Graduate Training in Neuroscience
University of Washington
Research News
Two of our recent graduates, Sung Han and Julia Lemos, have had work from their dissertations published in Nature. Both papers represent collaborations between labs in our Neurobiology & Behavior program (Catterall and de la Iglesia, and Phillips and Chavkin.)
Dr. Han’s paper “Autistic-like behaviour in Scn1a+/- mice and rescue by enhanced GABA-mediated neurotransmission” identifies the neurobiological mechanism of autistic-like behavior in an animal model of Dravet syndrome and has important implications for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Lemos’ paper “Severe stress switches CRF action in the nucleus accumbens from appetitive to aversive” demonstrates a neural mechanism for how stress can lead to depression.
N&B faculty member Adrian KC Lee (Speech & Hearing Sciences, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences) just received a prestigious Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program Award
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/afoo-aag011112.phpThis Award is for new researchers who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. His AFOSR project is to develop "An integrated neuroscience and engineering approach to classifying human brain-states."
The work of N&B student Stephanie Furrer on the mechanism of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 is featured on the cover of this month's special issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Journal of Neuroscience, Nov. 2011 . See our Blog.
N&B Student William Marrs in lab of Nephi Stella identifies a novel mechanism controlling levels of an endogenous cannabinoid in the brain.
Nature Neuroscience, 2010 and press release. Also, see our Blog.
Research of N&B Program Labs Featured in the Wall Street Journal
The labs of David Raible and Ed Rubel are using zebrafish as a model system to identify drugs and genes that may influence damage and regeneration of sensory hair cells of the human inner ear. N&B graduate student Julie Harris has contributed importantly to this work.
N&B Faculty Fetz and Perlmutter create a brain-computer interface to restore movement in a paralyzed monkey.
Seminars of Previous Years
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2011-2012 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510
October 10, 2011
James Surmeier, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Dopaminergic modulation of dendritic excitability and synaptic plasticity in the striatum
October 24, 2011
Joshua Gold, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
How the brain learns from experience to optimize simple decisions
October 31, 2011
Gwenn Garden, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
University of Washington
The role of glia in neurodegeneration
November 21, 2011
C. Daniel Salzman, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Columbia University
Cognitive signals in the amygdala
November 28, 2011
Michael Dickinson, Ben Hall Professor Professor of Basic Sciences, Department of Biology
University of Washington
From take-off to landing: Visual navigation in Drosophila
December 5, 2011
Chet Moritz, Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
Leveraging neural plasticity for the treatment of paralysis and other movement disorders
January 9, 2012
Catherine Peichel, Associate Member of Human Biology, Department of Biology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Why fish go to school: genetic and neural basis of stickleback schooling behavior
January 23, 2012
Larry Zweifel, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
Visualizing acitivty-dependent processes in midbrain dopamine neurons
February 6, 2012
Ted Dawson, PhD
Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor of Neurodegenerative Diseases, The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University
Defining the path to neurodegeneration and mitrochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease
February 27, 2012
Eric Nestler, PhD
Professor and Chair of Neuroscience; Director of Friedman Brain Institute; Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics; Professor of Psychiatry
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of addiction
March 5, 2012
Mark Opp, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
University of Washington
The sleeping brain as a window on the immune system
March 26, 2012
Jay Parrish, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
University of Washington
Dendrite maintenance and structural plasticity in Drosophila sensory systems
April 2, 2012
Cecilia Moens, Affiliate Professor, Departments of Biology and Biological Structure
Investigator, HHMI; Associate Member off Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Cell movements and cell migrations underlying hindbrain morphogenesis in the zebrafish
April 16, 2012
Cori Bargmann, PhD
Investigator, HHMI; Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior
The Rockefeller University
Genes, circuits, and time: Using fixed circuits to generate flexible behaviors
April 23, 2012
Matthew Kelley, PhD, Senior Investigator
National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders; Chief, Laboratory of Cochlear Development;
NIDCD/NIH
Regulation of cell fate and neuronal patterning in the cochlea
May 7, 2012
Michael S. Brainard, PhD
Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
University of California-San Francisco
Behavioral and neural mechanisms of vocal learning in adult songbirds
May 14, 2012
Paul Phillips, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Pharmacology
University of Washington
Coupling value to actions: dopamine, reinforcement learning and decision making
May 21, 2012
Sheri Mizumori, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Adaptive decisions during navigation
2010-2011 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510
Dates Seminar Speakers
October 11, 2010
Dmitry Rinberg, PhD
Howard Huges Medical Institute Fellow; Janelia Farm Research Campus
Temporal structure of olfactory coding: smell the time
October 25, 2010
Anatol Kreitzer, Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
Assistant Professor, Departments of Physiology and Neurology
University of California-San Francisco
November 1, 2010
Dana Miller, Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Neuronal control of hypoxia-induced embryonic diapause in c. elegans
November 8, 2010
Chris Hague, Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington
Proteomic analysis of a GPCR signalosome
December 6, 2010
Guo-Li Ming, MD/Phd
Associate Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience
Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Regulation of neural development of dentate neurons by DISC1 signaling
January 10, 2011
William Spain, Professor
Department of Neurology, Joint with Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
Coding with precisely timed spikes: probems and solutions
January 31, 2011
Joshua Sanes, Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
Visualizing circuits in the visual system
February 7, 2011
Christopher Stecker, Assistant Professor
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
University of Washington
The neurobiology and behavior of binaural processing in human listeners
February 28, 2011
Allan Basbaum, Professor & Chairman
Department of Anatomy
University of California - San Francisco
Specificity in the processing and control of pain messages
March 7, 2011
Rachel Wong, Professor
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Developmental strategies underlying the wiring patterns of retinal neurons
April 11, 2011
Edith Hamel, PhD
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
McGill University
Cortical neuronal networks and neurovascular coupling
April 18, 2011
Leonard Kaczmarek, Professor
Pharmacology and Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Yale University
Ion channels, fragile X and the regulation of neuronal accuracy
April 25, 2011
Daniel Johnston, PhD
Karl S. Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research; Professor of Neurobiology; Director of the Center for Learning and Memory; Director of the Institute for Neuroscience; Coordinator of the Neuroscience Institute, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole; Dart Foundation Scholar in Learning & Memory
University of Texas-Austin
Function, plasticity, and behavioral-relevance of dendritic h channels
May 2, 2011
EJ Chichilnisky, Associate Professor
Systems Neurobiology Laboratories
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors
May 9, 2011
Anirvan Ghosh, Professor and Chair
Section of Neurobiology; Stephen W. Kuffler Chair in Biology
University of California - San Diego
Regulation of synaptic specificity in developing neural circuits
May 23, 2011
Daniel Margoliash, Professor
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy; Department of Psychology;
Committee on Computational Neuroscience
University of Chicago
Sensory and motor representations in the birdsong system
2009-2010 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates Seminar Speakers
October 5, 2009
Daphne Atlas, Professor
The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Atlas' visit is made possible by the UW Department of Pharmacology
The voltage-gated calcium channel is a Ca2+ sensor that serves as the molecular on/off switch of secretion
October 26, 2009
Xiaohu Gao, Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
Nanotechnology for biomedical research
November 2, 2009
Jay and Maureen Neitz, Professors
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington
Jay Neitz: Gene therapy for treating vision disorders; Maureen Neitz: Cone opsin mutations in age-related macular degeneration
November 16, 2009
Richard Ransohoff, MD
Lerner Research Institute
Department of Neurosciences, Cleveland Clinic
Chemokines and chemokine receptors: Standing at the crossroads of immunobiology and neurobiology
December 7, 2009
Harold Zakon, Professor of Neurobiology
Section of Neurobiology, University of Texas-Austin
Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking in an electric fish
January 25, 2010
Jay Heinecke, Karasinski Chair in Metabolic Research, Professor of Medicine
Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition
University of Washington
Defining the proteomes of macrophage and dendritic cells: Implications for neurodegenerative disease
February 8, 2010
Mary Kennedy, Alan and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Biology
California Institute of Technology
The Dynamic Synapse
March 8, 2010
Gary Aston-Jones, PhD
Murray Chair of Excellence in Neuroscience
Director, Carolina Primate Center
Medical University of South Carolina
Seeking reward: Overdoing it with orexin neurons
March 29, 2010
Robert Foehring, PhD
Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Tennessee, Health Science Center
An inordinate fondness for K+ channels: Expression and function of Kv channel subunits in neocortical pyramidal neurons
April 5, 2010
Ajay Dhaka, Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Feeling frosty, TRPM8 and the molecular basis of cold sensationand
Robi Soetedjo, Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington
Brainstem stimulation induces motor learning
April 19, 2010
Kenneth Catania, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
Stars, whiskers, and tentacles - sensory specializations and behaviors in some rare predators
May 3, 2010
Anne Calof, PhD
Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of California-Irvine
Mouse models for studying neural stem cell development and human genetic disease
May 17, 2010
Diane Lipscombe, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience, Brown University
