Students are welcome to join the Neurobiology Section Seminar Series on Mondays from 12:00- 1:00 PM.
This is a great way to learn about the research interests of our faculty and the work being done in their labs.
Recordings are only accessible to USC faculty, students and staff using your login.
Upcoming Seminars
Past Seminars (Current Year)
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Monday, April 6, 2026
Lindsey Schier, PhD, Metabolic Sensing and Plasticity in the Taste System [RECORDED LINK].
Monday, March 23, 2026
Matt Dean, PhD, The evolution, genetics, and development of the baculum (penis bone) [RECORDED LINK].
Monday, February 9, 2026
Elizabeth Glater, PhD, Do C. elegans choose their gut microdome? [RECORDED LINK].
Monday, February 23, 2026
Jerry Loeb, PhD, The Stuff Between Cortex and Muscles [RECORDED LINK].
Monday, March 2, 2026
Changhan David Lee, PhD, Mitochondria: Powerhouse, Slaughterhouse, Speaker of the House [RECORDED LINK].
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Monday, September 22, 2025
Jack Feldman, PhD, Breathing Matters [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Jeffrey Moore, PhD
Monday, December 1, 2025
Larry Swanson, PhD, Neuronal Networks and Behavior [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer, PhD
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Monday, January 27, 2025
Tito Borner, PhD, Central Mechanisms of Nausea and Emesis [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Emily Liman, PhD
Monday, February 3, 2025
Peyman Golshani, PhD, Volatile Working Memory Representations Crystalize with Practice [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Bruce Herring, PhD
Monday, February 24, 2025
Aryn Gittis, PhD, Circuit-Inspired Strategies to Improve Treatments for Parkinson’s Disease [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Lauren McElvain, PhD
Monday, March 24, 2025
Eve Marder, PhD, Cryptic (hidden) changes that result from perturbations and climate change shape future dynamics of degenerate neurons and circuits [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Jeffrey Moore, PhD
Monday, March 31, 2025
Holly Ingraham, PhD, Neural Pathways That Sculpt Female Physiology [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Emily Liman, PhD
Monday, April 14, 2025
Alan Watts, PhD, The Functional Anatomy of the Hypothalamus: A View from the Connectome [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer, PhD
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Monday, September 9, 2024
Liqun Luo, PhD, Deconstructing the Serotonin System in the Mouse Brain
Host: Joel Hahn, PhD
In-Person Seminar at Stanford University
Monday, September 16, 2024
Pascal Kaeser, PhD, Mechanisms And The Roles of Dopamine Signaling
Host: Dion Dickman, PhD
In-Person Seminar at Harvard Medical School
Monday, September 23, 2024
Jan-Marino Ramirez, PhD, Neuronal Networks Without Borders: The Dynamic Control of Rhythms and Function [RECORDED LINK].
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Host: Jeffrey Moore, PhD
Monday, October 14, 2024
Ira Clark, PhD, Research Deconstruction – A Low-Cost Strategy for Bringing Discovery Into Your Classroom [RECORDED LINK].
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Rita Barakat, PhD
Monday, October 21, 2024
Patricia Janak, PhD, Subcortical Reward Representation and Evaluation [RECORDED LINK].
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Sarah Bottjer, PhD
Monday, October 28, 2024
Martyn Goulding, PhD, Sensory Feedback and the Control of Movement [RECORDED LINK].
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Host: Lauren McElvain, PhD
Monday, November 4, 2024
Joshua Trachtenberg, PhD, The Evolution of Cortical Plasticity [RECORDED LINK].
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Andrew Hires, PhD and Dion Dickman, PhD
Monday, November 18, 2024
William Yang, PhD, Understanding Selective Neuronal Pathogenesis in Huntington’s Disease With a 21st-Century Toolbox.
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Don Arnold, PhD
Monday, December 2, 2024
Yang Dan, PhD, The How and Why of Sleep [RECORDED LINK].
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Judith Hirsch, PhD
Recordings are only accessible to USC faculty, students, and staff using USC login.
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Monday, May 6, 2024
Jim Surmeier, PhD, Acquired Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Parkinsonism, and Network Determinants of Disability [RECORDED LINK].
Northwestern University
Host: Lauren McElvain, PhD
Monday, April 22, 2024
Lydia Daboussi, PhD,Transcriptional Control of Axonal Repair [RECORDED LINK].
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Jeffrey Moore, PhD
Monday, April 1, 2024
Olaf Sporns, PhD, Connectomics and Network Science: Understanding the Brain as a Complex System [RECORDED LINK].
Indiana University
Host: Joel Hahn, PhD
Monday, March 25, 2024
Greg Field, PhD, A Unified Perspective on Cell Type Diversity, Spatial Sampling, and Efficient Coding [RECORDED LINK].
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Judith Hirsch, PhD
Monday, March 18, 2024
DJ Bambah-Mukku, PhD
TBA, [Not Recorded].
UC San Diego
Host: Lauren McElvain, PhD
Monday, March 4, 2024
Catherine Cahill, PhD, Using genetic Variants to understand TRIO Function in Neurodevelopmental Disorders [RECORDED LINK].
Semel Institute University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Rita Barakat, PhD
Monday, February 26, 2024
Laura Denardo, PhD, A Developmental Screen Reveals Circuit Mechanisms of Infantile Amnesia [RECORDED LINK].
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Don Arnold, PhD
Monday, February 12, 2024
Seth Blackshaw, PhD, Building and Rebuilding the Hypothalamus: from form to Function [RECORDED LINK].
John Hopkins University
Host: Jeffrey Moore, PhD
Monday, February 5, 2024
Tony Koleske, PhD, Using genetic Variants to understand TRIO Function in Neurodevelopmental Disorders [RECORDED LINK].
Yale University
Host: Bruce Herring, PhD
Monday, January 29, 2024
Robert Carrillo, PhD, Mechanistic and Functional insights into the Assembly and Plasticity of the fly Neuromuscular Circuit [RECORDED LINK].
The University of Chicago
Host: Dion Dickman, PhD
Monday, January 22, 2024
Miriam Goodman, PhD, Deciphering Where and How Touch Happens [RECORDED LINK].
Stanford University
Host: Emily Liman, PhD
Past Seminars (Previous Years)
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September 18, 2023
Takaki Komiyama, PhD, Motor Cortex Circuits for Learned Movements [RECORDED LINK].
University of California San Diego
Host: Andrew Hires, PhD
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Monday, January 23, 2023
Payam Piray, PhD, [RECORDED LINK].
University of Southern California
Host: Sarah Bottjer, PhD
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May 9, 2022
Geoffrey Schoenbaum, PhD, National Institute on Drug Abuse [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer, PhD
May 16, 2022
Jerry Chen, PhD, [RECORDED LINK].
Boston University
Host: Andrew Hires, PhD
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September 13, 2021
Daniel O’Connor, PhD, Tactile sensorimotor sequences [RECORDED LINK].
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Host: Andrew Hires
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February 8, 2021
Tirin Moore, PhD, Neural Mechanisms of Stimulus-Driven Visual [RECORDED LINK].
HHMI Investigator and Stanford University
Host: Sarah Bottjer, PhD
February 22, 2021
H. Richard Koerber, PhD, Optical characterization of spinal circuits before and after injury [RECORDED LINK].
University of Pittsburgh
Host: David McKemy, PhD
March 22, 2021
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD, Mouse pain scales and neural circuits for social touch [RECORDED LINK].
University of Pennsylvania
Host: David McKemy, PhD
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November 4, 2020
Lauren O’Connell, PhD, Ecological resources and the evolution of parent-offspring interactions [RECORDED LINK].
Stanford University, Department of Biology
Host: Sarah Bottjer, PhD
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January 13, 2020
Thomas Finger, PhD, Chemical Synapses without Synaptic Vesicles: Purinergic Neurotransmission in Taste Buds [RECORDED LINK].
University of Colorado Medical School
March 10, 2020
Carrie Niziolek, PhD, Speak Your Mind: How Speech Acoustics Reflect Communicative Goals [RECORDED LINK].
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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September 19, 2019
Dion Dickman, PhD, Homeostatic control of synaptic growth, function, and plasticity [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
October 7, 2019
Timothy Ryan, PhD, The cost of thinking: an Achilles heel of synapse and brain function [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dion Dickman
November 11, 2019
Nicholas Betley, PhD, Hierarchy of need: A neural circuit for the suppression of pain during hunger [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Scott Kanoski
November 25, 2019
Stephan Lammel, PhD, Dopamine Circuits in Rewards and Aversion [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
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January 7, 2019
Anderson Mark, PhD, Influencing axon regeneration after spinal cord injury [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Swanson
January 14, 2019
Peter Penzes, PhD, Mechanistic substrates of synaptic dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders: focus on 16p11.2 duplication [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Herring
February 4, 2019
Zachary Knight, PhD, The Neurobiology of Homeostasis [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dr. Hires and Dr. Liman
February 25, 2019
Allan Basbaum, PhD, Cell transplants to treat the “disease” of neuropathic pain [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Swanson
March 4, 2019
Aryn Gittis, PhD, Cell-Specific Pallidal Stimulation Induces Long-Lasting Motor Rescue in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Bottjer
April 8, 2019
Michael Dickinson, PhD, Straighten up and fly right: Long distance navigation in Drosophila [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Dickman
April 22, 2019
Jason Shepherd, PhD, Viral-like mechanisms of intercellular RNA trafficking in the nervous system [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dr. Arnold and Dr. Dickman
May 6, 2019
Rui Chang, PhD, From body to brain: a molecular and functional dissection of the vagus nerve [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dr. Liman
May 13, 2019
Alexander Chesler, PhD, Cells and Molecules for Touch and Pain [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dr. Liman
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August 27, 2018
Matthew Dalva , PhD, Visualizing the dynamics in synaptic formation and function [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Dickman
September 10, 2018
Joanna Jankowsky, PhD, Entorhinal function and frailty: how circuit plasticity may be a vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dr. Ko
October 19, 2018
Harold Zakon, PhD,Neurobiology meets molecular evolution: lessons from electric fish [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Bottjer
November 12, 2018
Kevin Beier, PhD, Viral-Genetic Dissection of the Midbrain Dopamine System [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Arnold
November 19, 2018
Dongsheng Cai, PhD, Hypothalamic inflammation in metabolic syndrome and aging [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Watts
November 26, 2018
Emily Bates, PhD, Unexpected nodes in BMP signaling: Kir2.1 ion channels” [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dr. Dickman
December 14, 2018
Alice Ting, PhD, Optogenetic and chemogenetic technologies for probing molecular and cellular interactions [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dr. Hires
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January 22, 2018
Sarah Ross, PhD, The Neural Circuits of Itch and Pain [RECORDED LINK].
