Neuroscience Lecture Series

Steven Pinker of Harvard and Heather Daniels attend a lecture. The Neuroscience Training Program sponsors an annual Lecture Series that brings outstanding neuroscientists to the Madison campus. These outside speakers are selected by students and faculty in the Program. Each speaker presents an open lecture and meets with interested students and faculty in the Program. Listed below are lectures that have been sponsored by the Program during the past several years. Although these invited speakers represent only some of those who lecture on neuroscience at UW-Madison each year, their topics illustrate many of the interests that are shared by the current members of the Program.

Speaker	Institution	Topic
Adriano Aguzzi	University Hopital of Zurich	Molecular biology of prions
Hans Rudi Berthoud	Louisiana State University	Mind vs. Metabolism in the Control of Food Intake and Energy Balance
Mary Bunge	University of Miami Medical School	Novel Neuroprotection and Regeneration Strategies to Repair the Injured Spinal Cord
Thomas Carew	University of California- Irvine	How Time Flies: The Molecular Architecture of Memory in Aplysia
Xavier Castellanos	New York University	Neuroscience of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
John Collinge	University College London	Human Prion Diseases: Past, Present, and Future
Ted Dawson	Johns Hopkins University	Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease - Looking forward to tomorrow's therapies
Jose Lasalde Dominicci	University of Puerto Rico	Structural studies on nicotinic receptors
Fernando Gomez-Pinilla	University of California- Los Angelas	Diet and Exercise Shape Neural Function Using Neurotrophins
Philip Haydon	University of Pennsylvania	Glial: Listening and Talking to the Synapse
James Herman	University of Cincinnati	Wiring the brain for stress
Allan Hobson	Harvard Medical School	Neurobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Sleep
Christof Koch	Califonia Institute of Technology	Studying the neuronal correlates of consciousness
John Lisman	Brandeis University	CaMKII as a Synaptic Memory Molecule
Jeff Macklis	Harvard Medical School	Cellular Repair of Complex Cortical Circuitry by Neural Precursors: Induction of Neurogenesis
Emilia Madarasz	Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Formation of the neuronal phenotype: Studies on a one-cell derived neuroectodermal line
Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar	University of Pueto Rico	Molecular Characterization of Striatal Learning Implicated in Cocaine Addiction
Kelsey Martin	University of California- Los Angelas	Signaling Between Synapse and Nucleus During Neuronal Plasticity
Margaret McCarthy	University of Maryland	Stacking the Building Blocks to a Male Brain
Todd McLaughlin	Salk Institute for Biological Studies	Mechanisms and Molecules of Topographic Mapping
Frank Moss	University of Missouri, St. Louis	Stochastic Resonance and Stochastic Synchronization: Why Should These be Interesting to Neuroscientists and Medical Doctors?
Roger Nicoll	University of California-San Francisco	Glutamate receptor trafficking and synaptic plasticity
Jeffery Noebels	Baylor College of Medicine	Ion Channel Mutations and Epilepsy
Theo Palmer	Stanford University	Inflammation and Adult Neural Stem Cells Dysfunction
Luis Parada	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Neurotrophins and Thalamocortical Development
Mu-Ming Poo	University of California- Berkeley	Transduction Mechanisms in Axon Guidance
Frank Porreca	University of Arizona	Central Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain
Louis Ptacek	University of California- San Francisco	Molecular Basis of Episodic Neurological Disorders
Cedric Raine	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	A Molecular Rationale for the Limited Remyelination in Multiple Sclerosis
Alexa Riehle	Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives	Cooperativity in Cortical Networks during Preparation for Action
Heidi Scrable	University of Virginia	p53 and the control of adult neurogenesis
Dennis Selkoe	Harvard Medical School	Presenilin, APP and the origin of Alzheimer's disease
Cheryl Stucky	Medical College of Wisconsin	Cellular Physiology of NGF- and GDNF-dependent Nociceptors
Daniel Tranel	University of Iowa	Higher functions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and how they are affected by age and gender
David Van Essen	Washington University	Mapping Cerebral Cortex in Humans, Monkeys, and Mice
Phyllis Wise	University of California-Davis	Estrogens: What Do They Do to Our Brains? Re-evaluations after the Women's Health Initiative
Larry Young	Emory University	The Neurobiology of Affiliation and Social Bonding