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December

November

Emory University 
Department of Cell Biology Seminar
Speaker: Samuel Schacher, Ph.D. 
Professor
Center for Neurobiology & Behavior
Columbia University College of P & S
Title: “Local Synthesis and Secretion of a Neuropeptide are required for Different Forms of 
Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity”
Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: Cell Biology Seminar Room Rm 400 Whitehead Bldg. 
(Refreshments 3:45 p.m.)

October

September

Georgia State University Canceled
Brains & Behavior Program
Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series
Speaker: Asaf Keller
University of Maryland  
Title: "State dependent gating of sensory processing"
Date: Sept 12th
Location: 14th floor Commerce Bldg. Sterne Room
Host: Anne Murphy

Emory University 
Center for NeuroDegenerative Disease Seminar
Speaker: Steve Stice, PhD
Professor and Eminent Scholar of Animal Reproductive Physiology
Director of UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center University of Georgia
Title: "A role for human embryonic stem cell derived functional neurons in drug discovery?"
DATE:   THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
TIME:    12:00 - 1:00PM (~lunch served @11:45am~)
PLACE:  Whitehead Research Building, 5th floor, Conference Room 500
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3725 or via email dadixon@emory.edu

Georgia State University
Graduate Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Heather Eisthen
Title: TBA
Date: Sep 15 
Location: 400 GCB
Host: Dr. Charles Derby

Emory University 
Frontiers in NeuroScience
Speaker: Donald G. Stein, Ph.D.
Title: "Progesterone in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury: 
From the Laboratory Bench to the Patient's Bedside"
Asa G. Candler Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Emory University, School of Medicine
Date: Friday, September 15, 2006
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Whitehead Research Bldg. Auditorium

Emory University 
Psychology Department Colloquium
Dr. Robyn Fivush
Department of Psychology
Emory University 
Title: “Memory and Narrative, Self and Voice”
Monday September 18, 2006 4:00 p.m.
White Hall 101
Reception to follow in Psychology (RM 201)

Georgia State University
Dissertation Defense
Desiree Krebs
(Department of Psychology Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Program; B&B fellow; CBN Scholar)
Title: "Glucose modulation of the septo-hippocampal system: Implications for memory"
Date: September 20, 2006, 12:00 PM,
Location Urban Life. Refreshments will be provided.

Georgia Tech Psychology Colloquium
Wed., Sep. 27, 2006, 3:00 P, Coon Rm. 250
(Contact Dr. Eric Schumacher for directions - eric.schumacher@psych.gatech.edu)

Roger Tootell, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist , National Institute of Mental Health
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Neural mechanisms of face processing in monkeys and humans: fMRI, electrophysiology and behavior

August

Emory University
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
Speaker: Kimberly J. Dougherty
B.S., Boston College, 2000
Title: "Characterization of Spinal Lamina I GABAergic Neurons and their Plasticity in Spinal Cord Injury"
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2006, at 9:00 am
Location: 600 Whitehead Research Building
An Oral Presentation of a Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the
Graduate School of Emory University in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation Committee:
Shawn Hochman, Ph.D., Advisor
Deborah Baro, Ph.D.
Timothy Cope, Ph.D.
Donald Rainnie, Ph.D.
Peter Wenner, Ph.D.

June

Georgia State University
Brains & Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series

**Please Note new date, time, and location
June 14, 2006
Speaker: Gene Robinson
University of Illinois
Title: Overachievers: What Honey Bees Teach us about Genes, Brain, and Social Behavior
Time: 2:00PM
Location: Loudermilk Center (directions)

May

Georgia State University
Brains & Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series
Speaker: Alison Fleming
Univ. of Toronto
Date: May 9, 2006
Title: Psychobiology of Maternal Behavior: What the rat mother can tell us about human mothering.
Time: 10:00AM
Location: Commerce Building 14th floor, Stern Room