Host: McKemy
January 29, 2018
Karen Zito, PhD, Sculpting the nervous system: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neural circuit refinement [NO RECORDING].
Host: Herring
February 5, 2018
Gina Turrigiano, PhD, Self-tuning neurons and firing rate homeostasis [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
February 26, 2018
Linda Buck, PhD, Deconstructing Smell [NO RECORDING].
Host: Liman
March 5, 2018
Takaki Komiyama, PhD, Circuit Basis for Flexible Behavior [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Bottjer
March 13, 2018
Greg Suh, PhD, New insights into CRH circuits: Feeding, Nutrient Sensing and Valence [NO RECORDING].
Host: Watts
March 23, 2018
Tobias Langenhan, PhD, Understanding the molecular logic of Adhesion GPCRs in mechanosensation [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
March 26, 2018
Elaine Hsiao, PhD, Microbiome-Nervous System Interactions in Health & Disease [NO RECORDING].
Host: Ko
April 16, 2018
Doris Tsao, PhD, Faces: a neural Rosetta stone [NO RECORDING].
Host: Hires
April 23, 2018
Aaron DiAntonio, PhD, Axon Degeneration: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
April 30, 2018
Yingxi Lin, PhD, Transcribing Memories: Encoding of Contextual Memories by Transcriptionally Defined Active Neuronal Ensembles [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dickman
May 9, 2018
Manuel Castro-Alamancos, PhD, Dynamics of Sensorimotor Neural Circuits During Behavioral States [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Hires
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August 25, 2017
David Golomb, PhD, Mechanisms underlying whisking and touch responses in layer-4 barrel cortex [NO RECORDING].
Host: Hires
September 7, 2017
Nicholas Stavropoulos, PhD, Evolutionarily conserved molecules that impact sleep and synaptic function [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dickman
September 26, 2017
Seth Tomchik, PhD, Molecular and Neuronal Circuit Mechanisms of Learning and Neurodevelopmental Plasticity [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dickman
October 30, 2017
Wei Lu, PhD, Molecular mechanisms of GABAergic synapse development [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Herring
November 3, 2017
Descending control and the gate theory of pain [RECORDED LINK].
November 6, 2017
November 8, 2017
November 10, 2017
November 15, 2017
November 17, 2017
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January 9, 2017
David Corina, PhD, Neurobiological Studies of Signed and Spoken Language Processing [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Laurie Eisenberg (HCN)
January 23, 2017
Scott Sternson, PhD, The Systems and Molecular Neuroscience of Hunger [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Jonathon Cheung
January 30, 2017
Albert Edg, PhD, Sox2 controls transcription factor expression and half-life in the differentiation of cochlear progenitor cells to hair cells [NO RECORDING].
Host: Louise Menendez
February 6, 2017
Jeffrey Holt, PhD, Molecular identity of the elusive hair cell transduction channel and the prospects for hearing restoration [NO RECORDING].
Host: Kalluri
No Recording
February 13, 2017
John Krakauer, PhD, “Retining recovery and rehabilitation after stroke [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Mairym Llorens Monteserin
February 27, 2017
David Krantz, PhD, Aminergic Neuromodulation in a Model Genetic Organism [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dickman/Liman
March 6, 2017
Jeff Lichtman, PhD, Does Connectomics Make Sense [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Ko
March 20, 2017
Robert Edwards, PhD, The Function of Synuclein [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Arnold
March 27, 2017
John Oghalai, PhD, TBA [NO RECORDING].
Host: Shera
April 3, 2017
DeLiang Wang, PhD, Towards solving the cocktail party problem [NO RECORDING].
Host: Maury Lander-Portnoy
April 10, 2017
Michael Zeineh, PhD, In Vivo MRI, Ex Vivo MRI, & Histology: a Spectrum of Imaging Neuroscience for Brain Circuitry & Discorders [NO RECORDING].
Host: Kirsten Lynch
April 17, 2017
Larry Zipursky, PhD, TBA [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
April 24, 2017
Bernardo Sabatini, PhD, TBA [NO RECORDING].
Host: Arnold
May 1, 2017
Robin Davis, PhD, The Dynamic Spiral Ganglion [NO RECORDING].
Host: Alex Markowitz
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September 12, 2016
Dan Feldman, PhD, Sensory processing and plasticity in rodent somatosensory cortex [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Hires
September 26, 2016
Adrian Moore, PhD, The Generation of Neuronal Diversity: Chromatin to Wiring [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
September 28, 2016
Michael Long, PhD, How does the brain generate behavioral sequences? [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Bottjer
October 3, 2016
Mary Kennedy , PhD, A model for regulation by synGAP-a1 of binding of synaptic proteins to PDZ-domain “slots” in the postsynaptic density [NO RECORDING].Host: Herring
October 7, 2016
— HEARING SYMPOSIUMSchedule TBA (HCN)
October 31, 2016
Michael Shadlen, PhD, The Neurobiology of Decision Making: A Window on Cognition [RECORDING LINK].Host: Lisa & Jon
November 10, 2016
Robert Malenka, PhD, Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity [RECORDING LINK].Host: Herring
December 5, 2016
Aaron DiAntonio, PhD, TBA.
Host: Dickman
December 12, 2016
Fan Wang, PhD, TBA
Host: McKemy
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January 11, 2016
Lori Leibold, PhD, Auditory Scene Analysis during Infancy and Childhood [RECORDING LINK].
Host: Heather Porter, Postdoc
January 19, 2016
Marc Freeman, PhD, Axon degeneration in development and disease [RECORDING LINK].
Host: Brian Leung
February 8, 2016
David Anderson, PhD, Genetic dissection of social behavior circuit in flies and mice [NO RECORDING].
February 29, 2016
Pedro Valdes-Sosa, PhD, The Cuban Neuroscience Center (CNEURO): from Computational Neuroscience to Impacting the Burden of Brain Disorders [RECORDING LINK].
March 7, 2016
Sam Young, PhD, Neurotransmitter Release Mechanisms for Fast Auditory Signaling [NO RECORDING].
Host: Arnold/Dickman
March 21, 2016
Ed Boyden, PhD, Optical Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Complex Biological Systems [RECORDING LINK].
Host: Knowles
April 11, 2016
Amita Sehgal, PhD, Unraveling the mysteries of sleep: when, why and how [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
April 25, 2016
Nathaniel Sawtell, PhD, Neural Mechanisms for Predicting the Sensory Consequences of Behavior [RECORDING LINK].
Host: Bottjer
May 2, 2016
John Rubenstein , PhD, Transcriptional Regulation of Cortical Patterning [RECORDING LINK].
Host: Ryan Kast
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September 14, 2014
Carol Barnes, PhD, Normal Brain Aging: Impact on Circuits Critical for Memory [NO RECORDING].
Host: Jon Cheung
October 5, 2015
Carlos Brody, PhD, The Neural Substrates of Decision-Making in Rats [NO RECORDING].
Host: Hires
October 9, 2015
— HEARING SYMPOSIUM
October 12, 2015
Sarah Woolley, PhD, Neural mechanisms of auditory-vocal communication: mapping receiver tuning to sender behavior [NO RECORDING].
Host: Bottjer
October 22, 2015
Martin Müller, PhD, Homeostatic modulation of presynaptic protein degradation and synaptic transmission [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dickman
November 9, 2015
Stefan Heller, PhD, Reconstruction of spatial maps and trajectories with single inner ear cell expression data [NO RECORDING].
Host: Amjad Askary
November 16, 2015
Joseph Attias, PhD, Pattern of hearing loss following cochlear implantation: Human studies and animal model [NO RECORDING].
Host: Shannon
November 23, 2015
Christopher Cowan, PhD, Transcriptional regulation of cortical synaptic balance and behaviors relevant to autism and intellectual disability [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman/Levitt
November 30, 2015
Graeme Davis, PhD, The Stable Brain: Homeostatic Control of Neural Function [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
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January 12, 2015
Christopher Shera , PhD, The Spiral Staircase: Tonotopic Microstructure and Cochlear Tuning [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Amanda Ortmann
January 21, 2015
Bruce McEwen, PhD, The Brain on Stress: Novel Epigenetic Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Katie Wallin
January 26, 2015
David Prober, PhD, Genetic and Circadian Mechanisms that Regulate Zebrafish Sleep [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dickman (NB)
February 9, 2015
Kay Tye, PhD, Neural Circuit in Emotional and Motivational Valence [NO RECORDING].
Host: Hires
February 19, 2015
Shigeki Watanabe, Ultrafast Recycling of Synaptic Vesicles [NO RECORDING].
February 25, 2015
Ariel Levine, PhD, A genetic, cellular, and circuit basis for mammalian moto behavior [NO RECORDING].
March 2, 2015
Adam Miller, PhD, Building the “other” neuronal synapse: Molecular mechanisms of electrical synapse formation [NO RECORDING].
March 2, 2015Roman Giger, PhD, Neural Circuit Assembly, Plasticity and Repair in CNS Health and Injury [NO RECORDING].
Host: Mcgee
March 4, 2015
Xin Duan, PhD, Molecular and Genetic Assembly of Retinal Circuits [NO RECORDING].
March 11, 2015
Jason Aoto, PhD, Neurexin-3 alternative splicing: Insights into the essential synaptic function of neurexins [NO RECORDING].
March 9, 2015
Christopher K. Glass, PhD, Genome-wide approached to understanding microglia identity and function [NO RECORDING].
Host: Brian Leugn
March 2, 2015
Adam Miller, PhD, Building the “other” neuronal synapse: Molecular mechanisms of electrical synapse formation [NO RECORDING].
March 23, 2015
Fred Gage, PhD, Neuroplasticity and Genomic Diversity [NO RECORDING].
Host: FinchMarch 24, 2015
Abigail Tucker, PhD, The middle ear: linking evolution and development to clinical problems [NO RECORDING].
Host: Crump/Segil
March 30, 2015 at 4:00pm
Nan Bernstein Ratner, PhD, From Freud to fMRI: unraveling the mysteries of stuttering [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Candise Lin
April 6, 2015
Suhrud Rajguru, PhD, Thermal sensitivity of the inner ear: basic science and therapeutic applications [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chris Ventura
April 20, 2015
Chinfei Chen, PhD, Mechanisms of Experience-Dependent Synaptic Remodeling in Thalamus [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman/Hirsch
April 27, 2015
Matthew Kelley, PhD, Development of the mammalian cochlea; regulation of cell fate and patterning [NO RECORDING].
Host: Amjad Askary
April 29, 2015
Anthony Movshon, PhD, Cortical and perceptual processing of visual form [NO RECORDING].
Host: Wan-Qing Yu
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October 20, 2014
Berislav Zlokovic, PhD, The Role of Microcirculation and Blood Brain Barrier in Neurodegeneration [NO RECORDING].
