Seminars are held in the Peter B. Gordon Memorial Conference Room of the John B. Pierce Laboratory on Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m., unless otherwise stated. Seminars are announced through the Yale School of Medicine Event Calendar. The public is welcome to attend. For further information, email Patricia Klaje at pklaje@jbpierce.org .
Forthcoming Seminars
Previous Seminars
November 5, 2019
“Aging, vascular function, and implications for the brain”
Jill N. Barnes, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
October 8, 2019
“Dose and timing influence metabolic responses to exercise in older age”
Loretta DiPietro, PhD, MPH
Professor
Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Milken Institute School of Public Health
The George Washington University
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
September 24, 2019
“Adaptive strategies for olfactory coding and navigation”
Thierry Emonet, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Physics
Yale University
Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
September 10, 2019
“Neuronal ensembles underlying internally-generated representations”
George Dragoi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
May 14, 2019
“Rebuilding the spinal cord after injury”
William Cafferty, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Sunita Subramanian, PhD, and Pierce Postdoc Committee
April 23, 2019
“Understanding the mechanisms of epilepsy and neurological deficits in mTORopathies”
Angelique Bordey, PhD
Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
and Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
March 19, 2019
“Dissecting long-range cortical networks during behavior”
Jerry Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Boston University
Host: Jelena Platisa-Popovic, PhD
February 26, 2019
“State-dependent cortical circuits”
Jessica Cardin, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Madhuvanthi Kannan, PhD
February 5, 2019
“Signaling at the human-bacteria interface”
Jason M. Crawford, PhD
Maxine F. Singer ’57 PhD Associate Professor of Chemistry
and Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
December 4, 2018
“Making light and sucking blood, an exploration of evolutionary novelty in animals”
Michael Tessler, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Comparative Genomics
American Museum of Natural History
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
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November 20, 2018
“Mechanisms of olfactory processing in Drosophila”
James M. Jeanne, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
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THURSDAY, September 13, 2018
“Mechanisms contributing to residual microvascular dysfunction in women with a history of preeclampsia”
Anna Stanhewicz, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
The Pennsylvania State University
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Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
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September 11, 2018
“Ferreting out cerebral cortical development and evolution”
Byoung-il Bae, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Yale School of Medicine
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Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
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May 7, 2018
“From somatosensory neuromodulation to therapeutic alliance: Neuroimaging applications to better understand how acupuncture alleviates pain”
Vitaly Napadow, PhD LAc
Director, Center for Integrative Pain Neuroimaging (CiPNI)
Associate Professor, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Host: Paul Geha, MD
THURSDAY, April 12, 2018
“Neural networks and metabolic control”
Alan Watts, DPhil
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
March 26, 2018
“Brain connectivity and cognition in typical and atypical development: The case of the salience network”
Lucina Q. Uddin, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Miami
Host: Maria Veldhuisen, PhD
March 12, 2018
“Defining the functions of olfactory bulb processing”
Douglas Storace, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Yale University
Host: Maria Veldhuisen, PhD
February 12, 2018
“Microbiota composition and feeding behavior”
Clare de La Serre, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Foods and Nutrition
Neuro Faculty, Biomedical & Health Sciences Institute
University of Georgia
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
January 22, 2018
“Opioid regulation of pain and reward in humans”
Siri Leknes, PhD
Associate Professor of Social and Affective Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of Oslo, Norway
Host: Paul Geha, MD
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
