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BSI Brain Night

Bringing faculty together with medical, graduate, and undergraduate students interested in neuroscience

5:00pm Food and Refreshments /  5:30pm Lecture
Mountcastle Auditorium, Preclinical Teaching Building

Future brain nights:
DBergles
December 9th, 2009
"TBA"

January 13th, 2010
"Cell phone while driving: How the brain multitasks"
Steven Yantis, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

February 10th, 2010
“Viral encephalitis: How do neurons recover?”
Diane Griffin, M.D., Ph.D.
Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Neurology and Medicine

March 10th, 2010

“TBA”
Reza Shadmehr, P.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience

April 14th, 2010
"How to write about the brain for a general audience"
David Linden, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience

May 12th, 2010
"Quantifying Beauty: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics of Abstract Sculpture"
Charles "Ed" Connor, Ph.D.
Director, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
Associate Professor of Neuroscience

Past Brain Night speakers:

November 11th, 2009
""Frizzled receptors in development and disease""
Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Neuroscience, and Ophthalmology

October 14th, 2009
"HIV in the Brain: A Persistent Headache"
Janice E. Clements, Ph.D.
Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Faculty Affairs
University Distinguished Professor
Vice Dean for Faculty
Professor of Molecular and Comparative Patholobiology


September 9th, 2009
"From brain glue to fungus: A winding path for understanding and treating Neurodegeneration"
Jeffrey D. Rothstein M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Director, Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
Co-Director, Brain Science Institute

May 13th, 2009
"Novel Neural Messengers"
Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., D.Sc., D.Phil. (Hon. Causa)
Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychiatry


March 11th, 2009

"MRI of the brain. Current and future trends for imaging anatomy, function and physiology"
Peter van Zijl, Ph.D.
Director, F.M. Kirby Rserach Center, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Professor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

February 11th, 2009
"Music for Deaf Ears: Perception of Pitch, Rhythm and Timbre in Cochlear Implant Users"
Charles J. Limb, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music


January 14th, 2009
:
"AIDS and the Nervous System"
Justin C. McArthur, MBBS, MPH
Director, Department of Neurology
Professor, Department of Neurology, Pathology, and Epidemiology

December 10th, 2008
:
"Walking the walk: Brain control of human locomotion"
Amy J. Bastian, Ph.D.
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Associate Professor of Neuroscience

November 12th, 2008
:
"Successful Aging: What is it? and how do I get it?"
Michela Gallagher, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences

October 10th, 2008:
"'Roles of TRP channels in Sensory Signaling and Neurodegenerative Disease" 
Craig Montell, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry

September 10th, 2008
:
"'Safari Neurology': Acute paralysis in the developing world" 
John W. Griffin, M.D.
University Distinguished Service Professor
Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Pathology
Director, Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute

May 2008
:
"Translational Research in Brain Diseases: from Models to Medicine"
Christopher A. Ross, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience
Director, Division of Neurobiology

April 2008:
"Receptors, Synapses and Memories"
Richard Huganir, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Department of Neuroscience
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute

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