Wednesday, March 6th
Dr. Anis Contractor
Northwestern School of Medicine
Seminar "Life without kainate receptors; insights from kainate receptor knockout mice"
Host: Pablo Castillo
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Contractor's website
Seminar Announcement
Tuesday, March 12th **PRICE CENTER AUDITORIUM**
Dr. Rafael Yuste
Columbia University
Seminar: "The brain activity map and the challenge of functional connectomics"
Host: Neuroscience Chair Search Committee
Time: 1:00pm
Dr. Yuste's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, March 13th **PRICE CENTER AUDITORIUM** Distinguished Neuroscientist Lecture
Dr. Edward Kravitz
Harvard Medical School
Seminar: "Genetic manipulations in the fruit fly fight club: Role of amine neurons studied at a single neuron level"
Host: Alberto Pereda
Time: 4:00pm *Reception to Follow*
Dr. Kravitz' website
Seminar Announcement
Thursday, March 14th
Dr. Edward Kravitz
Harvard Medical School
Seminar: "A new department, a new transmitter compound, a war and a movement or how I spent the 60's and early 70's"
Host: Alberto Pereda
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Kravitz' website
Seminar Announcement
Friday, March 15th
Dr. Yonatan Fishman
Einstein
Seminar: "Brain at a cocktail party: Neural bases of concurrent sound segregation in primate auditory cortex"
Host: Don Faber
Time: 1:30pm
Dr. Fishman's website
Seminar Announcement
Thursday, March 21st
Dr. Julie Haas
Lehigh University
Seminar: "Activity-dependent modification of electrical synapses"
Host: Alberto Pereda
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Haas' website
Seminar Announcement
Tuesday, March 26th
Dr. Daniel Feldman
University of California - Berkeley
Seminar: "Inhibitory circuit mechanisms for map plasticity in rodent somatosensory cortex"
Host: Pablo Castillo
Time: 1:30pm
Dr. Feldman's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, March 27th
Dr. Marla Feller
University of California - Berkeley
Seminar: "Dynamic reconfiguration of retinal circuits"
Host: Andres Chavez
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Feller's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, April 3rd **LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center/Block Pavilion**
Dr. Gary Aston-Jones
Medical University of South Carolina
Seminar: "TBA"
Host: Neuroscience Chair Search Committee
Time: 1:00pm
Dr. Aston-Jones' website
Seminar Announcement
Thursday, April 4th
Dr. Anthony Holtmaat
Geneva University
Seminar: "Compound mechanisms for sensory map plasticity in the mouse barrel cortex"
Host: Pablo Castillo
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Holtmaat's website
Seminar Announcement
Thursday, April 11th **LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center/Block Pavilion**
Dr. Charles Schroeder
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Seminar: "TBA"
Host: Neuroscience Chair Search Committee
Time: 1:00pm
Dr. Schroeder's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, April 17th **LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center/Block Pavilion**
Dr. Oliver Hobert
Columbia University
Seminar: "TBA"
Host: Neuroscience Chair Search Committee
Time: 1:00pm
Dr. Hobert's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, April 24th **LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center/Block Pavilion**
Dr. Barry Stein
Wake Forest University
Seminar: "TBA"
Host: Neuroscience Chair Search Committee
Time: 1:00pm
Dr. Stein's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, May 8th **LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center/Block Pavilion**
Dr. Lorna Role
Stony Brook University
Seminar: "TBA"
Host: Neuroscience Chair Search Committee
Time: 1:00pm
Dr. Role's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, May 15th
Dr. Matthias Mueller
Universitaet Leipzig
Seminar: "Neural dynamics of feature-based attention in early visual areas of the human brain"
Host: Elyse Sussman
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Mueller's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, May 22nd **LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center/Block Pavilion**
Dr. Vittorio Gallo
George Washington University
Seminar: "Gliogenesis and glial repair in the postnatal brain"
Host: Neuroscience Chair Search Committee
Time: 1:00pm
Dr. Gallo's website
Seminar Announcement
Tuesday, May 28th **LeFrak Auditorium, Price Center/Block Pavilion**
Dr. Marina Picciotto
Yale University
Seminar: "Distinct mechanisms underlying nicotinic acetylcholine receptor contributions to reinforcement, feeding and depression"
Host: Neuroscience Chair Search Committee
Time: 1:00pm
Dr. Picciotto's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, May 29th
Dr. Richard Paylor
Baylor College of Medicine
Seminar: "Mouse and rat models for Autism: Questions about gene function from knockouts"
Co-Sponsored by IDDRC
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Paylor's website
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, June 12th
Dr. Clemence Blouet
Einstein
Seminar: "Forebrain-hindbrain nutrient-sensing circuits in the regulation of energy homeostasis"
Host: Don Faber
Time: 12:30pm
Seminar Announcement
Wednesday, June 26th
Dr. Daniel Choquet
Universite de Bordeaux
Seminar: "A nanoscale view into the dynamic of AMPA receptor organization in synapses"
Host: Randy Stout
Time: 12:30pm
Dr. Choquet's website
Seminar Announcement