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Study Program: Neuro-Scientific Seminars

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-> Summer Semester 2010	-> Winter Semester 2010/2011
-> Summer Semester 2011	-> Winter Semester 2011/2012
-> Summer Semester 2012	-> Winter Semester 2012/2013

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Winter Semester 2012/2013

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
David Parker Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge	02/11/2012
Juan Burrone MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London	09/11/2012
Catherine Dulac Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University	16/12/2012
N.N.	23/11/2012
Ed Callaway Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, San Diego	30/11/2012
Jerry Silver Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland	07/12/2012	Functional Regeneration Beyond the Glial Scar
Thomas Oertner Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH), Institute for Synaptic Physiology, Hamburg	14/12/2012
Fritjof Helmchen Brain Research Institute, Dept. of Neurophyiology, Universität Zürich	11/01/2013
David M. Holtzman Dept. of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis	18/01/2013
Emeran Mayer Dept. of Physiology, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	25/01/2013

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Summer Semester 2012

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Martin Citron Eli Lilly	13/04/2012	Anti-Ab approaches for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: BACE1 Inhibition
Lisa Marshall Universität Lübeck Institute for Neuroendocrinology	20/04/2012	Brain electric and behavriol effects of anodal slow oscillation- and theta-transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in humans and rodents
Barbara Ehrlich Yale University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology	27/04/2012	Intracellular calcium signaling and peripheral neuropathy
Brigitte Kieffer Institut de Genetiique et de Bioloogie Moleculaire et Cellulaire	11/05/2012	The opoid system and neural disorders: genetic approaches
Peter Saggau Department of Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine, Houston	18/05/2012	Grand challenges on the way to reverse-engineering the brain
Susumu Tomita Yale University School of Medicine Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology	25/05/2012	Molecular constituents of excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain
Sven-Eric Jordt Yale University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology	01/06/2012	TRPM8: the good, the bad and the ugly about a cool ion channel
Robert Wurtz National Institutes of Health NIH Bethesda, USA	08/06/2012	Brain circuits for modulating visual perception
Anna Akhmanova Faculty of Science Utrecht University	15/06/2012	Friends at the ends: a dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips
Richard Ransohoff Neurosciences, Neuroinflammation Research Center Cleveland Clinic	29/06/2012	Mononuclear phagocytes of the CNS: provenance, form and function
Rebecca Trueman Cardiff University School of Biosciences	06/07/2012	Functional assessment of basal ganglia disorders

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Winter Semester 2011/2012

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Kyu-Won Kim College of Pharmacy, Seoul	18/11/2011	AKAP12 scaffold protein regulates vascular and brain-barrier integrity
Pejmun Haghighi Department of Physiology, McGill University	25/11/2011	The role of translational mechanisms in the homeostatic control of synaptic function
Tony Wyss-Coray Stanford University	02/12/2011	Systemic factors induce aging or rejuvenation of the brain
Roland J. Bainton UCSF	09/12/2011	Chemical protection of the brain: the biology of CNS drug delivery
Dan Choquet Institut Interdisciplinaire de NeuroSciences, Université de Bordeaux	16/12/2011	Dynamic nanoscale organization of glutamatergic synapses
Jeffrey Diamond NIH	13/01/2012	Specialized synapses compute visual information in the retina
Larry Zipursky Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UCLA	20/01/2012	Cell recognition, molecular specificity and constructiong neural circuits
Olga Graschuk Universität Tübingen	27/01/2012	In vivo functional properties of juxtaglomerular neurons of the mouse olfactory bulb
Vania Broccoli San Raffaele Scientific Institute	03/02/2012	Generating funcional dopaminergic neruons from mouse and human fibroblasts skipping iPS cells

