Academic Year 2017-2018
January 9, 2018
DEBRA SILVER, Ph.D. (Hosted by Ben Novitch; bnovitch@g.ucla.edu)
Departments of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Neurobiology and Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
“Dynamic Post-Transcriptional Control of Cortical Development and Disease”
January 16, 2018
WENBIAO GAN, Ph.D. (Hosted by Carlos Portera-Cailliau; cpcailliau@mednet.ucla.edu)
Molecular Neurobiology Program, Skirball Institute, and Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
“Learning and Sleep-Dependent Dendritic Spine Plasticity and Maintenance”
January 23, 2018
THOMAS A. BLANPIED, Ph.D (Hosted by Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu)
Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
“Control of Nanostructure and Alignment in Single Synapses”
January 30, 2018
CATHERINE COLLINS, Ph.D. (Hosted by Ming Guo; MGuo@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
“Conserved Mechanisms Linking Axonal Damage Signaling, Axonal Transport, and Synapse Loss”
February 6, 2018
ROBERT FROEMKE, Ph.D. (Hosted by Peyman Golshani and Nicholas Hardy; PGolshani@mednet.ucla.edu; nhardy01@ucla.edu)
Departments of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience & Physiology, Skirball and Neurosciences Institutes, New York University School of Medicine; HHMI Faculty Scholar, New York, New York
“Oxytocin, Maternal Behavior, and Synaptic Plasticity”
February 13, 2018
PAUL FUCHS, Ph.D. (Hosted by Peter Narins; pnarins@ucla.edu)
Department of Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
“Functional Diversity among Cochlear Afferents”
February 20, 2018
BITA MOGHADDAM, Ph.D. (Hosted by Pamela Kennedy; pkennedy@psych.ucla.edu)
Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
“Translation of Anxiety into Actions by Prefrontal Cortex Neurons”
February 27, 2018
MATTHEW RUSHWORTH, Ph.D. (Hosted by Hakwan Lau; hakwan@gmail.com)
Department of Experimental Psychology and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
“The Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Learning and Changing Behaviour”
March 6, 2018
ELISABETH MURRAY, Ph.D. (Hosted by Alicia Izquierdo; aizquie@psych.ucla.edu)
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
“Specializations for Decision Making in Primate Prefrontal Cortex”
March 13, 2018
The Brain Research Institute Twenty-Sixth Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
CELINE VUONG (Hosted by Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu)
Laborato
"Rbfox1 Regulates Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission through the v-SNARE Vamp1"
April 3, 2018
Charles H. (Tom) Sawyer Distinguished Lecture
ALLAN E. HERBISON, Ph.D. (Hosted by Paul Micevych and LNE; pmicevych@mednet.ucla.edu)
Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
“Generating Episodic Activity in the Neuroendocrine Hypothalamus for Fertility”
April 10, 2018
SCOTT RUSSO, Ph.D. (Hosted by Pingping Zhao and Carrie Bearden; ppzhaoion@gmail.com; CBearden@mednet.ucla.edu)
Center for Affective Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
“Motivational Circuitry of Aggression”
April 17, 2018
KENNETH KOSIK, M.D (Hosted by S. Thomas Carmichael; SCarmichael@mednet.ucla.edu)
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Earliest Decisions in Neural Development”
April 24, 2018
TOMÁS J. RYAN, Ph.D. (Hosted by David Glanzman; glanzman@ucla.edu)
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin, Ireland
“Information Storage in Memory Engrams”
May 1, 2018
ELLEN LUMPKIN, Ph.D. (Hosted by Stephanie White; sawhite@ucla.edu)
Departments of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics & Dermatology, Columbia University, New York, New York
“Mechanisms of Neurotransmission in Mammalian Touch Receptors”
May 8, 2018
A. DAVID REDISH, Ph.D. (Hosted by H. Tad Blair; blair@psych.ucla.edu)
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“The Neurophysiology of Decision-Making: Information Processing in Mice, Rats, and Humans”
May 14, 2018
The Brain Research Institute Twenty-Ninth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture
DAVID S. EISENBERG, D. Phil. (Hosted by Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu)
Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Amyloid State of Proteins: Reversible Functional Amyloid vs. Irreversible Pathogenic Amyloid”
May 22, 2018
BRADLEY SCHLAGGAR, M.D., Ph.D. (Hosted by Jesse Rissman; rissman@psych.ucla.edu)
Departments of Neurology, Radiology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
“Leveraging Neuroimaging Data and Systems Neuroscience for Prediction in Children with Tourette Syndrome”
May 29, 2018
The Annual Brain Research Institute and Molecular Biology Institute Joint Lecture
ANGELIQUE BORDEY, Ph.D. (Hosted by Ye Zhang; yezhang@ucla.edu)
Departments of Neurosurgery, and Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
“Understanding How mTOR Hyperactivity Leads to Epilepsy and Behavioral Deficits”
June 5, 2018
The New Brain Research Institute Member Introductions Lecture (Hosted by Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu)
MICHAEL GANDEL, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
CAROLYN PARKINSON, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
GINA POE, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
ANGELIQUE BORDEY, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology