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DECEMBER 2003

Emory University
Tuesday, December 2nd at 6:30 pm
Yerkes Primate Research Center
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar
Dr. Robert Anholt
Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, N.C. State University
"The Genetic Architecture of Odor-Guided Behavior in Drosophila."

Emory University
Friday, Dec 5, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar
KRISTEN HARRIS, Ph.D.
MCG, Director of Synapses and Cell Signaling
"Plasticity at Hippocampal Dendritic Spines"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology
Host: Amy Lee

Cancelled-
Emory University
Weds, Dec 9, 2003, 12:00 - 1:00PM
5052 Rollins Research Center
Dept of Pharmacology Seminar
Ann Marie Craig, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
"Synapse Assembly and Remodeling in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons"

Emory University
Weds, Dec 10, 2003, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Lawrence Reiter, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego
“Using Drosophila Melanogaster to Investigate Human Disease Gene Function"

Georgia State University
Friday, Dec 12, 2003, 8:30AM
441 Natural Science Center
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Karen Thompson of Agnes Scott College will talk about: "Belly Rhythms in Bugs" or "Segmental Motor Patterns in Abdomens of Male and Female Grasshoppers"

Georgia State University
Friday, Dec 12, 2003, 10AM
200 General Classroom Building
Xiaoping Hu
Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Imaging Coulter Dept of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
"Probing Brain Function with Magnetic Resonance Imaging."
Host: P. Katz

Emory University
December 16, 12:00 - 1:00PM
5052 Rollins Research Center
Dept of Pharmacology Seminar
Dr. James P. O’Callaghan
Molecular Neurotoxicology Laboratory, CDC, NIOSH, Morgantown.
“Inflammatory Mediators and Region-Specific Responses to Chemically-Induced Neurogeneration: Expect the Unexpected.”

Emory University
Friday, December 19, 2003, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Building Auditorium
Oral presentation of Ph.D. dissertation
George Walton Hubert
Program in Neuroscience
Expression and Differential Distribution of Group I Metabotropic Glutamate
Receptors (mGluRs) in the Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata (SNr) of Rats
Advisor: Yoland Smith, PhD
Committee members:
Timothy J. Greenamyre, M.D, PhD
P. Jeffrey Conn, PhD
Dieter Jaeger, PhD
Leonard Howell, PhD
Paul Bolam, Ph.D.

NOVEMBER 2003

Tues, Nov. 4, 2003, 5:00-8:00
Woodruff Health Science Center Administration Building (WHSCAB)
The Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
Poster Preview
Refreshments provided
RSVP to Peggy Plant (peggy@rmy.emory.edu) before Oct 3

Emory University
Thursday, November 6, 2003, 1:30-2:30 p.m
Cardiology Conference Room, 3rd floor, rm. 317
Woodruff Memorial Research Building
Biomedical Engineering Department
Shella D. Keilholz, Ph.D.
"Whole-Brain Functional MR Imaging of the Rat Somatosensory System"

November 8-12, 2003
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
New Orleans
On line abstract submission deadline is May 19th

Emory University
Weds, Nov 19, 2003, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Eliezer Masliah, MD
Depts of Neurosciences & Pathology, University of California, San Diego
"Pathogenisis of Parkinson's and AD in Transgenic Mice - New Perspectives"

Emory University
Nov 20, 2003, 4:00 pm 
Yerkes Lecture Series
954 Gatewood Road
Wade Berrettini, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Genetics and Pharmacogenetics of Substance Abuse
For more information, contact Leslie Chauvin at 404-727-8571

Emory University
Friday, Oct 31, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar
Xiao-Jiang Li, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine
"Huntington Disease and Neurodegeneration"

OCTOBER 2003

Georgia State University
Oct 3, 2003, 10AM 
200 General Classroom Building 
Thomas Meade
Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Physiology
Northwestern University
"Seeing is Believing: Imaging Gene Expression and Secondary Messengers by MRI"
Host: P. Katz

Emory University
Friday, Oct 3, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar 
Junmin Peng, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
A Proteomics Approach to Neurodegeneration

Emory University
Weds, Oct 8, 2003, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Raj Ratan, MD, PHD
Burke Medical Research Institute at Cornell Medical College, White Plains, NY
"Deprogramming Cell Death in the Nervous System: Sequence-Selective DNA Binding Drugs as Novel Neurological Therapeutics"

Georgia State University
Friday, Oct 10, 2003, 8:30AM
441 Natural Science Center
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Paul Garcia, from Ron Calabrese's lab at Emory University will discuss "An Experimentally-Based Model of Intersegmental Coordination of Leech Heart Motor Neurons"

Emory University
Friday, Oct 10, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar 
Mark Rich, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine
"Activity Dependent Synaptic Plasticity at the Neuromuscular Junction: Rules for Rearranging the Brain"

