Past Seminars :

Spring 2008

Wednesday, April 2, The C.R. Stephen Lecture, 4:00 P.M., Eric P. Newman Education Center, Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser,Vanderbilt University Medical Center, “Personalized Healthcare – The Next Manhattan Project”

Thursday, April 3, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725  - Dr. Richard Lang,  Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine“Development of the Mouse Eye: Induction, Morphogenesis and Anti-Angiogenesis”.

Friday, April 4, Neuroscience Student-Organized Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki, Department of Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University  - "Cell assembly mechanisms for episodic encoding and recall in the  hippocampus"

Friday April 4 , Thesis Examination, 1:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Jessica A. Church-Lang, Neurosciences, Bradley Schlaggar, M.D., Ph.D., "Neuroimaging Studies of Typical and Atypical Development"

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Monday, April 7 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, 1st floor McDonnell Science Building, Dr. Philip A. Schwartzkroin, Department or Neurological Surgery, University of California at Davis, "Epilepsy in the Kv1.1 knockout mouse"

Tuesday, April 8 - WUCNS Seminar - 4:00 pm, Compton, 241 (Danforth Campus), Dr. Dough Crawford, York Centre for Vision Research, York Univ, "Spatial updating for perception and motor control"

Wednesday April 9 , PNP Medical School Seminar, 12:30 P.M., East Building, 2nd floor Conference Room, 2311, Dr. Larry Snyder, Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology

Wednesday, April 9,  Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology — The Erlanger Gasser Lecture, 4:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium,  Dr. Carol W. Grieder, Dept. of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, "Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction"

Thursday April 10 , 28th Oliver H. Lowry Lecture, 12:00 P.M., Cori Auditorium, Dr. Philip Beachy, Stanford University School of Medicine, “Hedgehog signaling in development and disease”

Thursday, April 10, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725  - Dr. Vladimir Kefalov, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences “Seeing the Light – A Novel Cone-Specific Mechanism for Chromophore Recycling”.

 Friday, April 11, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Susan Dymecki, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School - "From Cell Fate to Cell Function in the Brainstem"

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Monday, April 14 – No Neurology/Hope Center Seminar

Monday, April 14 – Neuroscience Thesis Defense, 1:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Ms. Rebecca Hendrickson (from the lab of Dr. Tim Holy), "Lateral inhibition shapes neuronal selectivity for natural stimuli in mouse accessory olfactory bulb"

Thursday April 17 , David M. Kipnis Lecture, ---NOTE - this lecture has been rescheduled to May 22.

Thursday, April 17, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - - Dr. Susan Culican, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, “ Phr1: An Activity and Ephrin Independent Regulator of Retinogeniculate Targeting".

Friday, April 18, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. James Skeath, Department of Genetics - "A tale of two cells: asymmetric divisions during Drosophila development."

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Monday, April 21 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium,  Dr. Conrad Chris Weihl, Department of Neurology,"Taking out the trash: protein aggregate clearance in disease"

Monday April 21 , Immunology Program Research Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium, Dr. Robyn Klein, Deparment of Internal Medicine, "CXCL12 and Leukocyte Trafficking at the Blood-brain Barrier"

Wednesday April 23 , Frontiers in Human Pathobiology Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M., Farrell LTC, Holden Case Study Room, Dr. Alison Goate, Genetics, "TBA"

Thursday, April 24, The James O'Leary Prize Competition, 12:00-4:00, EPNEC, Seminar Room B.  For a list of finalists, see http://neuro.wustl.edu/news/olearyprize/finalists.htm.

Thursday, April 24, Tri-Departmental Research Seminars-Developmental Biology, Cell Biology and Physiology and Genetics, 12 Noon, Cori Auditorium, Dr. Elly Tanaka, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics,  - “Molecular mechanisms underlying vertebrate regeneration.”

Thursday, April 24, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - - Dr. Shigeru Kinoshita, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan – “The Unique Biological and Immunological Characteristics of the Ocular Surface Epithelium: From the Clinician Scientist's Point of View".

