Frontiers in Neuroscience Spring 2014 Seminar Schedule

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are at 12:00 pm in the Whitehead Auditorium

January 24, 2014
Aaron Batista, PhD, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
"Neural Constraints on Learning"

January 31, 2014
Randy Trumbower, PhD, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University
"A breath taking approach to enhancing motor recovery in persons with chronic spinal cord injury"

February 7, 2014
NS recruitment weekend senior PhD student presentations

February 14, 2014
Frans de Waal, PhD, C.H. Candler Professor, Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University
"Prosocial Primates: The Origins of Empathy"

February 21, 2014
NS recruitment weekend senior PhD student presentations

February 28, 2014
Yves de Koninck, PhD, Laval University
"Expanding your toolbox; new approaches to probe the brain with light"

March 7, 2014
Ellen Hess, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University
"Brain networks in Dystonia"

March 14, 2014
No Frontiers this week

March 21, 2014
Sari van Anders, PhD, University of Michigan
"Beyond masculinity: testosterone and sexual desire"

March 28, 2014
Lisa Parr, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University
"Primate social cognition and its translational relevance"

April 4, 2014
Kathryn Cunningham, PhD, University of Texas
"Serotonin, Impulsivity and Cue Reactivity in Cocaine Addiction: Implications for New Therapeutics"

April 11, 2014
Mike Nadar, PhD, Wake Forest
"Behavioral Neuropharmacology of Cocaine Abuse in Monkey Models: How Neuroscience Research Can Inform Policy Makers"

April 18, 2014
Gretchen Neigh, PhD, Emory University Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
"Stress and HIV: A Bidirectional Relationship"

April 25, 2014
Klaus Miczek, PhD, Tufts University
"Social stress and CRF-Dopamine interactions in rodent models of depression and drug abuse"

May 2, 2014
Gregory Quirk, PhD, University of Puerto Rico
"Prefrontal control of fear and avoidance: The view from Puerto Rico"

Frontiers in Neuroscience 2012-2013 Seminars

September 7, 2012
Gregory S. Berns, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Neuroeconomics, Emory University
"What is Your Dog Thinking? FMRI of Awake Unrestrained Dogs"

September 14, 2012
Zachary Johnson, PhD, Researcher at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University
"Identifying Genes that Influence Behavior in Baboons"

September 21, 2012
Ling Wei, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Emory University
"Novel Strategies in Stem Cell Transplantation Therapy after Stroke"

September 28, 2012
Carol A. Shively, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Psychology, Wake Forest University
"Stressed versus Depressed - What's the Difference?"
Videos: Part 1, Part 2.

October 5, 2012
Karen S. Rommelfanger, PhD, Director of Neuroethics Program, Emory University
"Mind over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders"
Videos: Part 1, Part 2.

October 19, 2012
Steve M. Potter, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Closed-loop, open-source electrophysiology to study learning, network dynamics, and epilepsy"
Videos: Part 1, Part 2.

October 26, 2012
Larry C. Walker, PhD, Research Professor of Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University
"The Seeds of Neurodegenerative Disease"
Videos: Part 1, Part 2.

November 2, 2012
Richard D. Mooney, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University
"Song Learning: From Synapse to Behavior"
Videos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

November 16, 2012
Arthur W. English, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, Emory University
"Enhancing functional recovery from nerve injury with exercise"
Videos: Part 1, Part 2.

November 30, 2012
Stephen F. Traynelis, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, Emory University
"Effect of Disease Causing Mutations on NMDA Receptor Function"

December 7, 2012
Gary Bassell, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, Emory University
"mRNA regulation in neuronal development, plasticity, and disease intervention"

February 1, 2013
* Emory NS Recruitment Weekend speakers are senior students in our program.
Yanjie Fan, Graduate Student, Emory Neuroscience Program
"Actin capping protein in dendritic spine formation during synaptic development"
Katy Shepard, Graduate Student, Emory Neuroscience Program
"Noradrenergic Modulation Of Experience-Dependent Plasticity During Auditory Cortical Development"

February 8, 2013
Roger D. Cone, PhD, Professor and Chair of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University
"The Neural Control of Energy Homeostasis and Somatic Growth"

February 15, 2013
* Emory NS Recruitment Weekend speakers are senior students in our program.
Becky Meyer, Graduate Student, Emory Neuroscience Program
"GPR37 and GPR37L1: Novel neuroprotective receptors?"
Chris Makinson, Graduate Student, Emory Neuroscience Program
"Mechanisms of epilepsy: A balance of voltage gated sodium channels"

February 22, 2013
Michelle LaPlaca, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Plasma Membrane Integrity in Traumatic Brain Injury: Triggers and Diggers"

March 1, 2013
Shella Keilholz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Emory/GA Tech
"The neural basis of network dynamics in resting state functional MRI"

March 8, 2013
Geert de Vries, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Georgia State University
"How to deal with sex differences in biology and medicine: lessons from the neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin"

March 22, 2013
Christopher Coe, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Director of the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"All roads lead to psychoneuroimmunology"

March 29, 2013
Michael Sutton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan
"Tuning neurotransmission through local protein translation at synaptic sites"

April 5, 2013
Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital
"Neuronal connectivity in Tuberous Sclerosis"

April 12, 2013
Tracy Ann Read, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University
"The role of cancer stem cells in brain tumor growth and metastasis"

April 19, 2013
Ralph Greenspan, PhD, Associate Director, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, UCSD
"Gene Interactions in Drosophila Behavior: Specificity and Pleiotropy"

April 26, 2013
Francisco Alvarez, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology, Emory University
"Spinal locomotor circuit development: moving forward"

May 3, 2013
Julio Ramirez, PhD, R. Stuart Dickson Professor of Psychology, Davidson College
"The intentional mentor: effective mentoring of undergraduate science students"

June 6, 2013
Christopher Norris, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology, University of Kentucky
"Targeting Astrocytes in Neurodegenerative Disorders"

September 6, 2013
Lena Ting, PhD, Associate Professor, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
"Making sense of muscle activity in sensorimotor deficits"

September 13, 2013
Pete Wenner, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine
"What is homeostatic about homeostatic plasticity?"

September 20, 2013
Paul Bolam, PhD, Professor of Anatomical Neuropharmacology, Oxford University (UK)
"Physiological and anatomical properties of dopamine neurons: clues to susceptibility in Parkinson's disease"

September 27, 2013
James Rilling, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
"Neural, hormonal and genetic correlates of variation in human paternal behavior"

October 4, 2013
Nicholas Boulis, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine: Neurosurgery
"Concept to clinic; How translation defines critical questions"

October 11, 2013
Robert Cohen, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University
"Modeling Alzheimer's Disease in the rat"

October 18, 2013
Dieter Jaeger, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, Emory University
"Synaptic integration in cerebellar and basal ganglia circuits: computing with inhibition"

October 25, 2013
Stephen Traynelis, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University
"Control of NMDA Receptors by Allosteric Modulation"

November 1, 2013
James Zheng, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University
"Dendrite development and destruction: the balancing act of neuronal activity"

November 15, 2013
Randy Trumbower, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University
"A breath-taking approach to enhancing motor recovery in persons with chronic spinal cord injury"

November 22, 2013
Robert Froemke, PhD, NYU School of Medicine
"Cortical plasticity improves sensory perception"

December 6, 2013
Chris Moore, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University
"From mechanism to meaning: neocortical dynamics and perception"