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Killam Seminar Series 2003 – 2004


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2003 - 2004 Series
Date Speaker Lecture Host
September 16, 2003  Gary Westbrook,MD
Vollum Institute, Portland, OR
Editor-in-chief of
The Journal of Neuroscience		 Oscillations and synchrony in a sensory system  Angel Alonso
September 23, 2003 Dr. Sung Ok Yoon
Ohio State University		 P75 as a Receptor Regulating Death vs
Regeneration after CNS Injury		 Phil Barker
September 30, 2003      
October 7, 2003 Dr. Jean Rossier
Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles
Paris, France		 On the Role of Interneurons in the Neocortex Edith Hamel
October 14, 2003 Shinji Nagahiro
Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
University of Tokushima		 Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm
and Trigeminal Neurolgia 		 Mirko Diksic

 
October 21, 2003      
October 28, 2003 Dr. Christopher I. Moore
McGovern Institute for Brain Research		 A Moving, Touching Event: Cortical Dynamics and Tactile Perception in Rats, Monkeys and Humans  
November 4, 2003 Dr. Lino Tessarollo
Head, Neural Development Group
Mouse Cancer Genetics Program
National Cancer Institute		 Dissecting neurotrophins function in vivo:
Lesson from engineered mouse models		 Phil Barker
November 11, 2003   Society for Neuroscience  
November 18, 2003      
November 25, 2003      
December 2, 2003 Dr. Kenneth Campbell Children's Hospital Research Foundation
Cincinnati, OH		 Mechanisms of patterning and differentiation in the developing mouse telencephalon Abbas Sadikot
December 9, 2003 Dr. A.J. Stoessl
Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre
 University of British Columbia		 Imaging of dopamine function in the human brain Antonio Strafella
December 16, 2003   Dr. Jon Sedgwick DNAX Research Inc.
Palo Alto, CA		  Novel cytokine pathways driving inflammation
in the central nervous system		  Trevor Owens
December 23, 2003      
December 30, 2003      
January 6, 2004 Dr. William Colmers
Dept. of Pharmacology
University of Alberta		 At the End of My Nerves: Central Actions of Neuropeptide Y Massimo Avoli
January 13, 2004      
January 20, 2004 Dr. Michel Cayouette
Department of Neurobiology
Stanford University		 Generating cell diversity in the developing
nervous system		 John Robson
January 27, 2004      
February 3, 2004 Dr. Alan Peterson McGill University When, where and how much myelin to make;
insights into control mechanisms		 Killam Committee
February 10, 2004 Dr. Julie Desbarats
Department of
Physiology
McGill University		 Defying death: neurotrophic activity of the "death receptor" Fas  Alyson Fournier
February 17, 2004      
February 24, 2004 Dr. André Longtin
Department of Physics University of Ottawa		 Neural Feedback and the Generation of Network Oscillations  
March 2, 2004 Dr. Emre Aksay
Department of Molecular Biology Princeton University Princeton		 Mechanisms of Short-Term Memory for Fixation

 *Dr. Aksay is a candidate for a faculty position.		  
March 9, 2004 Dr. David Eisenstat Director,
Neuro-Oncology,
CancerCare Manitoba
 University of Manitoba

DLX transcription factors and development of the forebrain and retina

 Edward Fon
March 16, 2004 Dr. Steven A. Goldman
Chief, Division of Cell and Gene Therapy
Glenn-Zutes Chair in Biology of the Aging Brain
Dept. of Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center		 Progenitor cells of the adult human brain Jack Antel
March 23, 2004 Dr. Robert Chen
University of Toronto
Toronto Western Hospital 		 The functions and connections of the basal ganglia: Insights from deep brain stimulation Antonio Strafella 
March 30, 2004 Dr. Angela Jane Roskams
University of British Columbia		 Cellular and Molecular Determinants of Olfactory Degeneration and Regeneration Alyson Fournier
April 6, 2004

Cancelled

 Dr. Gina Turrigiano
Department of Biology
Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA 		Homeostatic plasticity in developing cortical networks Barbara Jones
April 13, 2004 Dr. Kim Cornish
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology
McGill University		 The role of cognitive neuroscience in understanding atypical developmental pathways Michael Petrides
April 20, 2004 Dr. Yves de Koninck
Unité de neurobiologie cellulaire
Centre de recherche
Université Laval Robert-Giffard		 Regulation of Chloride Homeostasis as a Mechanism of Neural Plasticity & Pathology Philippe Séguéla
April 27, 2004 Dr. Mark Mintun, MD Washington University Medical Centre
St. Louis, MO		 PET Receptor Measures in Depression and during Antidepressant Treatment Mirko Diksic
May 4, 2004      
May 11, 2004 Dr. Carla Schatz
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School		 Jerzy Olszewski Lecture
 Brain Waves and Immune Genes in Brain Wiring		 Barbara Jones
May 12, 2004
Wednesday		 Dr. Hubert van Tol
University of Toronto		 Molecular genetic analysis of biogenic amine signaling in C. elegans Peter McPherson
May 18, 2004 Dr. Greg Payne
Dept Biological Chemistry
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA		  Adaptor function in clathrin-mediated protein traffic in yeast Peter McPherson
May 25, 2004 Dr. Tom Lane
Dept of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
University of California
 at Irvine		 Chemokines and Viral-Induced Neurologic Disease Trevor Owens
May 31, 2004
Monday		 Melvyn Goodale, Ph.D., F.R.S.C.
CRC in Visual Neuroscience
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario		 Brenda Milner Symposium
Sight Unseen: How (and why) the visual
control of action differs from visual perception		 Michael Petrides
June 1, 2004 Dr. Jean Decety University of Washington Human empathy: its functional architecture Tomas Paus

June 8, 2004

 Dr. Peter Nguyen
Dept. of Physiology
University of Alberta		 Mechanisms of stabilization and destabilization of hippocampal long-term potentiation.
 		 Wayne Sossin
June 15, 2004