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Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF

2007-2008 Formal Seminar Schedule

2007-2008 Formal Seminar Schedule

Thursdays, 4:00 p.m.

Rooms are listed below.
Broadcasts will be from Rock Hall Auditorium to N225 or N225 to Rock Hall Auditorium unless otherwise noted. All seminars are also broadcast to Gallo. (Due to a previously scheduled event; the broadcast to the Gallo on 9/26/07 will not be taking place)

Fall ’07 Quarter (September – December):  Mission Bay
(With the exception of September 26, October 4 and December 6, when the seminar will be at Parnassus)
(Broadcast on 9/26 from N217 to Rock Hall Auditorium, Mission Bay and Gallo)

Winter ’08 Quarter (January – March):  Parnassus

Spring ’08 Quarter (April – May): Mission Bay

Seminars are also available as online Web Casts!!!
Link to Web Cast
Archive of previous Web Casts

Date / Location

Speaker and Title

Host and Sponsor

September

9/20/07

9/23-9/25:
Neuroscience Retreat at Asilomar

No Seminar

9/26/07
Wednesday
PH - N217

Shun-Ichi Amari
RIKEN Brain Science Institute

How to Decode Information from Spike Trains of Many Neurons---Introduction to Mathematical Neuroscience

Louis Reichardt

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

October

10/4/07
PH - N225

Ben Barres
Stanford University

How are CNS Synapses Eliminated?

 

Louis Reichardt

Sponsered by:
Department of Ophthalmology
The Ophthalmology Neuroscience Seminar Series is supported by the Francis I. Proctor Lecture Fund

 

10/11/07
MB – RH102

Martyn Goulding
Salk Institute

Vertebrate Locomotion: from Genes to Behavior

John Rubenstein

10/18/07
MB – RH102

Indira Raman
Northwestern University

Synaptic Signaling in Cerebellar Circuits

Anatol Kreitzer

10/25/07
MB – RH102

Kristin Scott
UC Berkeley

Taste Recognition in Drosophila

Cynthia Kenyon

November

11/1/07

SFN 11/3-11/7

No Seminar

11/8/07

SFN 11/3-11/7

No Seminar

11/15/07

No Seminar

No Seminar

11/22/07

Thanksgiving

No Seminar

11/29/07
MB – RH102

Richard Palmiter
University of Washington

Role of Dopamine in Motivation and Learning

Larry Tecott

December

12/6/07
PH - N225

Quifu Ma
Harvard

Molecular Control of Pain Circuitry Development

 

David Rowitch

Sponsored by:
Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences

 

12/13/07

Holiday

No Seminar

12/20/07

Holiday

No Seminar

12/27/07

Holiday

No Seminar

January

1/3/08

Holiday

No Seminar

1/10/08
PH - N225

Jeff Diamond
NINDS

Neuronal Transporters Shape Synaptic Signaling in the Hippocampus

 

David Copenhagen

Sponsored by:
Department of Ophthalmology
The Ophthalmology Neuroscience Seminar Series is supported by the Francis I. Proctor Lecture Fund

 

1/17/08
PH - N225

Bill Kristan
UCSD

Decision-Making: How Leech Neuronal Circuits make Behavioral Choices

 

Neuroscience Students

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

 

1/24/08
PH - N225

No Seminar

No Seminar

1/31/08
PH - N225

Rachel Wong
University of Washington

Imaging Circuit Development in the Vertebrate Retina

 

Michael Stryker

Co-Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology
and
Department of Ophthalmology
The Ophthalmology Neuroscience Seminar Series is supported by the Francis I. Proctor Lecture Fund

 

February

2/7/08

Admissions

No Seminar

2/14/08

Admissions

No Seminar

2/21/08
PH - N225

Gregg Recanzone
UC Davis

Spatial Processing and Age-Related Plasticity in the Auditory System of Primates

 

Michael Brainard

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

 

2/28/08
PH - N225

Ed Callaway
Salk Institute

Unraveling Fine-Scale and Cell-Type Specificty of Cortical Circuits

 

Loren Frank

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

 

March

3/6/08
PH - N225

Reza Shadmehr
Johns Hopkins Univ.

A Computational View of Motor Control and the Timescales of Memory

 

Philip Sabes

Sponsored by:
Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences

 

3/13/08
PH - N225

Mickey Goldberg
Columbia University

On the Agnosticism of Spikes: Saccades, Attention and Priority in the Lateral Intraparietal Area

 

Neuroscience Students

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

 

3/20/08
PH - N225

Chinfei Chen
Harvard

Sensory Experience-Dependent Remodeling of Synaptic Circuits in the Visual Thalamus

 

Erik Ullian

Sponsored by:
Department of Ophthalmology
The Ophthalmology Neuroscience Seminar Series is supported by the Francis I. Proctor Lecture Fund

 

3/27/08

Spring Holiday

No Seminar

April

4/3/08
PH - N225

No Seminar 

No Seminar

4/10/08
MB - RH102

Larry Abbott
Columbia University

Who's Afraid of Chaotic Networks? Models of Sensory and Motor Processing in the Face of Spontaneous Neuronal Activity

 

Flip Sabes

Sponsored by:
Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences

 

4/17/08
MB - RH102

Larry Zipursky
UCLA

A Vast Array of Ig Superfamily Proteins Regulates Neural Circuit Assembly in Drosophila

 

Lily Jan

Sponsored by:
Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences

 

4/24/08
MB - RH102

Dan Geschwind
UCLA

Genetic Investigations of Human Higher Cognitive Specializations

 Ying-Hui Fu

May

5/1/08
MB - RH102

Seminar moved to 5/29/08

 

5/8/08

No Seminar

No Seminar

5/15/08
MB - RH102

Michael Greenberg
Harvard

Signaling Networks that Controll Synapse Development and Cognitive Function

 

Stavros Lomvardas

5/22/08
MB - RH102

Fred Rieke
University of Washington

Origin of Correlated Activity between Retinal Ganglion Cells

 

Julie Schnapf

Sponsored by:
Department of Ophthalmology
The Ophthalmology Neuroscience Seminar Series is supported by the Francis I. Proctor Lecture Fund

5/29/08
MB - RH102
Bruce Hay
Caltech

Yuh-Nung Jan

Sponsored by:
Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences

 

Seminars - FS Schedule