Host: McKemy
October 27, 2014
Sarah Woolley , PhD, Neural mechanisms of auditory-vocal communication: mapping receiver tuning to sender behavior [NO RECORDING].
Host: Bottjer
November 10, 2014
Arthur Arnold, PhD, Sex Differences in Physiology and Disease: Role of the Sex Chromosomes [RECORDED LINK].
November 24, 2014
Yang Dan, PhD, Neural Circuits for Sleep-Wake Control [RECORDED LINK].
December 1, 2014
Kenneth Kosik, PhD, Building a Big Brain: Strategies and Inherent Vulnerabilities [NO RECORDING].
December 3, 2014
Rachel Wong, PhD, Circuit Assembly and Reassembly in the Vertebrate Retina [NO RECORDING].
Host: Hirsch
December 8, 2014
Ping Helen Chen, PhD, Shaping the mammalian auditory organ by the planar cell polarity signaling pathway [NO RECORDING].
Host: Zhang
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January 3, 2014
Brad Duchaine, PhD, Using Acquired Agnosias to Investigate the Organization of Social Perception [NO RECORDING].
Host: Biederman
January 6, 2014
Steve Liberles, PhD, Olfactory Control of Instinctive Behavior [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Liman
January 25, 2014
Mihail Bota, PhD, The rat cerebral cortex macro-connectome [NO RECORDING].
Host: Watts
February 3, 2014
Scott Kanoski, PhD, The higher-order control of feeding behavior [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Watts
February 10, 2014
Craig Montell, PhD, The higher-order control of feeding behavior [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Liman
March 24, 2014
Lisa Goodrich, PhD, Wiring the cochlea for the sense of hearing [NO RECORDING].
Host: Graduate Students
April 7, 2014
Edward Bartlett, PhD, Cellular properties that shape temporal processing in the auditory thalamus across the lifespan [RECORDED LINK].
Host: HCN Grad Student
April 15, 2014
Liisa Galea, PhD, Why Sex Hormones Matter for Healthy Brain Aging [NO RECORDING].
April 21, 2014
Hillel Adesnik, PhD, Intracortical circuitry for active sensation [NO RECORDING].
Host: Hires
April 28, 2014
Michael Goldstein, PhD, Emergence of Complex Communication from Simple Interactions: Lessons from Songbirds and Human Infants [RECORDED LINK].
Host: HCN Grad Student
May 5, 2014
Gary Aston-Jones, PhD, Brain Norepinephrine and Goldilocks: The Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Attention [NO RECORDING].
Host: Levitt
May 28, 2014
Massimo Scanziani, PhD, Cortical Circuits for Vision [NO RECORDING]
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September 27, 2013
Katherine Bouton, PhD, How I Taught My Brain to Hear [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
September 30, 2013
Chien-Ping Ko, PhD, Translational Research in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a Motor Neuron Disease in Children [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
October 28, 2013
Aaron Seitz, PhD, Applying Perceptual Learning to produce broad-based benefits to vision [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Tjan
October 29, 2013
Carla Shatz, PhD, Developmental Critical Periods and Alzheimer’s Disease- can knowledge of one help cure the other? [NO RECORDING].
Host: NGP student
November 4, 2013
Spencer Smith, PhD [NO RECORDING].
Host: Mel
November 13, 2013
Ken J. Hayworth, PhD, A Neural Coding Scheme to Allow Global Workspace Functionality [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Biederman
November 14, 2013
Alex Reyes, PhD, Mapping Acoustic Space onto Cortical Space [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Zhang
November 18, 2013
Anatol Kreitzer, PhD, Basal Ganglia Circuit Dysfunction Underlying Parkinson’s Disease and Dyskinesia [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Bottjer/Dickman
December 2, 2013
Michael Nitabach, PhD, Neural Circuits Controlling Innate Behavior [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dickman
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January 11, 2013
Joshua Berke, PhD, The Basal Ganglia and Behavioral Control [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Bottjer
January 29, 2013
Randy Blakey, PhD, Gene and Protein Networks Regulating Synaptic Dopamine: A Child (and a Few Worms) Shall Lead Them [NO RECORDING].
Host: McKemy
February 6, 2013
Cheryl Stucky, PhD, Channeling Touch and Pain Transduction: Mechanisms that Detect our Environment [RECORDED LINK].
Host: McKemy
February 12, 2013
Baljit Khakh, PhD, Determining the Rules For Astrocyte Engagement in Neuronal Circuits [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Liman
February 26, 2013
Vann Bennett, PhD, Cell Biology meets Physiology: Ankyrin [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Arnold
March 5, 2013
Jeremiah Cohen, PhD, Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Reward Prediction [RECORDED LINK].
March 13, 2013
Jonathan Demb, PhD, Synaptic Mechanisms for Visual Computation in Retinal Circuitry [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Hirsch
March 19, 2013
Juan Song, PhD, Local Circuity Mechanism Regulating Adult Neurogenesis [RECORDED LINK].
March 21, 2013
S. Andrew Hires, PhD, Encoding and Decoding of Touch Perception in Cortical Circuits [RECORDED LINK].
March 28, 2013
Anupanma Dahanukar, PhD, Understanding mechanisms of food choice in Drosophila [RECORDED LINK].
April 2, 2013
Ian Nauhaus, PhD, Cortical Representations of Visual Information
Ian Nauhaus [NO RECORDING].April 3, 2013
Alex Kwan, PhD, Local and Long-range Cortical Circuits for Visual Processing [RECORDED LINK].
April 9, 2013
Viviana Gradinaru, PhD, Optogenetic Technologies for the Study of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease [NO RECORDING].
Host: Ko
April 30, 2013
Bill Joiner, PhD, A Bufunctional Regulator of Potassium Channels and Acetylcholine Receptors that Controls Sleep in Dropsophila [NO RECORDING].
Host: Dickman
May 10, 2013
Sandeep Robert Datta, PhD, Olfaction: From Sensor to Actuators [NO RECORDING].
Host: Liman
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September 4, 2012
Kenneth S. Kosik, PhD, The Evolutionary Origins of the Synapse [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Caleb Finch
September 18, 2012
Amy MacDermott, PhD, Inhibition in the Dorsal Horn Where Touch and Pain Meet [RECORDED LINK].
Host: David McKemy
October 30, 2012
Elva Diaz, PhD, From Microarrays to Mechanisms of Synapse Development and Plasticity [NO RECORDING].
November 6, 2012
Tom Schwarz, PhD, How Mitochondria Move and Why It Matters to a Neuron [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dion Dickman
November 13, 2012
Quan Yuan, PhD, Experience- dependent Plasticity in Drosophila Neural Circuits [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Dion Dickman
December 4, 2012
Vladimir Pravosudov, PhD, Winter Climate and Adaptive Specialization of Spatial Memory and the Hippocampus in Food-Caching Birds [NO RECORDING].
Host: Sergey Nuzhdin
December 11, 2012
Xiaoqin Wang, PhD, What is missing in auditory cortex under cochlear implant stimulation [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
December 12, 2012
David Ginty, PhD, The Organization and Development of Neurons that Underlie the Sense of Touch [NO RECORDING].
Host: Samantha Butler
-
January 10, 2012
Michael Hasselmo, PhD, Oscillations and Grid Cells in the Entorhinal Cortex [RECORDED LINK].
Host: (KECK)
January 17, 2012
Fritz Sommer, PhD, A Principle of Learning that Allows Different Regions in the Cortex to Communicate without Loss of Information [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
January 24, 2012
Umrao Monani, PhD, The When and Where of SMN, the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Protein [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
January 25, 2012
Howard Eichenbaum, PhD, Towards a Neurobiology of Recollection [RECORDED LINK].
Host: (KECK)
January 31, 2012
Steven Sine, PhD, Molecular Recognition Linked to Biological Function in Neuronal and Muscle Nicotinic Receptors [NO RECORDING]
Host: Lin Chen
February 21, 2012
Gregory Quirk, PhD, Prefrontal Control of Fear: The View from Puerto Rico [RECORDED LINK].
Host: (KECK)
March 27, 2012
Eileen Lueders, PhD, Human Brian Mapping [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Natalie Lepore
April 10, 2012
Kristen Jacobsen, PhD, Children’s Relationships with Pets: Effects on Biology, Brain, and Behavior [NO RECORDING].
Host: Laura Baker
April 24, 2012
Stephen Roper, PhD, The Saga of ATP, a Neurotransmitter in Taste Buds [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Emily Liman
May 1, 2012
Shan Sockanathan, PhD, Novel Mechanisms Regulating Neurogenesis in the Developing Nervous System [NO RECORDING].
Host: Samantha Butler
May 8, 2012
Sheri Mizumori, PhD, Spatial Navigation Based Decisions, Learning and Membory [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Tansu Celikel
May 22, 2012
Jack Feldman, PhD, Understanding the Rhythm of Breathing: So Near Yet So Far [NO RECORDING].
Host: Emily Liman
-
September 13, 2011
Samantha Butler, PhD, The Establishment of Neural Circuitry in the Developing Spinal Cord [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
September 20, 2011
Shihab Shamma, PhD, Role of Coherence and Rapid-plasticity in Active Perception of Complex Auditory Scenes [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
September 27, 2011
Nelson Spruston, PhD, Neural Signal Integration in Dendrites and Axons in the Hippocampus [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Larry Swanson
October 11, 2011
Ali Pejmun Haghighi, PhD, Role of Translational Mechanisms in the Retrograde Regulation of Synaptic Homeostasis [NO RECORDING].
Host: Samantha Butler
October 25, 2011
Kent Berridge, PhD, Limbic Generators for Delight, Desire and Dread: Brain Modules and Modes [NO RECORDING].
Host: Stephen Read (KECK)
October 26, 2011
Chantal Stern, PhD, FMRI Investigations of Medial Temporal and Prefrontal Interactions During Memory Function [NO RECORDING].
Host: Sarah Bottjer (KECK)
November 6, 2011
Diana Bautista, PhD, Itchy Mice and Star-Nosed Moles: New Approaches to Study Itch, Touch and Pain [RECORDED LINK].
Host: David McKemy
December 6, 2011
Michael C. Crair, PhD, What Role does Neural Activity Play in Sensory Map Development? [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Tansu Celikel
December 13, 2011
Sam Wang, PhD, Watching the Cerebellum in Action: Optical Investigation of Context-Dependant Neural Processing [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Don Arnold
-
January 18, 2011
Daniel Geschwind, PhD, Autism: A Model for Integration of Genomics, Genetics and Neurobiology in Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders [NO RECORDING].
Host: Don Arnold & Neil Segil
February 1, 2011
Quyen Nguyen, PhD, Surgery with Molecular Navigation – Development of Biological Probes [NO RECORDING].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
February 8, 2011
Zhou-Fen Chen, PhD, Why we Scratch: Molecular and Cellular Basis of Itch Sensation [NO RECORDING].
