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BCS Fall Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 The Singleton Auditorium
| Fall 2008 | Speaker/Affiliation | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 12 | Jody Culham, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology Department , University of Western Ontario | Neural Coding Within Human Brain Regions Involved in Grasping and Reaching (PDF) |
| September 19 | Philip Haydon, PhD, Annetta and Gustav Grisard Professor, Chair of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University | The Tripartite Synapse: Roles of Astrocytes in Synaptic Plasticity and Behavior. (PDF) |
| September 26 | Miles Whittington, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University | Multiple Modes of Neocortical Oscillation and Their Disruption in Models of Schizophrenia (PDF) |
| October 3 | Elisa Konofagou, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Columbia University | Brain Molecular Imaging and Molecular Delivery Through the Blood-Brain Barrier In Vivo (PDF) |
| October 10 | Barry Connors, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University | Electrical Synapses in the Thalamocortical System (PDF) |
| October 24 | Larry Maloney, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, Department of Psychology , Center for Neural Science, New York University | Uncertainty in Perception and Action (PDF) |
| October 31 | Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD, John B Penney Professor of Neurology, Director, Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School | Multiphoton Imaging of Alzheimer's Disease Changes (PDF) |
| November 7 THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE |
Terrence J. Sejnowski, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies University of California, San Diego |
Google Brain (PDF) |
| November 12 SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM |
Richard Wurtman, MD, Cecil H. Green Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Neuropharmacology in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT | Translating Basic Science Advances into a Safe and Effective Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease (PDF) |
| November 21 | Steve Petersen, PhD, James S. McDonnell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Director, McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience, Depts. of Neurology and Psychology, Washington University Medical School | The Way You Do the Things You Do: Using network Tools to Study Attention Systems (PDF) |
| December 5 | Preston Garraghty, PhD, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Program in Neuroscience, Indiana University | Plasticity in Adult Primate Somatosensory Cortex: Learning, Memory, and Forgetting (PDF) |
