Seminar Series
2009 - 2010
Merck Neurosciences Seminar Series
Tuesday’s at 4:00 p.m. (unless noted otherwise)
UCSD Leichtag Building – Room 107
Sponsored by: UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program and Merck Pharmaceuticals
Website: http://neurograd.ucsd.edu
October 6, 2009
Carlos Lois, MIT
Integration of neurons into functioning brain circuits
Host: Jim Marshel, jmarshel@ucsd.edu
October 13, 2009
Loren Frank, UCSF
Learning and retrieval in the hippocampal circuit
Host: Bassam Atallah, batallah@ucsd.edu
November 3, 2009
Earl Miller, MIT
The prefrontal cortex: brain rhythms and cognitive control
Host: Emily Anderson, ebanders@ucsd.edu
Novermber 10, 2009
Jennifer Raymond, Stanford University
Building blocks of cerebellum-dependent learning
Host: Dan Knudsen, dknudsen@ucsd.edu
November 17, 2009
robert Desimone, MIT
Neural synchrony and selective attention
Host: Erik Flister, eflister@ucsd.edu
December 1, 2009
Itzhak Fried, UCLA
Image and memory: single neuron recordings in the human temporallobe
Host: Jason Thompson, jvthomps@ucsd.edu
December 8, 2009
Mu-ming Poo, UC Berkeley
Activity-induced modifications of neural circuits:Hebb's postulate revisited
Host: Matt O'Sullivan, mosulliv@ucsd.edu
December 15, 2009
Craig Stark, UCI
Pattern separation in the human hippocampus
Host: Sarah Israel, sisrael@ucsd.edu
January 12, 2010
Markus Meister, Harvard University
Glomeromics: neural processing in the early olfactory system
Host: David Matthews, dm@ucsd.edu
January 19, 2010
Bruce McEwen, Rockefeller University
Stress, sex and the hippocampus: from serendiity to clinical relevance
Host: Sarah Parylak, sparylak@ucsd.edu
January 26, 2010
Michael Stryker, UCSF
Mechanisms of competition among inputs to cortex
Host: Philip Meier, pmeier@ucsd.edu
February 2, 2010
Hollis Cline, TSRI
Activity-dependent mechanisms of visual system development
Host: Caleb Stokes, cstokes@ucsd.edu
February 9, 2010
Richard Huganir, Johns Hopkins
Regulation of neurotransmitter receptor function and synaptice plasticity in the brain
Host: Adam Calhoun, a2calho@ucsd.edu
February 23, 2010
Jon Kaas, Vanderbilt University
The evolution of the human brain
Host: BHoang Nhan, hnhan@ucsd.edu
March 2, 2010
John Donoghue, Brown University
The BrainGate human neural interface: basic science finding and initial clinical results in tetraplegia
Host: Corinne Teeter, cteeter@ucsd.edu
March 9, 2010
David Tank, Princeton University
On the ball studies of neural circuits
Host: James Jeanne, jjeanne@ucsd.edu
March 16, 2010
Eve Marder, Brandeis University
*Distinguished Alumna*
How reliable is neuromodulation across individual?
Host: Lauren McElvain, lmcelvain@ucsd.edu
March 30, 2010
Yishi Jin, UCSD
Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation
Host: Kristen Berendzen, kberendz@ucsd.edu
April 6, 2010
Karel Svoboda, Janelia Farm
Cortical circuits underlying somatosensation
Host: Cindy Poo, cpoo@ucsd.edu
April 13, 2010
Teresa Nicolson, OHSU
The genetics of hearing and balance
Host: Kiely Martinez, knmartinez@ucsd.edu
April 20, 2010
Cecilia Moens, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Morphogenesis and cell migration in the zebrafish: dissecting complex cell behaviors
in a simple vertebrate brain
Host: Emma Garren, egarren@ucsd.edu
April 27, 2010
Paul Frankland, University of Toronto
Adult neurogenesis and hippocampal memory
Host: Aleena Garner, agarner@ucsd.edu
May 4, 2010
Liqun Luo, Stanford University
Probing neural circuits with genetic mosaics
Host: Nick Wall, nwall@ucsd.edu
May 11, 2010
Alex Kolodkin, Johns Hopkins
Molecular mechanisms underlying the establishment of neuronal connectivity
Host: Nick Bevins, nbevins@ucsd.edu
May 17, 2010
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University
*Monday* CMG Large Conference Room
Optogenetics: development and application
Host: Kristine kolkman, kkolkman@ucsd.edu
May 25, 2010
Stefan Leutgeb, UCSD
Memory in distributed entorhino-hippocampal networks:
Which mechanisms in the circuitry are needed?
Host: Jena Hales, j9davis@ucsd.edu
May 27, 2010
Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington
*Thursday* Leichtag Building Room 107
Cracking the speech code: the scientist in the crib
Host: Katie Travis, ktavis@ucsd.edu