Sponsored by The Brain Research Institute, The Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
2005-2006

“Imaging Synaptic Plasticity”
Karel Svoboda, Ph.D. (Host: Carlos Portera-Cailliau)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

“Genetic Analysis of C. elegans Behavior”
Anne C. Hart, Ph.D. (Host: David Krantz)
Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA

“Synaptic Plasticity at Excitatory Synapses on Hippocampal GABAergic Neurons”
Julie Kauer, Ph.D. (Host: Felix Schweizer)
Departments of Molecular Pharmacology,
Physiology and Biotechnology, and Neuroscience,
Brown University, Providence, RI

“Axon Guidance and Neural Patterning in the Zebrafish Forebrain”ROLF KARLSTROM, Ph.D.
(Hosted by Ellen Carpenter, ecarpenter@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Biology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

"From Song to Synapse: Auditory and Vocal Activation of Brain Pathways for Vocal Learning"RICHARD MOONEY, Ph.D.
(Hosted by Stephanie White, sawhite@ucla.edu)
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

No JSN Lecture -- Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

“Emotion and Cognition: Insights from Studies of the Human Amygdala” ELIZABETH A. PHELPS, Ph.D.
(Hosted by Tad Blair, blair@psych.ucla.edu)
Department of Psychology and Neural Science
New York University, NY

The Brain Research Institute Neuroscience Poster Session and
Grass Traveling Scientist Distinguished Lecturer
"Neurodegenerative Diseases: Models, Mechanisms, and Experimental Therapeutics"DONALD L. PRICE, M.D.
(Hosted by Felix Schweizer, felixs@ucla.edu)
Department of Pathology
Division of Neuropathology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

“Mechanism of Synapse Assembly”YISHI JIN, Ph.D.
(Hosted by Kelsey Martin, kcmartin@mednet.ucla.edu)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz

SUSAN R. SESACK, Ph.D.
(Host: David Jentsch; Jentsch@psych.ucla.edu)
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
“Afferent Drive to Midbrain Dopamine Cells: Ultrastructural Studies of Excitatory Inputs”

SACHA B. NELSON, M.D., Ph.D.
(Host: Dean Buonomano; dbuono@ucla.edu)
Department of Biology
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
“Physiological Genomics of Cortical Circuits”

ANNE Z. MURPHY, Ph.D.
(Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
“Central Mechanisms Underlying Sex Differences in Opioid Analgesia”

J. ANTHONY MOVSHON, Ph.D.
(Host: Dario Ringach; dario@ucla.edu)
Center for Neural Science
New York University, New York, NY
“Brain Mechanisms of Motion Perception”

ALVARO PASCUAL-LEONE, M.D., Ph.D.
(Host: Marco Iacoboni; iacoboni@loni.ucla.edu)
Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation,
Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
"Disrupting the Brain to Understand Behavior”

SIMON E. FISHER, Ph.D.
(Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)
Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics
Oxford University, United Kingdom
“Molecular Windows Into the Origins of Speech and Language”

BARRY L. JACOBS, Ph.D.
(Host: Tad Blair; blair@psych.ucla.edu)
Neuroscience Program
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
“Serotonin”

PAUL W. GLIMCHER, Ph.D.
(Host: Tad Blair; blair@psych.ucla.edu)
Center for Neural Science, New York University, NY
“The Neuroeconomics of Choice”

LESLIE B. VOSSHALL, Ph.D.
(Host: Larry Zipursky; lzipursky@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Neurogenetics & Behavior
Rockefeller University, New York, NY
“Olfaction: From Receptors to Perception”

The Brain Research Institute Seventeenth Annual
H.W. MAGOUN LECTURE
JEROME M. SIEGEL, Ph.D. (Host: Christopher Evans; cevans@ucla.edu)
Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA;
Chief, Neurobiology Research VA GLAHS, Sepulveda
“How the Brain Coordinates Muscle Tone,
Emotion and Alertness: From Magoun to Orexin”

BRUCE McEWEN, Ph.D. (Host: Art Arnold)
Harold & Milliken hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
“Stress and the Mind-Body Connection: Lessons from Neuroendocrinology ”

DAVID GINTY, Ph.D. (Host: Yi Sun)
Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Growth and Survival Signals Controlling Development of the Peripheral Nervous System”

ANDREA YOOL, Ph.D. (Host: Felix Schweizer)
Departments of Physiology, Pharmacology, and the Arizona Research - Labs Division of Neurobiology
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
“Novel Ion Channel Functions of Aquaporins in the Brain”

MICHAEL HAUSSER, Ph.D. (Host: Spencer Smith)
Department of Physiology
University College London, England
“Synaptic Integration of Sensory Input by Single Neurons in vivo”

BERNARD BALLEINE, Ph.D. (Host: Christopher Evans)
Associate Director for Research, UCLA Brain Research Institute,
Department of Psychology at UCLA
"Reward and Choice: Corticostriatal Circuits Controlling Actions and Habits"

The Grass Traveling Scientist Distinguished Lecture
BARRY EVERITT, Ph.D. (Host: Michael Fanselow)
Department of Experimental Psychology,
Downing College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
“The Neural Basis of Learning and Memory Mechanisms Underlying Drug Addiction”

DAVID JULIUS, Ph.D. (Host: Larry Zipursky)
Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF
“From Peppers to Peppermints: The Molecular Biology of Pain ”

The 14th Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
JOHN OHAB (Host: Michael Levine)
Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Neuroscience at UCLA
“A Novel Neurovascular Niche for Neurogenesis after Stroke ”

MICHAEL QUICK, Ph.D. (Host: Felix Schweizer)
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Souther California, Los Angeles
"Molecules in Motion: The Multiple Mechanisms that Regulate Neurotransmitter Transporter Function "

The Brain Research Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Lecture
CATALINA ABAD, Ph.D. (Host: Christopher Evans )
Mental Retardation Research Center, UCLA
“VIP and PACAP: Two Neuropeptides with Therapeutic Prospects ”

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