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BCS Spring Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 The Singleton Auditorium

Spring 2009

Speaker/Affiliation

Talk Title

February 6

Dennis J. Selkoe, MD, The Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School

Presenilin, APP and the Genesis of Alzheimer's Disease (PDF)

February 13

Dare Baldwin, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

Action Redescription (PDF)

February 20

Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Genetic Control of Circuit Assembly (PDF)

February 27

Michael E. Goldberg, MD, David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior in the Departments of Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Ophthalmology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

On the Agnosticism of Apikes: Attention, Saccades, and Salience in the Lateral Intraparietal Area (PDF)

March 13

Ed Connor, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Representation of object structure in the ventral visual pathway (PDF)

March 20

Herbert H. Clark, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Stanford University

Rational Ways of Using Language (PDF)

April 3

Nathaniel D Daw, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology, New York University

Learning in Decision Making: Linking Computational and Experimental Approaches (PDF)

April 17

Shubha Tole, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Creating the Cortex, Assembling the Amygdala (PDF)

April 24

Nancy Kopell, PhD, W. G. Aurelio Professor of Mathematics and Science, Center for BioDynamics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University

Rhythms, Cell Assemblies and Binding in the Nervous System: From Physiology to Function (PDF)

May 1

THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE

Karel Svoboda, PhD,
Group Leader
HHMI, Janelia Farm Research Campus

The Neural Circuits Underlying Somatosensation (PDF)

May 8

THE BIDWELL MEMORIAL LECTURE

Marc G. Caron, PhD, James B. Duke Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Medicine and Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center

Animal Models of Brain Monoamine Dysfunction: Relevance to CNS Disorders and Drug Action (PDF)

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