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. 9 | Max Cynader | Alain Berthoz, Collège de France, Université Paris, France | The vicariant brain. Several brain networks for spatial memory: studies with fMRI and intracranial recordings in epileptic patients | 11am12pm |
| Sept. 23 | Dan Goldowitz | James McGaugh, Univ. of Cal. Irvine | Interaction of Neuromodulatory Systems in Making Lasting Memories | 11am-12pm |
| Sept. 30 | Kiran Soma | Celso Gomez-Sanchez, Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center | Extra-adrenal Steroidogenesis in the Brain and the Protection of the Mineralocorticoid Receptor | 11am-12pm |
| Oct. 7 | Yu Tian Wang | Paul Keown, UBC | Human Proteome Project: The Canadian Chromosome 6 Consortium | 11am-12pm |
| Oct. 14 | Brian MacVicar | Philip Haydon, Tufts Univ. Sch. of Medicine | Glial modulation of circuits and behavior | 11am-12pm |
| Oct. 21 | Jon Stoessl | Alain Dagher, Univ. of McGill | Imaging Appetite: functional neuroimaging of food and drug craving | 11am-12pm |
| Oct.24 | Vesna Sossi | Yu-Shin Ding Yale Univ. | Translational PET Research: From Preclinical to Clinical | 11am-12pm |
| Oct. 28 | Steve Vincent | Adrianna Mendrek, Universite de Montreal | Gender differences in brain function associated with cognitive and emotion processing in Schizophrenia | 11am-12pm |
| Nov. 4 | Miriam Spering | Anthony Movshon New York University | Brain mechanisms of visual perception | 11am-12pm |
| Nov. 12-16 | SFN | |||
| Nov. 18 | Stephanie Borgland | Kelly Tan, Univ. of Geneva | Probing inhibitory circuitry of the VTA with pharmacological and optogenetic tools | 11am-12pm |
| Nov. 25 | Jane Roskams | Adam Gazzaley, UCSF | Top-down modulation and the Aging Brain: The Crossroads of Attention and Memory | 11am-12pm |
| Dec. 2 | Jeremy Seamans | Randy O'Reilly, Univ. of Colorado | Doing it right the first time: toward a biological model of novel task performance | 11am-12pm |
| Dec. 9 | Doris Doudet | Andy Tasker Atlantic Centre for Comp. Biomed. Res. | Development of rodent model of epilepsy | 11am-12pm |
| Dec 16 | 11am-12pm | |||
| Jan. 6 | 11am-12pm | |||
| Jan 13 | Jon Stoessl | Marie-Francoise Chesselet, Reed Neurological Research Center, LA | Learning about Parkinson's disease from mouse models | 11am-12pm |
| Jan.20 | 11am-12pm | |||
| Jan 27 | Ismail Hafez | James Chambers, Univ. of Mass., Amherst | Photochemical Neurobiology: Novel, hybrid methods to silently observe and remotely perturb | 11am-12pm |
| Feb 3 | Jane Roskams | Arnold Kriegstein, UCSF | The development and evolution of the human neocortex | 11am-12pm |
| Feb 10 | Jane Roskams | Jean-Pierre Julien, Univ. of Laval | TDP-43 drives NF-kB activation in ALS | 11am-12pm |
| Feb 17 | Kurt Haas | Edward 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 24 | Dan Goldowitz | Bradley Schlagger, Washington Univ. | The development of skilled reading: insights from fMRI | 11am-12pm |
| Mar 2 | Miriam Spering | Stephen Lisberger, Duke University | How does the brain get its notion of motion? | 11am-12pm |
| Mar 9 | Catharine Winstanley | David Redish, Univ. of Minnesota | The neurophysiology of deliberative and non-deliberative decision-making in the laboratory rat | 11am-12pm |
| Mar 16 | Dan Goldowitz | David Rowitch, UCSF | 11am-12pm | |
| Mar 23 | Jeremy Seamans | Anissa Abi-Dargham, Columbia Univ. | 11am-12pm | |
| Mar 30 | Clare Beasley | Gustavo Turecki, Univ. of McGill | 11am-12pm | |
| Apr 6 | Easter? | |||
| Apr 13 | Tim Murphy | Pierre Drapeau, Univ. of Montreal | 11am-12pm | |
| Apr 20 | Max Cynader | Michael Gordon, UBC | 11am-12pm | |
| Apr 27 | Hakima Moukhles | Charles Bourque, Univ. of McGill | Effects 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 Murphy | Yves De Koninck Universite de Laval | 11am-12pm | |



