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2013
2013.9.3 |
Rhea Kimpo, Ph.D. (Research Associate, Raymond Lab, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University)
Gating of error signals for motor learning |
2013.5.28 |
Yasushi Nakagawa, M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota Medical School)
Roles of thalamic afferents in early development of the mouse neocortex |
2013.4.9 |
Misha B. Ahrens, Ph.D. (Fellow, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia)
Functional circuit discovery using whole-brain light-sheet imaging at cellular resolution in zebrafish |
2013.1.10 |
Eric Klann, Ph.D. (Professor, Center for Neural Science, New York University, NY)
Dysregulated Translation in Autism Spectrum Disorders |
2012
2012.12.10 |
Alison L. Barth, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)
Wiring the cortex: Stochastic and specific networks for somatosensation |
2012.9.14 |
Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Media Lab, McGovern Institute and Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Optogenetic manipulation of neuronal circuits |
2012.7.10 |
Paul Chapman, Ph.D. (Takeda)
Addressing unmet needs in neuropsychiatric diseases |
2012.6.13 |
Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D. (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Depts of Biological
Sciences and Applied Physics, Bio-X, Stanford University)
Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Visualizing the Dynamics of the Neuronal Orchestra in Awake Behaving Animals |
2012.3.28 |
Richard L. Huganir, Ph.D. (Professor and Director, Dept of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute,The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Regulation of Neurotransmitter Receptor Function and Synaptic Plasticity in the Brain |
2011
2011.12.12 |
Takashi Hirose, Ph.D. (Research fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and Department of Biology, MIT)
Transcriptional and translational regulators and a protein kinase interact to control the death of the sister cell of the M4 motor neuron of C. elegans. |
2011.12.12 |
Tae-Kyung Kim, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas)
Neuronal activity-dependent gene expression program required for brain development and function |
2011.9.3 |
Larry J. Young, Ph.D. (Professor and Director, Center for Translational
Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatric Disorders, Yerkes National
Primate Research Center, Emory University)
Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders |
2011.9.12 |
Atsushi Kamiya, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Genetic risk factors for major mental disorders in prefrontal cortical development and function |
2011.9.1 |
Feng Zhang, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT)
Neuroengineering: molecular and optical axis of control |
2011.8.8 |
Lu-Yang Wang, Ph.D. (Professor & Director, BRAIN Platform, Department
of Physiology, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Program in Neuroscience
& Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
Morphological and functional remodeling at a developing central synapse |
2010
2010.9.7 |
Roger Nicoll, M.D. (Professor, Depts of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
and Physiology, University of California San Francisco)
The role of auxiliary subunits in the trafficking and gating of synaptic glutamate receptors |
2010.8.31 |
David S. Bredt, M.D., Ph.D. (Vice President, Neuroscience Discovery and
Clinical Investigation, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis,
Indiana, USA)
AMPA receptor auxiliary subunits to specify neuropharmacology and synaptic plasticity |
2010.8.30 |
Andres Villu Maricq, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City)
Establishment and function of postsynaptic signaling complexes |
2010.5.17 |
Ege Kavalali, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, U.T.
Southwestern Medical Center)
Deconstructing presynaptic trafficking machinery and neurotransmission |
2010.5.6 |
Paul De Koninck, Ph.D. (Professor, Centre de Recherche Universite Laval
Robert-Giffard, Quebec)
Imaging the spatial dynamics of synaptic proteins in neurons: mechanisms
and functions |
2010.2.25 |
Carlo Sala, Ph.D.( Group Leader, CNR Neuroscience Institute, Department
of Pharmacology, University of Milano,)
The postsynaptic density network: from physiology to pathology |
2010.1.15 |
Tomoko Tada, Ph.D. (Investigator, Qs’ Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical
Co., Ltd.,)
A septin-dependent diffusion barrier at dendritic spine necks in neurons |
2009
2009.9.24 |
Valentin Nagerl, Ph.D. (Professor and Group Leader, University of Bordeaux,
INSERM)
Nanoscale imaging of living synapses by STED microscopy |
2009.9.19 |
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.(Associate Professor, Stanford University)
Optogenetics: development and application |
2009.9.14 |
Bong-Kiun Kaang, Ph.D. (Professor, Seoul National University)
Dynamic aspects of long-term memory: a comparative study of mouse and Aplysia |
2009.8.6 |
Peter Franklin (Applied Precision Inc.)