“Rapid signaling along the gut to brain axis regulates homeostatic hunger neuron activity”
J. Nicholas Betley, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
October 23, 2017
“What anthropology teaches us about the brain and human perception”
David Howes, PhD
Professor of Anthropology
Co-Director, Centre for Sensory Studies
Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Host: Lawrence Marks, PhD
October 9, 2017
“Oral complex carbohydrate sensing”
Juyun Lim, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Food Science of Technology
Oregon State University
Host: Barry Green, PhD
September 25, 2017
“Internal and external sensory systems”
Stephen Liberles, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
May 8, 2017
“Neuroimaging of pain and distress: From biomarkers to brain representation”
Tor D. Wager, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
And the Institute for Cognitive Science
The University of Colorado, Boulder
Host: Paul Geha, MD
April 24, 2017
“Eating with the nose”
Sanne Boesveldt, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sensory Science and Eating Behavior
Division of Human Nutrition
Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
April 10, 2017
“Cortico-Basal Ganglia Circuit Roles in Action Control and Addiction”
David Lovinger, PhD
Chief, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Host: Ivan de Araujo, DPhil
March 27, 2017
“Sympathetic sympathy: neural communication strategies in physical stress”
J. Kevin Shoemaker, PhD
Professor, Canada Research Chair
School of Kinesiology
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
February 27, 2017
“Where the gut meets the brain”
Diego V. Bohorquez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Medicine and Neurobiology
Duke University
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
February 13, 2017
“Mitochondria, Metabolism and Aging”
Michael Ristow, MD
Professor of Energy Metabolism
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Switzerland
Host: Dana Small, PhD
January 9, 2017
“The bioenergetic scaling of visually perceived space”
Dennis Proffitt, PhD
Commonwealth Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
Host: Dana Small, PhD
December 12, 2016
“Developing the next generation of obesity treatments”
Kerri Boutelle, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry
Director, Center for Healthy Eating and Activity Research
Senior Psychologist UCSD Eating Disorders Program
University of California San Diego
Host: Dana Small, PhD
December 5, 2016
“Function and plasticity of GABAergic inhibition in neocortical dendrites”
Michael J. Higley, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
November 28, 2016, 3:00 PM
“Non-invasive access to the vagus nerve via electrical stimulation of the external ear”
Eleni Frangos, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Host: Maria Veldhuizen, PhD
November 21, 2016
“Why culture matters: A tour of olfactory language and cognition from hunter-gatherers to wine experts”
Asifa Majid, PhD
Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition
Center for Language Studies
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Affiliated Principal Investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior
Host: Lawrence Marks, PhD
October 24, 2016
“Angiotensin II and fluid intake: signaling and (de)sensitization”
Derek Daniels, PhD
Associate Professor and Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program Director
Department of Psychology
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
November 7, 2016 – CANCELLED
“Flexible function: Interneuron contributions to cortical circuits in health and disease”
Jess Cardin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Distinguished Lecture Series Sponsored by The John B.Pierce Laboratory and Department of Neuroscience
Lecture 4:00 pm
The Anlyan Center Auditorium, Yale University, TAC N-107
“Neurogastronomy: Culinary Medicine – Bridging the Gap Between Kitchen and Clinic”
Leah R. Sarris, Executive Chef
Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine
Tulane University
Introductory talk: “Flavor is in the Brain” given by Dana Small, PhD, Deputy Director, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Lecture followed by a wine and cheese reception in the Lobby:
- Poster session
- Book signing by Mark Schatzker, author of “The Dorito Effect”
September 26, 2016
“Early life sugar consumption and hippocampal dysfunction: a vicious circle”
Scott Kanoski, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
September 12, 2016
“Chemotherapy-induced anorexia and malaise: from gut to brain…to brain”
Bart C. De Jonghe, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition Sciences
Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences
School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
Thursday, May 19, 2016
