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All outside speaker seminars are held at noon in room 103 of 24 Cummington Street unless noted. Student Seminars are held in room 113 at 5 Cummington Street. To join the weekly mailing list, send an e-mail here.

 

AY 2009-2010 Seminar Series

Boston University-Department of Biology
Monday, March 15, 2010

Larry Young, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychiatry, Emory
Title:“Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders.“
Location:5 Cummington St.-113

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, March 25, 2009; 12:00-1:00
Mark Brandon-Hasselmo Lab
Title-TBA
Jim Heys-Hasselmo Lab
Title-TBA
Location; 5 Cummington-113

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 12:00-1:00

Randall Newmark-Stern Lab
Title-TBA
Shirley Sanchez-Eldred Lab
Title-TBA
Location: 5 Cummington-113

Boston University Program in Neuroscience
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at noon

Michael Shipley-Professor, Department Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Title: Molecules to networks: Unraveling Olfactory Bulb Glomeruli.
Location: 24 Cummington-103

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 12:00-1:00

Jeremy Chaufty
Title-TBA, Location: 5 Cummington-113

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 12:00-1:00

Peter Fried, Garcia-Diaz Lab
Title-TBA
Rohit Nambisan-Wachowiak Lab
Title-TBA
Location: 5 Cummington-113

PAST SEMINARS

:Boston University-Center for Memory and Brain
Monday, September 21st

12:00 - 1:00pm, Martin Sarter, Charles M Butter Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychology at Michigan University
"Cholinergic Regulation of Attention"
Location: 2 Cummington Street, Room 109

Department of Psychology, BBC, HD and Clinical Programs
Wednesday, September 30th

Daniel Schacter, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
Harvard University
Title: "Constructive memory: Remembering the past and imagining the future"
Location: School of Management, 4th Floor Exec. Dining Area

Boston University-Department of Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics-Special Seminar

Wednesday, September 30th 2:00 pm
Jen-Wei Lin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Boston University
Title: Function of Persistent Na Current in a Branching Axon
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Room: R-115, 2:00 P.M.
Refreshments at 1:45 P.M., R-6th Floor

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, October 1, 2009 12:00-1:00
Susan Mosher
Title: “Gender Effects in Association with Brain Structure and Function in Alcoholism”
Peter Zushin
Title: “The Selective Effect of Estrogen Receptor Alpha and Beta on Activity and Social Behavior in Neonatal Male Prairie Voles”
Location: 5 Cummington-113

Boston University-Center for Memory and Brain
Friday, October 2, 2009

Professor Menno P. Witter
Department of Neuroscience
The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Title:"The entorhinal connectome. From laminae to networks."
2 Cummington Street, Room 109-noon

Boston University-Department of Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics-Fall Seminar Series 2009

Wednesday, October 7, 2009:

“Developing Novel Cell Type-specific
Optical Neural Control Prosthetics”
Xue Han, Ph.D.
Helen Hay Whitney Fellow
MIT Department of Biological
Engineering and McGovern Institute,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: R-115 - 2:00 P.M.
Refreshments at 1:45 P.M., R-6th Floor
72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118

Boston University-Department of Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics-Fall Seminar Series 2009

Wednesday, October 14, 2009:

“The Interleukin 21 Pathway in
Autoimmune Disease”
Deborah A. Young, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist IV, Inflammation,
Wyeth Research, Cambridge, MA
Location: R-115 - 2:00 P.M.
Refreshments at 1:45 P.M., R-6th Floor
72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:00-1:00
Jan Blom-Eldred Lab
Title: “Modulation of the Adrenomedullin/Nitric Oxide Signaling Pathway in Diabetic Retinopathy"
Jonathan Szalay--Kantak Lab
Title:“Neural Substrates of Cocaine Cue Extinction Learning”
Location: 5 Cummington-113

Boston University Speech and Hearing Sciences
Department Research Colloquium Series
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Cynthia K. Thompson, Ph.D.- Sundin Professor Communication Sciences & Disorders-Northwestern University. Title:  “Neural Mechanisms of Verb Argument Structure Processing”
Dorothee Saur, M.D. - Division of Functional Brain Imaging
Department of Neurology,University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany (currently visiting scholar at Northwestern University)Title: “Language networks: Relevance for reorganization after aphasic stroke.”
2.00 – 3.00 p.m- SAR 102

Boston University -Program in Neuroscience
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Matt Wachowiak, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Biology-Boston University
Title: "Seeing what the nose tells the brain: Active sensing of olfactory information imaged in the awake animal"
24 Cummington Street-103-noon

Boston University-Department of Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics-Fall Seminar Series 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009:

“Glia: Listening and Talking
at the Synapse”
Philip Haydon, Ph.D., Annetta and
Gustav Grisard Professor, Chair of
Neuroscience, Department of
Neuroscience, Tufts University
Location: R-115 - 2:00 P.M.
Refreshments at 1:45 P.M., R-6th Floor
72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:00-1:00
Ryan Carey-Wachowiak Lab
Title: Effects of sniffing on the temporal structure of mitral/tufted cell output from the olfactory bulb”
Tristan Cenier-W achowiak Lab
Title:“Fast and Slow Rhythms Interactions in Olfactory Information Representation in Bulbar Networks”
Location: 5 Cummington-113

Boston University-Program in Neuroscience
Doctoral Dissertation
Tuesday, November 3, 2009; 4:00 pm

Melissa Anne Batson-Watanabe Lab
Title: “Task-irrelevant Perceptual Learning of Crossmodal Links: Specificity and Mechanisms”
Room BRB 113
5 Cummington Street

Boston University-Department of Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics-Fall Seminar Series 2009

Wednesday, November 4, 2009:

“Structural and Functional Changes in
Cortical Pyramidal Neurons During
Normal and Pathological Aging”
Jennifer Luebke, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, Department of
Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston
University School of Medicine
Location: R-115 - 2:00 P.M.
Refreshments at 1:45 P.M., R-6th Floor
72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118

Boston University-Department of Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics-Fall Seminar Series 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009:

“Protective Effects of Cannabinoids on
Substance P and HIV-1 Gp120 Mediated
Insult to the Blood Brain Barrier”
Hava Avraham, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, Department of
Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
 Location: R-115 - 2:00 P.M.
Refreshments at 1:45 P.M., R-6th Floor
72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Erik Zornik-Yamaguchi Lab
Title-“NMDA-R-dependent oscillations control vocal phasing in Xenopus laevis.”
Amy Lin-Man Lab
Title-“Regulation of AMPA receptor degradation by Nedd4-mediated ubiquitination"
Location: 5 Cummington-113

Boston University-The Center for Memory and Brain--Friday, November 20, 2009.
Marc Howard, Associate Professor at Syracuse University Department of Psychology
"Temporal context in human memory, past, present and future" 12:00 - 1:00pm, 2 Cummington Street, Room 109

Boston University-Department of Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics-Fall Seminar Series 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009:

“Pathways to Parkinsonism”
Mark R. Cookson, Ph.D.,
Investigator, Cell Biology and Gene
Expression Unit, Laboratory of
Neurogenetics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Location: R-115 - 2:00 P.M.
Refreshments at 1:45 P.M., R-6th Floor
72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118

Boston University Program in Neuroscience
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at noon

: "Large-scale, data driven approaches to understanding brain architecture."
Jason Bohland, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Department, Boston University, Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Location: 24 Cummington-103

Boston University-Department of Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics-Fall Seminar Series 2009

Wednesday, December 9, 2009:

“A High Throughput Screen for the
Fountain of Youth”
Carmela Abraham, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine,
Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease
Locationr-R-115 - 2:00 P.M.
Refreshments at 1:45 P.M., R-6th Floor
72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:00-1:00
Rob Komorowski-Eichenbaum Lab
Title: “Hippocampal Processing of What-Where Associations.”
Mike Prerau-Eden/Eichenbaum Lab
Title:“Intermittently Context-Dependent Differential Firing Activity in the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex”
Location: 5 Cummington-113

Boston University Program in Neuroscience
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at noon

Swathi Kiran, Associate Professor and Director Aphasia Research Laboratory
Boston University-Sargent School-Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Title: "Language recovery in individuals with aphasia: perspectives from neuroimaging and rehabilitation data"
Location: 24 Cummington-103

Boston University Program in Neuroscience
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at noon

Patricia Sharp, Ph.D. Associate Professor-Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
Title: "Buddhist Enlightenment and the Destruction of Attractor Networks: A Neuroscientific Speculation on the Buddhist Path from Everyday Consciousness to Buddha-Awakening".
Location: : 24 Cummington-B01

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, February 4, 2010; 12:00-1:00
Sam McKenzie-Eichenbaum Lab
“Electrophysiological Method for Studying Overlapping Memories in the Rat Hippocampus”

Boston University-Department of Biology
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Thomas Sudhof, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, HHMC
Faculty Profile
“Neurexins and Neuroligins Mechanisms of Synaptic Cell Adhesion”

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, February 18, 2010; 12:00-1:00
Yoonseob Lin-Gardner Lab
Title:“Auditory contour representation”
Kispersky, Tilman-White Lab
Title:“Theta Frequency Spiking Activity in Hippocampal O-LM Cells is Dependent on Refractory Dynamics"
Location; 5 Cummington-113

Boston University-Program in Neuroscience
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at noon

Michael Greenberg, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Title: Signaling Networks that Regulate Synapse Development and Cognitive Function
Location: 24 Cummington-103

Program in Neuroscience/Neurobiology Student Seminar Series
Thursday, March 4, 2010; 12:00-1:00
Amy Driscoll-Vaina Lab
Title: “Distributed functional connectivity underlying target motion extrapolation during occlusion"
Location; 5 Cummington-113

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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