Past Seminars

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	From	Host
August 25	Brent Doiron	University of Chicago	Giancarlo La Camera
September 1	Xiao-Jing Wang	New York University	Giancarlo La Camera
September 8	E.J. Chichilnisky	Stanford University	Braden Brinkman
September 15	Gabrielle Gutierrez	Columbia University and Barnard College	Braden Brinkman
September 22	Tatyana Sharpee	Salk Institute	Giancarlo La Camera
September 29	Benjamin Cowley	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Braden Brinkman
October 6	Stephanie Moon	University of Michigan	Roger Sher
October 13	Yingwei Mao	Penn State University	Shaoyu Ge
October 20	Alyssa Coyne	Johns Hopkins University	Roger Sher
October 27	[CANCELLED]
November 3	Jun Ding	Stanford University	Josh Plotkin
November 10	Angelica Torres-Berrio	Mt. Sinai School of Medicine	Josh Plotkin
November 17	Lindsay Sailer	Cornell University	Qiaojie Xiong
November 24	THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 1	Erin Schuman	Max Planck Institute	Prerana Shrestha
December 8	Rose Creed	UCSF	Mary Kritzer

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	From	Host
February 24	Tim Mosca	Jefferson University	Josh Dubnau
March 3	Gianluigi Mongillo	Institute for Advanced Study	Giancarlo La Camera
March 10	Alfredo Sansone	iScience	Arianna Maffei
March 17	Lucas Cheadle	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Arianna Maffei
March 24	Huizhong Tao	University of Southern California	Qiaojie Xiong
March 31	Jochen Braun	MSC Integrative Neuroscience	Giancarlo La Camera
April 14	Yanhua Huang	Pittsburgh University	Qiaojie Xiong
April 21	Paul Kenny	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Prerana Shrestha
April 28	Congwu Du	Stony Brook University	Shaoyu Ge
May 12	Mi-Hyeon Jang	Rutgers University	Shaoyu Ge
May 19	Jen Liou	UT Southwestern	Maya Shelly

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2021

In Fall semesters, the first six seminars are organized around a specific field of basic Neuroscience Research. Fall 2021's theme was neuron-glia interactions.

Date	Speaker	From	Host
September 2	Anne Schaefer	Mt. Sinai School of Medicine	Joshua Plotkin
September 16	Baljit Khakh	University of California Los Angeles	Joshua Plotkin
September 23	Kim Green	University of California Irvine	Qiaojie Xiong
September 30	Jonathan Godbout	Ohio State University	Qiaojie Xiong
October 7	Jonah Chan	University of California San Francisco	Joel Levine
October 14	Joe Dougherty	Washington University in St. Louis	Prerana Shrestha
October 21	Fidel Santamaria	University of Texas San Antonio	Alfredo Fontanini
October 28	Adam Kepecs	Washington University in St. Louis	Alfredo Fontanini
November 4	Avrama Blackwell	George Mason University	Joshua Plotkin
November 11	Ketema Paul	University of California Los Angeles	Qiaojie Xiong
November 18	Eduardo Lopez Soto BRITE Seminar Series Postdoctoral speaker	Brown University	Joshua Plotkin
November 25	THANKSGIVING
December 2	Bridget Matikainen-Ankney BRITE Seminar Series Postdoctoral speaker	Mt. Sinai School of Medicine	Joshua Plotkin
December 7 (Tuesday)	Biafra Ahanonu BRITE Seminar Series Postdoctoral speaker	MIT	Joshua Plotkin
December 9	Joyce Da Silva BRITE Seminar Series Postdoctoral speaker	University of Maryland	Joshua Plotkin
December 16	Shao-Jun Tang	Stony Brook University	Arianna Maffei

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2021

Due to Covid-19, all seminars this semester were held virtually.

