Neurosciences Graduate Program

Neurosciences Seminar Series

The Graduate Program’s weekly seminar series meets on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in the Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior (CNCB) Large Conference Room and features invited speakers from around the world. Students have the opportunity to meet with the speakers over lunch or dinner each week (interested students should contact the student host). The Salk Institute also organizes frequent lectures as do many of the other departments and institutions in and around UCSD.

Tuesdays at 4 p.m.
CNCB Large Conference Room (except December 11th and December 18th which will be held in Leichtag 107)
School of Medicine, UCSD

Neurosciences Seminar Series 2012-2013
Sponsored in part by the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UCSD.
Founder's Lectures sponsored by Neuroscience Education and Research Foundation (NERF).
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Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Sept. 25	Anton Maximov The Scripps Research Institute	Molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent structural synaptic plasticity	Heidi Sharipova
Oct. 2	FOUNDER'S LECTURE Joaquin Fuster UCLA	Cognitive frontal functions: The perception/action cycle	Stephanie Alfonso
Oct. 9	Paul Garrity Brandeis	Overheated and rather irritated: TRPA1 and the evolution of thermal and chemical sensing	Krista Perks
Oct. 16	*NO SEMINAR*
Oct. 23	Sarah Woolley Columbia	Neural coding of vocalizations in auditory scenes	Justin Kiggins
Oct. 30	Linda Wilbrecht UCSF	Weighing the evidence for a choice: using optogenetics to bias history dependent decision-making in mice	Laura DeNardo
Nov. 6	Bob Darnell Rockefeller	Maps to explore the RNA world	Wes Gifford
Nov. 13	Fan Wang Duke	Brainstem sensory and motor circuitry for active touch	Jeff Moore
Nov. 20	Kelsey Martin UCLA	Signaling between synapse and nucleus during neuronal plasticity	Orlangie Natera
Nov. 27	Kim McAllister UC Davis	Novel roles for immune molecules in brain development and disease	Natalie Shanks
~~Dec. 4~~	Sue McConnell Stanford CANCELLED	Assembling a neural circuit: cell fate and brain wiring during development	Rachel Tsunemoto
Dec. 11	Piali Sengupta Brandeis	Different Location: Leichtag 107 Running hot and cold: Robustness and flexibility in a small thermosensory circuit in C. elegans	Jason Pipkin
Dec. 18	William Bialek Princeton	Different Location: Leichtag 107 Birds, brains, and B cells: Searching for collective behavior in real biological networks	Jason Keller
Dec. 25	*NO SEMINAR*
Jan. 1	*NO SEMINAR*
Jan. 8	FOUNDER'S LECTURE Ed Rubel University of Washington	Fish in a dish: Discovering genetic and chemical modulators of inner ear hair cell death	Samantha Scudder
Jan. 15	David van Essen Washington University	The Human Connectome Project	Marina Garrett
Jan. 22	Wolfram Tetzlaff University of British Columbia	Preclinical strategies for spinal cord injury: from diet to cell transplantation	Alex Goetz
Jan. 29	Marla Feller UC Berkeley	Development of functional circuits in the retina	Tony Lien
Feb. 5	Michael Shadlen Columbia University	Consciousness as a decision to engage	Victory Joseph
Feb. 12	Okihide Hikosaka NIH	Role of basal ganglia in valuation, memory, and skill	Adam Calhoun
Feb. 19	Randy Buckner Harvard	Explorations into the large-scale architecture of the human brain	Emilie Reas
Feb. 26	*NO SEMINAR*
March 5	Elizabeth Buffalo Emory	Neural signals for memory and space in the monkey hippocampal formation	Emily Mankin
March 12	Michael Berry Princeton	The population code of the retina	Kerin Higa
March 19	Carla Shatz Stanford	Brain circuit tuning during developmental critical periods	Melissa Lau
March 26	*NO SEMINAR*
April 2	FOUNDER'S LECTURE Nick Strausfeld University of Arizona	Arthropod brains: Their origin, evolution, and what they share with brains of vertebrates	Erik Kaestner
April 9	Arthur Konnerth Technical Institute of Munich	Dendritic structure of sensory stimulation-evoked inputs in cortical neurons in vivo	Kim Reinhold
April 16	Fred Rieke University of Washington	Parallel processing in the retina	Alex Heitman
April 23	Yi Zuo UC Santa Cruz	Synapse reorganization in formation of motor memory	Paxon Frady
April 30	Doris Tsao Cal Tech	Mechanisms for visual recognition	Ashley Juavinett
May 7	Sreekanth Chalasani UCSD / Salk	Smells, turns and neurons: Dissecting worm neural circuits	Andrew Peters
May 14	Andrew Huberman UCSD	Visual circuit architecture, function and customization	Maya Sapiurka
May 21	John Carlson Yale	Chemosensory perception in Drosophila	Sarah Leinwand
May 28 12:00 pm	Axel Borst Max-Planct Institute of Neurobiology	Genetic dissection of the fly visual course control system Please note time change. Seminar will be at 12:00 pm.	Stacy Kurnikova
June 4	Takaki Komiyama UCSD	Imaging neuronal ensembles in awake mice	Jeff Dahlen

Other Seminar Series and Events:

Cognitive Neural Systems Seminar Series

Institute for Neural Computation Chalk Talk Series

The Salk Institute Science Events