Past Seminars
2022-2023
September 20: Mary Kay Lobo, Ph.D. University of Maryland School of Medicine
"Molecular and cellular mechanisms in disrupted motivation”
October 19: Monica Dus, Ph.D. University of Michigan Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental
Biology
"Nutrigenomics of Taste and Food Intake"
November 29: Orkun Akin, Ph.D. UCLA Neurobiology
"Building a brain with developmental neuronal activity"
January 17: Thomas Reh, Ph.D. University of Washington Biological Structure
"Stimulating glia to regenerate neurons in the retina: never too late to change their
fate"
February 21: Larry Zweifel, Ph.D. University of Washington Psychiatric Neuroscience
“Resolving the cellular and functional heterogeneity of the midbrain dopamine system”
March 21: Elizabeth Quinlan, Ph.D. University of Maryland Biology
"Recovery from adult amblyopia through rejuvenation of plasticity in the visual cortex"
April 18: Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Non-neuronal mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity in the developing and
mature brain"
2021-2022
September 21: Ukpong Eyo, Ph.D. University of Virginia School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
“Microglia regulate neuron and vascular function”
October 19: Lisa Giocomo, Ph.D., Stanford University Department of Neurobiology, WuTsai Neurosciences Institute
“Multiple maps for navigation”
November 16: Lindsay Schwarz, Ph.D., St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Department of Developmental Neurobiology
“Diversity in norepinephrine neural circuits
January 18: Georg Oeltzschner, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Department of Radiology
and Radiological Science
"Advanced in-vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy"
February 15: Karin Peterson, Ph.D., National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Neuroimmunology Unit
“Neuropathogenesis of orthobunyaviruses”
March 15: Kate Wassum, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology
“Neural circuitry of reward learning and pursuit”
April 19: Dayu Lin, Ph.D., New York University Langone Health, Department of Psychiatry
“Neural mechanisms of aggression”
2020-2021
September 15: Paul Frankland, Ph.D., University of Toronto
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
"Hippocampal neurogenesis and forgetting"
October 20: Boris Heifets, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicin
"Deconstructing powerful psychotropic drugs to make better medicine: Science at the
border of anesthesiology and psychiatry"
November 17: Cristina Alberini, Ph.D., L.P., New York University
Professor, Center of Neural Science
"Infantile amnesia: a critical period to learn and remember"
January 19: Kathleen Millen, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Integrative Brain Research
"Rethinking human cerebellar disorders based on discovery of uniquely human cerebellar
developmental programs"
February 16: Jenny Hsieh, Ph.D., University of Texas, San Antonio; Brain Health Consortium
Professor, Department Biology
"Stem cell approaches to understand acquired and genetic epilepsies"
March 16: Ian Maze, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine, Mt. Sinai
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
"Protein monoaminylation in the central nervous system: novel mechanisms of neural
development, plasticity and disease"
April 20: James Jeanne, Ph.D., Yale University, School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
"Circuits and computation in Drosophila olfaction"
2019-2020
September 17: Nicola Allen, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology
"Astrocyte regulation of neuronal synapses"
October 15: Chi Yung Savio Chan, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Feinberg School of
Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
"Neuronal Diversity in the Basal Ganglia-Bidirectional Motor Control by Pallidal Neuron
Subtypes"
November 19: Helen Bateup, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology
"The multifaceted roles of TSC-mTOR signaling in neuronal development, function, and
disease"
January 21: Aaron Batista, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
"Neural Population Perspectives on Motor Learning"
February 18: Grant Gordon, Ph.D., Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
"Astrocytes in the Hungry Brain"
2018-2019
September 18: David Sulzer, Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor, Department of Neurology
"The Dopamine Synapse"
October 16: Jennifer Li, Ph.D., Rowland Institute at Harvard
Rowland Junior Fellow
"Brain wide imaging of complex behaviors in freely swimming larval zebrafish"
January 15: Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University
Ruth Matarazzo Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience
"Anxiety as a disorder of action computation by the prefrontal cortex"
February 19: Axel Brunger, Ph.D., Stanford University
Professor and HHMI Investigator, Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic neurotransmitter release"
March 19: Patrick Kanold, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Professor, Department of Biology
"Circuits and plasticity in the developing auditory cortex: How you learned your mother’s
voice"
April 16: Yun Zhang, Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Center for Brain Science
"Circuit mechanisms underlying olfactory learning"
2017-2018
September 19: Damien Fair PA-C, Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University
Associate Professor, Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Associate Scientist, Advanced Imaging Research Center
"Considerations for characterizing heterogeneity in typical and atypical brain development"
