THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
115 Biomedical Research Tower (BRT)
12 – 1 pm (unless otherwise noted)
October 17*
J. Marc Simard, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery
University of Maryland School of Medicine
“The Sur/Trpm4 Channel in Spinal Cord Injury”
Host: Phil Popovich
November 7
Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology
Ohio State University
“The neural representation of natural scene categories”
Host: Stuart Mangel
November 30 - 2:30-3:30 pm
Neuroscience Poster Day
Evan Deneris, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Neurosciences
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
“Transcriptional networks regulating brain serotonin neurons across the lifespan”
Host: NGSP Students
January 9
Cheryl Stucky, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, & Anatomy
Medical College of Wisconsin
“Channeling Pain and Touch Transduction”
Host: Candice Askwith
January 30
Matthew Rasband, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
“The functional organization of axons in health and disease”
Host: Tony Brown
February 6 - Postponed
Samer Hattar, PhD
Associate Professor, Depts. of Biology and Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University
“Atypical mammalian photoreceptors influence circadian rhythms, mood and learning”
Host: Randy Nelson
February 27
Joseph Bass, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology and Physiology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
“As the World Turns: Clock Genes in Obesity and Metabolism”
Host: Randy Nelson
March 12
Sheng-Kwei (Victor) Song, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiology
Washington University School of Medicine
“Diffusion MRI of CNS white matter: What’s meatball got to do with spaghetti”
Host: Lyn Jakeman
April 9*
Dorian McGavern, PhD
Investigator, NINDS-NIH
Chief, Viral Immunology and Intravital Imaging Unit
“Illuminating innate and adaptive immunity in the living brain”
Host: Jon Godbout
April 13 - 105 BRT
Roger Papke, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
University of Florida
“Improved molecular perspectives on the therapeutic targeting of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors provided by positive allosteric modulators”
Host: Tom Boyd
April 16*
Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
“Can young blood make brains younger?”
Host: Phil Popovich
May 7 - 3:30-4:30 pm 170 DHLRI
Hunt-Curtis Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar
Freda Miller, PhD
Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
Professor, Dept. of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
“Neural stem cells: from development to repair”
Host: NGSP Students
May 14*
Zhigang He, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology
Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
“Mechanisms of axon regeneration”
Host: Phil Popovich
Sponsored by the Neuroscience Signature Program, the Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, the College of Optometry and the Departments of Neurology, Neurological Surgery, and Neuroscience
*Also sponsored by the Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair
