SEMINAR PROGRAM 2008-2009
2009-2010
Listed below is the 2008/2009 Seminar Series.
If you have any questions about the seminar series, please feel free to contact the NBP Department Assistant, Danielle Burhop, at (847) 491-5521 or via email .
The is located in Evanston on the ground level of Pancoe in Room 1101.NBP Faculty: Check available seminar dates
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••• A joint NBP/Feinberg Physiology Seminar •••
Tuesday, September 23: A cellular mechanism for general enhancement of learning capability
Edi Barkai, Ph.D. Haifa University, Israel
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: John Disterhoft
The role of the early visual system in processing complex images Naoum Issa, MD, Ph.D. University of Chicago
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Jianhua Cang
Tuesday, October 14: Promotion Seminar Estrogen and Synapses in the Hippocampus: GABA, NPY and Seizures Catherine Woolley, Ph.D. Northwestern University
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus
Tuesday, October 21: NBP Seminar Nace Golding, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Nelson Spruston
Cellular mechanisms of synaptic and non-synaptic plasticity in cerebellar circuits
Christian Hansel, Ph.D. University Chicago
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Indira Raman
Tuesday, November 25: The Action Potential
Greg Stuart, Ph.D. Australian National University
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Nelson Spruston
Ehud Isacoff, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Indira Raman
••• A Joint NBP/ Center for Functional Genomics Seminar •••
Tuesday, December 16: Towards Synthesis of Mammalian Circadian Clocks
Hiroki Ueda MD, Ph.D. RIKEN, Japan
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium , Evanston CampusHost: Joseph Takahashi
A probabilistic strategy for understanding action selection
Michele Basso Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium , Evanston CampusHost: Indira Raman
How the songbird keeps time: Localizing clocks in the brain
Michale Fee Ph.D. MIT
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: David Ferster
••• A Joint NBP/Feinberg School of Medicine Seminar •••
Wednesday, February 4: How obesity went to our heads: Novel aspects of how our brains regulate our body weight
Randy Seeley Ph.D. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine • Genome Research Institute
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Jon Levine
Tuesday, February 10: Swimming in shadows - motor control during navigation in zebrafish Harold Burgess Ph.D. National Institutes of Health
12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: David McLean
Tuesday, February 17: The Benefits of Cerebral Ischemia: Preconditioning for Adaptation to Stroke Jeffrey Gidday, Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Robert Linsenmeier
Tuesday, February 24: Alzheimer's Disease: Defeating it at the Synapse Ottavio Arancio, MD, Ph.D. Columbia University 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: William Klein
Chemoreception in Drosophila John Carlson, Ph.D. Yale University 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Thomas Bozza
••• Promotion Seminar •••
Tuesday, March 24:Sandra Siepka, Ph.D. • A forward genetic screen to identify circadian rhythm genes in the mouse
Heekyung Hong, Ph.D. • Tissue-specific conditional regulation of the mammalian circadian system 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus
Tuesday, March 31: Temporal Pattern Recognition Through Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity Bruce Carlson, Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: David McLean
A G protein-coupled estrogen receptor is involved in hypothalamic control of energy homeostasis Martin J. Kelly, Ph.D. Oregon Health & Science University 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Jon Levine
Tuesday, April 14: NBP Seminar Experience-Dependent Synaptic Development in a Mouse Model of Angelman Syndrome Benjamin Philpot, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Thomas Bozza
Tuesday, April 28: NBP Seminar Regulation of chemosensory physiology and behavior by the Drosophila circadian clock Paul Hardin, Ph.D. Texas A&M 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: Ravi Allada
Tuesday, May 12: Neurobiology of the Drosophila circadian clock Justin Blau, Ph.D. New York University 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Hosts: Ravi Allada
Tuesday, May 19: Unorthodox calcium signals in vertebrate photoreceptors David Krizaj, Ph.D. University of Utah 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Hosts: Jianhua Cang & Xiaorong Liu
Fernando de Mello, Ph.D. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 12:45-1:45 pm, Pancoe - Abbott Auditorium, Evanston Campus Host: William Klein