Date	Speaker	From	Host
February 4th	Ken Harris	University College London	Memming Park
February 11th	Aryn Gittis	Carnegie Mellon University	Qiaojie Xiong
February 18th	Miranda Orr	Wake Forest, SOM	Markus Riessland
February 25th
March 4th
March 11th	Yi Zuo	University of California, Santa Cruz	Qiaojie Xiong
March 18th
March 25th
April 1st	Sheila Fleming	Northeast Ohio Medical Univ	Joshua Plotkin
April 8th	Stephen Matheson	Cell Reports	Maya Shelly
April 15th	Mary Kay Lobo	University of Maryland	Joshua Plotkin
April 22nd	CANCELLED
April 29th	Ellen Hoffman	Yale University	Howard Sirotkin
May 6th
May 13th	Jared Van Snellenberg	Stony Brook University	Arianna Maffei

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	From	Host
August 27th	CANCELLED
September 10th (Module)	Erik Dent	Univ of Wisconsin Madison	Maya Shelly
September 17th (Module)	Kimberley R.F. Tolias	Baylor College of Medicine	Maya Shelly
September 24th (Module)	Huaye Zhang	Rutgers University	Maya Shelly
October 1st (Module)	Deanne L. Benson	Icahn SOM @ Mount Sinai	Maya Shelly
October 8th (Module)	CANCELLED
October 22nd	No Seminar
November 5th	Julia Dallman	University of Miami, FL	Howard Sirotkin
November 12th	Juan Mena-Segovia	Rutgers University, SASN	Qiaojie Xiong
November 19th	Donghui Zhu	Stony Brook University - Biomedical Engineering	Arianna Maffei
November 26th	THANKSGIVING
December 3rd	CANCELLED

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	From	Host
September 5th (Module)	Maryam M. Shanechi	University of Southern CA	Braden Brinkman
September 12th (Module)	Aysegul Gunduz	University of Florida	Memming Park
September 19th (Module)	Markus Meister	Caltech	Braden Brinkman
September 26th (Module)	Byron Yu	Carnegie Mellon University	Memming Park
October 3rd (Module)	Caleb Kemere	Rice University	Braden Brinkman
October 10th (Module)	Zhe Sage Chen	New York University	Memming Park
October 17th (before SFN)	No Seminar
October 24th (after SFN)	No Seminar
October 31st	Christine Constantinople	New York University	Maya Shelly
November 7th	Harold Burgess	NIH	Howard Sirotkin
November 14th	Marco Gallio	Northwestern University	Arianna Maffei
November 21st	Jessica Tolkhun	Cold Spring Harbor Lab	Mark Kritzer
November 28th	Thanksgiving
December 5th	Hysell Oviedo	City University of New York	Qiaojie Xiong

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	From	Host
January 31st	Marco Gallio	Northwestern University	Arianna Maffei
February 7th
February 14th	Joost Maier	Wake Forest University	Alfredo Fontanini
February 21st	Peter Baas	Drexel University	Maya Shelly
February 28th	CANCELLED
March 7th	Yale Cohen	University of Pennsylvania	Qiaojie Xiong
March 14th	Li Zhang	University of Southern California	Qiaojie Xiong
March 21st	SPRING BREAK
March 28th	Eric Klann	New York University	Maya Shelly
April 4th	Sandro Romani	Janelia Farms	Giancarlo LaCamera
April 11th	Richard Dorsky	University of Utah	Howard Sirotkin
April 18th Neurobiology of Disease	Francisco Alvarez	Emory University	Bill Collins & Irene Solomon
April 25th Neurobiology of Disease	Christopher Wilson	Lorna Linda University	Bill Collins & Irene Solomon
May 2nd Neurobiology of Disease	Paul Drew	University of Arkansas	Bill Collins & Irene Solomon
May 9th Neurobiology of Disease	Jyoti Watters	University of Wisconsin	Bill Collins & Irene Solomon
May 16th	CANCELLED

