The 2005 M.R. Bauer Foundation
Colloquium Series, Distinguished Lecturer Series and Scientific Retreat

Introduction

The M.R. Bauer Colloquium Series

Yang Dan, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
"Activity — Dependent Plasticity in the Visual Cortex"

Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"fMRI of Visual Recognition"

David Rosenfield, Ph.D.
The Methodist Hospital/ Baylor College of Medicine
"A Neuroscience Perspective on Stuttering"

Steven Roper, Ph.D.
University of Miami School of Medicine
"Signal Processing and Synaptic Intercourse in the Mammalian
Taste Bud: Nontraditional Transmitter Mechanisms"

The M.R. Bauer Distinguished Guest Lecturer Series

Introduction

Hollis Cline, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Multiple Activity Dependent Mechanisms Control Visual System Development in Xenopus"

The M.R. Bauer Foundation Scientific Retreat & Volen National Center for Complex Systems Annual Retreat

"From Molecules to Robots"

Introduction

Daniel Perlman, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
"A Brief Ecological History of Boston's Suburbs"

Susan Birren, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
“From Heart to Brain: Controlling Neuron Development and Function”

Jordan Pollack, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
“Recent Progress in Co-evolutionary Learning”

Daniel Oprian, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
“Mutation of Rhodopsin in Health, Disease, and Sabbatical Leave”

John Lisman, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
“CaMK11 as a Synaptic Memory Molecule: the Final Key Experiments Fall into Place”

Hollis Cline, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Multiple Activity Dependent Mechanisms Control Visual System Development in Xenopus”