MONDAY, June 2, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357

Family-Based Tests for Association on the X Chromosome

Eden Martin, Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Miami Institute for Human Genomics,

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

(Department of Human Genetics Seminar)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, C-128 RNRC

Title to be Determined

Gilbert Rishton, Director, Channel Islands Alzheimer’s Institute

(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum)

 

TUESDAY, June 3, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Louis Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183, Semel Institute (NPI)

The Use of Hallucinogens in Psychiatry

Charles S. Grob, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

(J. Thomas Ungerleider, MD, Lecture on Substance Abuse--Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

(Joint Seminars in Neuroscience)

 

WEDNESDAY, June 4, 2008

 

9:00 am – 5:30 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, Room 132

The Seventh Annual Southern California Learning & Memory Symposium

9:00     Welcome and Opening Remarks

            Alcino Silva, Ph.D., Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, UCLA

Chair:   Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UCLA

9:05     Reversing Age-Dependent Memory Deficits in Alzheimer’s Disease Transgenic Mice

            Frank LaFerla, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UCI

 

9:35     Synaptic Receptor Trafficking in Health and Disease

            Robert Malinow, Ph.D., Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD

 

10:05   Neurosteroids and Neurogenesis: Learning and Memory Therapeutics for Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

            Roberta Brinton, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Science, USC

 

10:35   Coffee Break

 

Chair:  Paul Patterson, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena              

11:00   Catecholamine Mechanisms in Cognitive Control

            David Jentsch, Ph.D., Departments of Psychology, and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

 

11:30   Sex and Hemisphere Influences on the Neurobiology of Emotional Memory

            Larry Cahill, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UCI

 

12:00   Genetic Silencing of Amygdala Microcircuits Underlying Fear Conditioning in Mice

            David Anderson, Ph.D., Roger Sperry Professor of Biology and Investigator, Howard   Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Biology,

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

 

12:30   Lunch Break

 

Chair:   Alcino Silva, Ph.D., Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, UCLA

2:00     AMPA Receptor Reverse Signaling and Synaptic Stability

            Anirvan Ghosh, Ph.D., Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD

 

2:30     Immune Molecules in Synaptic Plasticity and Learning and Memory

            Lisa Boulanger, Ph.D., Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD

 

3:00     The Cytoskeletal Bases of Memory Consolidation

            Gary Lynch, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UCI

 

3:30     Coffee Break

 

Chair:   David Glanzman, Ph.D., Departments of Physiological Science, and Neurobiology,        UCLA

4:00     Ca2⁺-Activated TRP Channels as Targets of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling in Neurons

            Emily Liman, Department of Biological Sciences, USC

 

4:30     Synaptic Circuitry Underlying Functional Development of Auditory Cortex

            Li Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, USC

 

5:00     A Role for Cortical Area MT in Memory for Motion

            James Bisley, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, UCLA

 

5:30     Reception— Gonda Building First Floor Conference Room, 1357

 

 

9:00 am – 10:30 am, Neuroscience Research Building, Room 132

No Neuroscience Grand Rounds.

 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Note New Time), 2nd Fl. Conference Room, Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain   Mapping Center

            (Instructions to enter building posted on doors)

The Eyes Have It: The Neural Basis of Socially Driven Orienting of Attention

Deanna Greene, Department of Psychology, UCLA

(Brain Mapping Seminar)

 

THURSDAY, June 5, 2008

 

1:00 pm – 6:00 pm,      Tom Bradley International Hall, Salon 1

Parkinson’s Disease Symposium

1:00     A Generic Health Outcome Measure is Superior to Existing PD-Specific Measures in Detecting Changes in Health Over Time

            Barbara Vickrey, MD, MPH (Department of Neurology)         

 

1:20     Imaging Parkinson Disease Pathology with PET

            Yvette Bordelon, MD, PhD (Department of Neurology)

 

1:40     New Insights into Parkinson’s Disease Etiology: Gene Environment Interactions in the Central California PD Study

            Beate Ritz, MD, PhD (Department of Epidemiology)

 

2:00     Using Drosophila to Test Gene-Environment Interactions Relevant to Parkinson’s Disease

            David Krantz, MD, PhD (Semel Institute)

 

2:40     Inhibition of the Ubiquitin Proteasome System Triggers Rapid Changes in Synaptic Transmission

            Felix Schweizer, PhD (Department of Neurobiology)

 

3:00     a-Synuclein Overexpression in Mice Induces Synaptic Deficits in the Corticostriatal Pathway

            Carlos Cepeda, PhD (Semel Institute)

 

