Neuroscience Seminar Information

This listing of seminars of interest to Neuroscience is compiled biweekly during the academic year by the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. Times and dates are subject to change. Please send information you wish to be included to Gina Conquest, Program in Neuroscience, HMS, 220 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115. (Tel:617 432-0912, Fax:617 432-0498, email: gina_conquest@hms.harvard.edu)

(Publication of this list will be suspended until the middle of May)

NEUROSCIENCE SEMINARS

April, 2008

April 3 Jason Mitchell (Harvard) Using self to understand the mind of others. Noon. HIM, Bray Rm, 77 Ave Louis Pasteur.

April 3 Gero Miesenboeck (Oxford Univ) Love at first light. Noon. Fairchild 102, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge.

April 3 Benjamin Deneen (Caltech) NFI genes: of glia and glioma. 3pm. Enders Auditorium, Children’s Hospital.

April 4 David Somers (Boston Univ) Vision, touch and attention in human occipital and parietal cortex. Noon. Rm 46-3002, MIT.

April 4 Robin Davis (Rutgers Univ) Sensational neurotrophins: shaping spiral ganglion neuron phenotype by BDNF and NT-3. 2pm. Sloane Teaching Rm, 3rd Fl, Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles St, Boston.

April 7 Alan Jasanoff (MIT) Molecular neuroimaging with MRI. Noon. Fairchild 177, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge.

April 7 Arnold Kriegstein (Univ of California, San Francisco) Neural stem and progenitor cells in cortical development. 12:15pm. Enders Auditorium, Children’s Hospital.

April 7 Rita Goldstein (SUNY at Stony Brook) Altered prefrontal cortical function underlies impairment in reward and inhibitory control in cocaine addicted individuals. 4pm. deMarneffe Bldg, Rm 132, McLean Hospital, Belmont.

April 8 A.J. Hudspeth (HHMI/Rockefeller Univ) Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by myosin molecules and ion channels in hair cells of the inner ear. 4pm. Armenise Amphitheater, HMS.

April 10 Azad Bonni (HMS) Cell-intrinsic regulation of neuronal connectivity. 4pm. Rm 46-3310, MIT.

April 11 John Huguenard (Stanford Univ) The intricate interplay between GABA release, uptake and GABA-B receptor activation: relevance to epilepsy. 11:30am, L-112, Boston Univ School of Med, 80 E Concord St, Boston.

April 14 Raymond Booth (Univ of Florida) Novel drugs targeting serotonin 5-HT2A/C receptors: antipsychotics devoid of weight-gain effects. 4pm. deMarneffe Bldg, Rm 132, McLean Hospital, Belmont.

April 14 Michael Davis (Emory Univ) Neurobiology of fear, anxiety and extinction: implications for psychotherapy. 4pm. Auditorium 46-3002, MIT.

April 15 Michael Ehlers (Duke Univ Medical Ctr) Memory and membrane dynamics in dendritic microdomains. 12:15pm. Goldenson 122, HMS.

April 17 May-Britt Moser (Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology) Spatial representation and cell types in the entorhinal cortex. Noon. BU CNS Auditorium, B02, 677 Beacon St.

April 17 Edvard Moser (Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology) Phase precession in entorhinal grid cells. 12:45pm. BU CNS Auditorium, B02, 677 Beacon St.

April 22 Richard Aldrich (Univ of Texas Austin) TBA. 12:15pm. Goldenson 122, HMS.

April 28 James Zheng (UMDNJ-Robt Wood Johnson Medical School) Cofilin actin’g up in growth cone guidance and synapse development. 12:15pm. Enders Auditorium, Children’s Hospital.

April 28 Bruno Conti (The Scripps Research Institute) Central regulation of core body temperature and aging: lessons from a transgenic model. 4pm. deMarneffe Bldg, Rm 132, McLean Hospital, Belmont.

April 29 Judith Hirsch (Univ of Southern California) TBA. 12:15pm. Goldenson 122, HMS.

May 2 Leslie Ungerleider (NIH/HIMH) Mechanisms for perceptual decision-making in the human brain. 11:30am, Bakst Auditorium, Boston Univ School of Med, 80 E Concord St, Boston.

May 5 John Cirrito (Washington Univ) Endocytosis is required for synaptic-dependent release of amyloid-beta in vivo. 11:30am. HIM Room 680, 77 Ave Louis Pasteur.

May 6 Robert Wurtz (NEI/NIH) Attention at the gateway to visual cortex reciprocal effects in LGN and TRN. 12:15pm. Goldenson 122, HMS.

May 7 Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine) Rett Syndrome: insight into an autism spectrum disorder. 8pm. Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge.

May 8 Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine) SCA1: complex balance. Noon Northwest Science Building Lecture Hall, 30 Oxford St, Cambridge.

May 9 Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine) Math1: evolution through balance. Noon. Northwest Science Building Lecture Hall, 30 Oxford St, Cambridge.

May 9 Clint Makino (HMS/MEEI) Evidence for allosteric regulation of rhodopsin. 2pm. Sloane Teaching Rm, 3rd Fl, Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles St, Boston.

**** HMS Department of Neurobiology seminars (Goldenson 122) are regularly recorded and stored for viewing by webcast. Click to View Webcasts.