Seminar/Meeting Schedule 2011-2012

Fall 2011

September 16, 2011 - 2:00 PM

Jennifer Gutzman, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Building the Vertebrate Brain: From Structure to Function”
Location: Lapham 160, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

September 30, 2011 - 2:00 PM

Robert Wheeler, PhD, Marquette University
“Negative affect and addiction”
Location: Lapham 160, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

October 7, 2011 - 2:00 PM

Aaron Suminski, PhD, University of Chicago
“Sensing with the Motor Cortex”
Location: Lapham 160, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

October 21, 2011 - 2:00 PM

Neal Cohen, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The Long Reach of the Hippocampus in Memory”
Location: Lapham 160, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

October 28, 2011 - 2:00 PM

Murray Blackmore, PhD, Marquette University
“New genes to promote CNS regeneration: a discovery pipeline from in vitro screening to in vivo gene transfer”
Location: Lapham 160, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

November 4, 2011 - 2:00 PM, Pre-SfN Minisymposium

Anthony Hudetz, DBM, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin
“Neuronal correlates of anesthetic-induced unconsciousness”
Location: Lapham 160, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

December 2, 2011 - 2:00 PM

Joshua Jacobs, PhD, Drexel University
“Direct human brain recordings and the neural basis of conceptual representations”
Location: Lapham 160, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

Spring 2012

February 3, 2012 - 2:00 PM

Kurt Svoboda, PhD, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
“Spinal neural circuits and the production of coordinated motor output”
Location: Lapham 101, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

February 10, 2012 - 2:00 PM

Jean-Marc Fellous, PhD, University of Arizona
“The Role of Dopamine in Learning and Memory Consolidation”
Location: Lapham 101, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

March 9, 2012 - 2:00 PM

Brad Postle, PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison
“Working memory, attention, and activation”
Location: Lapham 101, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

March 30, 2012 - 2:00 PM

Milan Joksimovic, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin
“Making Midbrain Dopamine Neurons – Insights from the Embryo”
Location: Lapham 101, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

April 13, 2012 - 2:00 PM

Jason MacLean, PhD, University of Chicago
“Circuit Reactivation Promotes Synaptic Plasticity in Neocortex”
Location: Lapham 101, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

April 20, 2012 - 10:00 AM

Jeansok Kim, PhD, University of Washington
"Fear and Natural Risky Decisions"
Location: Lubar N140,3202 N. Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

April 27, 2012 - 2:00 PM

Chiara Cirelli,PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Sleep and Synaptic Plasticity"
Location: Lapham 101, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee

May 4, 2012 - 2:00 PM

Christa Merzdorf, PhD, Montana State University
"Aquaporin-3b in neural folds and in neural tube closure"
Location: Lapham 101, 3209 N Maryland Ave. UW-Milwaukee