Emory University
Yerkes Neuroscience Division Lecture Series
Speaker: Thomas D. Albright, PhD
Professor and Chair of the Vision Center Laboratory
Salk Insitute for Biological Studies
Title: “Neural correlates of knowledge”
Date: May 11, 2006
Time: 4 pm
Location: VRC Seminar Room
Call Yerkes Shuttle for transportation: 404-783-7803
Yerkes Parking Deck has limited parking for visitors
For additional information contact Susan Marshall (404-727-1737;
smmarsh@emory.edu
or Peggy Plant (404-727-7730;peggy@rmy.emory.edu)

CBN Spring Symposium on BRAIN MECHANISMS of
REWARD and REINFORCEMENT!
Date: May 20th
Time: 9a-4p (Schedule)
Speakers:
John Byrne, PhD, University of Texas Medical School at Houston:
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Operant Reward Learning in
Aplysia

Jim Pfaus, PhD, Concordia University:  Tracing the Path of Cupid's
Arrow: How Mechanisms of Sexual Reward Stimulate Sexual Preferences

Regina Carelli, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
Real-Time Monitoring of Brain Reward Processing during Behavior

Peter Holland, PhD, Johns Hopkins University:  A Neural Systems
Analysis of the Potentiation of Feeding by Conditioned Stimuli

Elizabeth Murray, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health:
Interaction of Instinct, Affect, and Action in Amygdala and
Orbitofrontal Cortex

Greg Berns, MD/PhD, Emory University:  The Neurobiological Impact of
Time and Other Worthless Non-events

Schedule:

Over lunch from 12-1:15 p, we invite you to dine with the symposium
speakers.  Please send an email to kfrantz@gsu.edu to reserve a place
at a table with any of the six speakers.  Reservations will be made
on a first-come, first-served basis, so email today!  The speakers
are listed below, with approximate times of presentation.

8:30 a:  Continental breakfast
9:00 a:  Welcoming remarks, H. Elliott Albers, Ph.D., Kyle J. Frantz,
Ph.D. and Darryl Neill, Ph.D.
9:30 a:  John Byrne, PhD, University of Texas Medical School at
Houston: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Operant Reward Learning
in Aplysia

10:30 a:  Jim Pfaus, PhD, Concordia University:  Tracing the Path of
Cupid'sArrow: How Mechanisms of Sexual Reward Stimulate Sexual
Preferences

11:15 a:  Regina Carelli, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill:  Real-Time Monitoring of Brain Reward Processing during Behavior

noon - 1:15 p:  Lunch at WHSCAB Plaza (selected research posters for
viewing during this time)

1:30 p:  Peter Holland, PhD, Johns Hopkins University:  A Neural
Systems Analysis of the Potentiation of Feeding by Conditioned Stimuli

2:20 p:  Elizabeth Murray, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health:
Interaction of Instinct, Affect, and Action in Amygdala and
Orbitofrontal Cortex

3:00 p:  Greg Berns, MD/PhD, Emory University:  The Neurobiological
Impact of Time and Other Worthless Non-events

Feel free to ask any of the committee members listed below about the
symposium or the lunch. We look forward to seeing you there!

April

Georgia State University
South East Nerve Net Conference
Talks and Posters
Date: Saturday April 1, 2006
Location: Georgia State University Student Center

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Regina M. Carelli, Ph.D. (CANCELED)
University of North Carolina , Chapel HIll
Neuroscience Grant Speaker, Host: Jessica McClung
Title: TBA
Date: April 7th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Georgia State University
Conference on Origin and Regulation of Bursting Activity in Neurons
Key Note Speakers:
Bard Ermentrout (Pittsburgh)
John Guckenheimer (Cornell)
Eve Marder (Brandeis)
Nino Ramirez (Chicago)
John Rinzel (NYU)  
David Terman (Ohio State)
Date: April 7-8, 2006

