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Dec 20 2010 12:00 noon
Vilma Gabbay, M.D., M.S., LL.B
Leon Levy Assistant Professor of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry Medical Director
Anita Saltz Institute for Anxiety and Mood Disorders
New York University
Seminar Title: A neuroinflammatory investigative
approach into adolescent depression
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Dec 17 2010 12:30 p.m.
Chris Baker, Ph.D.
Investigator
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition
National Institute of Mental Health
Seminar Title: Cortical representations of complex visual scenes: Objects, places and spaces
Location: 115 Mellon Institute
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Dec 16 2010 12:00 noon
Lauren Terhorst, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Amanda Gentry, MPH
Projector Director
Department of Health and Community Systems
Seminar Title: Is the UCSD brief assessment of capacity
to consent (UBACC) a useful tool for AD
researchers?
Location: Alzheimer Disease Research Center Conference Room, S439 Montefiore Hospital
Sponsor: Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Dec 15 2010 4:00 p.m.
Barbara Hastie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Dentistry
University of Florida
Seminar Title: Predicting pain across populations:
Mechanisms, models and conundrums
Location: 1105A Scaife Hall
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
Dec 14 2010 12:00 noon
Brian, Litt, M.D.
Professor of Neurology and Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Seminar Title: Neuroengineering, networks, and
antiepileptic devices
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Dec 9 2010 4:00 p.m.
Jeremy Seamans, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Brain Research Centre
University of British Columbia
Seminar Title: The dynamic encoding of events and
experiences by prefrontal cortex ensembles
Location: 2nd Floor, WPIC Auditorium
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Dec 8 2010 4:00 p.m.
Laura Niedernhofer, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and
Molecular Genetics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Accelerated age-related neurodegeneration
in DNA repair-deficiency
Location: 1105 BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Dec 1 2010 4:00 p.m.
Martin A. Samuels, M.D.
Chairman
Department of Neurology
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Seminar Title: Neurocardiology
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Dec 1 2010 3:30 p.m.
Ed Lein, Ph.D.
Alen Brain Institute
Seminar Title: Neuroanatomical transcriptomics: Large scale gene expression mapping in the developing mammalian brain
Location: 348 Mellon Institute Conference Room
Sponsor: Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Nov 30 2010 12:00 noon
Joshua D. Berke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology and
Neuroscience
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Seminar Title: Striatal microcircuit dynamics and
behavioral control
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Nov 23 2010 12:00 noon
Asaf Keller, Ph.D.
Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Seminar Title: Chronic pain following spinal cord injury:
The role of maladaptive thalamic plasticity
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Nov 19 2010 2:30 p.m.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:
Patrick MacDonald Fisher
Center for Neuroscience
School of Medicine/Neurobiology
Univeristy of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: In vivo assessment of serotonergic signaling pathways underlying the corticolimbic response to threat in humans
Location: 2nd Floor Auditorium
Learning Research Development Center
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Nov 17 2010 3:30 p.m.
Mark von Zastrow, Ph.D.
University of California
San Francisco
Seminar Title: Regulation of signaling receptors by
endocytosis
Location: 348 Mellon Institute Conference Room
Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon Department of Biological Sciences
Nov 9 2010 10:00 a.m.
Pierre Paoletti, Ph.D.
Directeur de Recherche
Institut National de la Santé et de la
Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Group Leader, Biology Institute
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
Paris, France
Seminar Title: Control of NMDA receptor activity:
From molecular mechanisms to synaptic
modulation
Location: 2nd Floor Auditorium,
Learning Research Development Center
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Nov 8 2010 12:00 noon
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:
Beth Siegler Retchless
Center for Neuroscience
School of Arts & Sciences/Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Mechanistic bases of subtype-specific
NMDA receptor channel properties
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Nov 8 2010 12:00 noon
Cyndi Shannon Weickert, Ph.D.
NISAD Chair of Schizophrenia Research and
Professor of Psychiatry
University of New South Wales
Seminar Title: How could a faulty neuregulin gene lead
to maldevelopment of cortical inhibitory
neurons and schizophrenia?
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Nov 4 2010 12:00 noon
James T, Becker, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and
Psychology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: The diagnosis and treatment of dementia
in urban Catalonia, or innocence abroad
Location: S123 Biomedical Sceince Tower
Sponsor: Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Nov 3 2010 3:30 p.m.
