fellows
February 21, 2012	Anne Ridley, PhD Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics King's College London United Kingdom	Rho GTPases: signalling in cell adhesion and migration	Alyson Fournier
February 28, 2012	Teresa Burke, PhD School of Psychology University College Dublin Dublin, IRELAND	Old Problems, New Approaches: Insights into prospective memory deficits in clinical and non-clinical samples	Gabriel Leonard
March 6, 2012	Paola Arlotta, PhD Centre for Regenerative Medicine & Department of Neurosurgery Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA USA	Programming and Reprogramming of Corticospinal Motor Neurons	Stefano Stifani
March 13, 2012	Jaideep Bains, PhD Hotchkiss Brain Institute University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, CANADA	Synaptic adaptations to stress	Edward Ruthazer
March 20, 2012	Frank Bradke, PhD Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology Axonal Growth and Regeneration Martinsried, GERMANY	Cytoskeletal Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration	Alyson Fournier
March 27, 2012	Nicola De Stefano, MD, PhD Institute of Neurological Science Neurometabolic Unit University of Siena Siena, ITALY	Insights into multiple sclerosis from MRI	Louis Collins/ Sridar Narayanan
April 3, 2012	Mark Zylka, PhD Department of Cell & Molecular Physiology University of North Carolina at Chaptel Hill Neuroscience Cener Chapel Hill, NC USA	Biochemical modulation of nociceptive circuits	Philippe Séguéla
April 10, 2012 Cancelled	Suzanne Haber, PhD Department of Pharmacology & Physiology University of Rochester Rochester, NY USA	The circuit of reward and value: linking connectivity to function and disease	Lesley Fellows
April 17, 2012	Luis de Lecea, PhD Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA USA	Optogenetic control of arousal	Barbara Jones
April 24, 2012	Kim Huber UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Biomedical Research Dallas, TX, USA	Metabotropic glutamate receptor scaffolds in neuronal function and plasticity: Implications for autism	Wayne Sossin
May 1, 2012	Björn Brembs, PhD Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Biologie-Neurobiologie Berlin, GERMANY	PKC and FoxP: evidence for a new molecular learning mechanism?	Wayne Sossin
Monday, May 7, 2012	Bryan E. Kolb, PhD Professor of Neuroscience Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Alberta	Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience Environment, genes, health, behaviour, and the prefrontal cortex	Michael Petrides
May 8, 2012	Simone Engelender, MD, PhD Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, ISRAEL	Regulation of a-synuclein monoubiquitination: Implications to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease	Ted Fon
May 15, 2012	Robert Edwards, PhD University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, CA USA	K.A.C. Elliott Lecture The Origin of Synaptic Vesicle Pools	Barbara Jones
May 16 & 17, 2012		David R. Colman Symposium
May 22, 2012		Canadian Association of Neuroscience Meeting Vancouver May 20 - 23
May 29, 2012	Michael Kahana, PhD Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA	Memory search: relating cognitive theory and neural data	Jean Gotman
May 30, 2012	Lily Jan, PhD Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA USA	Dorothy J. Killam Lecture Potassium channels and calcium-activated chloride channels for neuronal signaling