Friday, April 25, Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Alison Strack, Department of Pharmacology, Merck Research Labs - "Obesity: a CNS problem. Is there a CNS solution?"

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Monday, April 28 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium,  Dr. Paul T. Kotzbauer, Department of Neurology, "Accumulation of misfolded protein in Parkinson's disease and related

disorders"

Monday, April 28 - Psychology Seminar, 12:00 pm, Psychology Bldg, Rm 216 (Danforth campus), Dr. Russ Poldrack, Psychology Dept., UCLA, " Reading mental states using fMRI"

March, 2008

Monday, March 3 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, , Christopher J. Lingle, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, "The role of auxiliary beta subunits in defining physiological roles of Ca2+-activated BK channels"

Monday, March 3, Developmental Biology Research Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 3907 South Bldg., Dr. Kerry Kornfeld, “A role for zinc metabolism in Ras-mediated signaling”

Monday, March 3 – Biology Seminar, 4pm Rebstock 322, Dr. Valeria Cavali, Anatomy and Neurobiology, "Sunday Driver - Linking Vesicular Axonar Transport to Nerve Regeneration"

 Tuesday, March 4, Anesthesiology Research Seminar, 4:00 p.m.,Clinical Sciences Research Building, Room 5550, Dr. Cynthia Czajkowski, Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, "Linking Structure to Function in GABA-A Receptors"

Wednesday, March 5, Ophthalmology Visiting Professor Grand Rounds, Holden Auditorium, FLTC, 5 pm, Dr. Johannes de Boer, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Wellman Center of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, “Spectral Domain OCT at 850 nm and Optical Frequency Domain Imaging at 1050 nm in Glaucoma and Age Related Macular Degeneration”

Thursday, March 6, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 -  - Dr. Thomas A. Reh, Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle– “Stem Cell Approaches for Retinal Repair”.

Friday, March 7, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Vladimir Kefalov, Department of Ophthalmology - "Seeing the light: A novel cone-specific mechanism for pigment regeneration in the retina"

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Monday, March 10 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Jeanne M. Nerbonne, Developmental Biology, "Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factors (iFGFs): Novel Regulators of Neuronal Membrane Excitability"

Monday, March 10,   Developmental Biology Research Seminar, 12 noon,  3rd floor South Building, Keith Blackwell (Kopan) Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School   - “Insulin signaling, systemic detoxification, and aging in C. elegans”   

Wednesday, March 12, Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Tianming Yang, Department of Physiology and Biophysics,University of Washington - "A Neural Mechanism Underlying Probabilistic Reasoning "

Thursday, March 13, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 -- Dr. Kevin D. Frick, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,  “Costs of Visual Impairment in the United States”.

Friday, March 14, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Robert Baloh, Department of Neurology - “Mitochondrial dynamics and neurodegeneration”

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Monday March 17 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Lawrence N. Eisenman, Neurology, "Visible light potentiation of GABA and NMDA receptors"

Monday, March 17,   Developmental Biology Research Seminar, 12 noon,  3rd floor South Building,  Dr. Larry A. Taber, Biomedical Engineering “Biomechanics of Early Heart Development”     

Monday, March 17 – Biology Seminar, 4pm Rebstock 322, Dr. Horacio de la Iglesia –

Wednesday, March 19, JOINT PNP/MEDICAL SCHOOL LUNCHTIME SEMINAR, 12:30 P.M., East Building, 2nd floor Conference Room 2311, Dr. Kurt A. Thoroughman, Biomedical Engineering, “Neural Computation and Human Motor Behavior”

Thursday, March 20, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 -- Dr. Joseph A. Bonanno, Optometry and Vision Science, Indiana University  “New Thoughts on Corneal Endothelial Function".

