Neuroscience Program

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Several observations on large-scale brain relationships can be best understood in network terms," Steve Petersen, Ph.D., Head, Division of Neuropsychology, Professor of Neurology and Psychology, Washington University Medical School
Network science describes principles by which large numbers of pairwise relationships between brain regions can be illuminated. Examples will be given of descriptions of collections of brain regions into subnetworks or communities, individual differences in community structure, how community structure relates to disease, and how it might be changed through experience.
- Seminar/Symposium

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
“Mapping the reading network using representational similarity analysis,” Simon Fischer-Baum, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University
While there is general agreement about which patches of cortex are involved in reading words, there is extensive debate about the type of cognitive comptutation carried out in those patches.
- Seminar/Symposium

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"What's wrong with neuroimaging research, and how can we make it right?" Russ Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
There are significant concerns about the reproducibility of scientific results across many fields including neuroimaging. This talk will discuss the source of these problems and outline a set of approaches to improve the reproducibility of neuroimaging research.
- Seminar/Symposium

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Systems genomics of neuropsychiatric disorders," Seth A. Ament, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Institute for Genome Sciences and Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine
The last few years has seen rapid progress in the discovery of genes underlying risk for severe mental illness, Research in the Ament lab aims to trace mechanisms from genes to brain to mental illness through human genetics, stem cell models of brain development, and single-cell genomics.
- Seminar/Symposium

- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- McCormick Place, 2301 S Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, IL
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting Graduate Fair
- Seminar/Symposium

- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- McCormick Place, 2301 S Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, IL
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting Graduate Fair
- Reception/Open House

- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- McCormick Place, 2301 S Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, IL
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting Graduate Fair
- Reception/Open House

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"DART: A New Way to Study Brain Dynamics, Drugs, and Disease," Michael Tadross, M.D.,Ph.D., Duke University, Assistant Professor Depts. of Biomedical Engineering & Neurobiology
There has been a surge in technologies to observe how genes and proteins change in the brain during disease. I will describe a new method, DART (drugs acutely restricted by tethering), to rapidly restrict drugs to genetically defined neurons in behaving mice. The approach offers a new way to establish causal circuit and molecular substrates of normal and aberrant behavior.
- Seminar/Symposium

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
“Parental epigenetic influences within and across generations,” Frances A. Champagne, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
In this talk I will describe ongoing work focused on how the experiences of both mothers and fathers can induce epigenetic, neurobiological and behavioral effects and the interactive and multigenerational consequences of these effects.
- Seminar/Symposium

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Molecular and Neural Basis of Itch Sensation," Zhou-Feng Chen, Ph.D, Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology, Director, Center for the Study of Itch, Washington University School of Medicine
This talk will focus on the role of the gastrin releasing peptide receptor (GRPR), the first itch-specific receptor identified in the spinal cord, in itch transmission. He will also discuss about the differences between itch and pain sensations.
- Seminar/Symposium

- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Animal magnetoreception: How worms harness the earth's magnetic field," Andrés G. Vidal-Gadea, Ph.D., School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University
While many animals use the earth's magnetic field to navigate their environment, much remains unknown about its molecular and cellular basis. We will present insights into the behavioral, cellular, and molecular basis for magnetoreception yielded by the tiny nematode worm, C. elegans.
- Seminar/Symposium