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Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Dieter Jaeger Ph.D.
Department of Biology, Emory University
Title: "Synaptic Integration in Globus Pallidus Neurons with Dendritic Spike Initiation"
Date: Friday Dec 3,
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location:Whitehead Research Building Auditorium
For more information
Contact: Sonia Hayden, shayden@emory.edu (404)727-3707
Georgia State University
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Date: Dec. 10th
Time: 8:30AM
Location: 441 Natural Science Center
Nadja Spitzer from Deb Baro and Don Edwards' labs will discuss her work on:
"lobster and crayfish serotonin receptor pharmacology"
Georgia State University
Biology Seminar Series
Date: Dec. 10th 2004
Time: 10:00-10:50 AM
Room: 300 General Classroom Building
Dr. Charles Roselli , Ph.D., Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health Sciences University
Title: "Sexual partner preference, hypothalamic morphology and aromatase in rams"
Host: Dr. Anne Murphy
Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
T. Richard Nichols, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, Emory University
Title: "Mechanisms of Postural Regulation"
Date: Friday Dec 10
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location:Whitehead Research Building Auditorium
For more information
Contact: Sonia Hayden, shayden@emory.edu (404)727-3707
Cell Biology
Special Seminar
Date:Thursday, December 16, 2004
Time:4:00 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45)
Location: Cell Biology Seminar Room #400 Whitehead Building
Speaker: Song-Hai Shi
University of California, San Francisco
(Faculty Candidate)
Title: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Mammalian Neuronal Development and Circuit Information
Host: Barry Shur
Emory University
Psychology Department colloquium
Date: Monday November 1, 2004
Time: 4:00pm
Location: White Hall 101
Dr. Daniel Tranel
Departments of Neurology and Psychology
University of Iowa
Title: "Neural correlates of emotion, reasoning, and social conduct"
Emory University
Cell Biology Special Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 4
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Whitehead Biomedical Research Bldg. rm 400
Gary Bassell
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title: "mRNA transport, local translation and genetic neurological disease"
Emory University
An Oral Presentation of a Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the
Graduate School of Emory University in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Date: Thursday, Nov. 4th, 2004
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: 400 Whitehead Research Building
Dissertation Defense
Joanna Bonsall
B.S., Emory University, 1994 M.S., Georgia State University, 1997
EMORY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
Title: "Factors influencing the migration of neuronal progenitor cells
originating in the neonatal rodent anterior subventricular zone"
Committee Members:
Marla B. Luskin, Ph.D., Advisor
Kathrin Engisch, Ph.D.
Douglas Falls, M.D.
Xiao-Jiang Li, Ph.D.
Robert McKeon, Ph.D.
Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Shanthi Srinivasan, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine & Division of Digestive Diseases,
Title: "Diabetes and the Enteric Nervous System – Effect of the PI-3-kinase/Akt/Forkhead"
Pathway on Enteric Neuronal Survival
Date: Fridays November 5th 2004 at 12:00 p.m.
Location:Whitehead Research Building Auditorium
9th Annual GA EF Epilepsy Symposium
Mind Matters: Exploring the Link Between Epilepsy and Mood
Date:Saturday, November 6, 2004
Location: The Loudermilk Center, Atlanta, GA
For More information visit: http://www.epilepsyga.org/Symposium/
Georgia State University
CBN Seminar Series
Date: Monday, Nov. 8
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Tapley Hall Room 130 at Spelman College. Refreshments will follow.
Speaker: Kim Huhman, associate professor of psychology
Title: "Aggression and submission in hamsters"
For more information contact: Matthew Grober via e-mail mgrober@gsu.edu
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Emory University
Co-sponsored by the BCDB, MSP and Neuroscience Graduate Programs
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Time: 12:30 pm (Refreshments at noon)
Location: Whitehead Auditorium
Keith D. Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry, Acting Director, GDBBS
Emory University School of Medicine
Title: "The 2004 Nobel Prize for Discovery of the Ubiquitin System:
Reflections on the Early Days"
Georgia State University
CBN seminars
Robert Johnston - Professor of Biology, Cornell University
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Time: 6:30 - 8 pm ( 6:30 pm - reception, 7 - 8 pm seminar )
Location: The Atlanta Room, 18 th Floor
The Commerce Club, 34 Broad Street downtown, Georgia State University
Title: "Individual recognition: a model system for social-cognitive neuroscience"
For more information contact: Kelly Powell biokrp@langate.gsu.edu (404-463-0941)
FREE PARKING AT THE HURT PLAZA GARAGE - see map for directions to garage
Map to Commerce Club
CBN seminars
Robert Johnston - Professor of Biology, Cornell University
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Time: 4 - 5 pm (reception following )
Location: Lecture Room #2, Nabritt, Mapp, Mcbay Bldg.,
Title:"Understanding individual recognition: behavioral and neural approaches"
For more information contact: Kelly Powell biokrp@langate.gsu.edu (404-463-0941)
Directions to Morehouse
Georgia State University
CBN Seminar Series
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 10
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Tapley Hall Room 130 at Spelman College. Refreshments will follow.
Speaker: Timothy Bartness, professor of biology
Title: "How the brain can make us thin: the sympathetic innervation of body fat"
For more information contact: Matthew Grober via e-mail mgrober@gsu.edu
Georgia State University
Biology Seminar Series
Date: Nov. 12th 2004
Time: 10:00-10:50 AM
Room: 300 General Classroom Building
Dr. Margaret McCarthy , Ph.D., Professor
Dept. of Physiology, University of Maryland
Title: "A cellular mechanism for masculinization of brain and behavior"
Host: Dr. Anne Murphy
Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D.
