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BBDI Seminar Series - 2011-2012

 

2011 Seminar Series (Wednesdays at 12 Noon in CA-1002)

August 31 Nathan Yanasak, Ph.D. Georgia Health Sciences Unversity

The Core Imaging Facility for Small Animals--Applications to Neuroimaging

---HOST: Kris Dhandapani

September 14 Darrell W. Brann, Ph.D. Georgia Health Sciences University

Estrogen Neuroprotection and the Critical Period Hypothesis

---HOST: Kris Dhandapani

September 21 Michael Davis, Ph.D. Yerkes National Primate Center, Emory Unviersity

Toward an Animal Model of Fear vs. Anxiety

---HOST: Almira Vazdarjanova

October 5 Jeremy Shefner, M.D.,Ph.D. SUNY-Upstate Medical University

Choosing Appropriate Endpoints in Neurology Clinical Trials

---HOST: David Hess

October 19 Xiaoqin Wang, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University

Information Processing in Primate Auditory Cortex

---HOST: He Cui

October 26 Rodrigo Andrade, Ph.D. School of Medicine, Wayne State University

5-HT2A receptor regulation of pyramidal cell excitability in the rodent prefrontal cortex

---HOST: Anil Pillai 

 

December 21 

 

Grace Sun, Ph.D.  Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri 

HOST: Bob Yu

 

2012 Seminar Series  (Wednesdays at 12 Noon in CA-1002)  

 

January 4 

 

Xue Han, Ph.D.  Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University 

Optogenetic silencing in rodents and primates

---HOST: He Cui 

 

January 18 

 

Larry Snyder M.D.,Ph.D.  Department of Neurobiology, Washington University 

When methods collide: unit recording, functional imaging and reversible lesions

---HOST: He Cui 

 

February 29 

 

Walter Rocca, M.D.  Mayo Clinic 

Neurological and psychiatric consequences of bilateral oophorectomy performed in young women

---HOST: Darrell Brann 

 

March 7 

 

David Krizaj, Ph.D.  School of Medicine, University of Utah

TRPing in the vertebrate retina: role of nonconventional calcium signals in mechanosensation, visual behavior and disease

---HOST: Clare Bergson 

 

March 14 

 

Barry Setlow, Ph.D.  McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine 

Cost-Benefit Decision-Making and Drugs of Abuse

---HOST: Clare Bergson 

 

March 21 

 

Ania Majewska, Ph.D.  Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester 

Imaging Synaptic Remodeling in the Visual System

---HOST: Sergei Kirov

 

March 28 

 

Craig Brown, Ph.D.  Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Canada 

 

Diabetes and Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Modulate Cortical Plasticity: New Insights from in vivo Imaging Studies

---HOST: Sergei Kirov

 

March 29 

 

Mohammed R. Milad

, Ph.D. 

Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School-Massachusetts General Hospital 

 

Translational Research in the Neuroscience of Fear Extinction: Implications to Anxiety and Beyond

---HOST: Almira Vazdarjanova 

 

April 11 

 

Axel Nimmerjahn, Ph.D.  Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies 

Glia: Dark Matter or Don't Matter

---HOST: Sergei Kirov 

 

April 18 

 

Phillip L. Wang, Ph.D.  Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute, GHSU

Gating of Dopamine Circuitry in Addiction and Habit Formation

---HOST: BBDI

 

April 25 

 

Edward Hall, Ph.D.  Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky 

Oxidative Damage Mechanisms and Antioxidant Neuroprotection in Traumatic Brain Injury

---HOST: Sangeetha Sukumari-Ramesh (Dhandapani Lab) 

 

May 2 

 

 

Miklos Toth, Ph.D.

 

Weill Medical College, Cornell University

Non-genetic Inheritance of Behavior across Generations

---HOST: Anil Pillai

 

 

Revised: 1/28/13