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Spring 2009- Thursday Seminar Series- 12:30pm in 1131 Bioinformatics
Jan. 13 | Ahmad Hariri, PhD | Director, Developmental Imaging Genetics Program, University of Pittsburgh | "Biological Pathways Mediating Individual Differences in Temperamental Anxiety" |
Jan. 15 | Rachel Wilson, PhD | Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School | "Olfactory Processing in the Drosophila Brain" |
Jan. 22 | Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD | Associate Professor, Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | "Selective Autophagy, Neurodegeneration and Aging" (Joint Cell & Molecular Physiology Seminar) |
Jan. 29 | Jeremy Rich, MD | Chairman, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Cleveland Clinic | "Cancer Stem Cells in Brain Tumor Therapy" |
Feb. 5 | Xinwei Cao, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies | "The Hippo Growth-Control Pahtway in Neural Development: Orchestrating the Survival, Proliferation, and Fate Choise of Neural Progenitor Cells" |
Feb. 9 | Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD | Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory, HHMI Investigator | "Molecular Mechanisms of Fear and its Inhibition: From Mice to Men" |
Fab. 19 | Rich Mooney, Ph | Associate Professor, Neurobiology, Duke | "Visualizing and Manipulating Neural Mechanisms for Song Learning" |
Feb. 23 | Kenneth Campbell, PhD | Associate Professor, Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | "Generation of Neuronal Diversit in the Mouse Telencephalon: The Roles of Gsx Homeobox Genes in Progenitor Specification and Maturation" (Joint Cell & Molecular Physiology Seminar) |
Mar. 5 | Tirin Moore, Phd | Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, Stanford | "The Neural Basis and Control of Visuospatial Attention" |
Mar. 12 | Marina Picciotto, PhD | Professor, Psychiatry, Yale | "Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors and Signaling Pathways Involved in Addiction and Learning" |
Mar. 19 | Doug Cyr, PhD | Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, Yale | "Molecular Chaperones and Protein Conformational Disease" |
Mar. 23 | Mark Zylka, PhD | Assistant Professor, UNC Neuroscience Center | "Biochemical Modulation of Nociceptive Circuits" |
Apr. 2 | Suzanne Haber, PhD | Professor, Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester | "Integrating Information Flow Across Cortico-basal Ganglia Circuits: A Complex Neural Network that Underlies Incentive Based Learning and Habit Formation" |
Apr. 9 | Luis Parada, PhD | Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology, UT Southwestern | "TrkB and Intracellular Signaling Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Depression" (Joint NDRC Seminar) |
Apr. 16 | Elizabeth Engle, MD | Associate Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School | "Human Defects in the Development and Wiring of Cranial Motor Neurons" |
Apr. 23 | Hongyan Wang, PhD | Assistant Professor, Neuroscience and Behavior Disorders, Duke NUS-GMS Singapore | "Brain Tumor Suppressors and Neural Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Drosophila" |
Apr. 30 | Jay Brenman, PhD | Associate Professor, UNC Neuroscience Center | "Genetic Analysis of AMP-activated Protein Kinases (AMPK) in Flies and Mice" |
May 6 | Michael Greenberg, PhD | Chair, Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School | Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize Award Lecture "Signaling Networks that Regulate Synapse Development and Cognitive Function" |
May 14 | Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor, Neurology and Neurobiology, Duke | "Synaptic and Circuit Basis for OCD-like Behaviors" |