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Summer Semester 2011

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Cornelius Schwarz Systems Neurophysiology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Tübingen, Germany	08/04/2011	Action and perception using whiskers
Craig Garner Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Center for Research and Treatment of Down Syndrome, CA, USA	15/04/2011	Molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease and Phelan-McDermid syndrome
Dirk Feldmayer Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Universitätsklinikum Aachen, Germany	06/05/2011	Signal processing in neocortical layer 4
Robin Hiesinger UT Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, USA	13/05/2011	Intracellular trafficking in brain development: a look through the fly's eye
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA	20/05/2011	Nanoscopic imaging with photoactivatable fluorescent proteins: windows into molecular organization and dynamics within cells
Jon Kaas Department of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt university, Nashville, USA	27/05/2011	Behavioral recovery and somatosensory system reorganization after sensory loss in primates
Annette Schenck Department of Human Genetics, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Science (NCMLS), Nijmegen, NL	03/06/2011	Modelling intellectual disability in Drosophila: targeted and systematic approaches
Gilad Silberberg Institute of Experimental Immunology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland	17/06/2011	Feedback and feedforward inhibition in the striatal microcircuitry
Nathalie Rouach Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, CNRS UMR 7241/ INSERM U1050, College de France, Paris, France	24/06/2011	Unraveling the rolöe of astroglial connexin30 in synaptic strength
Mark Ansorge New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, NYC, USA	01/07/2011	Serotonin signaling during development: impact on brain maturation and behavior
Shigeo Takamori Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan	08/07/2011	Molecular mechanisms of glutamate transport into synaptic vesicles
Rachel Wong Department of Biological Structure, Unioversity of Washington, Seattle, USA	15/07/2011	Developmental strategies underlying the wirign patterns of retinal neurons

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Winter Semester 2010/2011

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Jeff Noebels Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA	29/10/2010	New Genes for cortical arrhythmias
Rosa Cossart Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée, INSERM, Marseille, France	05/11/2010	Imaging the functional organization of developing hippocampal circuits: the origin of synchrony
Greg Jefferis Laboratory of Molecular Bology, University of Cambridge, UK	12/11/2010	From smell to behaviour in the fruit fly
Peter Scheiffele Biozentrum, Universität Basel, Switzerland	19/11/2010	Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation and synaptic specificity
Danny Huylebroeck Department of Human Genetics, K.U. Leuven, Belgium	26/11/2010	Taking BMP signaling via functional analysis of Smad-interacting proteins towards embryonic and adult nervous systems
Chris McBain Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA	03/12/2010	Development and function of a hippocampal feedforward inhibitory circuit
Daniel Johnston Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas, Austin, USA	10/12/2010	Plasticity of dendritic excitability
David Linden School of Psychology and North Wales Clinical School, Bangor University, UK	17/12/2010	Translational neuroimaging: from pathophysiological systems to therapeutic applications
Burkhard Becher Institute of Experimental Immunology, University Hospital of zurich, Switzerland	14/01/2011	IL-12 family cytokines in autoimmunity and cencer control: location, location, location
Sam Sisodia Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago, USA	21/01/2011	Molecular neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease
Carlo Sala Institute of Neuroscience CR6 CNR-IM - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy	28/01/2011	Molecular organization and function of scaffold proteins at neuronal synapses
Rachel Wilson Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, USA	04/02/2011	Olfactory processing in the Drosophily brain

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Summer Semester 2010

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Henrique von Gersdorff Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, USA	09/04/2010	Short-term plasticity and spike timing at a ribbon synapse
Venkatesh Murthy Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA	16/04/2010	Synaptic Circuits and odor processing in the mouse brain
Sergei A. Kirov Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA	23/04/2010	Two-photon microscopy: real-time imaging of single neurons and glia deep in cortex during ischemia
Hervé Chneiweiss Neuroglial Unit, Centre de Psychiatrie et Neuroscience, INSERM, Paris, France	30/04/2010	Phenotypic plasticity of astrocytes and tumoral cells at the origin and in the development of gliomas
Casper Hoogenraad Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Centrer, Rotterdam, Netherlands	07/05/2010	Polarity and plasticity: a new role for the cytoskeleton
Kenneth C. Catania Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA	21/05/2010	Stars, whiskers, and tentacles - sensory specializations and behaviors in some rare predators
Nils Brose Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany	04/06/2010	Regulation of nerve cell differentiation by HECT-type ubiquitin ligases of the Nedd4 family
Karel Jezek Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Center for Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Sceince and Technology, Trondheim, Norway	11/06/2010	Physiological mechanisms of transitions between memories: findings from teleportation in rats
Marco Capogna Department of Phyrmacology, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford, United Kingdom	18/06/2010	Theta network oscillations: focus on GABAergic interneurons of amygdala and hippocampus
Jeffrey Isaacson Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, USA	25/06/2010	Olfactory cortical circuits
Liqun Luo Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA	02/07/2010	Exploring neural circuits with genetic mosaics in flies and mice
Steve Vogel Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, National institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA	09/07/2010	The persistence of memory: using FRET imaging to moitor the activation, assembly and disassembly of CaMKII holoenzymes in living cells
Heidi Johansen-Berg FMRIB Centre, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom	16/07/2010	Relevance of variation in white matter structure in the human brain