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Christopher A. Walsh, M.D,Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BIDMC, Harvard University ;
Co-sponsored with the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease
Title: TBA
Date: April 13th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Emory University
Yerkes Neuroscience Division Lecture Series
Speaker: Scott H. Frey, PhD
Director, Lewis Center for Neuroimaging &
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Oregon
Title: “What's so special about human tool use: Insights from Functional Brain Imaging?”
Date: April 13, 2006
Time: 4 pm
Location: VRC Seminar Room
Call Yerkes Shuttle for transportation: 404-783-7803
Yerkes Parking Deck has limited parking for visitors
For additional information contact Susan Marshall (404-727-1737;
smmarsh@emory.edu
or Peggy Plant (404-727-7730;peggy@rmy.emory.edu)

Georgia State University
Graduate Seminar Series
Speaker: Mark Noble
Dept. of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester
Title: “Stem Cell Medicine: The Comprehensive Plan”
Date: April 14th
Time: Friday 9:30 - 10:30AM
Location: 200 GC
Host: Dr. Paul Katz

Emory University
NEUROLOGY GRAND ROUNDS
Speaker: Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BIDMC
Bullard Professor of Neurology
Director, Harvard-MIT M.D., Ph.D. Program
Harvard Medical School
Title: Human Mental Retardation: Genes that control of the size and shape
of the Human Cerebral Cortex
Date: Friday, April 14, 2006
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Emory Hospital Auditorium - 2nd floor


Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Lena Ting, Ph.D.
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology/ Emory University
Title: TBA
Date: April 20th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Georgia State University
Graduate Seminar Series
Speaker: Steve M. Potter
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: "Epilepsy and Learning in Cultured Networks"
Date: April 21st
Time: Friday 9:30 - 10:30AM
Location: 200 GC
Host: Dr. Chun Jiang

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
PROGRAM BUSINESS MEETING
Title: TBA
Date: April 27th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

March

Emory University (CANCELED)
Yerkes Neuroscience Division Lecture Series
Speaker: Robert M Sapolsky, PhD
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor
Dept. Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Depts. of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and of Neurosurgery,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Title:"Stress, neurodegeneration, and strategies for saving the endangered neuron"
Date: March 1, 2006
Time: 1 pm
Location: NSB Seminar Room
Call Yerkes Shuttle for transportation: 404-783-7803
Yerkes Parking Deck has limited parking for visitors
For additional information contact Susan Marshall (404-727-1737;
smmarsh@emory.edu
or Peggy Plant (404-727-7730;peggy@rmy.emory.edu)


CBN Undergraduate Seminar
Spelman College
Speaker: Rebecca Craft, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology
Washington State University
Date: March 1st
Time: TBA
Location: Spelman College, Room 130, Tapley Hall

Georgia State University
Graduate Seminar Series
Speaker: Timothy McClintock
Dept. of Physiology, Univ. of Kentucky
Title: “Olfactory Genomics”
Date: Mar 3
Time: Friday 9:30 - 10:30AM
Location: 200 GCB
Host: Dr. Charles Derby

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
NEUROSCIENCE RECRUITMENT #1
Advanced Student Speakers
Title: TBA
Date: March 3rd
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Emory University
Psychology Department Colloquium
Speaker: Paul Glimcher
New YorkUniversity
Title: The Neural Basis of Choice: Learning and Representing Expected Utility
Date: Monday March 6, 2006
Time: 4:00pm
Location: White Hall 205
Reception to follow in Psychology Dept. Rm. 201

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Geert de Vries, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts , Amherst
Neuroscience Grant Guest Speaker, Host: Todd Ahern
Title: Vasopressin as an example of how to make a Male or Female Brain
Date: March 9th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Emory University
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Speaker: James Battey, MD, PhD
Director of NIDCD, NIH
Title: "A Bright Future for Research in Communication and its Disorders"
DATE:   FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2006
TIME:    12:00 - 1:00PM
PLACE: Whitehead Conference 500- 5^th Floor
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email
~lunch served @11:45am~

ACSFN Brain Awareness Month
Date: March 13th-19th
Website: Brains Awarness

Georgia State University
CBN Seminar
CBN Brain Awareness Month Keynote Seminar
Speaker: Robert DeHaan, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus,
Sr. Science Advisor, Educational Studies
Emory University
TItle:"Science education and science literacy: an international perspective"
Date: March 14th
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Location: GSU, Brown Room, 18th Floor, Commerce Club Bldg.


