The Graduate Program’s
weekly seminar series meets
on Tuesdays at 4 PM in the
Leichtag 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.
| * Except where noted |
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
7-Oct |
Ben Barres, Stanford University |
How do glial cells induce neurons to form synapses |
Scott Wilke |
14-Oct |
Roger Nicoll, UCSF |
The ins and outs of glutamate receptor synaptic trafficking |
Nick Wall |
21-Oct |
Larry Zipursky, UCLA |
The structural basis and function of Dscam diversity in wiring the fly brain |
Tammy Stawicki |
28-Oct |
Dan Margoliash, University of Chicago |
Vocal learning, sleep, and evolution |
Dan Knudsen |
4-Nov |
Robert Stickgold, Harvard University |
Sleep, memory, and dreams: A neurocognitive approach |
Sarah Israel |
12-Nov |
Charles Stevens, The Salk Institute |
A general architectural principle for neural circuits |
David Matthews |
* |
Note the special day of
November 12*
|
this seminar Wednesday, |
|
9-Dec |
Clay Reid, Harvard University |
Functional anatomy of the visual cortex |
Hoang Nhan |
16-Dec |
Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University |
Stress and health: From molecules to societies |
Jen Aron |
6-Jan |
Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland |
Active auditory perception: how task performance and objectives are encoded in the auditory and prefrontal cortex |
Emily Caporello |
13-Jan |
Adam Aron, UCSD |
How we stop ourselves |
Kelly Landy |
20-Jan |
David Amaral, UC Davis |
Neurobiological and neuroimmune studies of autism |
John Morgan |
27-Jan
|
Susan Amara, University of Pittsburgh |
The ins and outs of neurotransmitter transporters |
Matt O'Sullivan |
29-Jan
|
Hugo Bellen, Baylor |
Molecular pathology of Lou Gherig’s disease (ALS), a fly’s view |
Norma Velazquez Ulloa |
* |
Note the special day of |
this lecture Thursday, January 29* |
|
3-Feb |
Howard Eichenbaum, Boston University |
Towards a functional organization of the medial temporal lobe memory system |
Jena Hales |
10-Feb |
Michael Dickinson, Caltech |
How flies find stuff |
Jamie Jeanne |
24-Feb |
Gyorgy Buzsaki, Rutgers University |
Internally advancing cell assembly sequences in the hippocampus |
Emily Anderson |
3-Mar |
Leslie Ungerleider, NIH |
Mechanisms for perceptual decision-making in the human brain |
Stephanie Otte |
10-Mar |
Randy Buckner, Harvard University |
The brain’s default network |
Katie Travis |
17-Mar |
Carol Mason, Columbia University |
Wiring eye to brain: genes that pattern the binocular projection |
Nick Bevins |
7-Apr |
Russell Poldrack, UCLA |
What can neuroimaging tell us about the mind? |
Nicki Swann |
14-Apr |
Gina Turrigiano, Brandeis University
*Distinguished Alumnus* |
The self-tuning brain: Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity in the developing
visual system |
Kristine Kolkman |
21-Apr |
Rachel Wilson, Harvard University |
Olfactory processing in the drosophila brain |
Bassam Atallah |
28-Apr |
Emery Brown, MIT |
Solving the mystery of general anesthesia |
Corinne Teeter |
5-May |
Michael Hasselmo, Boston University |
Theta rhythm, grid cells and episodic memory |
Brad Aimone |
12-May |
Matthew Wilson, MIT |
Hippocampal memory reactivation during awake and sleep states |
Erik Flister |
19-May |
Wade Regehr, Harvard University |
Dynamic regulation of GABA release from LGN interneurons |
Lauren McElvain |
26-May |
Tatyana Sharpee, The Salk Institute |
Neural adaptation to natural environment |
Krystal Chiao |
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