Jeff Schloss, Ph.D.
Program Director for Technology Development Coordination
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
NIH
Seminar Title: A revolution in DNA sequencing technologies:Challenges and opportunities
Location: 348 Mellon Institute Conference Room
Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon Department of Biological Sciences
Nov 2 2010 3:30 p.m.
Valeria Culotta, Ph.D.
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Seminar Title: Living with oxygen: Tales of superoxide
dismutase
Location: 1395 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
Oct 28 2010 12:00 noon
Howard Aizenstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Neuroimaging Predictors of Treatment Response in Late-Life Depression
Location: S439 Alzheimer Desease Research Center
Montefiore Hospital
Sponsor: Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Oct 28 2010 4:00 p.m.
Angela J. Yu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cognitive Science
University of California
San Diego
Seminar Title: Wherefore a horse race: Inhibitory
control as rational decision-making
Location: 2nd Floor Auditorium, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Oct 27 2010 4:00 p.m.
Marlene Behrmann, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University
Seminar Title: Perceptual impairments in acquired and
congenital agnosia
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Oct 26 2010 12:00 noon
Manojkumar A. Puthenveedu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University and
Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Seminar Title: Sorting of signaling receptors in the
endosome
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Oct 25 2010 12:00 noon
Damien Fair, Ph.D.
Oregon Health Sciences University
Seminar Title: Studying the brain at rest: Using
functional connectivity MRI to examine
typical and atypical development
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Oct 20 2010 4:00 p.m.
LOCATION CHANGE
Ian Gilron, M.D., M.SC., FRCP(C)
Director of Clinical Pain Research
Professor, Anesthesiology
Queens University, Canada
Seminar Title: Combination pharmacotherapy for the
management of pain
Location: 1105A Scaife
Sponsor: The Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
Oct 19 2010 12:00 noon
Anne Robertson, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: The Pathophysiology of Cerebral Aneurysms-Recent Results and Future Directions
Location: 456 Salk Hall
Sponsor: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Oct 19 2010 11:00 a.m.
Ineke Braakman, Ph.D.
Professor
Cellular Protein Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Utrecht University
The Netherlands
Seminar Title: Protein folding in the endoplasmic
reticulum
Location: 5th Floor Boardroom, Eye and Ear Institute
Sponsor: Cell Biology and Physiology
Oct 18 2010 12:00 noon
Jong Yoon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychiatry
University of California Davis
Seminar Title: GABA and dopamine dysfunction in micro
and macro-circuit models of psychopathology in schizophrenia
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Oct 12 2010 4:00 p.m.
Justine Cassell, Ph.D.
Human Computer Interaction Institute Director
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Seminar Title: Making (Virtual) Friends and Influencing (Virtual) People
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
(Enter via Bellefield Street)
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Oct 6 2010 2:00 p.m.
CANCELLED
Yuko Munakata, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Colorado
Seminar Title: Inhibition is out of control
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Oct 4 2010 12:00 noon
Keri Martinowich, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health
Seminar Title: Elucidating the functional impact of
alternative BDNF promoters in
development and disease
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Sep 29 2010 12:00 noon
Christine V. Portfors, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Washington State University
Vancouver, WA
Seminar Title: Efficient encoding of behaviorally relevant sounds in the auditory midbrain
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Auditory Research Group Department of Otolaryngology
Sep 28 2010 1:00 p.m.
Hugo Merchant, Ph.D.
Professor
Institute de Neurobiologia
National University of Mexico (UNAM)
campus Juriquilla
Seminar Title: Neurophysiology of temporal processing
during a synchronization-continuation tapping task
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Systems Neuroscience Institute and Department of Neurobiology
Sep 27 2010 12:00 noon
Amelia Eisch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Seminar Title: Adult hippocampal neurogenesis:
What are new neurons good for?
And what is good for new neurons?
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Sep 24 2010 3:00 p.m.
Joan M. Romano, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
Seminar Title: The social context of chronic pain: Research
and clinical perspectives
Location: 4127 Sennott Square
Sponsor: Department of Psychology
Sep 24 2010 10:00 a.m.
Richard J. Krauzlis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Systems Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California
Seminar Title: Priority map for action and perception in the primate superior colliculus
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Sep 23 2010 1:00 p.m.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:
Trinity B. Crapse
Center for Neuroscience
School of Arts and Sciences/Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Neuronal mechanisms for evaluating the visual scene across eye movements
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Sep 21 2010 4:00 p.m.