Host: David McKemy
February 15, 2011
Peter Narins, PhD, Adventures of an Expeditionary Biologist: A Physio-ethological Approach to Animal Communication
Host: Sam Sampath
March 1, 2011
Neena Haider, PhD, Genetic Regulation and Modulation of Retinal Disease: Models to Therapeutics [NO RECORDING].
Host: Cheryl Craft
March 8, 2011
John J. Foxe, PhD, Neurophysiological Investigations of Multisensory Integration processes and Their Breakdown in Autism and Schizophrenia [RECORDED LINK].
Host: HCN Graduate Students
March 22, 2011
Roger Nicoll, PhD, Glutamate Receptor Trafficking and Synaptic Plasticity [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michel Baudry
March 29, 2011
Chris Evans, PhD, Opioids as Battleships or Destroyers: Can Research Help Decide? [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Pat Levitt
April 12, 2011
Jos Eggermont, PhD, Adult Auditory Cortical Plasticity [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer & Neil Segil
-
September 21, 2010
David McKemy, PhD, A “Minty Cool” Ion Channel: TRPM8 and the Molecular Mechanisms of Thermosensation and Nociception [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
September 28, 2010
Ron Frostig, PhD, Adult Cortex Organization and Plasticity: From Basic to Translational Research [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Tansu Celikel
November 9, 2010
Stephen Smith, PhD, Synapse Discrimination and Classification by Array Tomography: The Synaptome meets the Connectome [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
November 23, 2010
Bruno Rossin, PhD, Prosopagnosia Following Brain Damage: What it tells us about the Function and Neural Basis of Face Recognition [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Irving Biederman
November 30, 2010
Jim Trimmer, PhD, Multisite Phosphorylation as a Dynamic Regulator of Neuronal Ion Channel Expression, Localization and Function [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Don Arnold
December 7, 2010
Michael Wehr, PhD, Sound Processing in Auditory Cortex [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
December 14, 2010
Dan Simons, PhD, Corticothalamic Function and Sensorimotor Processing in the Whisker-to-barrel System [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Tansu Celikel
-
January 12, 2010
Zhigang He, PhD, Mechanisms of Axon Regeneration [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Le Ma
January 19, 2010
Greg Hickok, PhD, On the Nature of Sensory-Motor Interaction in Speech Perception and Production [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michael Arbib
January 25, 2010
Shihui Han, PhD, Neural Representations of the Chinese Self and Close Others [NO RECORDING].
Host: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
January 26, 2010
John Adelman, PhD, Structure, Function, and Physiological Roles for SK Channels [RECORDED LINK].Host: Emily Liman
February 1, 2010
Eugene M. Izhikevich, PhD, Large Scale Modeling of Brain Function [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Michael Arbib
February 2, 2010
David Glanzman, PhD, Cellular Mechanisms of Behavioral Sensitization in Aplysia: The View from the Far Side of the Synapse [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Michel Baudry
February 11, 2010
David Corey, PhD, Macro-and Micromechanics of Hair Cells from the Inner Ear [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Emily Liman
February 16, 2010
Sascha du Lac, PhD, Stability and Plasticity in the Sense of Balance [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
February 18, 2010
Stephen Grossberg, PhD, How Does a Brain Give Rise to a Mind? [NO RECORDING].
Host: Zhong-Lin Lu
March 2, 2010
Maja Mataric, PhD, Human-Machine Interaction in Socially Assistive Robotics for Rehabilitation and Socialization [NO RECORDING].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
March 9, 2010
Michael Levine, PhD, From Genes to Circuits in Huntington’s Disease: Every Neuron Needs Good Connections [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Giselle Petzinger
March 16, 2010
Gail Mandel, PhD, Repressors and Glia: Life Support for Neurons [NO RECORDING].
Host: Pat Levitt
March 23, 2010
Thanos Siapas, PhD, Hippocampal Network Dynamics and Memory Formation [NO RECORDING].
Host: Larry Swanson
March 30, 2010
Moses Chao, PhD, Specificity in the Action of Neurotrophin Receptors [RECORDED LINK].
Host: David McKemy
April 6, 2010
Wilson Geisler, PhD, Visual Performance Predicted from the Statistical Structure of Natural Scenes [NO RECORDING].
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
April 13, 2010
Franck Polleux, PhD, Role of Membrane-Deforming Proteins and Endocytosis in Neuronal Migration and Morphogenesis [NO RECORDING].
Host: Samantha Butler
April 20, 2010
Don Cleveland, PhD, Role of Membrane-Deforming Proteins and Endocytosis in Neuronal Migration and Morphogenesis [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
April 21, 2010
George Augustine, PhD, Optogenetic Mapping of Brain Circuitry [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
April 27, 2010
Eric Knudsen, PhD, Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in the Barn Owl [NO RECORDING].
Host: Tansu Celikel
May 4, 2010
Xiaoning Bi, PhD, Cholesterol, p53 and Axonal Outgrowth Regulation [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Michel Baudry
-
October 6, 2009
Mihail Bota, PhD, Neuroinformatic Approach to the Structure-Function Relationship of Mammalian Brain Parts [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Michael Arbib
November 3, 2009
Krishna Shenoy, PhD, Neural Basis of Motor Preparation and Protheses [NO RECORDING].
Host: Judith Hirsch
November 10, 2009
Dan Marogliash, PhD, Sleep, Learning, and Birdsong [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
November 17, 2009
Patricia Churchland, PhD, Brain-Based Values [RECORDED LINK].
Host: NGP Graduate Students
December 1, 2009
Ed Boyden, PhD, Enabling Systematic Neuroscience with Novel Optical Neural Control Strategies [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Don Arnold
December 8, 2009
Victoria Abraira, PhD, Molecular Mechanisms of Inner Ear Morphogenesis [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
December 15, 2009
Reggie Edgerton, PhD, Mechanisms of Recovery of Locomotion After a Spinal Cord Injury [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
-
January 13, 2009
Larry Trussell, PhD, Transmission of Complex and Simple Spikes within an Interneuron Network [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
February 3, 2009
Neil Segil, PhD, Can We Restore Lost Hearing? Tissue Patterning and Regeneration in the Organ of Corti [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Samantha Butler
February 10, 2009
Michael Stryker, PhD, Mechanisms of Competition Between Inputs in the Developing Brain: The Roles of Neurotrophins, Tumor Necrosis Factor, and Cortical Inhibition in the Plasticity of the Visual Cortex [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Judith Hirsch
February 24, 2009
Chris Henderson, PhD, Motor Neuron Death in Development and Disease [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
March 3, 2009
Aaron McGee, PhD, Inhibition of Plasticity in the Injured and Intact CNS by Myelin and the Nogo-66 Receptor [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Tansu Celikel
March 10, 2009
Alcino Silva, PhD, Molecular and Cellular Cognition: Unraveling Mechanisms and Developing Treatments for Cognitive Disorder [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Michel Baudry
March 17, 2009
Massimo Scanziani, PhD, Coordinating Excitation with Inhibition in Space and Time [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Tansu Celikel
March 24, 2009
Doris Tsao, PhD, Dissecting the Neural Machinery for Face Processing [NO RECORDING].
Host: Irving Biederman
March 31, 2009
Karel Svoboda, PhD, The Neural Circuits Underlying Somatosensation [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Don Arnold
April 7, 2009
Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, TRP Ion Channels as Sensors of Temperature and Pain [NO RECORDING].
Host: Emily Liman/ David McKemy
April 14, 2009
Organized: Norberto Grzywacz [NO RECORDING].
April 21, 2009
William N. Zagotta, PhD, Mechanisms of Cyclic Nucleotide Regulation of Ion Channels [RECORDED LINK].
Host: David McKemy
April 28, 2009
Jimo Borjigin, PhD, Prolonged Disruption of the Circadian Clock by Acute Light Exposures at Night [NO RECORDING].
Host: Cheryl Craft
May 5, 2009
Robert M. Sapolsky, PhD, Stress and Health: From Molecular to Societies [RECORDED LINK].
Host: NGP Graduate Student
May 26, 2009
Chirs Moore, PhD, Cortical Dynamics and Perception [NO RECORDING].
Host: Tansu Celikel
-
September 9, 2008
Kang Shen, PhD, Extracellular Regulators of Synapse Formation in C. Elegans [NO RECORDING].
Host: Samantha Butler
September 23, 2008
Narender Vavva, PhD, Burning Pain and Body Temperature: Predominant Function of the Vanilloid Receptor TRPV1 is Body Temperature Maintenance [RECORDED LINK].
Host: David McKemy
October 7, 2008
Jonah Chan, PhD, Forcing Cell Fate: Engineering Microenvironments to Induce Differentiation [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Samantha Butler
October 16, 2008
Eero Simocelli, PhD, Bayesian Models for the Perception and Neural Representation of Local Motion [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Bosco Tjan
October 21, 2008
Jack Gallant, PhD, Computational Encoding and Decoding Models of Natural Visual Perception [NO RECORDING].
Host: Bartlett Mel
October 28, 2008
John Middlebrooks, PhD, Auditory Cortex at the Cocktail Party: Studies of Spatial Hearing [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Neil Segil/ Sarah Bottjer
November 4, 2008
Harvey Karten, PhD, Dancing with Dinosours: Birds and the Origins of Mammalian Cortex [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
November 11, 2008
Chinfei Chen, PhD, A Critical Period for Synaptic Circuit Rearrangement in the Visual Thalamus [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
December 2, 2008
Ben Novitch, PhD, Development Mechanisms Controlling Neurogenesis in the Spinal Cord [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
December 16, 2008
Irwin Waldman, PhD, Dopamine Genes and Children’s Disruptive Behavior Disorder [NO RECORDING].
Host: Laura Baker
-
January 15, 2008
Leslie Griffith, PhD, Uncovering Circuits for Behavior in Drosophila [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Michelle Arbeitman
January 16, 2008
James DiCarlo, PhD, The Relationship of fMRI-Determined and Neuronally-Determined Object Selectivity in the Primate Temporal Lobe [NO RECORDING].
Host: Irving Biederman
January 22, 2008
Roland Johansson, PhD, Encoding and Use of Tactile Afferent Information in Control of Object Oriented Actions [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Gerald Loeb
February 5, 2008
Michelle Arbeitman, PhD, Genes to Behavior: Drosophila Neural Circuit that Underlie Courtship Behaviors [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
February 12, 2008
David Rowitch, PhD, A Developmental Perspective on Brain Tumorgenesis [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Samantha Butler
March 11, 2008
Bill Newsome, PhD, Reward, Value and Choice: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Value-Based Decisions [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Samantha Butler
March 25, 2008
Lynn Landmesser, PhD, Spontaneous Rhythmic Activity in the Formation of Spinal Motor Circuits [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
April 1, 2008
Hugo Bellen, PhD, Lou Gehrig, Flies, Worms, and Ephrin Receptor Signaling: A Model for the Pathogenesis of ALS [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michelle Arbeitman
April 8, 2008
Rosalind Segal, PhD, Proteoglycans Specify a Mitogenic Response to Sonic Hedgehog [NO RECORDING].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
April 15, 2008
6th Annual USC NS Vision Symposium [NO RECORDING].
