2009-2010 Schedules

Seminars are held in Room 110 Willamette Thursday afternoons at 4:00 p.m.

A reception follows in Room 317 Huestis Hall
**except where otherwise noted

Contact Peg Morrow to schedule a seminar or with questions.

Fall 2009

Date	Name / Affiliation	Title or Research Interest	Host
Oct. 1	David Traver University of California, San Diego	“Development of the Zebrafish Hematopoietic System”	Judith Eisen
Oct. 8	Larry Trussell Oregon Health & Science University	“Signaling within an interneuron network in the auditory system”	Mike Wehr
Oct 15
Oct. 22
Oct. 29	John Adelman OHSU	Research Interest: Small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (SK channels) are gated solely by intracellular Ca2+ ions and are fundamental regulators of neuronal excitability. Adelman and colleagues cloned the SK channel family and currently focus on four projects.	Cliff Kentros
Nov. 5	James Knierim Johns Hopkins University	“Memory formation in the hippocampal formation: A multi-region analysis”	Dave Rowland, Kentros Lab
Nov. 12	Jane Johnson University of Texas, Southwestern	“Transcriptional Control of Neuronal Diversity”	Chris Doe
Nov. 19	Pierre-Pascal Lenck-Santini Dartmouth University	“Neural coding in the hippocampus and its relationship to behavior in normal and pathological brain”	Cliff Kentros
Dec. 3	David Euston University of Lethbridge	“Memory replay in prefrontal cortex during sleep”	Takahashi Lab
Dec. 4	Tod Thiele and Ari Arrenberg University of California, San Francisco Baier Lab	INFORMAL SEMINARS, Room 317, Noon – 1:00 “Optogenetic dissection of zebrafish neural circuits controlling prey capture behavior.” “Optical control of zebrafish behavior with halorhodopsin	Lockery Lab

Winter 2010

Date	Name / Affiliation	Title or Research Interest	Host
Jan. 7
Jan. 14	Emma Coddington Willamette University	"Love in the Time of Cortisol: Using Neurophysiology to Understand How Hormones Modify Behavior"	Janis Weeks
Jan. 21
Jan. 28	John Disterhoft Northwestern University	"Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Young and Aging Hippocampus"	Aldis Weible, Kentros Lab
Feb. 4
Feb. 11
Feb. 18	Ravi Allada Northwestern University	Research Interest: The Molecular Genetics of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep. “Our research is focused on the circadian regulation of sleep behavior using the fruit fly Drosophila and incorporates a variety of approaches including biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, cell culture, electrophysiology, anatomy, and behavior.”	Phil Washbourne / Andy Bergland (IMB)
Feb. 25	Renee Read Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory Salk Institute for Biological Studies	Glioma in Drosophila	Chris Doe
Mar. 4	Cecilia B. Moens Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Title: TBA Research Interest: The Moens lab studies three fundamental questions in developmental biology. The first is how an apparently homogeneous epithelium becomes patterned along its anterior-posterior axis, the second is how morphological boundaries form between groups of cells with different identities, and the third is how cells move in a directed way through a complex patterned environment. We address all three questions in the context of the developing zebrafish hindbrain.	Chuck Kimmel
Mar. 11

