IDDRC Seminars

IDDRC Seminar Series at Children’s Hospital Boston

September 2009-June 2010

* Please note that for the second half of the academic year (January – May) seminars will be held on TUESDAYS and location changes to Harvard Medical School Cannon Room (1st floor of building C; Dept. of BCMP)

Date Speaker Institution Topic
September 21, 2009 Nelson Spruston, PhD Northwestern University “Dendritic spikes: a cornerstore of synaptic integration and plasticity in hippocampal pyramidal neurons”
October 5, 2009 Gary Banker, MD Oregon Health & Science University “Membrane Trafficking and Neuronal Polarity”
October 13, 2009 V.S. Ramachandran, MD University of California, San Diego TBA
October 26, 2009 Clifford Woolf, MD Children’s Hospital Boston “Changing the face of pain”
November 2, 2009 Hongjun Song, MD The Johns Hopkins University “Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating adult neural stem cells and neurogenesis”
November 9, 2009 John Isaac, PhD NINDS/NIH “The mechanisms by which sensory experience builds the layer 4 neocritical circuit probed using single cell resolution 2-photon glutamate uncaging”
November 16, 2009 Arturo Alvarez-Buyalla, MD University of California, San Francisco Primary Cilia in Neural Stem Cells and Cancer”
November 23, 2009 Larry Abbott, MD Columbia University “Studying and Modifying the Dynamics of Neural Networks”
November 30, 2009 Leonardo Belluscio, MD NINDS/NIH TBD
December 7, 2009 Dora Angelaki, MD University of Washington School of Medicine “Getting a sense of direction: Integration of multiple cues for self-motion perception”
December 14, 2009 Lee Rubin, MD Harvard University “New Uses for Stem Cells in Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases”
January 5, 2010 Matteo Carandini, PhD. University College London “Regimes of computation in visual cortex”
January 12, 2010 Erika Holzbaur, PhD. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine “Axonal Transport: Molecular Motor Coordination and Long-Distance Signaling”
January 19, 2010 Dejian Ren, PhD. University of Pennsylvania “Neuronal Excitability Regulation by Neuropeptides and Ca2+: Roles of the NALCN Channel Complex”
January 26, 2010 Jeffrey Twiss, MD, PhD University of Delaware “Regulation of axonal mRNA transport and translation”
February 2, 2010 Andreas Burkhalter, PhD Washington University School of Medicine “Maps, Streams and Territories of Mouse Visual Cortex”
February 9, 2010 Daniel Finley, PhD Harvard Medical School TBD
February 16, 2010 Xinhong Dong, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine “Molecular and genetic analysis of primary sensory neurons”
February 23, 2010 Phil Sharp, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology “MicroRNA regulation provides “robustness” to systems”
March 2, 2010 Bruce Cumming, MD, PhD National Institutes of Medicine “Regulation of Proteasome Activity Through Ubiquitin Chain Editing”
March 9, 2010 Vivian Budnik, PhD UMass Medical School “Trans-synaptic communication of signals that regulate gene expression”
March 16, 2010 Ryohei Yasuda, PhD Duke University Medical Center TBD
March 23, 2009 Richard Caprioli, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center “Molecular Profiling/Imaging of Tissues by Mass Spectrometry: Assessing Spatial and Temporal Processes in Biology and Medicine”
April 6, 2010 Richard Axel, PhD Columbia University TBD
April 13, 2010 Carl Petersen, PhD Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne TBD
April 20, 2010 Michael Granato, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine “Neural circuit plasticity in zebrafish”
April 27, 2010 Beth Stevens, PhD Children’s Hospital Boston TBD
May 4, 2010 Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine “Cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying autoimmune anti-glutamate receptor disorders of memory cognition”
May 11, 2010 Charles Gilbert, PhD The Rockefeller Center TBD
May 18, 2010 Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc University of Rochester Medical Center TBD
May 25, 2010 Robin Davis, PhD Rutgers University TBD