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DIVERSE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH,
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Joint Seminars In Neuroscience
New Member Short Talks
Faculty Host: Felix Schweizer
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
In-Person Event
NRB 132 Auditorium
“Neurotoxin Survival in Chemical Defense and Ion Channel Complexes in Brain Health and Disease”
Fayal Abderemane-Ali, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“The Roles of Inflammation and Glutamate in Understanding Adolescent Stress and Depression”
Tiffany Ho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
UCLA College of Life Sciences
Title TBD
Scott Wilke, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“Electrophysiology of Action and Gait in Movement Disorders”
Katy Cross, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“Neural Basis of Perception and Cognition in the Primate Brain”
Alex Huk, Ph.D.
Director, Fuster Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor-in-Residence, Departments of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Ophthalmology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Upcoming Events/Seminars
- 11:00 am
Brain Mapping Center (BMC) Seminar Series – Meaghan Perdue, Ph.D.
- 12:00 pm
Integrative Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics (ICNG) Seminar Series – Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, Ph.D.
- 9:00 am
Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART) & Ritvo Distinguished Lecture Series – Ritvo Award: David Skuse, M.D.
- 9:30 am
Integrative Center for Learning and Memory (ICLM) Journal Club – Victoria Ho, Ph.D.
- 12:00 pm
Integrative Center for Neural Repair (ICNR) Seminar Series – Robert Hunt, Ph.D.
- 3:30 pm
Synapse to Circuit (S2C) Seminar Series – Ruhi Patel, Ph.D.
- 12:00 pm
Joint Seminars in Neuroscience – 34th Annual H.W. Magoun Distinguished Lecture – Itzhak Fried, M.D., Ph.D.
- 9:00 am
Neurology Grand Rounds – Andrew Charles, M.D.
- 8:00 am
Pathology Grand Rounds – Cheng-Ying Ho, M.D., Ph.D.
- 8:30 am
2nd Annual Southern California Substance Addiction Research Training Retreat
- 9:30 am
Integrative Center for Learning and Memory (ICLM) Journal Club – Cassandra Klune
- 12:00 pm
Integrative Center for Neural Repair (ICNR) Seminar Series – Peyman Golshani, M.D., Ph.D.
- 12:00 pm
Joint Seminars in Neuroscience – New Member Short Talks
- 12:00 pm
3rd Annual BRI End-of-Year Celebration
- 1:00 pm
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) Seminar Series – Osama Abulseoud, M.D.
- 12:00 pm
Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids (CCC) Grand Rounds – Jodi M. Gilman, Ph.D.
- 4:00 pm
Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids (CCC) Journal Club
- 9:30 am
Integrative Center for Learning and Memory (ICLM) Journal Club – Jacqueline Giovanniello, Ph.D.
- 9:00 am
Neurology Grand Rounds – Anthony L. Linares, M.D., Ph.D.
- 9:00 am
Neurology Grand Rounds – Ibrar Siddique, Ph.D.
- 1:00 pm
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) Seminar Series – Vilma Gabbay, M.D.
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Image of the Month
June 2023 -Within-cell-type transcriptional heterogeneity in the Drosophila visual system. Individual cells within one visual neuron type (LPLC2, green nuclei) differentially express two cell adhesion molecules controlling synaptic specificity: dpr13 (red) and dpr17 (blue). Assessed by RNA FISH
By Mark Dombrovski, laboratory of Dr. Larry Zipursky.
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