Joint Seminars in Neuroscience
2003-2004
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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SEPTEMBER
30 "Adaptation and Plasticity on Multiple Time Scales"
LAURENCE ABBOTT, Ph.D. (Hosted by Dean Buonomano)
Volen Center and Department of Biology
Brandeis University,
Waltham, Massachusetts
now online
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OCTOBER
7 "Genetic Approaches to Decoding Alzheimer’s Disease"
RUDOLPH E. TANZI, Ph.D. (Hosted by Dan Geschwind)
Genetics and Aging Research Unit,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, Massachusetts
now online
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14 "Explorations of a Model Olfactory System"
JOHN HILDEBRAND, Ph.D. (Hosted by Peter Narins)
ARL Division of Neurobiology,
University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona
now online
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21 "Precise Connections and Precise Timing in the Visual System"
R. CLAY REID, M.D., Ph.D. (Hosted by Dario Ringach)
Department of Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
now online
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28 "Learning Not to Fear: Prefrontal-Amygdala Interactions in Extinction"
GREGORY J. QUIRK, Ph.D. (Hosted by Tad Blair, & Alberto Cruz-Martin)
Department of Physiology,
Ponce School of Medicine,
Ponce, Puerto Rico
now online
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NOVEMBER
4 "Molecular Basis of Migration and Positioning of Neurons in the Developing Central Nervous System"
LI-HUEI TSAI, Ph.D. (Hosted by Yi Sun)
Department of Pathology,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
now online
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18 "Galanin A Peptide Involved in Control of Seizures, Pain Threshold Cognition and Mood: From Chemistry to Behavior"
TAMAS BARTFAI, Ph.D. (Hosted by Claude Wasterlain)
Department of Neuropharmacology,
Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Center,
Scripps Research Institute,
La Jolla, California
now online
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25

"Structural Plasticity in the Adult Nervous System"
FRED H. GAGE, Ph.D . (Hosted by Michael Sofroniew)
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
Laboratory of Genetics,
La Jolla, California
The Brain Research Institute Neuroscience Poster Day and Grass Traveling Scientist Program Distinguished Lecturer *+
Lecture Presentation in Ackerman Union
not available

DECEMBER 2003
2

"Neural Circuitry of Reward-Related Processes"
MONIQUE ERNST, M.D., Ph.D. (Hosted by Edythe London)
Section of Developmental and Affective Neuroscience, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program of National Institute of Mental Health,
National Institutes of Health,
Department of Human and Health Services,
Bethesda, Maryland
not available

JANUARY 2004
13

"Genomics and Ttransgenic Analysis of Neuronal Gene Function and Regulation in Zebrafish"
SHOU LIN, Ph.D. (Hosted by Chris Evans)
Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology,
University of California, Los Angeles, California
now online
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20 "Stacking the Building Blocks of the Male Brain"
MARGARET McCARTHY, Ph.D. (Hosted by Paul Micevych)
Department of Physiology and Program in Neuroscience,
University of Maryland, Baltimore
now online
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27

"Estrogen and Synapses in the Hippocampus"
CATHERINE WOOLLEY, Ph.D. (Hosted by Stephanie White)
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology,
Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois
not available

FEBRUARY
3 "Cellular Mechanisms of CNS Synaptogenesis"
CRAIG GARNER, Ph.D. (Hosted by David Krantz)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science,
Stanford University,
Nancy Pritzker Laboratory
Stanford, California
now online
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10 "Plasticity and Dynamics of Visual Cortex Networks"
MRIGANKA SUR, Ph.D. (Hosted by Dario Ringach)
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
not available
17 "Neural Stem Cells and Brain Tumors: Genes and Associations"
HARLEY KORNBLUM, M.D., Ph.D. (Hosted by Michael Sofroniew)
Departments of Pharmacology and Pediatrics,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, California
now online
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24 "Complex Organization of Synapse Signaling and Behavior"
SETH GRANT, Ph.D. (Hosted by Tom O'Dell)
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,
Hinxton, Cambidgeshire,
United Kingdom
now online
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MARCH
2 "The Neural and Pharmacologic Control of Antipredator Defense: Naturalistic Models of Fear and Anxiety"
ROBERT BLANCHARD, Ph.D. (Hosted by Michael Fanselow)
Departments of Psychology and Bekesy Laboratory of Neurobiology,
University of Hawaii,
Honolulu, Hawaii
now online
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9 "Release of Endogenous Opioids in the Spinal Cord
Measured Through µ-Opioid Receptor Internalization"
BINGBING SONG, M.D., Ph.D. (Hosted by Felix Schweizer)
Center for Neurovisceral Sciences & Women's Health, Division of Digestive Disease, Department of Medicine,
David Geffen School of Medicine,
University of California, Los Angeles
2004 Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Lecture

now online
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16

"A Thomas Guide for Proteins:
Control of Subcellular Trafficking in Neurons"
DON B. ARNOLD, Ph.D. (Hosted by Dan Geschwind)
Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California

now online
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23

"The Role of Spontaneously Firing
Neurons and New Tools for Exploring Them"
SPENCER LAVERE SMITH, Interdepartmental Graduate Program for Neuroscience, Neuroengineering Program,
UCLA
The Twelfth Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture

now online
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APRIL
6 "Discovery, Mechanisms and Significance of
Neuronal Replacement in Adult Brain"
FERNANDO NOTTEBOHM, Ph.D. (Hosted by Art Arnold and the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology)
Rockefeller University Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology,
Millbrook, New York
Charles Sawyer Distinguished Lecture
now online
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13 "Genetics of Anxiety"
JONATHAN FLINT, M.D. (Hosted by Nelson Freimer)
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics,
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom


now online
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20

"Searching for the Neurobiological Basis of Emotions and Moods"
HUDA AKIL, Ph.D. (Hosted by Edythe London)
Mental Health Research Institute,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

not available
27

"Neuroimaging of the Multidimensional Nature of Pain"
KAREN DAVIS, Ph.D. (Hosted by Andrew Leuchter)
Toronto Western Research Institute,
University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

not available

MAY
4 "Encoding, Enhancing, and Erasing Memory"
GARY LYNCH, Ph.D. (Hosted by Alcino Silva)
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine,
Irvine, California
now online
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11 "Computing with Neural Ensembles"
MIGUEL NICOLELIS, M.D., Ph.D. (Hosted by Dario Ringach)
Department of Neurobiology,
Duke University Medical Center,
Durham, North Carolina
The Grass Traveling Scientist Program Distinguished Lecturer
not available
18

"Genetic Analysis of Complex Mammalian Tissues: Molecules and Mechanisms of CNS Function and Dysfunction"
NATHANIEL HEINTZ, Ph.D. (Hosted by William Yang)
Investigator-Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Rockefeller University,
New York, New York

not available
25

"The Mechanisms and Function of Spontaneous
Activity in the Developing Mammalian Retina"
MARLA FELLER, Ph.D.
Neurobiology Section of the Division of Biological Sciences,
University of California, San Diego,
La Jolla, California

now online
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JUNE 2004
1 "Impatience and Serendipity in the
Fight Against Huntington’s Disease"
ALLAN TOBIN, Ph.D . (Hosted by Chris Evans and Michael Levine)
MRSSI and High Q Foundation; Director,
UCLA Brain Research Institute, 1995-2003;
Professor Emeritus,
Departments of Physiological Science, and Neurology,
UCLA; Scientific Director Emeritus, Hereditary Disease Foundation
The Fifteenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture
now online
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