Killam Lectures

Killam Seminar Series 2010-2011

Scheduling Calendar

2010 - 2011 Lecture Series

Date	Speaker	Lecture	Host
September 7, 2010	Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD Division of Neuro-oncology Department of Neurology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	Syndromes and mechanisms of autoimmune synaptic encephalitis	Jack Antel
September 14, 2010
September 20-21, 2010		Integrated Program in Neuroscience Retreat
September 27, 2010 Monday	Marianne Bronner-Fraser, PhD Division of Biology California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	DJ Killam Lecture Gene regulatory network underlying neural crest formation	David Colman
September 28, 2010	Josef Parvizi Laboratory of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences Stanford, CA	Corticocentric Myopia: Social Darwinism and Victorian Bias in Modern Neurosciences	Marilyn Jones-Gotman
October 5, 2010	Andrea C. LeBlanc Bloomfield Center for Research in Aging Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Montréal, QC	Mechanism and Function of Caspase-6 in Alzheimer Disease	Edith Hamel
October 12, 2010	Stefano Vicini Department of Physiology and Biophysics Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, DC	GABAergic control of striatal neurons	Massimo Avoli
October 19, 2010	Paul Matthews Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Imperial College, London Vice-President for Imaging; Head, GSK Clinical Imaging Centre Drug Discovery GlaxoSmithKline	Brain imaging for understanding molecular bases of human variation
October 26, 2010	David Freedman Department of Neurobiology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL	Brain Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Category Learning	Christopher Pack
November 2, 2010	Frederic Saudou, PhD Institut Curie CNRS UMR INSERM Univerisite Paris-Sud Paris, France	Huntington's disease: From axonal transport to ciliogenesis	Edward Fon
November 9, 2010	Matti Hamalainen Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA	Similarities and Differences between MEG and EEG: Implications to Source Estimation and Multi-Modal Imaging	Eliane Kobayashi
November 16, 2010 SFN San Diego Nov 13-17, 2010
November 23, 2010	Kang Shen Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA	Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation and axon transport in C. elegans	Tim Kennedy
November 30, 2010	Michael Meaney Douglas Mental Health University Institute Montreal, QC	Epigenetic neuroscience: Nature and nurture	Ken Hastings
December 7, 2010	Katrin Krumbholz MRC Institute of Hearing Research University Park Nottingham, UK	Effect of coding or affecting coding? Mechanisms of stimulus-specific adaptation in human auditory cortex	Robert Zatorre
December 14, 2010
December 21, 2010
2011
January 4, 2011
January 11, 2011
January 18, 2011	Richard J. Youle Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS Porter Neuroscience Research Center Bethesda, MD	Damage Control - Role of Pink1 and Parkin in mitochondrial autophagy and Parkinson's disease	Edward Fon
January 25, 2011	Nabil Seidah Director, Biochemical Neuroendocrinology Lab IRCM Montreal, Quebec	The proprotein convertases: 20 years later	David R. Colman
February 1, 2011	Pascal Dournaud, PhD INSERM U676 Hôpital Robert-Debré Paris, France	Trafficking of the somatostatin type 2 receptor in central neurons: cellular mechanisms and pathological consequences in epilepsy	Thomas Stroh
February 8, 2011	Steven S. Scherer, MD, PhD Department of Neurology The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center Philadelphia, PA	How do connexin mutations cause brain diseases?	David Colman
February 14, 2011 Monday	Alastair Compston Department of Clinical Neurosciences Addenbrooke’s Hospital University of Cambridge, UK	Thomas Willis Lecture Dr Thomas Willis’ works: “the most learned Dr Christopher Wren; and the inward dens of the brain”	William Feindel
February 15, 2011	Eric Frank Department of Physiology Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, MA	Anatomical and Functional Regeneration of Sensory Axons in the Adult Mammalian Spinal Cord	Alyson Fournier
February 22, 2011	Dr. Alon Monsonego Faculty of Health Sciences Ben-Gurion University Beer-Sheva, Israel	CNS-Immune interactions in neural tissue maintenance, disease and repair	Amit Bar-Or
March 1, 2011	Elisabeth Murray National Institutes of Health Neuropsychology Laboratory Bethesda, MD	What's it worth? Orbital prefrontal cortex contributions to reward-based decision making	Michael Petrides
March 8, 2011	Adam Zeman Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry Peninsula Medical School Exeter	The Syndrome of Transient Epileptic Amnesia	Marilyn Jones-Gotman
March 15, 2011		CANCELLED
March 22, 2011	Amos Korczyn, M.D. Sieratzki Chair of Neurology Tel-Aviv University Medical School Ramat Aviv, Israel	Why have we failed to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease?	Eva Andermann
March 28, 2011 Monday	Jerold Chun, PhD Scripps Research Institute Department of Pharmacology University of California San Diego	Lysophospholipid receptors: roles in the CNS and Multiple Sclerosis	Jack Antel
March 29, 2011	Hakon Hakonarson, PhD Center for Applied Genomics Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA	GWAS and Sequencing Approaches to Complex Neurogenetic Diseases	Eva Andermann
April 5, 2011	Michael Stryker, PhD Department of Physiology University of California San Francisco, CA	Competition, neural plasticity, and recovery of function in the mammalian visual system	Edward Ruthazer
April 12, 2011	Lynn Raymond, PhD Department of Psychiatry Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC	Synaptic dysfunction in Huntington disease: Role of mislocalization and altered signaling of NR2B-type NMDA receptors	Abbas Sadikot
April 19, 2011	Anne Calof, PhD Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Developmental & Cell Biology, and the Center for Complex Biological Systems University of California, Irvine	Using the Mouse as a Model Organism for Studying Neural Stem Cell Development and Human Genetic Disease	JF Cloutier
April 26, 2011	Claude Rouillard, PhD Department of Neuroscience CHUL Québec City, Québec	Dopamine and the nuclear NR4A receptors: Friends and Foes!	Abbas Sadikot
May 2, 2011 Monday	Eleanor Maguire, PhD University College London	2011 Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience Scenes, space and the hippocampus	Michael Petrides
May 3, 2011	Masud Husain, MD, PhD Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London Queen Square London, UK	The Inattentive and Impulsive Brain	Lesley Fellows
May 10, 2011	Lisa Goodrich, PhD Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	Molecular Control of Neural Circuit Assembly from Outgrowth to Function	JF Cloutier
May 17, 2011	Barry Connors, PhD Chair, Department of Neuroscience Brown University Providence, RI	2011 Herbert Jasper Lecture What are electrical synapses doing in the mammalian forebrain?	Barbara Jones
May 24, 2011	Matthew Anderson, PhD Department of Pathology Harvard University Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA	LGI1 Connects Human Epilepsy to Defective Childhood Brain Development	Phil Barker
May 31, 2011	Bong-Kiun Kaang, PhD Departments of Biological Sciences and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Seoul National University Seoul, Korea	Dynamic Long-Term Memory: A Comparative Study of Mouse and Aplysia	Wayne Sossin
June 1, 2011	Samuel Berkovic, M.D. Professor of Neurology, University of Melbourne, Australia	2011 Donald Baxter Lecture Genetics of Epilepsy: Clinical Research in the Era of Massive Parallel Sequencing	Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery
June 7, 2011	Vincenzo Crunelli, PhD School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK	Pathophysiological mechanisms of typical absence seizures CANCELLED	Massimo Avoli
June 14, 2011	Stephen Gee, PhD University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON	Regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics by lipid kinases CANCELLED	David Ragsdale