Friday, March 21, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Paul Shaw, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - ""

University of Washington Seattle,  "The Brains Master Clock and Its Rhythmic Symphony"

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Monday, March 24,   Developmental Biology Research Seminar, 12 noon,  3rd floor South Building,   Dr. Kristen Kroll Developmental Biology,  “Transcriptional regulatory networks controlling cell fate, proliferation and differentiation in the developing vertebrate nervous system”

Monday, March 24, Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar,  12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium,  Dr. Colin Nichols, Cell Biology & Phsyiology, “KAP channels: The molecular culprit in developmental delay, epilepsy and neonatal diabetes (DEND) syndrome.

Monday, March 24, Annual CCSN Invited Lecture, 4:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, Farrell LT, Dr. Leslie Ungerleider, “Mechanisms for Perceptual Decision-making in the Human Brain”

Thursday, March 27, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity

Building, Conference Room 725 - - Dr. Michael Young, Associate Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts – “Stem Cells for Repair of the Diseased Retina".

Friday, March 28, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Ron Davis, Department of Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Baylor College of Medicine - "Unraveling memory formation from the fly"

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Monday, March 31 – Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar -  12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Joseph H. Steinbach, Anesthesiology, “Actions of neuroactive steroids, esepcially on GABA-A receptors”

February, 2008

Monday, February 4 ,   Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders joint seminar with Dept. of Developmental Biology, Needleman Library, 3907 South Building, Dr. Zhigang He , Harvard Medical School, "Extrinsic and Intrinsic Mechanisms of Axon Regeneration "

Tuesday, February 5 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 11:00 am, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Xin Huang , Department of Physiology, Keck Center, University of California, San Francisco - "Visual motion processing in cortical area MT"

Thursday, February 7 , Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Rachel Baker Delston (Ph.D. Candidate in the Laboratory of J. William Harbour, M.D.), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,    “The Retinoblastoma Protein: More Than Meets The Eye”.

Friday, February 8 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Erik Herzog , Department of Biology - "Networked clocks: daily timekeeping in the brain"

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Monday, February 11 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium,   Dr. Robert H . Baloh , Neurology,   "Mitochondrial Dynamics and Peripheral Neuropathy"

Tuesday, February 12 ,   Anesthesiology Research Seminar, 4:00 p.m., Clinical Sciences Research Building, Room 5550, Dr. Erik Herzog , Dept. of Biology, "For Whom the Bells Toll: A Network of Circadian Clocks in the Brain"

Thursday, February 14 , Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. Rando Allikmets , Research Director of Harkness Eye Institute, Ophthalmology and Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York “What Causes Age-Related Macular Degeneration? A Geneticist's View”.

Friday, February 15 , Thesis Examination, 1:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case

Study Room (Auditorium), Mr. Matthew D. Budde , Neurosciences, Joseph Ackerman, Ph.D.

"Detecting Axonal Damage in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion Tensor Imaging"

Friday, February 15 , Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Eric Nestler ,

Department of Psychiatry, Univ Texas, Southwestern Medical Center - "Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Addiction"

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Monday, February 18 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Daniel P . Kelly , Chief, Cardiovascular Division, Director, Center for Cardiovascular Research, "Control of mitochondrial biogenesis by the PGC-1”

Monday, February 18, Developmental Biology Research Seminar, 12:00 Noon, Rm 3907 South Bldg., Dr. Amy Wagers, Harvard Medical School, "Stem cells and tissue repair"

Wednesday, February 20,   Thesis Examination, 1:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 Mr. Francesco Nodari , Neurosciences, Timothy Holy, Ph.D., "Sulfated Steroids as Natural Ligands of Mouse Pheromone-sensing Neurons"

Thursday, February 21 , Guze Symposium on Alcoholism. 8:00-5:30, Eric P. Newman Education Center .   For more information and to register , see http://www.alcoholdependence.org

Thursday, February 21 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Nicole Rust , Department of Center for Neural Science, MIT - "What changes as signals propagate through the primate object recognition pathway?"

Thursday, February 21 , Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. Hirotaka Kazama , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,   – “Apoptosis And Tolerance: The Role Of Caspase-Induced Mitochondrial Disruption".