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Winter Semester 2009/2010

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Roger Traub IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA	11/12/2009	Spatial patterns of very fast oscillations (>80 Hz) in human epileptic tissue
Erwin Neher Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany	18/12/2009	A new view on the vesicle cycle: What is the rate-limiting step during sustained synaptic activity?
Takeshi Sakaba Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany	08/01/2010	Kinetics of neurotransmitter release at CNS synapses
Bassem Hassan Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven, Belgium	15/01/2010	Genetic control of neuronal connectivity
Volker Leßmann Institut für Physiologie, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, Germany	22/01/2010	Neurotrophin secretion at both ends of the floor: Visualizing synaptic exocytosis of BDNF-GFP in axons and dendrites
Ingo Gregor MRC Laboratory of Molecular, Division of Neurobiology, Cambridge, UK	05/02/2010	Dynamics and mechanisms of AMPA receptor subunit assembly

Please note the new locations for winter semester 2009/2010:

Paul-Ehrlicher-Hörsaal for the talks 11 and 18 December 2009

Hörsaal Innere Medizin for the rest of the talks

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Summer Semester 2009

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
David Andrews Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Membrane Biogenesis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada	21/04/2009	Embedded together: The life and death consequences of Bcl-2 protein interactions with membranes
Pico Caroni Friedrich-Miescher-Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland	28/04/2009	Regulation of circuit remodeling in the adult
Fabio Rossi Stem Cell Technology, Biomedical Research Centre, University of Bristish Columbia, Vancouver, Canada	05/05/2009	Inflammatory cell dynamics in the CNS: lessons from stages of EAE progression
Milos Pekny Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Gothenburg University, Sweden	12/05/2009	A dual role of reactive astrocytes in brain pathologies
Stefanie Geisler National Institute on Drug Abuse, Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, Biomedical Research Center, Baltimore, USA	02/06/2009	Pathways to Pleasure: Neuroanatomy of Reward
Olaf Blanke Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland	09/06/2009	Bodily self-consciousness: Neurology, Psychology, Neuroimaging
Thomas Hummel Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany	16/06/2009	Assessment of human olfactory function
De-Maw Chuang Section on Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA	23/06/2009	Therapeutic Potential of Mood Stabilizing Drugs for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Lessons from Preclinical Studies
Sibylle Jablonka Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, Würzburg, Germany	30/06/2009	Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Insights from transgeneic mouse models

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Winter Semester 2008/2009

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Claudio Rivera Institute of Biotechnology , University of Helsinki , Finland	28/10/2008	KCC2 a synchronizing factor in synaptic maturation
Juliane Winkelmann Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany	04/11/2008	Genetics of the restless leg syndrome
Dieter Chichung Lie GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich-Neuherberg , Germany	11/11/2008	Signalling in adult hippocampal neurogenesis
William D Hutchison University of Toronto , Toronto , Canada	25/11/2008	Synaptic plasticity in the basal ganglia and movement disorders
Frédéric Geissmann INSERM, Necker-Enfants Malades Research Institute (IFR94), University of Paris-Rene-Descartes Medical School , France	02/12/2008	Functions of monocytes and roles in inflammation
Guido Stoll Clinic of Neurology, University of Würzburg , Würzburg , Germany	13/01/2009	Cellular MRI: Relation between acute inflammation and breakdown of the blood-brain barrier
Roger Simon Robert S. Dow Neurobiology Laboratories, Legacy Research, Portland , Oregon , USA .	20/01/2009	Endogenous mechanisms of neuroprotection to acute brain injury
Sven-Eric Jordt Department of Pharmacology Yale University School of Medicine CT, USA	27/01/2009	TRP channels in thermosensation and respiratory reflex control
Rafael Yuste Columbia University , Biological Sciences, New York , USA	03/02/2009	Dendritic spines and linear networks