CBN BAM Feature Seminar
Speaker: Robert DeHaan, Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus, Sr. Science Advisor, Educational Studies
Emory University
Date: March 21st
Time: TBA
Location: TBA

CBN Seminar
Emory University
Speaker: Jeff Blaustein, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Center for
Neuroendocrine Studies; Neuroscience and Behavior Program
University of Massachusetts
Title: "Hormones and behavior without hormones: Influences of the social
environment"
Lecture Flyer (pdf)
Date: March 21st
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Location: Yerkes VRC Seminar Room
Parking is FREE in the Yerkes parking deck - Main gate to Yerkes closes
and locks at 7:15 pm so be there before that time.  Check Emory's
website for location and directions.

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Shawn Hochman, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Title: TBA
Date: March 23rd
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Emory University
Yerkes Neuroscience Division Lecture Series
Speaker: Robert H Edwards, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Title:“Vesicular glutamate transport: the essence of brain excitation”
Date: March 23, 2006
Time: 4 pm in the
Location: VRC Seminar Room
Call Yerkes Shuttle for transportation: 404-783-7803
Yerkes Parking Deck has limited parking for visitors
For additional information contact Susan Marshall (404-727-1737;
smmarsh@emory.edu
or Peggy Plant (404-727-7730;peggy@rmy.emory.edu)

Emory University
GENETICS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Wayne Frankel, Ph.D.
Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME
Title: “Genetics of new and old mouse models for epilepsy”
Date: Monday, March 27, 2006
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Location: Whitehead Research Bldg.
Whitehead Auditorium
Ground Floor, Rm. G01

Emory College Program in Science & Society
and the Emory Tibet Partnership
Title: Mind-Body Connections and the Search for Health Past, Present, & Future
Speaker:
Anne Harrington, Ph.D.
History of Science Department, Harvard University
and Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor in Science & Society, Emory
University

Charles Raison, M.D.
Mind-Body Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine

Pema Dorjee, Menrampa
Chairman, Tibetan Medical Council*
Date: March 29, 2006*
Location: Woodruff Health Sciences Administration Building 1440 Clifton Road
Time: Public Reception at 7:00 p.m./*
Panel Discussion at 7:30 p.m.*/
Free and open to the public.   Reservations are not required.

Additional information and directions at:
www.scienceandsociety.emory.edu/health

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Amy MacDermott, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Neuroscience Grant Speaker, Host: Meagan Ward
Title: "Disinhibition opens a gate to pathological pain signaling in the
dorsal horn of the spinal cord"*
Date: March 30th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Georgia State University
South East Nerve Net Conference
Evening Reception and Special Programs
Date: Friday March 31, 2006
Location: Georgia Aquarium

Emory University
Sutin Memorial Symposium
A Celebration of Molecular Neuroscience
Symposium Schedule (PDF)
Speakers:
Robert DeHaan, Emory University -
"On Scientific Mentoring:  A Tribute to Jerry Sutin"

Louis J. DeFelice, Vanderbilt University-
"Molecular Biophysics of Neurotransmitter Transport"

Randy D. Blakely, Vanderbilt University-
"Serotonin Transporters on the Move:  New Insights into Autism"

Joseph C. Besharse, Medical College of Wisconsin-
"Genetic Analysis of Circadian Clocks in the Retina: Mutation of Period-3 Results in Photoreceptor Degeneration"

