Fall 2012-13: The seminars this Fall are in conjunction with the Neurobiology of Disease course, taught by Dr. Edward Koo '76, Croxton Lecturer at Amherst for Fall, 2012. Dr. Koo is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine. Fall seminars are supported by the Class of '62 Fink Symposium Fund and the Amherst College Lecture Committee.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Dr. Chip Gerfen '75
Laboratory of System Neuroscience
National Institute of Mental Health
Topic: Transgenic mice and molecular tools to study functional brain circuits of motivated behavior
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Dr. Rajiv Ratan '81
Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience
Weill Cornell Medical College
Topic: Twists and turns (non-helical) on the transcriptional road to oxidative neuronal death: implications for brain protection and repair
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Dr. Steven Frucht
Department of Neurology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Topic: The Neurology of musical talent
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Dr. Katherine Perkins '88
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Topic: Excitatory GABA, Interneuron Networks, and Epilepsy
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Dr. Ronald Liem, '67
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Topic: Neurofilament mutations in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Thursday, December 6
Dr. Matthew Frosch, '78
Departments of Pathology and Health Sciences & Technology
C.S. Kubik Laboratory for Neuropathology
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: When good vessels go bad: understanding cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Spring 2012-13:
Senior Comprehensives presentations: January 17, February 7, 14, 21, and 28