“Enteric nervous system as modulator of intestinal immune homeostasis”
Gianluca Matteoli, PhD
Assistant Professor
Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
University of Leuven, Belgium
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
Monday, May 9, 2016
“Estrogen-induced hypophagia and circadian feeding rhythm regulation: effect of light environment”
Akira Takamata, PhD
Professor
Department of Environmental Health
Nara Women’s University, Japan
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
Monday, April 4, 2016
“The Interoceptive Mid-Insula: From Visceral Sensation to Psychiatric Illness”
Kyle Simmons, PhD
Principal Investigator
Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Associate Professor
University of Tulsa
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, March 21, 2016
“Systems Biology of Skeletal Muscle Remodeling with Exercise”
Monica J. Hubal, PhD, FACSM
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Systems Biology
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
Monday, March 7, 2016
“Flight motor control networks modulate primary olfactory processing and perception in plume tracking moths”
Kevin Daly, PhD
Woodburn Professor of Biology
Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Department of Biology
West Virginia University
Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
Monday, February 22, 2016
“Why did I eat that? Changes in striatal function and cue-triggered “craving” that contribute to obesity”
Carrie R. Ferrario, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Michigan
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, February 8, 2016
“Chewing the fat: dietary modulation of vagal neurocircuits”
Kirsteen Browning, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Penn State College of Medicine
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
Monday, January 25, 2016
“Neural control of economic decision making”
Michael Nitabach, PhD
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Genetics
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Ivan de Araujo, PhD
Monday, December 7, 2015
“Astrocytes and Hindbrain Autonomic Control”
Richard C. Rogers, PhD
John S. Mcllhenny Professor of Neuroscience
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Host: Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
Monday, November 23, 2015
“Intrinsic regulators of axon regeneration in the aging nervous system”
Alexandra Byrne, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Genetics
Program in Cellular Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
Monday, November 16, 2015
“Feeding and nutrient sensing in flies”
Greg S. B. Suh, PhD
Associate Professor
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
Neuroscience and Department of Cell Biology
New York University School of Medicine
Host: Ivan de Araujo, PhD
Monday, November 9, 2015
“Hydrogen sulfide as a gasotransmitter in human skin: Mechanisms and implications in hypertension”
Lacy Alexander, PhD, FASCM
Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology
The Pennsylvania State University
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
Monday, October 26, 2015
“Cognitive neuroscience of obesity: Links to intervention”
Cary Savage, PhD
John H. Wineinger Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director of the Center for Health Behavior Neuroscience
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, October 12, 2015
“The evolution and ecology of olfactory navigation”
Lucia Jacobs, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Lecture 4:00 pm (Refreshments 3:45 pm)
The Anlyan Center Auditorium, Yale University, TAC N-107
“Neurogastronomy: Understanding the brain mechanisms of food liking and wanting”
Kent C. Berridge, PhD
James Olds Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Michigan
Followed by:
5:30 Posters and Pizza @BAR – 254 Crown Street
7:00 Demonstration by acclaimed mixologist Dave Arnold
Distinguished Lecture Series Sponsored by The John B.Pierce Laboratory and Department of Neurobiology
Monday, September 28, 2015
“Ensemble dynamics in the frontal cortex during adaptive decision-making”
Alex Kwan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurobiology
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
Monday, May 4, 2015
“Multisensory integration in the gustatory cortex of alert rats”
Chad L. Samuelsen, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York
Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
Monday, April 20, 2015
“Central mitochondrial dynamics in the control of glucose metabolism”
Sabrina Diano, PhD
Professor
Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences
Neurobiology and Section of Comparative Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
Monday, April 6, 2015
“The importance of food, jealousy, and paternal care in the evolution of owl monkey monogamy”
