Neuroscience Research Colloquia Schedule 2011 - 2012

All talks are held in the Brain Research Centre Conference Centre, unless otherwise noted.

 

 Date Host Speaker Title Time
Sept. 9Max CynaderAlain Berthoz, Collège de France, Université Paris, FranceThe vicariant brain.  Several brain networks for spatial memory: studies with fMRI and intracranial recordings in epileptic patients  11am12pm 
Sept. 23Dan GoldowitzJames McGaugh, Univ. of Cal. IrvineInteraction of Neuromodulatory Systems in Making Lasting Memories11am-12pm
Sept. 30Kiran Soma Celso Gomez-Sanchez,  Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center Extra-adrenal Steroidogenesis in the Brain and the Protection of the Mineralocorticoid Receptor11am-12pm
Oct. 7Yu Tian WangPaul Keown, UBC Human Proteome Project: The Canadian Chromosome 6 Consortium11am-12pm
Oct. 14Brian MacVicar Philip Haydon, Tufts Univ. Sch. of Medicine Glial modulation of circuits and behavior11am-12pm
Oct. 21Jon Stoessl Alain Dagher, Univ. of McGill Imaging Appetite: functional neuroimaging of food and drug craving11am-12pm
Oct.24Vesna SossiYu-Shin Ding   Yale Univ.Translational PET Research: From Preclinical to Clinical11am-12pm
Oct. 28Steve Vincent Adrianna Mendrek, Universite de Montreal Gender differences in brain function associated with cognitive and emotion processing in Schizophrenia 11am-12pm
Nov. 4Miriam SperingAnthony Movshon    New York UniversityBrain mechanisms of visual perception 11am-12pm
Nov. 12-16 SFN  
Nov. 18Stephanie Borgland Kelly Tan, Univ. of Geneva Probing inhibitory circuitry of the VTA with pharmacological and optogenetic tools 11am-12pm
Nov. 25Jane RoskamsAdam Gazzaley, UCSFTop-down modulation and the Aging Brain: The Crossroads of Attention and Memory 11am-12pm
Dec. 2Jeremy SeamansRandy O'Reilly, Univ. of Colorado Doing it right the first time: toward a biological model of novel task performance 11am-12pm
Dec. 9Doris DoudetAndy Tasker    Atlantic Centre for Comp. Biomed. Res.Development of rodent model of epilepsy 11am-12pm
Dec 16    11am-12pm
Jan. 6   11am-12pm
Jan 13Jon Stoessl Marie-Francoise Chesselet, Reed Neurological Research Center, LA Learning about Parkinson's disease from mouse models11am-12pm
Jan.20 11am-12pm
Jan 27Ismail HafezJames Chambers,    Univ. of Mass., Amherst Photochemical Neurobiology: Novel, hybrid methods to silently observe and remotely perturb11am-12pm
Feb 3Jane RoskamsArnold Kriegstein, UCSFThe development and evolution of the human neocortex11am-12pm
Feb 10Jane RoskamsJean-Pierre Julien, Univ. of LavalTDP-43 drives NF-kB activation in ALS11am-12pm
Feb 17Kurt HaasEdward Ruthazer, McGill Univ.What the frog’s brain tells the frog’s eye:  Retrograde signals mediating plasticity in the developing visual system 11am-12pm
Feb 24Dan GoldowitzBradley Schlagger,  Washington Univ.The development of skilled reading: insights from fMRI11am-12pm
Mar 2Miriam SperingStephen Lisberger, Duke UniversityHow does the brain get its notion of motion?11am-12pm
Mar 9Catharine WinstanleyDavid Redish, Univ. of MinnesotaThe neurophysiology of deliberative and non-deliberative decision-making in the laboratory rat11am-12pm
Mar 16Dan GoldowitzDavid Rowitch,  UCSF 11am-12pm
Mar 23Jeremy Seamans Anissa Abi-Dargham, Columbia Univ.  11am-12pm
Mar 30Clare BeasleyGustavo Turecki, Univ. of McGill   11am-12pm
Apr 6 Easter?  
Apr 13Tim Murphy Pierre Drapeau, Univ. of Montreal  11am-12pm
Apr 20Max Cynader Michael Gordon, UBC  11am-12pm
Apr 27Hakima MoukhlesCharles Bourque,    Univ. of McGillEffects of salt loading on chloride-dependent inhibition in vasopressin neurons 11am-12pm
May 11  Kurt Haas Mei Zhen   Univ. of Toronto 11am-12pm
May 25 Tim MurphyYves De Koninck    Universite de Laval  11am-12pm
     



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