3:20     Non-Motor Symptoms in Genetic Mouse Models of Parkinsonism

            Sheila Fleming, PhD (Department of Neurology)

 

3:40     Possible Circadian Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease

            Christopher Colwell, PhD (Semel Institute)

 

4:00 – 6:00       Poster Session  

For further information, please contact: Catherine Weston –mfcb114@ucla.edu            

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 159/173 Boyer Hall

Recent Advances in Computational Protein Design: Enzymes and Protein Libraries

Steven L. Mayo, Vice Provost (Research) and Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

(MBI Thursday Seminar)

 

FRIDAY, June 6, 2008

 

9:00 am 10:00 am,        Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357

Emotion Attribution from Dynamic Facial Expressions in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their First-Degree Relatives

Judith Piggot, Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, UCLA; CART Scientist and Medical Director, CART Assessment Core

(UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment {CART} Affinity Group Lecture)

 

MONDAY, June 9, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357

No Department of Human Genetics Seminar.

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm,      116 NRB

Is Mullerian Inhibiting Substance/Anti-Mullerian Hormone a Broad Regulator of Gender Biases in the Brain and Behaviour?

Ian S. McLennan, MIS Neurobiology Centre, Brain Health and Repair Research Centre,

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

(Special Seminar Sponsored by the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology of the Brain Research Institute)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, C-128 RNRC

Title and Speaker to be Determined

(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum)

 

TUESDAY, June 10, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Louis Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183, Semel Institute (NPI)

Title to be Determined

George K. Aghajanian, Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 

(Daniel X. Freedman, M.D. Memorial Lecture--Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

Joint Seminars in Neuroscience will resume September 30, 2008.

 

WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2008

 

9:00 am – 10:00 am, Neuroscience Research Building, Room 132

Title to be Determined

Claude Wasterlain, Department of Neurology, UCLA

(Neuroscience Grand Rounds)

 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Note New Time), 2nd Fl. Conference Room, Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain   Mapping Center

            (Instructions to enter building posted on doors)

Brain Mapping Seminars will resume in the Fall.

 

THURSDAY, June 12, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm,  1-441 MRL

No Seminar in Addiction Psychiatry.

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 159/173 Boyer Hall

MBI Thursday Seminars will resume in the Fall.

 

MONDAY, June 16, 2008

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, C-128 RNRC

Title and Speaker to be Determined

(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum)

 

TUESDAY, June 17, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Louis Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183, Semel Institute (NPI)

Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for Cancer Patients

David K. Wellisch, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

(Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior Grand Rounds)

 

WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2008

 

8:00 am – 2:00 pm,      UCLA Faculty Center

Research Conference on Aging

The conference will demonstrate UCLA's diverse research efforts to enhance and extend productive and healthy life for older adults.

Keynote Speaker:

Fernando Torres-Gil, PhD, “The Politics of Aging: Clinton, McCain, Obama and Baby Boomer Retirement"

Plenary Speakers Include:

Kathryn A. Atchison, DDS, MPH,  "Assuring Oral Health for the Elderly"

George Bartzokis, MD,  "Brain Myelin and Aging: Implications for Preventing and Treating Alzheimer's Disease"

Laurence Rubenstein, MD, MPH, "Preventing Falls in Older Californians"

Debra Saliba, MD, MPH, "Listening to Nursing Home Patients: They Said It Wouldn't Work"

Michael V. Sofroniew, MD, PhD, "The Surprising Capacity for the Nervous System to Reorganize After Injury"

For Conference registration and luncheon reservations, please call the Center on Aging at 310.794.0676 -- Reservations are required. Please RSVP by June 10.

 

9:00 am – 10:00 am, Neuroscience Research Building, Room 132

Title to be Determined

Paul Mischel, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

(Neuroscience Grand Rounds)

 

MONDAY, June 23, 2008

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, C-128 RNRC

Title and Speaker to be Determined

(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum)

 

WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2008

 

9:00 am – 10:00 am, Neuroscience Research Building, Room 132

Neuroscience Grand Rounds will resume in the Fall.

 

FRIDAY, June 27, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

The David L. Rimoin Lecture in Genetics Education:

The Developmental Genome Anatomy Project (DGAP): A Cytogenetic Approach to Gene Discovery in the Genome Era

Cynthia Morton, William Lambert Richardson Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Cytogenetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital Program Director, Developmental Genome Anatomy Project, Research Director of the Center for Uterine Fibroids

(Special Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Human Genetics)

 

The UCLA Neuroscience Research Seminars & Lectures will resume mid-August.

Happy Summer!