Introduction

The M.R. Bauer Colloquium Series

Sascha du Lac, Ph.D.
Systems Neurobiology Laboratories Salk Institute for Biological Studies and
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Stability and Plasticity in the Sense of Balance"

Peggy Mason, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
"Timing Critical Behaviors with the Reaction to Pain"

Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University
"Sex, Stress and the Brain: Hormone Action above the Hypothalamus via Novel Mechanisms"

Michael Greenberg, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
"Signaling Networks that Regulate Synapse Development and Cognitive Function"

Rita Balice-Gordon, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
"Cellular and Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Autoimmune Anti-Glutamate
Receptor Disorders of Memory and Cognition"

The M.R. Bauer Distinguished Lecturer Series Summaries

Allison Doupe, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco
"What Songbirds Can Teach Us About Basal Ganglia Circuits, Social Context and Plasticity"

Michael Brainard, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco
"Contributions of Basal Ganglia to Song Learning"

Larry Zipursky, Ph.D.
University of California at Los Angeles
"Dscam Proteins in Neural Circuit Assembly"

Lorna W. Role, Ph.D.
State University of New York, Stony Brook
"Neuregulin – Signaling and Nicotinic Receptor Modulation of Cortico-Limbic Circuits"

The 2010 Volen National Center for Complex Systems Scientific Retreat

Keynote Speaker:
Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D.
“Mitogenic Niches in the Brain: Sonic Hedgehog and Proteoglycans”

Sacha Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.
Brandeis University
“Physiological Genomics in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome”

Eve Marder, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
“Beyond Optimality to the Neuroscience of the Individual Brain”

Nicolas Rohleder, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
“Stress, Inflammatory Regulation and Disease”

John Lisman, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
“Understanding Schizophrenia as a Dynamical System: What Happens at the Schizophrenic Break?"