Distinguished Seminar Series:
Recent Advances in Neuroscience

Made possible by a gift from John (Gus) Gurley

 

Seminar Committee Members:

Dzwokai "Zach" Ma
Todd Oakley
Boris Shraiman

 

Past speakers:

- 2004/2005 -

27-April-05
Carlo O. Pabo

Visiting Professor Stanford University
and Guggenheim Fellow
Neurobiology, Mental Models, and Theories of Thought


18-November-04
Robert C. Malenka
Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Stanford University School of Medicin
Synaptic Plasticity: The Brain's Response to Experience

 

-2003/2004-

18-March-04
Hollis Cline
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Multiple Mechanisms by which Sensory Experience drives the
Structural and Functional Development of the Visual System

 

-2001/2002-

1-Feb-02
Fred Gage
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Regulation and Function of Stem Cells in the Adult Mammalian Brain


18-Oct-01
Eric Knudson
Stanford School of Medicine
Mechanisms of Learning in the Auditory System of the Barn Owl

 

-2000/2001-

17-May-01
Frank Werblin
Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
UC Berkeley
The Language of Vision: Parallel Representations in the Retina


05-April-01
Brian Wandell
Psychology Department
Stanford University
Computational Neuroimaging: The Human Visual Pathways


15-March-01
Christof Koch
Computation and Neural Systems Program
California Institute of Technology
Towards the Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness

 

-1999/2000-

02-June-00
Helga Kolb
Professor of Ophthalmology
John Moran Eye Center,
University of Utah
Basic Design of Neural Circuitry in the Vertebrate Retina


02-June-00
Richard Normann
Professor of Bioengineering,
Ophthalmology, and Physiology,
University of Utah
Recent Progress in Visual Neuroprosthetics: Restoring Visual Function


08-May-00
Charles Gilbert
Professor of Neurobiology
The Rockefeller University
Cortical Dynamics and Visual Perception


03-March-00
Terrence Sejnowski
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Salk Institute, Department of Biology
University of California, San Diego
Computational Constancies in Brain Evolution