Tuesdays @ 4:00 pm CNCB Marilyn G. Farquhar Seminar Room neurograd.ucsd.edu

2017-2018 SEMINAR SERIES

OCT 3 PAUL KATZ, University of Massachusetts Amherst FEB 27 NENAD SESTAN, Yale University Phylogenetic and individual variability of neural circuits Development and evolution of neural circuits of the cerebral underlying swimming behaviors in sea slugs cortex Host: Xi Jiang ([email protected]) Founder’s Lecture in honor of Dr. Theodore Bullock Sponsored by Research and Education Foundation MAR 13 MICHAEL SOFRONIEW, UC Los Angeles Host: Uri Magaram ([email protected]) Astrocyte roles in CNS repair and regeneration

Host: Kelsey Ladt ([email protected]) OCT 10 ERIKA HOLZBAUR, University of Pennsylvania Autophagy dynamics in neuronal homeostasis and MAR 20 SABINE KASTNER, Princeton University neurodegeneration Host: Caroline Sferrazza ([email protected]) Neural dynamics of the primate attention network Host: Aaron Sampson ([email protected]) OCT 17 YANG DAN, UC Berkeley Neural circuits controlling sleep APR 3 NANCY KANWISHER, M.I.T. Host: Megan Kirchgessner ([email protected]) fMRI investigations of the human brain as a window into the architecture of the human mind OCT 24 KONRAD KORDING, University of Pennsylvania Founder’s Lecture in honor of Dr. Robert Livingston What can machine learning do for neuroscience? Sponsored by Neuroscience Research and Education Foundation Host: Marvin Thielk ([email protected]) Host: Vy Vo ([email protected])

NOV 7 SAKET NAVLAKHA, Salk Institute / UC San Diego APR 10 ANDRÉ FENTON, New York University Using principles of odor processing to improve Google search The dynamic structure of cognition: If space was time Host: Maggie Henderson ([email protected]) Host: Geoffrey Diehl ([email protected])

NOV 21 CHRISTINA GREMEL, UC San Diego APR 17 GENEVIEVE KONOPKA, UT Southwestern Drug dependence and disruption to corticostriatal control over Molecular networks of cognition action Host: Andre DeSouza ([email protected]) Host: Peter Osseward ([email protected])

NOV 28 VIVEK JAYARAMAN, Janelia Research Campus APR 24 , M.I.T. / RIKEN Understanding attractor dynamics and abstract internal Mechanism of episodic memories representations Host: Jason Keller ([email protected]) Host: Stephen Johnston ([email protected])

DEC 5 PADMINI RANGAMANI, UC San Diego MAY 1 JEFFREY MAGEE, Baylor College of Medicine Mechanochemical modeling of dendritic spines A fundamental microcircuit computation in and Host: Uri Magaram ([email protected]) neocortex Host: Anja Payne ([email protected])

DEC 12 HILLEL ADESNIK, UC Berkeley MAY 15 RUDOLPH TANZI, Harvard Medical School Optically probing the neural basis of perception The growing role of innate immune genes in Alzheimer’s Disease Host: Ethan McBride ([email protected]) Host: Marc Marino ([email protected])

JAN 9 SCOTT MAKEIG, UC San Diego MAY 22 MICHAEL BRUCHAS, Washington University Imaging human electromagnetic brain dynamics Dissecting neuromodulatory circuits and signaling in affective Founder’s Lecture in honor of Dr. Robert Galambos behavior Host: Margot Wohl ([email protected]) Sponsored by Neuroscience Research and Education Foundation Host: Stephanie Nelli ([email protected]) MAY 29 OLIVER HOBERT, Columbia University Organizational principles of nervous system development in JAN 16 NA JI, UC Berkeley C.elegans Probing neural circuits with shaped light Host: Javier How ([email protected]) Host: Brad Theilman ([email protected]) JUN 5 ANATOL KREITZER, UC San Francisco JAN 23 HONGKUI ZENG, Allen Institute for Brain Science Function of basal ganglia circuitry in movement and action Genetic approaches to brain circuit mapping and cell type selection Host: Dan Knowland ([email protected]) characterization Host: Norah Koblesky ([email protected])

JAN 30 CRIS NIELL, University of Oregon Neural circuits for vision in action Seminar Series Committee: Kelsey Ladt, Sam Asinof, Maggie Henderson Host: Landon Klein ([email protected]) Geoff Diehl, Javier How, Stephen Johnston, FEB 6 BERNARDO SABATINI, Harvard Medical School Landon Klein, Catie Profaci, Alex Smirnov

Synapses and circuits of the basal ganglia Faculty Advisors: Host: Kyle Fischer ([email protected]) Joseph Gleeson MD, Shelley Halpain PhD, Nicola Allen PhD, Jill Leutgeb PhD FEB 13 SLIMAN BENSMAIA, University of Chicago Biological and bionic hands: Natural neural coding and artificial

perception Host: Tom Gillespie ([email protected])

FEB 20 SPENCER SMITH, University of North Carolina For schedule updates, please visit tinyurl.com/NGPseminars Next generation multiphoton imaging reveals visual cortical or email [email protected] to subscribe to seminar announcements. areas acting in concert Host: Sam Asinof ([email protected]) Background image courtesy of Catie Profaci.