Sponsored by The Brain Research Institute, The Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
2007-2008

All seminars are held in the Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (on Charles Young Drive South, directly behind the MacDonald Research Building) and begin promptly at 4:00 pm (unless otherwise indicated **)

GENE BLOCK, Ph.D. (Hosted by Chris Colwell; (ccolwell@mednet.ucla.edu) Departments of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Physiological Science; Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles
“Circadian Rhythms and Aging: New Approaches to an Old Problem”

ELLEN A. LUMPKIN, Ph.D. (Hosted by Felix Schweizer; (felixs@ucla.edu)
Departments of Neuroscience, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, and Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas                                             
“Probing Mammalian Touch Reception”

RUTH ANNE EATOCK, Ph.D. (Hosted by Peter Narins; (pnarins@ucla.edu)
Department of Otology and Laryngology, and Neurobiology, Harvard University School of Medicine, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts
“Ion Channels in Hair Cells and Afferent Neurons of Developing Mammalian Vestibular Epithelia: Turning On and Tuning in to Motion”

KÁRI STEFÁNSSON, M.D. (Hosted by Alvaro Sagasti; (sagasti@mcdb.ucla.edu) CANCELLED
Chief Executive Officer, DeCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
“Genetics of Common Diseases”

NO JSN LECTURE- SFN Meeting in San Diego, California

DOUGLAS C.WALLACE, Ph.D. (Hosted by Ming Guo; (mguo@ucla.edu)
Donald Bren Professor of Molecular Medicine; Director, Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California, Irvine
“A Mitochondrial Etiology of Age-Related Degenerative Diseases”

SCOTT M. THOMPSON, Ph.D. (Hosted by Dean Buonomano; (dbuono@ucla.edu)
Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
“Shining a Light on the Needle-in-the Haystack: Studies of Dendritic Spine Function and Plasticity Using Glutamate Photolysis”

The Brain Research Institute Neuroscience Poster Session Distinguished Lecturer
**Ackerman Union
DANIEL JOHNSTON, Ph.D.  (Hosted by Dean Buonomano; (dbuono@ucla.edu)
 Grand Ballroom Director, Center for Learning & Memory, and Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas                                   “Long-Term Plasticity of Intrinsic Excitability in Hippocampal Neurons”

LENNART MUCKE, M.D. (Hosted by Harry Vinters; hvinters@mednet.ucla.edu)
Director, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease; Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco
“Alzheimer’s Disease: A Network Dysfunction Perspective”

THOMAS C. SÜDHOF, M.D. Host: Yi Sun; ysun@mednet.ucla.edu)         Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Chair, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
“Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Release: From Autapses to Autism”                    

JAMES J. DiCARLO, M.D., Ph.D. (Host: Tad Blair; blair@psych.ucla.edu)
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of  Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“How Does the Visual System Achieve Transformation-Tolerant Object Representation?”

TODD C. SACKTOR, M.D. (Host: Tom O’Dell; TODell@mednet.ucla.edu)  Departments of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neurology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York                     “PKMζ: The First Long-Term Memory Storage”

THOMAS L. SCHWARZ, Ph.D. (Host: Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu)
F. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children’s Hospital, and Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
“Building a Synapse with Motors and More”

XIAOQIN WANG, Ph.D. (Host: Dean Buonomano; dbuono@ucla.edu)
Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
“Information Processing in Auditory Cortex”

MATTHEW A. WILSON, Ph.D. (Host: Carlos Portera-Cailliau; CPCailliau@mednet.ucla.edu)
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
“Sequential Event Memory Formation and Reactivation in the Hippocampus and Beyond”

RACHEL WONG, Ph.D. (Host: Nick Brecha; brecha@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle
“Imaging Circuit Assembly in the Vertebrate Retina”

ULRIKE A. HEBERLEIN, Ph.D. (Host: Mark Frye; frye@physci.ucla.edu)
Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco
“Of Flies and Mice: What Have We Learned About Drug Addiction”

LORI L. McMAHON, Ph.D. (Host: Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu)
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Alabama, Birmingham
“Cholinergic Degeneration, Sympathetic Sprouting and Plasticity at Hippocampal Synapses”

The Brain Research Institute Nineteenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture
Speaker to be Determined, UCLA (Host: Chris Evans; cevans@ucla.edu)
“TBD”                

Charles H. (Tom) Sawyer Distinguished Lecture RAE SILVER, Ph.D. (Host: Art Arnold and the LNE; arnold@ucla.edu) Helene L. and Mark N. Kaplan Professor of Natural and Physical Sciences, Department of Psychology, Barnard College and Columbia University; Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical School, New York “Emergent Properties of Neuronal Circuits: The Brain Clock as a Case Study”

DAVID SULZER, Ph.D. (Host: David Krantz; DKrantz@mednet.ucla.edu)     Departments of Neurology, and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical School, New York, New York “New Optical Methods for Studying the Synaptic Basis of Habit Learning”

MICHAEL S. BRAINARD, Ph.D. (Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu) Departments of Physiology, and Psychiatry, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco “Source and Function of Behavioral Variation in Production and Plasticity of Adult Birdsong”

FREDERICK M. RIEKE, Ph.D. (Host: Nick Brecha; brecha@mednet.ucla.edu) Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle “Origin of Correlated Activity Between Retinal Ganglion Cells”

GORDON SHEPHERD, M.D., Ph.D. (Host: Carlos Portera-Cailliau; cpcailliau@mednet.ucla.edu)Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois “Local Circuit Organization of Mouse Motor Cortex”

JEREMY K. SEAMANS, Ph.D. (Host: David Jentsch; Jentsch@psych.ucla.edu) Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver “The Cellular Ensemble Dynamics of Working Memory and Decision-Making in the Prefrontal Cortex”

DARWIN K. BERG, Ph.D. Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu) Neurobiology Section, Biology Division, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California "Nicotinic Control of Neural System Development"

The 16th Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture WOJ  WOJTOWICZ (Host: Michael Levine; mlevine@mednet.ucla.edu) Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles A Role for Molecular Diversity and Specificity in Wiring the Fly Brain”

MARK J. SCHNITZER, Ph.D.  (Host: Carlos Portera-Cailliau; cpcailliau@mednet.ucla.edu) Departments of Biological Sciences, and Applied Physics, Stanford University, California “Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Imaging the Brain Dynamics of Motor Control at the Cellular Scale in Behaving Subjects”

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