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Past Events

Seminar

October 16, 2017 @ TBD

University of Michigan

Seminar Title: TBN

Dr. Jill Becker (External Advisor)

Patricia Y. Gurin, Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Research Professor Molecular & Behav. Neurosci. Inst.

 

 

Seminar

September 18, 2017 @ TBD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Seminar Title: TBN

Dr. Scott Russo (External Advisor)

Research Progress Meeting

June 16, 2017 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

K069 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports on Research Progress

Executive Meeting

June 6, 2017 @ 11:00am - 2:00pm

T-235 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Video Conference with PI’s & NIMH Program Officers

Research Progress Meeting

May 12, 2017 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

K069 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports on Research Progress

Dr. Antony Abraham (Chavkin lab) “Differential Response Learning”

Ms. Lauren Burgeno (Phillips lab) “Optogenetic activation of VTA in rats”

Dr. Kevin Coffey (Neumaier Lab) “RiboTag RNA Seq updates”

Executive Meeting

May 8, 2017 @ 4:00pm - 6:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

April 21, 2017 @ 2:30pm - 3:30pm

D209 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Research Progress Meeting

April 21, 2017 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

D209 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports on Research Progress

Dr. Atom Lesiak (Neumaier lab)

Ms. Samara Miller (Zweifel lab)

Seminar

April 19, 2017 @ 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Husky Union Building (HUB) South Ballroom - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “Social Justice Training Workshop”

Dr. Robin DiAngelo (Westfield State University)

UW Center for Integrative Neuroscience Symposium

April 18, 2017 @ 9:00am - 5:00pm

UW Waterfront Activities Center - Seattle, WA

“Open Questions and Emerging Trends in Functional Neural Circuit Analysis” Organized by Larry Zweifel & Sheri Mizumori.

Dr.  Garret Stuber (University of North Carolina) “Dissecting the Neural Circuits that Mediate Motivated Behaviors”

Dr. Eric Turner (Seattle Children’s Research Institute) “Output Circuitry of the Medial Habenula”

Dr.  Carlos Campos (UW, Biochemistry) “A Parabrachial Neural Circuit Underlying Affective and Feeding Disorders”

Dr. Dayu Lin (New York University) “The Neural Mechanism of Aggression”

Dr. David Gire (UW, Psychology) “Neural Circuits for Processing Natural Odor Scenes”

Dr. Jihong Bai (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) “Neuronal Basis of Spatial Pattern Selection in C. Elegans”

Dr. Ajay Dhaka (UW, Biological Structure) “Do Fish Itch? Selective Pruritus via Direct Activation of TRPA1”

Dr. Jay Parrish (UW, Biology) “Control of Drosophila Mechanosensation by the Tubulin Acetylase dTat”

Research Progress Meeting

March 10, 2017 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

T-747 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports by each project on Research Progress

Ms. Jenny Steger

Mr. Raphael Williams

Ms. Madison Baird

Mr. Alec Gibson

Executive Meeting

March 9, 2017 @ 3:30pm - 4:30pm

BB-1538 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Research Progress Meeting

March 1, 2017 @ 9:30am - 11:00am

Data Science Studio - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: RNA Seq Data Analysis

Dr. David Beck (External Advisor)

Dr. Charles Chavkin

Dr. Atom Lesiak (Neumaier lab)

Mr. Joshua Cohen

Research Progress Meeting

February 10, 2017 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

T-747 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports by each Project on “Stress regulated genes”

Dr. Yong Sang Jo (Zweifel lab) The role of phasic dopamine in fear and aversion.

Ms. Jenny Steger & Dr. Ben Land (Chavkin lab) Sex Differences in Social Aggression & KOR signaling

Mr. Alec Gibson (Neumaier lab) DREADD experiments

Seminar

February 6, 2017 @ 3:30pm - 4:30pm

T-747 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “Dopamine regulation of local striatal circuitry and its role in movement”

Dr. Veronica Alvarez (Investigator, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience; Section on Neuronal Structure-NIH NIAAA)

 

Seminar

January 20, 2017 @ 12:00pm - 1:00pm

D209 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “Afferent Regulation of Prefrontal Maturation During Adolescence: Impact of Social Defeat Stress”

Dr. Kuei Y. Tseng (Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science)

Research Progress Meeting

January 13, 2017 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

T-747 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports by each Project on “Sex differences in stress responses”

Executive Meeting

January 5, 2017 @ 9:30am - 10:30am

Data Science Studio - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Meeting with Dr. David Beck, External Advisor

Seminar

December 20, 2016 @ 2:30pm - 3:30pm

T-625 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “Optogenetics for the modulation and treatment (?) of pain”

Dr. Robert W. Gereau (Washington University, St Louis)

Research Progress Meeting

December 16, 2016 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

K069 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports by each Project on “VTA circuitry and depression / aversion”

Research Progress Meeting

November 18, 2016 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

K069 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports by each Project on “Stress Effects on Cognition”

Dr. Antony Abraham (Chavkin Lab)

Dr. Erik Carlson (Zweifel Lab)

Research Progress Meeting

October 14, 2016 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

K069 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports by each Project on Research Progress

UW Center for Integrative Neuroscience Symposium

May 24, 2016 @ 9:00am - 5:00pm

UW Waterfront Activities Center - Seattle, WA

Mechanisms of fear and Loathing” Organized by C Chavkin & S Mizumori. UW Waterfront Activities Center

Dr. Kerry J. Ressler (McLean Hospital, Harvard University) “Combining Neurogenetic and neural circuit approaches to understanding PTSD: From mice to men”

Dr. Jeansok Kim (UW, Psychology) “The stressed hippocampus”

Dr. Kuni Knodoh (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) “Identification of a specific olfactory cortical area involved in instinctive odor fear”

Dr. Larry Zweifel (UW, Psychiatry & Pharmacology) “Central amygdala CRF facilitates learning about weak threats”

Dr. Michael Faneslow (UCLA, Psychology) “Neural mechanisms of PTSD see through stress-enhanced fear learning”

Dr. Kate McLaughlin (UW, Psychology) “Trauma and threat processing across development”

Dr. Antony Abraham (UW ,Pharmacology) “Stress disrupts cognitive performance by kappa opioid receptor activation in the VTA”

Dr. John Neumaier (UW, Psychiatry & Pharmacology) “Fear and loathing in the lateral habenula”

Dr. Selena S. Schattauer (UW, Pharmacology) “Sex differences in kappa opioid receptor function”

Executive Meeting

May 23, 2016 @ 3:30pm - 4:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Meeting with Dr. Kerry Ressler, External Advisor

Seminar

April 18, 2016 @ 12:00pm - 1:00pm

T-639 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “On feeling no pain: neural basis for loss of consciousness during anesthesia”

Dr. Marshall Devor (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Research Progress Meeting

March 29, 2016 @ 5:00pm - 6:00pm

K069 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: Reports by each Project on Research Progress

Seminar

March 18, 2016 @ 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Room 606 - Jack R. MacDonald Bldg, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Topic: “Synaptic mechanisms maintaining persistent cocaine and methamphetamine craving”

Dr. Marina Wolf (Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science)

Seminar

March 15, 2016 @ 2:30pm - 3:30pm

D209 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “Dissecting Neuromodulatory Circuits and Signaling in Affective Behaviors”

Dr. Michael Bruchas (Washington University, St. Louis)

Executive Meeting

March 7, 2016 @ 10:00am - 11:00am

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Meeting with Dr. Josh Gordon, External Advisor

Seminar

March 7, 2016 @ 3:30pm - 4:30pm

T-747 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “Limbic-cortical interactions in psychiatric disease models”

Dr. Josh Gordon (Columbia University)

Executive Meeting

February 23, 2016 @ 12:45pm-1:45pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Meeting with Dr. Michael Fanselow, External Advisor

Seminar

January 19, 2016 @ 2:30pm - 3:30pm

D209 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “Deciphering Neural Circuits That Control Appetite”

Dr. Richard Palmiter (University of Washington)

Executive Meeting

January 12, 2016 @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Seminar

November 16, 2015 @ 3:30pm - 4:30pm

A-420 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “The Many Faces of Habenula”

Dr. Eric E Turner (Seattle Children’s Research Institute)

 

Dr. Larry Zweifel presents UW Medicine | Science in Medicine New Investigator Lecture

October 14, 2015 @ 1:00pm

D-209 HSB - University of Washington

LECTURE TITLE  “Complexity and Diversity in Dopamine Systems of the Brain: Implications for Health and Disease”

Seminar

October 14, 2015 @ 1:00pm - 2:00pm

D209 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Topic: “Complexity and Diversity in Dopamine Systems of the Brain: Implications for Health and Disease”

Dr. Larry Zweifel (University of Washington)

Dr. Jeansok Kim, UW Professor of Psychology , will present a lecture on “Landscape of Fear”

October 12, 2015 @ 11:30am

South Campus Center SCC 316

Dr. Kim will present a summary of his laboratory’s recent research and plans at the Center’s Monthly Research Progress Lunch Meeting.

Executive Meeting

September 15, 2015 @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

July 28, 2015 @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

May 26, 2015 @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

May 5, 2015 @ 2:00pm - 3:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

April 14, 2015 @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

April 7, 2015 @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

March 27, 2015 @ 1:00pm - 2:00pm

BB1644

Meeting with Drs. Unutzer & Catterall, Department Chairs

Conte Dinner

March 14, 2015 @ 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Sand Point Yacht Club - Seattle, WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

March 9, 2015 @ 11:00am -12:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

February 24, 2015 @ 2:00pm - 3:00pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel

Executive Meeting

December 4, 2014 @ 5:30pm - 6:30pm

D423 HSB - University of Washington, Seattle WA

Drs. Chavkin, Dobra, Neumaier, Phillips, Zweifel