October 17: Anders Dale, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Professor, Departments of Radiology and Neuroscience
"Integration of quantitative neuroimaging and genetics"
November 21: Benjamin Arenkiel, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
"Genetically dissecting brain circuits"
January 16: Matthew Kennedy, Ph.D., University of Colorado, Denver
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
"New tools for visualizing and controlling synaptic function"
February 20: Katherine Nagel, Ph.D., New York University Neuroscience Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology & Physiology
"Neural circuits for navigation in Drosophila"
March 20: Mriganka Sur, Ph.D., FRS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul E. and Lilah Newton Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Simons Center for the Social Brain
"The functional logic of cortical circuits"
April 17: Joshua Sanes, Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
"Wiring up the retina: cells and synapses"
2016-2017
September 19: Kalanit Grill-Spector, Ph.D., Stanford University
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Institute
"Population Receptive Fields in the Human Ventral Stream and Their Role in Face Perception"
October 18: John P. Welsh, Ph.D., University of Washington School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
"Central Rhythmogenesis and Behavior"
November 15: Oleg Butovsky, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
"Mechanisms of Microglia Regulation in Neurodegeneration"
January 17: Baljit S. Khakh, Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Professor, Departments of Physiology and Neurobiology
"Astrocyte Roles in Neural Circuits in situ and in vivo"
February 21: John Huguenard, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
"The Next Wave of Optogenetics for Use in Real Time Control of Seizures"
March 21: J. John Mann, M.D., Columbia University
Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Departments of Psychiatry and
Radiology
"Neurotransmitter Imaging in Mood Disorders: Separating Cause from Consequence"
April 18: Peter W. Kalivas, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience
"Using the Neurobiology of Will Power to Treat Drug Addiction"
2015-2016
November 17: Franck Polleux, Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
"Control of axon morphogenesis and presynaptic release properties by mitochondria"
December 15: André A. Fenton, Ph.D., Center for Neural Science, New York University
Professor, Neural Science
"Are You Experienced - Cognitive Experience Can Radically Alter Neural Circuits"
January 19: Rick Huganir, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Professor/Director, Department of Neuroscience
"Regulation of Glutamate Receptors and Synaptic Plasticity in the Brain"
February 16: Yang Dan, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor, Department of Neurobiology
"Neural Circuits Controlling Sleep"
March 15: Chris Dulla, Ph.D., Tufts University
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
"Control your excitement, astrocyte regulation of glutamate signaling in the developing
and injured brain"
April 19: David J. Loane, Ph.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
"NOXious Neuroinflammation in the TBI Brain"
2014-2015
September 16: Kate Wassum, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Assistant
Professor, Department of Psychology
"Neurochemistry of Desire"
November 18: Alysson R. Muotri, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Assistant
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
"Modeling Autism Spectrum Disorders using iPS-derived Neuron"
January 20: Kimberly Huber, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
"Local Translational Control of Synaptic Function in Health and Disease"
March 17: Mary M. Heinricher, Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University, Professor
and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Neurological Surgery; Professor, Department
of Behavioral Neuroscience
"How the Brain Controls Pain"
April 21: Edward M. Callaway, Ph.D., The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Audrey
Geisel Chair in Biomedical Science; Professor, Systems Neurobiology Laboratories
"Of Mice and Monkeys: a Journey into the Visual System"
2013-2014
September 17: Larry Zweifel, Ph.D., University of Washington, Assistant Professor,
Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
"Defining gene-circuit interfaces underlying emotional behavior"
October 15: Marla Feller, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Professor, Department
of Molecular and Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
"The development of functional circuits in the retina"
November 19: Robin Hiesinger, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
Green Center for Systems Biology
"Membrane Trafficking in Neuronal Maintenance: A Look Through the Fly's Eye"
January 21: Lisa Boulanger, Ph.D., Princeton University, Assistant Professor, Department
of Molecular Biology
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
"What's histocompatibility got to do with it? Non-immune functions of MHC class I
in brain development, plasticity, and disease"
February 18: Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D., D.Sci., University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center, Professor, Department of Physiology
"Presenilins, store-operated calcium entry and synaptic loss in Alzheimer's disease"
March 18: Susan Ferguson, Ph.D., University of Washington, Assistant Professor, Department
of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
"DREADful insights into the neural circuits that regulate drug-induced behavioral