Optimizing neuronal calcium channels by alternative splicing
2008-2009 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates Seminar Speakers
October 13, 2008
Joanna Jen, MD/PhD,
University of California, Los Angeles
New insights into an inherited microvasculopathy of the eye and brain
October 20, 2008
Faculty Seminar: Albert Folch, Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
Neurobiology on a chip
and
Greg Horwitz, Assistant Professor,
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Color processing in V1: A new look at an old problem
October 29, 2008
Daeyeol Lee, Associate Professor,
Department of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Repeated games and neural basis of decision making
November 3, 2008
Rowland Taylor, PhD,
Neurological Sciences Institute; Joint with Ophthalmology
Oregon Health & Science University
The role of inhibition in spatial and temporal tuning of retinal ganglion cells
November 10, 2008
Faculty Seminar: Jennifer Stone, Research Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, University of Washington
Molecular regulation of auditory hair cell regeneration
and
Robert Hevner, Associate Professor,
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington/Children's Hospital Research Institute
Transcriptional programs in neurogenesis
December 1, 2008
John Williams, Senior Scientist at the Vollum Institute,
and Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Oregon Health & Science University, School of Medicine
Kinetics of dopamine dependent synaptic transmission
January 26, 2009
Erik D. Herzog, Associate Professor,
Department of Biology
Washington University
Networked circadian oscillators in the brain: The politics of periodicity
February 2, 2009
Faculty Seminar: Eric Chudler, Research Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
The role of the basal ganglia in pain and nociception
and
Weiqing Li, Assistant Professor,
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Hormones, cell maintenance and neurodegeneration
February 23, 2009
Russell Fernald, Professor of Biology, Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor, Mimi & Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Stanford University
Social control of brain structures: Cellular consequences of living socially
March 9, 2009
Faculty Seminar: Wendy Raskind, Professor
Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Medicine (Medical Genetics)
University of Washington
Studies in neurogenetic disease: From patient to bench
and
Michael Beecher, Professor,
Departments of Psychology and Biology,
University of Washington
The bird song model system: The view from the behavioral side
April 6, 2009
Faculty Seminar: Dennis Dacey, Professor
Department of Biological Structure; Core Staff Scientist, NPRC
University of Washington
From cones to color in the primate retina
and
Eric Shea-Brown, Assistant Professor,
Department of Applied Math
University of Washington
Reliable and unreliable spike times in model networks--a role for feedback?
April 20, 2009
Karl Deisseroth, MD/PhD
Department of Bioengineering and Psychiatry
Stanford University
Optogenetics: development and application
May 4, 2009
Wolfram Schultz, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Neuroscience
Departments of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
University of Cambridge
Neurophysiology of reward and risk
May 18, 2009
Fred Gage, Professor,
Department of Genetics, The Salk Institute
Neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain
2007-2008 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates Seminar Speakers
October 8, 2007
Roger Nicoll, MD,
University of California, San Francisco
How would Sir Henry Dale study the brain?
October 15, 2007
Faculty Seminar: David Perkel, Professor
Department of Biology & Otolaryngology-HNS, University of Washington
A basal ganglia circuit essential for vocal learning
and
Horacio de la Iglesia, Associate Professor,
Department of Biology, University of Washington
Searching for biological clocks in the Pacific Northwest
October 29, 2007
Bruce Appel, Associate Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Glial development and myelination in zebrafish
November 19, 2007
Faculty Seminar: David Raible, Professor
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Development, death and regeneration of zebrafish mechanosensory hair cells
and
Leo Pallanck, Associate Professor,
Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
Modeling Parkinson's disease in the fruit fly Dosophila melanogaster
January 7, 2008
Faculty Seminar: Bruce Ransom, Magnuson Professor & Chair,
Department of Neurology
University of Washington
Astrocyte hemichannels: outlaw channels of the CNS
and
Raimond D'Ambrosio, Associate Professor,
Department of Neurological Surgery; Adjunct, Department of Neurology
University of Washington
New strategies to develop the first prophylactic treatment for posttraumatic epileptogenesis
January 14, 2008
Faculty Seminar: Anitha Pasupathy, Assistant Professor,
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Visual shape representation in primate area V4
and
Lee Osterhout, Professor,
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
What the brain's electrical activity can tell us about language
February 4, 2008
Philip Haydon, Professor,
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
The tripartite synapse: roles for astrocytes from synapses to behavior
February 11, 2008
Keiji Tanaka, PhD, Laboratory Head,
Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Mapping
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Offered through a partnership with The Allen Institute for Brain Science
More about Dr. Tanaka
Visual object recognition and inferotemporal cortex
February 25, 2008
Faculty Seminar: Nicholas Poolos, Associate Professor
