Tuesday, January 25, 2011

upcoming seminars!

Here are a few upcoming lectures on various areas of neuroscience. For anyone who attends a lecture: if you are interested in writing about the things you learned to post on Brainstorm, please email Rachel at rachem@sas.upenn.edu . Enjoy!


MINS - Elliott Lecture
Thursday, Jan 27
Helen Mayberg, M.D., FRCP, Psychiatry-Neurology, Emory University
Deep Brain Stimulation: What can it teach us about the pathophysiology of depression?12 noon,BRB II/III Auditorium
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience
Friday, Jan 28
Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College, London
Computational Psychiatry: When Good Decisions Go Bad
12 noon, 3401 Walnut St, Ste 400A

Vision Seminar
Monday, Jan 31
Maarten Kamermans, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Unconventional Inhibition in the outer retina--mechanism and function12:15 pm, Barchi Library (140 John Morgan Bldg)

Treatment Research Center
Monday, Jan 31Laura Peoples, Ph.D., UPenn, Dept of Psychology Progressive and persistent increases in accumbal neuronal responses to nicotine- and cocaine-predictive events
3 pm, 3900 Chestnut St, Main Conf Rm

Center for Neuroscience & Society Public Talk Series
Thursday, Feb 3
Alan Leshner, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Executive Publisher of the journal Science
Title: The Evolving Context for Neuroscience and Society
Location: Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall (3417 Spruce)
Time: 4-5:30 pm


Neuroscience of Obesity Special Seminar
Joint sponsored by SOVM Neuroscience Center and IDOM
Tuesday, Feb 15
Greg Barsh, MD, PhD, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Dept of Genetics Stanford
Genetics of color variation: Model systems & model organisms in a post-genome world
4 pm, 2011 Hill 131 Aud

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