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Summer Semester 2008

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Oliver Griesbeck Research Group Cellular Dynamics, Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany	22/04/2008	Eingineering and imaging green fluorescent protein biosensors
Helge Amthor Institut de Myologie - AIM, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France	29/04/2008	The effect of myostatin blockade on growth and function of skeletal muscle and its therapeutic potential for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Jeffry S. Isaacson Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA	06/05/2008	Central circuits governing olfaction
Yadin Dudai Department of Neurobiology, The Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel	20/05/2008	How is remote memory stored: Glimpsing into the rat insular cortex
Hans-Christian Pape Institute of Physiology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany	27/05/2008	Neurophysiology of fear memory and fear extinction
Martin Dichgans Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany	03/06/2008	Vascular dementia: From Notch3 mutations to clinical trials
Claudio Rivera Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finnland	10/06/2008	There is more to KCC2 than chloride transport: Novel structural role in dendritic spine formation
Tobias M. Böckers Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Ulm, Germany	17/06/2008	Molecular setup and dynamics of the postsynaptic desnity "PSD"
Luis Garcia Myology Group, Institut de Myolgie, Paris, France	24/06/2008	Dystrophin rescue using exon skipping: Rationale and clinical relevance
Jens Eilers Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, University Leipzig, Germany	01/07/2008	Dendritic calcium signaling: Endogenous Ca2+ buffers break the spine limit

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Winter Semester 2007/2008

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Hugo Besedovsky Institute of Physiology University of Marburg, Germany	23/10/2007	IL-1 re-sets glucose homeostasis at brain levels
André Fisahn Dept. of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden	29/10/2007	Modulation of hippocampal network oscillations in schizophrenia
Yuri Persidsky Dept. of Pathology University of Nebraska, USA	13/11/2007	Blood brain barrier injury in neuroinflammation: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions
Andreas Draguhn Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology University of Heidelberg, Germany	20/11/2007	Plasticity of GABAergic inhibition - the role of presynaptic transmitter concentration
Jeremy Henley MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity University of Bristol, UK	27/11/2007	SUMOylation regulates kainate receptor endocytosis and synaptic transmission
Christian Lüscher Dept. of Basic Neurosciencees & Clnic of Neurology University of Geneva, Switzerland	04/12/2007	Cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity in the ventral tegmental area and its reversal by mGluRs
Yehezkel Ben-Ari Institut de Neurobiolgie de la Méditerranée Marseilles, France	11/12/2007	GABA: pioneer signaling that controls the development of brain networks and coherent patterns
Heinz Wiendl Dept. of Neurology University of Würzburg, Germany	08/01/2008	Battlefield CNS: tolerogenic and destructive mechanisms during neuroinflammation
Thomas Klausberger Dept. of Pharmacology University of Oxford, UK	15/01/2008	Space and time in hippocampal networks
Paul Shepard Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA	22/01/2008	Mechanisms regulating reward signaling in midbrain dopamine neurons: Extrinsic, intrinsic, and in between
Victor Borell Instituto de Neurosciencas Miguel Hernandez University, Alicante, Spain	29/01/2008	Mechanisms of expansion of the cerebral cortex in higher mammals
Roger traub SUNY Downstate Medical Center New York, USA	05/02/2008	Electrical coupling between the axons of principal neurons and the generation of neuronal oscillations at multiple frequencies (20 Hz to over 200 Hz)

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Summer Semester 2007

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Rustem Khazipov Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France	17/04/2007	Developmental changes in GABA signaling and cortical network activities
Wieland Huttner MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetic, Dresden, Germany	24/04/2007	The cell biology of neural stem and progenitor cells
Georg Haase Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France	08/05/2007	Motor neuron diseases: a problem in intracellular trafficking?
Hannah Monyer Dept. of Clinical Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany	15/05/2007	Molecular approaches to study the fundtion of GABAergic interneurons in vitro and in vivo
Andrea Volterra Dept. of Cell Biology and Morphology, Lausanne, Switzerland	22/05/2007	Glutamate exocytosis from astrocytes: Role in synaptic fundtions and alterations in brain pathologies
David Kornack Center for Aging and Developmental Biology, University of Rochester, USA	29/05/2007	A lifetime of neurogensis in the primate brain
Bernd Fakler Dept. of Physiology II, University of Freiburg, Germany	05/06/2007	Signalling through Cav channels in the brain - a view by functional proteomics
Winfried Denk Dept. of Biomedical Optics, PMI, Heidelberg, Germany	12/06/2007	Watching the brain compute and tracing wires: new methods to solve old riddles
Michael T. Heneka Dept. of Neurology, Molecular Neurology unit, University of Münster, Germany	19/06/2007	Nuclear hormone receptor regulation of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Axel Methner Clinic of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany	26/06/2007	Bax inhibitor-1 is implicated in ischemic preconditioning and protects from cell death by reducing the ER calcium
Thomas R. Zoellner Biology Dept. of the Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA	03/07/2007	Thyrois hormone and brain development mechanisms of action and of endocrine disruption
Juan Lerma Instituto de Neurosciencias, CSIC, Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain	10/07/2007	Canonical and non-canonical signaling by kainate receptors