Criss Hartzell, Emory University-
"Looking Chloride Channels in the Eye: Bestrophins and Retinal Degeneration"

Charles F. Stevens, Salk Institute-
"The Scalable Architecture of the Brain"

February

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Michelle LaPlaca, Ph.D.
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology/ Emory University
Title: "Acute Responses to Brain Trauma:  Why look so early?"
Date: Feb 2nd
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Georgia State University
Graduate Seminar Series
Speaker: Richard Vogt
Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina
Title: “Determining sensory phenotypes: developing patterning of an insect antenna”
Date: Feb 3rd
Time: Friday 9:30 - 10:30AM
Location: 200 GCB
Host: Dr. Charles Derby

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Jacqueline McGinty, Ph.D.
Medical University of South Carolina
Neuroscience Grant Guest Speaker
Title: TBA
Date: Feb 9th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium
Host: James Bogenpohl

Emory University
Neuroscience Division
Yerkes Neuroscience Division Lecture Series
Speaker: Naftali Raz, PhD
Professor, Institute of Gerontology and Department of Psychology
Wayne State University
Title:“Differential aging of the brain, its modifiers and cognitive correlates”
Date: February 9, 2006,
Time: 4 pm
Location: Main Building VRC Seminar Room 1st floor
Call Yerkes Shuttle for transportation: 404-783-7803
Yerkes Parking Deck has limited parking for visitors
For additional information contact Susan Marshall (404-727-1737;
smmarsh@emory.edu
or Peggy Plant (404-727-7730;peggy@rmy.emory.edu)

Georgia State University
Graduate Seminar Series
Speaker: John Nickerson
Dept of Ophthalmology, Emory University
Title: “Evolution at work: Examples from the Visual System”
Date: Feb 17th
Time: Friday 9:30 - 10:30AM
Location: 200 GCB
Host: Dr. Bill Walthall

Emory University
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar
Co-Hosted with Pharmacology
Speaker:Ralph Nixon, MD, PhD
Professor NYU School of Medicine
Departments of Psychiatry and Cell Biology
Title: "Genetic and Cellular Roadblocks to Neuron Survival in Alzheimer's Disease"
DATE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2006
TIME: 12:00 - 1:00PM (lunch served @11:45am)
PLACE: Whitehead Conference 500- 5^th Floor
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email


Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
NEUROSCIENCE RECRUITMENT #1
Advanced Student Speakers
Title: TBA
Date: Feb 17th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Emory University
Pharmacology Seminar
Speaker: Eric Klann, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Baylor College
of Medicine
Title: "Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Dependent Regulation of Fragile
X Mental Retardation Protein in the Hippocampus"
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
TIme: 12:00 Noon
Location: 5052 Rollins Research Center

Emory University
Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Presents
Grass Lecture Series
Speaker: Larry W. Swanson, Ph.D .
President, The Cajal Club
Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
Title:  "The organization of neural networks underlying motivated behaviors"
Date: February 23 rd , 2006
Time: 4:00pm (Reception w/ Light food beginning at 3:30pm)
Location: WHSCAB Auditorium
Download Flyer: swanson flyer (PDF)

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Michael Petrides, Ph.D.
McGill University
Neuroscience Grant Guest Speaker
Title: TBA
Date: Feb 23rd
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium
Host: Eric Heuer

Morehouse School of Medicine
Neuroscience Institute Seminar Serie
Speaker: Hitoshi Morikawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Section of Neurobiology and Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction
Research
University of Texas at Austin
Title: "How does alcohol boost brain dopamine signal?"
Date: February 24 (Friday), 2006
Time: 12:30—1:30
Location: Neuroscience Institute Conference Room, MRC Building 2nd Floor
Contact: Cathy Woodley (404-756-5785)

Emory University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
Speaker: Maryse Paquet
M.Sc., Laval University, 1997
Title: SCAFFOLDING OF GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS AND TRANSPORTERS BY NHERF-2
An oral presentation of a dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the
Graduate School of Emory University in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2005
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: O. Wayne Rollins Building Room  5052
Advisor
Randy A. Hall, PhD
Committee Members
John R. Hepler, Ph.D.
Allan I. Levey, M.D., Ph.D.
Lian Li, Ph.D.
Yoland Smith, Ph.D.