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	From	Host
September 6th (Module)	Robert Froemke	New York University	Qiaojie Xiong
September 13th (Module)	Chay Kuo	Duke University	Shaoyu Ge
September 20th (Module)	Gary Aston-Jones	Rutgers University	Arianna Maffei
September 27th (Module)	Joshua Plotkin	Stony Brook University	Arianna Maffei
October 4th (Module)	Christian Pike	University of Southern CA	Mary Kritzer
October 11th (Module)	William S. Messer	University of Toledo	Joshua Plotkin
October 18th	Ann Hermundstad	Janelia Research Campus	Braden Brinkman
October 25th	Peter Rudebeck	Mount Sinai	Giancarlo LaCamera
November 1st	BEFORE SFN
November 8th (After SFN)
November 15th	Juan Song	UNC Chapel Hill	Shaoyu Ge
November 22nd	THANKSGIVING
November 29th	Matthew Wachowiak	University of Utah	Alfredo Fontanini
December 6th	James Knierim	John Hopkins Univ	Qiaojie Xiong

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	From	Host
January 25th	Marvin Bentley	Rensselaer University	Maya Shelly
February 1st	Daniel Polley	Harvard University	Alfredo Fontanini
February 8th	Ian Stevenson	University of Connecticut	Il Memming Park
February 15th	Steven Munger	University of Florida	Alfredo Fontanini
February 22nd	Jesse Gillis	Cold Spring Harbor Lab	Mary Kritzer
March 1st	NO SEMINAR
March 8th	Farzan Nadim	Rutgers University	Arianna Maffei
March 15th	SPRING BREAK
March 22nd	CANCELLED
March 29th	Robert Liu	Emory	Qiaojie Xiong
April 5th	Angel De Blas	Univ of Connecticut	Arianna Maffei
April 12th (Neurobiology of Disease)	CANCELLED
April 20th (Neurobiology of Disease)	Lisa Savage	SUNY - Binghamton	Shaoyu Ge
April 26th (Neurobiology of Disease)	Annalisa Scimemi	SUNY - Albany	Arianna Maffei
May 3rd (Neurobiology of Disease)	Avindra Nath	NIH/NINDS	Joshua Dubnau

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	From	Host
September 7th	Arianna Maffei	Stony Brook University	Dept of NB&B
September 14th (Module)	Jamie Maguire	Tufts University	Arianna Maffei
September 21st (Module)	Gina Turrigiano	Brandeis University	Arianna Maffei
September 28th (Module)	Sunil Gandhi	University of California - Irvine	Arianna Maffei
October 5th (Module)	Gorden Fishell	NYU Longone Med Center	Lorna Role
October 12th (Module)
October 19th (Module) (CANCELLED)	Molly Huntsman	University of Colorado - Denver	Arianna Maffei
October 23rd	Walter Senn	Unversity of Bern	Giancarlo La Camera
October 26th	Melissa Rolls	Penn State University	Maya Shelly
November 2nd
November 9th	Gary Lewin	Max Delbruck Center	Lorne Mendell
November 16th	Yang Dan	University of California - Berkeley	Qiaojie Xiong
November 23rd	THANKSGIVING
November 30th	Julie Haas	Lehigh University	Arianna Maffei
December 7th	Dan Feldman	University of California - Berkeley	Qiaojie Xiong
December 14th	Matthew Rasband	Baylor College of Medicine	Maya Shelly

