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

Mon Nov 9 12:00 pm	Christine Hooker (Harvard University). Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation: Implications for Psychopathology. Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 243, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge.
Mon Nov 9 12:15 pm	John Isaac (National Institutes of Health). The mechanisms by which sensory experience builds the layer 4 neocortical circuit probed using single cell resolution 2-photon glutamate uncaging. Children's Hospital, Enders Auditorium, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston.
Mon Nov 9 2:30 pm	Allison Terra Knoll (Program in Neuroscience, dissertation defense seminar). Role of Kappa Opioid Receptors in Fear and Anxiety-like Behavior in Rats. McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, George Putnam Room 122, Belmont.
Thu Nov 12 12:00 pm	Lawrence Shapiro (Columbia University). Sticking together as a family: Molecular Mechanisms of cadherin-mediated cell adhesion. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Sherman Fairchild 102, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge.
Thu Nov 12 12:00 pm	Nikolaus Plesnila (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland). No Hope for Stroke Patients? Massachusetts General Hospital, 149 13th Street, Conference Room 6033, Charlestown.
Fri Nov 13 12:00 pm	Andrew Taylor (Harvard Medical School). Neuropeptide regulation of innate and adaptive immunity in ocular immune privilege. Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Meltzer Auditorium, Boston.
Fri Nov 13 12:30 pm	Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Harvard University). Notch signaling and the control of metazoan cell fates. Harvard Institute of Medicine, Bray Room, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston.
Mon Nov 16 12:00 pm	Ken Nakayama (Harvard University). Hidden Cognitive States Revealed in Choice Reaching Tasks. Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 243, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge.
Mon Nov 16 12:15 pm	Arturo Alvarez-Buylia (University of California, San Francisco). Primary cilia in neural stem cells and cancer. Children's Hospital, Enders Auditorium, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston.
Mon Nov 16 4:00 pm	Melissa DelBello (University of Cincinnati). Neuropharmacology of bipolar disorder in youth. McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, deMarneffe Building Room 132, Belmont.
Mon Nov 16 4:00 pm	Philip Sabes (University of California at San Francisco). Title of talk to be supplied later. Brandeis University, Gerstenzang Science Library Room 121, Waltham.
Wed Nov 18 12:00 pm	Gene Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).j Exploring the Relationship Between Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee. Harvard Medical School, New Research Building Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston.
Wed Nov 18 2:00 pm	Hava Avraham (Harvard Medical School). Protective effects of cannabinoids on Substance P and HIV-1 Gp120 mediated insult to the blood brain barrier. Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, R-115, Boston.
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). Title of seminar to be supplied later. 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). Title of talk to be supplied later. Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 243, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge.
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.
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.
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