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Neuroscience Seminar Information

This listing of seminars of interest to Neuroscience is distributed weekly during the academic year by the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. Times and dates are subject to change. If you would like your seminar to be included in the announcement, please send information by email to NeurosciPhD@hms.harvard.edu

 

NEUROSCIENCE SEMINARS

November 2009 - December 2009

Fri

Nov 20

12:00 pm

Marc Howard (Syracuse University).  Temporal context in human memory, past, present and future.  Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, 2 Cummington Street, Room 109, Boston.

Fri

Nov 20

2:00 pm

Eiman Azim (Program in Neuroscience, dissertation defense seminar).  Molecular Controls over Neocortical Neuronal Diversity and Oligodendrocyte Development.  Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Goldenson Building Room 122, Boston.

Mon

Nov 23

12:00 pm

Clifford Woolf (Harvard Medical School). Genetic risks for developing chronic pain.  Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 243, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

Mon

Nov 23

12:15 pm

Larry Abbott (Columbia University).  Studying and Modifying the Dynamics of Neural Networks.  Children's Hospital, Enders Auditorium, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston.

Mon

Nov 30

12:00 pm

Robert Gegear (U. Mass Medical School). CANCELED.

Mon

Nov 30

12:15 pm

Leonardo Belluscio (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke).  Odorant-Induced Plasticity in the Neural Circuits of the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb.  Children's Hospital, Enders Auditorium, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston.

Tue

Dec 1

4:00 pm

Michael Dyer (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital).  Retinoblastoma:  Bridging Developmental Neurobiology and Cancer Genetics.  Children's Hospital, Enders Auditorium, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston.

Wed

Dec 2

2:00 pm

Mark Cookson (National Institutes of Health).  Pathways to Parkinsonism.  Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, R-115, Boston.

Thu

Dec 3

12:00 pm

Larry Young (Emory University).  Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding.  Center for Brain Science, Sherman Fairchild 102, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge.

Mon

Dec 7

12:00 pm

John Assad (Harvard Medical School).  Shifting the mind's eye.  Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 243, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

Wed

Dec 9

2:00 pm

Carmela Abraham (Boston University).  A high throughput screen for the fountain of youth.  Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, R-115, Boston.

Fri

Dec 11

12:00 pm

Andrius Kazlauskas (Harvard Medical School).  Signaling events that control the formation, stability and regression of blood vessels.  Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Meltzer Auditorium (3rd floor), Boston.

Mon

Dec 14

12:00 pm

Yaoda Xu (Harvard University).  Selecting and perceiving multiple visual objects in the mind and brain.  Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 243, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

Mon

Dec 14

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Inaugural Genetics and Genomics Symposium. Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston.

    • Leonard Guarente (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Sirtuins, Aging, and Disease.
    • Rachel Dutton (Harvard Medical School). Disulfide bonds and the study of blood clotting in bacteria.
    • Amanda Nottke (Harvard Medical School). Histone demethylation:  Connecting chromatin to DNA damage response.
    • Terry Orr-Weaver (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Developmental dynamics of DNA replication.
    • David Bartel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). MicroRNAs and other small regulatory RNAs.

Mon

Dec 21

4:00 pm

Wayne Bowen (Brown University).  Sigma-2 Receptor-Mediated Apoptosis in Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Cells.  McLean Hospital, deMarneffe Building Room 132, 115 Mill Street, Belmont.

 

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