Chief, Section of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, NIMH, NIH, DHHS
Title: "Cognitive Memory and the Hierarchical Organization of the Hippocampal System"
Date: Friday Nov 12,
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Whitehead Research Building Auditorium
For more information
Contact: Sonia Hayden, shayden@emory.edu (404)727-3707
Georgia State University
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Date: Nov. 12
Time: 8:30AM
Location: 441 Natural Science Center
Cynthia Kicklighter is Chuck Derby's lab will discuss her work on:
"Intraspecific communication in Aplysia californica: ink and opaline act as alarm pheromones"
Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Ping Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology and Otolaryngology, Emory University
Title: "Shaping the Mammalian Auditory Sensory Organ"
Date: Friday Nov 19
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location:Whitehead Research Building Auditorium
For more information
Contact: Sonia Hayden, shayden@emory.edu (404)727-3707
Georgia State University
CBN Seminar Series
Date: Monday, Nov. 22
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Tapley Hall Room 130 at Spelman College. Refreshments will follow.
Speaker: Marise Parent, associate professor of psychology
Title: "The positive and negative effects of glucose on memory: potential brain mechanisms"
For more information contact: Matthew Grober via e-mail mgrober@gsu.edu
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GENETICS SEMINAR
Date: Monday, November 22, 2004
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Whitehead Auditorium, Ground Floor
Speaker: Juan Botas , Ph.D. Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Title:“Mechanisms of pathogenesis and potential therapies for Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1”
Whitehead Biomedical Research Building
Please join us for light refreshments at 11:45a.m. prior to the Seminar
Whitehead Biomedical Research Building
Auditorium, Ground Floor
Georgia State University
Biology Seminar Series
Date: Oct 1st 2004
Time: Fridays 10:00-10:50 AM
Room: 300 General Classroom Building
Dr. Kerry Ressler , M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Yerkes Research Center, Emory University
Title: Examining the molecular neurobiology of fear
Host: Dr. Sarah Pallas
Emory University
Frontiers In NeuroScience
Date: Friday, October 1, 2004
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Refreshments at 11:45
Speaker: Sumantra Chattarji,, Ph.D.
Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, India
http://www.ncbs.res.in/~faculty/shona.html
Title: Stress-induced Plasticity in the Amygdala: Implications for Affective
Disorders
Sponsored by: the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Department of Biology
Host: Dieter Jaeger, Ph.D
For further information call - 404-727-3707
Georgia State University
CBN Seminar Series
Date: Monday, Oct. 4
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Tapley Hall Room 130 at Spelman College. Refreshments will follow.
Speaker: Anne Murphy, associate professor of biology
Title: Neural organization of male reproductive circuits
For more information contact: Matthew Grober via e-mail mgrober@gsu.edu
Emory University
Department of Cell Biology Seminar
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Cell Biology Seminar Room, 400 Whitehead Building
Speaker: Jane Johnson UT Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Transcriptional Control of Spinal Cord Development
Host: Ping Chen, Ph.D.
Emory University
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Date: Thursday OCTOBER 7, 2004
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM
Place: Whitehead Conference Room 500 - 5th floor
Speaker:
Jeff Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Title: Neutralization of transthyretin reverses the neuroprotective effects of
secreted APP in APPSw mice: Support for the amyloid hypothesis
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email
dadixon@emory.edu
~lunch served @11:45am~
Georgia State University
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Date: Oct 8th
Time: 8:30AM
Location: 441 Natural Science Center
Speaker: Evan Hill from Paul Katz's lab will talk about his research conducted as a post-doc in Japan:
Title: Modulatory actions of serotonin in olfactory processing in the brain of the male silkmoth
revealed by optical, intra- and extracellular recording
Emory University
Frontiers In Neuroscience Seminar
Date: Friday, October 8, 2004
Time: 12:00 noon Refreshments at 11:45
Location: Dental Bldg. Room #308 (1462 Clifton Rd.)
Speaker: Daniel Saal, M.D, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University School of Medicine
Title: The Effect of Addictive Substances and Stress on the Excitatory Synapses of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons
Sponsored by: the Graduate Program in Neuroscience
For further information call: 404-727-3707
Emory University
CBN Seminar Series
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Tapley Hall Room 130 at Spelman College. Refreshments will follow.
Speaker: Kim Wallen, Dobbs Professor of Psychology
Title: Desire and Ability: The behavioral neuroendocrinology of primate female sexuality
For more information contact: Matthew Grober via e-mail mgrober@gsu.edu
Emory University
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Date: WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 13 , 2004
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM (~lunch served @ 11:45am~ )
Location: Whitehead Conference Room 500 - 5th floor
Speaker:
Jing Zhang , MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Ophthalmology
University of Washington , Seattle , W A
Title: Proteomic Studies in Parkinson's Disease
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email dadixon@emory.edu
This seminar series was made possible through an unrestricted educational grant provided by Janssen, Inc.
Emory University
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004
Time: 4pm
Location:
Whitehead Conference Room 500
Speaker:
Riqiang Yan, PhD
Department of Neurosciences
Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Title: Alzheimer's beta-secretase and its regulation
Morehouse College
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
Date: Thursday October 14th
Time: 4 pm
Location: Morehouse College
Speaker: Dr. Charles Abramson
Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University
Title: Explorations in comparative psychology: Studies of basic and applied research
Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Date: Friday, October 15, 2004
Time: 12:00 noon (Refreshments at 11:45)
Location:Whitehead Research Bldg. Auditorium (615 Michael St.)
Speaker:
Vallabh Das Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
Div. of Visual Sciences, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University School of Medicine
Title: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Studies in a Monkey Model for Ocular Misalignment
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience
For further information call: 404-727-3707
Emory University
Date: Monday, October 18, 2004;
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 P.M.
Location: Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administrative Building (WHSCAB) Plaza
Annual Society for Neuroscience Poster Preview
Sponsored by: The Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.
This poster preview is a great opportunity to interact both socially and scientifically with your colleagues in Atlanta.
RSVP: email Maryse Paquet: mpaquet@learnlink.emory.edu
before Friday, October 1, 2004.
