Spring, 2005

May, 2005

Monday, May 2 , Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Prize Presentation Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, David L. Brody, MD, PhD, Instructor in Neurology,   “Anti-AB antibody attenuates cognitive impairment in a model of experimental traumatic brain injury” and Richard S. Stewart, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Cell Biology and Physiology, ” The role of a transmembrane form of the prion protein in prion disease”

Tuesday, May 3 , WUCNS (Computational Neuroscience) Seminar - 4:00 p, 218 Whitaker Hall (Hilltop) - Dr. Steve Lisberger ,   UCSF - " From vision to action "

Tuesday, May 3 , Anesthesiology Seminar, CSRB Room 5550, 5th floor, 4:00pm, Dr. Werner Sieghart Center for Brain Research, Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Nervous System, Medical University, Vienna, "Structure, function and pharmacology of GABAA receptors"

Friday, May 6 - No 4pm Anat/Neurobiology Seminar

Monday, May 9 , Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Prize Presentation Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Michelle Schlief, Graduate Student in Dr. Jonathan Gitlin's lab, Pediatrics Genetics & Genomics Medicine,   “Novel insights into the mechanism of neurodegeneration in Menkes disease: copper-dependent excitotoxic neuroprotection” and Shengzhou Wu, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Neurology, “Activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase decreases proteasome activity”

Tuesday, May 10, Wash Univ Pain Center Seminar 4:00pm CSRB,   5550 Xinzhong Dong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, "Identification and characterization of nociceptive neuron specific genes"

Thursday, May 12, -Thesis Examination,   3:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, MR. Y. ALBERT PAN, Program in Developmental Biology, Lab of Dr. Joshua Sanes, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, "Mammalian SAD Kinases are Required for Neuronal Polarity and Migration"

Thursday, May 12 - Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars -4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Qing Chang,Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences - "The Biology of Aldo-keto Reductases: What we learned from the budding yeast"   

Friday, May 13 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Jim Huettner , Department of Cell Biology & Physiology - " Glutamate receptor modulation by fatty acids "

Monday, May 16 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, “TBA”

Monday, May 16, Dept. of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology--Seminar Series, 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library, AARON DIANTONIO, M.D., PH.D., , Dept. of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, "Regulating Synaptic Size and Strength"

Thursday, May 19 - Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725, Dr. Steven Kymes -   "Quality of Life in People with Keratoconus--Surprising Results from a "Minor" Disease"

Friday, May 20 - No 4pm Anat/Neurobiology Seminar

Monday, May 23, Symposium on "Images, Vision, and Neural Computation", EPNEC Center, 9:00-5:00. The symposium will celebrate the 70th birthday of Charles H. Anderson.   Speakers include: Bruno Olshausen, Chris Eliasmith, Hayit Greenspan, Subrata Rakshit, John Miller, Eero Simoncelli, Christoph von der Malsburg, David Van Essen and Charles Anderson .   Registration required (no cost) at: http://neuroscience.wustl.edu/events/cha.html

Monday, May 23 , Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Prize Presentation Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Sarah C. Jost, MD, Neurosurgery Resident, “In-vivo monitoring of therapeutic response in a murine model of glioma” and Gijsbert Stoet, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, “An animal model of executive control”

Thursday, May 26 , Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Edward M. Barnett, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, "In Vivo Retinal Uptake of Permeation Peptide Constructs in Rodents and Potential uses

Friday, May 27 4pm Anat/Neurobiology Seminar, TBA

Monday, May 30 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, no seminar

April, 2005

Friday, April 1 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - No seminar,

Monday, April 4 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, George Wittenberg , MD, PhD, Neurology, Wake Forest University, “Motor Cortical Maps in Recovery from Perinatal Injury and Stroke”

Tuesday, April 5 ,   Wash U Computational Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 241 Compton (Hilltop), Mr. Rob White ,   "Mechanisms of spatial updating in real and artificial neural circuits."

