November 16 – November 27, 2009
Issue #20, 2009

MONDAY, November 16, 2009

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
No Human Genetics Seminar.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, C-128 RNRC
Title and Speaker to be Determined
(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum [ADRF])

TUESDAY, November 17, 2009

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183 Semel Institute (formerly NPI)
Maternal Stress, Allostatic Load, and Reduced Hippocampal Volume
Dorie A. Glover, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
(Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds)

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Grand Ballroom, Ackerman Union, UCLA
The Twenty-First Annual Brain Research Institute Neuroscience Poster Session
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Poster Presentations -- This wide-ranging poster display will provide a cross-section of neuroscience research conducted at UCLA over the past year.
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Neuroscience Poster Session Distinguished Lecture
George Koob, Professor and Chair, Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute; Adjunct Professor, Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry and Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of California San Diego
(Sponsored by the Brain Research Institute in conjunction with the Joint Seminars in Neuroscience--Light refreshments will be served.)

WEDNESDAY, November 18, 2009

9:00 am – 10:00 am, Neuroscience Research Building (NRB), Room 132
Intracerebral Hemorrhage: The Neglected Stroke
Carlos Kase, Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine
(Neuroscience Grand Rounds)

THURSDAY, November 19, 2009

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 159/173 Boyer Hall
The Ciliopathies: Modeling Human Genetic Disease Architecture
Nicholas Katsanis, Departments of Ophthalmology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
(Molecular Biology Institute Thursday Seminar)

MONDAY, November 23, 2009

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Mapping QTL to a Phylogenetic Tree
Karl Broman, Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(Human Genetics Seminar)

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, C-128 RNRC
Psychosocial and Biological Correlates of Cognitive Decline
Arun Karlamangla, Department of Medicine-Geriatrics, UCLA
(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum [ADRF])

TUESDAY, November 24, 2009

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183 Semel Institute (formerly NPI)
No Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
The Brain Research Institute Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Lecture
Visualizing New Protein Synthesis at Synapses During Neuronal Plasticity
Dan Ohtan Wang, Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Biological Chemistry, UCLA
(Joint Seminars in Neuroscience)

WEDNESDAY, November 25, 2009

9:00 am – 10:00 am, Neuroscience Research Building, Room 132
No Neuroscience Grand Rounds.

THURSDAY, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

FRIDAY, November 27, 2009

UCLA Holiday