Daphne Soares’s (NACS '02), discovery of Dome Pressure Receptors, pressure-detecting mounds that enable crocodilians to detect movement of prey in water, appears in Nature. | Research Topics |

NACS Seminars

Each seminar is one hour long, followed by a short discussion period and light luncheon. Room 1103 Biosciences Research Building, 10:15 am.

Date Name General Topic
September 19, 2008 PAT LEVITT, PH.D. Where are we with the autisms?
September 25, 2008 HEY-KYOUNG LEE, Ph.D. Why is synaptic plasticity relevant for curing blindness and Alzheimer's Disease?
September 26, 2008 REZA SHADMEHR, PH.D. A computational view of motor control and the timescales of memory
October 03, 2008 COLE GILBERT, PH.D. View from the cockpit of a fly: Visually-guided aerial pursuit of females by male flies
October 10, 2008 JOHN GABRIELI, Ph.D. Development of memory systems of the human brain
October 17, 2008 MARTIN SARTER, Ph.D. Cholinergic regulation of attention
October 24, 2008 STEPHEN LOMBER, Ph.D. Contributions of Auditory Cortex to the Superior Visual Abilities of Congenitally Deaf Cats
October 31, 2008 ROBERT V. SHANNON, Ph.D. Electric stimulation of the human cochlea, cochlear nucleus and inferior colliculus: Implications for speech recognition
November 07, 2008 MATTHEW LIEBERMAN, Ph.D. Why putting feelings into words helps
November 21, 2008 JOHAN BOLHUIS, Ph.D. Singing and the Brain: Neural Mechanisms of Birdsong Memory
December 05, 2008 DAN JOHNSTON, PH.D. Bi-directional changes in dendritic excitability accompanying LTP and LTD in hippocampal neurons
February 06, 2009 JOHN MAUNSELL, Ph.D. How attention alters sensory signals in the visual cerebral cortex of monkeys
February 13, 2009 MIKE MERZENICH, Ph.D. Brain Plasticity-Based Therapeutics
February 20, 2009 LUCIANO FADIGA, Ph.D. From the understanding of others' actions to interindividual communication
February 27, 2009 PETER NARINS, Ph.D. Ultrasonic sensitivity in an Old World frog: A neuroethological approach.
March 06, 2009 STEVEN WISE, Ph.D. Polar exploration: A surprising and surprisingly simple neurophysiological result from the monkey frontal pole
March 27, 2009 SILVIA BUNGE, Ph.D. Neurodevelopment of reasoning ability
April 03, 2009 TATIANA PASTERNAK, Ph.D. What does prefrontal cortex know about visual motion used in discrimination tasks?
April 10, 2009 KEN NAKAYAMA, Ph.D. Human action: a window into cognition
April 17, 2009 LARRY YOUNG, Ph.D. Molecular neurobiology of social bonding
April 24, 2009 DANIEL SCHACTER, Ph.D. Constructive episodic simulation: Remembering the past to imagine the future
May 01, 2009 GYORGY BUZSAKI, Ph.D. Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the service of cognition
May 08, 2009 APOSTOLOS GEORGOPOULOS, PH.D. Brain Mechanisms of Cognitive Processing
September 18, 2009 ALEX MEREDITH, PH.D.
September 25, 2009 JIANBO SHI, PH.D.
October 02, 2009 ADELE DIAMON, PH.D.
October 09, 2009 STEVE SUOMI, PH.D.
October 23, 2009 MICHAEL O'DONOVAN, PH.D.
October 30, 2009 KEITH KLUENDER, PH.D.
November 06, 2009 SARAH BOTTJER PH.D.
November 13, 2009 CHARLES NELSON, PH.D.
November 20, 2009 REGINA SULLIVAN, PH.D.
December 04, 2009 HEIKO NEUMAN, PH.D.
February 05, 2010 PAUL KATZ, PH.D.
February 12, 2010 MIGUEL NICOLELIS, PH.D.
February 19, 2010 NACS-Fest Speaker
February 26, 2010 HEATHER EISTHEN, PH.D.
March 05, 2010 RICHARD MOONEY, PH.D.
March 26, 2010 MAJA PANTIC, PH.D.
April 02, 2010 TONY ZADOR, PH.D.
April 09, 2010 RUSS POLDRACK, PH.D.
April 16, 2010 RANULFO ROMO, PH.D.
April 23, 2010 HANS HOFMANN, PH.D.
April 30, 2010

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