Jan 3 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD
Neurotechnology Center, Dept., Biological Sciences, Columbia University
The design of neural circuits, with large numbers of neurons interconnected in vast networks, strongly suggest that they are specifically build to generate emergent functional properties (1). To explore this hypothesis, we have developed two-photon holographic methods to selective image and manipulate the activity of neuronal populations in 3D in vivo (2). Using them we find that groups of...
Dec 14 2018 - 12:00pm
Speaker: Jonathan Baker (PhD, Assistant Prof, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuromodulation, BMRI, WCM)
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Dec 13 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: A-950 Auditorium
Adam G Carter, PhD
Associate Professor
Center for Neural Science
New York University
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) controls a variety of cognitive and emotional behaviors and is disrupted is many neuropsychiatric disorders. I will talk about recent findings from my lab on the organization and functional properties of neurons and synapses in the mouse PFC. I will begin with a brief overview of the projection neurons and long-range afferents that link the PFC with other brain regions. I will...
Dec 7 2018 - 12:00pm
Speaker: William I Rosenblum (MD, Professorial Lecturer Pathology (Neuropathology), Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, NYC) (B2B)
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Dec 6 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: A-950 Auditorium
Kathleen J. Millen, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics University of Washington Seattle, WA
Associate Director, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Developmental disruptions of the cerebellum are a significant cause of human neurodevelopmental disorders, including Autism and Medulloblastoma. Mouse studies have been valuable to understand their pathogenesis. However, our recent large-scale genetic analysis of human cerebellar structural birth defects...
Nov 30 2018 - 12:00pm
Speaker: David Brea Lopez (Ph.D, Instructor in Neuroscience, BMRI, WCM)
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Nov 29 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Mel B. Feany, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The longstanding goal of the research in the Feany laboratory has been to understand the molecular and biochemical pathways leading to neuronal dysfunction and death in neurodegenerative disorders, with a focus on -synucleinopathies, tauopathies and related age-dependent diseases. We have thus created models relevant to Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and related neurological...