See Map location C4: http://www.emory.edu/MAP/NFrame.html for location.
Emory University
Dept. of Physiology
Date: Seminars are on Thursdays
Time: 9:00 a.m. in the
Location:Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room.
Speaker:
Informal discussion with the speaker is from 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Light refreshments are served at 8:45 a.m.
October 21 Dr. Michael J. Grey, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction,
University of Aalborg, Denmark Afferent Feedback During Walking
Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Maurizio Corbetta, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology, Radiology, Anatomy &Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine
http://www.nil.wustl.edu/labs/corbetta/
Title: Space, Bodies, and Attention in the Human Brain
Date:Friday, October 29, 2004
Time:12:00 noon
Location: Whitehead Research Bldg. Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Refreshments at 11:45
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience
and by NIGMS Host: Liz Degoursac
For further information call - 404-727-3707
Dr. Boris Prilutsky
Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Organization of Movement: Mechanical Efficiency, Motor Strategies and Neural Control
Date: Thursday, September 2
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Room 254 School of Psychology
Georgia State University
Biology Seminar Series
Date: Sep 10th 2004
Time: Fridays 10:00-10:50 AM
Room: 300 General Classroom Building
Dr. Paul Vasey , Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Title: Same-sex sexual behavior and sexual partner preference in Japanese macaques:
behavioral & neuroanatomical research
Georgia State University
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Date: Sept. 10th
Time: 8:30AM
Location: 441 Natural Science Center
Merry Clark from Deb Baro's lab will discuss her work on:
Dopamine Receptors in Crustaceans
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Main Station Seminar Room -1st Floor
~ Refreshments will be served before the seminar ~
Speaker: Kristin Hawkes, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
University of Utah
Title: Longevity, Primate Life Histories and Human Evolution:
A Grandmother Hypothesis
Call Yerkes Shuttle for transportation: 404-783-7803.
Emory University
Center For Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Date: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2004
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM ~lunch served~
Place: Whitehead Conference Room 500 - 5th floor
Speaker: Craig Powell, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology
University of Texas, Dallas, TX
Title: Presynaptic Proteins and Presynaptic Function in Cognitive Behavior
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email
dadixon@emory.edu
Emory University
Date: Monday, September 20, 2004,
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Whitehead Biomedical Research Building Auditorium
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Molecular & Systems Pharmacology
Dissertation Defense
Richard Hunter
Title: The Regulation of CART by Dopamine and Corticosterone in the Nucleus
Accumbens of the Rat
Committee
Mike Kuhar, Ph.D., Advisor
Mike Owens, Ph.D.
Yoland Smith, Ph.D.
Larry Young, Ph.D.
2004-2005 Lecture Series
Neuroscience Division
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Neuroscience Building Seminar Room - 1st Floor
~ Refreshments will be served before the seminar ~
Speaker: Ronald J. Mandel, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
University of Florida Brain Institute
University of Florida College of Medicine and Gene Therapy Center
Title: Update on Gene Transfer in the Brain using Recombinant Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors
Call Yerkes Shuttle for transportation: 404-783-7803.
Emory University
Frontiers Seminar
Date: Friday, September 24, 2004
Time: 12:00 noon (Refreshments at 11:45)
Location: Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium (615 Michael St.)
Speaker: Leslie Ungerleider, Ph.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH
http://lbc.nimh.nih.gov/people/ungerleider/ungerlei.html?ID=2850
Title: How the Brain Pays Attention
Sponsored by: the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Yerkes National Primate Research Center
For further information call - 404-727-3707
Emory University
Department of Cell Biology Seminar
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Cell Biology Seminar Room, Rm.#400 Whitehead Research Bldg.
Refreshments at 3:45
Speaker: Lian Li, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology
Title: Ubiquitination, Vesticular Trafficking, and Neurodegeneration
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Daniel Ferris
University of Michigan
Title: Robotic Exoskeleton for Human Locomotion
Date: Monday, August 23
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Room 250 School of Psychology GaTech
for further information contact: Dr. Alberts, 404.385.2339
Emory University
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Zixu Mao, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Brown University, Providence, RI
Title: Function and Regulation of Transcription Factor MEF2 in Neurons: its
Implication in Neurological Diseases
Date: WEDNESDAY, August 25, 2004
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM
Place: Whitehead Conference Room 500 - 5th floor
lunch served
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email
dadixon@emory.edu
Emory University
When: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 Noon 1:00 PM 2052
Where: O. Wayne Rollins Research Center, 1510 Clifton Road, Room: 2052
Biology Department Seminar
Dr. Jean-Marie Delalande
Neural Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
"Investigation of the Signaling Mechanisms Utilized by Sacral Neural Crest Cells During
Development of the Enteric Nervous System in the Chick Embryo".
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EMORY UNIVERSITY
When: Thursday, July 15, 2004, 1:00 p.m.
Where: Whitehead Biomedical Research Building Auditorium
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Kevin Erreger
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
"NMDA Channel Gating and Modulation by Zinc"
Advisor: Stephen Traynelis, Ph.D.
Committee Members:
Ronald Calabrese, Ph.D.
Raymond Dingledine, Ph.D.
Randy Hall, Ph.D.
Nael McCarty, Ph.D.
FACULTY RECRUIT SEMINAR - Epilepsy Program
DATE: Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
TIME: 12:00 - 1:00PM (lunch served)
PLACE: Whitehead Building, 5th Floor Conference Room (Rm. 500)
Speaker:
Edward H. Bertram, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
University of Virginia
Title:
The Problem of Finding Treatment for Neurological Disease (aka "The Pitfalls of Bench to Bedside"
or "How Good Ideas Get Caught in the Crossfire of Reality")
For further information, please contact:
Rie Calcaterra at 404 - 778-3153 or acalc01@emory.edu
Anna Marie (Rie) Calcaterra
Business Manager, Stroke Program
Emory University, Department of Neurology
1365 Clifton Road, Rm. A4303
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-7065 voice / 404-778-4184 FAX
acalc01@emory.edu
Oxygen and Stem Cell Fate, Marie Csete, MD
Sponsored By: Department of Medicine
Series: Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series
Monthly Seminar Series on Regenerative Medicine.