Friday, February 22 , Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Silvia Bunge , Department of Psychology, Univ California, Berkeley - "Relational reasoning, development, and anterior prefrontal cortex"

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Monday, February 25 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium,   Dr. Matthew Chapman , Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, "Progein misfolding done right: The biogenesis of bacterial amyloid fibers"

Wednesday, February 27, PNP Medical School Seminar, 12:30 P.M., East Building, 2nd floor Conference Room, 2311, Dr. Carl Craver , Philosophy Department, "TBA"

Thursday, February 28 , Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. J. Mark Petrash , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics,   “Aldo-Keto Reductases In Stress And Inflammation".

Friday, February 29, Symposium in Honor of Dr. Eugene M. Johnson, Jr., 8:00 A.M., Eric P. Newman Education Center, "Life, Death, and the Renewal of the Neuron: The Leap from Bench to Bedside", Various Speakers Will Present Talks From 8 A.M. - 6 P.M., Dept. of Neurology. For more information and to register see http://alzheimer.wustl.edu/Education/JohnsonSymposium/default.htm

Friday, February 29 ,   - No 4:00 Anatomy & Neurobiology Seminar

Friday, January 4 ,   - No 4:00 Anatomy & Neurobiology Seminar

Monday, January 7 – No Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar

Tuesday, January 8 – WU Pain Center Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 5550 CSRB, Dr. Julie Kauer , Brown University, “LTP at GABA-ergic synapses in the reward system is blocked by morphine”

Friday, January 11 , Neuroscience Program Thesis Examination, 1:00 pm, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Mr. Jacob Nadler , MSTP – (laboratory of Dr. Gregory DeAngelis), "Single Neurons in the Macaque are Selective for Depth Defined by Motion Parallax"

Friday, January 11 ,   -   No 4:00 Anatomy & Neurobiology Seminar

Monday, January 14 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium,   Dr. Clay F. Semenkovich , Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research, "Lipid-Mediated Stress and Metabolism "

Monday, January 14 , Developmental Biology Seminar, 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Dr. David Ornitz , Developmental Biology, "Growth Factor Signaling Pathways that Regulate Myocardial Development and Coronary Vasculogenesis: From Developmental Biology to Therapeutic Implications"

Monday, January 14 ,   Physics Department, Compton lecture, 4:00, 241 Compton (Danforth Campus) Dr. John Milton, Joint Science Department, Claremont Colleges, “ Balancing at the Edge of Stability” (hosted by Ralf Wessel)

Wednesday, January 16, Joint PNP/Medical School Lunchtime Seminar, 12:30 pm, East Bldg., 2nd fl large conf rm, Dr. Todd Braver, Psychology, "Neural mechanisms of higher cognition: Anterior prefrontal cortex and goal-subgoal coordination"

Thursday January 17, Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Dr. Matthew Smith , Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Univ Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon, "Global form processing and population coding in visual cortex"

Thursday, January 17, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. Gary Stormo, Genetics, “Computational and Experimental Studies of DNA-Protein Interactions and Gene Regulation ”.

Friday, January 18, Neuroscience Program Thesis Examination, 1:00 pm, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Mr. Gaurav Patel, (laboratory of Dr. Maurizio Corbetta), "Attentional Networks in the Rhesus Macaque"

Friday, January 18 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Paul Kotzbauer , Department of Neurology - "Neurodegenerative consequences of mutations in a phospholipase gene"

Monday, January 21 – No Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar

Friday, January 25 , Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar, 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426, Dr. Jeffrey D. Milbrandt , Dept. of Pathology & Immunology, "Axon degeneration: Mitochondria, Energy, and Redox"

Friday, January 25 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Steve Petersen , Department of Neurology - "The way you do the things you do: Using network analysis tools to study the brain's control systems"

Monday, January 28 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium,   Dr. Timothy Miller, Neurology, "Mitochondria and ALS"

Thursday, January 31, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. David Piwnica-Worms, Radiology,   “Dynamic Imaging of Signal Transduction Pathways In Vivo”.