High-Speed and Super-Resolution Imaging with DeltaVision OMX |
2009.8.4 |
Peter Penzes, Ph.D.(Assistant Professor, Northwestern University)
Mechanisms of synaptic structural plasticity and pathology |
2009.7.27 |
Jian Yang, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)
TRP channels: odd stoichiometry and even (dual) regulation |
2009.6.3 |
Axel Nimmerjahn, Ph.D. (Research Scholar, Schnitzer lab, Stanford University)
Ca2+ dynamics in Purkinje cell dendrites and Bergman glial networks during
motor behavior in awake behaving mice |
2009.4.27 |
Katherine Roche, Ph.D. (Professor and Senior Investigator, NINDS, NIH)
Regulation of NMDA Receptors: Trafficking and Phosphorylation |
2009.2.20 |
Sten Grillner, M.D., Ph.D.(Professor, Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology,
Karolinska Institute)
The Logics of Networks in Motion - from decision making to microcircuits
and ion channels |
2008
2008.12.29 |
Karl Peter Giese (Professor, King's College London)
CaMKII autophosphorylation, a fast track to memory |
2008.7.16 |
Karim Nader (Assistant Professor, McGill University)
Targeting reconsolidation of trauma in patients with chronic post-traumatic
stress disorder: An update |
2008.7.22 |
Hiroshi Nishiyama (Assistant Professor, Center for Learning and Memory, University of
Texas Austin)
Axonal motility and its modulation by activity in the live, adult cerebellum |
2008.7.8 |
Mark J. Schnitzer (Stanford University )
Of mice, men, and microscopes: Watching the brain dynamics of motor control
at the cellular scale in behaving subjects |
2008.7.8 |
Raag Airan, Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University)
High-speed depth-targetable control of genetically defined neurons: technology
development and neuropsychiatry application |
2007
2007.12.14 |
John F. MacDonald, Ph.D., FRSC. (Ernest B. and Leonard B. Smith Professor
and Chairman, Dept of Physiology, University of Toronto)
TRPM7 and TRPM2 channels: the ischemia-induced death of hippocampal neurons
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2007.12.10 |
Atsushi Kamiya, M.D., Ph.D. (Instructor, Dept of Psychiatry, Johns
Hopkins Univ Sch Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Convergent glutamate and DISC1 signaling pathways contribute to the pathophysiology
of schizophrenia in dendritic spines
|
2007.9.13 |
William A. Catterall, Ph.D. (Professor and Chairman, Dept of Pharmacology,
University of Washington at Seattle)
Calcium Channels and Synaptic Plasticity
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2007.8.20 |
Bernardo Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Multiple levels of NMDA receptor-dependent synapse regulation
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2007.8.20 |
Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D. (Professor of Physiology, Univ. of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center)
Presenilins function as ER Ca2+ leak channels: implications for Alzheimer
disease
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2007.8.1 |
Yukio Kawahara, M.D., Ph.D. (The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Divergent regulation by RNA editing: microRNA function, energy metabolism,
and beyond
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2007.7.26 |
Bob Jones, Ph.D. (Fluidigm Corporation, Executive Vice President, Research
and Development,)
Multi-layer soft lithography-based microfluidic dynamic arrays for gene
expression and genotyping analysis |
2007.4.19 |
Marius Messerli, Ph.D. (CEO, Bitplane AG, Zurich, Switzerland)
IMARIS: Interactive image analysis enables interpretation of cellular structure
& behavior
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2007.4.16 |
Min Zhuo, Ph.D. (Canada Research Chair Tier I in Pain and Cognition EJLB-CIHR
Michael Smith Chair in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Professor of Physiology
University of Toronto)
Roles of the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) in prefrontal
synaptic plasticity and behavioral trace fear
|
2007.2.28 |
Paul Frankland, Ph.D. (Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neurobiology,
The Hospital for Sick Children and Assistant Prof. of Physiology, University
of Toronto)
Preferential incorporation of adult-generated granule cells into spatial
memory networks in the dentate gyrus |
2007.2.28 |
Sheena Josselyn, Ph.D. (Canada Research Chair in Mol. Cell. Cognition,
The Hospital for Sick Children, and Assistant Prof. of Physiology, University
of Toronto)
Neuronal selection and competition in memory formation: the role of CREB |
2006
2006.12.5 |
Bernhard Zimmermann, Ph.D. (Advanced Imaging Microscopy, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging
GmbH, Jena, Germany)
Advances in Laser Scanning Microscopy: New Technologies for Live Cell Investigations |
2006.7.18 |
Tobias Bonhoeffer, Ph.D. (Director, Dept. Cell. and Systems Neurobiol.,
MPI-Neurobiologie, Martinsried, Germany)
How activity changes synapses in the mammalian brain
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2006.7.7 |
Hisashi Umemori (Assistant Prof., Mol. & Behav. Neurosci. Institute/ Dept of Biol. Chem./Neurosci. Program University of Michigan Medical School)
Finding the synaptic organizers
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2006.3.23 |
Hans-Peter Lipp, Ph.D. (Professor, Division of Neuroanatomy and Behavior,Institute
