All seminars are held in the Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (on Charles Young Drive South, directly behind the MacDonald Research Building) and begin promptly at 4:00 pm

April 1, 2008
Charles H. (Tom) Sawyer Distinguished Lecture
RAE SILVER, Ph.D. (Host: Art Arnold and the LNE; arnold@ucla.edu)
Helene L. and Mark N. Kaplan Professor of Natural and Physical Sciences, Department of Psychology, Barnard College and Columbia University; Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical School, New York, New York
“Emergent Properties of Neuronal Circuits: The Brain Clock as a Case Study”

April 8, 2008
DAVID SULZER, Ph.D. (Host: David Krantz; DKrantz@mednet.ucla.edu)
Departments of Neurology, and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical School, New York, New York
“New Optical Methods for Studying the Synaptic Basis of Habit Learning”

April 15, 2008
MICHAEL S. BRAINARD, Ph.D. (Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)
Departments of Physiology, and Psychiatry, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco
“Source and Function of Behavioral Variation in Production and Plasticity of Adult Birdsong”

April 22, 2008
FREDERICK M. RIEKE, Ph.D. (Host: Nick Brecha; brecha@mednet.ucla.edu)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle
“Origin of Correlated Activity Between Retinal Ganglion Cells”

April 29, 2008
GORDON SHEPHERD, M.D., Ph.D. (Host: Carlos Portera-Cailliau; cpcailliau@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
“Local Circuit Organization of Mouse Motor Cortex”

May 6, 2008
JEREMY K. SEAMANS, Ph.D. (Host: David Jentsch; Jentsch@psych.ucla.edu)
Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
“The Cellular Ensemble Dynamics of Working Memory and Decision-Making in the Prefrontal Cortex”

May 13, 2008
DARWIN K. BERG, Ph.D. (Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)
Neurobiology Section, Biology Division, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
“Nicotinic Control of Neural System Development”

May 20, 2008
The 16th Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
WOJ WOJTOWICZ (Host: Michael Levine; mlevine@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
“A Role for Molecular Diversity and Specificity in Wiring the Brain”

May 27, 2008
MARK J. SCHNITZER, Ph.D. (Host: Carlos Portera-Cailliau; cpcailliau@mednet.ucla.edu)
Departments of Biological Sciences, and Applied Physics, Stanford University, California
“Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Imaging the Brain Dynamics of Motor Control at the Cellular Scale in Behaving Subjects”

June 3, 2008
The Brain Research Institute Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Lecture
GREGOIRE COURTINE, Ph.D. (Host: Bernard Balleine; balleine@psych.ucla.edu)
Experimental Neurorehabilitation Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland
“Regaining Stepping Capacities Following a Severe Spinal Cord Injury”