Washington University Neuroscience Colloquium

The Washington University Neuroscience Colloquium is the only seminar series at Washington University that represents the comprehensive Neuroscience Community. Twenty-two departments and centers participate in the Colloquium (see below for a complete list), and the series is coordinated by the Office of Neuroscience Research. Each participating department and center suspends its regular research seminar series during the two months of the Colloquium.

Neuroscience Colloquium 2013

Fridays, 4-5p
Connor Auditorium (Farrell Learning and Teaching Center)*
Reception immediately following, Farrell Atrium

September 6, 2013
Russ Poldrack (University of Texas, Austin)
hosted by WUSTL Psychology

September 13, 2013
Frederic Theunissen (University of California, Berkeley)
hosted by WUSTL Biomedical Engineering
NOTE location: Whitaker 100 (Danforth Campus)

September 20, 2013
Don Cleveland (University of California, San Diego)
hosted by WUSTL Anatomy & Neurobiology

October 4, 2013
John Wood (University College London)
hosted by The Pain Center

October 11, 2013
Catherine Woolley (Northwestern University)
hosted by WUSTL Cell Biology & Physiology

October 18, 2013
Timothy Murphy (University of British Columbia)
hosted by The Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center

October 25, 2013
Joseph Takahashi (UT Southwestern)
hosted by WUSTL Anesthesiology

Previous speakers in the Neuroscience Colloquium Series

Neuroscience Colloquium 2012

Jay Gottfried (Northwestern University)
   "The Sense of Smell in Space and Time in the Human Olfactory Brain"

Joel Buxbaum (The Scripps Research Institute)
   "Fighting Fire with Fire: Can A Systemic Amyloid Precursor Inhibit Neuronal Amyloidogenesis? Transthyretin (TTR) - Aβ interactions in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration”

Matthew State (Yale University)
   “Making sense of nonsense: Exome sequencing, de novo mutations and autism spectrum disorders”

Robert Shannon (University of Southern California)
   "Adventures in Bionic Hearing"

Ardem Patapoutian (The Scripps Research Institute)
   "How do you feel? Ion Channels that Sense Temperature and Pressure"

Neuroscience Colloquium 2011

Ulrike Heberlein (University of California, San Francisco)

"Flies and alcohol: How social experience affects behavior"

Andrew Schwartz (University of Pittsburgh)

"Progress toward a high-performance brain-controlled prosthetics”

Mabel Rice (University of Kansas)

"Specific Language Impairment in Children: Bridging growth phenotypes, regulatory genes, and brain development”

King-Wai Yau (Johns Hopkins University)

"Melanopsin signaling in the eye"

Catherine Dulac (Harvard University)

"Molecular and Neural Sensing of Social Cues"

Lorna Role (Stony Brook University)

"Cholinergic modulation of circuits underlying motivation, memory and mood"

Neuroscience Colloquium 2010

Moshe Bar (Harvard University)
    "The Proactive Brain: Predictions in Visual Cognition"

Liz Phelps (New York University)
    "Changing Fear"

Bertil Hille (University of Washington)
    "G-protein coupled receptors rule the mind through phosphoinositide signals"

Stephen Strittmatter (Yale University)
    "A Tale of Two Dementias: Receptors in Alzheimer's Disease and Fronto-Temporal Dementia"

Lennart Mucke (UCSF/Gladstone Institute)
    "Strategies to Prevent Neural Network Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease"

Bill Snider (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
    "Genetic Dissection of ERK/MAPK and GSK-3 Pathway Functions in
        Nervous System Development"

Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University)
    "Optogenetics: Development and Application"

Participating Departments and Centers

Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology

Department of Anesthesiology

Department of Biology

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Cell Biology & Physiology

Department of Developmental Biology

Department of Genetics

Department of Neurology

Department of Neurosurgery

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Department of Psychology

Center for Biological Systems Engineering

Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases (CIMED)

Center for the Study of Itch

Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

Hope Center for Neurological Disorders

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC)

McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience

Pain Center

Research Center for Auditory and Vestibular Studies

Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center

For inquiries about the Neuroscience Colloquium, please contact Anneliese Schaefer.