Recent NRI Sponsored Seminars:

 

Neuroscience & Behavior Seminar Series: (Co-sponsored with the Department of Psychology) February 10 , 2006 Halm Einat, Ph.D. Department of Pharmacy Practice & Pharmaceutical Research University of Minnesota at Deluth "Modeling Bipolar Disorder: From Facets to Endophenotypes" publication pdf   November 4, 2005 David Jentsch, Ph.D. Department of Psychology UC Los Angeles "Alpha-2 Adrenergic Receptor Subtypes as Targets for Cognitive Enhancement in Schizophrenia"   October 28, 2005 Lori Shoemaker, Ph.D. Neuroscience Interdiscplinary Program UC Los Angeles "Does Age Matter? Probing the Developmental Differences in Multi-potent Neural Progenitor Cells"   October 21, 2005 Scott Bowers, Ph.D. Enerst Gallo Clinic and Research Center UC San Francisco "Ritual de lo Habitual: Molecular Modulators of Craving"   October 14, 2005 Kenneth S. Kosik, M.D. Neuroscience Research Institute UC Santa Barbara "Delta-catenin: A Memory Protein in the Synaptic Adherens Junction"   June 2, 2005 David Sherry, Ph.D. Department of Optometry University of Houston, TX "Differentiation of Glutamatergic Terminals in the Developing Mouse Retina"   May 26, 2005 Remi Fardon-Martin, Ph.D. Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA The Dopamine Transporter and "Cocaine Medication Development: Is BTCP a Candidate for Maintenance Medication?"   May 19, 2005 Todd Kippin, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, UCSB "Regulation of Adult Mammalian Neural Stem Cells"   May 12, 2005 Mickey Rowe, Ph.D. Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB "Functional Substitution: A Method for Studying Color Vision in Non-Human Animals"   March 10, 2005 Barry Giesbrecht, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, UCSB "Cortical Control of Voluntary Orienting: Sources, Sites, and Behavioral Consequences"   February 24, 2005 Dario Ringach, Ph.D. Departments of Neurobiology & Psychology University of California, Los Angeles "Revisiting Simple and Complex Cells"   February 17, 2005 Lori Knackstedt, Ph.D. Department of Psychology "Motivating Factors Underlying the Co-Administration of Cocaine & Alcohol"   February 10, 2005 Patrick Johnson, Ph.D. Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB "Retinal Changes in Early Age-Related Macular Degeneration"

NRI Seminars/Workshops/Symposia June 9th, 2006 Frank LaFerla Department of Neurobiology & Behavior University of California, Irvine "Studying and Treating Alzheimer's Disease in Mice" April 20th, 2006 Steven Barnes Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Ophthalmology Dalhousi University April 20th, 2006 "Acid in your eye: Proton-mediated Inhibition of Synaptic Transmission from Photoreceptors " click here to download pdf   April 15th, 2006 Joel Rothman speaks at Santa Barbara City College "Eternal Youth: a 500 Year Life-Span" click here to download pdf March 15th, 2006 Carl Thummel Department of Human Genetics Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Utah "Nuclear Receptor Regulation of Programmed Cell Death and Xenobiotic Responses in Drosophilla"   March 9th, 2006 Neuroscience Research Institute and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology present Wai-Choi Leung Professor and Chief, Molecular Pathology Tulane University School of Medicine "A Tale of Two Complexes: BRCA1-BARD1 Tumor Suppressor and a Thermo-Sensitive Nanosphere for Drug Targeting"   February 14th, 2006 Center For Bio-Image Informatics / UCSB Robert W. Williams (Abstract and Bio) University of Tennessee "A Systems Genetic Approach to Study Complex Biological Systems from the Level of Gene Variants through to Behavior and Disease Suscepribility" March 31, 2005 Catherine Bowes Rickman, Ph.D. Departments of Ophthalmology & Cell Biology Duke University Medical Center "A Transcriptome Approach to Defining the Human Macula Microenvironment"   May, 23, 2005 Steve Fisher, Leslie Wilson and Stuart Feinstein MCDB/NRI, UCSB Development of Next Generation Databases for Bio-Molecular Imaging and Analysis   December 15, 2004 (MCDB/NRI/ITR Seminar) Michael West, Ph.D. "Accelerated Cell Technology Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Nuclear Transfer: Opportunities & Challenges" November 12, 2004 Arun Majumdar, Ph.D. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Sciences Division University of California, Berkeley/ Lawrence Berkeley National Lab "Micro and Nanostructured Materials and Devices for Biomolecular Analysis"