Department of Neurology & Regional Epilepsy Center; Adjunct, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
Ion channelopathy in aquired epilepsy
and
Suzie Pun, Assistant Professor,
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Synthetic vectors for gene delivery to the CNS
March 10, 2008
Xiaoqin Wang, Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience; Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Information processing in auditory cortex
March 31, 2008
Thomas Montine, Professor,
Departments of Pathology and Neurological Surgery
University of Washington
Therapeutic targets in dementia in the elderly
and
Ilene Bernstein, Professor,
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Visualizing stimulus convergence in amygdala neurons during associative learning
April 14, 2008
Andrew Bass, Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Behavior
Cornell University
Talking heads: ancestral origins of the vocal basis for acoustic communication
April 21, 2008
Ione Fine, Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
University of Washington
The role of experience in sensory plasticity - the effects of sensory deprivation
and
Daniel Chiu, Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington
Spatiotemporally resolved perturbations of neuronal networks
May 5, 2008
Marina Picciotto, Associate Professor,
Departments of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neurobiology
Yale University
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and signaling pathways involved in addiction and learning
May 19, 2008
John Reynolds, Associate Professor,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Mapping the microcircuitry of attention: attentional modulation varies across cell classes in visual area V4
2006-2007 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates Seminar Speakers
October 9, 2006
John Hildebrand, Regents Professor & Director,
ARL Division of Neurobiology
University of Arizona
Explorations of a model olfactory system
October 23, 2006
Faculty Seminar: Fred Rieke, Associate Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Gain contol in the retina - how to keep a good thing going
and
Bruce Tempel, Professor,
Department of Otolaryngology-HNS and Pharmacology, University of Washington
Genetics and the ear, or iQTL4UiPOD/eGEN
November 6, 2006
Timothy Ebner, Professor & Head,
Department of Neurosciences
University of Minnesota Medical School
What cerebellar Purkinje cells encode about arm movements: Implications for theories of cerebellar function
November 13, 2006
Faculty Seminar: Eliot Brenowitz, Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Plasticity of the adult avian song control system
and
Nephi Stella, Associate Professor,
Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington
Controlling neuroinflammation with cannabinoids
November 27, 2006
Yang Dan, Professor,
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of California-Berkeley
Coding of natural stimuli in the visual cortex
December 4, 2006
Faculty Seminar: Ellen Covey, Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Dynamic temporal processing in the auditory midbrain
and
Bharathi Jagadeesh, Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
The perception of ambiguous photographic images and responses of neurons in inferotemporal cortex
January 8, 2007
Faculty Seminar: James Brinkley, Research Professor
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Neuroinformatics for integrating and visualizing brain mapping data, with application to language processing
and
Stephen Tapscott, Professor,
Department of Neurology
University of Washington
MyoD/NeuroD and the regulation of myogenesis/neurogenesis
January 29, 2007
Eric Klann, Professor
Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Baylor College of Medicine
Translational control pathways involved in synaptic plasticity, memory, and behavior
February 12, 2007
John Assad, Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Neural coding of behavioral relevance in parietal cortex
March 5, 2007
Faculty Seminar: Thomas Daniel, Professor
Department of Biology
University of Washington
Dynamics of sensori-motor control in insect flight
and
Gwenn Garden, Assistant Professor,
Department of Neurology
University of Washington
The role of glia in human neurodegenerative diseases
April 2, 2007
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Heather and Melanie Muss Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
and Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
University of California-San Francisco, School of Medicine
Mosaic organization of adult neural stem cell niche
April 9, 2007
Faculty Seminar: Chet Moritz, Senior Fellow
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
Towards a neuroprosthetic for reanimating paralyzed limbs
and
Geoff Boynton, Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Individual differences in acuity predict cortical maps in primary visual and somatosensory cortex
April 23,2007
Terry Robinson, Eliot S. Valenstein Collegiate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience
and
Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program
University of Michigan
Drugs, neuroplasticity and addiction
April 30, 2007
Martha Bosma, Assistant Professor,
Department of Biology, University of Washington
How do 5HT neurons blink N'Sync?
and
John Neumaier, Associate Professor,
Department of Pyschiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
New tricks with old viruses
May 14, 2007
Larry Young, Associate Professor,
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University
Molecular neurobiology of social bonding
2005-2006 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates Seminar Speakers
October 10, 2005
Bruno Olshausen, Associate Professor,
Center for Neuroscience
University of California, Davis
What is the other 85% of V1 doing?