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Winter Semester 2006/2007

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Phillip Popovich Dept. of molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics Columbus, USA	24/10/2006	Central and peripheral consequences of activating the immune system after spinal cord injury
Ole Petter Ottersen Molecular Biology and Neuroscience Oslo, Norway	31/10/2006	Physiological and pathophysiological roles of aquaporin water channels in brain
Jan Born Institute of Neuroendocrinology Lübeck, Germany	07/11/2006	Memory consolidation during sleep - psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms
David Atwell Dept. of Physiology University College, London, UK	14/11/2006	Neurotransmitter signalling in the life and death of oligodendrocytes
Winfried Denk Dept. of Biomedical Optics, MPI Heidelberg, Germany	21/11/2006	Watching the brain compute and tracing its wires: new methods to solve old riddles
Eva-Maria Mandelkow MPI for Structural Molecular Biology Hamburg, Germany	28/11/2006	Tau protein - cellular roles and relationship with Alzheimer neurodegeneration
Johan Storm Dept. of Physiology, IMB, and Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience	05/12/2006	Threshold currents controlling neuronal firing patterns and animal behaviors: a combined experimental and computational approach
Zsusa Fabry Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Wisconsin, USA	12/12/2006	Breaking immune tolerance in the CNS: The role of dendritic cells, infections and trauma in the initiation of CNS autoimmunity
bank holidays
Hans Lassmann Centre for Brain Research Vienna, Austria	09/01/2007	Multiple Sclerosis beyond autoimmunity
Kai Kaila Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences Helsinski, Finland	16/01/2007	Role of GABAergic transmission in the generation of network events (GDPs) in the developing hippocampus
Fritjof Helmchen Dept. of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute University of Zürich, Switzerland	23/01/2007	Two-photon imaging of neronal and glial network activity
Ivan Soltesz Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology California, USA	30/01/2007	Activity-dependent plasticity of endocannabinoid signalling
Ole Paulsen Dept. of Physiology Oxford University, UK	06/02/2007	Mechanisms underlying gamma oscillations in entorhino-hippocampal circuits

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Summer Semester 2006

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Jörg Geiger MPI for Brain Research Frankfurt/Main	18/04/2006	Synaptictransmission and plasticity onto GABAergic interneurons in the hippocampus and neocortex
Andreas Draguhn Physiology & Pathophysiology Heidelberg	25/04/2006	High-frequency network oscillations in the mammalian hippocampus
Wolfgang Wurst Evolutional Genetics Neuherberg	02/05/2006	Dissection of the genetic network control-ling midbrain dopaminergic neuron development
Michael Hasselmo Psych. Center Memory and Brain Boston University	09/05/2006	Acetylcholine and cortical memory function
Klaus Peter Hoffmann Zoology and Neurobiology University of Bochum	16/05/2006	Changes in the visual system of albinotic mammals: From behaviour to molecules
Richard Ransohoff Neurosciences Cleveland, Ohio	24/05/2006 !! Wed.!!	Chemokines and chemokine receptors in the nervous system: Inflammation, immu-nity and much more
Zoltán Molnár Human Anatomy and Genetics Oxford, GB	30/05/2006	Development of thalamocortical project-tions: Lessons from mouse mutants
Magdalena Götz GSF Research Center Neuherberg	06 /06/2006	Glial cells generate neurons: new approa-ches to neuronal replacement
	13/06/2006	cancelled!
David Brindley Signal Transduction Laboratories Edmonton, Canada	20/06/ 2006	Regulation of cell migration by lipid phos-phate phosphatases: implications for wound healing, atherosclerosis and cancer
Segre Rivest Lab Molec Endocrinol Univ. Laval, Québec, Canada	27/06/2006	The role of innate immunity and bone mar-row stem cells in brain diseases and repair
Nenad Sestan Neurobiology Yale School of Medicine, USA	04/07/2006	The molecular control of pyramidal neuron identity and connectivity

