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 Bioscience Research Building, 10:15 am.

Date Name General Topic
September 18, 2009 M. ALEX MEREDITH, PH.D. Studies of Crossmodal Plasticity
September 25, 2009 NATHAN FOX, PH.D. Brain systems underlying motivation for reward and punishment in Behavioral Inhibition
October 02, 2009 ADELE DIAMOND, PH.D. Prefrontal cortex executive functions: Genetic and environmental influences with clinical and educational implications
October 09, 2009 STEPHEN SUOMI, PH.D. Risk, resilience, and gene X environments in primates
October 23, 2009 MICHAEL O'DONOVAN, PH.D. Spontaneous activity in developing nervous systems: Mechanisms and functions
October 30, 2009 KEITH KLUENDER, PH.D. Speech perception as efficient coding
November 06, 2009 SARAH BOTTJER PH.D. Neural Substrates for Vocal Learning during the Sensitive Period in Songbirds
November 13, 2009 CHARLES NELSON, PH.D. The development and neural bases of face processing
November 20, 2009 REGINA SULLIVAN, PH.D. Neurobiology of infant attachment
December 04, 2009 HEIKO NEUMANN, PH.D. Neural mechanisms of motion perception - experimental findings, modeling, and algorithms
February 05, 2010 PAUL KATZ, PH.D.
February 12, 2010 MIGUEL NICOLELIS, PH.D.
February 19, 2010 TODD BRAVER, PH.D.
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. Attention in the auditory cortex
April 09, 2010 RUSS POLDRACK, PH.D.
April 16, 2010 RANULFO ROMO, PH.D.
April 23, 2010 HANS HOFMANN, PH.D. Genes, Hormones and Social Behaviour: An Integrative Approach towards Decision Making
April 30, 2010 BILL KRISTAN, PH.D.

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It's not often that a novice scientist discovers something that the experts have missed. Daphne Soares' research in the journal Nature reports on an overlooked body part that was in plain view -- the snouts of alligators. | Featured NACS Alumni |

 

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