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

March 31, 2009
Charles H. (Tom) Sawyer Distinguished Lecture
S. MARC BREEDLOVE, Ph.D. (Host: Art Arnold and the LNE; arnold@ucla.edu)
Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience, Michigan State University, East Lansing
“The Role of Androgens in Behavior”

April 7, 2009
KELSEY C. MARTIN, M.D., Ph.D. (Host: Dean Buonomano; dbuono@ucla.edu)
Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Biological Chemistry, UCLA
"Regulating Gene Expression During Neuronal Plasticity: Synapse to Nucleus Signaling and Local Translation"

April 14, 2009
PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND, Ph.D. (Host: Dean Buonomano; dbuono@ucla.edu)
Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego; Salk Institute, San Diego
“Morality & The Social Brain”

April 21, 2009
JOSHUA CORBIN, Ph.D. (Host: Seema Tiwari-Woodruff; seemaw@ucla.edu)
Center for Neuroscience Research, Department of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, George Washington University School of Medicine; Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
“Generation of Neuronal Cell Diversity in the Developing Mammalian Brain”

April 28, 2009
NIRAO M. SHAH, M.D., Ph.D. (Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)
Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco
“Sex, Genes, and Videotape: Representation of Gender in the Brain”

May 5, 2009  (Note: New Speaker)
DEAN BUONOMANO, Ph.D. (Host: Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)
Professor of Neurobiology, and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
“How Does the Brain Tell Time? The Role of Neural Dynamics and Short-term Plasticity”

May 12, 2009-Note Change in Location--Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
CHI-HON LEE, M.D., Ph.D. (Host: Larry Zipursky; lzipursky@mednet.ucla.edu)
Unit on Neuronal Connectivity, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
“Dissecting the Peripheral Chromatic Circuit of the Drosophila Visual System”

May 19, 2009
The 17th Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
DORIS PAYER (Host: Michael Levine; mlevine@mednet.ucla.edu)
Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
“Neural Correlates of Emotion and Inhibitory Control During Early Abstinence from Methamphetamine”

May 26, 2009 CANCELLED
DAVID P. COREY, Ph.D. (Host: Peter Narins; pnarins@ucla.edu)
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Macro- and Micromechanics of Hearing”

June 2, 2009
MICHAEL P. KILGARD, Ph.D. (Host: Dean Buonomano; dbuono@ucla.edu)
Cognition and Neuroscience Program, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
University of Texas at Dallas
“Neural Coding and Plasticity in the Auditory System: From Tones to Speech”

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