Boston University Center for Neuroscience

Neuroscience Seminars:

Announcement of Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy-Matthew L. LoPresti
“Working Memory for Social Cues:Mechanisms Underlying the Perception and Maintenance of Facial Expressions”
Thursday, July 9. 2009
12:00pm
Room 109-2 Cummington Street

Past Seminars:

June 17, 2009 Retreat-Center for Neuroscience-24 Cummington Street

May 28, 2009 Brenda Milner, Ph.D. CC,FRS, McGill University. Title: Reflections on the Field of Brain and Memory. 21st Annual Giuseppina Raviola Memorial Seminar.2:00 pm. Bakst Suditorium, 72 East Concord Street, 1st Floor, Boston University School of Medicine.

May 20, 2009-Mark Moss, Ph. D, Boston University School of Medicine. Title:The Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampal Formation: A Working Relationship? Sponsored by Program in Neuroscience, 24 Cummington Street, (B01), noon.

April 29, 2009-R. Susanne Zukin,Ph.D.Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Epigenetic Remodling of AMPA receptors in Neuronal Death. Spivack Distinguished Lecture Series. Program in Biomedical Neuroscience. 670 Albany Street Auditorium.2pm

April 27, 2009-Jennifer Ryan, Ph.D.- Rotman Research Institute-Characterizing the spatiotemporal dynamics underlying the relational binding. Joint Sponsor-Center for Memory and Brain and and Program in Neuroscience.noon, 2 Cummington Street-109B

April 22, 2009, WORKSHOP-PRESENTED BY THE WORKING GROUP ON ADDICTIONS- Drug Cue Extinction Learning: Translational Challenges. Sponsored-Boston University Center for Neuroscience, Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Avenue, 2:00-4:00
Kathleen Kantak -What Is Drug Cue Extinction Learning
Gary Kaplan-Molecules and Substrates of Drug Cue Extinction Learning: What Can We Borrow from the Fear Conditioning Literature and What May Be New?
Brid Nic Dhonnchadha-Pharmacological Enhancement of Drug Cue Extinction Learning and Consolidation: Critical Need for Arousal.
Stefan Hofmann-Translating Cue Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders to Drug Addiction in Human Laboratory Studies: Benefits of Combination Treatment with a Cognitive Enhancer.
Dominic Ciraulo-What Constitutes Efficacy in Clinical Trials of Substance Abuse?

April 15, 2009- Marc Kaufman-Ph.D., McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School,Title: Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging in Animals: Past, Present, and Future Sponsor-Program in Neuroscience 24 Cummington Street, (B01), noon.

April 10, 2009-Eric Knudsen, Ph.D,Stanford University. Title: TBA. CELESTScience of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02), 2pm.

April 6, 2009-Andre Fenton, Ph.D, SUNY Downstate, Sponsor-Center for Memory and Brain and Program in Neuroscience.

March 20, 2009-Barbara Dosher, Ph.D,UC Irvine. Title: TBA. CELEST Science of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02), 2pm.

March 6, 2009- Michael Shadlen, Ph.D, University of Washington Medical School. Title: TBA. CELEST Science of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02), 2pm.

February 25, 2009-Leslie Griffith, Ph.D, Brandeis University, Conserved mechanisms of sleep generation: Identifying a sleep circuit in Drosophila
Sponsor-Program in Neuroscience, 24 Cummington Street, (B01), noon.

February 20, 2009- Miguel Nicolelis, Ph.D. Duke University, Title: TBA. CELEST Science of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02), 2pm.

February 9, 2009 Stephanie Jones, Ph.D,Harvard University- Sponsor-Center for Memory and Brain: Neural Correlates of Tactile Detection: A Combined MEG and Biophysically Based Computational Modeling Study.

February 4, 2009- Robert Schadt,EdD- Boston University School of Public Health, Presentation workshop-Title TBA. Joint Sponsor-Center for Memory and Brain and Program in Neuroscience, 24 Cummington Street, (B01), noon.

January 26, 2009-Robert Stickgold, Ph.D- Harvard University,Sleep, Memory and Dreams: Consolidation and Beyond- Sponsor-Center for Memory and Brain and Program in Neuroscience.

January 23,2009- Mark D’Esposito Ph.D., UC Berkeley,Title: TBA. CELEST Science of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02),2pm.

December 12, 2008-Jens Blauert, Ph.D.,Ruhr University, Bochum,Germany Title: TBA Sponsor-Hearing Research Center 44 Cummington St. (ERB) room 203 10:30 am.

December 8, 2008-Mayank Mehta, Ph.D- Brown University, Joint Sponsor-Center for Memory and Brain and Program in Neuroscience.

December 5, 2008-Rapeechai Navawongse, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University, Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Herbert F. Voigt,Title: TBA, 44 Cummington St. (ERB) room 203 10:30 am.

November 21, 2008-Prof.Nathaniel Daw, Ph.D-New York University. "Multiple decision making strategies in the brain: Integrating computational and experimental approaches." CELEST Science of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02),2pm.

November 14, 2008- Prof.Herb Terrace, Ph.D- Columbia University,"Serial learning in the monkey and the evolution of language." CELEST Science of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02),2pm.

November 7, 2008 -Prof. Takao Hensch, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School. Title: TBA. CELEST Science of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02), 2pm.