Lunch provided with pre-registration. Email lrice@emory.edu for registration and details.
Where: Emory University Hospital
Room: Classroom B/C
1364 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta
When
Date(s) Start End
Wed, Jun 23, 2004 Noon 1:00 AM Classroom B/C
Charges: Free!
For more information Contact:
Jennifer Vazquez
Phone: (404) 712-2660
Email Address: jevazqu@emory.edu
Emory University
Wednesday, June 2, 2004, 2:00 p.m.
Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Room 600
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Daniel B. McClatchy
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
Identification and Functional Analysis of Novel Interaction between
Elongation Factor 1A2 and the M4 Muscarinic Receptor.
Advisor: Allan I. Levey, M.D., Ph.D.
Committee Members:
Randy Hall, Ph.D.
John Hepler, Ph.D.
Richard Kahn, Ph.D.
Ken Minneman, Ph.D.
Georgia State University
June 10, 6:30PM
Atlanta Calcium Club
Charles Louis' lab will present
For more information contact Amy Lee or Jenny Yang 404-651-4620
Georgia State University
Monday, June 21st 11:00 AM
Room 106 Classroom South
Dissertation Defense: Karen L. Gamble
The Role of NPY in Modulating Photic Phase Shifts During the Subjective Night in Syrian Hamsters
Albers Lab
Department of Psychology
Emory University
Wednesday, May 5 11AM
Woodruff Memorial Research Building Room 317
Matthew Tresch
MIT
"Mechanisms and Strategies Underlying the Spinal Coordination of Movement"
Emory University
Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 4:00 pm
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Seminar Room, 1st Floor
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
DISTINGUISHED NEUROSCIENTIST LECTURE
Raymond J. Dingledine, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair Department of Pharmacology
Emory University School of Medicine
Glutamate Receptors in Epilepsy
Emory University
May 6, 9:00
Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room (Room 600)
Dept of Physiology Seminar
Dr. James Houk
Dept. of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School
Emory University
Friday, May 7, 2004
Whitehead Research Building Auditorium
The Collaborative Centers for Parkinson's Disease Environmental Research Annual meeting speaker symposium
Gene-Environment Interactions in Parkinson's Disease
Invited Speakers:
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9:00AM John Hardy Ph.D.
Chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics,
National Institute on Aging,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
"Quantity matters: genetic variability in the expression
of pathogenic proteins contributes to disease risk" - 10:15AM Andrew A. Hicks, MA(Oxon), PhD(Cantab)
Director of Movement Disorder Genetics,CNS Division
deCODE Genetics Inc., Iceland
"Using a genealogical approach to map genes that confer susceptibility to Parkinson´s disease" - 11:30AM Alberto Ascherio, MD, DrPH
Associate Professor of Nutrition & Epidemiology
Harvard University School of Public Health
"Environmental factors in Parkinson's disease"
Emory University
Weds, May 12, 2004, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Kathryn Wagner, MD, PhD
Dept of Neurology, Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Medicine
“Modulating Muscle Growth: Implications for Treating Neuromuscular Disease”
Emory University
May 13, 2004, 4:00 pm
Yerkes Lecture Series
954 Gatewood Road
Frank White, Ph.D.
Finch Universityof Health Sciences / The Chicago Medical School
Title: TBA
For more information, contact Peggy Plant peggy@rmy.emory.edu , 404-727-7730
Georgia State University
Friday, May 14, 2004, 9AM
441 Natural Science Center
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Jens Herberholz from Don Edwards' lab will talk about "Escape behavior and escape circuit activation in juvenile crayfish during prey-predator interactions"
Georgia State University
Friday, May 21st 5:30 – 9 pm:
CBN Research Extravaganza: Presentations and Posters
Veterans Auditorium, Alumni Hall
Emory University
Saturday, May 22nd 9am – 4 pm:
Whitehead Research Bldg. Auditorium
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience Spring Symposium on
Learning, Memory, and Behavior:
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Molecular Mechanisms
Alcino Silva, PhD,
UCLA
“Molecular mechanisms of learning and memory” - Hormonal Mechanisms
Don Pfaff, PhD,
Rockefeller Institute
“Hormonal and genetic influences on CNS mechanisms fundamental to cognition and emotion” - Structural Mechanisms
Michael Merzenich, PhD,
UCSF
“Structural plasticity of cortical representations and learning” - Systems Mechanisms
Carol Barnes, PhD,
Arizona
“Hippocampal function: plasticity, network dynamics, and cognition” - Cognition
Howard Eichenbaum, PhD,
Boston University
“Declarative memory: Cognitive mechanisms and neural representation”
Contact Kelly Powell for details
(404-727-7756 or kpowell@rmy.emory.edu)
JW Marriott, Buckhead
Saturday, MAY 22, 2004
NEURO-ONCOLOGY: STATE OF THE ART 2004
Download a flyer
Emory University
Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 12:00 noon
#5052 Rollins Research Center
Department of Pharmacology Seminar
Dr. Zixu Mao
Brown University School of Medicine
"Function and Regulation of Transcription Factor MEF2 in Neurons and Non-neuronal Cells: Its Implication in Diseases"
For further information - 727-5983
Morehouse Medical School
Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
202 Hugh Gloster Building
Sponsored By: Neuroscience Institute
Morris Benveniste, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
"Allosteric Modulation of NMDA Receptors by Agonists"
Emory University
Wednesday, May 26, 4:00 p.m.
Cell Biology Seminar Room 400
Whitehead Biomedical Research Bldg.
