MCB Calendar
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
IGB Pioneers Seminar Polina Lishko, PhD University of California, Berkeley; Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology "Unexpected role of steroid hormones in reproduction, aging, and bioelectricity"
Achieving axon regeneration and restoring function after CNS injuries is one of the major challenges of contemporary neuroscience. I will discuss our new results about how to promote axon regeneration and enhance the function of regenerated axons in adult CNS.
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
To join the virtual thesis defense, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link)
Monday, February 1, 2021
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Brian Beliveau, PhD University of Washington; Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences "Oligo-based technologies for visualizing nucleic acids in single cells"
Oxytocin is often considered to be a peptide that is important for behaviors related to social approach such as pair bonding or stress buffering. However, sometimes oxytocin can increase anxiety. Our work shows that these diverse effects are mediated by distinct but overlapping neural circuits.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
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Monday, February 8, 2021
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Nathan Springer, PhD University of Minnesota; Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Turlough Finan, PhD McMaster University, Professor of Biology “Deconstructing Sinorhizobium – defining a minimal genome for symbiotic nitrogen fixation”
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
IGB Postdoc Association Presents Chinmay Soman, PhD Co-founder and CEO of EarthSense Chang He, PhD Research scientist “Careers in Start-ups and Industry”
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Friday, February 19, 2021
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Monday, February 22, 2021
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Dana Dolinoy, PhD University of Michigan; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences & Nutritional Sciences, Director of Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) Center
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There is growing evidence that puberty is another organizational period with long lasting effects on brain and behavior. This talk will provide an overview of human structural MRI studies on sex differences in normative brain development across adolescence. Evidence for a specific link between pubertal maturation and developmental changes will be discussed.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2021
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Monday, March 1, 2021
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
How can nervous systems be both strikingly flexible and remarkably robust, and how do these phenomena simultaneously give rise to widespread similarity and incredible diversity in animal behavior? We are using charismatic poison frogs as model system to ask these questions.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Thursday, March 4, 2021
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Friday, March 5, 2021
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Cognitive mapping allows us to build internal representations of the world, and is critical to episodic memory and visualization. I explore the potential evolutionary origins of cognitive mapping, to show how the circuitry for basic foraging decision can be straightforwardly expanded for affective valuation and cognitive map construction in the foraging simulation, ASIMOV.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Thursday, March 11, 2021
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Friday, March 12, 2021
Friday, March 19, 2021
Monday, March 22, 2021
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
We're going to look at a set of cross-species parallel tasks where we will ask whether mice, rats, and humans are sensitive to sunk costs (spoiler alert: they are) and what they do to avoid them.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Thursday, March 25, 2021
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Friday, March 26, 2021
Monday, March 29, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Monday, April 5, 2021
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Thursday, April 8, 2021
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Friday, April 9, 2021
Monday, April 12, 2021
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
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Friday, April 16, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Thursday, April 22, 2021
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Friday, April 23, 2021
Thursday, April 29, 2021
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