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IRP SEMINAR SERIES - 2012/2013

The following are seminars held by the IRP for staff and other scientists every Tuesday.


September 2012

9/18

Development of a Practical Heroin-HIV Vaccine

Dr. Gary Matyas

Host: Amy Neman

9/25

The Neurobiology of Motivation

Dr. Derek van Kooy

Host: Roy Wise

No Seminar 10/16 due to the SFN Conference

October 2012

10/2

Mechanims of Structural Plasticity in Addiction and Depression

Dr. Scott J Russo

Host: Yavin Shaham

10/9

Dopamine receptor During Evolution

Dr. Robert Moyzis
Irvine UC

Host: Sergi Ferre

10/23

TBD

Dr. Peter Hegemann

Host: Antonello Bonci

10/30

Synaptic Plasticity and Substance Use Disorders: New Insights From Optogenetic Studies

Dr. Antonello Bonci

Amy Newman

November 2012

11/6

Drug context-induced relapse to cocaine seeking: interplay of memory, impulsive decision making, and motivation

Dr. Rita Fuchs

Host: Jennifer Bossert

11/13

The origin of time (in the songbird motor pathway)

Dr. Michael Long

Host: Roy Wise

11/20

Sweeter than dopamine: the neurobiology of food preference

Dr. Ana Domingos
Rockefeller University

Host: Antonello Bonci

11/27

Neural Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Primate and Human Reward Systems

Dr. Phillipe Tobler

Host: Geoffrey Schoenbaum

No Seminar 12/25 due to Holiday Break

December 2012

12/4

Optogenetic Activation of A Memory Engram

Dr. Xu Liu
MIT

Host: Bruce Hope

12/11

Measuring and manipulating brain connectivity with resting state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation

Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Host: Sergi Ferré

12/18

The legacy of D. O. Hebb

Dr. Roy Wise

Host: Yavin Shaham

No Seminar 1/1 due to Holiday Break

January 2013

1/8

Genetics of inhibitory response control: New clues from pre-clinical laboratory models

Dr. David Jench, UCLA

Host: Elliot Stein

1/15

TBA

Dr. Antonello Bonci

Host: Amy Newman

1/22

Optogenetic Measurement of Striatal Calcium Transients in Slices and In Vivo

Dr. David Lovinger

Host: Brandon Harvey

1/29

Smoking and Drinking: Functional interactions of ethanol and nicotinic receptors

Dr. Dan McGehee

Host: Jonathan Britt

February 2013

2/5

Control of the mesolimbic DA system by leptin

Dr. Martin Myers

Host: Antonello Bonci

2/12

Nicotinic Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Mechanisms in the CNS

Dr. John Dani
Baylor College of Medicine

Host: Elliot Stein

2/19

Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Nicotine Addiction: Insights from Preclinical Research

Dr. Bernard Le Foll

Host: Steve Heishman

2/26

Regulation of Adult Neurogeneisis in Memory Circuits

Dr. Henriette van Praag

Host: Yavin Shaham

March 2013

3/5

Noradrenergic Neuron Subtype Development and Function

Dr. Patricia Jensen
NIEHS

Host: Brandon Harvey

3/12

Synaptic Selection in Dopamine Neuronal Circuits

Dr. David Sulzer

Host: Marisela Morales

3/19

Plasticity of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors regulates cocaine craving

Dr. Marina Wolf

Host: Yavin Shaham

3/26

TBD

Dr. Luigi Ferrucci

Host: Antonello Bonci

April 2013

4/2

A role for feeding-relatedsystems in alcoholism: Recent Findings

Dr. Lorenzo Leggio

Host: Markus Heilig

4/9

TBD

Dr. Dorit Ron

Host: Antonello Bonci

4/16

How do dopamine neurons Compute prediction error signals?

Dr. Naoshige Uchida

Host: Satoshi Ikemoto

4/23

Synaptic remodeling: do microglia play a role?

Dr. Ania Majewska
U Rochester

Host: Brandon Harvey

4/30

Self-control, decision-making and dopamine: links to addiction

Dr. Eyde London

Host: George Uhl

May 2013

5/7

TBD

Dr. Patricia Molina

Host: Jonathan Katz

5/14

Mapping Neurogenetic Pathways of Individual Differences in Substance Use and Abuse

Dr. Ahmad Hariri

Host: Elliot Stein

5/21

Multiple Brain Systems for Learning: Insights from Neuroimaging and Patient Studies

Dr. Daphna Shohamy

Host: Geoffrey Schoenbaum

5/28

Understanding the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia

Dr. Emery N Brown

Host: Jonathan Katz

June 2013

6/4

TBD

Dr. Gonzalo E Torres

Host: Jonathan Katz

6/11

Pharmacogenetics of alcohol and alcohol dependence

Dr. Henry Kranzler

Host: George Uhl

6/18

Targeting the prefrontal cortex and cognition for intervention in cocaine addiction

Dr. Rita Goldstein

Host: Yavin Shaham

6/25

TBD

Dr. Erich D Jarvis

Host: Jean Lud Cadet

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