Organizer: Norberto Grzywacz
April 22, 200
Sebastien Bouret, PhD, Development of Hypothalamic Feeding Pathways [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer/ Samantha Butler
April 29, 2008
Indira Ramon, PhD, Spontaneous and Synaptic Signaling in Cerebellar Circuits [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Emily Liman
May 6, 2008
Karen Emmorey, PhD, The Neural System Underlying Sign Language Production [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Michael Arbib
May 22, 2008
Mistsuo Kawato, PhD, Towards Manipulative Neuroscience based on Brain Network Interface [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Stefan Schaal
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September 25, 2007
Kimberly McAllister, PhD, Early Determinants of Whether and Where Synapses will Form Between Cortical Neuron [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Judith Hirsch
October 16, 2007
Doug Stuart, PhD, Thomas Graham Brown, Anders Lundberg, and the Neural Control of Stepping [NO RECORDING].
Host: Nina Bradley
October 23, 2007
Robert Gereau, PhD, Spinal Mechanisms of Pain Sensitization: Receptors, Kinases, and Channels [RECORDED LINK].
Host: David McKemy
October 30, 2007
Clarke Slater, PhD, Bernard Katz and His Contribution to the Current Understanding of Neuromucular Transmission [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
November 8, 2007
Zoe Kourtzi, PhD, Brain Imaging of Visual Learning [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Bosco Tjan
November 13, 2007
Glyn Humphreys, PhD, Seeing What’s on your Mind: The interplay Between Working Memory and Visual Attention [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Irving Biederman
November 14, 2007
William Hayward, PhD, Interactions of Viewpoint-Invariant and Viewpoint-Dependent Processes in Object Recognition [NO RECORDING].
Host: Bosco Tjan
November 20, 2007
The Role of BMP Morphogens in Axon Guidance in the Developing Spinal [RECORDED LINK].
November 27, 2007
Derek Sieburth, PhD, Systematic RNAi Analysis of Synapse Structure and Function [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
December 4, 2007
Nathaniel Heintz, PhD, Addressing Brain Complexity [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Don Arnold
December 18, 2007
Joshua Sanes, PhD, Selective Synapse Formation in the Visual System [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
-
January 9, 2007
Christof Koch, PhD, Recording from Individual Neurons in the Human Brain [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Laurent Itti
January 16, 2007
Dovi Sagi, PhD, Linking Perceptual Learning, Perceptual Deterioration and Memory Consolidation [NO RECORDING].
Host: Zhong-Lin Lu
January 23, 2007
Sam Pfaff, PhD, Genetic Regulation of Motor Neuron Development and Connectivity [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Samantha Butler
January 30, 2007
Susan McConnell, PhD, Assembling Neural Circuits: Wiring up the Brain During Development [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Samantha Butler
February 6, 2007
Antoine Bechara, PhD, Before and After: Changes in Addicitive Behaviors After Focal Lesions [RECORDED LINK].Host: Bosco Tjan
February 13, 2007
Kwabena Boahen, PhD, Neurogrid: Emulation a Million Neurons in the Cortex [NO RECORDING].
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
February 27, 2007
Multisensory Fusion and Sensorimotor Integration for Flight Control in Drosophila [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Michelle Arbeitman
March 10, 2007
Graduate Student Spring Symposium [NO RECORDING].
March 20, 2007
Jackie Schiller, PhD, Functional Subcompartments in Dendrites [NO RECORDING].
Host: Bartlett Mel
March 27, 2007
Brian Wandell, PhD, Development and Plasticity in Visual Cortex [NO RECORDING].
Host: Bosco Tjan
April 3, 2007
Richard Anderson, PhD, Planning and Decision Making in Cerebral Cortex [NO RECORDING].
Host: NGP Graduate Student
April 10, 2007
Graeme Davis, PhD, Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Stability and Synaptic Homeostasis [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michelle Arbeitman
April 17, 2007
5th Annual USC Vision Symposium [NO RECORDING].
April 24, 2007
Jeff Magee, PhD, Compartmentalized Dentric Integration and Plasticity [NO RECORDING].
Host: Bartlett Mel
May 2, 2007
David McCormick, PhD, Synaptic Transmission in the Cortex: It Works Differently than You May Think [NO RECORDING].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
-
September 12, 2006
Corinna Darian-Smith. PhD, Neuronal Plasticity and Behavioral Recovery Following Spinal Injury in Monkeys [NO RECORDING].
Host: Judith Hirsch
September 19, 2006
Ted Berger, PhD, Toward Hippocampal Prothesis: Implantable Biomimetic Microeletronics to Restore Lost Memory Function [NO RECORDING].
September 26, 2006
Xiaoping Hu, PhD, Dynamic Studies of Brain Function and Connectivity with fMRI [NO RECORDING].
Host: Zhong-Lin Lu
October 6, 2006
Jeff Lichtman, PhD, Monitoring Synaptic Competition in Fluorescent Mice [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
October 10, 2006
Wade Regehr, PhD, Associative Synaptic Plasticity Mediated by Endocannabinoinds [NO RECORDING].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
October 24, 2006
Anitha Pasupathy, PhD, Neural Substrates of Shape Representation and Learning in the Primate Brain [NO RECORDING].
Host: Irving Biederman
October 31, 2006
Karri Holley, PhD, Negotiating the Boundaries: The Experiences of Doctoral Students in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Programs [NO RECORDING].
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
November 7, 2006
Robert Wenthold, PhD, Trafficking of NMDA Receptors [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Don Arnold
November 14, 2006
Quifu Ma, PhD, Molecular Control of Nociceptive/pain Sensory Neuron Development [RECORDED LINK].
Host: David McKemy
November 28, 2006
Brad Alger, PhD, Endocannabinoids and Synaptic Plasticity [RECORDED LINK].
Host: Ted Berger
December 5, 2006
Mu-Ming Poo, PhD, Long-Range Spread of LTP/LTD in Neural Circuits [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michel Baudry
December 12, 2006
Kristin Scott, PhD, Taste Recognition in Drosophila [NO RECORDING].
Host: Emily Liman
-
January 10, 2006
Paul Sternberg, PhD, Circuits Controlling Locomotion and Sexual Behavior in C. Elegans [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michelle Arbeitman
January 17, 2006
Gina Turrigiano, PhD, Hebb and Homeostasis in Developing Cortical Networks [NO RECORDING].
Host: Sarah Bottjer
January 24, 2006
Sue Kinnamon, PhD, Calcium Signaling and Neurotransmitter Release in Taste Cells
Host: Emily Liman
January 31, 2006
Hagai Berman, PhD, Multiple Neuron Studies of Information Processing in the Basal Ganglia: From Dopamine Reinforcement Learning to Synchronized Activity in the MPTP Primate Model of Parkinsonism [NO RECORDING].
Host: Gerald Loeb
February 21, 2006
Jane Johnson, PhD, Transcriptional Control of Spinal Cord Development [NO RECORDING].
Host: Neil Segil
February 28, 2006
Marco Iacoboni, PhD, The Human Mirror Neuron System and its Role in Social Cognition [NO RECORDING].
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
March 21, 2006
George Koob, PhD, The Neurocircuitry of Drug Addiction: Neuroadaptive Mechanisms within the Brain Stress Systems [NO RECORDING].
Host: NGF Graduate Students
March 28, 2006
David Yue, PhD, Calmodulin Regulation of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels – Smart Ca2+Detection and Biological Impact [NO RECORDING].
Host: David McKemy
April 13, 2006
Tracy J. Shors, PhD, Neurogenesis and the Makings of Memories [NO RECORDING].
Host: Richard F. Thompson
April 18, 2006
Jeannie Chen (USC), Norberto Grzywacz (USC), David Hinto (USC), Judith Hirsch (USC), Laurentii Itti (USC), Bosco Tjan (USC), David Heeger (New York Univeristy), Fourth Annual USC Vision Symposium [NO RECORDING].
April 25, 2006
Gyorgy Buzsaki, PhD, Oscillatory Organization of Hipposcampal Cell Assemblies [NO RECORDING],
Host: Judith Hirsch
May 24, 2006
Robert Margolskee, PhD, What Taste May Tell Us About Gastrointestinal Chemosensation [NO RECORDING].
Host: Emily Liman
-
September 13, 2005
Norberto Grzywacz, PhD,Visual Plasticity in the Developing Retina
Host: Bartlett Mel
September 20, 2005
Vladimir Parpura, PhD, Exocytotic Release of Glutamate from Astrocytes [NO RECORDING].
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
October 4, 2005
Richard Simerly, PhD, Wired on hormones: Development of Neural Circuits for Feeding & Reproduction [NO RECORDING].
Host: Alan Watts
October 11, 2005
Linda Buck, PhD, Unraveling Smell [NO RECORDING].
Host: Emily Liman
October 19, 2005
Samantha Butler, Fiona Doetsch, Marie Filbin, Wenbiao Gan, Thomas Jongens, Christopher Walsh, Li Zhang, Neural Development and Disease: Advancing Repairs and Cures [NO RECORDING].
November 1, 2005
Philippe Schyns, PhD, Mechanisms of Face Categorization from Cortical Activity [NO RECORDING].
Host: Irving Biederman
November 22, 2005
Craig Montell, PhD, TRP Channels, Regulators of Sensory Signaling [NO RECORDING].
Host: Emily Liman
November 29, 2005
Scott Frey, PhD, The Neural Bases of Human Tool Use [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michael Arbib
December 6, 2005
Scott Thompson, PhD, Illuminating Dendritic Intergration and Synaptic Plasticity with Glutamate Photolysis [NO RECORDING].
Host: Don Arnold
December 13, 2005
Roger Guillemin, PhD, The Beginnings of Neuroendocrinology [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michel Baudry
-
January 11, 2005
Nelson Spruston, PhD, Moving Toward an Understaning of How Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons Work [NO RECORDING].
Host: Judith Hirsch
January 18, 2005
James P. Herman, PhD, Limbic Neurocircuits and Stress Integration [NO RECORDING].
Host: Alan Watts
January 25, 2005
Ralph Greenspan, PhD, The Rudiments of Consciousness in the Drosophila Brain [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michelle Arbeitman
February 1, 2005
Ralph Adolphs, PhD, Processing of Emotional and Social Information By the Human Brain [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michael Arbib
February 8, 2005
Edwin W. McCleskey, PhD, ASIC3, An Ion Channel for Sensing Cardiac Pain [NO RECORDING].
