FALL QUARTER 2009

UCLA Joint Seminars in Neuroscience

The Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB)

TUESDAY, September 29, 2009    

PAT LEVITT, Ph.D. (Hosted by Chris Evans)

Director, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute; Provost Professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Pharmacy; Chair, Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern, California, Los Angeles

“Neurodevelopmental Implications of an Autism Risk Gene, the MET Receptor Tyrosine Kinase”

TUESDAY, October 6, 2009         

KEQIANG YE, Ph.D. (Hosted by Yi Sun)
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

“Neurotrophine-Mediated Neuronal Survival Signalings and Drug Discovery”

TUESDAY, October 13, 2009       

FRITJOF HELMCHEN, Ph.D. (Hosted by Carlos Portera-Cailliau)
Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland

“Emerging Techniques for In Vivo Neuronal Population Imaging”

TUESDAY, October 20, 2009       

NO JSN LECTURE- SFN Meeting in Chicago, Illinois

TUESDAY, October 27, 2009       

WADE REGEHR, Ph.D. (Hosted by Tom Otis)
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

“Multifunctional Interneurons”

TUESDAY, November 3, 2009      

LESLIE MORROW, Ph.D. (Hosted by David Jentsch)

Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology; Associate Director, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill

“Neuroactive Steroids Contribute to Alcohol Sensitivity in Rats and Humans: Mechanisms and

Therapeutic Relevance”

TUESDAY, November 10, 2009    

KRISTIN SCOTT, Ph.D. (Hosted by Mark Frye)

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

“Taste Recognition in Drosophila”

TUESDAY, November 17, 2009    

The Brain Research Institute Neuroscience Poster Session Distinguished Lecturer

GEORGE KOOB, Ph.D., (Hosted by Chris Evans)

Professor and Chair, Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute; Adjunct Professor, Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry and Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of California San Diego

“Neurocircuitry of Addiction: View from the Dark side”

**Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom

TUESDAY, November 24, 2009

The Brain Research Institute Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Lecture

DAN OHTAN WANG, Ph.D.  (Hosted by Chris Evans)

Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Biological Chemistry, UCLA

“Visualizing New Protein Synthesis at Synapses during Neuronal Plasticity”

TUESDAY, December 1, 2009      

TORKEL HAFTING, Ph.D. (Hosted by Tad Blair)

Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco; Center for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

“Spatial and Temporal Coding by Entorhinal Grid Cells”