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

September 29, 2009
PAT LEVITT, Ph.D. (Hosted by Chris Evans; (cevans@ucla.edu)
Director, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute; Provost Professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Pharmacy; Chair, Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern, California, Los Angeles
"Neurodevelopmental Implications of an Autism Risk Gene, the MET Receptor Tyrosine Kinase"

October 6, 2009
KEQIANG YE, Ph.D. (Hosted by Yi Sun; (YSun@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
“Neurotrophine-Mediated Neuronal Survival Signalings and Drug Discovery”

October 13, 2009
FRITJOF HELMCHEN, Ph.D. (Hosted by Carlos Portera-Cailliau; (CPCailliau@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland
“Emerging Techniques for In Vivo Neuronal Population Imaging"

October 20, 2009
NO JSN LECTURE- SFN Meeting in Chicago, Illinois

October 27, 2009
WADE REGEHR, Ph.D. (Hosted by Tom Otis; (OtisT@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
“Multifunctional Interneurons"

November 3, 2009
LESLIE MORROW, Ph.D. (Hosted by David Jentsch; (Jentsch@psych.ucla.edu)
Professor of Psychiatry, and Pharmacology; Associate Director, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
“Neuroactive Steroids Contribute to Alcohol Sensitivity in Rats and Humans:  Mechanisms and Therapeutic Relevance”

November 10, 2009
KRISTIN SCOTT, Ph.D. (Hosted by Mark Frye; (frye@ucla.edu)
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
“Taste Recognition in Drosophila”

November 17, 2009
The Brain Research Institute Neuroscience Poster Session Distinguished Lecturer
**Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
GEORGE KOOB, Ph.D., (Hosted by Chris Evans; (cevans@ucla.edu)
Professor and Chair, Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Adjunct Professor, Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Diego
“Neurocircuitry of Addiction: View from the Dark Side”

November 24, 2009
The Brain Research Institute Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Lecture
DAN OHTAN WANG, Ph.D. (Hosted by Chris Evans; cevans@ucla.edu)
Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Biological Chemistry, UCLA
“Visualizing New Protein Synthesis at Synapses during Neuronal Plasticity”

December 1, 2009
TORKEL HAFTING, Ph.D. (Hosted by Tad Blair; (blair@psych.ucla.edu)
Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco; Center for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“Spatial and Temporal Coding by Entorhinal Grid Cells"

If you would like to meet with a speaker, please contact the host directly at e-mail address listed above.