Tulane Brain Institute – Fall 2018 - Seminar Series

Date Title Speaker Room Host Insights into Neuronal Kinesin Function from Thomas Huckaba, PhD Wednesday, Aug 29, 2018 - 4pm Mutations that Cause Hereditary Spastic Associate Professor, Department of Biology Jones 108 Earls Paraplegia Xavier University The effects of androgens and sleep on Rebecca Cunningham, PhD Downtown Wednesday, Sept 5, 2018 – 4pm Associate Professor of Physiology & Anatomy Derbenev SOM-6001 neurodegeneration: brain and behavior University of North Texas Health Science Center Marc Diamond, MD Tau and Neurodegeneration: How a single Wednesday, Sept 12, 2018 – 4pm Director, Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases Jones 102 Robinson molecule changes shape to initiate disease Professor, & Neurotherapeutics University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Wednesday, Sept 19, 2018 – 4pm NO SEMINAR – Yom Kippur Wednesday, Sept 26, 2018 – 4pm NO SEMINAR Neuromodulatory signaling in Haining Zhong, PhD Wednesday, Oct 3, 2018 – 4pm Scientist, Vollum Institute Jones 102 Huang space and time Oregon Health & Science University Elucidating the neuronal mechanisms that Jonathan Fadok, PhD Wednesday, Oct 10, 2018 – 4pm Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Jones 108 TBI modulate fear intensity Tulane University Developmental programming of hypothalamic Sebastian Bouret, PhD Wednesday, Oct 17, 2018 – 4pm Associate Professor of Pediatrics Jones 102 Mauvais-Jarvis circuits regulating energy balance Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Univ. of Southern California Students Hosted , PhD Downtown Wednesday, Oct 24, 2018 – 4pm Professor, Departments of Neurology & Seminar The Synapse SOM-6001 Medical Center (Rachel Wise) A dephosphorylation pathway in regulating Chunlai Wu, PhD Downtown Wednesday, Oct 31, 2018 – 4pm Associate Professor, , Cell Biology & Anatomy TBI/Mostany SOM-6001 active zone stability LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Wednesday, Nov 7, 2018 NO SEMINAR – SfN Nov. 3 - 7 Steve Maren, PhD University Distinguished Professor and Wednesday, Nov 14, 2018 – 4pm Claude H. Everett, Jr. '47 Chair of Liberal Arts, Jones 102 Fadok* Making and breaking fear memories Institute for Neuroscience, Departments of Psychological & Brain Sciences Texas A&M University Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018 NO SEMINAR – Thanksgiving Anxiety and brain morphology are related to Elliot A. Beaton, PhD poorer visuospatial working memory in a group Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator Downtown Wednesday, Nov 28, 2018 – 4pm Director of the Stress, Cognition, and affective Neuro Lab TBI/Mostany SOM-6001 of children and adolescents at ultra-high risk Department of Psychology for developing University of New Orleans Alcino J. Silva, PhD UCLA Distinguished Professor Molecular, cellular and circuit mechanisms of LBC – 213 Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018 – 4pm Depts. of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Kendall Daniel memory linking Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, Director, Integrative Center for Learning and Cram Memory Brain Research Institute The Fall 2018 Brain Institute Seminar Series will take place on Wednesdays at 4pm on the Uptown Campus unless otherwise noted (updated 10/03/18)