Spring 2010

Date	Name / Affiliation	Title or Research Interest	Host
Apr. 1	Robert P. Vertes Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences Florida Atlantic University	Title: TBA Research Interests: Behavioral neuroscience Functional organization of the brainstem and its role in controlling the activity of the forebrain Neurophysiology of sleep	Kentros Lab
Apr. 8	Don Katz Brandeis University	Research Interest: Behavior, Learning & Electrophysiology of CHemosensation “What am I doing figure-heading this lab? The path has been a winding one. An undergraduate degree in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown was followed by a brief stint as a psycholinguist at the Boston Aphasia Research Center, and then by graduate work as a clinical psychologist at Indiana University. There I discovered the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory. My dissertation concerned cerebellar interactions during eyeblink conditioning, which awakened me to the potential value of multi-site recording technology. I went to Duke University Medical School to do a post-doc with Miguel Nicolelis and Sid Simon, which allowed me to apply this technology, first to the somatosensory and then the gustatory system. It is this last work that I have brought to Brandeis.”	Kelly Heinlein Kentros Lab
Apr. 15
Apr. 22
Apr. 29
May 6
May 13	Craig Powell Depts. of Neurology and Psychiatry UT Southwestern Medical Center	Research Interest: “My laboratory is focused on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of cognitive function and cognitive dysfunction in disease. In our basic research on learning and memory, we are interested in how molecular and cellular alterations lead to behavioral changes that last for the better part of a lifetime in response to relatively brief environmental stimuli.”	Phil Washbourne
May 20	Karim Nader Dept of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal	Research Interest: Research Interest: Professor Nader is interested in understanding what are the neurobiological processes involved in acquiring and storing motional memories, with specific emphasis on fear. One of the main thrusts of the lab is the study of memory reconsolidation. When a memory is retrieved, it is transformed into a vulnerable state in which it can be lost, changed or strengthened depending on the experimental manipulation. He asks questions at the behavioral, physiological and molecular levels of analysis. In addition, he is performing research testing various motivational theories of goal directed behavior.	Cliff Kentros
May 27	Sharon Amacher University of California, Berkeley	Research Interest: We are interested in how cells become sequentially determined to more precisely defined fates during vertebrate embryonic development, and how this process depends upon cell position and upon interactions among neighboring cells. To address these questions, we use genetics, molecular biology, and embryology to investigate mesodermal patterning and segmentation in the zebrafish embryo.	Chuck Kimmel
June 3

Old Schedules:

Spring 2009

Date	Name / Affiliation	Title or Research Interest	Host
Apr. 2	Graeme Davis UC San Francisco	“Homeostatic Control of Neural Function: Phenomenology to Molecular Design”	Phil Washbourne
Apr. 9	Jim Newman Oregon Health Sciences University	“Preparing for Animal Rights Extremist Activities at Your Institution”	Monte Matthews
Apr. 16	Susan Patterson University of Colorado at Boulder	“A critical role for BDNF in age-related cognitive decline (revisited): Are the combined effects of age and inflammation to blame?”	Cliff Kentros
Apr. 23	Yishi Jin UC San Diego	“Synapse formation and axon regeneration in C. elegans”	Phil Washbourne
Apr. 30	Jose Luis Pena Albert Einstein College of Medicine	"Human sound localization and its relevance to owls."	Kip Keller Takahashi Lab
May 7
May 14	Gina Turrigiano Brandeis University	Research Interest: Plasticity of the Synaptic and Intrinsic Properties of Cortical Neurons and Circuits	Jennifer Hoy Washbourne Lab
May 21	Konrad Zinsmaier University of Arizona	Research Interest: Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Function	Chris Doe and Tory Herman
May 28	William Dauer Columbia University	Postponed until next year. Research Interest: The central goal of our studies is to unravel the molecular and cellular mechanisms of diseases that disrupt the motor system. Our primary focus is on Parkinson’s disease and DYT1 dystonia.	Cliff Kentros
June 4	Herman Moreno SUNY Downstate	Research Interest: normal brain function during the ageing process, as well as the study of neurodegenerative diseases.	Cliff Kentros

Winter 2009 (AY 2008-09)