Host: David McKemy
February 22, 2005
Yu Tian Wang, PhD, Synaptic Plasticity in Learning and Memory [NO RECORDING].
Host: NGP Graduate Students
March 8, 2005
Eve Marder, PhD, How Good is Good Enough? Tuning Neurons and Networks for Function [NO RECORDING].
Host: Judith Hirsch
March 22, 2005
Robert Malenka, PhD, Synaptic Consequences of In Vivo Activation of CREB [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michel Baudry
March 29, 2005
Vision Symposium 2005 [NO RECORDING].
Organized by Norberto Grzywacz
April 5, 2005
Gero Miesenboeck, PhD, Optical Control of Neuronal Circuits [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michelle Arbeitman
April 19, 2005
Francisco Bezanilla, PhD, The Voltage Sensor in Voltage-Dependent Ion Channels [NO RECORDING].
Host: Emily Liman
April 26, 2005
Ron Oppenheim, PhD, The Role of Neurotrophic Factors and Activity in the Survival of Developing Neurons [NO RECORDING].
Host: Nina Bradley/Chien-Ping Ko
-
September 14, 2004
Ronald Alkana, PhD, Molecular targets for ethanol in LGICS [NO RECORDING].
Host: Larry Swanson
September 21, 2004
Art Toga, PhD, Brain mapping in health and disease: Atlases of mince and men [NO RECORDING].Host: Larry Swanson
September 28, 2004
Glenn Stanley, PhD, Hypothalamic regulation of feeding behavior via peptides and amino acid transmitters [NO RECORDING].
Host: Alan Watts
October 5, 2004
Kaanit Grill-Spector, PhD, The neural basis of object and face perception [NO RECORDING].Host: Bosco Tjan
October 12, 2004
Geoff Boynton, PhD, How the visual system processes ignored information [NO RECORDING].
Host: Zhong-Lin Lu
October 19, 2004
Ralph Greenspan, PhD, The rudiments of consciousness in the Drosophila brain [NO RECORDING].
Host: Michelle Arbeitman
November 2, 2004
Michael Hausser, PhD, Cerebellar granule cells in vivo: linking sensory integration to memory storage [NO RECORDING].
Host: Bartlett Mel
November 18-20, 2004
Understanding Behavior: From Molecules to Mind [NO RECORDING].
Speakers: Javier Alvarez-Leefmans(CINVESTAV, SSA), Functional roles of Na+, K+, 2Cl-cotransport in presynatic inhibition and nociception; Carlos Aramburo (UNAM) Growth hormone heterogeneity: a model of endocrine, paracine, and/or autocrine diversity?; Newton S. Canteras (University of Sao Paulo) Neural systems underlying predatory hunting;Carlos Cepeda (UCLA) Morphological and electrophysiological substrates of pediatric epilepsy; Hong-Wei Dong (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences) Amygdalar coordination of hypothalamic behavioral and visceral responses; Jorge Larriva(UNAM) Three dimensional structure of the cerebral hemisphere’s BST; James McGaugh(UCI) Role of the amygdala in creating lasting explicit memory; Raul Parades (UNAM) Neurobiology of non-copulating rats; Frederico Bermudez-Rattoni (UNAM) Molecular mechanism of taste-recognition memory; Alcino Silva(UCLA) Molecular and cellular recognition: unraveling the molecular, physiological and neuronantomical basis of remote memory; Larry Swanson (USC) Cerebral hemisphere control of motivation and emotion; Richard Thompson (USC) Differential processes of short term and long term memory stroage for explicit and implicit memories; Alan Watts(USC) Stimulatory and inhibitory neural networks in the control of motivated behaviors
November 23, 2004
Ehud Isacoff, PhD, Adhesion and active zone formation dynamics at a mammalian synapse [NO RECORDING].
Host: Don Arnold
November 30, 2004
Dennis O’Leary, PhD, Genetic regulation of the neocortex into primary areas and its influence on behavior [NO RECORDING].
Host: Samantha Butler
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January 15, 2004
James Kahoe, PhD, Extinction: Curioser and Curioser.
Host: Richard Thompson
January 22, 2004
Marla Feller, PhD, Surfing the Retinal Wave: Mechanisms & Function of Spontaneous Activity in Developing Mammalian Visual System.
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
January 26, 2004
Masao Ito, PhD, From Motor Control to Cognition and Language.
Hosts: Larry Swanson & Richard Thompson
January 29, 2004
Elisabeth Loftus, PhD, Grand Illusions of Memory.
Host: Richard Thompson
February 5, 2004
Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD, Genetic Control of Neuromuscular Synapse Patterning and Formation.
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
February 12, 2004
Michael Cahalan, PhD, Seeing the Immune Response In Vivo using Two-Photon Microscopy.
Host: Lou Byerly
February 19, 2004
Norberto Grzywacz, PhD, Does the Brain Play with Dice?.
Host: Bartlett Mel
February 26, 2004
Bertil Hille, PhD, How do G-Protein Coupled Receptors Rule the Mind?
Host: Emily Liman
March 4, 2004
Marc Tessier-Levigne, PhD, Wiring the Brain: the Logic and Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Guiance and Regeneration.
Host: Larry Swanson
March 11, 2004
Lisa Stowers, PhD, Molecular Biology of Pheromone Mediated Behavior in the Mouse.
Host: Emily Liman
March 25, 2004
Stuart Lipton, PhD, Paradigm Shift in Neuroprotective Drug Development: NMDA Receptor Block by Memantine & Nitrosylation.
Host: NGP Graduate Students
April 1, 2004
SECOND ANNUAL USC VISION SYMPOSIUM.
Keynote Speakers: Maureen & Jay Neitz (Wisconsin); Speakers from USC: Cheryl Craft, Judith Hirsch, Zhong-Lin Lu, Gerard Medioni, Bartlett Mel, and James Weiland
April 8, 2004
Arthur Konnerth, PhD, BDNF: a New Excitatory Neurotransmitter?
Host: Sarah Bottjer
April 15, 2004
Anthony Movshon, PhD, Stability and Plasticity in Primate Visual Development.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
April 22, 2004
Nelson Spruston, PhD, Dendritic Excitability and Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus.
Host: Michel Baudry
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August 26, 2003
Nick Rawlins, PhD, Mice, Molecules & Memory: Targeted GLUr Genetic Manipulations Dissociate Hippocampal Memory Systems.
Host: Larry Swanson
September 4, 2003
Andy Groves, PhD, Decoding Deafness: Development & Regeneration in the Inner Ear.
Host: Judith Hirsch
September 11, 2003
Larry Swanson and Richard Thompson, NIBS Neuroscience Strategic Planning: Kicking Off the Next Round.
September 18, 2003
S. Murray Sherman, PhD,Some Thoughts on the Functioning of the Thalamus.
Host: Judith Hirsch
October 5, 2003
Kalanit Grill-Spector, PhD, The neural basis of object and face perception.
Host: Bosco Tjan
September 25, 2003
Craig Garner, PhD,Dynamic Assembly of Nascent Synapses
Host: Michael Quick
October 3, 2003
Richard Tsien, PhD, Cell and Molecular Neurobiology.
Host: Emily Liman
October 9, 2003
11th ANNUAL PROVOST’S NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM, Toward Brain Replacement Parts: Creating Functional Neuron-Silicon Interfaces,
Jay Hickman, PhD, Designing & Culturing Fundamental Neural Circuits on Silicon Substrates,
Bruce Wheeler, PhD, Challenges at the Neuron-Silicon Interface,
Steve DeWerth, PhD, Motor Pattern Generator Networks Growing on Silicon Substrates,
James Weiland & Mark Humayun, PhD, Intraocular Implants for Artificial Retinal Function in Humans,
Richard Andersen, PhD, Direct Cortical Control of Motor System Prosthetics,
Ted Berger, PhD, Developing Cognitive Prosthetics for Restoring Hippocampal Memory Function.October 16, 2003
Dan Geschwind, PhD, Using Genomics to Understand Neurological Diseases.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
October 23, 2003
Anthony Movshon, PhD, Stability and Plasticity in Primate Visual Development.
Host: Don Arnold
October 30, 2003
E.J. Chichilnisky, PhD, Ensemble Coding of Visual Motion in the Primate Retina.
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
November 20, 2003
Anne Calof, PhD, Feedback Regulation of Neuron Number.
Host: Neil Segil
December 4, 2003
Lu Chen, PhD, Molecular Mechanism of AMPA Receptor Targeting.
Host: Richard Thompson
December 11, 2003
Shimon Amir, PhD, Circadian Clocks in the Central Extended Amygdala.
Host: Larry Swanson
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January 15, 2003
Lique M. Coolen, PhD, Addicted to Love: A Neurobiological Perspective.
Host: Larry Swanson
January 22, 2003
Robert Sapolsky, PhD, Stress, Neurodegeneration, and Individual Differences.
Host: NGP Graduate Student
January 29, 2003
Ed Callaway, PhD, Parallel Pathways and Local Circuits in Visual Cortex.
Host: Judith Hirsch
February 5, 2003
Joaquin M. Fuster, PhD, Executive Memory.
Host: Larry Swanson
February 12, 2003
David Pinto, PhD, Consequences of Feedback Inhibition on Seizure Waves and Sensory Porcessing.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
February 19, 2003
David Fitzpatrick, PhD, Using Functional Imaging to Explore Connectivity and Coding in Primary Visual Cortex.
Host: Judith Hirsch
February 26, 2003
Richard Mooney, PhD, Synaptic Mechanisms for Learned Birdsongs.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
March 5, 2003
Tyrone Cannon, PhD, Dissection of Neural Features of Schizophrenia into Genetic Disease-Specific Traits: Discordant MZ and DZ Twins.
Host: Adrian Raine (NS – Co-Sponsored by the Department of Psychology)
March 12, 2003
Molecular Neurobiology Candidate.
March 26, 2003
Molecular Neurobiology Candidate.
April 2, 2003
Jeff Tasker, PhD, Synaptic Plasticity in the Hypothalamus Induced by Chronic Dehydration.
Host: Alan Watts
April 9, 2003
Scott Chandler, PhD, Have I Bitten Off More Than I Can Chew? Cellular Mechanisms Controlling Oral-Motor Burst and Rthythm Generation.
Host: Jack Turman
April 16, 2003
Lawrence S.B.Goldstein, PhD, Linking Molecular Motors to Signalling and Neurodegenerative Disease.
Host: Don Arnold
April 23, 2003
King-Wai Yau, PhD, Phototransduction in Retinal Rods and Cones, and Beyond…
Host: Emily Liman
April 30, 2003
Anne Calof , PhD, Bone Morphgenetic Proteins: Multifunctional Regulators of Neurogenesis.
Host: Neil Segil
May 7, 2003
Jean Decety, PhD, Functional Neuroimaging (PET and fMRI) Investigations of Imitation.
Host: Michael Arbib
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September 4, 2002
USC Neuroscience “Vision Day” (Gerontology Auditorium, 9am-5pm)
A full day of presentations by and for the USC Vision Community
Featuring Cheryl Craft, Jeannie Chen, Norberto Grzywacz, Mark Humayun, Judith Hirsch, Bosco Tjan, Irving Biederman, Donald McLeod (UCSD), and posters.September 18, 2002
Elyse Schauwecker, PhD, Genetic Backgraound as a Determination of Seizure-Induced Cell Death.
Host: Larry Swanson
September 25, 2002
Michael Cowley, PhD, Hypothalamic Control of Energy Homeostatsis.
Host: Alan Watts
October 2, 2002
10th ANNUAL PROVOST’S NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (Gerontology Auditorium)
Martin Egelhaaf (U. Bielefeld, Germany): Measurement of Visual Global Motion in Flies,
Sheila Nirenberg (UCLA): What the Retina Codes: Molecular, Electrophysiological, and Computational,
Robert Shapley (NYU): Dynamics of Orientation Tuning in Visual Cortex,
John Maunsell (Baylor): Physiological Correlates of Perceptual Learning Visual Cortex,
Daniel Kersten (U. Minnesota): Visual Perception: Psychophysics and Bayesian Theories,
Nancy Kawisher (MIT): Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Visual Perception.October 9, 2002
George Sperling, PhD, The Interwined Mechanisms of Human Visual Motion Perception and of Attentive Selection.
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
October 16, 2002
Michael Mauk, PhD, Trying to Understand the Cerebellum Well Enough to Build One.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
October 23, 2002
Yang Dan, PhD, Plasticity in the Visual Cortex: From Synapse to Perception”
Host: Judith Hirsch
October 30, 2002
Carol Miller, PhD, Stress and Death Domains in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Host: Larry Swanson
November 13, 2002
Edward Adelson, PhD, Perceptual Organization and Lightness Perception.
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
November 20, 2002
Tom Otis, PhD, Glutamate Transporter Function at Excitatory Synapses in the Cerebellum.
Host: Emily Liman
December 4, 2002
Michela Gallagher, PhD, Complexity of the Amygdalar Complex: Multiple Roles in Associative Learning.
Host: Richard Thompson
December 11, 2002
John Rubenstein, PhD, Mechanisms that Pattern Neocortical Areas, Cell Types, and Thalamocortical Connections.
Host: Larry Swanson
December 18, 2002
Alan Watts, PhD, CRH Gene Expression in Neuroendocrine Paraventricular Neurons: Circuits, Clocks, and Corticosterone.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
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January 9, 2002
Lawrence Kruger, PhD, The Search for Cerebral Individuality: the Origins of Comparative and Quantitative Neurobiology.
Host: Larry Swanson
January 23, 2002
Erin Schuman, PhD, mRNA Trafficking and Protein Synthesis at the Synapse.
Host: Michel Baudry
January 29, 2002
Caleb Finch and Irina Rozovsky, Robbie Brinton and Ted Berger, Richard Thompson and Michael Foy, Michel Baudry, Christian Pike, David Lavond, Sex Steroids, Cognition, and Aging: Progress on a P01.
February 6, 2002
Richard Thompson, PhD, In Search of Memory Traces.Host: Larry Swanson
February 13, 2002
Frank Manis, PhD, Behavioral and Neuroimaging Studies of Developmental Dyslexia.
Host: Richard Thompson
February 20, 2002
Bruce Bean, Phd, Pacemaking in Central Neurons Driven by TTX-Sensitive Sodium Channels.
Host: Emily Liman
March 6, 2002
Tom Carew, PhD, Multiple Memory Phases in Aplysia: A Cellular and Molecular Analysis.
Host: Richard Thompson
March 20, 2002
Edward G. Jones, PhD, Insights into the Neuropathology of Schizophrenia.
Host: NGP Graduate Student
April 3, 2002
Mark Mayford, PhD, Genetic Studies of Memory in Mice.
Host: Richard Thompson
April 10, 2002
Ann E. Kelley, PhD, On the Role of Striatal-Hypothalamic Circuitry in the Control of Motivated Behavior.
Host: Alan Watts
April 17, 2002
Alfredo Varela-Echavarria, PhD, Pioneer Longitudinal Axon Tract Formation in the Developing Brain.
Host: Larry Swanson
May 1, 2002
Uel McMahan, PhD, The Architecture of Active Zone Materials: Role in Synaptic Transmission Revealed by EM Tomography.
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
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September 12, 2001
Paul Patterson, PhD, Cytokine Regulation of Neuro-Immune Interactions and Neurogenesis in the Adult CNS.
Host: Larry Swanson
September 26, 2001
Kelsey Martin, PhD, Communication Between Synapse and Nucleus During Long-Lasting Neural Plasticity.
Host: Don Arnold
October 10, 2001
Gary Banker, PhD, Membrane Protein Trafficking in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons.
Host: Don Arnold
October 17, 2001
Neil Segil, PhD, Coordinating the Cell Cycle With Differentiation: The Role of CKI’s and Proneural Genes in the Development of the Mammalian Inner Ear.
Host: Larry Swanson
October 24, 2001
John Ngai, PhD, Molecular Approaches to the Vertebrate Olfactory System.
Host: Emily Liman
November 7, 2001: 9th ANNUAL PROVOST’S NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (Gerontology Auditorium)
Marc Raichle (Washington University St. Louis): The ‘Resting’ Brain”
Leslie Ungerleider (NIMH-NIH): Mechanisms of Attention in the Human Brain.
Scott Grafton (Dartmouth): Intention, Action and Error Correction: Coordinating Cortical Areas.
John Gabrieli (Stanford University): Memory Systems of the Human Brain.November 9, 2001
Rufin Vogels, PhD, Shape Coding in Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex.
Host: Irving Biederman
November 16, 2001
Edmund Rolls, PhD, Emotion and Vision: Neurons, Networks, and Behavior.
Host: NGP Graduate Student
November 28, 2001
Tom O’Dell, PhD, NMDA Receptor Signalling Complexes: Role of Ion Channel-Associated Proteins in Synaptic Plasticity.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
December 5, 2001
Barbara Knowlton, PhD, Multiple Systems of Implicit Learning.
Host: Richard Thompson
December 19, 2001
Frank Manis, PhD, Behavioral and Neuroimaging Studies of Subtypes of Develomental Dyslexia.
Host: Richard Thompson
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January 10, 2001
Andrew H. Bass, PhD,Evolutionarily Labile Patterning of Behavioral, Brain, and Gonadal Sex.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
January 12, 2001
Austin Yang, Mechanisms of Intracellular Amyloid-Mediated Cell Death in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Host: Michel Baudry
February 1, 2001
Robert Malinow, PhD, Toward a Molecular Flowchart of Central Synaptic Plasticity.
Host: Michel Baudry
February 14, 2001
Michael Stryker, PhD, The Nature of Maps in the Brain: Lessons From the Visual Cortex.
Host: Michael Arbib
February 21, 2001
Scott Fraser, PhD, Imaging the Motions and Lineages that Pattern the Developing Nervous System.
Host: Don Arnold
March 7, 2001
Tom O’Dell, PhD, NMDA Recptor Signaling Complexes: Role of Ion Channel-Associated Proteins in Synaptic Plasticity.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
March 21, 2001
Mary Kennedy, PhD, Signal Transduction at the Postsynaptic Density.
Host: Don Arnold
April 4, 2001
Jack Turman, PhD, Craniofacial Neuromuscular Alterations in the Krox-20 Null Mutant.
Host: Alan Watts
April 18, 2001
Caleb Finch, PhD, Evolution of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Host: Larry Swanson
May 2, 2001
Oswald Steward, PhD, Targeting Newly Synthesized mRNAs to Synapses.
Host: Larry Swanson
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September 6, 2000
Ann Marie Craig, PhD, Synapse Assembly and Glutamate Receptor Targeting in Hippocampal Neurons.
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
September 20, 2000
Gilles Laurent, PhD, Time and Odor Codes.
Host: Emily Liman
October 4, 2000
Susan Bookheimer, PhD, Functional MRI of Language Processing.
Host: NGP Graduate Students
October 6, 2000
8th Annual USC Neuroscience Symposium, SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM for RICHARD F. THOMPSON
October 17, 2000
Andre Parent, PhD, Organization of the Primate Basal Ganglia.
Host: Larry Swanson
October 18, 2000
Marco Iacoboni, PhD, fMRI and TMS Studies of Initiation and Action Observation in Humans.
Host: Michael Arbib
November 1, 2000
Christian Pike, PhD, Neuroprotective Actions of Estrogen and Testosterone and Their Relevance to Alzheimer’s Disease.
Host: Caleb Finch
November 15, 2000
Joachim Spiess, PhD, Differential Neuromodulation of Learning and Anxiety by CRF Receptor 2.
Host: Richard Thompson
November 29, 2000
Paul Salvaterra, PhD, A Genetic View of Neurotransmitter Phenotype.
Host: Lou Byerly
December 6, 2000
Tony Campagnoni, PhD, The Many Faces of the Myelin Basic Protein Gene in Neural Development.
Host: Larry Swanson
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January 12, 2000
Nina Bradley, PhD, Does the Environment Exert an Instructive Role on the Development of Motor Control in the Embryonic Period?
Host: Larry Swanson
January 26, 2000
Robert Chow, PhD, Biophysical and Molecular Studies of Exocytosis in Excitable Cells.
Host: Alan Watts
February 9, 2000
David J. Anderson, PhD, Molecular Control of Neural Crest Development.
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
February 23, 2000
Bernard Balleine, PhD, Goal-Directed Instrumental Action: Contingency, Incentive Learning, and their Neural Substrates.
Host: Alan Watts
March 8, 2000
Peter Seubert, PhD, An Immunization Approach to Alzheimer Disease.
Host: Michel Baudry
March 22, 2000
Eliot Brenowitz, PhD, Seasonal Plasticity of the Avian Song Control System.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
April 5, 2000
Michel Baudry, PhD, Synaptic Plasticity: It’s in the Tail, Not in the Head!
Host: Richard Thompson
April 26, 2000
Michael Sofroniew, PhD, Roles of Astroglial Cells in the Response to Neural Injury.
Host: Larry Swanson
May 3, 2000
Caleb Finch, PhD, Solomon Carter Fuller, an African-American Pioneer in Alzheimer Disease.
Host: Larry Swanson
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September 8, 1999
Enrico Stefani, PhD, Electrical Measurements of Protein Conformational Changes in Voltage-Dependent Ion Channels.
Host: Lou Byerly
September 22, 1999
Craig B. Stanford, PhD, The Hunting Apes: Meat-Eating, Meat-Sharing, and the Evolution of Human Cognition.