Cell Biology Seminar
John Steeves
ICORD, University of British Columbia
"Cellular interventions to promote improved functional outcomes after spinal cord injury"
Emory University
May 27, 2004, 9AM
Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room (Room 600)
Dept of Physiology Seminar
Dr. Ken Rose
Department of Physiology,
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Axotomy - a trigger for the reorganization of the polarity of adult motoneurons?
Emory University
April 1, 2004, 4:00 pm
Yerkes Lecture Series
954 Gatewood Road
David Lewis, Ph.D.
Title: Prefrontal Cortical Circuitry and Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
For more information, contact Peggy Plant 404-727-7730 peggy@rmy.emory.edu
Georgia State University
Fri, April 2, 10AM
400 General Classroom Building
Dr. Harvey Grill
University of Pennsylvania
"Distributed Neural Control of Energy Balance: Contributions from Brainstem"
Emory University
Friday, April 2, 2004, noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Krish Sathian, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine
Feeling with the Mind's Eye: Visual Imagery in Tactile Perception
Emory University
Tuesday, April 6th, 6:30 reception 7:00 pm seminar
Yerkes National Research Center Seminar Room
CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE S E M I N A R
Victoria Luine, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Psychology
Hunter College, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo
"Interaction of the gonadal and adrenal hormones on cognitive and neural function in rodents"
Map to Yerkes - http://www.emory.edu/MAP/NFrame.html
For further information please contact kpowell@rmy.emory.edu (404-727-7756)
Georgia State University
Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 10AM
441 Natural Science Center
Dr. Keith Sillar
University of St. Andrews
New Developments in the Neurobiology of Amphibian Locomotor Control Systems
Sponsored by the Center for Neural Communication and Computation and the Department of Biology
Emory University
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2004, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE SEMINAR
Charles J. Duffy, MD, PhD,
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology,
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
"NEURONAL AND PERCEPTUAL MECHANISMS OF SPATIAL ORIENTATION"
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email dadixon@emory.edu
Emory University
Thursday April 8, 2004, 2:00 pm
Whitehead Auditorium
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Special Seminar
Dr. Judy Illes
Senior Research Scholar
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University
Neuroethics, Neurotechnology, Neuroendeavors
Georgia State University
April 8, 6:30PM
Atlanta Calcium Club
Vincent Rehder's lab will present
For more information contact Amy Lee or Jenny Yang 404-651-4620
Georgia State University
Thurs, April 8, 10:30AM
Room 441 Natural Science Center
Kenneth Lohmann
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Geomagnetic orientation and navigation in marine animals.
Hosted by the Neurobiology and Behavior Students
Georgia State University
Friday, April 9, 2004, 9AM
441 Natural Science Center
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Kristy Welshhans from Vincent Rehder's lab at GSU will talk about her work, "Regulation of Growth Cone Behavior by Calcium in Helisoma trivolvis."
Emory University
Friday, April 9, 2004, noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Xiaohong Wang, M.D, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University School of Medicine
Signal Transduction Pathways and Glucocorticoid Receptor Function:
Molecular Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Resistance in Affective Disorders
Emory University
The Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
Spring Symposium
Monday April 12, 2004, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Whitehead Auditorium
Local Student presentations
- 5:00-5:25 pm
Miranda M. Lim
Emory University
“Reward Mechanisms Underlying Pair Bond Formation in Voles” - 5:25-5:50 pm
Elizabeth Hammock
Emory University
“Functional Microsatellite Polymorphism in Vole Vasopressin 1a Receptor Gene Predicts Brain and Behavior Phenotypes” - 5:50-6:15 pm
Haifei Shi
Georgia State University
“The Roles of Sympathetic and Sensory Innervation of White Adipose Tissue in Body Fat Regulation” - 6:15-6:40 pm
Magdalena Carrasco
Georgia State University
“Visual Experience is Necessary for Maintenance of Receptive Field Size in the Superior Colliculus, but Not for Refinement and Topography” - 6:40-7:05 pm
Bethany Brooks
Emory University
“Alteration of Prefrontal ICSS by Glutamate Blockade in the Nucleus Accumbens”
Spring Symposium on Drug Abuse.
Tuesday, April 13, noon - 5:00 p.m.
WHSCAB Auditorium
Symposium, Speakers:
-
12:00 -1:00PM
Nora D. Volkow, M.D.
Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
"Science, Policy and Grants for Drug Abuse Research" -
1:00-2:00PM
Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D.
Professor, The Rockefeller University
"Mechanisms of Drug Addiction" -
2:00-3:00PM
George F. Koob, Ph.D.
Professor, The Scripps Research Institute
"Behavioral Characterization of Drug Seeking" -
3:00-4:00PM
Peter Kalivas, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Medical University of South Carolina
"Molecular Basis of Drug Seeking Behavior" -
4:00-5:00PM
Charles P. O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
"New Treatments for Drug Abuse"
Other Details to be announced.
Download a Preliminary Announcement poster (pdf file)
For more informatin, contact: Peggy Plant, Administrator 404-727-7730; e-mail: peggy@rmy.emory.edu
Emory University
Weds, Apr 14, 2004, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Edward Koo, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego
"Cell Biology of Alzheimer's Disease: A Bench to Bedside Story"
EMORY UNIVERSITY
Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 2:00 p.m.
Woodruff Memorial Building
6th Floor Neurology Conference Room
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Deborah A. Backus
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
The Contributions of the Dorsal and Ventral Premotor Cortices to the Control of Visually Guided Reaching Movements
Advisor: Michael D. Crutcher, Ph.D.
Committee Members:
Richard Nichols, Ph.D.
Krish Sathian, MD, Ph.D.
Richard Segal, Ph.D., PT
Jerrold Vitek, MD, Ph.D.
