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Current Seminars - 2009

 

November, 2009

Monday, November 2, Developmental Biology Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 3907 South Bldg., Dr. Jane Phillips-Conroy, Anatomy & Neurobiology, “Field and laboratory studies of wild baboons in Ethiopia and Zambia”

Monday, November 2 - Neurology/Hope Center Seminar, 12 Noon, Holden, Farrell LTC, Dr. Terrie E. Inder, Pediatrics, Washington U, "Advances in Neuroprotection in Term Newborn Brain Injury"

Monday, November 2 – Neuroscience Thesis Defense, 2:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Mr. Dongyang Zhang (lab of  Dr. M. Raichle) “Intrinsic brain activity: Concept, techniques, application”

Tuesday, November 3, Neuroscience Thesis Defense, 2:00 pm, Rm 3907 South Bldg., Mr. Bradley Miller (lab of Dr. A. DiAntonio), “A DLK and JNK dependent  axon self-destruction program promotes Wallerian degeneration”

Tuesday, November 3, 11:45 am, Biomedical Engineering Seminar, 100 Whitaker Hall (Danforth Campus), Dr. Maurice Smith, Harvard University, “Algorithms for learning in human motor adaptation”

Tuesday, November 3, Anesthesiology/Pain Center Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 5550 CSRB, Dr. Larry Trussell, Oregon Health Sci Univ, “Regulation of synaptic strength by subthreshold voltage changes in nerve terminals”

Friday, November 6, Neurology Grand Rounds, 8:00am, West Pavilion Auditorium – Dr. John Morris, Aging and Dementia - "Predicting Alzheimer's disease in cognitively normal adults"

Friday, November 6, Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 426 McDonnell Sci, Dr.  Daniel Kerschensteiner, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, “Principles of circuit development in the mammalian retina”

Friday, November 6, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Gammon Earhart, Department of Physical Therapy - "Adaptive control of locomotor spatial orientation in health and disease"

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Monday, November 9 - Neurology/Hope Center Seminar, 12 Noon, Holden,  Farrell LTC, Dr.  Shannon Hamrick, Emory University, "Surgery and the newborn brain"

Tuesday, November 11 - CCSN Student-Organized Semianr, 4:00 pm, Whitaker Hall (Danforth campus), Dr. Larry Abbott, Columbia University, "Encoding and transformation in the olfactory system of the fly"

Wednesday, November 11 - Joint PNP/Medical School Seminar, 12:30p, Rm 2311 East Bldg., Dr. Deanna Barch, Psychology, Washington U, “COMT, prefrontal cortex and striatum in schizophrenia”

Thursday, November 12, The 29th Oliver H. Lowry Lecture, 4:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, FLTC, Dr. Eric Olson, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, “MicroRNA control of cardiovascular development and disease”

Friday, November 13, Neurology Grand Rounds, 8:00am, West Pavilion Auditorium – Michael Chiccoine, MD – Neurosurgery - "Application of Intraoperative MRI to Neurosurgical Procedures"

Friday, November 13, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Joe Culver, Department of Radiology - "Mapping human brain function with light"

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Thursday, November 19, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminar - 4:00 P.M. – Maternity Bldg, Rm 725,  Dr. Lawrence Tychsen, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington U,  "Damaged Input to Visual Area V1 as the Cause of Crossed-Eyes in Infant Human and Monkey"

Friday, November 20, Neurology Grand Rounds, 8:00am, West Pavilion

Auditorium –Dr.  Bradley Schlaggar - Movement Disorders - "Tourette Syndrome: insights from a developmental cognitive neuroscience approach"

Friday, November 20, Neuroscience Thesis Defense, 1:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science, Ms. Shannon Macauley-Rambach (lab of Dr. Mark Sands), “The role of astrocyte activtion in a model of infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis”

Friday, November 20, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Guojun Bu, Department of Pediatrics - TBA

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Wednesday, November 25, Neuroscience Thesis Defense, 2:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science, Ms. Biyu He (lab of Dr. M. Raichle), “A quest for meaning in spontaneous brain activity – From fMRI to electrophysiology to complexity science”


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