Seminar information

We invite many researchers from domestic and foreign universities / research institutes who do presentation about latest topics in the brain and physiological sciences. Not all but many of our seminars are conducted in English.

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Seminar : 2009

02.26.2010 10:00~11:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : Prof. John B Furness (Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Prof. John B Furness (Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne,
Title : The Enteric Nervous System and enteric disorders induced by inflammation and ischemia
Location : Yamate2goukan 2F seminar room
02.04.2010 14:00~15:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : Seung U. Kim. MD, Ph.D.
(Department of Neurology, UBC Hospital, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada)
Title : Human neural stem cell-based gene therapy in neurological diseases
Location : Seminar room at second floor in Yamate
02.04.2010 13:00~14:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : Elior Peles. Ph.D.
(Hanna Hertz Professorial Chair for Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Cell Biology,The Weizmann Institute of Science)
Title : How Schwann cells assemble nodes of Ranvier
Location : Seminar room at second floor in Yamate
02.02.2010 16:00~17:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : Thomas S Kilduff
(SRI International, Stanford Univ.)
Title : Hypothalamic and Cortical Involvement in Sleep and Wakefulness
Location : Yamate No. 2 bldg 2F west seminar room
02.02.2010 14:00~15:00 Other Seminar
Orator : Barbara R. Jasny, Ph.D.(Deputy Editor for Commentary, Science / AAAS)
Title : Frontiers of Science by Dr Barbara Jasny, Science magazine/AAAS
Location : Conference Room at the 2nd floor of Faculty Hall
01.19.2010 15:00~ Lab Seminar
Orator : Norio Takada(University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center)
Title : In vivo imaginag and reverse genetic analysis of oligodendrocyte development in zebrafish
Location : Seminar room in Division of Neurobiology and Bioinformatics
11.27.2009 12:20~13:00 Luncheon Seminar
Orator : TOMITA, Koichi
 (Section of Mammalian Transgenesis, Center for Genetic Analysis of Behavior)
Title : A molecular correlate of ocular dominance (OD) columns in the developing mammalian visual cortex: a discovery of a molecule specific for ipsilateral OD columns
Location : Seminar Room, 9th F., Yamate 3rd Bld.
11.09.2009 15:00~16:00 Director-General Invited Seminar
Orator : Hermona Soreq, PhD (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Biological Chemistry)
Title : Cholinesterase contributions to body- to-brain signaling in health and disease
Location : Yamate No. 2 bldg 2F west seminar room
09.25.2009 13:30~14:30 Lab Seminar
Orator : Dr. David McLean(Northwestern University)
Title : Switching gears: new perspectives on movement control from the zebrafish
Location : Yamate No. 2 bldg 2F west seminar room
09.18.2009 18:00~19:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : Dr. Donald W. Pfaff(The Rockefeller University)
Title : Waking Up the Brain
Location : Lecture room, 5th F.
09.18.2009 16:00~17:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : Frederick Sigworth (Professor, Yale University)
Title : Single-particle reconstruction of a membrane protein in a membrane: cryo-EM structure of the BK potassium channel
Location : Seminar room at 2F in YAMATE 3rd building
09.15.2009 14:00~ Director-General Invited Seminar
Orator : Yoshikazu Isomura(Neural Circuit Theory, RIKEN BSI)
Title : Intracortical circuitry mechanism underlying self-initiation of voluntary movements
Location : Yamate No. 2 bldg 2F west seminar room
09.15.2009 13:00~ Director-General Invited Seminar
Orator : Jozsef Csicsvari(MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford)
Title : Reactivation of Hippocampal Cell Assemblies Following Spatial Learning
Location : Yamate No. 2 bldg 2F west seminar room
09.14.2009 16:00~17:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : Jianhua Cang, Ph. D.
(Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology; Northwestern University)
Title : Retinotopic Mapping and Binocular Matching:Functional Studies of Visual System Development in Mice
Location : Yamate No. 2 bldg 2F west seminar room
09.14.2009 14:00~ Director-General Invited Seminar
Orator : Kenji Mizuseki, MD., PhD(Rutgers University U.S.A)
Title : Theta oscillations provide temporal windows for local circuit computation in the entorhinal-hippocampal loop
Location : Yamate No. 2 bldg 2F west seminar room
08.07.2009 16:00~17:00 Director-General Invited Seminar
Orator : Dr. Florian Lesage
(Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire - CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, 06560 Valbonne, France)
Title : K2P CHANNEL AND ASSOCIATED PROTEINS: — MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES —
Location : Lecture room, 5th F.
07.24.2009 13:30~15:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : James A. Ferwerda(Associate Professor, Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology)
Title : Envisioning the material world
Location : 5F, Lecture room
07.22.2009 13:30~17:30 Other Seminar
Orator : Takuma Mori and Edward Callaway, Nelson Spruston, Dan Nicholson, Yael Katz, Vilas Menon, Jason Hardie, Jackie Schiller, Masanori Murayama
Title : Four seminars
Location : Yamate No. 3 bldg 2F large seminar room (Yamate campus)
07.06.2009 16:00~17:00 Lab Seminar
Orator : Wah Chiu
(Professor and Director,
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Baylor College of Medicine)
Title : Zernike Phase Contrast Cryo-EM at Subnanometer Resolution
Location : Seminar room at 2F in YAMATE 3rd building