Thursday, April 7 , Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 -  Dr. Edward M . Barnett , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, "In Vivo Retinal Uptake of Permeation Peptide Constructs in Rodents and Potential uses"

Friday, April 8 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Colin Nichols , Department of Cell Biology & Physiology - " Potassium channels: From structure to disease - and back "

Monday, April 11 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, No seminar

Monday, April 11 , Neuro-oncology Seminar Series, 3:00 PM, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Joel Garbow, PhD, Chemistry, "Diagnosis, Staging and Therapeutic Response of Cancer: Insights from Small-Animal Imaging"

Tuesday, April 12 , Wash U Computational Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 241 Compton (Hilltop), Dr. Robert Shapley , Center for Neural Science, New York University, “The Primary Visual Cortex: A New Look”

Thursday,  April 14 , Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars, 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725,   Dr. Satish K . Srivastava ,   Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics,  The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas - "TBA"

Friday, April 15 , Neuroscience Student-Organized Seminar   -4:00 p.m., Rm 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Dan Margoliash , Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago - "TBA"

Monday, April 18 ,   Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Jeffrey Milbrandt , MD, PhD, Pathology, Immunology and Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, “NAD-Dependent Axonal Protection: A link between Axonopathy and Lifespan”

Tuesday, April 19 , 4:00pm,   CSRB 5550, Dr. Yu-Qing Cao , Stanford University, "Type-specific slots for presynaptic Ca 2+ channels and implication for Ca2+ channelopathy"

Wednesday, April 20 , Neuroscience Program Thesis Defense, from the Laboratory of Dr. Louis Muglia, 11:00 am, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci Bldg - Ms. Maureen Boyle , “The Role of Forebrain Glucocorticoid Receptors in Regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and the Pathogenesis of Depression”

Friday, April 22 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Marc Caron , Department of Cell Biology, Duke University - "Signaling Pathways of Dopamine-Mediated Behaviors in Animal Models"

Monday, April 25 , , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Randy L. Buckner , PhD, Psychology, “TBA”

Tuesday, April 26 , Neuroscience Program Thesis Defense, from the Laboratory of Ann Marie Craig, 1:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci Bldg - M r. Ethan R. Graf , “The Role of the Neurexin-Neuroligin Link in GABAergic and Glutamatergic Synaptogenesis”

Thursday, April 28 , Neuroscience Program Thesis Defense, from the Laboratory of Jonathan Gitlin, 1:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci Bldg – Ms. Michelle Schlief , “ Copper Homeostasis in the Central Nervous System”

Thursday, April 28 , The Dept. Molecular Biology & Pharmacology presents, the 8 th Annual David M. Kipnis Lecture, 4:00 pm, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. David Kingsley , Stanford University, “Building and Evolving the Skeleton”

Friday, April 29 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Graeme Davis , Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco - "Molecular Mechanisms that Control Synapse Stability Versus Disassembly

March 2005

 Tuesday, March 1 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 5550 CSRB,   James C. Eisenach, M.D. Neuroscience Program,   Wake Forest University Baptist Med. Center Title: TBA

Friday, March 4 , Neuroscience Seminar   (Student-Organized) -   4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Venkatesh Murthy , Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University - " Synaptic vesicle recycling studied using genetically-encoded probes "

Monday, March 7, 2005, Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building,   Dr. Arie Perry , Pathology and Immunology, "Molecular Diagnostics of Gliomas"

Monday, March 7, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences--Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725,   Dr. Robert Hindges, The Salk Institute "Molecular Control of Cell Fate and Axon Pathfinding in the Developing Visual System"

Tuesday, March 8 , Wash Univ Pain Center Seminar 4:00pm CSRB,   5550 Linda Sorkin, Ph.D.Anesthesiology, UCSD "Nerve injury induces sensitization to TNF in DRG neurons and TNF-dependent activation of p38 in both DRG and spinal cord"

Thursday, March 10 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725,   Dr. Anthony V. Nicola, NIAID of the NIH, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases "A Novel pH-Dependent, Endocytic Pathway for Herpesvirus Entry into Cells"

Friday, March 11 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Jeff Milbrandt , Department of Pathology - " NAD-Dependent Axonal Protection: A link between Axonopathy and Lifespan "

Monday, March 14, 2005, Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Hope Center Prize Presentation, Mr. Julian Meeks , Graduate Student in Dr. Steven Mennerick's lab, Department of Psychiatry, “Action potential propagation block in CA3 hippocampal axons as an endogenous brake on seizure propagation”

Monday, March 14 , NORG (Neuro-Oncology Research Group) Seminar Series--Seminar Series 3:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 Dr. Brian D. Ross,   University of Michigan "Imaging of Cellular and Molecular Events in Brain Tumors"

