Joint Seminars in Neuroscience 2000-2001 Presented by the Brain Research Institute and the Neuropsychiatric Institute, as well as the Interdepartmental Programs for Neuroscience, the Mental Retardation Research Center, and the Departments of Anesthesiology, Neurobiology, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Physiological Science, Physiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Psychology, and Surgery/Neurosurgery |
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OCTOBER | ||
10 | "Targeting mRNAs to Synaptic Sites on Dendrites"
OSWALD STEWARD, Ph.D. (Hosted by Kelsey Martin) Director, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, Professor of Anatomy/Neurobiology and Neurobiology and Behavior University of California, Irvine |
now online: modem or highspeed |
17 | "Is the Cerebral Cortex a Time Machine?"
TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI, Ph.D. (Hosted by Dean Buonomano) Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute; Department of Biology University of California, San Diego |
now online: modem or highspeed |
24 | The 44th School of Medicine Annual Lecture "Genetic Control of Apoptosis in Caenorhabditis Elegans" H. ROBERT HORVITZ, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator |
now online: modem or highspeed |
31 | "Intracellular Study of Auditory Spatial Receptive Fields" MARK KONISHI, Ph.D. (Hosted by David Glanzman) Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena |
now online: modem or highspeed |
NOVEMBER | ||
7 | Society for Neuroscience Meeting--No Seminar | |
14 | "Olfactory Sensory Maps"
LESLIE B. VOSSHALL, Ph.D. (Hosted by Kelsey Martin) Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York |
now online: modem or highspeed |
21 | "Cortical Memory Networks"
JOAQUIN M. FUSTER, M.D., Ph.D. (Hosted by Mark Barad) Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA |
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28 | "Towards Understanding the Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Cognition: Evidence from Functional MRI"
MARK D'ESPOSITO, M.D. (Hosted by Michael Fanselow) Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology; Director,Brain Imaging Center, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley |
now online: modem or highspeed |
DECEMBER | ||
5 | The Brain Research Institute Neuroscience Poster
Day Distinguished Lecturer (in Ackerman Grand Ballroom) "IEGs Provide Novel Insights into Synaptic Plasticity" PAUL F. WORLEY, M.D. (Hosted Kelsey Martin) Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland |
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JANUARY | ||
9 | "Pathogenesis Studies in the Neurodegenerative Disease
Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1"
Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D. Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas |
now online: modem or highspeed |
16 | "Analyzing Synapse Formation in Mutant and Fluorescent Mice"
Joshua R. Sanes, Ph.D. Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washingston University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri |
now online: modem or highspeed |
23 | "Functional Analysis of Activity Regulated Genes in Visual System Development"
Hollis T. Cline, Ph.D. Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York |
now online: modem or highspeed |
30 | "Birdsong: A Model System for the Study of Vocal Learning and
Basal Ganglia Function"
Allison J. Doupe, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco |
now online: modem or highspeed |
FEBRUARY | ||
6 |
Presentation cancelled |
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13 | "Identification and Characterization of Alzheimer's B-Secretase Protein BACE"
Martin O. Citron, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience Amgen, Inc. Thousand Oaks, California |
now online: modem or highspeed |
20 | "The Neurochemistry of Acute and Persistent Pain"
Allan I. Basbaum, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy and the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience University of California, San Francisco |
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27 | "Behavioral, Neural and Genetic Analysis of Learning in C. Elegans"
Catherine H. Rankin, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Brain Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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MARCH | ||
6 | "Control of Synapse Strength and Number in Developing Cortical
Networks"
Gina G. Turrigiano, Ph.D. Department of Biology and the Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts |
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13 | The 12th Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture "Of Mice and Men: Molecular Studies of Retinal Degenerations" Debra B. Farber, Ph.D., D.Ph.hc Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Director Jules Stein Eye Institute |
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APRIL | ||
3 | "Plasticity, Memory and Sleep on the Hippocampus" Matthew A. Wilson, Ph.D. Professor, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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10 | The Grass Traveling Scientist Program Lecture "Compartmentalizing Synaptic Inhibition in the Olfactory Bulb: Separating Family from Distant Relatives" Gary L. Westbrook, M.D. Vollum Institute Oregon Health Sciences University Portland, Oregon |
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17 | "Root and Routes of the Mammalian Experience" Jeffrey R. Alberts, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana |
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24 | "Neural Plasticity to Stress and Antidepressant Treatment" Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Connecticut |
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MAY | ||
1 | "Cellular Substrates of Cerebellar Motor Learning" David J. Linden, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland |
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8 | "The Enigmatic Symmetry of Fouled Up Filaments as Common Denominators in Neurodegenerative Diseases" Lawrence Hansen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neuroscience University of California, San Diego |
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15 | "Distributed Modular Networks Controlling Movement and Cognition" James C. Houk, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology Northwestern University School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois |
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22 | Presentation cancelled |
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29 | "Building Animals From Stem Cells" Ronald McKay Ph.D. National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland |
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JUNE | ||
5 | "The Ninth Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture" Holly Carlisle Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program for Neuroscience University of California, Los Angeles |
Unless otherwise indicated, all lectures are held in the Louis Jolyon West
Auditorium in the NPI Building (C8-183, 720 Westwood Plaza)
on Tuesday afternoons at 4:00 PM.
Presentations are frequently webcast live at the time of the event, depending upon the preference of the speaker. Afterwards, they are archived and available on this site. If a presentation has been archived, its title will appear as a hyperlink. For more information about viewing these presentations, please see this page. Questions can be directed to the NPI Office of Professional and Community Education at (310) 206-9241 or by email to opce@MentalHealth.UCLA.edu. |
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