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Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF

2008-2009 Formal Seminar Schedule

2008-2009 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 and are available as live Web Casts.
9-24-08 Seminar will be in HSW-301. This seminar will be broadcast to Rock Hall Auditorium.

Fall ’08 Quarter (September – December):  Mission Bay
(With the exception of September 24, November 6 and December 4, when the seminar will be at Parnassus)

Winter ’09 Quarter (January – March):  Mission Bay
(With the exception of February 5, when the seminar will be at Parnassus)
1-29-08 Seminar will be broadcast to HSW-301
2-12-08 Seminar will not be broadcast to Parnassus

Spring ’09 Quarter (April – May): Parnassus

Seminars are also available as online Web Casts!!!
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Date / Location

Speaker and Title

Host and Sponsor

September

9/18/08

9/21-9/23:
Neuroscience Retreat at Asilomar

No Seminar

9/24/08
Wednesday
PH - HSW301

Mineko Kengaku
RIKEN Brain Science Institute

Activity-Dependent Control of Flat Arborization of Purkinje Cell Dendrites

Louis Reichardt

October

10/2/08
MB- RH 102

No Seminar

No Seminar

10/9/08
Yom Kippur
No Seminar

10/16/08
MB – RH102

Ming Guo
UCLA

Molecular Paths of Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Disease

Robert Edwards

10/23/08
MB – RH102

Mel Feany
Harvard

Genetic Analysis of Neurodegeneration in Drosophila

Fen-Biao Gao

10/30/08
MB – RH102

Florian Engert
Harvard

Neural Circuits Controlling Visually Guided Behaviors

Neuroscience Students

November

11/6/08
PH-N225

No Seminar

No Seminar

11/13/08

SFN 11/15-11/19

No Seminar

11/20/08

SFN 11/15-11/19

No Seminar

11/27/08

Thanksgiving

No Seminar

December

12/4/08
PH - N225

Kang Shen
Stanford

Molecular Regulators of Synapse Formation in C. elegans.

Erik Ullian

12/11/08
MB - RH102

Gouping Feng
Duke

Synaptic and Circuitry Mechanisms of Obsessive Complusive-like Behavior in Mice

Anatol Kreitzer

12/18/08

Holiday

No Seminar

12/25/08

Holiday

No Seminar

January

1/1/08

Holiday

No Seminar

1/8/08

Holiday

No Seminar

1/15/09
MB - RH102

CANCELED

Gene Robinson
University of Illinois

Exploring the Relationship between Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee

Allison Doupe

1/22/09
MB - RH102

Rene Hen
Columbia University

Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Depression

Mark von Zastrow

1/29/09
MB - RH102

Gilles Laurent
Caltech

Exploring Simple Olfactory Circuits

NS Students

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

February

2/5/09
PH - N225

Yang Dan
University of California, Berkeley

Plasticity and Neuromodulation in the Visual Cortex

Michael Stryker

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

2/12/09
MB - RH102

Massimo Scanziani
UCSD

Basic Operations of Cortical Inhibitory Circuits

Anatol Kreitzer

2/19/09

Admissions

No Seminar

2/26/09
MB - RH102

Rachel Wilson
Harvard

Olfactory Processing in the Drosophila Brain

Roger Nicoll

March

3/5/09

Admission

No Seminar

3/12/09
MB - RH102

Amita Sehgal
University of Pennsylvania

Genetic Control of Rhythmic Behaviors

Ying-Hui Fu

3/19/09
MB - RH102

No Seminar

No Seminar

3/26/09

Spring Holiday

No Seminar

April

4/2/09
PH - N225

Karl Deisseroth
Stanford

Optogenetics: Development and Application

Steve Finkbeiner

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

4/9/09
PH - N225

Gyorgy Buzsaki
Rutgers

Cell Assembly Sequences in the Service of Cognition

Loren Frank

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

4/16/09
PH - N225

Sam Pfaff
Salk

Genetic Characterization of Motor Neuron Axon Pathfinding

Louis Reichardt

4/23/09
PH - N225

Larry Trussell
OHSU/Vollum Inst.

Synaptic Transmission Mediated by Complex Spikes in an Interneuron Network

 Peter Sargent

4/30/09
PH - N225

Gene Robinson
University of Illinois

Exploring the Relationship between Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee

Allison Doupe

May

5/7/09
PH

No Seminar

No Seminar

5/14/09
PH - N225

Edvard and May-Brit Moser
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscince
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The Brain's Mechanisms for Mapping and Remembering the Spatial Environment

Loren Frank

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

5/21/09
PH

No Seminar

No Seminar

5/28/09
PH - N225

CANCELED

Sascha du Lac

Salk

Michael Brainard

Sponsored by:
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

 

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