Emory University
Speaker: Dr. Masatoshi Nei
2006 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal Recipient
Evan Pugh Professor of Biology
and Director of the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics
Pennsylvania State University
Title: "Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory and other chemosensory receptor genes
in vertebrates"
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Time: 4:00 pm
Locaiton: Rita Ann Rollins Room 8th Floor
School of Public Health


CBN Seminar
Georgia State University
Speaker: Rebecca Craft, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology
Washington State University
Title: "Sex differences in pain and opioid analgesia"
Date: February 28th
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Location: Brown Room, 18th Floor, Commerce Club Bldg.
For more information, contact Kelly Powell at kpowell@gsu.edu or
404-463-0941.

January

Emory University
Speaker: Kurt Illig, PhD
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
Title: Higher-Order Information Processing in Olfactory Cortex"
Date: Monday, January 9, 2006
Time: 7:00 p.m. Reception at 6:30 p.m
Location: Yerkes Seminar Room, Main Building
Yerkes Research Center


Emory University
Center for Neurodegenerative Diesease Seminar
Speaker: Todd Golde, MD, PhD
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic
Title: *"Selective targeting of Abeta42, oligomers and amyloid in Alzheimer's
Disease*"
DATE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2006 (lunch served @11:45am)
TIME: 12:00 - 1:00PM
PLACE: Whitehead Conference 500- 5^th Floor
For Further info Contact: Darcal Dixon 727-3727 or via email
dadixon@emory.edu


Georgia State University
Graduate Seminar Series
Speaker: Laura Carruth
Dept. of Biology , Georgia State University
Title: "Animal Behavior and the Brain:  A Tale of Two Research Programs"
Date: Jan 20
Time: Friday 9:30 - 10:30AM
Location: 200 GCB
Host: Dr. Terry Frey

Georgia Tech
Speaker: Theoden Netoff, Ph.D.
Boston University Center for Biodynamics
Boston, Massachusetts
Title: "Networks and Epilepsy"
Date: Friday, January 20, 2006
Tme:9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: 1103 Whitaker Building, GA Tech


2005 CBN Fall Seminar Series - CANCELLED
Emory University
Speaker: Kelsey Martin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and
Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Date: January 24th
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Location: Yerkes VRC Seminar Room

CBN Undergraduate Seminar
Spelman College
Speaker: Kelsey Martin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and
Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Date: January 25th
Time: TBA
Location: Spelman College, Room 130, Tapley Hall

Emory University
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Speaker: Ronald L. Calabrese, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, Emory University
Title: "Cellular Analysis of a Motor Network:  Using Models as Experimental Tools"
Date: Jan 26th
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Whitehead Research Auditorium

Georgia State University
Graduate Seminar Series
Speaker: Marc Weissburg
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: "Finding food in flowing fluid: the sensory biology of aquatic chemosensory navigation"
Date: Jan 27
Time: Friday 9:30 - 10:30AM
Location: 200 GCB
Host: Dr. Charles Derby

Emory University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
Speaker: Olga V. Poisik
Title:"Functions of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in the Rat Globus Pallidus"
An oral presentation of a dissertation submitted to the Faculty of
the Graduate School of Emory University in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Date: January 31st, 2006
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Yerkes Neuroscience Building Seminar Room, 1st Floor
Yoland Smith, Ph.D., Advisor
P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., External Advisor
Dieter Jaeger, Ph.D.
Donald Rainnie, Ph.D.
Thomas Wichmann, Ph.D.

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