Past Events:

August 2009

• Ronald Harris-Warrick, Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University
• Identified interneurons in the mouse spinal locomotor network
• Neurbiology & Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morison Room (A106) Corson-Mudd Hall

May 2009

• Undergraduate Honors Poster Presentation
• Neurobiology and Behavior Department - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

• David Raubenheimer (Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand)
• New Dimensions in Nutritional Ecology: From Insects to Humans
• Psychology Colloquium - web source
• 202 Uris Hall

April 2009

• Ron Calabrese (Emory University)
• Constancy and variability in synaptic strength in a central pattern generator network
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

• DR. WAYNE FRANKEL, Professor, The Jackson Laboratory - web page
• New and Old Genetic Models of Epilepsy in Mice: Progress, Prospects and Challenges
• Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series - web source
• Lecture Hall III VRT (Veterinary Research Tower)

• Deda Gillespie (McMaster University)
• Building the auditory brain
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

• Janet Best, Ohio State
• Dynamics of Sleep-Wake Cycles: Insights from Development - Abstract
• CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLQUIUM
• 655 Rhodes Hall

• Anjali Rajadhyaksha (Weill Medical College)
• Dysregulation of BKca-Cav Ca2+ Signaling in Brain Developmental Disorders
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

• Dr. Chris Danforth, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont - web page
• Measuring Happiness in Written Expression: Songs, Blogs, and Presidents - Abstract
• Sponsored by the Math Awareness Program and the Institute for Computational Sustainability
• Morrison Room of Corson-Mudd Hall

• Dr. Zhao-Wen Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center - web page
• Genetic and electrophysiological analyses of BK channel function in C. elegans - Abstract
• DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
• LECTURE HALL III, VETERINARY RESEARCH TOWER

• Dr. James Swain, Assistant Professor, The Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine
• Connecting the Psychology and Neurobiology of Parent-infant Bonding
• Human Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience program talk
• MVR G87 HD conference room

• John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
• Dynamics of Visual Bistable Perception: e.g., the Necker Cube - Abstract
• Applied Mathematics Colloquium (joint with the IGERT program in nonlinear systems)
• 655 Rhodes Hall

• Dymitri Chklovskii (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
• From neuronal circuit reconstructions to principles of brain design
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

March 2009

• Anjan Chatterjee, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
• Neuropsychology of Spatial Thought
• Psychology Colloquium - web source
• 202 Uris Hall

• Matthew Belmonte, Dept. of Human Development, Cornell University
• What Science Can Tell Us about Autism, and What Autism Can Tell Us about Science
• Human Development Brown Bag Colloquium
• G87 MVR

• Ken Catania (Vanderbilt University) - web page
• The neurobiology and behavior of shrews and moles
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

February 2009

• David Lewkowicz, Florida Atlantic University - web page
• The (Surprising?) Effects of Experience on the Development of Multisensory Perception in Humans and Other Primates
• Psychology Colloquium - web source
• 202 Uris Hall
• Host: Mary Lou Mattoon - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

• MANFRED LINDAU, Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University - web page
• The mystery of the fusion pore - Mechanisms of fusion and transmitter release
• Biophysics Colloquium - web source
• 700 Clark Hall

• Vladimir M. Sloutsky, Dept. of Psychology, Ohio State Univ. - web page
• Early Categorization: What is the Mechanism and What Develops?
• Psychology Colloquium - web source
• 202 Uris Hall
• Note: Cohosted with Cognitive Science

• Matthew Belmonte (Cornell University)
• What science can tell us about autism and what autism can tell us about science
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

• Amina Kinkhabwala
• A novel patterning of interneurons in hind brain reveals new principles of organization
• Defense Seminar in Neurobiology and Behavior
• Morison Room, Atrium of Corson-Mudd Halls

December 2008

• Flor Medina (Schaffer lab, Cornell) - web page
• More nonlinear microscopies: Calcium imaging in the brain
• Bio-Imaging Group (BIG) seminar series - web source
• 321 Weill Hall

• Anna Beaudin, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell Univerisity
• Metabolic mechanisms underlying folate-responsive neural tube defects
• Dissertation Seminar
• 100 Savage Hall
• Note: Refreshments at 3:30 pm
• Host: Patrick J. Stover - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

• Moshe Bar (Harvard) - web page
• Top-Down Predictions in Visual Cognition
• Psychology Colloquium - web source
• 202 Uris Hall

• Ken Stanley, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida
• A Novel Biological Abstraction for the Encoding and Evolution of Form and Neural Structure - Abstract
• Machines and Organisms Seminar - web source
• Moved to Upson 111 (not Thurston 201, like usual)

• Chris Shaffer (Cornell): overview. Nozomi Nishimura: Microvascular Lesions in the Rodent Cortex - web page
• The nonlinear microscopies: 2PE,SHG,CARS and beyond
• Bio-Imaging Group (BIG) seminar series - web source
• 321 Weill Hall

November 2008

• Asaf Bachrach, MIT
• fMRI investigation of incremental language processing in a naturalistic context - Abstract
• Linguistics Colloquium
• Morrill 106

• Paul Gray (Washington University-St. Louis) - web page
• Development and evolution of breathing
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
• Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall

• Thomas A. Cleland, Department of Psychology, Cornell University
• The computational architecture of olfaction: learning and memory in high dimensions - Abstract
• Computational Biology Seminar
• 321 Weill Hall

• Lonnie Wollmuth, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY Stony Brook - web page
• Gating Mechanisms in the Glutamate Receptor Ion Channel
• Molecular Medicine Seminar Series - web source
• LHIII Veterinary Research Tower

Please report corrections, questions, comments, and problems to: Lori Miller (lmm8 AT cornell.edu)