UCLA JOINT SEMINARS IN NEUROSCIENCE

FALL QUARTER 2005

 

Sponsored by The Brain Research Institute, The Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior

and The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

 

Please note our new location:  The Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB), on Charles Young Drive South (unless indicated otherwise**). We begin promptly at 4:00 pm

 

October 4, 2005            ELIZABETH A. PHELPS, Ph.D. (Hosted by Tad Blair; blair@psych.ucla.edu)

                                    Department of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York

                                    “Emotion and Cognition: Insights from Studies of the Human Amygdala ”

 

October 11, 2005   KAREL SVOBODA, Ph.D. (Hosted by Carlos Portera-Cailliau; cpcailliau@mednet.ucla.edu)

                                    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York

                                                “Imaging Synaptic Plasticity”

October 18, 2005            ANNE C. HART, Ph.D. (Hosted by David Krantz; dkrantz@ucla.edu)

                                    Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts

                                    “Genetic Analysis of C. elegans Behavior ”

 

October 25, 2005            JULIE A. KAUER, Ph.D. (Hosted by Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu)
Departments of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology, and Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

                                    “Synaptic Plasticity at Excitatory Synapses on Hippocampal GABAergic Neurons”

 

November 1, 2005    ROLF KARLSTROM, Ph.D. (Hosted by Ellen Carpenter; ecarpenter@mednet.ucla.edu)

Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

“Axon Guidance and Neural Patterning in the Zebrafish Forebrain”

 

November 8, 2005            RICHARD D. MOONEY, Ph.D. (Hosted by Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)

                                    Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina

"From Song to Synapse: Auditory and Vocal Activation of Brain Pathways for Vocal Learning"

 

November 15, 2002    No JSN Lecture -- Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

 

November 22, 2005    To Be Determined

                                   

November 29, 2005            The Brain Research Institute Neuroscience Poster Session & Grass Traveling Scientist Program Distinguished Lecturer

**Ackerman Union            DONALD L. PRICE, M.D. (Hosted by Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu)

 Grand Ballroom            Division of Neuropathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

                                    “Neurodegenerative Diseases: Models, Mechanisms, and Experimental Therapeutics

                       

December 6, 2005            YISHI JIN, Ph.D. (Hosted by Kelsey Martin; kcmartin@mednet.ucla.edu)

                                    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

                                    “Mechanism of Synapse Assembly”

 

If you would like to meet with a speaker, please contact the host directly at e-mail address listed above.

Coffee and cookies will be served prior to the lecture and a reception will follow the lecture in the NRB foyer.

Revised 9/1/05