Tuesday, March 15 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 5550 CSRB,   Dr. Nupur Dasgupta,   Dr. Crowder Lab, Anesthesiology Research Unit Title: TBA

Thursday, March 17 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725,   Dr. James Chodosh, Ophthalmology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center "Host Mechanisms in Adenovirus Keratitis"

Friday, March 18 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Miguel Nicolelis , Department of Neuroengineering, Duke University - "TBA"

Monday, March 21, 2005, Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Kevin Black , Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Radiology, “TBA”

Friday, March 25 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Kurt Thoroughman , Department of Biomedical Engineering - "Spatial and temporal (in)sensitivity of human motor adaptation"

Monday, March 28, 2005, Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Minh Dang Nguyen, Pathology & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, “ Untold Pathways To Neurodegeneration

February, 2005

Tuesday, February 1 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00, Rm. 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Songhai Shi , Department of University of California, San Francisco - " Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying mammalian neuronal development and circuit formation "

Thursday, February 3 - Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars- 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 -  Dr. Michael Onken,  Dept. of Ophthalmology, "Id and the Primitive Drive in Uveal Melanoma"

Friday, February 4 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Larry Snyder , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "And now for something completely different -- task switching in monkeys"

Monday, February 7 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 10:00 am, Rm. 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Kogo Takamiya , Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins Medical School - "Molecular mechanism of the regulation of synaptic plasticity and memory"

Monday, February 7 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Karen L. O'Malley , PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, “ In vivo and in vitro models of Parkinson's disease ”

Monday, February 7. Dept. of Biology presents, the 25th Viktor Hamburger Lecture -4:00 P.M., Rebstock 215, Dr. Marianne Bronner-Fraser , California Institute of Technology, "Formation of the Vertebrate Neural Crest"

Monday, February 7 - Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars, - 4:00 PM, Maternity Building, Room 725 -   Dr.Vladimir J. Kefalov ,   Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,  Baltimore, Maryland - "Where Do Colors Go at Night?   Understanding the Difference Between Retinal Rods and Cones."           

Tuesday, February 8 - Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Conference, East Pavilion Auditorium - BJH South, 1st Floor,   12:00 - 1:00 PM, John Trojanowski , MD, University of Pennsylvania "No Need To Kowtow To Tau Now: New Therapeutic Interventions For Neurodegenerative Tauopathies"

Thursday, February 10 - Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 -   Dr. Richard T. Libby , The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbour, Maine, "Using Mouse Genetics to Identify Susceptibility Factors for Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration"

Friday, February 11 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. David Holtzman , Department of Neurology - "From mouse to man:   Regulation of amyloid-beta metabolism in the pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease"

Monday, February 14 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Alison Goate , PhD, Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, “Genes that influence risk for alcoholism and related traits”

Monday, February 14 , Neuro-Oncology Research Group Seminar Series (NORG), 3:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. David H. Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurology, “Growth Regulation in the Brain: Lessons from Brain Tumors”

Tuesday, February 15 , Thesis Examination, 2:00 PM, 928 McDonnell Science, Mr. John D. Fryer, Neurosciences Program, David Holtzman Laboratory, “The Role of Apolipoprotein E and Lipoprotein Receptors in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy”

Friday, February 18 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00, Rm. 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Noelle Dwyer , Department of Harvard Medical School - ""A New Forward Genetic Approach to Mammalian Brain Architecture and Wiring"

Friday, February 18 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Dan Moran , Department of Biomedical Engineering - "Hand position, velocity and orientation representation in primary motor cortex and their application in neuroprosthetic research."

Monday, February 21 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, TBA

Tuesday, February 22 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00, Rm. 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Zheng Li , Massachusetts Institute of Technology - "Synapse, Mitochondria and More"

Friday, February 25 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00, Rm. 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Paul Gray , Department of Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute - "Molecular Genetics of Small Mammalian Circuits"

Friday, February 25 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Louis Muglia , Department of Pediatrics - "Molecular Genetic Analyses of Neuronal Signal Transduction in Depression-related Behavior"

Monday, February 28 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, James Galvin , MD, MsC, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, “TBA”

January 2005

Monday, January 3 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Michael Wong , Neurology, “Seizure-induced brain injury in mice and men”

Tuesday, January 4 , 9:00 am - 10:15 am, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Clopton Auditorium, Dr. Keith Isenberg , "rTMS at Washington University School of Medicine"

