Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 2003-2004 Academic Year
8-25-03
No seminar- GMU first day of classes
9-01-03
No seminar- Labor Day
9-08-03
Implications for Growth: The Krasnow Laboratory Expansion Project
James Olds, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
9-15-03
Evolution of the Forebrain in Amniotes
Ann Butler, Psychology Department and Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
9-22-03
No seminar -- two next week
9-29-03
Controlling propagation of seizure-like events in cortical slices with electric fields
Kristen Richardson, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
9-30-03
10:30am
Extra Lecture- William Greenough, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
10-06-03
No seminar - Yom Kippur
10-13-03
No seminar - Columbus day
10-20-03
Zinc, Memory and Alzheimer's Disease [abstract]
Jane Flinn, Department of Psychology, George Mason University
10-27-03
Development of Neural Systems for Reading and Motor Control
Thomas Zeffiro, Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University
11-03-03
No Seminar
11-10-03
No seminar - Society of Neuroscience 33rd annual meeting Nov. 8th-12th
11-17-03
Understanding Genetic Regulatory Networks[abstract]
Stuart Kauffman, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
11-24-03
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in MCP-1 in Patients with Carotid Atherosclerosis
Paul Nyquist, INOVA Fairfax Hospital
12-01-03 CANCELLED (due to illness)
Mapping Brain Function & Connectivity with MRI: Progress at the F.M. Kirby Research Center
James J. Pekar, Kennedy Krieger Institute
01/26/04
CANCELLED-Rescheduled for 05/03/04
Synchrony in Nature: from Clocks to Neurons [abstract]
Ernest Barreto, Physics and Astronomy Department and Krasnow Institute for Advance Study, George Mason University
02/02/04
The Feed-down Principle [abstract]
Harold Morowitz, Krasnow Institute for Advance Study, George Mason University
02/09/04
Understanding how hearing happens in the inner ear and why we are hard at hearing at later stages in life
Ebenezer N. Yamoah, UC Davis
02/16/04
No Seminar -- President's Day
02/23/04
Working for Self vs. Working for Others [abstract]
Kevin McCabe, Krasnow Institute for Advance Study,Department of Economics, and ICES, George Mason University
03/01/04
Modeling and Human Diseases - Why your healthcare provider may need to buy a new computer
Stephen Prior, Research Director of the National Security Health Policy Center (NSHPC), Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
03/08/04
No Seminar -- GMU Spring Break
03/15/04
A tale of two entorhinal inputs: The interplay of perforant path and mossy fibers in the playground of CA3 [abstract]
German Barrionuevo, Department of Neuroscience & Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh
03/22/04
Alerting the Rat to Reward: Sub-second Dopamine Signals in the Ventral Striatum [abstract]
Donita Robinson, Departments of Chemistry and Psychiatry, Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
03/29/04
No Seminar -- see Friday, 04/02//04
04/02/04 --Friday! special day
In Search of King Solomon's Ring: Studies on the Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots[abstract]
Irene Pepperberg, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University and MIT School of Architecture & Planning
04/05/04
No seminar - Passover
04/12/04
Mapping Brain Function & Connectivity with MRI: Progress at the F.M. Kirby Research Center[abstract]
James J. Pekar, Johns Hopkins University & Kennedy Krieger Institute
04/19/04
Neurogenetics of Human Visual Attention [abstract]
Raja Parasuraman, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Catholic University
04/26/04
No seminar - NIH Brain Project Conference
05/03/04
Synchrony in Nature: from Clocks to Neurons [abstract]
Ernest Barreto and Paul So, Physics and Astronomy Department and Krasnow Institute for Advance Study, George Mason University