Seminar Series Academic Year 2018-2019

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. de Erausquin is the chair of Psychiatry and Neurology, UT Rio Grande Valley. Seminar title: “Dopaminergic neuron susceptibility, Rho GTPases and the schizophrenias: can psychosis be prevented?” Seminar host: Ramiro Salas, Ph.D., assistant professor, psychiatry research, the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Salas holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience and is also a member of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Conference room 187A, Cullen (1^st floor - Jaworski classroom) at 11 a.m. Dr. Jankowsky is an associate professor, Department of Neuroscience and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Baylor. Seminar title: “Chemogenetic modeling of circuit dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.” Seminar host: Paul Pfaffinger, Ph.D., professor and interim chair, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room Cullen Auditorium at 11 a.m. Richard Harris is a science correspondent for NPR (National Public Radio), award-winning journalist and book author. Seminar title: “Science Friction: What’s Slowing Progress in Biomedicine?” Seminar host: Matt Rasband, Ph.D., professor and Vivian L. Smith Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Jack Feldman is a Distinguished Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles. Seminar title: “Breathing Matters”. Seminar host: Russell Ray, Ph.D., assistant professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Jill Leutgeb is a professor, Department of Neurobiology and Walter F. Heiligenberg Professorship in Neuroethology, University of California, San Diego. Seminar title: "Dentate network computations for memories and decisions". Seminar Host: Daoyun Ji, Ph.D., associate professor, Departments of Molecular and & Cellular Biology and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Aaron DiAntonio is the Alan A. and Edith L. Professor of Developmental Biology, Departments of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Washington University in St. Louis. Seminar title: "Axon Degeneration: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities". Seminar Host: Trent Watkins, Ph.D., assistant professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315 at 11 a.m. Dr. Laura Ranum is a professor and director of the Center for NeuroGenetics at the University of Florida. Seminar title: "Targeting RAN translation and RAN proteins mitigates disease in C9orf72 BAC ALS/FTD". Seminar host: Joanna Jankowsky, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Neuroscience and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315 at 11 a.m. Dr. Elizabeth Hillman is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Seminar title: "Real-time, multi-scale imaging of whole-brain activity". Seminar Hosts: Francois St-Pierre, Ph.D., assistant professor, Departments of Neuroscience at Baylor and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, and David Ress, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Jesse Goldberg is an assistant professor and Robert R. Capranica Fellow, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University. Seminar title: "Limbic Circuits for motor sequence learning". Seminar Hosts: Francois St-Pierre, Ph.D., assistant professor, Departments of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, and David Ress, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. James Knierim is a professor of Neuroscience and Co-Director of Neuroscience Training Program at the Krieger Mind and Brain Institute at the Johns Hopkins University. Seminar title: "Spatial Coding and Episodic Memory in the Hippocampus". Seminar host: Neuroscience Graduate Program students, represented by Amanda Brown (Roy Sillitoe Lab) and Henry Cham (David Dickman Lab).
 