Georgia Tech
Friday, October 10, 2003, 12:00
1128 IBB Suddath Seminar Room
Dr. Jelle Atema
Boston University Marine Program
"Potential for olfactory homing in coral reef fish larvae"
Contact Gail Abram for more information gail.abram@biology.gatech.edu

Georgia State University
Tuesday, October 14th, 6:30 p.m. reception, 7:00 p.m. seminar
General Classroom Bldg., 10th floor, Troy Moore Seminar Room
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar
Walt Wilzcynski, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Texas
"Hormones, Brains, and Social Communication in Amphibians"

Emory University
Friday, Oct 17, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar 
Kathrin Engisch, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine
"The Mysteries of Modulation: Rab3A and Neurotransmitter Release"

Emory University 
Monday, October 20, 2003, 12 – 1 pm
Emory University Hospital Auditorium E205
Thomas R. Insel, MD
Director, National Institute of Mental Health
“Science and Society: The View from NIH”
Co-sponsored by Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Office of Postdoctoral Education, Emory University School of Medicine

Emory University
Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 12:00 p.m.
Whitehead Auditorium
Dissertation Defense
Joseph T. Daley
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
"A Role for Dopamine in the Basal Ganglia in Sleep-Wake Regulation: Insights from the MPTP-treated Primate"
Advisor: David B. Rye, MD, PhD
Committee members:
Donald L. Bliwise, PhD
Timothy C. Cope, PhD
Michael J. Kuhar, PhD
Robert S. Turner, PhD

Emory University
Oct 23, 2003, 4:00 pm 
Yerkes Lecture Series
954 Gatewood Road
Jacqueline McGinty, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina
"Stimulant-Induced Gene Changes in the Striatum: Do They Mediate,
Modulate, or Compensate?"
 For more information, contact Leslie Chauvin at 404-727-8571

Emory University
Friday, Oct 24, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar
Daniel Brat, M.D.
Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine
"Hypoxic and Genetic Regulation of Astrocytoma Progression"

Emory University
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 9:00 a.m.
Location: Whitehead BioMed Research Bldg
Conference Room 600
EMORY PHYSIOLOGY SEMINAR
Dr. Scott R. Whittemore
Garretson Professor of Neurological Surgery, Scientific Director
Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine
" Stem cell therapy for CNS injury"
(light refreshments served)

Emory University
Friday October 31, 2003 3:00 pm
White Hall 103
PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, Ph.D.
Chief, Section on Developmental Psychopathology, NIMH &
Senior Scientist, Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin
"Development of depression: the Interface of Cognition, Emotion, and Gender"

Emory University
Friday, Oct 31, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar
Gary W. Miller, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Emory University School of Public Health, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Emory University School of Medicine
A Special Halloween Frontiers in Neuroscience
"Dopamine Transporters as Targets of Environmental Toxicants"

SEPTEMBER 2003

Georgia State University
Friday Sept 5, 2003, 10AM 
200 General Classroom Building
Matt Wachowiak
Department of Biology
Boston University
"What the nose tells the brain: Imaging olfactory input to the CNS"
Host: P. Katz

Emory University
Friday, September 5, 2003, 4pm
Yerkes Main Seminar Room
Kati M. Gothard, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
"Visual Strategies for the Recognition of Facial Expressions and Social Signals in Rhesus Macaques"
HOST: Lisa A. Parr, Ph.D.

Emory University
Monday, September 8th, 2003, 3:00 p.m.
Room 308 Dental School Building
(1462 Clifton Road)
Dissertation Defense
Carissa J. Cascio
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
"Tactile Temporal Processing in Developmental Dyslexia"
Advisor: Krish Sathian, M.D., Ph.D.
Committee Members:
John W. Scott, Ph.D.
Michael J. Mustari, M.D., Ph.D.
Michael D. Crutcher, Ph.D.
Stephan Hamann, Ph.D.

Emory University
Weds,Sept 10, 2003, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Peng Jin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Human Genetics, Emory University
"RNA-MEDIATED NEURODEGENERATION"

Georgia State University
Friday, Sept 12, 2003, 8:30AM
441 Natural Science Center
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
 Brian Antonsen and Steve Versteeg from Don Edwards' lab at GSU will talk about "Using physiological and computer modeling techniques to figure out how the heck the crayfish lateral giant works"

Emory University
Friday, September 12, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar
H. Criss Hartzell, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine
"Think Negatively! Chloride Channels and Macular Degeneration"

Emory University
TUESDAY,SEPTEMBER 16, 2003, 12:00 – 1:00PM
Whitehead Conference Room 500
John Casida, PhD
Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
University of California, Berkeley
"Pesticides and Parkinson’s Disease"

