Samuel Eiduson Student Lectureship

The Samuel Eiduson Student Lectureship was initiated in 1993 to recognize extraordinarily meritorious contributions by a neuroscience graduate student. This lectureship was named in honor of Dr. Samuel Eiduson for his many years of dedication to the Neuroscience Program and the Brain Research Institute. Dr. Eiduson served as the Chairman of the Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience from its inception in 1972 until 1985, and was instrumental in forwarding the careers of many UCLA neuroscientists and graduates. Each year one student who has conducted especially commendable research during his/her thesis study is selected to deliver a lecture to the neuroscience community.

YEAR	STUDENT	LABORATORY of	DEPARTMENT	LECTURE TITLE
2024	Juan Luis Romero Sosa	Dr. Alicia Izquierdo	Department of Psychology, College of Life Sciences, UCLA	"Emergent Learning Signals Are Found in Orbitofrontal, but Not Secondary Motor, Cortex Using Single-Cell Imaging in Rats"
2023	Jay Gill	Dr. Nanthia Suthana	Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science & Electrical Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, DGSOM at UCLA	"Characterizing Intracranial Amygdala Oscillations during Treatment-Resistant Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"
2023	Joselyn Soto	Dr. Baljit Khakh	Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, DGSOM at UCLA	"Astrocyte and Neuron Subproteomes Reveal Cell-Specific Contributions to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Behaviors"
2022	Ana Sias	Dr. Kate Wassum	Department of Psychology, UCLA	"Coordination of Escape Circuits Orchestrates Versatile Flight From Multimodal Threats"
2022	Peter Schuette	Drs. Avishek Adhikari and Jonathan Kao	Department of Psychology, UCLA	"Basolateral Amygdala Circuits are Neural Substrates for Outcome-Specific Reward Memories"
2021	Bryce Bajar	Drs. Larry Zipursky and Orkun Akin	Departments of Biological Chemistry & Neurobiology, at UCLA	"Building Neural Circuits with Developmental Activity"
2020	Lyle Kingsbury	Dr. Weizhe Hong	Departments of Biological Chemistry & Neurobiology, DGSOM at UCLA	"The Social Brain in Action: Neural Dynamics Within and Across Interacting Animals"
2019	Douglas Arneson	Dr. Xia Yang	Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, College of Life Sciences, UCLA	"Spatial and Temporal Single Cell Network Alterations Induced by Traumatic Brain Injury"
2018	Celine Vuong	Dr. Douglas Black	Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, College of Life Sciences, UCLA	"Rbfox1 Regulates Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission through the v-SNARE Vamp1"
2017	Supraja Varadarajan	Dr. Samantha Butler	Department of Neurobiology, DGSOM at UCLA	"Redefining the Role of Netrin1 as an Axon Guidance Cue in the Developing Spinal Cord"
2016	Tessa Harrison	Dr. Susan Bookheimer	Departments of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA	"Neuroimaging Markers of Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease in Cognitively Healthy Cohorts"
2015	Neelroop Parikshak	Dr. Daniel Geschwind	Department of Neurology, DGSOM at UCLA	"Insights from the Molecular Underpinnings of Autism from the Analysis of Gene Expression in Human Brain"
2014	Satoru Miura	Dr. Larry Zipurksy	Department of Biological Chemistry, DGSOM at UCLA	“No Two Neurons Are the Same: Unique Identities for Neural Circuit Assembly”
2013	Jesse Brown	Dr. Susan Bookheimer	Departments of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA	“Multimodality MRI-based Brain Network Analysis: Applications to Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease”
2012	Stephanie Groman	Dr. David Jentsch	Department of Psychology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA	“Dopamine D2-Like Receptors: At the Nexus between Self Control and Addiction”
2011	Jason Stein	Dr. Paul Thompson	Department of Neurology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Searching for Genetic Influences on Brain Structure”
2010	David Rousso	Dr. Ben Novitch	Department of Neurobiology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Successive Actions of FoxP Transcription Factors in Spinal Cord Neurogenesis and the Establishment of Motor Circuits”
2009	Doris Payer	Dr. Edythe London	Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences , DGSOM at UCLA	“Neural Correlates of Emotion and Inhibitory Control During Early Abstinence from Methamphetamine”
2008	Woj Wojtowicz	Dr. Kelsey Martin	Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences , DGSOM at UCLA	“A Role for Molecular Diversity and Specificity in Wiring the Fly Brain”
2007	Louisa Wang	Dr. Chris Colwell	Department of Psychiatry, DGSOM at UCLA	“The Circadian Regulation of Learning and Memory”
2006	John Ohab	Dr. Thomas Carmichael	Department of Neurology, DGSOM at UCLA	“A Novel Neurovascular Niche for Neurogenesis after Stroke”
2005	Keri Martinowich	Dr. Yi Sun	Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences , DGSOM at UCLA	“Epigenetic Gene Regulation in Mental Retardation Disorders”
2004	Spencer Smith	Dr. Thomas Otis	Department of Neurobiology, DGSOM at UCLA	“The Role of Spontaneously Firing Neurons and New Tools for Exploring Them”
2003	Christopher Cain	Dr. Mark Barad	Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, DGSOM at UCLA	“Overcoming Fear: Behavioral Pharmacology and Physiology of Fear Extinction in Mice”
2002	Robert Agate	Dr. Maria-Francoise Chesselet	Department of Neurology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Sex Chromosomes as Carriers for Genes Involved in Sex Specific Brain Development”
2001	Holly Carlisle	Dr. Tom O'Dell	Department of Physiology, DGSOM at UCLA	“The Role of NMDA Receptor Associated Proteins in Hippocampal LTP”
2000	Paul Gray	Dr. Linda Maninger	Department of Neurology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Every Breath You Take: Looking for the Respiratory Rhythm Generator”
1999	Albert Cha	Dr. Maria-Francoise Chesselet	Department of Neurology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Using Optical Probes to Study the Behavior of Voltage-Gated Ion Channels”
1998	Paul Thompson	Dr. Linda Maninger	Department of Neurology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Mathematical/Computational Strategies for Human Brain Mapping and Pathology Detection”
1997	Christine Schulteis	Dr. Diane Papazian	Department of Physiology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Aspects of Shaker Potassium Channel Biogenesis Revealed by Analysis of Mutant Subunits”
1996	Li-Tao Zhong	Dr. Arvan L. Fluharty	Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, DGSOM at UCLA	“A Novel Type of Cell Death Receptor in Neocortical Neurons”
1995	Kerry Thompson	Dr. Claude G. Wasterlain	Department of Neurology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Focal Status Epilepticus in the Immature Brain”
1994	Michael DeRosa	Dr. Harry Vinters	Department of Pathology, DGSOM at UCLA	“Why Do Children Seize? What Epileptic Brain Tissue Tells Us”
1993	David Rector	Dr. Ron Harper	Department of Anatomy, UCLA	“Illuminating the Brain: Neural Activation Produces Changes in Light Scattering”