Jan 9 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Eliezer Masliah, M.D. Neuroscience Director National Institute on Aging
Dec 20 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building
"Optical Tools for In Vivo and Postmortem Imaging of Brain Cell Function and Morphology" Chris Schaffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering Cornell University Ithaca
Dec 19 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Melissa R. Warden, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Miriam M. Salpeter Fellow, Cornell University Striking an adaptive balance between persistently pursuing goals and flexibly responding to important events is essential for survival. Here, we will discuss our recent research on the role of neuromodulation in regulating the balance between goal-directed and reactive behaviors using optical methods in mice. We will present evidence that phasic bursts in serotonin neurons promote adaptive behavioral...
Dec 13 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building
“Epidemiology 101: Reading the Clinical Literature” Hooman Kamel, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, WCM
Dec 12 2019 - 4:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Carlos Portera-Cailliau, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) neurology and neurobiology professor, and his laboratory team recently discovered that tactile defensiveness and delayed perceptual learning in the Fmr1 knockout mouse model of fragile X syndrome are associated with specific circuit alterations in the somatosensory and visual cortex, respectively. Dr. Portera-Cailliau will provide a brief update of his group’s ongoing investigations into these deficits by summarizing...
Dec 6 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building
“Self-identified ethnicity and circulating plasmablasts: implications for multiple sclerosis severity disparity” Kiel Michael Telesford, Ph.D., Vartanian Laboratory, Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience, BMRI, WCM
Dec 5 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: A-250 Estabrook Lecture Hall
Presenter Steve McCarroll and the scientists in his lab use DNA to understand human biology and disease. They have discovered ways that genes and alleles shape human biology – from cancer (clonal hematopoiesis) to schizophrenia (complement component four genes). Many of their discoveries involve unexpected insights arising from new ways of analyzing biological systems and human DNA. The lab members also develop technologies (such as Drop-seq) that turn aspects of biology into “big data”...
Nov 22 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Feil Family Research Building
"National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke (NINDS) Funding Strategies and Updates" Francesca Bosetti, Pharm.D., Ph.D. Stroke Program Director Neural Environment Cluster National Institutes of Health (NIH) NINDS William P. Daley, Ph.D. Scientific Program Analyst NIH NINDS
Nov 22 2019 - 12:00pm
Speaker: Francesca Bosetti, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Stroke Program Director, Neural Environment Cluster, and William P. Daley, Ph.D., Scientific Program Analyst, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Nov 21 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
How do some neurons survive a lifetime while others succumb to neurodegeneration? We take a ‘bottom-up’ approach to this question by first understanding the molecules and pathways that control neuronal survival, and then work upstream to ask how cellular stresses including misfolded proteins, physical injury and loss of neurotrophic support disrupt these pathways to promote degeneration. A particular focus has been on survival of the axon, the long cable-like structures that connect neurons and...