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2017

Date	Speaker	From	Host
January 26th	John Mann	Columbia University	Arianna Maffei
February 2nd	Robert Reenan	Brown University	Joshua Dubnau
February 9th (Rescheduled May 25th)	Michael Hasselmo	Boston University	Giancarlo LaCamera
February 16th	Andre Fenton	New York University	Qiaojie Xiong
February 23rd	Tim Duong	SBU - Radiology	Mary Kritzer
March 2nd	Marnie Halpern	Carnegie	Howard Sirotkin
March 9th	Jun Xia	SUNY Buffalo	Shaoyu Ge
March 16th	SPRING BREAK
March 23rd	Alireza Soltani	Dartmouth	Giancarlo LaCamera
March 30th	Alex Keene	Florida Atlantic Univeristy	Joshua Dubnau
April 6th	Patrick Sibony	Stony Brook - SOM	Craig Evinger
April 13th Neurobiology of Disease	Elizabeth Diamond	Feinstein Institute	Howie Sirotkin
April 20th Neurobiology of Disease	CANCELLED
April 27th Neurobiology of Disease	CANCELLED
May 4th (Neurobiology of Disease)	Phil Popovich	Ohio State University	Lorne Mendell
May 25th (Special Seminar)	Michael Hasselmo	Boston University	Giancarlo LaCamera

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	From	Host
Sepetmber 1st (Module)	Tianyi Mao	OHSU - Vollum Institute	Qiaojie Xiong
September 8th (Module)	Christopher Bishop	SUNY Binghamton	Arianna Maffei
September 15th (Module)	Mitra Hartmann	Northwestern	Alfredo Fontanini
September 22nd (Module)	Andrew Schwartz	University of Pittsburgh	Il Memming Park
September 29th (Module)	SEMINAR CANCELLED
October 6th (Module)	Michael Mustari	University of Washington	Craig Evinger
October 13th	Mark Stopfer	NIH/NICHD	Giancarlo LaCamera
October 20th	David Kleinfeld	USCD	Arianna Maffei
October 27th
November 3rd	David Raible	University of Washington	Howard Sirotkin
November 10th	BEFORE SFN
November 17th	Taro Toyoizumi	RIKEN Institute	Giancarlo LaCamera
November 24th	THANKSGIVING
December 1st	SEMINAR CANCELLED
December 8th	Alison Barth	Carnegie Mellon University	Qiaojie Xiong

Neuroscience Seminar Series -Spring 2016

Date	Speaker	From	Host
January 28th	CANCELLED
February 4th	Jeroen Smaers	SBU - Anthropology	Maurice Kernan
February 11th	Tracy Tran	Rutgers	Maya Shelly
February 18th	Sridhar Sunderam	University of Kentucky - Lexington	Qiaojie Xiong
February 25th	Helen Scharfman	New York University	Shaoyu Ge
March 3rd	Phil Popovich	Ohio State University	Lorne/Joel Levine
March 10th	Michael Platt	Duke University	Giancarlo LaCamera
March 17	SPRING BREAK
March 24th	Bingwei Lu	Stanford	Maya Shelly
March 31st	Larry Abbott	Columbia University	Giancarlo LaCamera
April 7th	CANCELLED
April 14th (Neurobiology of Disease)	Guoping Feng	MIT	Josh Plotkin
April 21st (Neurobiology of Disease)	Ramin Parsey	SBU - Psychiatry	Alfredo Fontanini
April 28th (Neurobiology of Disease)	John Mann	Columbia University	Arianna Maffei
May 5th (Neurobiology of Disease)	John Huguenard	Stanford University	Josh Plotkin

Neuroscience Seminar Series -Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	From	Host
September 3rd (Module)	Karen Mesce	University of Minnesota	Arianna Maffei
September 10th (Module)	Hans Hoffman	University of Texas - Austin	Howard Sirotkin
September 17th (Module)	Daoyun Ji	Baylor College of Medicine	Shaoyu Ge
September 24th (Module)	Asif Ghazanfar	Princeton University	Alfredo Fontanini
October 1st (Module)	Harold Zakon	University of Texas - Austin	Lonnie Wollmuth
October 8th (Module)	Konrad Kording	Northwestern University	Il-Memming Park
October 15th	BEFORE SFN
October 22nd	David Stern	Janelia Farm	David McKinnon
October 29th	Dwight Bergles	Johns Hopkins University	Lonnie Wollmuth
November 5th (rescheduled 5/19/2016)	Nicolas Brunel	University of Chicago	Giancarlo La Camera
November 12th	Adam Kohn	Albert Einstein	Memming Park
November 19th	Randall Peterson	Harvard Medical School	Howard Sirotkin
November 26th	THANKSGIVING
December 3rd	Paul Miller	Brandeis University	Giancarlo La Camera

