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2002-2003 Neuroscience Department Seminars
Anne
Etgen
Professor of Neuroscience
Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
"THE BRAIN AS A TARGET OF ESTROGEN ACTION"
Thursday,
April 24, 2003
4:35 P.M.
Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center
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Symposium
Celebrating Oberlin Neuroscience Program's
30th Anniversary
Friday & Saturday April 11 &
12, 2003
Past Presidents of the
Society for Neuroscience to Speak
Robert
H. Wurtz OC '58
Head, Visual Motor Integration Section
The National Eye Institute
National Institute of Health, Bethesda
Bruce McEwen OC '59
Alfred E. Mirsky Professor
Head, Harold & Margaret Milliken HatchLab of Neuroendocronology
The Rockefeller University, New York
Larry
Squire OC '63
Prof. of Psychiatry,
Psychology & Neuroscience
Univ. of California School of Medicine
Research Career Scientist,
VA Affairs Medical Center, San Diego
PANEL
DISCUSSION:
The Past, Present & Future of Neuroscience
Friday, April 11, 2003
8:00 PM
Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center
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INDIVIDUAL TALKS
Saturday, April 12, 2003
West Lecture Hall, Science Center
12:15
PM Bruce McEwen,
"The End of Stress as We Know It"
1:30
PM Robert H. Wurz, "Brain Mechanisms for Visual Attention"
3:00
PM Larry Squire, "Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain"
Sponsored by Mead Swing
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Oberlin
Neuroscience Alumni Symposium
Friday & Saturday, March 14 &
15
Lauren
French, Ph.D. (OC'93)
Assist. Prof. of Biology and Neuroscience,
Allegheny College
Gil
Gee Ph.D. (OC'93)
Assistant Prof. Health Behavior and Health Education
Department, University of Michigan
Alan Hoffer M.D. (OC'96)
Department of Neurosurgery, Case Western Reserve University
Chris Moore Ph.D.(OC'90)
Assist. Prof. Department of Brain and Cognitive Science,
MIT
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Preparing
for Graduate and Medical School
Friday, March 14, 2003
7:30 pm
Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center
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Individual Talks
Saturday,
March 15, 2003
12-4:00 pm
Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center
Alan Hoffer: "Neurosurgery, It's not Rocket Science"
Gilbert Gee: "Relationship Quality and Respect: Ivestigating
Racial
and
Ethnic Variations in Perceptiosn of Physicians"
Lauren French: "Potassium Chennels in the
Lobster Foregut:
Where
They Are and How Do They Work"
Christopher Moore: "A
Touching Experience: A New Map of Time in the
Cortex
of Rats, and Related fMRI Studies of
Touch
Perception in the Human"
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Karen
Gunther Ph.D. (OC '92)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Medical College
of Wisconsin
Adjunct Faculty, Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin
"COLOR VISION; FROM GENES TO BEHAVIOR"
March 13, 2003
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Oberlin College Science Center, A 255
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Lynne Bianchi
Assoc. Professor, Neuroscience
Program, Oberlin College
Sigma
Xi Lecture
MOLECULES INFLUENCING THE
DEVELOPMENT AND INNERVATION OF THE INNER EAR
Monday, March 17, 2003
4:30pm
Science Center A154
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Jan Thornton
Assoc. Professor, Neuroscience
Program, Oberlin College
Patty deWinstanley
Assoc. Professor, Psychology Dept., Oberlin
College
THE
TRUTH: SCIENTIA VERITAS
Wednesday,
Jan 8, 2003
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
West Auditorium, Science Center
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Lauren
V. Riters
Visiting Professor, Department of Zoology
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"NEUROENDOCRINE REGULATION OF SEXUALLY MOTIVATED BIRDSONG: WHY DOES THE CAGED BIRD SING?"
Monday,
November 11, 2002
12:10pm
Craig Lecture Hall
Science Center N292
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Dennison
Smith
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology
Co-Founder of Oberlin's Neuroscience Program
"THIRTY
YEARS OF NEUROSCIENCE AT OBERLIN:
AN IDIOSYNCRATIC MEMOIR"
Wednesday,
October 9
4:35 pm
Craig Lecture Hall
Refreshments including birthday cake will be served.