October 24, 2005
Jeffry Isaacson, Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience
University of California-San Diego
Olfactory synaptic circuits
October 31, 2005
Faculty Seminar: Scott Murray, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
The representation of object size in the human visual cortex
and
Andres Barria, Assistant Professor,
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
NMDA-receptors. Trafficking and synaptic plasticity
November 14, 2005
No Seminar -- Society for Neuroscience Meeting
November 21, 2005
Robert Sapolsky, Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences; Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Stanford University
Stress and health: from molecules to society
November 28, 2005
Faculty Seminar: Thomas Moeller, Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Neurology
University of Washington
Microglia activation by thrombin: You get what you pay for
and
Sean O'Donnell, Associate Professor
and Yamile Molina, Psychology Graduate Student
Department of Psychology/Animal Behavior
University of Washington
Brain plasticity and social behavior in paper wasps
December 5, 2005
Faculty Seminar: Paul E.M. Phillips, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
Subsecond dopamine release during task learning
and
Jing Zhang, Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Pathology
Harborview Medical Center
Application of proteomics in neuroscience
January 9, 2006
Faculty Seminar: Neil Nathanson, Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington
Regulation of muscarinic acetylcholine expression and function
and
Steve Perlmutter, Research Associate Professor,
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
Neurophysiological approaches to motor recovery following CNS injury
January 30, 2006
Tirin Moore, Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Stanford School of Medicine
Visual selection, saccade planning, and the neural basis of spatial attention
February 13, 2006
Howard Fields, Professor, MD/PhD
Departments of Neurology and Physiology; Director, Wheeler Center for Neurobiology of Addiction
University of California-San Francisco
Opioids in reward and analgesia: A motivation-decision model
February 27, 2006
Faculty Seminar: Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-HNS
University of Washington
Development and regeneration of the mammallian Organ of Corti
and
Farrel "Ric" Robinson, Associate Professor,
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
What eye movements tell us about the cerebellum
March 6, 2006
Faculty Seminar: Elizabeth Aylward, Professor
Department of Radiology
University of Washington
Functional MRI: Uses and limitations in neurocognitive research
and
Richard Morrison, Professor,
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Washington
Proteomic analysis of p53-dependent cell death pathways in neurons
April 3, 2006
John Welsh
Associate Scientist
Neurological Sciences Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Cerebellar motricity: Views from the inferior olive - teacher or conductor?
April 17, 2006
Gregory DeAngelis, Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine
Linking neural represenation to function: Roles of area MT in depth perception
April 24,2006
Faculty Seminar: Catherine Peichel, Assistant Member
Human Biology Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Genetic analysis of natural behavior variation in threespine sticklebacks
and
Zhengui Xia, Associate Professor
Departments of Environmental Health and Pharmacology
University of Washington
ERK5 MAP kinase regulation of cortical neurogenesis
May 15, 2006
Felix E. Schweizer, Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology
University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine
Synapses: from sensors to sentinels
May 22, 2006
Faculty Seminar: Randall Moon, Professor,
Department of Pharmacology
Presented by the Moon Lab
University of Washington
The role of Wnt signaling in fin regeneration
and
Clifford Hume, Assistant Professor
Department of Otolaryngology-HNS
University of Washington
Inner ear development: tools for the treatment of hearing loss
2004-2005 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates & Seminar Speakers
October 18, 2004
Jack L. Feldman, Professor,
Dept. of Neurobiology, University of California-Los Angeles
Looking for inspiration
November 1, 2004
Markus Meister, Jeff C. Tarr Professor,
Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Adaptation in the neural code of the retina
November 15, 2004
Jeansok Kim, Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Amygdala and fear conditioning: It may not be what you think it is
December 6, 2004
Yvon Delville, Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology, University of Texas-Austin
Stress, puberty and social behavior
January 10, 2005
Matthew Wilson, Professor
Picower Center for Learning and Memory
Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences & Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hippocampal memory of space and time and the role of sleep
January 31, 2005
Chris J. McBain, Chief
Laboratory of Cellular and Synaptic Neurophysiology
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Containing the detonation: Multiple mode of plasticity at a mossy fiber - interneuron synapse
February 14, 2005
No Seminar -- Interview/Recruiting Week
March 7, 2005
Michele Basso, Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
The nigro-collicular pathway: Cognition, movement and Parkinson's disease
March 28, 2005
Kristen M. Harris, Professor, Neurology, Medical College of Georgia and
Eminent Scholar in Synapses and Cell Signaling, Georgia Research Alliance
Dendritic spine changes during hebbian (LTP) and homeostatic synaptic plasticity
April 11, 2005
Richard Palmiter, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Professor
Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington
Dopamine, motivation and reward
April 25, 2005
Luis Santana
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Constitutively active L-type calcium channels
May 9, 2005
Louis F. Reinhardt, Professor
Department of Physiology and Biochemistry
University of California, San Francisco, and
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Functions of beta-catenin and p120catenin in synapse formation
May 23, 2005
Billie J. Swalla, Associate Professor
Department of Biology, University of Washington
Evolution of the chordate CNS from invertebrate nerve nets
June 6, 2005
No Seminar -- Finals Week
2003-2004 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates & Seminar Speakers
October 6, 2003
Joe Tsien, Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Integrated analysis of memory process in mice
October 20, 2003
Claudio V. de Mello, Assistant Professor,
Neurological Sciences Institute,
Oregon Health & Science University
Mapping vocal communication pathways in birds with inducible gene expression
November 3, 2002
Albert La Spada, Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Neurogenetics (Neurology) & Division of Medical Genetics (Medicine)
University of Washington Medical Center
Polyglutamine neurodegeneration mechanisms and pathways: Transcription interrupted?
