FALL 2012 - SPRING 2013
Wednesdays | 3 PM | Meyer 1-191 | The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Each lecture is preceded by a short presentation by a young scientist.
| DATE | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TOPIC |
| Sept 5 | Michela Gallagher, Ph.D. Short Talk: Kristen Rahn | Johns Hopkins University Krieger-Eisenhower Professor | Facing the challenge of animal models for schizophrenia |
| Oct 3 | Godfrey Pearlson, M.D. Short Talk: Mark Varvaris | Yale University School of Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, and Director, Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living | Updates from the Multi-site BSNIP psychosis study |
| CANCELLED due to Weather Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H. Short Talk: Yoichiro Takayanagi | Professor of Psychiatry (pending), Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Director, Center for Practice Innovations, New York State Psychiatric Institute | Challenges in Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Person with Schizophrenia | |
| Dec 12 | Robert McCarley, M.D. Short Talk: | Professor and Chair, Harvard Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System | Key brain vibes: Gamma band oscillations in schizophrenia and in a mouse model |
| Jan 9 | Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D. Short Talk: | Director, Center for Human Disease Modeling Professor of Cell Biology Brumley Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Duke University | Modeling the Morbid Human Genome |
| Feb 6 | Ty Cannon, Ph.D. Short Talk: | Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Yale University | Developmental disruptions in neural connectivity in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia |
| April 3 | Mikhail Pletnikov, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology Director, Laboratory of Behavioral neurobiology and Neuroimmunology Director, Brain Science Institute Behavioral Core Johns Hopkins University | Modelling complex interactions between etiologically-related factors over the lifetime trajectory of schizophrenia |
| May 1 | Robert Yolken, M.D. | Johns Hopkins University |





