Firdaus Dhabhar
Assistant Professor of Oral Biology
Ohio State University

A Hassle a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Stress, Leukocyte Trafficking, and the Augmentation of Immune Function"

Friday, May 2, 2002
12:20 pm
Craig Auditorium
Science Center

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Robert H. Wurtz OC'58
Chief of Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
National Eye Institute

Robert Sperry Revisited: A Corollary Discharge in the Primate Brain

Tuesday, March 19
4:35 pm
Severance 108

Dr. Wurtz is Chief of the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research at the National Eye Institute. He has done pioneering work in neurophysiology making extraordinary contributions to our understanding of how the brain works at the level of single cells. He is particularly interested in how the brain perceives motion and controls eye movements. Wurtz is a recipient of the Golden Brain Award from the Berkeley-based Minerva Foundation, past- president of the Society for Neuroscience, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Elana Farace OC'89
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Virginia

Gender Differences in Traumatic Brain Injury Outcome

Friday, March 8, 2002
12:10pm
Severance 108

Dr. Farace,who is a clinical neuropsychologist, will be available to talk informally with students
interested in her work and in health science careers at 4:30pm in the Neuroscience
Conference Room (A247) located in the Science Center.

Sponsored by the Oberlin Neuroscience Program and Oberlin Alumni Office

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Joel Dopp, Ph.D.
Oberlin College Neuroscience Program

Activation of the Innate Immune System by Acute Stress

Friday, February 15, 2002
12:15 pm
Craig Auditorium, Science Center