The Neuro

Killam Seminar Series 2013-2014
Scheduling Calendar
 
 

Date Speaker Lecture Host
2013      

September 10, 2013
     

September 17, 2013
 

Dr. John Jefferys, FMedSc, PhD
University of Birmingham
School of Clinical & Experimental Medicine
Neuronal Networks Group
Birmingham, UK

Neuronal Network Oscillations in Focal Epilepsy

Massimo Avoli

September 24, 2013
 

 

 

 

September 30, 2013
MONDAY

Richard Tsien, D. Phil.
NYU Neuroscience Institute
New York, NY
 

Wilder Penfield Lecture
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
 

October 7, 2013
MONDAY
 

TBA

Brenda Milner Symposium in celebration of 95th birthday
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre

 

 

October 8, 2013
 

Nigel G. Laing, PhD
University of Western Australia
Western Australian Institute for Medical Research
AUSTRALIA

Seeing Muscle Biology Through the Window of Genetic Disease

Bernard Brais

October 15, 2013
 

George Rebec, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

Dysfunctional Neural Circuitry in Huntington’s Disease:  From Vitamin C to Glutamate

Abbas Sadikot

October 17, 2013
THURSDAY

TBA

Denis Melançon Neuroradiology Lecture
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
 
 

October 22, 2013
 

TBA
 

Gairdner Lecture
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
 

October 29, 2013
 

Michele Rucci, PhD
Active Perception Lab
Department of Psychology
Boston University
Boston, MA

Seeing Space Through Time

 

Christopher Pack

November 5, 2013
 

Guido Gerig, PhD
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Modeling Brain Injury and Trajectory of Brain Changes from Longitudinal Multimodal Imaging

Louis Collins

November 12, 2013
 

 

Society for Neuroscience Meeting
November 9-13, 2013
San Diego, CA
 

 

November 20, 2013
WEDNESDAY
 

TBA

Hughlings Jackson Lecture
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre

 

 

November 26, 2013
 

 
   

December 3, 2013
 

Joel M. Levine, PhD
Department of Neurobiology & Behavior
Program in Neuroscience
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY

Modifying the Glial Scar to Promote Repair and Regeneration

Alyson Fournier

December 10, 2013
 

Kevin Jones, PhD
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO

BDNF - Needed Locally for Thinking Globally

Phil Barker

December 17, 2013

Melanie Woodin, PhD
Department of Cell & Systems Biology
University of Toronto

Cellular Mechanisms Regulating Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity and Chloride Homeostasis

Edward Ruthazer
2014      

January 14, 2014
 

Pierre-Pascal J. Lenck-Santini, PhD
Department of Neurological Sciences
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT

Understanding Cognitive Comorbidities in Epilepsy Beyond Seizures: From Rats to Men (and vice versa)

Jean Gotman

January 21, 2014
 
     

January 28, 2014
 

Erich Wanker, PhD
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
Department of Neuroproteomics
Berlin, Germany

 

Protein Misfolding, Perturbation of Protein Networks and Neurodegeneration

Peter McPherson

February 4, 2014
 

Mark Hoon, PhD
National Institutes of Health/NIDCR
Bethesda, MD 

Molecular Dissection of Peripheral Somatosensation

Philippe Séguéla

February 11, 2014
 


Luda Diatchenko, PhD
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC)
in Human Pain Genetics

McGill University


Translational Research in the Genomic Era: Persistent Pain Conditions

Phil Barker

February 18, 2014
 


V. Wee Yong, PhD
Departments of Oncology & Clinical Neurosciences
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB 


Overcoming Inhibitors in the Lesion Microenvironment for Remyelination

Jack Antel

February 25, 2014
 

Anjan Chatterjee, MD
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Spatial Thought and Language

Lesley Fellows

March 4, 2014
 

Konstanze Winklhofer, MD, PhD
Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
Adolf Butenandt Institute
Metabolic Biochemistry/Neuorbiochemistry
Munich, GERMANY

Ubiquitin Signaling and Mitochondrial Integrity: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Heidi McBride

March 11, 2014
 

Robert Froemke, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
New York, NY 

Cortical Plasticity Improves Sensory Perception

Etienne de Villers-Sidani

March 18, 2014
 

Pierre Drapeau, PhD
Director, Department of Pathology & Cell Biology
University of Montreal
 


Fishing for Causes and Cures of Neurodegeneration


Hiroshi Tsuda

March 25, 2014
 


Dr. J. Surmeier, PhD
Department of Physiology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center
Chicago, IL 


The Origins of Neuronal Vulnerability in Parkinson’s Disease

Ted Fon

April 1, 2014
 

Daniel Colón-Ramos, PhD
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Synapse Location During Growth Depend on Glia Location 

Tim Kennedy

April 8, 2014
 

Valerie Castellani, DR2, HDR - CNRS
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Centre de Génétique et de Physiologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire
UMR CNRS 5534
FRANCE

Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Navigation 

Jean-François Cloutier

April 15, 2014
 

David Glanzman, PhD
Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

New Insights into the Maintenance of Long-Term Memory in Aplysia

Wayne Sossin

April 22, 2014
 

Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD
Director, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program
University of California at San Francisco

San Francisco, CA 

Molecular Motors and Gene Networks in Human Cortical Radial Glia

Stefano Stifani

April 28, 2014
MONDAY

Wolfram Schultz, FRS
Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Reward, dopamine, and what is driving you

17th Annual Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience

Jeanne Timmins Amphithéâtre

 
May 1 & 2, 2014
THURSDAY or FRIDAY

TBA

Dorothy J Killam and BioX Lectures
Carla Shatz Lecture
 

May 6, 2014
 

Paul Taylor, MD, PhD
Department of Developmental Neurobiology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN

RNA Granule Dynamics in Neurological Disease

George Karpati Lecture
 


Heather Durham

May 12, 2014
MONDAY
 

TBA

Dorothy J. Killam Lecture
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
 

May 20, 2014
 
 
 Yang Dan, PhD
Howard Hughes Investigator
Professor of Neurobiology
University of California, Berkeley
 

Herbert Jasper Lecture
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre

Neuromodulation of Brain States and Sensory Processing
 
Barbara Jones

May 22, 2014
THURSDAY
 

 

Albert Aguayo Lecture
 

May 27, 2014
 
Canadian Association for Neuroscience
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 25-28, 2014
 
 

May 29, 2014

 

 

Donald Baxter Lecture &
Neurology Day