Neuroscience Seminar Series -Spring 2015

Date	Speaker	From	Host
January 29th	Andrew Russo	University of Iowa	Craig Evinger
February 25th	Brent Doiron	University of Pittsburgh	Giancarlo LaCamera
February 12th	Nenad Sestan	Yale School of Medicine	Maya Shelly
February 19th	Michael Granato	University of Pennsylvania	Howard Sirotkin
February 26th	Robert Hevner	University of Washington	Shaoyu Ge
March 5th	Joshua Trachtenberg	UCLA	Arianna Maffei
March 12th	Bruno Averbeck	NIH	Giancarlo LaCamera
March 19th	SPRING BREAK
March 26th	Venkatesh Murthy	Harvard University	Alfredo Fontanini
April 2nd	Elizabeth Glowatzki	Johns Hopkins University	Gary Matthews
April 9th	C. Ron Yu	Stowers Institute	Lorna Role
April 16th (Neurobiology of Disease)	SEMINAR CANCELLED (Lisa Muratori)
April 23 (Neurobiology of Disease)	Adrian Krainer	CSHL	Alfredo Fontanini
April 30th (Neurobiology of Disease)	Anna Francesconi	Albert Einstein SOM	Arianna Maffei
May 7th (Neurobiology of Disease)	Sacha Nelson	Brandeis University	Arianna Maffei

Neuroscience Seminar Series -Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	From	Host
September 4th (Module)	Dmitri Rinberg	New York University	Alfredo Fontanini
September 11th (Module)	Steve Van Hooser	Brandeis University	Arianna Maffei
September 18th (Module)	Bruce Cumming	NIH	Giancarlo LaCamera
September 25th (Module)
October 2nd (Module)	Larry Trussell	OHSU	Gary Matthews
October 9th (Module)	Elizabeth Glowatski	Johns Hopkins University	Gary Matthews
October 16th	Jason MacLean	The University of Chicago	Arianna Maffei
October 23rd	Bettina Winkler	University of Virginia	Maya Shelly
October 30th	Suzanne Zukin	Albert Einstein SOM	Howard Sirotkin
November 6th	Ronald Duman	Yale	Shaoyu Ge
November 13th	SFN (NO SEMINAR)
November 20th	Pankaj Sah	The University of Queensland Australia	David McKinnon
November 27th	THANKSGIVING (NO SEMINAR)
December 4th	Anis Contractor	Northwestern University	Lonnie Wollmuth

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Spring 2014

Date	Speaker	From	Host
January 30	John Dani	Univervisty of Pennsylvania	Shaoyu Ge
February 6th	Xiaobing Yuan	Drexel University	Maya Shelly
February 13th	SEMINAR CANCELLED (Sarah Pallas)
February 20th	SEMINAR CANCELLED (Suzanne Zukin)
February 27th	SEMINAR CANCELLED (Andy Russo)
March 6^th	Rachel Brewster	University of Maryland	Howard Sirotkin
March 13th	Okihide Hikosaka	NIH	Giancarlo LaCamera
*March 20th*	*NO SEMINAR - Spring Break*
March 27th	Judith Hirsch	University of Southern California	Arianna Maffei
April 3rd	Cindy Jordan	University of Michigan	Mary Kritzer
April 10th	No Seminar
April 17th	Suzanne Paradis	Brandeis University	Arianna Maffei
April 24th (Neurobiology of Disease)	Marina Picciotto	Yale	Lorna Role
May 1st (Neourobiology of Disease)	Fresshteh Nugent	Uniformed Services University	Arianna Maffei
May 8th (Neurobiology of Disease)	Robin Lester	University of Alabama Birmingham	Mary Kritzer