November 7, 2008-Prof. Karen Helfer, Ph.D.-University of Massachusetts, Amherst,Title: TBA, Sponsor-Hearing Research Center 44 Cummington St. (ERB) room 203 10:30 am

October 29, 2008 -Cynthia Kowal, Senior Assistant Director-Office of Sponsored Programs-Boston University. Grant Writng Seminar- Jointly Sponsored-Program in Neuroscience and Center for Memory and Brain, 2 Cummington Street, room 109, 10:00-noon.

October 24. 2008, Prof. Gina Poe, Ph.D.-University of Michigan, " Dreaming to change your mind: Physiological phenomena of REM sleep that serve synaptic plasticity". CELEST Science of Learning Seminar, 677 Beacon St.,(B02), 2pm.

October 15, 2008 Prof. Michale Fee, Ph.D-MIT.Title:'How the songbird keeps time: Localizing clocks in the brain.' Sponsor-Program in Neuroscience Seminar Series-24 Cummington-Rm B01, noon.

September 26, 2008-Douglas Cotanche, Ph.D. Hearing Research Center and Department of Otolaryngology Boston University Title TBA 44 Cummington St. (ERB) room 203, 10:30 am.

September 19, 2008-Oded Ghitza, Ph.D. Center for BioDynamics and Hearing Research Center, Boston University Sensimetrics Corporation "Consonant Discrimination of Degraded Speech using an Efferent-inspired Closed-loop Cochlear Model" 44 Cummington St. (ERB) room 203 10:30 am

September 15, 2008-1:00 pm- Sargent College Research Series-Helen B. Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D., Professor, Laboratory of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Anatomy & Neurophysiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA*" Language in Autism: Developmental, Psycholinguistic and Neuroimaging Perspectives" Sargent College-635 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA Room 218. http://www.bu.edu/dbin/anatneuro/our_people/faculty/tager_flusberg.php

September 10, 2008- 2:00-3:15pm in L-112, Boston University School Of Medicine- Michela Gallagher, Ph.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Student Seminars:

May 14, 2009-Peter Fried “Single Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Posterior Parietal Cortex Induces Phosphenes” and Matt LoPresti-“Disambiguation of Social Cues in Working Memory”
April 30, 2009 Shirley-Eva Sanchez “Laminar Distribution of nNOS Cells in Rat Dorsal Hippocampus” Post Doc Student Seminar
April 16, 2009 Shane Lee “Investigating the role of interacting gamma rhythms in auditory thalamocortical plasticity” and Minh-Ha Lieu, “Light-Dependent Subcellular Translocation of TRPL Channels and a novel protein, RP2-36, in Drosophila Photoreceptors” Post Doc Student Seminar
April 2, 2009 Mark Brandon "Which way am I dreaming? Head direction cells display temporally structured replay during REM sleep." Post Doc Student Seminar
March 19, 2009 Seth Elkin-Franston“A Novel Approach for Recoding Quantifiable Data of Phosphene” and Rob Komorowski, “Robust conjunctive item-place coding by hippocampal neurons parallels learning what happenswhere.” Post Doc Student Seminar
February 19, 2009 Cam Kang “A Direct Main Olfactory Bulb Projection to the ‘ Vomeronasal’ Amygdala in Female Mice Selectively Responds to Volatile Pheromones From Males.” and Sue Mosher-Ruiz, "Gender differences in response to alcohol cues in abstinent alcoholics." Post Doc Student Seminar
February 5, 2009 Jim Heys “Cholinergic modulation of resonance properties in stellate cells of medial entorhinal cortex” and Randall Newmark “Integrating Structural and Functional Techniques: A Closer Look at the Medial Temporal Lobe”.-Post Doc Student Seminar
December 5, 2008-Rapeechai Navawongse, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University, Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Herbert F. Voigt,Title: TBA, 44 Cummington St. (ERB) room 203 10:30 am.
.December 4, 2008-Carey, R., “Strategies for coding and processing of olfactory information in awake behaving animals."and Martel, K. "Vomeronasal organ and accessory olfactory bulb contributions to mating behavior and olfactory discrimination/preferences in female mice. " Post Doc Student Seminar
November 20, 2008-Kopeiki, K,"Array Tomography of Synaptic Loss in the rTg4510 Model of Neurofibrillary Tangles Associated with Alzheimer Disease"and Benham, R, “BDNF and JAK/STAT: Partners in Seizure-Induced GABA-A Receptor Downregulation" Post Doc Student Seminar
November 6, 2008-Giove, T-“When less is really more: characterization of nNOS in retinal neurons in early diabetic retinopathy. "and Blom, J, “Modulation of the Adrenomedullin Signaling Pathway in Diabetic Retinopathy”. Post Doc Student Seminar
October 23, 2008-Simms, M.“Language Areas in Autism: Neural Deficits Underlying the Autism Linguistic Phenotype” and Man, C, Ph.D..-“Functional organization of receptor neuron inputs to the olfactory bulb after methyl bromide induced lesions-”Post Doc Student Seminar.
October 9, 2008- Kispersky, T.-"The role of Kv7 mediated potassium currents in epileptic-like hyperexcitability."-Post Doc Student Seminar
September 25, 2008-Batson, M-“Plasticity and Interactions of Audiovisual Attention" and Sanxaridis, P.-" idlBx, A New Mutant Involved in the Localization of Signaling Complexes in Drosophila Photoreceptors" Student Seminar.-Post Doc Student Seminar

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