Monday Lecture Series Monday, April 27, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. F.M. Kirby Professor and Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Making an Effort to Listen: the Active Process of the Cochlea Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Fisher, J. A., Nin, F., [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, April 20, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Michael W. Young, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and Head, Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University Genes that Regulate Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Levy, C., Zoltowski, B. D., Jones, A. R., Vaidya, [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, April 6, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D., President, Carson Family Professor and Head, Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University Sculpting Neuronal Connections: The Logic and Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Pruning Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Leyva-Díaz, E., del Toro, D., Menal, M. J., [...]
Special Seminar Wednesday, May 13, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Natasha Mhatre, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto at Scarborough The Sensory Ecology and Evolutionary Origins of Actively Amplified Mechanotransduction: From Insects to Algae Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Mhatre, N., Montealegre-Z, F., Balakrishnan, R., & Robert, D. (2012). Changing resonator geometry to boost [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, February 13, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Pietro De Camilli, M.D. John Klingenstein Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Cell Biology, Director, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, and Repair, Yale University School of Medicine Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lipid Signaling in the Control of Membrane Dynamics and Interactions Recommended Readings Empirical Articles [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, January 23, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Eve Marder, Ph.D. Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University Robustness, Variability, and Neuromodulation in Neurons and Networks Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Caplan, J. S., Williams, A. H., & Marder, E. (2014). Many parameter sets in [...]
Special Lecture Series Monday, February 9, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Eiman Azim, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center Neural Circuits for Skilled Movement Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Azim, E., Jiang, J., Alstermark, B., & Jessell, T. M. (2014). Skilled reaching relies on a V2a propriospinal [...]
Special Lecture Series Monday, February 2, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Celine Riera, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Li Ka Shing Center, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Identification of Sensory Circuits Controlling Metabolism and Longevity Recommended Readings Riera, C. E., Huising, M. O., Follett, P., Leblanc, M., Halloran, J., Van [...]
Special Lecture Series Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Nicolas Tritsch, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School Lost in Translation - What do Dopamine Neurons Tell the Brain? Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Straub, C., Tritsch, N. X., Hagan, N. A., Gu, C., & Sabatini, B. L. (2014). Multiphasic [...]