September 11

BEHN/Vollum/NIDA T32 Special Seminar: Dopamine circuits in reward and aversion

Stephan Lammel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

Hosts: David Jacobs (BEHN) and John Williams (Vollum)

September 12

Unlocking the secrets of the brain’s spatial memory system using functional imaging and virtual reality for mice

Daniel Dombeck, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University

Host: Tianyi Mao

September 18

Vollum and CPB Special Seminar: Catch me if you can — Illuminating macromolecular transport and chaperone complexes in adaptive immunity

Robert Tampé, Ph.D.

Director and Full Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt

Hosts: Eric Gouaux (Vollum) and Show-Ling Shyng (CPB)

October 3

How to build a neural circuit: Lessons from the retina

Jeremy Kay, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology, Duke University

Host: Kevin Wright

October 10

Diversity matters: The origins and functions of neuronal heterogeneity for the sense of hearing

Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Host: Henrique von Gersdorff

October 11

Vollum Special Seminar: Calcium-independent exo-endocytosis coupling at small central synapses

Melissa A. Herman, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Host: Neuroscience Graduate Program Alumni Group

October 17

Sensing light for sight and for physiological regulation

Michael Do, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Host: Larry Trussell

October 25

Vollum Special Seminar: Control of membrane potential by K-ATP channels in brainstem neurons

Ricardo Leão, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Physiology, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Host: Henrique von Gersdorff

November 14

Getting a handle on neuropharmacology by targeting receptor chaperones

David Bredt, M.D., Ph.D.

Global Head of Discovery – Neuroscience, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Host: Eric Gouaux

November 20

Unconventional signaling mechanisms in central synapses

Ege Kavalali, Ph.D.

Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Pharmacology, William Stokes Chair in Experimental Therapeutics, Vanderbilt University

Host: Skyler Jackman

December 5

Cryo-EM of dynamic molecular assemblies

Sriram Subramaniam, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Gobind Khorana Canada Excellence Research Chair in Precision Cancer Drug Design, University of British Columbia

Host: Eric Gouaux

December 12

Pentraxins and glutamate receptor down regulation lead to failure of interneuron circuit function contributing to cognitive failure in Alzheimer’s disease

Chris McBain, Ph.D.

Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular and Synaptic Neurophysiology, NICHD, NIH

Host: Haining Zhong

December 19

Theme and variations: Mechanisms of behavioral evolution

Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D.

Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Associate Professor, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

Host: Postdoc-invited seminar; Megan Corty, lead contact

February 12

Vollum Special Seminar: First principles underlying presynaptic function and unexpected implications for both molecular mechanism and biological computation

John Wesseling, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Host: Henrique von Gersdorff

February 20

Vollum Special Seminar: What is health? Allostasis and the evolution of human design

Peter Sterling, Ph.D.

Professor of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Host: Henrique von Gersdorff

February 28

Vollum Special Seminar: Of electrically-coupled cells and behaviorally-coupled canaries

Pepe Alcami, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Behavioural Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany

Host: Henrique von Gersdorff

March 3

Vollum Special Seminar: Update on NINDS-sponsored training opportunities: pre-doc, postdoc and beyond

Stephen Korn, Ph.D.

Director, Office of Training and Workforce Development at NINDS, NIH

Co-hosts: Gail Mandel and Gary Westbrook