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. [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, October 23, 2017 3:45 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Timothy Ryan, Ph.D. Tri-Institutional Professor Department of biochemistry Weill Cornell Medical College The Cost of Thinking: Metabolic Fitness at the Synapse Level Recommended Readings: Jaime de Juan Sanz (2017). The surprising metabolism of "exercising" neurons. Plos Blogs http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/01/brain-cells-mobilize-sugar-response-increased-activity Ashrafi, Ghazaleh; Ryan, Timothy A. (2017). [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 10, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D. Walter A. Rosenblith Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind Recommended Readings: http://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/video/nancys-ted-talk-neural-portrait-human-mind https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2017/jan/05/face-selective-brain-region-continues-to-grow-in-adulthood Osher, David E.; Saxe, Rebecca R.; Koldewyn, Kami; [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 24, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D. Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics The Rockefeller University Leptin Physiology, Pathophysiology and the Neural Circuit Regulating Body Weight Recommended Readings: Friedman, Jeffrey (2016). The long road to leptin. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION. 126(12): [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 21, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D. Professor, MIT, Brain and Cognitive Sciences It's the Thought that counts: Progress in understanding the Neural basis of Theory of Mind Recommended Readings: Chakroff, Alek; Dungan, James; Koster-Hale, Jorie; et al. When minds matter for moral judgment: intent information is neurally encoded [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 14, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Ole Kiehn, Ph.D. Professor, Mammalian Locomotor Laboratory, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institut Deciphering the Functional Organization of Neuronal Circuits Controlling Locomotion Recommended Readings: Kiehn, Ole. Decoding the organization of spinal circuits that control locomotion. NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE 17(4): 224-238 APR 2016 Bouvier, Julien; Caggiano, Vittorio; Leiras, Roberto; [...]
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 [...]