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, PhD
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
Host: Barry Green, PhD
Monday, March 23, 2015
“Sweet taste, obesity and ingestive behavior”
M. Yanina Pepino, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Human Nutrition
Department of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, March 9, 2015
“Brain banking as a neuroimaging resource: MRI, microscopy, and web services”
Jacopo Annese, PhD
Director, The Brain Observatory, San Diego
Chairman and CEO, The Institute for Brain and Society
Assistant Professor in Residence, Radiology
University of California San Diego
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, February 9, 2015
“Automated speech analysis for diagnosis in psychiatry”
Guillermo A. Cecchi, PhD
Research Staff Member, Biometaphorical Computing
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY
Host: Paul Geha, MD
Monday, January 12, 2015
“Dissecting how fruit flies perceive motion”
Damon A. Clark, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Yale University
Host: Vincent Pieribone, PhD
Monday, December 8, 2014
“Beyond bottom-up sensory processing: Learning and expectation shape sensory input to the mouse brain”
John McGann, PhD
Associate Professor
Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Section
Psychology Department
Rutgers University
Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
Monday, November 3, 2014
“State vs. trait? Brain response to visual food cues during satiety”
Ellen Schur, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harborview Section of the Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of Washington
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Refreshments 3:45 pm, Lecture 4:00 pm
The Anlyan Center Auditorium, Yale University, TAC N-107
“How Cooking Made Us Human: With Insights Into Food Addiction and Obesity”
Richard Wrangham, PhD
Author of “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human”
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Sponsored by The John B.Pierce Laboratory and Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine
Monday, October 6, 2014
“Amylin modulates the mesolimbic reward system to regulate energy balance”
Matthew R. Hayes, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nutritional Neuroscience
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, September 15, 2014
“Dietary triglycerides act on mesolimbic structures to regulate the rewarding and motivational aspects of feeding”
Serge Luquet, PhD
CNRS Researcher, Group Leader
Unit of Functional and Adaptive Biology (BFA)
Université Paris Diderot
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, September 8, 2014
“The exercise pressor reflex in health and simulated peripheral artery disease”
Marc P. Kaufman, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Research Associate Director
Heart and Vascular Institute
Penn State College of Medicine
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
Monday, May 5, 2014
“The explore-exploit dilemma in human reinforcement learning”
Robert C. Wilson, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Princeton University
Host: Mark Laubach, PhD
Monday, April 7, 2014
“Drift diffusion for perceptual inference and reinforcement learning”
Bruno B. Averbeck, PhD
Chief, Unit on Learning and Decision Making
National Institute of Mental Health
Host: Mark Laubach, PhD
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2014 – SPECIAL SEMINAR
“A fructose receptor functions as a nutrient sensor in the Drosophila brain”
Tetsuya Miyamoto, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center
College Station, TX
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, March 24, 2014
“Thalamocortical and sound processing specializations of the ventral auditory cortical fields in the rat”
Heather Read, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Division
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Connecticut
Host: Justus Verhagen, PhD
THURSDAY, March 20, 2014 – SPECIAL SEMINAR
“Responding to hypoxia and reoxygenation: from molecules to physiology”
Dengke K. Ma, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, March 10, 2014
“Curbing hedonia: modulation of reward and emotional function by dietary fats”
Stephanie Fulton, PhD
Assistant Professor
Centre de Recherche du CHUM – Department of Nutrition
Faculty of Medicine
University of Montreal
Host: Dana Small, PhD
TUESDAY, March 4, 2014 – SPECIAL SEMINAR
“The neurobiology of vagal afferent neurons: cause or consequence of obesity?”
Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD
Assistant Project Scientist
Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California, Davis
Host: Dana Small, PhD
WEDNESDAY, February 26, 2014 – SPECIAL SEMINAR
