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 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 [...]
Special Seminar Monday, March 7 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Lindsay Schwarz, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Stanford University New Approaches for Uncovering Norepinephrine Circuit Organization and Function Recommended Readings Schwarz, L. A., & Luo, L. (2015). Organization of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system. Current Biology, 25(21), R1051-R1056. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.039. Schwarz, L. A., Miyamichi, K., [...]
Special Seminar Friday, March 14 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) David Schneider, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Sensory and Motor Circuits for Listening and Learning Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Nelson, A., Schneider, D. M., Takatoh, J., Sakurai, K., Wang, F., & Mooney, R. (2013). A circuit for motor cortical modulation of [...]
Special Lecture Series Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Talia Lerner, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Distinct Information Encoding in Circuit-Defined Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neuron Subpopulations Recommended Reading Adhikari, A., Lerner, T. N., Finkelstein, J., Pak, S., Jennings, J. H., Davidson, T. J., ... & Kim, S. Y. (2015). [...]
Special Lecture Monday, January 25, 2016 3:45 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D. Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Targeted Top-down Control of Memory Retrieval Recommended Reading Fiumara, F., Rajasethupathy, P., Antonov, I., Kosmidis, S., Sossin, W. S., & Kandel, E. R. (2015). MicroRNA-22 gates long-term heterosynaptic [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 16, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Jonas Frisén, M.D., Ph.D. Tobias Foundation Professor of Stem Cell Research, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Cellular Plasticity in the Intact and Injured Central Nervous System Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Ernst, A., Alkass, K., Bernard, S., Salehpour, M., Perl, [...]
Special Lecture Monday, September 21, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School Boston Children's Hospital Metabolic Regulation of Mitochondrial Function in the Nervous System Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Pekkurnaz, G., Trinidad, J. C., Wang, X., Kong, D., & Schwarz, T. L. (2014). Glucose regulates [...]
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 [...]