Philip Winn, Ph.D.
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and
Biomedical Sciences
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland
Seminar Title: Putting the brain into brainstem: the pedunculopontine, learning and reinforcement
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Sep 21 2010 12:00 noon
Shiyuan Cheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, UPCI
Department of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Mechanisms of PDGFR alpha-promoted
glioblastoma tumorigenesis and invasion
Location: 456 Salk Hall
Sponsor: Department of Pharmacy
Sep 21 2010 9:00 a.m.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:
Ericka C. Holmstrand
Center for Neuroscience
School of Arts and Sciences/Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Heterogeneity of high-affinity choline transporter expression and localization in limbic projections of the cholinergic brainstem tegmentum
Location: 2nd Floor Auditorium, Learning Research Development Center
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Sep 20 2010 12:00 noon
Gholson Lyon, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry
University of Utah
Seminar Title: Tourette syndrome, OCD and ADHD –
genetics, treatment and pathophysiology
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Sep 16 2010 1:00 p.m.
Dan Winkowski, Ph.D.
Neural Systems Laboratory
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
Seminar Title: Control of auditory cortical plasticity by the prefrontal cortex
Location: 520 Eye and Ear Institute
Sponsor: Department of Otolaryngology
Sep 16 2010 12:00 noon
Nicole Fowler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Treating heart disease in Medicare
beneficiaries with dementia: Secondary
chemoprevention in the context of life-limiting disease
Location: S439 ADRC Conference Room, Montefiore Hospital
Sponsor: Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Sep 15 2010 4:00 p.m.
Douglas Kondziolka, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Director, Center for Brain Function and Behavior
Co-Director, Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery
University od Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Radiosurgery for Epilepsy: From the Lab to the Clinic
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Sep 15 2010 4:00 p.m.
Rami Burstein, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anesthesia
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Seminar Title: Thalamic involvement in photophobia and
whole-body allodynia during migraine
Location: W1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
Sep 14 2010 11:00 a.m.
Ben Glick, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
University of Chicago
Seminar Title: A new layer of regulation in the secretory pathway
Location: 5th Floor Boardroom, Eye and Ear Institute
Sponsor: Cell Biology and Physiology
Sep 13 2010 12:00 noon
Laura Rowland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Successful learning in schizophrenia: Insights from neuroimaging
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Sep 10 2010 3:00 p.m.
Natasha Tokowicz, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: When less is more: Translation ambiguity
affects second language learning and processing
Location: 4127 Sennott Square
Sponsor: Department of Psychology
Jul 19 2010 12:00 noon
Hanna Stevens, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale University Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Cortical development, neuropsychiatry, and mouse model systems
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Jul 14 2010 12:00 noon
Harold A. Burgess, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
NICHD
Seminar Title: Neural circuits underlying motor control in zebrafish
Location: 7023 Biomedical Science Tower-3
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Jul 12 2010 11:00 a.m.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:
James W. Bales
School of Medicine/Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: The DARPP-32/PP-1 signaling pathway:
A novel therapeutic target following traumatic brain injury
Location: 201 Hill Building, Safar Center
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Jul 12 2010 9:00 a.m.
Thomas M. Reeves, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Virginia Commonwealth University
Seminar Title: Unmyelinated axons: A special role in TBI pathology
Location: 201 Hill Building, Safar Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurosurgery
Jun 18 2010 12:00 noon
Atsushi Nambu, Ph.D., M.D.
Professor
Division of Systems Neurophysiology
National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Okazaki, Japan
Seminar Title: What we have learned from transgenic
mice
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Systems Neuroscience Institute
Jun 17 2010 12:00 noon
Masahiko Takada, Ph.D., D.D.S.
Professor
Systems Neuroscience Section
Department of Cellular and Molecular
Biology
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University
Inuyama, Aichi, Japan
Seminar Title: Application of recombinant viral vectors
to primate brain research: Gene therapy
for Parkinson’s disease
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Systems Neuroscience Institute
Jun 16 2010 12:00 noon
Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: Illuminating brain dynamics: Using optogenetic circuit control to investigate the mechanisms and meaning of neocortical gamma oscillations
Location: Social Room, Mellon Institute
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Jun 7 2010 12:00 noon
Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: A dynamic synapse hypothesis of schizophrenia
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Jun 2 2010 4:00 p.m.
Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Useful signals from motor cortex
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
May 26 2010 4:00 p.m.
David Lacomis, M.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology
Chief, Neuromuscular Diseases Division
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Seminar Title: Myasthenia gravis: Review and update
Location: 1104 Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
May 25 2010 12:00 noon
Alex L. Kolodkin, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Seminar Title: Guidance cue control of dendrite
development, synapse formation, and
axonal pathway assembly
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
May 24 2010 12:00 noon
Pierre Blier, M.D., Ph.D.
Departments of Psychiatry and
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of Ottawa
Seminar Title: Neurobiological basis of the antidepressant
response: From the laboratory to the clinic
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
May 21 2010 2:30 p.m.
Christopher J. Chang, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California
Berkeley
Seminar Title: Metals on the brain: Probing their
chemistry with molecular imaging
Location: 157 Benedum Hall
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
May 20 2010 12:00 noon
Karen Wilcox, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Utah
Seminar Title: Expanding Horizons of the Anticonvulsant Drug Development Program: Novel Approaches in Search of Cures for Epilepsy
Location: 520 Eye and Ear Institute
Sponsor: Department of Otolaryngology
May 20 2010 12:00 noon
Mary Ganguli, M.D., MPH
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and
Epidemiology
&
Beth Snitz, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Epidemiology of mild cognitive impairment:
Update on the Mon-Yough Healthy Aging
Team (MYHAT) project
Location: S439 ADRC Conference Room
Montefiore Hospital
Sponsor: Alzheimer Disease Research Center
May 20 2010 5:00 p.m.
Christopher J. Chang, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California
Berkeley
Seminar Title: Chemical approaches to understanding
redox biology in the brain
Location: 157 Benedum Hall
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
May 19 2010 4:00 p.m.
Joyce DeLeo, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Director of the Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Seminar Title: Role of CNS glia and immune cells in pain:
Lessons learned from the lab and clinic
Location: 1105A Scaife Hall
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
May 12 2010 12:00 noon
Adriano Aguzzi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neuropathology
Chairman, Department of Pathology
Director, Institute of Neuropathology
Director, Swiss National Reference Center for Prion Disease
University Hospital of Zurich
Switzerland
Seminar Title: Biology of prion diseases
Location: Lecture Room 1, Scaife Hall
Sponsor: Department of Pathology
May 12 2010 4:00 p.m.
Georgirene D. Vladutiu, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Pathology & Anatomical Sciences
School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo General Hospital
Seminar Title: Genetic susceptibility to statin-induced myopathy
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
May 10 2010 2:00 p.m.
Mark Churchland, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Neurosciences Program and
Electrical Engineering
School of Medicine
Stanford University
Seminar Title: The neural basis of movement planning
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Systems Neuroscience Institute
May 10 2010 11:00 a.m.
Laura Stone, Ph.D.
Faculty of Dentistry
Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain
McGill University
Seminar Title: Degenerative disc disease and low back
pain: Clinical and preclinical perspectives
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
May 5 2010 2:00 P.M.
M.S. Thesis Defense:
Eser Yilmaz
School of Medicine/Neurobiology
Seminar Title: LTP- and LTD- inducing stimulations cause opposite changes in Arc/Arg3.1 mRNA level in hippocampal area CA1 in vivo.
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
May 4 2010 12:00 noon
Beatriz Luna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Neuroimaging evidence of immaturities
in cognitive control, reward processing,
and brain connectivity during adolescence
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
May 3 2010 12:00 noon
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE
Alexandre Dombrovski, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Neuroeconomics of late-life suicide
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Apr 28 2010 4:00 p.m.
David Clark, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Anesthesia
Stanford University
Seminar Title: The inflammatory basis of complex
regional pain syndrome
Location: 1105A Scaife Hall
Sponsor: The Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
Apr 28 2010 3:30 p.m.
Helen Blau, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Seminar Title: Regulation of stem cell fate
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Sponsor: Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Apr 26 2010 12:00 noon
Colleen McClung, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Seminar Title: Circadian genes and the biology of
mood disorders
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Apr 22 2010 12:30 p.m.
Larry Snyder, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Attention, please: What is the role of LIP in behavior
Location: 115 Mellon Institute
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Apr 21 2010 4:00 p.m.