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Winter Semester 2005/2006

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
Burkhard Becher Dept. Neurology/Neuroimmunology University of Zürich	18/10/2005	Induction of autoimmunity in the absence of secondary lymphoid organs: What is required to drive Neuro-Inflammation?
Thomas Oertner Friedrich Miescher Institute Basel	25/10/2005	Dendritic spines as biochemical compartments
Marco Prinz Institute for Neuropathology Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	01/11/2005	Brain-specific reactions during autoimmune CNS diseases
Christo Goridis Department de Biologie Paris	08/11/2005	The Phox2 transcription factors in brainstem development and evolution
cancelled ( SfN-Meeting in Washington D.C.)	15/11/2005
Robert Malinow Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories NY	22/11/2005	Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity
Hagai Bergmann Hadassah Medical School The Hebrew University Jerusalem	29/11/2005	Multiple neurons studies of Information processing in the basal ganglia: from dopamine reinforce-ment learning to synchronized activity in the MPTP primate model of Parkinsonism.
Thomas Klockgether Direktor der Klinik für Neurologie des Universitätsklinikums Bonn	06/12/2005	Neurobiology of spinocerebellar ataxias
Ralf Dringen Faculty 2, Biology/Chemistry University of Bremen	13/12/2005	Oxidative Stress and antioxidative defence of brain cells
bank holidays
Philipp Winn School of Psychology St Andrews University , UK	10/01/2006	Putting the brain into brainstem: higher psychological functions in lower brain systems
Stephan Sigrist European Neuroscience Institute Goettingen	17/01/ 2006	Imaging of molecular dynamics at identified glutamatergic synapses of live Drosophila
Stefan Offermanns Inst. f. Pharmacology University of Heidelberg	24/01/2006	GPCRs and plexins in neural development and function
Trevor Owens Neuroimmunology Medical Biotechnology Centre University of Southern Denmark	31/01/2006	Glial and immune responses to experimental brain injury
Monica J. Carson Division of Biomedical Sciences University of California	07/02/2006	Microglial activation

|| Neuro-Scientific Colloquium - Summer Semester 2005

Lecturer	Date	Lecture Title
M. Richardson Hammersmith Hospital, London Epilepsy Research Group, UK	18/04/2005	fMRI as a clinical tool: studies of memory in epilepsy
Hartmut Wekerle MPI for Neurobiology Martinsried	25/04/2005	Multiple Sclerosis: Immunological Self-Hatred and its Neurological Consequences
Michel Lazdunski Institut de Pharmacologie Molèculaire et Cellulaire	02/05/2005	Sensing with ion channels
Johannes Schwarz Inst, f. Neurology University of Leipzig	09/05/2005	Knock-In Mice with hypersensitive alpha4 nicotinergic receptors
Pablo Castillo Albert Einstein Medical School Dept. of Neuroscience	23/05/2005	Endocannabinoids and synaptic plasticity
Eberhard Fuchs German Primate Center Göttingen Clinical Neurobiology Laboratory	30/05/2005	Behavioral stress and its impact on brain plasticity
Dimitri Kullmann University College London Institute of Neurology	06/06/2005	Synaptic Plasticity in Hippocampal Interneurons
Hartwig Wolburg University of Tübingen	13/06/2005	Managing the blood-brain barrier: Interplay between astroglia, the extracellular matrix and the endothelial cells
Birgit Liss University of Marburg	20/06/2005	Differential vulnerablilty of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease - mouse models and mechansims
Christo Goridis ENS, Paris	27/06/ 2005	The Phox2 transcription factors in brainstem development and evolution
Thomas Boraud CNRS, Bordeaux	04/07/2005	Evolution of synchronous oscillations and Parkinson symptoms in monkey and rat models of PD

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