November 17, 2003
Linda A. Barlow, Assistant Professor,
Department of Cellular & Structural Biology,
University of Colorado
Developing a sense of taste
December 1, 2003
Jeff W. Lichtman, Professor,
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Washington University in St. Louis
Monitoring synaptic competition in flourescent mice
December 15, 2003
Karel Svoboda, Associate Professor,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and
Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Imaging experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in vivo
January 12, 2004
John H.R. Maunsell, Professor
Departments of Opthalmology and Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine, and
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The effect of attention on visual representations in monkey cerebral cortex
February 2, 2004
Jeansok Kim, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
The stressed hippocampus and alterations in synaptic plasticity and memory
March 8, 2003
David Berson, Professor
Department of Neuroscience, Brown University
Strange vision: What the eye tells the brain's clock
March 15, 2004
A. James Hudspeth, F.M. Kirby Professor
Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, Rockefeller University, and
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Making an effort to listen: Mechanical amplification by novel molecular motors in the ear
April 5, 2004
James Olson, Assistant Member
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Developing new therapies for neurologic diseases
April 19, 2004
No Seminar
May 3, 2004
Adrienne Fairhall, Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington
Adaptation on many timescales: Mechanisms and implications for informaton processing
May 17, 2004
Joseph Sisneros, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Steroid-dependent sensory plasticity leads to adaptive matching of sender and receiver
2002-2003 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates & Seminar Speakers
October 7, 2002
Jane Sullivan, Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
How does synaptotagmin control fast synaptic transmission?
October 21, 2002
Ariel Ruiz i Altaba, Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology
New York University School of Medicine
Gli proteins and HH signaling in the brain: Tumors, embryos and stem cells
November 4, 2002
T. Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington
Using drosophila to study human disease genes, dystroglycan and notch
November 25, 2002
Barney Schlinger, Professor
Department of Physiological Science
University of California-Los Angeles
Steroidal signaling within the avian brain: Multiple mechanisms for multiple tasks
December 9, 2002
Marc Caron, James B. Duke Professor
Departments of Cell Biology and Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Dopamine transporter: Probing its physiological function by genetic and biochemical approaches
January 13, 2003
CANCELLED
February 3, 2003
Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Cross-talk between tau and alpha-synuclein lesions in neurodegenerative diseases
February 24, 2003
Dr. Edwin Chapman, Associate Professor
Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin
The molecular mechanism that mediates Ca2+ -triggered exocytosis
March 10, 2003
Paul Muchowski, Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington
Functional genomic screens in yeast to identify genes that modulate neurodegeneration in Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases
April 7, 2003
Gina Turrigiano, Assistant Professor
Department of Biology, Brandeis University
Regulation of synapse number and strength in developing cortical networks
April 21, 2003
Venkatesh Murthy, Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Synaptic modification induced by selective suppression of activity in single neurons
May 5, 2003
Kenneth Mackie, Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington
Turning off cannabinoid receptor signaling: How does a cell say 'no'?
May 19, 2003
Matteo Carandini, Professor
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
Suppressive fields and receptive fields in the early visual system
June 9, 2003
Valerie Daggett, Associate Professor
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington
Mapping the early steps in the conversion of the prion protein
2001-2002 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates & Seminar Speakers
October 8, 2001
Stanley Froehner, Professor and Chair
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
The dystrophin complex: A scaffold for signaling proteins at synapses
October 22, 2001
John Neumaier, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
The role of 5-HT1B autoreceptors in stress and depression
November 5, 2001
Rajesh Rao, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Predictive coding and sequence learning in recurrent neural circuits
November 26, 2001
Kenneth O. Johnson, Professor
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Neural coding and the basic saw of psychophysics
December 10, 2001
Frederic Theunissen, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, University of California-Berkeley
Spectral-temporal receptive fields of nonlinear auditory neurons obtained using natural sounds
January 14, 2002
Maureen Condic, Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Utah
Integrin regulation in sensory neuron development and regeneration
February 4, 2002
Gwenn Garden, Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology, University of Washington
Neuronal injury and apoptosis in HIV-associated dementia
February 25, 2002
Hollis Cline, Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Control of dendritic arbor development by visual system activity and Rho GTPases
March 11, 2002
Richard H. Masland, Professor
Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, HHMI and
Massachusetts General Hospital
The retina from the bottom up: Organizing neuronal diversity
April 8, 2002
Catherine Carr, Professor
Department of Biology, University of Maryland
Temporal coding in the barn owl
April 22, 2002
Lloyd Greene, Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Columbia University
NGF-promoted gene regulation: 20,000 transcripts can't all be wrong
May 6, 2002
Theodore G. Wensel, Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
GTPase regulation in phototransduction
May 20, 2002
Julie Schnapf
Department of Opthalmology, University of California-San Francisco
Receptive fields of cones in the primate retina
June 10, 2002
Philip Horner
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
Stem cells and brain plasticity: Opportunities for self repair?
2000-2001 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates & Seminar Speakers
October 2, 2000
Michale Fee
Department of Biological Computation Research
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Vocal motor control in the songbird: A look at the neural mechanisms of learned sequence generation
October 16, 2000
Robert Fettiplace, Professor
Department of Neurophysiology, University of Wisconsin
Transduction, adaptation and active bundle motion in auditory hair cells
October 30, 2000
Gerhard von der Emde, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Orientation in the dark: How weakly electric fish perceive their environment
November 13, 2000
William Moody, Professor
Department of Zoology, University of Washington
Ion channels and activity-dependent development in invertebrate muscle and mouse brain
November 27, 2000
Wolf Almers
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University
Imaging single vesicles in a live presynaptic terminal
December 11, 2000
William Zagotta, Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington
Molecular mechanisms of gating in cyclic nucleotide-gated channels
January 22, 2001
Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Associate Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Off the axis: A new view of mammalian forebrain induction
February 5, 2001
Sheri J. Y. Misumori, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Spatial representations relevant for spatial navigation in Rats
February 26, 2001
Nephi Stella, Assistant Professor
Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
University of Washington
Cannabinoids and microglial cells: Could marijuana have anti-inflammatory properties?
March 12, 2001
David Perkel, Assistant Professor
Departments of Zoology and Otolaryngology-HNS
University of Washington
Cellular approaches to vocal learning in songbirds
April 2, 2001
Fred Rieke, Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Sites and mechanisms of contrast adaptation in the retina
April 16, 2001
Thomas Albright
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
University of California-San Diego
Contextual influences on visual processing
April 30, 2001
Gilles Laurent
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Dynamic optimization of odor representations by slow temporal patterning of mitral cell activity
May 7, 2001
Edward Giniger, Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Achieving inner balance: The tao of axon guidance
May 21, 2001
Gerald Pollack, Professor
Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
Cells, gels and the engines of life: A fresh approach to neurobiology
June 4, 2001
David Corina, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Spatial correspondence between cortical stimulation mapping and fMRI activation in language cortex
1999-2000 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates & Seminar Speakers
October 4, 1999
M. Charles Liberman
Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School
The olivocochlear efferent system in cochlear development and mature cochlear function
October 14, 1999
Richard Thompson, Keck Professor of Psychology and
Biological Sciences Director, Neuroscience Program
University of Southern California
Memory in the cerebellum?
Student-Invited Lectureship
October 18, 1999
Terrence Sejnowski
Department of Biology, University of California-San Diego
Is the cerebral cortex a time machine?
November 15, 1999
Dan Sanes
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Regulation of inhibitory synaptic strength during development and following deafness
November 29, 1999
Zhengui Xia
Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington
Kinase signaling pathways that regulate neuronal apoptosis
December 6, 1999
David Raible
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Cell fate determination in zebrafish neural crest
December 13, 1999
Marianne Bronner-Fraser
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Molecular analysis of neural crest development
January 10, 2000
John Rubenstein
Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Francisco
Evidence that regional specification and cell type specification are coupled in the embryonic telencephalon
January 24, 2000
Bharathi Jagadeesh
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Neural basis of visual processing of objects and scenes
February 7, 2000
David O'Carroll
Department of Zoology, University of Washington
Evolutionary and dynamic adaptation of visual motion detectors in insects
February 28, 2000
Robert Fern
Department of Neurology, University of Washington
Cerebral Palsy-ischemic injury of nNeonatal brain
March 13, 2000
Gary Rose
Department of Biology, University of Utah
Cracking the electrosensory temporal filter: A tour from ethology through synaptic physiology
April 3, 2000
Martha U. Gillette
Department of Cell & Structural Biology and The Neuroscience Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Point, counterpoint: Opposing glutamatergic and cholinergic mechanisms in the brain's circadian clock
April 17, 2000
Joshua R. Sanes, Professor
Department of Neurobiology, Washington University Medical School
Analyzing synapse formation in mutant and transgenic mice
May 1, 2000
Paul Worley, Associate Professor
Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Immediate early genes provide novel insights into neural plasticity
May 15, 2000
James Thomas, Associate Professor
Department of Genetics, University of Washington
Regulation of locomotory activity and periodicity by CaM kinase II in C. elegans
June 5, 2000
Robert Horvitz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Genetic control of apoptosis in C. elegans
1998-1999 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates & Seminar Speakers
October 5, 1998
Oswald Steward
Department of Neuroscience
University of Virginia School of Medicine
mRNA trafficking in neurons: Role in synapse plasticity
October 19, 1998
Bruce Tempel
Departments of Pharmacology and Otolaryngology
University of Washington
From K+ channels to Ca++ pumps: The positional cloning of the deafwaddler mouse mutant
November 2, 1998
Jim Truman
Department of Zoology, University of Washington
Insect ecdysis: A model system for examining the role of peptides and cyclic nucleotides in organizing behavioral sequences
November 16, 1998
Andreas Engel
Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Temporal binding and response selection in the visual system
November 30, 1998
Mu Ming Poo
Department of Biology, University of California-San Diego
Guidance of nerve growth cones by diffusible factors
January 11, 1999
John Ngai
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California-Berkeley
Mechanisms of signal transduction and development in the vertebrate olfactory system
January 25, 1999
David L. Sparks
Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
Neural representations of sensory and motor events: An oculomotor perspective
February 8, 1999
Eugene Johnson
Departments of Neurology, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
Washington University Medical School
Events that commit neurons to apoptosis
February 22, 1999
Cecilia B. Moens, Assistant Member
Division of Basic Science, FHCRC
Genetic mechanisms of hindbrain and head segmentation in the zebrafish
March 22, 1999
Donald W. Hilgemann
Department of Physiology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Regulation of ion channels and transporters by phosphatidylinositides
April 5, 1999
Robert H. Edwards
Departments of Neurology and Physiology
University of California-San Francisco
The ins and outs of synaptic vesicles
April 19, 1999
Michael P. Stryker
Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Physiology
University of California-San Francisco
Mechanisms of plasticity in developing visual cortex
May 3, 1999
Sandra M. Bajjalieh
Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington
Neurotransmitter secretion
May 17, 1999
Helen Sherk
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Visual cortex and guidance during locomotion
June 14, 1999
David J. Anderson
Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Control of sensory neurogenesis in vertebrates
1997-1998 N&B Seminar Series: Neubeh 510 top
Dates & Seminar Speakers
October 6, 1997
Mark Bothwell, Professor
Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
October 20, 1997
James B. Hurley, Professor
Department of Biochemistry, and
HHMI, University of Washington
The bright side of vision: A biochemical and genetic look at photoreceptor light adaptation
November 10, 1997
Michael E. Goldberg
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Parietal mechanisms for eye movements and attention
November 17, 1997
Jonathan Raper, Professor, Department of Neurosciences
University of Pennsylvania
Collapsin/semaphorins and axon pathfinding
December 1, 1997
Ellen Covey, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Brainstem mechanisms for analyzing temporal patterns of sound
December 8, 1997
Ross L. Cagan
Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
Washington University School of Medicine
Making a fly retina: The role of the EGF receptor and notch in patterning and in programmed cell death
January 12, 1998
Deborah A. Stacey
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
An overview of artificial neural networks for neurobiologists
January 26, 1998
Edwin W. Rubel, Professor
Departments of Physiology & Biophysics, Otolaryngology and Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
Experience and brain development: Chasing cellular pathways in the auditory system
February 9, 1998
Leo Pallanck, Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics, University of Washington
Genetic analysis of neurosecretion in Drosophila
February 23, 1998
A.O. Dennis Willows, Professor
Department of Zoology and Director, Friday Harbor Laboratories
Neurons and peptides involved in geomagnetic orientation control ciliary beating of the molluscan foot: Where is the sensor and where is the motor?
March 2, 1998
Wolfhard Almers
Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
Targeting and exocytosis of single secretory vesicles in live neuroendocrine cells
April 6, 1998
Peter Gillespie
Departments of Physiology and Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University
Mystery molecules mediating mechanotransduction: How hair cells handle hearing
April 20, 1998
Fred Rieke, Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Photon detection and counting in the retina
May 4, 1998
James Surmeier, Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine
University of Tennessee
State-dependent regulation of striatal excitability by dopamine: New insights from combined patch clamp and single cell RT-PCR studies
May 18, 1998
Janis Weeks, Professor
Department of Biology, University of Oregon
Steroid-mediated synaptic reorganization and programmed cell death during postembryonic development
June 1, 1998
Dr. Daniel Margoliash
Dept. Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago
Functional streams, temporal processing and neural codes in the birdsong system