Christina Vaughan, M.D.
Neurology Resident
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Seminar Title: Beyond the movements, "Beyond the Mind": Psychosis in Parkinsonism
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Apr 21 2010 3:30
Katherine Kalil, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seminar Title: Signaling mechanisms in cortical axon
branching, growth and guidance
Location: Mellon Institute, Conference Room, 3rd Floor
Sponsor: Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Apr 19 2010 12:00 noon
Erika Fanselow, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Putting inhibition in its place: Temporal
dynamics of neural circuit function
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Apr 19 2010 2:30 p.m.
M.S. Thesis Defense
Jennifer E. Joeyen-Waldorf
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Behavioral and molecular correlates of
major depression in mice lacking the
serotonin transporter
Location: 1295 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Apr 15 2010 3:00 p.m.
Mel Feany, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Seminar Title: Genetic analysis of neurodegeneration
in drosophila
Location: S120 Bolmedical Science Tower
Sponsor: NIH Postdoctoral Training Grants MH18273 & NS07391
Apr 14 2010 10:00 a.m.
M.S. Thesis Defense:
Andrea Ponting
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: The basal ganglia and training of arithmetical fluency
Location: 9th Floor Auditorium LRDC
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Apr 8 2010 12:00 noon
C. Elizabeth Sarles, MPH
Neuropsychology Program Coordinator
Alzheimer Disease Research Center
University of Pittsburgh
&
Amanda Hunsaker, MPH
Doctoral Student
School of Social Work
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Views of study participants in MCI
and dementia studies: Perceived benefits
from research participation
Location: S439 Alzheimer Desease Research Center
Montefiore Hospital
Sponsor: Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Apr 8 2010 9:00 a.m.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:
Layla Banihashemi
Center for Neuroscience
School of Arts and Sciences/Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Early life experience alters stress-related brain circuits: Effects of repeated brief postnatal maternal separation on central autonomic pathways
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Apr 8 2010 2:30 p.m.
James P. Herman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati
Seminar Title: Stress and mental illness:
A neurobiological perspective
Location: A224 Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Apr 6 2010 2:00 p.m.
Geoffrey Schoenbaum, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
and Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Seminar Title: The role of orbitofrontal cortex in
estimating likely outcomes
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Apr 6 2010 12:00 noon
B.J. (Betty Jo) Casey, Ph.D.
Professor
Psychology in Psychiatry
Sackler Professor
Developmental Psychology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Seminar Title: The storm and stress of adolescence:
Insights from human imaging and mouse genetics
Location: WPIC - Auditorium. 2nd Floor
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Apr 5 2010 12:00 noon
John Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D.
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
University of Iowa
Seminar Title: Acidosis: Signaling fear in the amygdale
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Apr 2 2010 12:30 p.m.
Vincent Prevosto, Ph.D.
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie
Cellulaire et Moléculaire
CNRS
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Seminar Title: Spatial updating and online control of
movement by the PPC: Contribution
of cerebellar and prepositus hypoglossi
inputs to LIP and MIP
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Apr 1 2010 12:00 noon
Marc S. Ansorge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Clinical Neurobiology in Psychiatry
Columbia University
Seminar Title: Serotonin signaling during development –
impact on brain maturation and behavior
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Apr 1 2010 10:30 a.m.
Manuel Zimmer, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rockefeller University
Seminar Title: Aerotaxis in C. elegans: A model to study chemosensation and neural circuit function
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
Mar 31 2010 3:30 p.m.
Ge Yang, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Lane Center for Computational Biology
Carnegie Mellon University
Seminar Title: Computational analysis of kinesin dynein coordination in cytoskeletal dynamics
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Sponsor: Department of Biological Sciences. Carnegie Mellon University
Mar 30 2010 12:00 noon
Roberta Diaz-Brinton, Ph.D.
R. Pete Vanderveen Chair
Therapeutic Discovery and Development
Professor of Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical
Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California School of Pharmacy
Seminar Title: Estrogen regulation of mitochondrial
function in brain: Implications for
bioenergetics of brain and risk for
Alzheimer’s disease
Location: 456 Salk Hall
Sponsor: School of Pharmacy
Mar 24 2010 4:00 p.m.
Jerry Vockley, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh - Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Professor of Human Genetics - Graduate School of Public Health
Chief of Medical Genetics - Children's Hospital of Pitts
Seminar Title: Mitochondrial disease: The great masquerader!
Location: 1103 Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Neurology Grands Rounds Series
Mar 24 2010 11:00 a.m.
PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE
Long Ding, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
Seminar Title: The cortico-basal ganglia pathway and
perceptual decision making
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Mar 24 2010 12:00 noon
Doris Doudet, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Pacific Parkinson’s Research Center
University of British Columbia
Seminar Title: Using PET imaging to answer research
questions: Examples and applications in
animal models of Parkinson’s disease
Location: 3850 Radiology Conference Room, Children's Hospital, main tower
Sponsor: Department of Radiology
Mar 24 2010 4:00 p.m.
Galen Mitchell, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Seminar Title: The immunopathogenesis of MS
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Mar 23 2010 12:00 noon
Richard Zigmond, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurosciences
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
Seminar Title: Cytokines and neurotrophins: Signals
utilized by injured neurons
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Mar 18 2010 1:00 p.m.
Stuart Kim, Ph.D.
Professor of Developmental Biology
Stanford University
Seminar Title: Developmental drift and aging in C. elegans
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Mar 17 2010 1:00 p.m.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:
Christin Glorioso
School of Medicine/Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Between destiny and disease: Genetics
and molecular pathways of central
nervous system aging
Location: LRDC, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Mar 10 2010 9:30 a.m.
Kazuhito Toyo-oka, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Biologist
Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
University of California
Seminar Title: Dissecting the functions of 14-3-3 proteins
in the developing brain and their roles in human diseases
Location: A219B Langley hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Mar 10 2010 10:00 a.m.
Byung-Chang Suh, Ph.D.
Physiology and Biophysics Department
University of Washington
Seminar Title: Phospholipid modulation of voltage-gated
ion channels
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
Mar 9 2010 12:00 noon
Marina Picciotto, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Seminar Title: Intracellular signaling pathways
downstream of nicotinic receptors in
addiction-related behaviors
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Mar 4 2010 12:00 noon
Richard Schulz. Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Director
University Center for Social and
Urban Research
Seminar Title: Measuring suffering in person’s with
Alzheimer’s disease
Location: ADRC Conference Room, S439 Montefiore Hospital
Sponsor: Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Mar 3 2010 10:00 a.m.
Omar Samad, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Seminar Title: Characterization of genetic programs regulating nociceptor development and chronic pain
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
Mar 3 2010 12:00 noon
Chenjian Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular Genetics and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Seminar Title: Kinases pathways in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis
Location: 7023 BST 3 Conference Room
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mar 1 2010 9:30 a.m.
Yangzhong Hung, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University Medical Center
Seminar Title: A novel mechanism of TrkB activation:
Transactivation by the divalent cation zinc
Location: A221 Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Feb 26 2010 1:00 p.m.
Robert Vandenberg, Ph.D.
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Department of Pharmacology
Bosch Institute
University of Sydney
Seminar Title: Ion-substrate coupling of glutamate transporters
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Feb 24 2010 3:30 p.m.
Alex Evilevitch, Ph.D.
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Seminar Title: Biophysics of viral infectivity: Matching genome length and virus size
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Sponsor: Department of Biological Sciences. Carnegie Mellon University
Feb 23 2010 10:00 a.m.
Marlene R. Cohen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Seminar Title: Using attention to study cortical
population codes
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Feb 23 2010 12:00 noon
Maria E. Rubio, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Neurons and glial cells respond to
hearing loss
Location: 1495 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Feb 22 2010 9:30 a.m.
Gareth M. Thomas, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience and
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Regulation glutamatergic synapses
in health and disease
Location: A221 Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Feb 22 2010 12:00 noon
Susan Sesack, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: A newly identified brain region with
extensive inhibitory inputs to dopamine
neurons – Implications for disorders of
reward processing
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Feb 18 2010 9:00 a.m.
Michael Platt, Ph.D.
Duke University Director
Department of Neurobiology
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Duke University
Seminar Title: From brain to society: Neuroethology and
neuroeconomics of social behavior
Location: Doherty Hall, Room 2210, Carnigie Mellon University
Sponsor: HHMI and Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University
Feb 18 2010 12:00 noon
Suma Jacob, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago
Seminar Title: Behavioral neuroendocrine associations
and treatment options in Autism
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry
Feb 17 2010 10:00 a.m.
