H.W. Magoun Distinguished Lectureship 

The H.W. Magoun Lecture was instituted in 1989 as an annual lecture both to honor the BRI’s founder, Dr. Horace (Tid) Magoun, and to recognize outstanding achievements by BRI members. The lecturer is selected by a faculty committee, which evaluates nominations from the membership at large. More on H.W. Magoun and his legacy at the Brain Research Institute here.

YEAR	MAGOUN LECTURER	SPEAKER	AFFILIATIONS	Lecture Title	PHOTO
2023	Thirty-Fourth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Itzhak Fried, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor-in-Residence Departments of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, and Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	"Memory Aid for the Human Brain: From Single Neurons to Neuromodulation"
2022	Thirty-Third Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Carrie Bearden, Ph.D.	Professor Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	"The 22q11.2 Locus as a Window Into Disrupted Neurodevelopment ”
2022	Thirty-Third Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Joshua Trachtenberg, Ph.D.	Professor Department of Neurobiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	"The Evolution and Development of Experience-Dependent Cortical Plasticity in Early Postnatal Life”
2021	Thirty-Second Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Peyman Golshani, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor in Residence Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“Neural Network Dynamics Driving Arousal, Attention, and Memory”
2021	Thirty-Second Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Dean Buonomano, Ph.D.	Professor Departments of Neurobiology and Psychology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	"How Does the Brain Tell Time?"
2020	Thirty-First Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Michael V. Sofroniew, M.D., Ph.D.	Distinguished Professor Department of Neurobiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	"Essential Astrocyte Roles in Protection and Repair After CNS Injury and Disease"
2019	Thirtieth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Edythe D. London, Ph.D.	Professor Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“Neural Systems, Dopamine Receptors and Stimulant Use: Brain Imaging to Guide Treatment”
2018	Twenty-Ninth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	David S. Eisenberg, D.Phil.	Distinguished Professor Department of Biological Chemistry David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“The Amyloid State of Proteins: Reversible Functional Amyloid vs. Irreversible Pathogenic Amyloid”
2017	Twenty-Eighth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Susan Bookheimer, Ph.D.	Professor Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“The Uniquely Human Hippocampus: Evidence from Functional Imaging in Health and Disease”
2016	Twenty-Seventh Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Baljit Khakh, Ph.D.	Professor Departments of Neurobiology and Physiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	"Astrocyte Roles in Neural Circuits: New Tools, Findings and Concepts"
2015	Twenty-Sixth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Istvan Mody, Ph.D.	Professor Departments of Neurology and Physiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“Inhibition in the Brain: Watching the Wheels go Round and Round”
2014	Twenty-Fifth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Alcino J. Silva, Ph.D.	Distinguished Professor Departments of Psychology and Neurobiology University of California, Los Angeles	”The Exciting Road from Mechanisms of Learning to the Treatment of Cognitive Disorders”
2013	Twenty-Fourth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	V. Reggie Edgerton, Ph.D.	Vice Chair, Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology; Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurobiology University of California, Los Angeles	“Novel Principles of Motor Control: Shackled by Tradition, Released by Data”
2012	Twenty-Third Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Daniel H. Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.	Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor. Department of Human Genetics Professor, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“Advances in Autism: The Path from Genetics and Neurobiology to Therapeutic Development”
2011	Twenty-Second Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Kelsey C. Martin, M.D., Ph.D	Chair and Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry; Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“Signaling Between Synapse and Nucleus During Neuronal Plasticity”
2010	Twenty-First Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Ronald M. Harper, Ph.D.	Distinguished Professor Department of Neurobiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“Sleep, Breathing and the Heart”
2009	Twentieth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Michael S. Fanselow, Ph.D.	Professor Department of Psychology College of Life Sciences University of California, Los Angeles	“The Dynamic Origin of Memory Systems in the Brain: Insight from Contextual Fear Conditioning”
2008	Nineteenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Diane M. Papazian, Ph.D.	Professor Department of Physiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“Kv3.3 Potassium Channels and Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 13”
2007	Eighteenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Richard W. Olsen, Ph.D.	Distinguished Professor, Department of Anesthesiology; Professor Emeritus, Departments of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience University of California, Los Angeles	“GABA-A Receptors are Molecular Targets for Alcohol and General Anesthetics”
2006	Seventeenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Jerome M. Siegel, Ph. D.	Professor Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences DGSOM at UCLA	“How the Brain Coordinates Muscle Tone, Emotion and Alertness: From Magoun to Orexin”
2005	Sixteenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Jack L. Feldman, Ph.D.	Distinguished Professor Department of Neurobiology DGSOM at UCLA	“A Lifetime of Breathing”
2004	Fifteenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Allan J. Tobin, Ph.D.	Professor Emeritus Departments of Physiological Science and Neurology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	“Impatience and Serendipity in the Fight Against Huntington’s Disease”
2003	Fourteenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Arthur P. Arnold, Ph.D.	Chair and Distinguished Professor Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology College of Life Sciences UCLA	“What Makes a Brain Feminine or Masculine?”
2002	Thirteenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Anthony T. Campagnoni, Ph.D.	Associate Director and Professor Emeritus Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences DGSOM at UCLA	“The Many Faces of the Myelin Basic Protein Gene: From Reverse Genetics to Cortical Development”
2001	Twelfth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Debora B. Farber, Ph.D., D.Ph.hc.	Distinguished Professor Department of Ophthalmology DGSOM at UCLA	“Of Mice and Men: Molecular Studies of Retinal Degenerations”
2000	Eleventh Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	S. Lawrence Zipursky, Ph.D.	Distinguished Professor Department of Biological Chemistry DGSOM at UCLA	“Wiring the Nervous System: A Molecular Genetic Dissection of Axon Guidance”
1999	Tenth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	William M. Pardridge, M.D.	Professor Department of Medicine DGSOM at UCLA	“The Blood-Brain Barrier and Non-Invasive Drug Delivery to the Brain”
1997	Ninth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Lawrence Kruger, Ph.D.	Professor Departments of Neurobiology and Anesthesiology DGSOM at UCLA	“The Painful Quest of the Most Versatile Neuron or, Whither, Wither, the Wince?”
1996	Eighth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Lutz Birnbaumer, Ph.D.	Professor Departments of Anesthesiology and Biological Chemistry DGSOM at UCLA	“Capacitative Calcium Entry Into Cells: Molecular Basis and Properties”
1995	Sixth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Ph.D.	Chair and Professor Department of Biological Chemistry UCLA	“Understanding and Treating Mucopolysaccharide Storage Disorders”
1995	Seventh Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Enrico Stefani, M.D., Ph.D.	Vice Chair and Professor Department of Anesthesiology DGSOM at UCLA	“Regulation by Voltage and Auxiliary Subunits of Ion Channels”
1994	Fifth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	John C. Liebeskind, Ph.D.	Professor Departments of Psychology and Anesthesiology UCLA	“Pain, Stress, and Immunity”
1992	Fourth Annual H. W. Magoun Lecture	Francisco Bezanilla, Ph.D.	Professor Emeritus Department of Physiology DGSOM at UCLA	“The Nerve Impulse: Ion Channels Gated by Electric Fields”
1991	Third Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture	Joaquin Fuster, M.D.	Professor Department of Psychiatry DGSOM at UCLA	“A Glimpse of the ‘Engram’: Memory in Primate Cortex”
1990	Second Annual H. W. Magoun Lecture	Arnold B. Scheibel, M.D.	Professor Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Psychiatry UCLA	“On Cortical Substrates of Human Cognitive Function”