PBIO SEMINAR SERIES 2008-2009
October 08, 2008
"The Biophysics of Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time"
Steve Block
S.W. Ascherman Professor of Sciences, Stanford University
October 15, 2008
"Multivesicular release at hair cell synapses"
Henrique von Gersdorff
Vollum Institute. OHSU
October 23, 2008
4:00 PM Foege Auditorium S-060
2008 Lamport Lecture -
"Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Discrete Steps by a DNA Packaging Motor and the Inter-Subunit Coordination in a Ring-ATPase"
Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley
November 05, 2008
"Psychophysical Investigations of Gain Control in Human Rod Vision"
Michael E. Rudd, PhD
University of Washington
November 12, 2008
"Exploiting Vision and Proprioception for Brain-Machine Interface Development "
Dr Nicho Hatsopoulos
Associate Professor, Dept. of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
November 19, 2008
"Dark light and dark noise in the visual system: sources and consequences"
Kristian Donner
Professor , University of Helsinki
December 03, 2008
"DeMISTifying the brain: understanding circuits and diseases of decision-making"
Alla Karpova
Group Leader, HHMI, Janelia Farms
January 21, 2009
"Learning A Precision Motor Behavior, the Role of the Cerebellum."
Robi Soetedjo
University of Washington
January 28, 2009
"Hippocampal place cells: A special spatial code?"
Sheri Mizumori
University of Washington
March 04, 2009
Title To Be Announced
Nino Ramirez
Director, Center for Neuroscience, Seattle Children's Research Institute
March 25, 2009
"Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels and regulation of vascular tone in resistance arteries"
Joe Brayden
April 08, 2009
"Adaptive neural coding"
Adrienne Fairhall
University of Washington
April 15, 2009
"How are chromosomes moved during mitosis? Biophysics at the kinetochore-microtubule interface"
Chip Asbury
University of Washington
April 22, 2009
"Timing in the rodent auditory cortex."
Tony Zador
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
April 28, 2009
4:00 pm T-739
2009 Hille Lecture -
"The neural circuits underlying somatosensation "
Karel Svoboda
Janelia Farm Research Campus
May 13, 2009
"Dendritic Spine Morphogenesis and Cortical Synapse Formation "
Karen Zito
UC Davis
June 03, 2009
"Circuit influences on input transformation by CA1 pyramidal neurons"
Jeff Magee
JFRC Group Leader, Janelia Farm Research Campus
June 10, 2009
4:00 pm T-739
2009 Crill Lecture -
"Synaptic circuits and odor processing in the rodent olfactory system "
Venkatesh Murthy
Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
June 18, 2009
9:30 - 12:00 G-328
2009 WWAMI Review Lecture -
"Channelopathy"
Stephen C. Cannon, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Linda and Mitch Hart Distinguished Chair in Neurology , UT Southwestern