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Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 Neuroscience/BBDI Seminar Schedule

All seminars are held on Wednesdays, 12:00 Noon, CA-1002

(unless otherwise noted)

August 19, 2009

Dr. Vladimir Parpura
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Investigator, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Director, Atomic Force Microscopy & Nanotechnology Laboratories
University of Alabama @ Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Host: Sergei Kirov, PhD

"Tripartite Synapse - Astrocytic Regulation of Glutamate"

August 26, 2009 No Seminar
September 2, 2009

No Seminar

September 9, 2009

*special time* - 4:00 pm

Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki
Board of Governors Professor, CMBN
Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey
Newark, NJ

Host: Joe Tsien, PhD

"Cell Assembly Sequences in the Service of Cognition"

September 16, 2009

No Seminar

September 23, 2009

No Seminar

September 30, 2009

Dr. Bettina Winckler
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Host: Clare Bergson, PhD

"Axonal Trafficking of Cell Adhesion Molecules: A Central Role for Endosomes"

October 7, 2009

Dr. Christopher Rorden
Director, Georgia State University
Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging
Atlanta, Georgia

Host: Jay Hegde, PhD

"The role of the Left Hemisphere in Language and Perception"

October 14, 2009

Dr. Susan Fagan
Jowdy Professor and Associate Head,
Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy
Assistant dean, UGA College of Pharmacy
Athens, GA

"Vascular protection to enhance recovery after stroke"

October 21, 2009 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting - no seminar
October 28, 2009

Dr. Anil Cashikar
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Center for Molecular Chaperone/Radiobiology & Cancer Virology
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA

“Sequestration of protein aggregates as a protective mechanism against neurotoxicity"

November 4, 2009

Dr. Paula Dore-Duffy
Professor of Neurology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Host: William Hill, PhD

"The Capillary pericyte is a source of adult pluripotent stem cells”

November 11, 2009

Cancelled

Dr. Robert Turner
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Host: Dr. David Blake

"TBA"

November 18, 2009

Dr. Roger Thompson
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy
University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada

Host: Sergei Kirov

"Pathological Functions of Pannexin-1Channels in Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons."

November 25-27, 2009

Thanksgiving Holiday - No Seminar

December 2, 2009

Dr. Matthew Shapiro
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Host: Sergei Kirov, PhD

"TBA"

December 9, 2009

Dr. Andrew Swartz
Professor of Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA

Host: Joe Tsien, PhD

"TBA"

December 16, 2009

Dr. Jon Kass
Distinguished Centennial Professor of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Host: Jay Hegde, PhD

" Modular organization of posterior parietal cortex in primates"

December 23- 31, 2008 Holiday Season
January 1-2, 2010 Holiday Season
January 6, 2010

Dr. Ted Abel
Professor, Department of Biology
The Mahnoney Institute of Neurological Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Host: Joe Tsien, PhD

"TBA"

January 13, 2010

Open

January 20, 2010

Dr. Geoffrey Ling
Professor and Vice Chairman of the Neurology
Director of the Division of Critical Care Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences


Host: DJ Kimbler (Kris Dhandapani)

"
TBA"

January 27, 2010

Dr. Emery Brown
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Host: Joe Tsien, PhD

“TBA”

February 3, 2010

Open

February 10, 2010

Dr. Joyce Benjamins
Professor and Associate Chair of Neurology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Host: Robert Yu, Med. Sc.D.

"TBA"

February 17, 2010

Dr. Larry Young
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University School of Medicine
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Atlanta, GA

Host: Limor Raz

 “TBA”

February 24, 2010

 

Dr. Karim Oweiss
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Electrical & Computer Eng.
Department of Neurobiology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Host: Joe Tsien, PhD

"TBA"

March 3, 2010

Dr. Partha Mitra
Professor of Neuroscience and Theoretical Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Host: Joe Tsien

"TBA"

March 10, 2010

Open

March 17, 2010

Open

March 24, 2010

Dr. Maiken Nedergaard
Co-Director, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology & Anatomy
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Host: Sergei Kirov

"TBA"

April 5-9, 2010 Spring Break - Master's Week
April 14, 2010

Dr. Randolph Nudo
Director, Landon Center on Aging
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS

Host: David Blake, PhD

"TBA"

April 21, 2010

Dr. Daeyeol Lee
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Laboratory of Cognitive and Decision Making
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Host: He Cui, PhD

"TBA"

April 28, 2010

Dr. Charles Cox
Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Pharmacology, Biophysics and Neuroscience
The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Host: He Cui, PhD

"TBA"

May 5, 2010

Open

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