of Anatomy, University of Zurich)
Behavioral phenotyping of mutant mice: conventional and novel approaches |
2006.3.17 |
Takaki Komiyama, Ph.D. (Luo Lab, HHMI, Dept. of Biological Sciences and
Neurosciences Program, Stanford University)
Unraveling the Logic of Olfactory Circuit Assembly
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2006.2.13 |
George Augustine, Ph.D. (Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology,
Duke University Medical Center)
Dendritic signal transduction events involved in cerebellar long-term synaptic
depression
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2006.1.27 |
Richard G. M. Morris, Ph.D., F.R.S.(Professor, Laboratory for Cognitive
Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh)
Elements of a neurobiological theory of the hippocampus
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2005
2005.12.12 |
Bernhard Zimmermann, Ph.D (Carl-Zeiss Jena GmbH)
Advances in live fluorescence imaging: LSM 5 DUO and LSM 5 LIVE DuoScan
systems
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2005.11.29 |
John Yeomans, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Psychology, University of
Toronto)
Startle reflex circuits, startle functions and the hierarchical organization
of emotions |
2005.11.29 |
Kurt Haas, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Brain Research Centre and Dept.
of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia)
In vivo single-cell electroporation for study of activity-dependent dendritic
arbor growth |
2005.9.27 |
Isabella Graef, Ph.D. (Dept. of Pathology, Stanford University School of
Medicine)
Harnessing chaperones to generate potent small molecule inhibitors of amyloid-beta
aggregation
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2005.8.10 |
George Augustine, Ph.D. (Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke University
Medical Center)
Synaptic Biophotonics
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2005.7.23 |
Hee-Sup Shin, Ph.D.(Director, Center for Calcium and Learning, Life Sciences
Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Calcium channels in normal and abnormal brain functions
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2005.6.14 |
Kenichi Ohki(Reid Lab, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School)
Two-Photon Calcium Imaging Reveals Precise Functional Micro-Architecture
in Visual Cortex
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2005.5.10 |
Hiroshi Nishiyama (Linden Lab, Johns Hopkins University, Department of
Neuroscience)
Plasticity in the cerebellum
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2005.3.9 |
Kyonsoo Hong, Ph.D. (New York University, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry)
Calcium signaling in growth cone induced by diffusible guidance molecules
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2005.3.8 |
James E. Ferrell, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. (Stanford University School of Medicine,
Professor and Acting Chair of Molecular Pharmacology, Professor of Biochemistry
)
A systems-level dissection of the cell cycle oscillator
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2005.3.1 |
Joshua D. Berke, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Assistant Professor of
Psychology)
Dynamic organization of cortex-basal ganglia circuits
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2004
2004.12.13 |
Mary Dickinson, Ph.D. (Director, Biological Imaging Center, Beckman Institute,
California Institute of Technology)
Advances in live fluorescence imaging
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2004.12.8 |
Upinder S. Bhalla, Ph.D. (Lab Head, National Centre for Biological Sciences,
Bangalore, India)
Signaling mechanisms for synaptic pattern selectivity
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2004.10.4 |
Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D. (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Associate Professor of Physiology)
Neuronal calcium signaling and Huntington's disease
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2004.5.21 |
Karl-Peter Giese, Ph.D. (University College London, Lecturer and Head of
Learning and Memory Research, Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research)
The Role of CaM Kinases in Mammalian Memory Formation
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2004.5.19 |
Nigel Emptage, Ph.D. (Oxford University, Lecturer of Pharmacology)
Illuminating synaptic transmission
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2004.1.15 |
Min Zhuo, Ph.D.(The University of Toront)
Cortical plasticity in persistent pain and fear memory
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2003
2003.12.8 |
Paul Frankland, Ph.D. (The University of Toront)
The cortex and remote memory: genetic, imaging and pharmacological studies
in mice |
2003.8.11 |
Joe Treadway, Ph.D.(Quantam Dot Corporation)
Q-Dot Technology for Fluorescence Labeling of Cells |
2003.7.22 |
Richard W. Tsien, Ph.D. (George D. Smith Professor, Dept. of Mol. Cell.
Physiology, Stanford University
Calcium channels, CaM kinases and cellular signaling
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2003.5.12 |
Karl Kilborn, PhD (Intelligent Imaging Innovations, Inc (3i))
3i Marianas?: A complete microscopy system for quantitative live cell imaging |
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