plasticity, decision-making and impulsivity"
April 15: Beth Stevens, Ph.D., Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital, Assistant Professor,
Department of Neurology
"To prune or not to prune? Mechanisms that control microglia-mediated synaptic pruning
during development"
2012-2013
September 18: King-Wai Yau, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Professor, Department
of Neuroscience
"Melanopsin Signaling in the Eye"
October 16: Thomas M. Glaser, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Professor,
Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
"The developmental basis of human hereditary eye malformations: New genetic mechanisms
and pathways"
November 20: R. Mark Wightman, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Professor, Department of Chemistry
"Monitoring catecholamine neurotransmission in the brain with cyclic voltammetry"
January 15: Randy Buckner, Ph.D., Harvard University, Professor, Department of Psychology
and Neuroscience
HHMI Investigator
"Exploring the Large-Scale Architecture of the Human Brain"
February 19: Thomas Südhof, M.D., Stanford University, Professor, Departments of Molecular
& Cellular Physiology
HHMI Investigator
"Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation and specification"
March 19: Nephi Stella, Ph.D., University of Washington, Associate Professor, Departments
of Pharmacology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
"Targeting the cannabinoid signaling system for therapeutic benefit"
April 16: Michela Marinelli, Ph.D., Rosalind Franklin University, Associate Professor,
Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
"Dopamine neuron activity and addiction liability"
2011-2012
September 20: Lizabeth Romanski, Ph.D., University of Rochester, Associate Professor,
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
"Convergence of Faces and Voices in the Prefrontal Cortex"
October 18: Vivian Budnik, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Professor and Vice
Chair, Department of Neurobiology
"Going with the Wnt: Mechanisms of Synaptic Formation"
November 15: James Putney, Jr., Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences (NIEHS), Professor, Signal Transduction, Calcium Regulation Group
"Regulation and Function of Store-Operated Calcium Channels"
January 17: Thomas Bozza, M.D., Northwestern University, Professor, Department of
Neurobiology
"Genetic analysis of odor representations in the mouse olfactory system"
February 21: Nancy Minshew, M.D., University of Pittsburgh, Professor, Departments
of Psychiatry and Neurology
Director of the Autism Center of Excellence
"What We Don't Know About Autism"
March 20: Bärbel Rohrer, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina, Professor, Departments
of Ophthalmology & Neuroscience
"Sublytic Complement Activation in Age-related Macular Degeneration"
April 17: Nelson Spruston, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Scientific Program
Director, Janelia Farm
"Neural Signal Integration in Dendrites and Axons in the Hippocampus"
2010-2011
October 19: Edwin R. Chapman, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Investigator, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, Professor, Department of Physiology
"Functional analysis of the synaptotagmin family"
November 16: Aaron DiAntonio, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine,
Professor, Department of Developmental Biology
"Synapse Formation and Axon Degeneration: Lessons from Flies and Mice"
February 1: John L. R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco,
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child
Psychiatry
"Genetic analysis of telencephalon development"
March 15: John Dani, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Professor, Department of Neuroscience
and Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of
Medicine
"Nicotinic and Dopaminergic Mechanisms of the Central Nervous System"
April 19: Rachel Wong, Ph.D., University of Washington, Professor, Department of Biological
Structure
"Developmental strategies underlying the wiring patterns of retinal neurons"
2009-2010
September 15: Michael Levin, Ph.D., Tufts University, Director, Tufts Center for Regenerative
and Developmental Biology
"Endogenous bioelectrical controls of embryonic development, regeneration, and cancer"
October 20: Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
"50 years of solitude: how genes and environment regulate a circuit for social behavior"
November 17: Eyal Seidemann, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, Department of Psychology
and Neurobiology, Center for Perceptual Systems
"Neural Population Coding in the Primate Visual Cortex"
December 15: Markus Meister, Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of Molecular and
Cellular Biology
"Eyes smarter than scientists believed: Neural computations in the retina"
February 16: Lin Gan, Ph.D., University of Rochester, Departments of Ophthalmology,
Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Center for Visual Science
"LIM codes in developing mouse inner ear"
March 16: Matthew Scott, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Departments
of Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Bioengineering; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Communicating with Hedgehogs: Signaling in Development and Disease"
2008-2009
September 16: Joe Fetcho, Ph.D., Cornell University, Department of Neurobiology and
Behavior
"Optical and genetic approaches toward understanding motor system
function and dysfunction"
October 21: Scott Baraban, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, Department
of Neurological Surgery
"Epilepsy Investigations and Potential Pathways to a Cure"
November 18: Maureen Neitz, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Cell
Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
"Gene therapy cure for color blindness in an adult primate"
December 16: Gregg Recanzone, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Center for Neuroscience,
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
"Stimulus processing and age-related plasticity in the macaque auditory cortex"
January 20: Dwight Bergles, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Solomon
H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
"Sounds in silence: How the ear generates noise during development"
February 17: Timothy A. Ryan, Ph.D., Cornell University, Department of Biochemistry
"Dissecting the molecular control of membrane traffic at nerve terminals"
March 17: Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Departments of
Physiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitaion, and Mechanical Engineering
"The representation of space and time through sensory-motor learning "
April 9: Marie Filbin, Ph.D., Hunter College, CUNY, Department of Biology
"Signaling Regeneration in the Adult CNS"
2007-2008
September 18: Ege Kavalali, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Dallas; Department of Neuroscience, Center for Basic Neuroscience
"Multiple Vesicle Recycling Pathways in Central Synapses and Their Impact on Neurotransmission"
October 16: Carolyn Houser, Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Department
of Neurobiology
"Vulnerability and Plasticity of the GABA System in Epilepsy"
November 20: Jerry Silver, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; Department of Neurosciences
"Functional Regeneration Beyond the Glial Scar"
December 18: Marianne Bronner-Fraser, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology; Division
of Biology
"Gene Regulatory Interactions in Neural Crest Formation"
January 15: Gordon Fishell, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine; Department
of Cell Biology, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology
"Making Up Your Mind: The Developmental Origins of Cortical Interneurons"
February 19: Mriganka Sur, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Department
of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
"Plasticity and dynamics of neuron and astrocyte networks in visual cortex"
March 28: Paul Glimcher, Ph.D., New York University; Center for Neural Science
"The Neural Basis of Decision-Making"
April 15: Constance Cepko, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Department of Genetics;
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Cell Fate Determination in the Vertebrate Retina"
2006-2007
October 12: Gareth John, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Department of Neurology,
Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis
"Reactive astrocytes as regulators of inflammatory CNS demyelination"
November 14: Steven Sine, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Physiology
and Biophysics
"Coupling of agonist binding to channel gating in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors"
December 5: Andreas Burkhalter, Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis; Division
of Biology & Biomedical Sciences
"Area Maps and Processing Streams in Mouse Visual Cortex"
January 23: Pietro De Camilli, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine; Department
of Cell Biology, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical
"Endocytic mechanisms and phosphoinositide metabolism at neuronal synapses"
February 20: Steven H. DeVries, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University; Department of
Ophthalmology; Physiology
"Special circuits in the mammalian retina for signaling rapid change"
April 17: Glenn Rall, Ph.D., The Fox Chase Cancer Center; Division of Basic Sciences
"Interfering with the Interferon Response: Disease and Immunity within the Measles-Infected
CNS"
2005-2006
October 18: Oswald Steward, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; Department of
Anatomy and Neurobiology
"Localization and Local Translation of mRNAs at Synapses"
November 17*: Brian Litt, M.D., University of Pennsylvania; Departments of Neurology
and Bioengineering
"Seizure Generation and Devices for Epilepsy"
December 13: Eric A. Newman, Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Department of Neuroscience
"Conversations Between Glia, Neurons, and Blood Vessels in the Retina"
January 17: Laura E Lillien, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; Department of Neurobiology
"Cell type specification in the developing cortex"
February 21: J. Anthony (Tony) Movshon, Ph.D., New York University; Center for Neural
Science, Department of Psychology
"The Elements of Visual Cortical Receptive Fields"
March 21: Daniel R Storm, Ph.D., University of Washington; Department of Pharmacology
"The Molecular Basis of Memory; Role of PI3 Kinase, MAP kinase Calcium-Stimulated
Adenylyl Cyclases"
April 18: Teresa Nicolson, Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University; Oregon Hearing
Reseaarch Center
"The Molecular Basis of Hearing and Balance in Zebrafish"
2004-2005
September 21: Lian Li, Ph.D., Emory University; Department of Pharmacology
"Ubiquitination, Vesicular Trafficking, and Neurodegeneration"
October 19: Randall Reed, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medical School; Department of Molecular
Biology and Genetics
"Building a Regenerating Sensory System: Mechanisms of Odorant Detection and Gene
Regulation in Mammalian Olfaction"
November 16: Roberto Malinow, M.D., Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
"Synaptic plasticity mechanisms"
December 7: Ed Giniger, Ph.D., Fred Hutcheson Cancer Research Center; Basic Sciences
Division
"Deconstructing Notch: The double life of a developmental regulator"
January 18: William Zagotta, Ph.D., University of Washington; Department of Physiology and Biophysic
February 15: Liqun Luo, Ph.D., Stanford University; Department of Biological Sciences
"Wiring Specificity of the Olfactory Circuit"
March 15: William Catteral, Ph.D., University of Washington; Department of Pharmacology
"Structure and Regulation of Sodium and Calcium Channels by Signaling Complexes"
April 19: Mark Ellisman, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; Department of
Neuroscience
"Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System with Advanced Cyberinfrastructure"
May 17: Thomas Christensen, Ph.D., University of Arizona; ARL Division of Neurobiology
"Making Scents Out of Spatial and Temporal Coding in Olfaction"
2003-2004
September 16: David Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Duke University; Department of Neurobiology
"Columns, connections, and representations: anew look at the functional architecture
of primary visual cortex"
October 21: Sean Morrison, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Department of
Internal Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology
"The self-renewal and differentiation of neural stem cells"
December 2: Stuart Lipton, M.D. Ph.D., The Burnham Institute; Del E. Webb Center for
Neuroscience and Aging
"Paradigm Shift in Neuroprotective Srtategies: Memantine, Nitrosylation, and Beyond"
January 20: Morgan Sheng, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Department
of Biology
"Molecular mechanisms of the dynamic synapse"
February 17: Cecilia Moens, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Division
of Basic Sciences
"Mechanisms of patterning and boundary formation in the zebrafish hindbrain"
March 16: Eric I. Knudsen, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine; Department
of Neurobiology
"Mechanisms of Learning in the Auditory System of the Barn Owl"
2002-2003
September 17: Christine Gall, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; Department
of Anatomy and Neurobiology
"Synaptic integrins and glutamate receptors: partners in adult hippocampal neuroplasticity"
October 15: Mary B. Kennedy, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology; Division of
Biology
"Putting the synapse back together"
November 12: Matt Wilson, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Department
of Biology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
"Hippocampal plasticity, memory, and sleep"
December 10: Allison Jane Doupe, M.D. Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco;
Department of Psychiatry and Physiology
"Songbirds: A Model System for the Study of Learning and Basal Ganglia Function"
January 21: Eve E. Marder, Ph.D., Brandeis University; Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield
Professor of Neuroscience; Department of Biology, Benjamin & Mae Volen National Center
for Complex Systems
"How Networks are both Stable and Plastic"
February 18: Alexandra L. Joyner, Ph.D., New York University Medical Center, Howard
Hughes Medical Institution, Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine; Department
of Cell Biology, Physiology, and Neuroscience
"Cellular and genetic control of CNS development and patterning"
April 15: Ruth Heidelberger, M.D. Ph.D., University of Texas Medical School, Houston;
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
"Mechanisms of synaptic vesicle dynamics at a retinal ribbon synapse"
2001-2002
October 17: Robert C. Malenka, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
"Mechanisms of long-term depression in the hippocampus"
November 28: Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University, Department of Anatomy
and Neurobiology
"Visualizing Synaptic Competition at the Developing Neuromuscular Junction"
December 12: Gregory E. Lemke, Ph.D., The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
"Eph receptor signaling and the topographic mapping of neural connections"
January 16: Bertil Hille, Ph.D., University of Washington, Department of Physiology
and Biophysics
"Calcium Dynamics and Intercellular Compartments in Excitable Cells"
January 23: Joshua M. Kaplan, Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley, Department
of Molecular and Cell Biology
"Protein trafficking at C. elegans synapses"
March 20: John L. R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D., University of California - San Francisco,
Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
"Forebrain Development"
April 17: Joshua R. Sanes, Ph.D., Washington University, Department of Anatomy and
Neurobiology
"Studying synapse formation with mutant and fluorescent mice"
May 7: George J. Augustine, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology
"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic vesicle trafficking"
2000-2001
October 18: Mani Ramaswami, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson Department of Molecular
and Cellular Biology, Division of Neurobiology
"Vesicle formation and fusion: mechanism and regulation of transmitter release."
November 22: Cynthia M. Czajkowski, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison Medical
School, Department of Physiology
"GABA-A Receptors: Structure and dynamics of the GABA binding pocket"
December 13: Ted M. Dawson, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience
"Nitric Oxide Signaling and Regulation in Neuronal Survival and Death"
January 17: Michael E. Hasselmo, D. Phil., Boston University, Department of Psychology;
Program in Experimental and Computational Neuroscience Center for BioDynamics
"What is the function of hippocampal theta rhythm?"
