May 2008

• Kiisa Nishikawa, Northern Arizona University - web page
• Neuromechanics of ballistic movements - Abstract
• Machines and Organisms Seminar
• Thurston 204

• Dr. M. Kerry O'Banion, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Director, University of Rochester Medical Center - web page
• Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease: Friend or Foe?
• Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series - web source
• Lecture Hall III VRT (Veterinary Research Tower)

Past Events:

May 2008

• Kiisa Nishikawa, Northern Arizona University - web page
• Neuromechanics of ballistic movements - Abstract
• Machines and Organisms Seminar
• Thurston 204

• Synapses and Surprise: How Efficient Sensory Codes Might Emerge from Plasticity - Abstract
• 310 Rhodes Hall

• Neurobiology and Behavior Undergraduate Honors Students
• Honors Student Poster Session - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

April 2008

• Psychology Undergraduate Honors Students
• Psychology Honors Poster Session
• 205 Uris Hall
• Note: 12-2pm

• Rob Olberg, Union College
• A view from the cockpit of a foraging dragonfly
• Neuroethology guest lecture to BioNB/BMEP 491 (Principles of Neurophysiology)
• Morison seminar room in Corson/Mudd

• Bertil Hille, University of Washington, Department of Physiology and Biophysics - web page
• Ion channels and electrical excitability of nerve cells are regulated by rare phospholipids of the cell membrane, electrical and optical studies. - Abstract
• Cornell Biophysics Colloquium - web source
• 700 Clark Hall
• Note: Refreshments served at 4:15
  Host: Manfred Lindau (contact Mark Williams at drbio@cornell.edu for appointments)

• CJ Heckman (Northwestern University)
• Control of active properties of motoneuron dendrites: diffuse descending neuromodulation, focused local inhibition
• Neurobioloy and Behavior Seminar Series - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

• Dr. Harriet Baker, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College
• See abstract and note for description. - Abstract
• Kaufman Auditorium (Goldwin Smith Hall)
• Note: "Dr. Baker has agreed to discuss her research on Parkinson’s disease (which particularly focuses on neurotransmitter regulation and the loss of olfactory function) and the ethical concerns surrounding its research and treatment."

• Dr. Sheila Nirenberg, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College, Cornell University - web page
• Ruling out and ruling in neural codes - Abstract
• 310 Rhodes Hall

• Indira Raman (Northwestern University)
• Synaptic signaling in cerebellar circuits
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar Series - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall
• Host: Howard C. Howland - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

• Dr. David Lin, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University - web page
• Development of the mouse olfactory system
• Department of Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series - web source
• Lecture Hall III VRT (Veterinary Research Tower)

• Teresa Nicolson (Oregon Health Sciences Center/Vollum Insitute)
• The genetics of synaptic transmission in zebrafish hair cells
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar Series - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall
• Host: Linda M. Nowak - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

March 2008

• Bob Baker (NYU Medical Center)
• Gene Regulation and the Evolution of Motor Behavior
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar Series - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall
• Host: Andrew H. Bass - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

February 2008

• Dr. Vivian Zayas, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cornell - web page
• ERP evidence of greater processing cost for negative partner behaviors in attachment-related situations.
• Human Development Brown Bag Colloquium
• MVR G87

• Kenneth Lohmann (University of North Carolina) - web page
• Beyond the five senses: The maps, compasses, and sensory biology of Sea Turtle navigation
• Seminar in Neurobiology and Behavior - web source
• Morison Room, Atrium of Corson-Mudd Halls
• Note: Refreshments served in the atrium at 12:15.

• David M. Eagleman (Baylor College of Medicine)** - web page
• Time and the Brain - Abstract
• Psychology Colloquium (Cosponsored with Neurobiology and Behavior) - web source
• 202 Uris Hall
• Host: Mary Lou DeBoer - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

• Jayant Kulkarni (Columbia, Theoretical Neuroscience)
• Common-input models for multineural spike-train data - Abstract
• Machines and Organisms Seminar - web source
• Thurston 201

• Phil Kidd, Physics grad student, Cornell
• A Dynamical Systems Approach to Modeling Neurons
• Journal club in quantitative and theoretical biology
• Clark Hall Room 609
• Note: "Graduate students are invited to attend a new journal club devoted to interdisciplinary research in quantitative and theoretical biology. The journal club will meet Thursdays at 6:00pm in Clark Hall Room 609. Free pizza and drinks will be provided."

• Thom Cleland (Cornell University)
• The construction of olfactory representations
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar Series - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall
• Host: David L. Deitcher - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

• Bjorn Merker (Institute for Biomusicology, Mid Sweden Univ.)
• “Inhabiting Neural Reality: On the Function and Brain Mechanisms of Consciousness”
• Psychology Colloquium - web source
• 202 Uris Hall
• Host: Mary Lou DeBoer - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

January 2008

• Jean Hardwick (Ithaca College)
• Regulation of autonomic intracardiac neurons by inflammatory mediators
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar Series - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

• Dr. Fenghua Hu, Postdoc, Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine
• Inhibition of axon outgrowth and cell adhesion by a CNS myelin protein, Nogo-A
• BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES SPECIAL SEMINAR
• LECTURE HALL III, Veterinary Research Tower
• Note: Co-hosted by Biomedical Sciences and Molecular Medicine

• Michael Spivey, Associate Professor of Psychology & Co-Director of Cognitive Science, Cornell
• Continuous Temporal Dynamics in Real-Time Cognition - Abstract
• Cognitive Science Colloquium Series - web source
• 202 Uris Hall

December 2007

• Dr. Barbara Ganzel, Department of Human Development, Cornell University
• Resilience after 9/11: Multimodal neuroimaging evidence for stress-related change in the healthy human brain
• Human Development Brown Bag Colloquium
• MVR G87

• Ling-Gang Wu, Principal Investigator, Synaptic Transmission Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - web page
• Multiple modes of vesicle fusion and retrieval at a calyx-type synapse
• Biophysics Colloquium - web source
• 700 Clark Hall
• Host: Manfred Lindau - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

November 2007

• Melina Hale (The University of Chicago)
• Cells, circuits and swimming: Examining neuromechanics and the evolution of motor control through aquatic locomotion
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morrison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall
• Host: Joseph R. Fetcho - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

• Ehud Isacoff, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley - web page
• Engineering light-gated channels for the analysis of the neural basis of behavior
• Biophysics Colloquium (Co-Sponsored by the Cornell Neuroscience Program) - web source
• 700 Clark hall
• Host: Manfred Lindau - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

• Roian Egnor (Harvard University)
• Tracking regularities in the acoustic environment: Temporal pattern recognition in cotton-top tamarins
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morrison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall
• Host: Ben J. Arthur - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

• William Fifer, Columbia University
• Roots of Infant Behavior: Probing the Fetal and Newborn Brain - Abstract
• Psychology Colloquium [co-sponsored by Human Development] - web source
• 202 Uris Hall

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