Tuesday, January 4 ,Neuroscience Program Thesis Defense, 1:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science, (laboratory of Dr. Greg DeAngelis), Mr. Jerry Nguyenkim, “Macaque MT Neurons are Selective for 3D Surface Orientation Defined by Multiple Visual Cues”

Tuesday, January 4 , 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, East Pavilion Auditorium - BJC South, 1st Floor, Dr. Jim Galvin , Neurology, "How I Spent My K08: Doing DLB Research at the ADRC"

Wednesday, January 5 , 1:15 pm-2:30 pm, Psychiatry Research Seminar, East Pavilion Auditorium, Dr. Kevin Black , M.D., Psychiatry, "Pharmacologic Activation Neuroimaging: Methods and Application to Neuropsychiatry"

Thursday, January 6 , 4:00 pm, Conte Center Seminar, Renard 3rd Floor Conference Room, Room 3312, Dr. Amelia Gallitano-Mendel , Psychiatry, "Egr3: Does an Immediate Early Gene Play a Role in Schizophrenia?"

Friday, January 7 , Neuroscience Seminar (Student-Organized)--Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M., McDonnell Sci., Room 928, Dr. Joe Tsien , Princeton University, Dept. of Molecular Biology

"Exploring the Brain Codes, an Integrated Approach to the Study of Memory in Mice"

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Monday, January 10 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. B. Joy Snider , Neurology, “Neuronal death and protein degradation pathways: proteasomes, ER and calcium”

Monday, January 10 , Neuro-Oncology Research Group Seminar Series, 3:00, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Dr. Erwin Van Meir , Emory University, "Targeting the vicious cycle driving outward glioblastoma growth”

Thursday, January 13 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Dr. Juan Burrone , Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, "Visualizing activity-dependent changes in synaptic connectivity"

Thursday, January 13 , Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM  McDonnell Science Building, Cori Auditorium Dr. Robert L. Hendricks , Ophthalmology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - "Immunologic Control of HSV-1 Latency, and Implications for Herpes Keratitis"

Friday, January 14 – No 4:00 Anatomy & Neurobiology seminar.

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Monday, January 17 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, no seminar

Tuesday, January 18 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Dr. Hisashi Umemori , Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, "Finding the Presynaptic Organizer"

Thursday, January 20 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Dr. Zhen Huang , University of California, San Francisco, " The Origin Recognition Core Complex Acts as a Switch in Neurons for Regulating Dendrite Development "

Thursday, January 20 , Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM -  Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Victor L. Perez , Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine Case Western Reserve University - "Visualization of Immune Responses in the Eye"

Friday January 21, Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 426 McDonnell Sci., Dr. Ed Chapman, Univ of Wisconsin, "Modes and mechanisms of exocytosis"

Friday, January 21,Neuroscience Program Thesis Defense, 1:30 pm, Rm 3907 South Bldg., , (laboratory of Dr. David Harris), Mr. Sami Barmada, “Localization of Fluorescent Prion Protein in Infectious and Inherited Prion Disease"

Friday, January 21 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Heather True , Department of Cell Biology & Physiology - "Prions Bare All: Proteins that Elicit Disease or Expose Diversity"

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Monday, January 24 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Anne M. Fagan , Neurology, “CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease”

Tuesday, January 25, Department of Physics Colloquium, 3:30 PM Coffee, Compton 245, 4:00 PM Lecture, Crow 204 (Hilltop), Dr. Dolores Bozovic, The Rockefeller University, "Mechano-electrical transduction and amplification by inner ear hair cells" (re-scheduled from Jan 24)

Wednesday, January 26, Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Dr. Martin S. Banks, UC Berkeley, "Combining visual information to perceive 3d layout"

Thursday, January 27 , Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars -  4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Jane Wu , Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee  "Pre-mRNA splicing and  Neurodegeneration"

Friday, January 28, The 19th Annual Philip R. Dodge Lecture, 9:15a, Clopton Auditorium, Dr. Clifford Saper, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, "Von Economo's Dilemma: Hypothalamic Regulation of Sleep and Wakefulness"

Friday, January 28 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Randy Buckner , Department of Psychology - "How we remember and why we forget: Insights from molecular, structural, and functional human imaging studies

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Monday, January 31 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Dr. Kirill Martemyanov , Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, "Regulation of G protein signaling in neurons"

Monday, January 31 , No Seminar -Neurology/Hope Center Research