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November 2009

Within a Week - Thursday, November 26th   
  • THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO SEMINAR

December 2009

Thursday, December 3rd    12:30 PM
  • Al Molnar, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell - web page
  • Reverse-engineering Retinal Robustness
  • Neurobiology & Behavior Seminar - web source
  • A106 Corson-Mudd Hall, Morison Room
  • Note: Host: Bruce Johnson

    Refreshments in Atrium at 12:15 PM.
Tuesday, December 8th    12:30 PM
  • Brandon Loveall, NBB Defense, Cornell
  • Arrested Development: New evidence for bursicon hormone signaling in Drosophila
  • Neurobiology & Behavior Seminar - web source
  • A106 Corson-Mudd Hall, Morison Room
  • Note: Refreshments in Atrium at 12:15 PM.
  • Host: David L. Deitcher - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions

Past Events:


November 2009

Thursday, November 19th    12:30 PM
  • Cheryl Frye, Psychology, SUNY Albany Med School - web page
  • http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/seminars.shtml
  • Neurobiology & Behavior Seminar - web source
  • A106 Corson-Mudd Hall, Morison Room
  • Note: Refreshments in Atrium at 12:15 PM.
  • Host: David P. McCobb - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions
Wednesday, November 18th    4:30 PM
  • Nancy Kleckner, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Harvard University Medical School - web page
  • Getting from biology to physics by way of chromosomes
  • Biophysics Colloquium
  • 700 Clark Hall
  • Note: Host: Michelle Wang; 5-6414; mdw17
Thursday, November 12th    12:30 PM
  • Linda Spear, Psychology, Binghamton University - web page
  • Adolescence: Neurobehavioral characteristics, differential alcohol sensitivities and intake
  • Neurobiology & Behavior Seminar - web source
  • (A106) Corson-Mudd Hall, Morison Room
  • Note: Refreshments in Atrium at 12:15 PM.
  • Host: David P. McCobb - contact to schedule a meeting time or for general event questions
Wednesday, November 11th    4:30 PM
  • Arnd Pralle, Assistant Professor of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY - web page
  • Local membrane heating for remote control of proteins, cells and organisms
  • Biophysics Colloquium - web source
  • 700 Clark Hall
  • Note: Host: Sarah Veatch, 255-8943; SV232

August 2009

Thursday, August 27th    12:30 PM
  • 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

Tuesday, May 5th    12:30 PM
  • Undergraduate Honors Poster Presentation
  • Neurobiology and Behavior Department - web source
  • Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall
Friday, May 1st    3:30 PM
  • 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

Thursday, April 30th    12:30 PM
  • 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
Tuesday, April 28th    4:00 PM
  • 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)
Thursday, April 16th    12:30 PM
  • Deda Gillespie (McMaster University)
  • Building the auditory brain
  • Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar - web source
  • Morison Room (A106) of Mudd Hall
Friday, April 10th    3:30 PM
  • Janet Best, Ohio State
  • Dynamics of Sleep-Wake Cycles: Insights from Development - Abstract
  • CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLQUIUM
  • 655 Rhodes Hall
Thursday, April 9th    12:30 PM
  • 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
Wednesday, April 8th    3:00 PM
  • 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
Tuesday, April 7th    4:00 PM
  • 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
Tuesday, April 7th    12:00 PM
  • 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
Friday, April 3rd    3:30 PM
  • 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
Thursday, April 2nd    12:30 PM
  • 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

Friday, March 6th    3:30 PM
  • Anjan Chatterjee, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
  • Neuropsychology of Spatial Thought
  • Psychology Colloquium - web source
  • 202 Uris Hall
Friday, March 6th    2:15 PM
  • 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
Thursday, March 5th    12:30 PM
  • 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

Friday, February 27th    3:30 PM
  • 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
Thursday, February 26th    4:30 PM
  • 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
Friday, February 20th    3:30 PM
  • 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
Thursday, February 19th    12:30 PM
  • 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
Tuesday, February 17th    2:30 PM
  • 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

Monday, December 15th    4:00 PM
  • 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
Monday, December 8th    4:00 PM
  • 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

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