February 21: Richard M. Harland, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department
of Molecular and Cell Biology; Division of Genetics and Development
"BMP antagonists in vertebrate development"
March 21: John G. Hildebrand, Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, ARL Division of
Neurobiology
"Explorations of a model olfactory system"
April 11: Amy Brooks-Kayal, M.D., Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, Neuroscience
Research
"GABA-A Receptors in Development and Epileptogenesis"
May 16: Stephen Maren, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Department of Psychology and
Neuroscience Program
"Neurobiology of emotional learning and memory"
1999-2000
September 10: Charles W. Luetje, Ph.D., University of Miami School of Medicine, Department
of Pharmacology
"The structural basis for pharmacological diversity among neuronal nicotinic receptors"
October 13: Melanie Tallent, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute, Department of
Neuropharmacology; CN-12
"Somatostatin depresses excitatory synaptic function in hippocampus"
November 16: Jerry Silver, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Department of Neuroscience
"A robust potential for CNS axon regeneration exists beyond the glial scar: fact or
fantasy"
December 15: Haig S. Kesheshian, Ph.D., Yale University, Department of Molecular,
Cellular and Developmental Biology
"Neuromuscular development in Drosophila: A pupil perspective"
January 19: Don Cleveland, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Ludwig Institute
"Mechanisms of neuronal growth and death: Neurofilaments, SOD1 and Lou Gehrig's disease"
February 2: Kathleen Dunlap, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine, Department
of Physiology
"Ca channel modulation"
March 8: Anirvan Ghosh, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Department
of Neuroscience
"Patterning of connections in the developing cerebral cortex"
April 19: Thomas C. Sudhof, M.D., University of Texas, Southwestern, Department of
Molecular Genetics
"Synaptic vesicle exocytosis: Mechanisms and regulations"
1998-1999
September 23: Richard B. Levine, Ph.D., University of Arizona; ARL-Division of Neurobiology
"Pre- and post-synaptic remodeling at the neuromuscular junction during insect metamorphosis"
October 14: Marla B. Luskin, Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine, Department
of Cell Biology
"Neuronal progenitor cells of the postnatal mammalian forebrain"
November 18: King-Wai Yau, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Department
of Neuroscience
"Phototransduction in hyperpolarizing and depolarizing photoreceptors of vertebrates"
December 9: Marianne Bronner-Fraser, Ph.D., Caltech, Division of Biology
"Development of the neural crest"
January 13: Howard B. Eichenbaum, Ph.D., Boston University, Department of Psychology
"The hippocampus and mechanisms of declarative memory"
February 10: John Heuser, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine, Department
of Cell Biology
"New strategies for studying membrane recycling in the synapse"
March 10: Fred H. Gage, Ph.D., The Salk Institute, Laboratory of Genetics
"Neurogenesis in the adult nervous system"
April 14: William T. Newsome, III, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine,
Department of Neurobiology
"Cortical area MT and the perception of stereoscopic depth"
1997-1998
October 8: Andrew T. Ishida, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Department of
Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
"Transient and sustained portions of voltage-gated inward currents of retinal ganglion
cells"
November 12: Carol L. Colby, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neuroscience
"Cortical mechanisms of spatial representation"
December 10: Leslie P. Tolbert, Ph.D., University of Arizona, ARL Division of Neurobiology
"Neuron-glia interactions in the development of olfactory glomeruli in an insect brain"
January 28: Marc G. Caron, Ph.D., Duke University, Department of Cell Biology and
Medicine
"Probing the physiological roles of monoamines in transporter knockout animals"
February 11: Dennis D. M. O'Leary, Ph.D., The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology
Laboratory
"Retinal axon guidance and development of topographic maps: Mechanisms and molecules"
March 11: Linda B. Buck, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School, Department of Neurobiology
"Odor and pheromone detection in mammals"
March 18: Richard W. Tsien, Ph.D., Stanford University, Department of Molecular and
Cellular Physiology
"Fast track signalling from synapse to nucleus"
April 22: Jeffrey D. Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Department
of Neurology
"Stumbling, shakes and twitches: Disorders of glutamate transporter subtypes"
May 12: Thomas A. Reh, Ph.D., University of Washington, Department of Biological Structure
"Mechanisms that pattern the developing vertebrate eye"