Emory University
September 18, 4:00 pm 
Yerkes Lecture Series
954 Gatewood Road
Anthony Phillips, PhD
University of British Columbia Brain Research Center
Professor of Psychiatry; Senior Researcher
"Hippocampal Modulation of Dopamine Efflux in the Nucleus Accumbens: Relevance to the Neurobiology Drug Addiction"
For more information, contact Leslie Chauvin at 404-727-8571

Georgia State University
Friday, Sept 19, 2003, 10AM
200 General Classroom Building
Joe Fetcho
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
SUNY Stony Brook
"Optical and genetic approaches toward understanding neuronal circuits in zebrafish"
Host: P. Katz

Emory University
Friday, September 19, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar
Rachida Guennoun Ph.D.
INSERM, Institut National de la Sante Recherche Medicale, France
"Progesterone in the Nervous System: Synthesis and Neuroprotective Effects"
Host: Dr. Donald Stein

Georgia State University
Friday, Sept 19, 2003, 4PM
441 Natural Science Center
Dr. Barbara L. Finlay
Dept. of Psychology, Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell University
"Developmental programs robust to evolutionary variations ins scale and niche: Examples in primate vision"

Emory University
Friday, September 26, noon
Whitehead Building Auditorium
Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar 
Robert Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
"How Motoneurons Think and Why They Do It Better on Drugs"

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Friday, September 26, 2003, 3:00 p.m.
Manners Room(710), Robinson College of Business
35 Broad Street
ANDREW YOUNG SCHOOL OF POLICY STUDIES
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROGRAM
The Environmental & Experimental Economics Seminar Series
James Rilling
Emory University
“Insights into the Neural Bases of Economic Decision-making.”

Emory University
Friday, September 26, 2003, 3:00 pm
White Hall 205
Department of Psychology Colloquium
Roberto Cabeza, Ph.D.
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Duke University
Neural correlates of episodic memory in young and older adults

 

 

Past Atlanta Chapter Events:

  • 2003

  • Friday, April 18, 2003, 5:00 – 7:30PM
    Spring Symposium
    Co-sponsored by the     Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
    Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellows Presentations
     Emory University, Yerkes Research Center Seminar Room

    • 5:00 - 5:15 pm: Liat Levita, Ph.D. Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
      Emory University
      Physiology and Behavior: The Role of Serotonin in the Bed Nucleus of the
      Stria Terminalis
    • 5:15 - 5:30 pm: Ketema Paul, Ph.D. Dept. of Biology, Georgia State University
      Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors Regulate the Effects of Light in the
      Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
    • 5:30 - 5:45 pm: Myriam Djebaili, Ph.D., Emergency Medicine, Emory University
      Comparison of Progesterone and Allopregnanolone: Neuroprotective
      Effects on Cognitive Function and Cell Death After a Controlled Cortical
      Injury in the Rat Pre-frontal Cortex
    • 5:45 - 6 pm: Michael Sorensen, Dept. of Neuroengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
      Understanding a Simple Neuronal Network Using Hybrid Systems Analysis
    • 6:00 - 6:15 pm: Liz Hammock, Yerkes National Primate Center, Emory University
      Variability in gene structure and expression: implications for behavior
    • 6:15 - 6:30 pm: Diane Day, Dept. of Biology, Georgia State University
      Food Deprivation-Induced Increases in Food Hoarding May be Mediated by
      AgRP in Siberian Hamsters
    • 6:30 - 6:45 pm: Karyn Myers, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University
      Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Fear Inhibition
    • 6:45 - 7:00 pm: Deb Shear, Dept. of Psychology, Emory University
      Stem Cell Transplants Promote Functional Recovery After Traumatic Brain
      Injury

    Saturday, April 19, 2003, 8:30AM - 4:30PM.
    Spring Symposium
    Co-sponsored by the     Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
     Evolution of Behavior

    • 8:30 - 9 am: Continental breakfast, Whitehead Research Bldg. lobby
    • 9 - 9:50 am: Terrence Deacon, Ph.D.
      Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
      Fall Back to Jump Ahead: Complexity via Degradation in Brain
      Development and Evolution
    • 9:50 - 10:40 am: Patricia Gowaty, Ph.D.
      Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia
      Sex Roles, Sexual Selection and Null Models
    • 11 - 11:50 am: Carl Hopkins, Ph.D.
      Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
      Electrogenesis in Fish and the Origins of Their Biodiversity
    • 1:15 - 2:05 pm: Emilia Martins, Ph.D.
      Department of Biology, Indiana University
      Lizards, the Phylogenetic Comparative Method and the Evolution of
      Communicative Signals
    • 2:05 - 2:55 pm: Robert Provine, Ph.D.
      Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
      Laughing, Tickling and Talking
    • 3:10 - 4:00 pm: Paul Sherman, Ph.D.
      Department of Biology, Cornell University
      Social Evolution: Lessons from the Naked Mole-Rat
  • 2002
  • 2001
  • 2000
  • 1999
  • 1998

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