“Hunger-promoting neurons connect energy metabolism to complex behaviors”
Marcelo O. Dietrich, MD, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Section of Comparative Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, February 24, 2014
“Multisensory network effects on chemosensory processing”
Joost X. Maier, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Psychology
Brandeis University
Host: Maria Veldhuizen, PhD
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 – SPECIAL SEMINAR
“Developmental trajectories of mental illness: Dopaminergic projections and adult behavior”
Minae Niwa, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Host: Dana Small, PhD
Monday, January 27, 2014
“The global pandemic of physical inactivity: An urgent public health priority”
Harold W. (Bill) Kohl, III, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Kinesiology
University of Texas Health Science Center–Houston
University of Texas, Austin
Host: Nina Stachenfeld, PhD
Monday, January 13, 2014
“Frontal theta as a mechanism of cognitive control”
James F. Cavanagh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of New Mexico
Host: Mark Laubach, PhD
Monday, December 9, 2013
“Discerning the functional topography of gustatory cortex in a rat model”
Alan C. Spector, PhD
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Monday, November 18, 2013
“Towards an understanding of anterior cingulate cortex function”
Jeremy K. Seamans, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Brain Research Centre
University of British Columbia
Canada
Monday, November 4, 2013
“Individual variability in neural response to food stimuli: implications for ingestive behavior & obesity”
Kyle S. Burger, PhD, MPH, RD
Assistant Professor
Department of Nutrition
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Monday, October 21, 2013
“Single scale for odor intensity in olfaction”
Yevgeniy Sirotin, PhD
Neuroscience Fellow
Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain, and Behavior
The Rockefeller University
Monday, October 7, 2013
“A common molecular toolkit for alimentary chemosensation: implications for taste, nutrient response, and metabolic disease”
Steven D. Munger, PhD
Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Monday, September 23, 2013
“Taste cells of the gut and endocrine cells of the tongue”
Robert F. Margolskee, MD, PhD
Associate Director
Monell Chemical Senses Center
Monday, May 6, 2013
“Neural circuitry of impulsive choice”
Jamie D. Roitman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology and Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience
University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
“Impaired peripheral and cerebral microvascular function in at risk populations”
R. Mathew Brothers, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education
University of Texas at Austin
Monday, April 15, 2013
“Phasic mesolimbic signaling: from affect to action and points in between”
Mitchell F. Roitman, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Monday, March 11, 2013
“Vascular inflammation in sleep apnea”
Sanja Jelic, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Columbia University
New York, New York
Monday, February 25, 2013
“Mechanisms of compulsive eating”
Paul John Kenny, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Therapeutics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
The Scripps Research Institute
Jupiter, Florida
Monday, January 28, 2013
“The Fifth Influence, or The Dialectics of Pleasure”
Michel Cabanac, MD
Faculty of Medicine
Laval University
Quebec, Canada
Monday, November 19, 2012
“Compensatory Reserve for Human Hemorrhage: Translation from Physiology to Monitoring in the Emergency Care Setting”
Victor A. Convertino, PhD
Research Physiologist and Manager
Tactical Combat Casualty Care Research Program
Research Division
US Army Institute of Surgical Research
San Antonio, TX
Monday, November 12, 2012
“Theoretical principles of optogenetic stimulation”
Cameron C. McIntyre, PhD
Associate Professor
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Monday, October 22, 2012
“Positron Emission Tomography and fMRI studies on the role of dopamine in impulsive behavior”
Alain Dagher, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Montreal Neurological Institute
Monday, September 24, 2012
“Perceptual effects of genetic variation in human odorant receptors”
Joel Mainland, PhD
Assistant Member
Monell Chemical Senses Center
Philadelphia, PA
Monday, September 10, 2012
“Serotonergic and dopaminergic influences on taste-guided motivated behavior and taste detection”
Clare M. Mathes, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience
Florida State University
SPECIAL EVENT to be held in the Anlyan Center (TAC), N107, Auditorium:
The Arthur B. DuBois Distinguished Lecturer Series
Thursday, June 7, 2012
4:00 p.m.
