Weekly Neuroscience Brownbag Talks
Mark your calendars and come join us for this semester's NSC Brownbag Series. All presentations will be held in GR 4.301 from 1:00-2:00pm, unless noted otherwise. Refreshments provided.
2011-2012
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sep 2, 2011 | Mike Kilgard. PhD | Directing Cortical Plasticity to Understand and Treat Neurological Disease |
| Sep 9 | Noah Sasson, PhD | Developmental Mechanisms of Social Cognitive Impairment in Autism and Schizophrenia |
| Sep 16 | Open | |
| Sep 29 | Seth Hayes, MD | Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein and Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Affect Neocortical Network Function |
| Sep 30 | David Pena | Using Targeted Neural Plasticity to Facilitate Extinction of Fear Conditioning |
| Oct 7 | Niveditha Vathsangam | Genetic Manipulation of Amygdala NMDARs via Recombinant Lentivirus |
| Oct 14 | Swagata Roychowdhury | Role of Norepinephrine on Sustained Attention and Impulsivity |
| Oct 21 | Chris Cowan, PhD | Transcriptional Mechanisms of Synapse Elimination: Implications for Cocaine-Induced Behavioral Plasticity |
| Oct 28 | David Self, PhD | Bidirectional Modification of Reward and Relapse Pathways in Cocaine Addiction |
| Nov 4 | Wei Hu | Chronic Ethanol Effect on Synaptic Plasticity on Deep Pyramidal Cells of Prefrontal Cortex |
| Nov 11 | Society for Neuroscience Conference | |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving | |
| Dec 9 | Marise Parent, PhD | Reciprocal Interactions Between Energy Intake and Memory |
| Jan 27, 2012 | Dean Buonomano, PhD | The Neural Basis of Learning and Temporal Processing |
| Feb 3 | Genevieve Konopka, PhD | Human-Specific Signaling Networks Underlying Language and Cognition |
| Feb 17 | Antonello Bonci, MD | TBA |
| Mar 2 GR 4.428 |
Gef Farmer, PhD | Dissertation Defense: Comparing Learning-Specific Plasticity in Pyramidal Cells of Amygdala and Hippocampus Across Different Learning Tasks |
| Mar 9 | Brenton Cooper, PhD | TBA |
| Mar 16 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 23 | Navid Khodaparast | First Year Project Presentation |
| Mar 30 | Jonathan Terman, PhD | Molecular and Biochemical Mechanisms Linking Extracellular Guidance Cues to Actin Cytoskeletal Alterations |
| Apr 6 | Carol Tamminga, MD | TBA |
| Apr 20 | Anwesha Banerjee | First Year Project Presentation: Impairment of Cortical GABAergic Synaptic Transmission In an Environmental Rat Model of Autism |
| Apr 27 | Linda Perrotti, PhD | Exploring Anxiety and Hormonal Status as Vulnerability Factors to Addictive Patterns of Behavior |
| May 4 | Vivek Jeevakumar | First Year Project Presentation |