Neuroscience Seminar Series -Fall 2013

Date	Speaker	From	Host
September 5^th (Module)	No speaker this week. Student-led discussion on Reward systems
September 12^th(Module)	John Salamone	Univ of Connecticut - Storrs	Mary Kritzer
September 19^th (Module)	Nathaniel Daw	NYU	Giancarlo LaCamera
September 26^th (Module)	Marshall Hussain Shuler	Johns Hopkins	Alfredo Fontanini
October 3^th (Module)	Alison Adcock	Duke University	Mary Kritzer
October 10^th	Samer Hattar	Johns Hopkins University	Larry Morin
October 17^th	NO SEMINAR
October 24^th	William Talbot	Stanford University	Howard Sirotkin
October 31^st	Chris Lingle	Washington U	Lonnie Wollmuth
November 7^th	Ghouson Lyon	CHSL	Mary Kritzer
November 14^th	Schott Laughlin	SBU Chemistry Dept	Mary Kritzer
November 21^nd	Bernardo Rudy	NYU - Langone	Lonnie Wollmuth
November 28^th	Thanksgiving
December 5^th	Linda Overstreet Wadiche	University of Alabama	Shaoyu Ge
December 13th (Module)	Barry Richmond	NIH	Giancarlo LaCamera

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Faculty Host
January 31st	David Berson Brown University	Gary Matthews
February 7th	Yasushi Nakagawa University of Minnesota	Shaoyu Ge
February 14th	Jonathan Demb Yale University	Gary Matthews
February 21st	Franck Polleux The Scripps Research Institute	David Talmage
February 28th	Bijan Pesaran NYU	Giancarlo LaCamera
March 7th	Sam Pleasure UCSF	Shaoyu Ge
March 14th	Elke Stein Yale University	Maya Shelly
March 21st	Spring Break
March 28th	Jay Gottfried Northwestern University	Alfredo Fontanini
April 4th	Sarah Pallas Georgia State University	Arianna Maffei
April 11th	Barry Connors Brown University	Arianna Maffei
Yu-Hun Kuo SUNY Stony Brook	Lorna Role
April 25th	Robert Burke Columbia University	Craig Evinger
May 2nd	Jim Surmier Northwestern University	Craig Evinger
May 9th	Michele Basso UCLA	Craig Evinger
May 13th (Monday)	Philip J Horner University of Washington	Shaoyu Ge

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Faculty Host
February 2	Pablo Castillo Albert Einstein University	Arianna Maffei
February 9	Michael Long NYU	Alfredo Fontanini
February 16	Jessica Cardin Yale	Arianna Maffei
February 23	Vicky Prince The University of Chicago	Howard Sirotkin
March 1	Paul Frankland University of Toronto	Shaoyu Ge
March 8	Kyonsoo Hong NYU	Maya Shelly
March 15	Mark Laubach Yale	Alfredo Fontanini
March 22	Mark Masino University of Minnesota	Howard Sirotkin
March 29	Alex Reyes NYU	Lonnie Wollmuth
April 5	Spring Break
April 12 (Neurobiology of Disease)	Mark Mehler Albert Einstein University	Howard Sirotkin
April 19 (Neurobiology of Disease)	Antonello Bonci NIH/NIDA	Arianna Maffei
April 26 (Neurobiology of Disease)	Holly Moore Columbia University	Lorna Role
May 3 (Neurobiology of Disease)	Howard Fields UCSF	Lorne Mendell