“Hyperbaric oxygen augments vasculogenesis by bone marrow- and adipose tissue-derived stem cells: roles for reactive oxygen and nitrogen species”
Stephen R. Thom, MD, PhD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Chief of Hyperbaric Medicine, Institute for Envoronmental Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Monday, May 7, 2012
“Optogenetics and other technologies for analyzing neural circuits”
Ed Boyden, PhD
Business Career Development Professor
MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute
Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, April 23, 2012
“Distributed nutrient sensing in the integrated neural control of energy balance”
Gary J. Schwartz, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Monday, April 16, 2012
“Context and Episodic Memory”
Michael J. Kahana, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, April 9, 2012
“Elucidating causes and consequences of microvascular dysfunction in prediabetes”
Dwayne N. Jackson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Medical Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering
The University of Western Ontario
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Monday, March 26, 2012
“The value of food – behavioral and fMRI investigations”
Ifat Levy, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Comparative Medicine and Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Monday, March 12, 2012
“Olfactory-visual encoding of threat”
Wen Li, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Monday, February 13, 2012
“TRPM8 – the good, the bad, and the ugly about a cool ion channel”
Sven-Eric Jordt, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Yale University School of Medicine
Monday, January 9, 2012
“Function and dysfunction in the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit”
Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University
Monday, December 19, 2011
“Specialized roles of nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex opioids in the telencephalic control of ‘non-homeostatic’ feeding”
Brian A. Baldo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Monday, December 5, 2011
“Food addiction: a valid phenotype of human obesity “
Caroline Davis, PhD
Professor
Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences
Faculty of Health
York University, Toronto, Canada
Monday, November 21, 2011
“Control of skin blood flow and sweating during hemorrhage: A “choice” between heat dissipation and blood pressure control”
Craig Crandall , PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center at Dallas
Research Scientist
Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine
at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
Monday, November 7, 2011
“The sympathetic nervous system in obesity: effects of bariatric surgery”
Timothy B. Curry, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology and Physiology
Departments of Anesthesiology and Physiology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Monday, October 10, 2011
“Rats, risk and research: what can we learn from models of impulsivity and gambling behavior in rodents?”
Catharine Winstanley , PhD
Department of Psychology
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C.
Monday, September 26, 2011
“fMRI olfactory bulb studies of odor structure, concentration, and exposure “
D.S. Fahmeed Hyder , PhD
Professor
Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Yale University School of Medicine
Monday, September 19, 2011
“Reinforcement learning: beyond reinforcement”
Nathaniel Daw , PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Neural Science & Department of Psychology
New York University
Monday, April 25, 2011
“Altruism and self-control”
Howard Rachlin, BME, MA, PhD
Research Professor
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Psychology
Stony Brook University
Monday, April 11, 2011
“Meal-related neurons in the nucleus accumbens shell: convergence of sleep, gut-satiety signals, and feeding “
Ranier Gutierrez, PhD
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Neurobiology of Appetite
Department of Pharmacology
Center for Advance Research and Studies
(CINVESTAV-IPN) Mexico City
Monday, April 4, 2011
“Over- and under-eating determine differentially brain reward abnormalities”
Guido K.W. Frank, MD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
The Children’s Hospital
University of Colorado, Denver
Monday, March 21, 2011
“Neurovascular control of human skin blood flow”
Gary W. Mack, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Exercise Sciences
College of Life Sciences
Brigham Young University
Monday, March 7, 2011
“Dissection of the neural circuitry of memory in the behaving mouse brain”
Clifford Kentros , PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Oregon Institute of Neuroscience
Monday, February 7, 2011
“Neurochemical interactions involved in behavioral activation and effort-related processes: Studies of dopamine, adenosine, and GABA”
John D. Salamone, PhD
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Head, Behavioral Neuroscience
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience
University of Connecticut
Monday, January 31, 2011
“Dissecting local circuits in vivo: inhibitory regulation of cortical activity”
Jess Cardin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Monday, December 6, 2010
“Top down versus bottom up influences on evaluations of food and other hedonic stimuli “
Nathan Novemsky, PhD
Associate Professor of Marketing
Yale School of Management
Monday, November 8, 2010
“Rapid construction of useful neural models: an application to working memory”
Chris Eliasmith, PhD, PEng
Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience
Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada
Monday, November 1, 2010
