Beginning in September 2000 and concluding in April 2005, Brandeis University hosted 38 IGERT seminars. These seminars focused on many research areas of interest to IGERT and Life Sciences students.

The following is a list of those speakers and their topics:

April 11, 2005	Michale S Fee, Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Sequence Generation and Learning in the Brain: Insights from the Songbird"
April 4, 2005	Alexandre Pouget, Brain and Cognitive Science Dept., University of Rochester "Bayesian Inference in Cortical Circuits"
December 13, 2004	Douglas Munoz, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Fac. of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Queens University, Canada "Combining neurophysiology, neuroimaging, and behavioural assessment to understand the neural control of saccade suppression and initiation"
May 6, 2004	Matthew Botvinick, University of Pennsylvania "Short-term memory for serial order: Bridging between neural and behavioral findings"
May 3, 2004	Malcolm W. Brown, University of Bristol "Neural Substrates of Recognition and Spatial Memory"
April 26, 2004	Okihide Hikosaka, NIH "Motivational Modulation of Eye Movements by the Basal Ganglia"
March 29, 2004	David Fitzpatrick, Professor, Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center "Columns, connections, and representations: a new look at the functional architecture of primary visual cortex"
March 15, 2004	Earl Miller, Massachusett Institute of Technology "Prefrontal Cortex: Categories, Concepts, and Cognitive Control"
February 9, 2004	Gordon Shepherd, Yale University School of Medicine "Modules, Maps, Microcircuits: The Computational Organization of a Model Brain System"
January 26, 2004	Itzhak Fried, UCLA Medical Center "Dynamics of single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe during perception and memory tasks."
January 12, 2004	Craig Jahr, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science Institute "Ectopic Release of Neurotransmitter"
November 17, 2003	Tim Curren, University of Colorado, Boulder "ERP Studies of Recognition Memory"
October 20, 2003	Hugh Wilson, York University "Dynamics of Oscillations and Traveling Waves in Vision"
September 22, 2003	Dmitri Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory "Synaptic Connectivity and Neuronal Morphology: Two Sides of the Coin"
April 21, 2003	Allison Doupe, University of California, San Francisco "Birdsong: A Model System for the Study of Vocal Learning and Basal Ganglia Function"
March 31, 2003	Miguel Nicolelis, Duke University Medical Center "Real-time Computing with Neural Ensembles: A New Paradigm to Investigate the Dynamic and Distributed Operation of Neural Circuits"
February 3, 2003	Paul Verschure, Institute of Neuroinformatics "Ada: the intelligent space; synthetic creatures as a method towards understanding the brain"
January 13, 2003	Thomas Sudhof, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas "Molecular Determinants of Neurotransmitter Release"
October 28, 2002	Roger Tsien, University of California, San Diego "Breeding Molecules to Spy on Neurons"
October 21, 2002	John Kalaska, Université de Montréal "Neural Correlates of Response Selection in Dorsal Premotor Cortex"
Sept. 30, 2002	Patricia Sharp, Bowling Green State University "The Anatomical and Computational Basis of Head Direction Cells"
May 6, 2002	John Reynolds, Salk Institute "Neural Mechanisms of Visual Attention"
April 8, 2002	Leah Krubitzer, University of California, Davis "Arealization of the Neocortex: Genetic and Epigenetic Contributions to the Phenotype"
March 18, 2002	Ravi Iyengar, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine "Locus of Flexibility in the MAP-kinase Network"
March 4, 2002	Karel Svoboda, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory "Optical Studies of Single Synapses"
February 25, 2002	Anne Marie Craig, Washington University School of Medicine "Synapse Assembly and Regulation of NMDA Receptor Targeting in Hippocampal Neurons"
December 3, 2001	Catherine Carr, University of Maryland "Temporal Coding in the Auditory System"
November 11, 2001	Michael Hausser, University College London "Dendritic Coincidence Detection"
October 10, 2001	Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology "Recording Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe"
September 24, 2001	Michael Dickinson, University of California, Berkeley "The Neural Control of Aerodynamics in Fruit Flies"
April 2, 2001	Bill Harris, University of Cambridge "Growing Vertebrate Eyes"
March 26, 2001	Gilles Laurent, California Institute of Technology "Olfactory Codes: What is Time Good for?"
March 12, 2001	Karen Sigvardt, University of California, Davis "Neuronal Dynamics in Parkinson's Disease"
February 5, 2001	Henry Markram, Weizmann Institute "Synaptic Organization of the Neocortex"
December 4, 2000	Allan Basbaum, University of California, San Francisco "The Neurochemistry of Acute and Persistent Pain"
November 10, 2000	Tamas Freund, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary "Diverse functions of interneurons in the hippocampus"
October 16, 2000	Ronald Calabrese, Emory University "The leech heartbeat timing network: Coordination of segmental oscillators"
September 25, 2000	Gary Westbrook, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University "Getting the most out of NMDA receptors"

 

Top of Page | Life Sciences | Brandeis Universi