Tulane Brain Institute Spring 2019 - Seminar Series
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Tulane Brain Institute – Spring 2019 - Seminar Series
The Spring 2019 Brain Institute Seminar Series will take place on Wednesdays at 4pm on the Uptown Campus unless otherwise noted (updated 03/21/19)
Date Title Speaker Room Host
Wednesday, Jan 16, 2019 - 4pm Real-time fMRI neurofeedback for treating
and studying mental illness
Michelle Hampson, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center; Director of real-time
fMRI Yale University
SOM-5150 downtown
Rouse
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019 – 4pm Space and time in the brain
Edvard Moser, PhD Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
Professor of Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
LBC 213-Kendall
Cram Daniel
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2019 – 4pm
Translating an unexpected discovery in addiction research: Development of a myosin
II inhibitor for methamphetamine relapse
Courtney Miller, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Medicine & Neuroscience
Scripps Research
Jones 102 Fadok
Wednesday, Feb 6 & 13 No Seminar
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2019 – 4pm Active Dendrites for Active Senses Pierre Apostolides, PhD
Assistant Professor University of Michigan Medical School
Boggs 239 Student
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019 – 4pm Spring Break/Mardi Gras
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 – 4pm Spring Break / Mardi Gras
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 – 4pm
Synucleinopathies in Parkinson’s disease: pathogenesis, prion properties and are we
studying the right disease
Jeffrey Kordower, PhD The Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of
Neurological Sciences
Rush Medical College
Jones 102 Daniel
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 – 4pm The anatomy of autism
Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno, PhD Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine, Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine; Schriners Hospital; MIND Institute
University of California - Davis, School of Medicine
Boggs 239 Galazo
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 – 4pm Gamma oscillations in the hippocampal
network
Laura L. Colgin, PhD Associate Professor
Dept. of Neuroscience; Center for Learning and Memory
University of Texas at Austin
Boggs 239 Schrader
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 – 4pm
Developmental programming of cardiometabolic diseases:
Role of brain leptin receptor?
Suttira “Joy” Intapad, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology
Tulane University School of Medicine
SOM-5150 Downtown
TBI
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 – 4pm Development of neocortical circuits: from
genes to behavior
Maria Galazo, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University
LBC 203- Stibbs
TBI
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 – 4pm GABAergic regulation of stress circuits
Jamie Maguire, PhD Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor
Associate Professor, Neuroscience Tufts University
LBC 203- Stibbs
Tasker
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 – 4pm ALS: Little Progress Since I Was a
Tulane Undergrad
Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD, FACP Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Jones 102 Daniel