Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar Series

Frontiers in Neuroscience Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule

* Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are at 12:00 pm in the Whitehead Auditorium

January 27, 2012:
Elaine Walker, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Emory University
"Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms in the Emergence of Psychosis"

February 3, 2012:
Ami Klin, Director, Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University
"Early Indicators and Predictors of Outcome in Infants & Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder"

February 10, 2012 (Recruitment!):
Alisha Epps: "Epileptogenesis in a Rodent Model of Depression and Epilepsy Co-Morbidity: A Behavioral Analysis"
Erin Hecht: "Neural Adaptations for Social Learning: Connectivity and Responsivity of the Mirror System in Macaques, Chimpanzees, and Humans"

February 17, 2012:
Kim Wallen, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Emory University
"Response to Sexual Images: Neural Activation and Hormonal Influences"

February 24, 2012 (Recruitment!):
Brittany Howell: "Effects of Early Life Stress on Infant Macaque Brain Development"
Sammy Lee: "The Role of SIMPLE Mutations in the Pathogenesis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease"

March 2, 2012:
Alison Barth, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
"Competition in Circuit Construction During Neocortical Maturation"

March 9, 2012:
David Sulzer, Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Columbia University
"Synaptic Selection in the Basal Ganglia"

March 16, 2012:
No Frontiers - Spring Break

March 23, 2012:
Joe Perlmutter, Professor of Neurology, Radiology, and Physical Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine
"Neuroimaging Biomarkers for PD: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly"

March 30, 2012:
Fernanda Laezza, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
"Novel Insights into the Macromolecular Complex of Voltage-Gated Na+ Channels"

April 6, 2012:
David Fink, Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan
"Targeted Drug Delivery Using Gene Transfer: Novel Treatments for Pain and Polyneuropathy Move Towards the Clinic"

April 13, 2012: (Will be held in School of Medicine, Room 130)
Serena Dudek, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
"Hippocampal CA2: An Unexpected Hotbed of Synaptic Regulators"

April 20, 2012:
David Ginty, Professor of Neuroscience, Investigator, HHMI Johns Hopkins University
"The Development and Organization of Neurons that Underlie the Sense of Touch"

April 27, 2012:
Ilya Nemenman, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Emory University
"Neural Networks 2.0: Using Modern Neuroscience to Improve Machine Vision"

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