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May 2008

 

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MONDAY, April 28, 2008

 

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

Searching for Genetic Determinants of Common Disease – A View >From the Outside Looking In

Colin A. McKenzie, Senior Lecturer, Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

(Department of Human Genetics Seminar)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, C-128 RNRC

Genetics and Genomics Approaches in AD and FTD

Giovanni Coppola, Program in Neurogenetics, UCLA

(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum)

 

TUESDAY, April 29, 2008

 

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

Suicide in Adolescents

Michele S. Berk, Director, Adolescent CBT and DBT Programs, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center;

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

(Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds)

 

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

Local Circuit Organization of Mouse Motor Cortex

Gordon Shepherd, Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

(Joint Seminars in Neuroscience)

 

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm,      Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357

The Notorious Saenger Case: What Does It tell Us about Post-World War II Medical Research Practices and Clinical Practice?

Gerald Kutcher, Dean’s Professor of History of Medicine, The State University of New York at Binghamton

(UCLA Programs in Medical Classics)

 

WEDNESDAY, April 30, 2008

 

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

Neurosteroids and Epilepsy- How Menstration, Stress and Hypogonadism Trigger Seizures

Michael A. Rogawski, Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis

(Neuroscience Grand Rounds)

 

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

(Instructions to enter building posted on doors)

Functional Imaging Agents for MRI

Massoud Akhtari, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

(Brain Mapping Seminar)

 

THURSDAY, May 1, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm,  1-441 MRL

Longitudinal Patterns of Methamphetamine Use and Treatment Utilization

Lynn Brecht, Integrated Substance Abuse Program, UCLA

(Seminars in Addiction Psychiatry)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 159/173 Boyer Hall

Regulation of Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recognition of Self in Bacillus Subtilis

Alan Grossman, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

(MBI Thursday Seminar)

 

FRIDAY, May 2, 2008

 

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

Title to be Determined

Sara Webb, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, BRU/Autism Project, University of Washington, Seattle

(UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment [CART] Affinity Group Lecture)

 

MONDAY, May 5, 2008

 

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

Using Mouse Coat Color Mutants to Explore the Functions of Myosin V in Melanocytes and Neurons

John A. Hammer, Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Bethesda

(Department of Human Genetics Seminar)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, C-128 RNRC

Immune Clearance of Amyloid-B from the Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Brain

Milan Fiala, Research Professor, Orthopaedic Hospital, UCLA

(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum)

 

TUESDAY, May 6, 2008

 

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

No Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds-

American Psychiatric Association Meeting, Washington D.C., May 3-8, 3008.

 

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

The Cellular Ensemble Dynamics of Working Memory and Decision-Making in the Prefrontal Cortex

Jeremy K. Seamans, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

(Joint Seminars in Neuroscience)

 

WEDNESDAY, May 7, 2008

 

9:00 am – 11:00 am, Neuroscience Research Building, Room 132

Physician Communication Workshop

Effective Patient Interaction: Keys to Partnership and Better Outcomes

Larry H. Baker, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University; Westside Regional Consultant, Institute for HealthCare Communication

(Neuroscience Grand Rounds)

 

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

Accelerating the Cure for Parkinson’s Disease:  What’s Needed?

How Can Private Foundations Make a Difference?

Katie Hood, Chief Executive Officer, Michael J. Fox Foundation

(Special Seminar Sponsored by The UCLA Center for the Study of Parkinson’s Disease)

 

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm,      Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

Funding Opportunities, the Review Process and Tips on How to Please (and Displease) Reviewers at NIH

Stephen Korn, Director, Training and Career Development, NIH/NINDS

(Sponsored by The Training Program in Neural Repair, The Training Program in Neural Microcircuits, The Department of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute)

 

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)

No Brain Mapping Seminar—Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

 

THURSDAY, May 8, 2008

 

9:00 am – 6:00 pm,      Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

3rd Annual Neural Microcircuits Training Program Symposium

Dynamics of Neural Microcircuits

9:00 am            Introduction:  Jack Feldman (UCLA)

9:10 am            Sten Grillner (Karolinska Institute)

                        The Logics of Networks in Motion

10:00 am          James Bisley (UCLA)

                        Where to Look: The Role of Posterior Parietal Cortex in Guiding Attention

10:30 am          Coffee Break

10:45 am          Christine Dy (UCLA Graduate Student – Edgerton Lab)

                        Afferent Control of Coordinated Motor Pool Activation after Complete Spinal Cord Injury

11:15 am          Diego Contreras (University of Pennsylvania)

                        Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Response Selectivity in Sensory Cortex In Vivo

12:00 pm          Stephen Korn (Director of Training and Career Development, NINDS)

12:15 pm          Lunch & Poster Session

2:10 pm            Sascha du Lac (Salk Institute)

                        Microcircuits Tuned for Speed, Accuracy, and Resilience of Eye Movements

3:00 pm            Hope Johnson (UCLA Graduate Student – Buonomano Lab)

                        Experience-Dependent Network Plasticity In Vitro

3:30 pm            Coffee Break

3:45 pm            Jason Tarpley (UCLA Graduate Student – Blair Lab)

                        Neural Signals Mediating the Learning and Expression of Fear

4:15 pm            Richard Thompson (USC)

                        Analysis of a Cerebellar Learning Microcircuit

(Sponsored by the Department of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute)

                                               

11:00 am – 12:00 pm,  1-441 MRL

Psychiatry and Addiction

Todd Zorick, Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry Fellow, UCLA

(Seminars in Addiction Psychiatry)

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357

Patterning the Cortical Area Map

Elizabeth Grove, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago

(Neurogenetics Affinity Group Seminar)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 159/173 Boyer Hall

Dissection of Growth Control Networks in Plants

Joanne Chory, Department of Biology, The Salk Institute

(MBI Thursday Seminar)

 

MONDAY, May 12, 2008

 

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

Insights into Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis from Disease

Linton M. Traub, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh

(Department of Human Genetics Seminar)

 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm,      Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357

The Role of Serotonin in Normal and Pathological Anxiety

Anne Andrews, Associate Professor of Molecular Toxicology, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State Neuroscience Institute, Center for Molecular Toxicology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

(Special Seminar sponsored by 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, May 13, 2008

 

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

Title to be Determined

Penny Knapp, Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry & Pediatrics, University of California, Davis

(Gertrude Rogers Greenblatt, M.D., Memorial Lecture--Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds)

 

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

Nicotinic Control of Neural System Development         

Darwin K. Berg, Neurobiology Section, Biology Division, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

(Joint Seminars in Neuroscience)

 

WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2008

 

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

Functional Imaging of Sleep

Eric Nofzinger, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

(Neuroscience Grand Rounds)

 

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Note Special Time), 2nd Fl. Conference Room, Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center

(Instructions to enter building posted on doors)

Probabilistic Brain Atlases: Basic Science and Clinical Applications

John C. Mazziotta, Department of Neurology, UCLA

(Brain Mapping Seminar)

 

THURSDAY, May 15, 2008

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm,  1-441 MRL

Imaging Approaches to Understanding the Biology of Nicotine Dependence

Edythe London, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

(Seminars in Addiction Psychiatry)

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357

Autism Candidate Genes Neuroligin and Neurexin: A Proteomic Approach to Structure and Adhesive Function

Davide Comoletti, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSD (Neurogenetics Affinity Group Seminar)

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 159/173 Boyer Hall

No MBI Thursday Seminar

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm,      Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357

Genetics Screening Programs for Sickle Cell Anemia and Thalassemia

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

(UCLA Programs in Medical Classics co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics)

 

FRIDAY, May 16, 2008

 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

Zebrafish Model System for Immune Dysfunction and Drug Treatment

Nikolaus Trede, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Investigator, The Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah

(Department of Human Genetics Special Seminar)

 

 

 


 

 

 

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