Friday Lectures Friday, September 7, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium John Hardy Ph.D. Head of the Department of Molecular Neuroscience Chair of the Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease University College London Genomic Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease and other Neurodegenerative Disorders Recommended Readings: Science News Rebecca Hiscott. AT THE BENCH: John Hardy, PhD, on Unraveling the [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, May 4, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Beth Stevens Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School – Boston Children’s Hospital How the Immune System Sculpts Brain Circuitry Recommended Readings: Science News Beth Stevens and Todd E. Golden. Deciphering neurodegeneration: Inflammation, immune response, and Alzheimer’s. (Webinar – February 7, 2018). Science [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 9th, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Michael Greenberg, Ph.D. Department Chair and Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Control Brain Development and Function Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Kalish, Brian T.; Cheadle, Lucas; Hrvatin, Sinisa; et al. (2018). Single-cell transcriptomics of the [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, December 15, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Rachel Wilson, Ph.D. Martin Family Professor Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Neural Correlates of Orienting Behaviors and Latent Action Biases Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Azevedo, Anthony W.; Wilson, Rachel I. (2017). Active Mechanisms of Vibration Encoding and Frequency Filtering in Central Mechanosensory Neurons. [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 03, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D. Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and Head, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL Recommended Readings: Bezzina A. Malaria infection smells irresistible to mosquitoes. Cosmos. Feb 9 2017 Hurd H. Afraid of malaria? [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 17, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D. Associate Professor MIT Media Lab Optical Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Complex Biological Systems Recommended Readings: Boyden, Edward S. (2015). Optogenetics and the future of neuroscience. NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. 18(12): 1862-1862 Chen, Fei; Tillberg, Paul W.; Boyden, Edward S. (2015). Expansion microscopy. SCIENCE. 347(6221): 543-548 [...]
Monday Lectures Monday October 31, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Marcello Magnasco, Ph.D. Professor, Mathematical Physics The Rockefeller University Recommended Readings: Janik VM, and Slater PJB. Vocal Learning in Mammals. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 26:59-99 1997 Request through Markus Library at librequest@rockefeller.edu Reiss D, and McCowan B. Spontaneous Vocal Mimicry and [...]
Friday Lecture Series Gaby Maimon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function Quantitative Neural Computations in Behaving Drosophila Recommended Readings: Kim, A.J. et al. Cellular evidence for efference copy in Drosophila visuomotor processing. Nature Neuroscience. 18, 1247–1255 (2015). Rien, D.; kern, R. and R. Kurtz. Octopaminergic modulation of a fly visual motion-sensitive neuron during stimulation with [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, May 23, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Mary Hynes, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor, Laboratory of Neural Specification and Development, The Rockefeller University Widespread Differential Expression of 3’ UTR and Cognate Coding Region Sequences in Neurons and Other Tissues Recommended Readings: Heiman, M., Kulicke, R., Fenster, R. J., Greengard, P., [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, May 2, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D. Senior Attending Physician, The Rockefeller University Hospital Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor and Head, Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases, The Rockefeller University 50th Anniversary of First Research Paper on Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Update on [...]
