Upcoming Seminars
2018-2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Neuro 510
Mondays, 3:30pm – 4:30pm (Unless stated otherwise)
Autumn Quarter – T-639 Health Science Building
Winter Quarter – T-747 Health Science Building
Spring Quarter – D-209 Health Science Building (Unless stated otherwise)
Spring Quarter 2019
April 1, 2019
Dr. Nick Steinmetz
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Distributed networks underlying visually-guided behavior across the mouse brain”
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April 8, 2019
Dr. Michael Shadlen
Professor of Neuroscience; ; Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Columbia University
Seminar Title: “Decisions by primates and mice: causality, compensation, and circuit configuration”
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April 15, 2019
Dr. Evelyn Lambe
Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology, and Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Toronto
Seminar Title: “Cholinergic control of prefrontal cortex: Focusing on the cellular mechanisms of attention”
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12:00 pm, April 17, 2019, Hitchcock (HCK) 132
Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin
Founder of MeTooSTEM
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: “Chaperone Determinants of Neuronal Survival”
4:00 pm, April 17, 2019, Hitchcock (HCK) 132
Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin
Founder of MeTooSTEM
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: “Ending Sexual Misconduct and Discrimination in STEM One Harasshole and Chili Pepper at a Time”
April 22, 2019
Dr. Vivek Jayaraman
Senior group Leader and Head of Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience
HHMI- Janelia Research Campus
Seminar Title: “A neural compass that combines flexibility and stability”
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April 29, 2019
Dr. Amy Orsborn
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering
University of Washington
Core Staff Scientist, Washington National Primate Research Center
Seminar Title: “Interfaces for studying learning and control in neural systems”
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May 6, 2019
Dr. Daniel Geschwind
Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor in Neurology, Psychiatry and Human Genetics.
Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor for Precision Health
Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment, Semel Institute,
UCLA
Seminar Title: “Integrative genomics in neuroscience”
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May 13, 2019
Dr. Garret Stuber
Professor, Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Dissecting neural circuits for motivation and reward”
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May 20, 2019
Dr. Jeansok Kim
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Neurobiology of Stayin’ Alive”
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June 3, 2019
Dr. Sandra Bajallieh
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Targeting the machinery of neurotransmitter release in the treatment of neurological disorders: the case of Synaptic Vesicle Protein 2”
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Winter Quarter 2019
January 7, 2019
NO Seminar
January 14, 2019
Dr. Jan-Marino Ramirez
Director, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Professor, Dept. of Neurological Surgery
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Opioid overdose: how opioids take away our breath”
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January 28, 2019
Dr. Michael Ailion
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Gq, dopamine, and the mysterious NALCN ion channel”
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February 4, 2019
Dr. Marina Picciotto
Charles B.G. Murphy Professor in Psychiatry
Deputy Chair for Basic Science Research
Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Yale University
Seminar Title: “Cholinergic involvement in stress-related behaviors in mice and humans”
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February 11, 2019
Dr. William N. Zagotta
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “The ups and downs of pacemaker channels”
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February 25, 2019
Dr. Sarah Pallas
Professor, Neuroscience Institute and department of Biology, Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior
Georgia State University
Seminar Title: “The Self-Repairing Brain: Plasticity in Visual Pathways”
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March 4, 2019
Dr. Anitha Pasupathy
Associate Professor, Biological structure
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Joint encoding of shape and surface properties in mid-level ventral visual cortex”
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March 11, 2019
Dr. Erika Holzbaur
William Maul Measey Professor of Physiology
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Seminar Title: “Molecular motors and organelle dynamics in neurons: express shipping and local delivery”
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Autumn Quarter 2018
October 1, 2018
Dr. Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad
Assistant Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Neurorehabilitation using novel neural technologies”
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October 8, 2018
Dr. Gabriel Kreiman
Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard University
Seminar Title: “Behavior, physiology, and computations in visual object recognition”
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October 15, 2018
Dr. Yavin Shaham
Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Behavioral Neuroscience Branch
Seminar Title: “Incubation of drug craving after voluntary abstinence: behavior and circuit mechanisms”
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October 22, 2018
Dr. Aakanksha Singhvi
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Molecular mechanisms of Gila-neuron interactions”
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October 29, 2018
Dr. Thomas Daniel
Professor, Department of Biology
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Sensing to fly and flying to sense”
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November 19, 2018
Dr. Cliff Saper
James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology
Harvard University
Seminar Title: “Brain circuitry for arousal from sleep apnea”
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November 26, 2018
Dr. Leslie Kay
Professor, Department of Psychology, Institute for Mind and Biology
University of Chicago
Seminar Title: “The Effects of context in central olfactory processing”
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December 3, 2018
Dr. Smita Yadav
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington
Seminar Title: “Autism susceptibility gene TAOK2 in development and disease”
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