Emory University
Thursday, April 15th, 2004, 4:00 PM
Rollins Research Center, Rm 5052
Department of Pharmacology
Emory University School of Medicine
Special Seminar
Thomas Soderling, Ph.D.
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health Sciences University
"CaM Kinases and Synaptic Plasticity"
Emory University
Friday, April 16, 2004, noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Donna Maney Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Emory University
The Neurobiology of Communication in Songbirds
Emory University
Monday, April 19, 2004 @ 12:00pm
Whitehead Auditorium, Ground Floor
Whitehead Biomedical Research Building
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GENETICS SEMINAR
Harry T. Orr, Ph.D.
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
“Neurodegeneration in Humans and Mice: Lessons from a Polygluamine Disease”
Morehouse School of Medicine
Weds, April 21, 12:30
202 Hugh Gloster Building
James Townsel
Meharry Medical College
"New Insights into Cholinergic Transmission: The Cellular Odyssey of the Choline Cotransporter"
Georgia Institute of Technology
Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 4:00 pm
Room L1205 Engineering Science &
Technology (Building 147)
The Georgia Tech Cognitive Science Program presents:
ANDY CLARK
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Cognitive Science Program
Indiana University, Bloomington
"From Mere Embodiment to the Cyborg Mind"
Emory University
Thursday, April 22, 2004, 5:00 p.m.
Rita Anne Rollins Room
Rollins School of Public Health
Spring Neuroscience Lecture
Stephen Suomi, Ph.D.
Head, Comparative Behavioral Genetics
Laboratory of Comparative Ethology
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
HOW GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS CAN SHAPE BIOBEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT IN PRIMATES
Sponsored by Graduates in Neuroscience (GIN) & Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program
Refreshments will be served before the seminar
For further information please contact:
Sara Dodson - sedodso@emory, or Cliff Michaels - ccmicha@emory.edu
Emory University
Friday, April 23, 2004, noon
Dental Builiding - Auditorium, room #230
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Leonardo G. Cohen, M.D.
Director, Human Cortical Physiology Section, NINDS
Strategies to Enhance Recovery of Motor Function After Stroke Based on Principles of Neuroplasticity
Emory University
Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 12:00 noon
5052 Rollins Research Center
Department of Pharmacology Colloquium
Randy Hall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Neuroscience Program Faculty
"The Riddle of Cell Surface Receptors that Reside Inside the Cell"
Emory University
Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
400 Whitehead Research Bldg.
Department of Cell Biology Seminar
Margit Burmeister Ph.D.
University of Michigan
"Mouse AP-3 Mutants: From Behavior to Gene and on to Synaptic Proteins"
Georgia State University
Friday, April 30th, 10AM
Room 400 General Classroom Building
Dr. Ravi V. Bellamkonda
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Georgia Tech/Emory University
"Understanding Bridges and Dams: Tissue Engineering in the PNS and CNS"
Emory University
Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 12:00 noon
5052 Rollins Research Center
Department of Pharmacology Colloquium
Gary J. Bassell, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
Rose Kennedy Center for Mental Retardation
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"mRNA Transport, Local Translation and Neurological Disease"
Emory University
Wed, March 3, 9AM
Yerkes main seminar room (1st floor).
Thesis Defense
Miranda Lim
Advisor: Larry Young
Title: Neural mechanisms of pair bond formation in vole species
Emory University
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 03, 2004, TIME: 12:00 - 1:00PM
PLACE: Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE SEMINAR
Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD,
Instructor of Neurology and Research Associate, Dept. of Psychiatry,
Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
"MOLECULES & MEMORY: THE ROLE OF THE PRESYNAPTIC ACTIVE ZONE PROTEIN,
RIM IN SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY"
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email dadixon@emory.edu
~lunch served~
Emory University
March 4, 2004, 4:00 pm
Yerkes Lecture Series
954 Gatewood Road
Pat Levitt, Ph.D.
"Molecular and Functional Analysis of Cortical Interneuron Development"
For more information, contact
Emory University
Friday, March 5, 2004, noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Paul M. Plotsky, Ph.D.
Director, Stress Neurobiology Laboratory
GlaxoSmithKline Professor
Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine
"Animal Models of Vulnerability to Mood Disorders: Through the Looking Glass"
SciTrek Museum
Saturday, March 6, 2004
Free Museum Admission 10am – 4pm
Brains Rule! Neuroscience Expo
Neuroscience Activities & Information
Family Fun for Everyone!
For more information see http://www.cbn-atl.org/
Dr. Kyle Frantz at (404) 651-1487 or Dr. John Redmond at 404-727-8612
Emory University
Monday, March 8, 2004 @ 12:00pm
Whitehead Auditorium, Ground Floor, Whitehead Biomedical Research Building
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GENETICS SEMINAR
Jeffrey L. Noebels, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular Genetics
Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine
“The Biology of Epilepsy Genes”
Emory University
Tueday, March 9, 2004, 12:00 p.m.
5052 Rollins Research Center
Department of Pharmacology Colloquium
Stella Tsirka, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
SUNY, Stony Brook
"Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Neuronal Cell Death"
Emory University
Weds, Mar 10, 2004, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Marie-Francoise Chesselet, MD, PhD
Professor & Chair, Dept of Neurology/Neurobiology, UCLA School of Medicine
"PHENOTYPICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MOUSE MODELS OF HUNTINGTON'S AND
PARKINSON'S DISEASES"
Emory University
March 11, 6:30PM
Atlanta Calcium Club
Amy Lee's lab will present
For more information contact Amy Lee or Jenny Yang 404-651-4620
Emory University
March 11, 9:00
Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room (Room 600)
Dept of Physiology Seminar
Dr. Michael Beattie
Dept. of Neuroscience, Ohio State Univ.
"Cell death and repair in models of spinal cord injury"
Georgia State University
Friday, March 12, 2004, 9AM
441 Natural Science Center
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Anne-Elise Tobin from Ron Calabrese's lab at Emory will talk about her work.
"Morphological Modeling and Mysteries of Modulation by Molluscan Myomodulin in Anne-Elise's Annelids"
Emory University
Friday, March 12, 2004, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium (615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Stuart W. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Brain Research Laboratory
Department of Emergency Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Neurosteroids and the Art of Brain Repair
March 15-21
Brain Awareness Week
More information coming soon...
Georgia State University
Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 10:00 A.M.
106 Classroom South
Walter Wilcynski, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Texas, Austin
Behavioral Endocrinology and the Neuroethology of Social Signaling
Candidate for Codirector for Research at the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
Emory University
Tues March 16, 4PM
WHSCAB Auditorium
(1440 Clifton Road)
Grass Lecture
Joseph E. LeDoux, Ph.D.
Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology
Center for Neural Science
New York University
EMOTIONAL MEMORY: SYSTEMS AND SYNAPSES
Sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program, Emory University
Department of Psychology, Emory University
Refreshments will be served before the seminar
Download a poster (pdf)
Emory University
Thursday, March 18 @ 12:00 noon
Room 1052 of the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center
Department of Biology Seminar
Robert Liu, Ph.D.
"Communication coding in mouse cortex: from pup calls to perception"
Emory University
Friday, March 19, 2004, 2:00 p.m.
Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Room 400
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Ellen E. Olson
Neuroscience Program
Characterization of Cellular Damage following Unilateral Hypoxia/Ischemia:
The Roles of Adenine Nucleotide Translocator-1 and Protease Activated Receptor-1
Advisor: Robert J. McKeon, Ph.D.
Committee Members:
J. Timothy Greenamyre, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean Jones, Ph.D.
Donald Stein, Ph.D.
Stephen Traynelis, Ph.D.
Emory University
Friday, March 19, 2004, noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
James Rilling, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Exploring the "Social Brain" with fMRI and Interactive Games
Cancelled
Emory University
Thursday, March 23 @ 12:00 noon
Room 1052 of the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center
Department of Biology Seminar
Li Zhang, Ph.D.
"Functional microcircuits and plasticity in the auditory cortex"
Emory University
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2004, 1:00 - 2:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE SEMINAR
Lee-Way Jin, MD, PhD,
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Amelioration of Toxicities Related to Intraneuronal Accumulation of A-beta"
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email dadixon@emory.edu
Emory University
March 25, 9:00
Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room (Room 600)
Dept of Physiology Seminar
Dr. Arthur Prochazka
Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Basic and clinical aspects of sensorimotor control: old problems, new tricks
Morehouse School of Medicine
Thursday, March 25, 2004, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
205 – Hugh Gloster Building
Neuroscience Institute
Roger Weir, M.D., F.A.A.N.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Howard University College of Medicine
“The Etiology of Parkinson's”
Emory University
Fri, Mar 26, 2004, 10:30 AM
The Emory Clinic, A Building
Room: Brown Auditorium, tunnel level
Neurology Grand Rounds
Doug Kerr, M.D.,Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology & MMI Director
Johns Hopkins University
"Neurodegeneration and Regeneration in the Spinal Cord"
Emory University
Friday, March 26, 2004, noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Leonard Howell, Ph.D.
Division of Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University
Neuropharmacology of Cocaine in Nonhuman Primates: Implications for Medications Development
Emory University
MARCH 26, 2004, 1:30-3PM
GEOSCIENCES BLDG.
A PUBLIC DISSERTATION DEFENSE:
SALLY BERNARDINA SERAPHIN
PHD CANDIDATE IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND CBN SCHOLAR
THE NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, NEUROANATOMY, AND BEHAVIOR-PHARMACOLOGY OF DOPAMINE IN JUVENILE NURSERY-REARED AND MOTHER-REARED RHESUS MONKEYS (MACACA MULATTA)
March 26,27, 2004
South East Nerve Net
Agnes Scott College
Abstract deadline is Feb 27, 2004.
Morehouse School of Medicine
March 31, 12:30
202 Hugh Gloster Building
Joe L. Martinez
Univ. of Texas, San Antonio
"How the Brain Stores Information"
Emory University
Feb 5, 9AM
Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room (Room 600)
Dept of Physiology Seminar
Dr. Christopher Earley
The Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center
Iron dysregulation in Restless Legs Syndrome
Emory University
Friday, February 6, 2004, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Marie Csete, MD, PhD
Emory University School of Medicine
Erythropoietin as a Neurotrophic Factor Department of Anesthesiology
Emory University
Monday, February 9, 2004 @ 12:00pm
Whitehead Auditorium, Ground Floor
Whitehead Biomedical Research BuildingDEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GENETICS SEMINAR
Steven A. Thomas, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology, Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania
" A Specific Role for Norephinephrine in Memory Retrieval: from Hippocampal Function to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder "
Emory University
Monday Feb. 9, 3:30 PM
White Hall Room 111
PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT/ YERKES COLLOQUIUM
Agnes Lacreuse, Ph.D.
Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University
"Cognitive aging in the rhesus monkey:
sex differences and estrogen influences"
Reception to follow in room 201 of the Psychology Building
Emory University
Weds, Feb 11, 2004, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Phil Wong, PhD
Dept of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapuetics of AD"
Georgia State University
Friday, February 13, 2004, 9AM
441 Natural Science Center
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Jim Newcomb from Paul Katz's lab at GSU will talk about his work "Similar Serotonergic Cerebral Cells in Swimming Sea Slugs."