Date	Name / Affiliation	Title or Research Interest	Host
Jan. 8	Francisco F. De-Miguel National University of Mexico	Synaptic and somatic serotonin release	Zoltan Varga
Jan. 15	Corey Snelson Vanderbilt University	Formation of the asymmetric pineal complex in zebrafish SEMINAR IN 317 HUESTIS THIS WEEK ONLY	Phil Washbourne
Jan. 22	Janis Weeks University of Oregon	"The frontline battle on HIV/AIDS in rural Zimbabwe"	ION
Jan. 29	Pierre Drapeau University of Montreal	“From Autism to Zebrafish: development of the motor system and genomics of brain diseases “	Courtney Easley-Neal, Washbourne Lab
Feb. 5	IMB Faculty Search	TBA	Chris Doe
Feb. 12
Feb. 19
Feb. 26	Kimberley McAllister UC Davis	“Novel Functions of immune molecules in the initial establishment of cortical connections.”	Phil Washbourne
Mar. 5	Louis Ptacek University of California, San Francisco	"Molecular characterization of membrane hyperexcitability phenotypes of the nervous system."	Janis Weeks
Friday, Mar. 6 1:00 pm	Ying-Hui Fu University of California, San Francisco	NOTE: TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE FOR THIS SEMINAR ONLY – 166 LAWRENCE "Mutations for Human Sleep Phenotype."	Janis Weeks
Mar. 12	Clive Pai University of Illinois	“Predicting Dynamic Control of Gait Stability and Its Rehabilitation Applications.”	Wei-Li Hsu, Woollacott Lab

Fall 2008 (AY 2008-09)

Date	Name / Affiliation	Title or Research Interest	Host
Oct. 3	Mike Wehr University of Oregon Institute of Neuroscience **Friday, October 3, 4:00, 146 Straub	Synaptic mechanisms of sound processing in cortical circuits
Oct. 9	April DeLaurier University of Oregon Institute of Neuroscience	The origin of limb-type identity: genetic regulators of limb patterning in the mouse	Chuck Kimmel
Oct. 16	Craig Albertson Syracuse University	Neural Crest Contributions to Craniofacial Diversity	John Postlethwait
Oct. 17	Harold Zakon University of Texas at Austin **Friday, October 17, 1:00, 331 Klamath	Neurobiology meets molecular evolution: evolution of sodium channel genes in pufferfish and electric fish	Janis Weeks
Oct. 23	Malcolm Low OHSU	Proopiomelanocortin neurons, circuits, and genetics underlying energy homeostasis	Cliff Kentros
Oct. 30	Aldis Weible University of Oregon Institute of Neuroscience	Mice Responding to Change: How Anterior Cingulate Cortex Neurons and Behavior Shake Hands	Cliff Kentros
Nov. 6	Wei-Li Hsu University of Oregon, Woollacott Lab	Multi-joint coordination underlies upright postural control: Is variability bad for coordination?	Marjorie Woollacott
Nov. 13
Nov. 20	Alison Bell University of Illinois, Urbana	Personality in Sticklebacks	Chuck Kimmel
Dec. 4	John Rawls University North Carolina Chapel Hill	Microbial and nutritional regulation of zebrafish innate immunity and metabolism	Karen Guillemin and Judith Eisen

Spring 2008 (AY 2007-08)

Date	Name / Affiliation	Title or Research Interest	Host
Apr. 3	Ralph Marcucio UC San Francisco	Regulation of Craniofacial Patterning	Eames/ Kimmel Lab
Apr. 10	Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University	Molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying generalized CNS arousal	Kentros Lab
Apr. 17	Catherine Krull University of Michigan Medical School	Out on a limb: axon pathfinding in the periphery	Hale / Eisen Lab
Apr. 24	John Martin	Competing for control of spinal motor circuits by developing corticospinal tract neurons	Saavedra / Woollacott Lab
May 1	Mitch Sutter Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis	Possible decision-related single unit activity in macaque primary auditory cortex
May 8	Gord Fishell New York University	Making up your mind: the developmental origins of cortical interneurons	Chris Doe
May 15	Philip Copenhaver OHSU	Peering into the Ephrin paradox: new evidence for an unusual way of regulating neuronal guidance	Judith Eisen
May 22	Martin Cohn University of Florida	Evolution of vertebrate skeletogenesis	Brian Eames Kimmel Lab
May 29	Chris Stecker University of Washington		Terry Takahashi
June 5	Florian Engert Harvard University	Visual processing in the larval zebrafish: prey capture and the emergence of binocular circuit properties	Thiele / Lockery Lab

**dates, speakers, and topics are subject to change