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Faculty Host
September 1	Hongjun Song Johns Hopkins	Shaoyu Ge
September 8	Jose Manuel Alonso SUNY College, Optometry	Alfredo Fontanini
September 15	S. Murray Sherman University of Chicago	Paul Adams
September 22	Anna Majewska University of Rochester	Shaoyu Ge
September 29	No Seminar	Rosh Hashanah
October 6	Charles Gilbert Rockefeller University	Arianna Maffei
October 13	Kenneth Miller Columbia University	Giancarlo La Camera
October 20	Z. Josh Huang Cold Spring Harbor Lab	Lonnie Wollmuth
October 27	Daniel McGehee University of Chicago	Lorna Role
November 3	Jeff Twiss	Kevin Czaplinski
November 10	No Seminar	Pre SFN Meeting
November 17	No Seminar	Post SFN Meeting
November 24	No Seminar	Thanksgiving
December 1	Michel Lemay Drexel University, College of Medicine	Lorne Mendell
December 8	Peter Shizgal Concordia University, Montreal	Gary Matthews

Fall 2009 - 2010

Date	Speaker	Title	Faculty Host
September 10	Miriam Goodman Stanford University	Genetic Deconstruction of Touch Sensation	Sensory Processing Series (Kernan)
September 17	Michael Gold University of Pittsburgh	Ionic Mechanisms Underlying Inflammation-Induced Sensitization of Nociceptive Afferents	Sensory Processing Series (Mendell)
September 24	Christine Portfors Washington State Univ. Vancouver	Efficient encoding of social vocalizations in the auditory midbrain	Sensory Processing Series (Matthews)
October 1	Alexandre Pouget University of Rochester	Probabilistic inferences in neural circuits: from insects to humans	Sensory Processing Series (Role)
October 8	Steven Hsiao Johns Hopkins University	Mechanism of Tactile Object Recognition	Sensory Processing Series (Mendell)
October 29	Robert Fettiplace University of Wisconsin- Madison Medical School	The mechanotransducer channels of auditory hair cells	Sensory Processing Series (Adams)
November 5	Dirk Bucher University of Florida	Maintaining The Temporal Patterns Of Neural Activity	Arianna Maffei
November 12	Lilly Mujica-Parodi Stony Brook University	Computational Diagnostic Techniques in Assessing Neural Risk for Vulnerability Towards Acute and Chronic Emotional Stress: Fractals, Pheromones, and Fear	Lorne Mendell
November 19	Mark Tuszynski University of California, San Diego	Axonal plasticity and regeneration in the injured CNS: Progress, and the need for more progress	Joel Levine
December 3	POSTPONED Rachel Brewster University of Maryland, Baltimore	TBA	Howard Sirotkin
January 28	Adam Kepecs CSHL	Neural Mechanisms for Computing and Using Decision Confidence	Lonnie Wollmuth
February 4	Brian Kaspar Ohio State University	Understanding Neurodegenerative Disease & Aging of the Brain Using Gene Delivery	Shaoyu Ge
February 11	Stephen Shea CSHL	Neural Circuits for Olfactory and Auditory Social Communication in Mice	Lonnie Wollmuth
February 18	Alfredo Kirkwood Johns Hopkins University	The Polarity of Plasticity in Visual Cortex	Arianna Maffei
February 25	Diego Restrepo University of Colorado	What Information Do Mitral Cells Carry in the Olfactory Bulb?	Alfredo Fontanini
March 11	John Disterhoft Northwestern University	Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Young and Aging Brain	Craig Evinger
March 25	Harold Zakon Univ. of Texas, Austin	Neurobiology Meets Molecular Evolution: Three Stories About Sodium Channels	David McKinnon
April 8	Stephanos Kyrkanides Stony Brook Univ.	CNS-Peripheral Inflammation cross-talk: Pain Studies	Neurobiology of Disease Series (Lorne Mendell)
April 15	Christopher Henderson Columbia University	Stem cell-derived motor neurons as a tool for developing therapeutic strategies for ALS	Neurobiology of Disease Series (Lorna Role)
April 22	Ahmet Hoke Johns Hopkins Univ.	Regeneration in the Peripheral Nervous System: Challenges and Opportunities	Neurobiology of Disease Series (Lorne Mendell)
April 29	William Dauer University of Michigan	Genetic Pieces to the Puzzle of Neurodegeneration	Neurobiology of Disease Series (Craig Evinger)

2008 -2009

Date	Speaker	Title	Faculty Host
September 4	Glenn Turner, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Neural coding in the Drosophila olfactory system	Lonnie Wollmuth
September 11	Julie Kauer, Brown University	TRPV1: Hot channels in hippocampal synaptic plasticity	Glutamatergic Transmission Series
September 18	Jeffry Isaacson, Univ. of California, San Diego	Central circuits underlying olfaction	Glutamatergic Transmission Series
Sept 25	John Isaac, NIH	Regulation of AMPA receptor subunit composition and calcium-permeability during hippocampal synaptic plasticity	Glutamatergic Transmission Series
October 2	David Bredt. Eli Lilly & Co.	Synaptic plasticity regulated by TARP subunits of AMPA receptors	Glutamatergic Transmission Series
October 16	Jeffrey Diamond. NIH	Glutamate transporters regulate transmitter spillover and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus	Glutamatergic Transmission Series
October 23	Bradley Yoder, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham	Molecular and cellular insights into cilia associated diseases and developmental disorders	Maurice Kernan
October 30	Mark Bowen, Stony Brook University	Understanding synaptic protein structure one molecule at a time	Lonnie Wollmuth
November 6	Allan Basbaum. Univ. of California, San Francisco	The neurobiology of pain: from molecules to circuits to behavior	Lorne Mendell
November 13	Frances Edwards, University College London	What goes up must come down; homeostatic plasticity in the rodent hippocampus	Lorna Role
December 4	H. Richard Koerber, University of Pittsburgh	Interfering with Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Chronic Pain	Lorne Mendell
December 11	Eve Marder, Brandeis University	Beyond optimality: How good is good enough?	David McKinnon
January 29	Wei Chen University of Texas Medical School at Houston	Twisting of spike propagation and reciprocal synaptic transmission for odor perception	Shaoyu Ge
February 5	Mark Stefani Middlebury College	Teaching rats to sort cards: an assessment of the neural mechanisms underlying a rodent model of executive function	Mary Kritzer
February 12	Peter Baas Drexel University	Neuronal microtubules cut and run: implications for development and disease	Maurice Kernan
February 19	Patricio O'Donnell University of Maryland	Periadolescent maturation of prefrontal cortical dopamine function: relevance to schizophrenia	Alfredo Fontanini
February 26	John Martin Columbia University	Motor Systems Repair After Spinal Cord Injury	Lorne Mendell
March 5	John Rubenstein UC, San Francisco	Transcriptional Regulation of Interneuron Development	Joel Levine
March 12	Lori Isom University of Michigan	Sodium channel beta subunits: multi-functional cell adhesion molecules involved in brain development and disease	Gary Matthews
March 19	Patricia Coyle Stony Brook University	Update on MS pathophysiology	Neurobiology of Disease Series
March 26	Song-Hai Shi Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	Mammalian neocortical development: from neurogenesis to circuit formation	Shaoyu Ge
April 2	Graduate Student Seminar	TBA	Lonnie Wollmuth
April 9	Christopher Henderson CANCELLED Columbia University	Using stem cells to model motor neuron degeneration in ALS	Neurobiology of Disease Series
April 16	Graduate Student Seminar	TBA	Lonnie Wollmuth
April 23	Graduate Student Seminar	TBA	Lonnie Wollmuth
April 30	David Ginty Johns Hopkins	Growth and survival signals controlling development of the peripheral nervous system	Simon Halegoua
May 7	Graduate Student Seminar	TBA	Lonnie Wollmuth
May 14	Pat Levitt Vanderbilt University	Translational studies on MET receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in Autism Spectrum Disorders	Neurobiology of Disease Series
May 28	Graduate Student Seminar	TBA	Lonnie Wollmuth

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