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Baljit Khakh is a professor of Physiology and Neurobiology in the Department of Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Seminar title: "Astrocyte roles in neural circuits". Seminar Host: Ben Deneen, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Jonathan Ting is an assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Seminar title: "Multi-modal functional analysis of human neocortical cell types". Seminar Host: Xiaolong Jiang, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine and Investigator, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Jeffrey Magee is a professor of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, The Cullen Foundation Distinguished Endowed Chair at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Seminar title: "Mechanisms of experience-dependent hippocampal representations". Seminar Host: Paul Pfaffinger, Ph.D., professor and Interim Chair, Department Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Sehgal is John Herr Musser Professor in the Neuroscience Department at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and a Howard Hughes Medical institute Investigator. Seminar title: "Using a small animal model to understand how and why we sleep". Seminar Host: Shinya Yamamoto, D.V.M. Ph.D., assistant professor, Departments of Molecular & Human Genetics and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Lisa Goodrich is a professor of Neurobiology at Harvard University. Seminar title: "Hide and seq in the developing auditory system." Seminar Host: Matthew McGinley, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Sally Temple is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the co-founder, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Neural Stem Cell Institute, University at Albany. Seminar title: "Neural stem cells in Development, Aging and Translation to the Clinic." Seminar Host: Ron Parchem, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Member of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek auditorium at 11 a.m. Dr. Casper Hoogenraad is senior director and staff scientist, Neuroscience Department at Genentech, Roche Group. He is also a professor and chair of the Department of Cell Biology at the Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and member of De Jonge Akademie, part of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. Seminar title: "Mechanisms of neuronal polarity: cytoskeleton remodeling and cargo sorting." Seminar Host: Matthew Rasband, Ph.D., professor and Vivian L. Smith Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315 (Alkek auditorium) at 11 a.m. Dr. Cagla Eroglu is an associate professor in the Departments of Cell Biology and Neurobiology at Duke University and Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology. Seminar title: "How do Astrocytes Sculpt Synaptic Circuits". Seminar Host: Kimberley Tolias, Ph.D., associate professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315 (Alkek auditorium) at 11 a.m. Dr. Jeanne Paz is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Assistant Investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at University of California, San Francisco. Seminar title: "Novel role of the thalamus in Dravet Syndrome." Seminar Host: Jeannie Chin, Ph.D., assistant frofessor in the Department of Neuroscience and Memory & Brain Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine.
 

Conference room N315 (Alkek auditorium) at 11 a.m. Dr. Jacqueline Burre is an assistant professor of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. Seminar title: "Synaptic dysfunction of Munc18-1/STXBP1 in varied encephalopathies and rational rescue strategies”. Seminar Host: Mingshan Xue, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Conference room N315 (Alkek auditorium) at 11 a.m. Dr. Tong is an associate professor and Cullen Chair in Molecular Medicine at UT Health Science Center at Houston. Seminar title: "A novel hypothalamic neural pathway for emotional control of feeding behavior". Seminar Host: Benjamin Arenkiel, Ph.D., associate professor in the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Conference room N315 (Alkek auditorium) at 11 a.m. Dr. Peron is an assistant professor at the Center for Neural Science at the New York University. Seminar title: "The role of local microcircuits in shaping cortical receptive fields". Seminar Host: Fabrizio Gabbiani, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315 (Alkek auditorium) at 11 a.m. Dr. Schiller is an associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY. Seminar title: "Navigating Mental Space". Seminar Host: Michael Beauchamp, Ph.D., professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery and vice chair of Basic Research in the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Laura Feltri is a professor of Biochemistry and Neurology in the Department of Biochemistry at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at University of Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y. Seminar title: "Conditional mutagenesis studies challenge the dogma in the Lysosomal Storage Disease Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy". Host: Hyun Kyoung Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Investigator, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at the Texas Children's Hospital.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Michelle Monje is an associate professor of Neurology and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, Pathology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Seminar title: "Myelin plasticity in health and disease". Host: Jeffrey L. Noebels, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular & Human Genetics and Director of the Blue Bird Circle Developmental Neurogenetics Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine.

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Carlos Brody is a professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Seminar title: "Neural circuit mechanisms underlying cognition in rats". This seminar is hosted by postdoctoral fellows in the Neuroscience Department at Baylor College of Medicine, represented by Dr. Baptiste Caziot, a postdoc in Dr. Xaq Pitkow's Lab (co-advised by Dr. Dora Angelaki).

Conference room N315, Alkek at 11 a.m. Dr. Alex Kolodkin is a professor of Neuroscience with a joint appointment in the Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In June 2016, Dr. Kolodkin has been honored with the inaugural Charles J. Homcy and Simeon G. Margolis Endowed Professorship in Neuroscience. Seminar title: "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neural Connectivity". Seminar host: Melanie Samuel, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine.