The Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB); We begin promptly at 4:00 pm

April 3, 2012
Charles H. (Tom) Sawyer Distinguished Lecture
MARGARET M. MCCARTHY, Ph.D. (Host: Art Arnold and the LNE; arnold@ucla.edu)
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore
"Surprising Roles for Neuroinflammatory Mediators and Epigenetics in the Establishment and Maintenance of Sex Differences in the Brain"

April 10, 2012
BETH STEVENS, Ph.D. (Hosts: Baljit Khakh and Michael Sofroniew; bkahkh@mednet.ucla.edu)
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center; Childrens Hospital Boston; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
"Pruning CNS Synapses: An Active Role for Glia and the Complement Cascade"

April 17, 2012
MICHAEL L. PLATT, Ph.D. (Host: James Bisley; JBisley@mednet.ucla.edu)
Director, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Professor, Departments of Neurobiology and Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
"Neuronal Basis of Giving and Receiving"

April 24, 2012
ANDRE A. FENTON, Ph.D. (Host: Tad Blair; blair@psych.ucla.edu)
Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York
"Mind Games: Cognitive Control and Neural Coordination"

May 1, 2012
MARIA KARAYIORGOU, M.D. (Host: Nelson Freimer; NFreimer@mednet.ucla.edu)
Professor of Psychiatry (in Genetics and Physiology); Acting Director, Division of Psychiatric Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York
"Schizophrenia Genetics: New Mutations and Emerging Paradigms"

May 8, 2012
RAJESH P.N. RAO, Ph.D. (Host: Tad Blair; blair@psych.ucla.edu)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Neurobiology and Behavior Program, University of Washington, Seattle
"Bayes, Rewards, and Decision Making: A New View of the Cortex-Basal Ganglia Network"

May 15, 2012
LI ZHANG, Ph.D. (Host: Dean Buonomano; dbuono@ucla.edu)
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
"Synaptic Circuitry Mechanisms for the Functional Development of Auditory Cortex"

May 22, 2012
The 20th Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
STEPHANIE GROMAN (Host: Mike Levine; mlevine@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
"Dopamine D2-Like Receptors: At the Nexus between Self Control and Addiction"

May 29, 2012
The Brain Research Institute Twenty-Third Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture
DANIEL H. GESCHWIND, M.D., Ph.D. (Hosted by Chris Evans; cevans@ucla.edu)
Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry; Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor in Human Genetics; Director, UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment; Institute of Medicine Inductee
"Advances in Autism: The Path from Genetics and Neurobiology to Therapeutic Development"

June 5, 2012
CRAIG E. JAHR , Ph.D.(Host: Tom Otis; OtisT@ucla.edu)
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
"Presynaptic Receptors and Analog Signaling"

If you would like to meet with a speaker, please contact the host listed above.