“Sweet tales about mice and sugar “
John I. Glendinning, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Biological Sciences
Barnard College, Columbia University
Monday, October 18, 2010
“Rapid dopamine signaling in reward processing”
Nii A. Addy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Monday, October 11, 2010
“Optogenetic studies of olfactory circuits in rodents”
Venkatesh N. Murthy, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Monday, September 27, 2010
“Vascular consequences of overweight and obesity “
Christopher A. DeSouza, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Monday, September 13, 2010
“You are HOW you eat: effects of bingeing on the brain”
Rebecca Corwin, PhD
Associate Professor of Nutrition and Neuroscience
Department of Nutritional Science
Penn State University
Monday, April 19, 2010
“TRPA1 as a sensory neuronal target of chemical irritants and counterirritants: A painful tale of mushrooms, tear gas, and smokes”
Christian von Hehn, MD, PhD
Research Fellow
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center
Children’s Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School
Monday, April 5, 2010
“Dynamic regulation of decision processes in frontal-basal ganglia circuits”
Michael J. Frank, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences, Psychology and Psychiatry
Brown University
Monday, March 22, 2010
“Merging of the senses: multisensory integration in the human brain”
Johan N. Lundström, PhD
Assistant Member
Monell Chemical Senses Center
Monday, February 8, 2010
“The neurobiology of self-control”
Antonio Rangel, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroeconomics
California Institute of Technology
Monday, January 11, 2010
“Environmental estrogens and reproductive tract developmental disorders”
Hugh S. Taylor, MD
Professor and Director
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Department of Obsterics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Yale University School of Medicine
Monday, November 16, 2009
“Learning and energy regulation: “outwitting” the wisdom of the body”
Terry L. Davidson, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
Monday, November 9, 2009
“Coupling value to actions: dopamine and decision making”
Paul E. M. Phillips, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Pharmacology
University of Washington
Monday, November 2, 2009
“How the study of synesthesii sheds light on basic cognitive and perceptual processes “
Edward Hubbard, PhD
Department of Psychology and Human Development
Vanderbilt University
Monday, October 12, 2009
“Gustatory processing in the amygdalo-cortical axis “
Alfredo Fontanini, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior
Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Monday, October 5, 2009
“Gustatory reward in rat models of obesity and gastric bypass surgery “
Andras Hajnal, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Neural & Behavioral Sciences, and Surgery
Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, PA
Monday, September 14, 2009
“Circuitry regulating responses to reward predictive cues”
Howard L. Fields, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
University of California
San Francisco
Monday, April 13, 2009
“Auditory selective attention”
Robert D. Melara, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
City College, City University of New York
Monday, April 6, 2009
“New ideas about sympathetic regulation of blood pressure in humans”
Michael J. Joyner, M.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology
Deputy Director for Research and Associate Dean
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Monday, March 30, 2009
“Signal transduction and information processing in mammalian taste buds”
Stephen D. Roper, PhD
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Monday, March 23, 2009
“Taste coding through time: a feast for the mind”
Patricia M. Di Lorenzo
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology”
Binghamton University
Friday, February 20, 2009
“The neurobiology and embodied nature of primate communication”
Asif Ghazanfar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Princeton University
Monday, February 9, 2009
“Amygdala activity and synaptic strength predict reward learning”
Patricia Janak, PhD
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator
Gallo Center
University of California, San Francisco
Monday, December 8, 2008
“The orbitofrontal cortex and adaptive behavior”
Geoffrey Schoenbaum, MD, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anatormy & Neurobiology, and Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Monday, November 24, 2008
“Hypothalamic neuronal pathways involved in type 2 and type 1 diabetes”
Ligang Zhou, Ph.D
Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology
Yale University School of Medicine
Monday, November 10, 2008
“Mechanisms of cutaneous active vasodilation in humans: insights and speculation”
Christopher T. Minson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Department Head
Department of Human Physiology
University of Oregon
Monday, October 20, 2008
“The human detection (taste?) of dietary free fatty acids”
Richard D. Mattes, MPH, Ph.D.
RD
Professor
Department of Foods and Nutrition
Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
Monday, October 6, 2008
“The contributions of prefrontal cortex-basal ganglia circuitry to behavioral flexibility”
Michael Ragozzino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Monday, September 22, 2008
“Olfactory information processing in awake behaving mice”
Dmitry Rinberg, Ph.D.
Fellow
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Monday, September 8, 2008
“Costs, benefits, and learning the value of actions”
Stephanie Borgland, Ph.D .
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
