Seminar Series 2010 - 2012

March 2, 2010
G. William Rebeck, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
"ApoE and its Receptors in Development and Degeneration"

April 6, 2010
Jeffrey H. Kordower, Ph.D.
The Jean Schweppe Armour Professor of Neurological Sciences
Section Head, Neuroscience
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL 
"A Tale of Two Stories:  Why Neurons Die in Parkinson's Disease and How to Protect Them"

April 20, 2010
Paul Vezina, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Exposure to Amphetamine and AMPA Receptor Function in Forebrain"

April 27, 2010
Henriette Van Praag, Ph.D.
Investigator
Neuroplasticity and Behavior Unit
Laboratory of Neurosciences
Biomedical Research Center, NIA, Baltimore, MD
"Regulation and Function of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis"

May 4, 2010
Grigori Enikolopov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
"Disposable Stem Cells:  A New Model of Adult Neurogenesis"

May 20, 2010
Terry Robinson, Ph.D.
Elliot S. Valenstein Collegiate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of MI, Ann Arbor, MI
"Drugs, Dopamine and Desire"

August 24, 2010
Jack M. Parent, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
"Stem Cells, Neurogenesis and Epilepsy"

September 21, 2010
Isabelle Aubert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto Scientist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
"Regerative Strategies for Alzheimer's Disease"

September 29, 2010
Yan Dong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Program in Neuroscience
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
"Cocaine-induced Homeostatic Regulation and Dysregulation in Nucleus Accumbens"

October 19, 2010
Akira Sawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Program in Molecular Psychiatry
Depts. of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
"Huntington's Disease and Schizophrenia:  Shared Mechanism in the Corticostriatal Networks"

November 30, 2010
Theo Hagg, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurological Surgery
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
"Targeting Microvasculature for Neuroprotection after SCI"

December 14, 2010
Anthony Jack, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science,
Philosophy and Psychology
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
"Social and Mechanical Reasoning Define Two Opposing Domains of Human Higher Cognition"

March 8, 2011
Mark Bevan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
"Patterning of Subthalamic Nucleus Activity in Health and in Parkinson's Disease"

April 5, 2011
Frances Champagne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Columbia University, New York, NY
"Epigenetics and the Developing Brain"

April 26, 2011
David Bennett, Ph.D.
Director, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
Robert C. Borwell Professor of Neurological Sciences
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
"Mixed Dementia and Neural Reserve:  Implications for the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease"

August 30, 2011
Anthony Auger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Neuroscience Training Program
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
"Epigenetic Organization of Juvenile Social Behavior:  Do Sex Differences in the Brain Mediate Risk and Resilience for Atypical Social Development?"  

September 29, 2011
Mark Noble, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept of Biomedical Genetics
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY
"The CNS and cancer:  Novel approaches to tumor origins, mechanism-driven therapies and treatment toxicities"

October 18, 2011
Olivier Thibault, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medical Center Dept of Molecular & Biomedical Pharmacology
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 
"Calcium and glucose homeostasis in brain aging"

October 25, 2011
Regina Carelli, Ph.D.
Stephen B. Baxter Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
"Dynamics of Brain Reward Processing during Behavior"

November 8, 2011
Fred Helmstetter, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Behavioral Systems Neuroscience
University of WI
Milwaukee, WI
"Creating and Maintaining Fear Memory in the Brain"

December 6, 2011
Fredric P. Manfredsson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Translational Science & Molecular Medicine
Michigan State University
Grand Rapids, MI
"Gene-Therapy for Parkinson's Disease:  Moving Forward with Caution"

January 18, 2012
Peter Penzes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
"Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Structural Plasticity and Pathology"

February 21, 2012
Hey-Kyoung Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
John Hopkins University
The Mind/Brain Institute
Baltimore, MD
"Cross-Modal Synaptic Plasticity of Sensory Cortices"