The Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB); Unless Indicated Otherwise,** 4:00 p.m. prompt

April 2, 2013
Charles H. (Tom) Sawyer Distinguished Lecture
MELISSA HINES, Ph.D.(Host: Art Arnold and the LNE; arnold@ucla.edu)
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
“Does Testosterone Shape the Gender of the Human Brain?”

April 9, 2013
CHRISTINE PETIT, Ph.D. (Host: Chris Evans; cevans@ucla.edu)
Unité de Génétique et Physiologie de l'Audition, INSERM UMRS 1120, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
“How do the Auditory Sensory Cells Process Sound? Genetics of Deafness as the Gateway to Their Molecular Physiology”

April 16, 2013
WESLEY GRUEBER, Ph.D. (Host: Alvaro Sagasti; sagasti@mcdb.ucla.edu)
Departments of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics and Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York
“Control of Neuronal Morphogenesis and Maintenance in the Drosophila Somatosensory System”

April 23, 2013
ANATOL KREITZER, Ph.D. (Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, University of California, San Francisco
“Mechanisms of Motor Control and Reinforcement in the Basal Ganglia”

April 30, 2013
The Brain Research Institute Twenty-Fourth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture
V. REGGIE EDGERTON, Ph.D. (Host: Chris Evans; cevans@ucla.edu)
Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology & Physiology, Neurobiology, and Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles
“Novel Principles of Motor Control: Shackled by Tradition, Released by Data”

May 7, 2013
ROBERTO MALINOW, Ph.D.(Host: Alcino Silva; silvaa@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Neurosciences and Section on Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego
“Synapses in Health and Disease”

May 14, 2013
The 21st Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
Jesse Brown (Host: Mike Levine; mlevine@mednet.ucla.edu)
Laboratory of Dr. Susan Bookheimer, Interdepartmental Ph.D Program for Neuroscience,
University of California, Los Angeles
“Multimodality MRI-based Brain Network Analysis: Applications to Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease”

May 21, 2013
JEAN C. SHIH, Ph.D. (Host: Anne Andres; aandrews@mednet.ucla.edu
University Professor, Boyd and Elsie Welin Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy; Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
“MAO A: A Common Player in Autism and Cancer”

May 28, 2013
No JSN- due to Memorial Day Holiday

June 4, 2013
EDWIN R. CHAPMAN , Ph.D. (Host: Istvan Mody; mody@ucla.edu)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Transducing Ca2+ Signals to Exocytosis”

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