Emory University
Friday, February 13, 2004, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Darryl Neill, PhD
Department of Psychology, Emory University
Is There a Reward System in the Brain? A Motocentric View
Emory University
Monday, February 16, 2004, 12:00-1:00 pm
1052 Rollins Research Center
Department of Biology Seminar
Dr. Michael DeWeese
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
“Binary Spiking in Auditory Cortex”
(Candidate for position in the Department of Biology)
Emory University
Feb 19, 9AM
Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room (Room 600)
Dept of Physiology Seminar
Stephen P. DeWeerth
Georgia Institute of Technology
Hybrid Neural Microsystems: Integrating Living Neurons and Electronic Circuits
Emory University
Thursday, Feb 19 @ 12:00 noon
Room 1052 of the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center
Department of Biology Seminar
Melissa Coleman, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center
"Elucidating forebrain circuitry underlying vocal communication"
Emory University
Feb 19, 2004, 4:00 pm
Yerkes Lecture Series
954 Gatewood Road
William Carlezon, PhD
Topic: Role of CREB in Depressive-like Behaviors
For more information, Peggy Plant 404-727-7730 peggy@rmy.emory.edu
Emory University
Friday, February 20, 2004, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Sergei Kirov, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Synapses & Cell Signaling Program, Medical College of Georgia
Rapid changes in spines on mature hippocampal dendrites
Emory University
Friday Feb. 20, 4:00 PM
White Hall Room 103
PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT/ YERKES COLLOQUIUM
Robert Hampton, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Mental health
"Varieties of memory in monkeys: Psychological and neurobiological approaches"
Emory University
Thursday, February 26, 1:00 pm
Room 248, Dental School Building (1462 Clifton Rd.)
Dissertation defense
Karen M. Myers
Title: The AX+, BX- discrimination as an alternative to extinction in studies of the
neural basis of fear inhibition
Advisor: Michael Davis, Ph.D.
Committee members:
Stephan Hamann, Ph.D.
Kim Huhman, Ph.D.
Darryl Neill, Ph.D.
Don Rainnie, Ph.D.
Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.
Emory University
Thursday, February 26, 2004, 12:00-1:00 pm
1052 Rollins Research Center
Department of Biology Seminar
Dr. Astrid Prinz
Brandeis University
"Using model databases to study complex systems - a brute force approach to neurons and circuits"
(Candidate for a position in the Department of Biology)
Emory University
Friday, February 27, 2004, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
J. Timothy Greenamyre, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology, Co-DirectorCenter for Neurodegenerative Disease, Emory Univeristy, School of Medicine
Parkinson's Disease and the Axis of Evil: Genes, Environment and Mitochondria
Emory University
Thursday, January 8th, 2004, 9AM
Location: Whitehead BioMed Research Bldg
Conference Room 600
EMORY PHYSIOLOGY SEMINAR
Shanthi Srinivasan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Digestive Diseases, Emory University
"Role of the GDNF/RET Signaling Pathway in Enteric Neuronal Survival"
Georgia State University
Friday, Jan 9, 2004, 8:30AM
441 Natural Science Center
Invertebrate Neuroscience Forum
Deb Baro from GSU will talk about her work "Dopamine receptors, serotonin receptors, H-channels, and K-channels in the stomatogastric nervous system".
Emory University
Tuesday, January 13th
6:30 reception, 7:00 pm seminar
Yerkes National Research Center, Seminar Room
CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE S E M I N A R
Cedric Williams, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology, University of Virginia
"From the Periphery to the Brain: Identifying the Missing Link in the Modulation of Memory"
Map to Yerkes - http://www.emory.edu/MAP/NFrame.html
For further information please contact (404-727-7756)
Emory University
Weds, Jan 14, 2004, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Whitehead Auditorium - 1st floor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Ted Dawson, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
“Mitochondrial-Nuclear Cross Talk In Neuronal Cell Death”
Emory University
Thursday January 15 at 9:00 a.m.
Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room (Room 600)
Dept of Physiology Seminar
Dr. V. Reggie Edgerton
Department of Physiological Science, UCLA
Evidence that motor learning occurs in the spinal cord
Informal discussion with the speaker is from 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Light refreshments are served at 8:45 a.m.
Emory University
Friday, January 16, 2004, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Guest Speaker
Nicholas E. Goeders, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacolgy & Therapeutics and Psychiatry
LSU Health Science Center
Stress and Cocaine Addiction
Emory University
Refreshments at 11:45
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience 404-727-3707
Emory University
Jan 22, 2004, 4:00 pm
Yerkes Primate Research Center
Seminar Room, 1st Floor
Yerkes Lecture Series
Francine Benes, MD, PhD
McLean Hospital
"GABA Cells in Relation to Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder"
For more information, contact Leslie Chauvin at 404-727-8571
or Peggy Plant at 404-727-7730
Emory University
Friday, January 23, 2004, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Anthony A. Grace, PhD
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Psychlogy, University of Pittsburgh
Interactions Between Prefrontal Cortex and Amygdala: Relevance to the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia
Georgia State University
January 30, 10AM
400 General Classroom Building
Dr. Deborah Baro
Biology Department, GSU
"Cellular and molecular aspects of neuronal modulation in lobsters and mice”.
Emory University
Friday, January 30, 2004, 12:00 noon
Whitehead Research Bldg, Auditorium
(615 Michael St.)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Inez Vincent, PhD
Department of Pathology, University of Washington
Cell Cycle Kinases Switching Gears During Neurodegeneration
Emory University
Friday, January 30, 2004 2:00 PM
Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, room #600
David Gutman
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
A Neuroendocrine, Behavioral and Molecular Investigation of the Acute
and Chronic Effects of the CRF1 receptor antagonist R121919
An oral presentation of a dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate
School of Emory University in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Advisor: Dr. Charles Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D.
Committee Members:
Michael J. Owens, Ph.D.
Clint Kilts, Ph.D.
Jay Weiss, Ph.D.
Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.
Emory University
Friday, January 30th 3pm
White Hall 103
2003-2004 Colloquium Series
Department of Psychology, Emory University Presents:
Dr. Gregory F. Ball
Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University
“Androgens, Song Behavior and Seasonal Neuroplasticity: Where, How and Why?”
Reception to follow in Psychology Room 201