Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 2004-2005 Academic Year
8-30-04
No seminar- GMU first day of classes
9-06-04
No seminar- Labor Day
9-13-04
A Principle of Biochemical Organization, The Roots of the GeneticCode Within The Intermediary Metabolism of Autotrophs [abstract]
Harold Morowitz, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy at George Mason University
9-20-04
Experiences in large scale gene expression studies of major mental illnesses
Stanley Watson, Theophile Raphael Collegiate Professor of Neuroscience, Dept. of Psychiatry and co-Director and Senior Research Scientist, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan
9-27-04
Study of Protein kinase C translocation in glial cells: high resolution imaging and biochemistry [abstract]
Maurizio Grimaldi, Section of Structural Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health
10-04-04
The future of science at GMU: The Krasnow perspective [abstract]
Jim Olds, Director, Krasnow Institute and Krasnow University Professor of Computational Neuroscience, GMU
10-11-04
No seminar - Columbus Day observed
10-18-04
A role for the p21-activated kinase (PAK3) in Alzheimer's Disease [abstract]
Donna McPhie, McLean Hospital and Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
10-25-04
No seminar - Society for Neuroscience annual meeting
11-01-04
Generative Social Science: Recent Applications of Agent-Based Computational Modeling
Joshua M. Epstein, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution and External Faculty, The Santa Fe Institute
11-08-04
Neural Immune Interactions in Health and Disease [abstract]
Esther Sternberg, Director, Integrative Neural Immune Program and Chief, Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior, Division of Intramural Research Programs, and National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
11-15-04
Associative learning signals in the monkey medial temporal lobe
Wendy Suzuki, Center for Neural Science, New York University
11-22-04
Stress Effects on Mice and Men, Territoriality and Shooting Judgment[abstract]
James Meyerhoff, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
11-29-04
Cortical Mechanisms of Attentional Control [abstract]
Steve Yantis, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Johns Hopkins University
12-06-04
Marching towards Alzheimer's Disease: The Search for Early Biomarkers[abstract]
Trey Sunderland, Geriatric Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental
Health, NIH
1-31-05
The Wetlands MASON model: An Experimental System for Computational Human Sciences
Claudio Cioffi, Director of the Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University
2-7-05
The social cocoon: mapping personal social networks [abstract]
Carlos E. Sluzki, College of Nursing and Health Science, ICAR, and Krasnow Institute, George Mason University and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University Medical School
2-14-05
Moving towards collaboration: Using computational cognitive models to enable better human-robot interaction [abstract]
Alan C. Schultz, Head, Intelligent Systems Section Naval Research Laboratory
2-21-05
Computational Mechanisms of Object Recognition in Cortex [abstract]
Maximilian Riesenhuber, Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University and Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
2-28-05 CANCELLED DUE TO IMPENDING WEATHER
On the role of the conditionality principle in dimensionality reduction [abstract]
Carey Priebe, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics & Department of Computer Science &Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University
3-7-05
Organization, development, and function of complex brain networks [abstract]
Olaf Sporns, Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive and Neural Science , Indiana University, Bloomington
3-14-05
No Seminar - Spring Break
3-21-05
Network synchronization via recurrent synapses and via electrical coupling, in hippocampal and neocortical cortices: simulation and electrophysiological studies [abstract]
Roger Traub, Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology andNeurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
3-28-05
Mapping Pathways of Neuronal Migration in Neocortex with RNAi
Joseph LoTurco, Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut
4-4-05
Repeating patterns of cortical activity revealed optically and intracellularly
Gloster Aaron, Biological Sciences Department, Columbia University
4-11-05
No Seminar
4-18-05
The neurobiology of crocodilians and blind cave fish
Daphne Soares,Biology, College of Life Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park
4-25-05
No Seminar - Human Brain Project Annual Conference
5-02-05
Autobiographical Memory
David Rubin, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Duke University
[abstract]
5-09-05
Function-centric mining of gene expression data
Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM Computational Biology Center, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY [abstract]
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