Host: Larry Swanson
September 29, 1999
Charles E. Ribak, PhD, Neuroplastic Changes in Hippocampal Granule Cells Following Seizures.
Host: Larry Swanson
October 6, 1999
Stefan M. Pulst, PhD, Genetics of Neurological Diseases: Insights from Neurofibromatosis 2 & Spinocerebellar Ataxia 2.
Host: Larry Swanson
October 13, 1999
Mitsuo Kawato, PhD, Multiple Internal Models in the Cerebellum and Communication.
Host: Stefan Schaal
November 9, 1999
HEDCO NEUROSCIENCE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Preliminary Program:
Morning Symposium: Learning & Memory — From Genes to Models to Clinic (Larry Swanson, Chair)
James L. McGaugh(UC, Irvine): A History of Strategies for Understanding Learning and Memory
Gary Lynch (UC, Irvine): Ampakines: From the Laboratory to the Clinic
Alcino J. Silva (UCLA): Molecular and Cellular Basis of Learning Disorders
Terrence J. Sejnowski (Salk Institute): Future Generations of Artificial Learning Networks
Afternoon Symposium: Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience (Richard Thompson, Chair)
Irving Biederman (USC): How does the Brain See Objects?
Adrian Raine (USC): A Neuroscience Approach to Violence
Theodore Berger (USC): Hybrid Brain Circuit/Silicon Chips for the 21st Century
Keynote Lecture (4pm)
Floyd E. Bloom (Scripps Research Clinic/Editor Science): Brain Research in the New MillenniumDecember 1, 1999
Kai Zinn, PhD, Tyrosine Phosphorylation and Axon Guidance in Drosophila.
Host: Chien-Ping Ko
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January 13, 1999
Glenn I. Hatton, PhD, Ions, Proteins, Glia, and Gap Junctions: Their Roles in Neuroendocrine Cell Excitability.
Host: Larry Swanson
January 27, 1999
Melvin Goodale, PhD, Action Without Perception.
Host: Irving Biederman
February 10, 1999
Phillip A. Schwartzkroin, PhD, Potassium Regulation and Seizure Generation.
Hosts: Michel Baudry & Caleb Finch
February 24, 1999
George Bekey, PhD, Intelligence and Learning in Mobile Robots.
Host: Ted Berger
March 3, 1999
Catherine Rivier, PhD, Effect and Role of Nitric Oxide and Carbon Monoxide in Regulating the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Response to Stress.
Host: Alan Watts
March 10, 1999
Tom Albright, PhD, Why do Things Look as They Do?
Host: Larry Swanson
March 24, 1999
Stefan Schaal, PhD, Are Complex Internal Models Biologically Plausible?
Host: Richard Thompson
April 7, 1999
Mark Bear, PhD, The Mechanism and Signitficance of Homosynaptic Long-Term Depression.
Host: Michel Baudry
April 21, 1999
Georg Striedter, PhD, Neural Substrates of Vocal Imitation of Parrots.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
May 5, 1999
Alcino Silva, PhD, Unraveling the Molecular and Cellular Basis of Cognitive Disorders with Genetics & Pharmacology.
Host: Michel Baudry
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September 2, 1998
David Van Vactor, PhD, Mechanisms that Guide Motor Growth Cones in the Drosophila Embryo.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
September 22, 1998
Alan Watts, PhD, Fourth Annual USC History of Neuroscience Lecture: Neurons, Gland Cells, and Vesicles: The Historical Context for the Emergence of Neuroendocrinology.
Host: Larry Swanson
October 7, 1998
Henry Lester, PhD, Pathophysiologica Principles in Ion Channel Diseases.
Host: Lou Byerly
October 21, 1998
Pam Larsen, PhD, How to Alter the Lifespan of Postmitotic Cells.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
October 29, 1998
Edward E. Smith, PhD, Neuroimaging Studies of Working Memory.
Host: Irving Biederman
November 4, 1998
Matt Wilson, PhD, Neural Ensembles in the Rodent Hippocampus: From Molecules to Memory.
Host: NGP Graduate Students
November 6, 1998
Chien-Ping Ko, PhD, The Role of Schwann Cells in the Dynamics of the Frog NMJ,
Wesley J. Thompson, PhD, Schwann Cells at the Mammalian NMJ,
Richard Robitaille, PhD, Modulation of Synapses By Glial Cells,
Philip G. Haydon, PhD, Astrocyte-Induced Synaptic Modulation,
Greg E. Lemke, PhD, Transcriptional Control of Schwann Cell Differentiation,
Ben A. Barres, PhD, Notch Receptor Activation Inhibits Oligodendrocyte Differentiation,
Mary Beth Hatton, PhD, Astrotactins: A New Family of Neuronal Migration Genes,
Sue T. Griffin, PhD, Neuron-Glial Interactions in Neurodegenerative Disease.November 18, 1998
Robert C. Berwick, PhD, How Did Lanuage Evolve?
Host: Vergnaud
December 2, 1998
Nick Spitzer, PhD,Breaking the Code: Regulating Neuronal Differentiation By Patterns of Calcium Transients
Host: Sarah Bottjer
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January 14, 1998
Tallie Z. Baram, PhD, The Developmental Neurobiology of the Stress Response: A Region-Specific Repertoire of Gene Regulation.
Host: Larry Swanson
February 4, 1998
Jeannie Chen, PhD, Inactivation Mechanisms of Phototransduction.
Host: Richard Thompson
February 11, 1998
David Amaral, PhD, Organization of the Primate Limbic System.
Host: Larry Swanson (NS)
February 25, 1998
Edward E. Smith, PhD, fMRI of Working Memory and Cognition
Host: Irving Biederman.
March 11, 1998
Danielle Piomelli, Phd, Endogenous Cannabinoids; Biochemistry and Pharmacology.
Host: Michel Baudry (NB)
March 25, 1998
Nick Brecha, PhD, Distribution and Function of Neurotransmitter Transporter Molecules.
Host: Larry Swanson
April 8, 1998
Carol Barnes, PhD, Getting Lost: Synaptic Mechanisms and Network Dynamics in the Aged Rat Hippocampus.
Host: Michel Baudry
April 22, 1998
Robert Malenka, PhD, Silent Synapses and Synaptic Plasticity.
Host: Michel Baudry
April 28, 1998
Alan Watts, PhD, Neurons, Gland Cells, and Vesicles: The Historical Context for the Emergence of Neuroendocrinology.
Host: Richard Thompson
April 29, 1998
Harold Zakon, PhD, Hormonal Modulation on Ion Currents: Lessons from the Electric Fish.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
May 6, 1998
John Hildebrand, PhD, Sex Attraction in Moths: Behavior and Brain Mechanisms.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
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September 3, 1997
Bruce McNaughton, PhD, Multineuron Recording and the Neurophysiology of Reminiscence.
Host: Michel Baudry
September 17, 1997
Larry Cahill, PhD, The Neurobiology of Emotionally Influenced Memory:
Host: Foster
October 1, 1997
Irving Biederman, PhD, A Neurocomputational Account of Face and Object Recognition.
Host: Richard Thompson
October 15, 1997
Stuart M. Zola, PhD, Different Behavioral Effects Following Damage to the Medial Temporal Lobe and to the Inferotemporal Cortex: Findings from Monkeys and Humans.
Host: Richard Thompson
October 20, 1997
Mahlon Delong, Micheal Arbib, Anton Reiner, Larry Swanson, Ann Graybiel, Marie-Francois Chesselet, James Surmeier, John Walsh, 5th Annual USC Neuroscience Symposium: THE BASAL GANGLIA.
November 12, 1997
William Newsome, PhD, Making Decisions: The Brain’s Link Between Perception and Action.
Host: Richard Thompson
November 19, 1997
Julio Vergara, PhD, Voltage-Dependent Signal Transduction in Muscle and Nerve.
Host: Lou Byerly
December 3, 1997
Anne Calof, PhD, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Regulating Vertebrate Neurogenesis.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
December 10, 1997
Jerry Pine, PhD, Microstructures for Studying Living Neural Networks.
Host: Michael Arbib
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January 22, 1997
Edwin Rubel, PhD, Cochlear Hair Cell Regeneration: On a Wing and a Prayer.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
February 3, 1997
Jean Bullier, PhD, Functional Interactions Between Visual Cortical. Areas.
Host: Irving Biederman
February 5, 1997
Giacomo Rizzolatti, PhD, Mechanisms and Theories of Spatial Attention.
Host: Michael Arbib
February 12, 1997
Fred Bookstein, PhD, The Morphometric Synthesis and Statistical Analysis of Brain Images.
Host: Michel Baudry
February 26, 1997
The Role of Innate Knowledge in Vocal Learning.
Host: Sarah Bottjer
March 5, 1997
Mark Gluck, PhD, Extending Models of Hippocampal Function in Animal Conditioning to Human Learning and Amnesia.
Host: Richard Thompson
March 19, 1997
Stephen Engel, PhD, Functional MRI of Visual Cortex.
Host: Irving Biederman
March 26, 1997
Caleb Finch, PhD, Clusterin (apoJ, SGP-2) has Multiple Functions in the Brain During Reproduction and Aging.
Host: Richard Thompson
April 2, 1997
SPECIAL PANEL DISCUSSION: Brain ( L. Swanson), Mind ( M. Arbib), and Spirit ( S. Laemmle).
Moderator: Richard Thompson
April 9, 1997
Richard Simerly, PhD, Organization and Development of Sexually Dimorphic Circuits.
Host: Larry Swanson
April 23, 1997
John Gabrieli, PhD, Memory Systems of the Human Brain.
Host: Richard Thompson
May 7, 1997
Norman Weinberger, PhD, A Synthesis of Behavioral Learning, Sensory Physiology, and Neuromodulation: An Approach to the Induction and Contents of Cortical Memory.
Host: Richard Thompson
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September 16, 1996
Fourth Annual USC Neuroscience Symposium: Neuroethology.
Place: Gerontology Auditorium
September 25, 1996
Alex Reyes, PhD, Summation of Unitary Synaptic Potentials in Layer V Pyramidal Cells.
October 2, 1996
Larry Swanson, PhD, Organization of Mammalian Instinctive Behavior Systems.
October 16, 1996
Eugene Roberts, PhD, Fifty Exciting Years with GABA, the Major Inhibitory Neurotransmitter.
October 30, 1996
Dianne Papazian, PhD, Structure and Function of the Voltage-Sensing Domain in Shaker Potassium Channels.
November 6, 1996
Pamela Mellon, PhD, Studies on Immortalized Neuroendocrine Neurons.
November 26, 1996
Pauline Yahr, PhD, Cell Groups and Circuits Mediating the Hormonal Control of Male Sexual Behavior.
December 11, 1996
Michael Leon, PhD, The Neurobiology of Early Learning.