Rebecca A. Berman, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
National Eye Institute
National Institutes of Health
Seminar Title: Pathways to perception: Interactions between
the visual thalamus and cortex
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Feb 17 2010 4:00 p.m.
Alexandra Popescu, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Seminar Title: Functional imaging in epilepsy evaluation
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Feb 17 2010 3:30 p.m.
Willi Halfter, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Basement membranes in the developing
and aging eye
Location: 3rd Floor Conference Room, Mellon Institute
Sponsor: Department of Biological Sciences. Carnegie Mellon University
Feb 16 2010 12:00 noon
William C. de Groat, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Nitro-fatty acids, a new class of signaling molecules, activate TRP channels in
sensory neurons
Location: 456 Salk '03 Hall
Sponsor: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Feb 15 2010 12:00 noon
Clarissa L. Waites, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
Seminar Title: Molecular mechanisms of synapse
formation and function
Location: Learning Research Development Center Auditorium, 2nd Floor
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Feb 10 2010 9:00 a.m.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:
Kathleen E. Cosgrove
Center for Neuroscience
School of Arts and Sciences/Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: High affinity group III mGluRs regulate
mossy fiber input to CA3 interneurons
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience
Feb 10 2010 4:00 p.m.
David Lacomis, M.D.
Professor of Neurology and Pathology
Chief, Division of Neuromuscular Disease
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Seminar Title: Myasthenia Gravis: Review and U
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Feb 9 2010 4:00 p.m.
Jean-Claude Lacaille, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology
University of Montreal
Seminar Title: Persistent plasticity of inhibition in brain memory circuits
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Feb 4 2010 12:00 noon
Joan C. Rogers, Ph.D., OTR/L
Professor of Occupational Therapy and
Nursing
Chair, Department of Occupational Therapy
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Functional assessment of disability
in late depression
Location: ADRC Conf.Room S439, Montefiore Hosp.
Sponsor: Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Feb 4 2010 4:00 p.m.
Patricia Smith Churchland
President’s Professor of Philosophy
University of California
San Diego, CA
Seminar Title: Consciousness, eliminative materialism and
progress in brain research
Location: WPIC Auditorium, 2nd Floor
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Feb 3 2010 10:00 a.m.
Benjamin Y. Hayden, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University
Seminar Title: Monitoring outcomes and the role of the
cingulate cortex in risky choice
Location: PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE
328 Mellon Institute, Social Room
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Feb 3 2010 4:00 p.m.
David A. Lewis, M.D.
Chairman and UPMC Professor in Translational Neuroscience
Department of Psychiatry
Medical Director and Director of Research
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Translating neural circuits into novel therapeutics for schizophrenia
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Feb 2 2010 12:00 noon
Anna Wang Roe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Psychology and Radiology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Seminar Title: Imaging modules of perception and
attention in macaque visual cortex
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Jan 27 2010 10:00 a.m.
Matthew A. Smith, Ph.D.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
University of Pittsburgh and
Carnegie Mellon University
Seminar Title: Deriving functional circuitry from
cortical population activity
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Jan 21 2010 2:00 p.m.
Larry S. Zweifel, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Seminar Title: Genetic dissection of phasic dopamine
function in fear, reward, and anxiety
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Jan 20 2010 4:00 p.m.
Berge Minassian, M.D., FRCPC
Associate Professor
Department of Paediatrics
University of Toronto Clinician-Scientist
Toronto, Ontario
Seminar Title: Genetics of the epilepsies
Location: 1105BC Scaife Conference Center
Sponsor: Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Series
Jan 19 2010 12:00 noon
John H. Martin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and
Neuroscience
City College/City University of New York
Seminar Title: Bringing the corticospinal system online
during postnatal development
Location: 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
Sponsor: Department of Neurobiology
Jan 14 2010 4:00 p.m.
Kenneth Norman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology and
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Princeton University
Seminar Title: Tracking memory retrieval using
multivariate pattern analysis
Location: 2nd Floor WPIC Auditorium
Sponsor: Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
Jan 11 2010 12:00 noon
Subroto Ghose, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Seminar Title: An investigation into the 'COMT val/val genotype x adolescent cannabis use' interaction in schizophrenia
Location: 1695 Biomedical Science Tower
Sponsor: Translational Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry