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Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Seminar Series: Genetic dissection of emotion circuits in flied and Mice; Speaker: David Anderson, California Institute of Technology; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 29, 2010 1:00pm - 6:00pm: Commemorative Symposium "The New Horizon of Cerebellar Research"
伊藤正男記憶学習機構研究チーム終了記念シンポジウム; Place: Suzuki Umetaro Hall, RIKEN Wako Campus

Thursday, April 1, 2010: BSI Seminar Series: Genetic analysis of neurodegeneration; Speaker: John Hardy, University College London; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:00am - 12:30pm: Forum: Representation of Confidence Associated with a Decision by Neurons in the Parietal Cortex; Speaker: Dr. Roozbeh Kiani, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 17, 2010: BSI Seminar Series: Google Brain; Speaker: Terrence J. Sejnowski, Salk Institute; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:30pm - 2:30pm: Forum: In vivo imaging and molecular mechanisms of oligodendrocyte development in zebrafish; Speaker: Dr. Norio Takada, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 15, 2010 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Forum: How Schwann cells assemble nodes of Ranvier; Speaker: Dr. Elior Peles, Professor, The Hanna Hertz Professorial Chair for Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 7F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:00pm - 5:00pm: Forum: Regulation of Rap2A by the Ubiquitin Ligase Nedd4-1 Controls Neurite Development; Speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Kawabe; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Monday, March 1, 2010 2:30pm - 3:00pm: Forum: In-vivo Human Molecular Imaging - PET-MRI Fusion System with HRRT-PET and 7.0T-MR; Speaker: Prof. Zang-Hee Cho, Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Korea; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, February 26, 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm: Forum: Electron microscopic recording of ATP-induced cross-bridge movement in living myosin filaments using the gas environmental chamber, which opens new horizons in the field of life sciences; Speaker: Prof. Haruo Sugi, Emeritus Professor of Teikyo University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 4:00pm - 5:00pm: Forum: The role of local protein synthesis in dendritic spine morphogenesis; Speaker: Dr. Carlo Sala, CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, University of Milano; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:30am - 12:00pm: Forum: Object recognition: beyond feed-forward processing; Speaker: Prof. Shimon Ullman
The Weizmann Institute of Science; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, January 22, 2010 1:30pm - 2:30pm: Forum: Alzheimer's disease therapy: ongoing clinical trials; Speaker: Bengt Winblad, MD, Ph.D
Director, Karolinska Institutet, KASPAC
(KI-Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Alzheimer Disease Research Center)
Professor, Karolinska Institutet, KI-ADRC
(KI-Alzheimer Disease Research Center); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, January 22, 2010 2:30pm - 3:30pm: Forum: Analysis of the Amyloid β-peptide in Alzheimer's disease brain; Speaker: Lars Olof Tjernberg, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Karolinska Institutet, KASPAC
(KI-Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Alzheimer Disease Research Center); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: Forum: Two-photon imaging of the olfactory parallel processing pathways; Speaker: Shin Nagayama, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas, Medical School at Houston; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Forum: Myelin changes after spinal cord injury and throughout aging; Speaker: Jurate Lasiene, PhD. Univ. of Washington, Seattle; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 7F Seminar Room

Monday, December 7, 2009 5:00pm - 6:00pm: Forum: Neural mechanisms underlying food-entrainable circadian rhythms; Speaker: Dr. Michihiro Mieda, Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Integrative PhysiologyGraduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, December 4, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: Forum: Conscious and Unconscious Visual Processing of Faces, Tools, Bodies, and Biological Motion; Speaker: Sheng HE, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 3, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: Forum: Multiple restricted origin of oligodendrocytes: consequence on repair mechanisms; Speaker: Bernard Zalc M.D., D.Sci., Director of the Research Center of the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute, France; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, November 30, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Let's Face it: It's a Cortical Network; Speaker: Dr. Alumit Ishai
Assistant Professor, Institute of Neuroradiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am: Forum: MUSIC - Communication between multiple parallel neuronal simulators in a cluster computer; Speaker: Dr. Mikael Djurfeldt, Neuroinformatics Researcher,PDC / KTH & INCF, Stockholm, Sweden; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: Forum: On Motion Planning, Motion Representation and its Orbital Stabilization for Underactuated Mechanical Systems; Speaker: Prof. Anton S. Shiriaev, Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology), Trondheim; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, November 20, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Controls of the frontal cortical size and the neuronal number during development; Speaker: Dr. Setsuko Sahara, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, U.S.A.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, November 13, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: Forum: High-speed dopamine detection in the brain using diamond microelectrode; Speaker: Dr. Kenji Yoshimi, Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: Forum: Cytokine signaling cascades involved in the neuropathic pain within the spinal cord; Speaker: Dr. Kyungmin Lee, Dept. of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Kyumgpook National University, Korea; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 7F Seminar Room

Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Forum: Luminance in the twilight range; Speaker: Ms. Sabine Raphael, Lighting Laboratory (L-LAB) of the University of Paderborn, Germany, Vision Lab, University of California at San Diego, USA; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: Forum: The role of secretin in early postnatal brain development; Speaker: Ichiko Nishijima, Ph.D., The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 7F Seminar Room

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 3:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Do REM and non-REM sleep contribute differently to memory consolidation?; Speaker: Dr. Masami Tatsuno, Department of Neuroscience and Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Canada; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:30pm - 3:30pm: BSI Forum: Current status and application of dog cloning; Speaker: Professor. Byeong Chun Lee, Department of Theriogenology and Biotechnology, Colleage of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:30pm - 3:30pm: BSI Forum: Production of a Multiple Transgenic Pig for Xenotransplantation of Pancreatic Islet to Treat Type I Diabetes Mellitus in Humans; Speaker: Dr. Ok Jae Koo, Department of Theriogenology and Biotechnology, Colleage of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: A possible role for the systemic environment in brain aging and neurodegeneration; Speaker: Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, October 5, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Nuclear Factor One genes regulate multiple aspects of mammalian forebrain development; Speaker: Linda J. Richards, PhD, Queensland Brain Institute and School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia.; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 1, 2009 3:00pm - 4:30pm: BSI Forum: -In collaboration with Mathematical Sciences Colloquium-
Recent advances in mesoscopic and macroscopic modeling of cortical areas; Speaker: Dr. Olivier Faugeras, INRIA (National Research Institute in Computer Science and Control Theory), Paris, France; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Monday, September 28, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Odorant Receptors and Neural Map Formation; Speaker: Takeshi Imai, Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, The University of Tokyo; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, September 25, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Synaptic and Circuit Mechanisms of Olfactory Processing In a Genetically-Tractable Microbrain; Speaker: Hokto Kazama, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, September 25, 2009 12:00pm - 12:45pm: BSI Forum: Drosophila motor axons recognize and follow a Sidestep-labeled substrate pathway to reach their target fields; Speaker: Matthias Siebert, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster,Institut fur Neurobiologie, Munster, Germany; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Switching gears: new perspectives on movement control from the zebrafish; Speaker: Dr. David McLean, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, September 18, 2009 3:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Routing Information in Neural Circuits; Speaker: Dr. Si Wu, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Friday, September 18, 2009 3:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Mismatched decoding in the brain; Speaker: Dr. Masafumi Oizumi, Department of Complexity and Engineering, The University of Tokyo; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:30am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Invariant Object Recognition with Dynamic Link Matching and Binding-by-Synchrony; Speaker: Dr. SATO, Yasuomi, Kyushu Institute of Technology; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 , 2009 2:00pm - 2:40pm: BSI Forum: mini-symposium - Fragrance from Germany - Neurons that Signal Punishment for Aversive Odour Memory in Drosophila; Speaker: Dr. Hiromu Tanimoto, Group Leader, Behavioral Genetics Group Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 , 2009 2:40pm - 3:20pm: BSI Forum: mini-symposium - Fragrance from Germany - Genetic Mechanisms of Olfactory Nervous System Development and Divergence; Speaker: Dr. Ilona Grunwald Kadow, Group Leader, Sensory Neurogenetics Group Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Germany; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 , 2009 3:20pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: mini-symposium - Fragrance from Germany - of mice and men - The Molecular and Cellular Architecture of Chemosensory Social Communication; Speaker: Dr. Marc Spehr, Professor, Institute for Biology II RWTH-Aachen University, Germany; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 , 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: The human amygdala, social cognition, and autism; Speaker: Dr. Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Monday, September 14, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Alzheimer's disease: defeating it at the synapse; Speaker: Dr. Ottavio Arancio
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Dept of Pathology, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University,USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Monday, September 14, 2009 5:00pm - 6:30pm: BSI Forum: Neonatal oscillatory rhythms in cortico-subcortical networks; Speaker: Prof. Ileana L. Hanganu-Opatz, BMBF and Emmy Noether Research Group "Developmental Neurophysiology", Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am: BSI Forum: Neuropeptide-involvement in maternal care: Oxytocin and vasopressin regulate maternal behavior and aggression; Speaker: Oliver J. Bosch, senior scientist, University of Regensburg,Germany; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Plasticity and Neuromodulation of Oxytocin Neurons: A Neurophysiological Perspective; Speaker: Professor William E. Armstrong The University of Tennessee College of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Optogenetic Dissection of a Behavioral Module in the Vertebrate Spinal Cord; Speaker: Dr. Claire Wyart, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, September 7, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Dissecting the Auditory System with in vivo Whole Cell Recordings; Speaker: George D. Pollak
Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, and Center for Perceptual Systems, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas USA 78712; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 3, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: NEUROENDOCRINE CONTROL OF OXYTOCIN NEURONES DURING MALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR; Speaker: Dr. Alison J. Douglas, School of Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Integrative Physiology, UK; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 3, 2009 2:30pm - 3:30pm: BSI Forum: NEUROENDOCRINE ADAPTATIONS IN PREGNANCY; Speaker: Dr. John A. Russell, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, UK; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:30pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Cholinergic Neuromodulation of Phase Reset Curves; Speaker: Dr. Klaus M. Stiefel, Theoretical and Experimental Neurobiology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: How to Publish in Science Signaling; Speaker: Dr. John F. Foley, The Chief Editor of Science Signaling, American Association for the Advancement of Science Council of Science Editors; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 5:00pm - 6:00pm: BSI Forum: The Auditory and Visual Worlds of Fishes: Ecological, Physiological and Genomic Aspects; Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hong Young Yan
Sensory Physiology Lab., Senior Research Fellow, Marine Research Station,
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology
Academia Sinica, I-Lan County, Taiwan
Chief, Biological Oceanography Division
Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: KNOCKOUTS OF THE NEUROHYPOPHYSIAL HORMONE RECEPTORS: HIGHLIGHTS AND A FEW TRIBULATIONS; Speaker: Dr. W. Scott Young, Medical Officer and Chief, Section on Neural Gene Expression, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, DHHS; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, August 28, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Sparse estimation methods for classifying brain activities; Speaker: Okito YAMASHITA, Ph. D., ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, August 28, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Pathogenesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a fly's view; Speaker: Prof. Hiroshi Tsuda, Baylor College of Medicine, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Towards Reproducible Descriptions of Neuronal Network Models; Speaker: Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am: BSI Forum: Dendritic Ca2+ Activity in vivo; Speaker: Dr. Masanori Murayama, University of Bern, Department of Physiology, Bern, Switzerland; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Functional Microarchitecture of Visual Cortex Revealed by Two-photon Calcium Imaging in vivo; Speaker: Dr. Kenichi Ohki, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, August 14, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Hsp70 and Hsp40 Interplay Attenuates Formation of Soluble Mutant Huntingtin Oligomers; Speaker: Prof. Paul J. Muchowski, University of California, San Francisco, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, August 10, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Hippocalcin signaling in hippocampal neurons; Speaker: Dr. Pavel Belan, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Ukraine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, August 7, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: <CANCELLED>BSI Forum: Making and Saving Midbrain Dopamine Neurons; Speaker: Dr. Asa Abeliovich, Tab Institute for the Aging Brain, Dept. of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology, Columbia University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 2:00pm - 3:30pm: BSI Forum: Vertical Disparities In Stereo Vision; Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Read
Lab for Binocular Vision Research
Newcastle University <http://www.ncl.ac.uk>,
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Dendritic spikes: a cornerstone of synaptic integration and plasticity in hippocampal pyramidal neurons; Speaker: Dr. Nelson Spruston, Northwestern University, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Institute for Neuroscience; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: The roles of non-cholinergic basal forebrain neurons in top-down attention; Speaker: Shih-Chieh Lin, MD, PhD (Duke University Medical Center); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:30pm - 4:30pm: BSI Forum: Quantified description of the human sensory motor system based on functional electrical stimulation; Speaker: Dr. Mitsuhiro Hayashibe, Research Scientist, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Robotics Department, LIRMM CNRS-Univ. of Montpellier II 161, rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier CEDEX 05, France; Place: RIKEN Nagoya 1F Meeting Room(105)

Monday, July 27, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Human Mu Opiate Receptor Gene: Correlation with Opiate Addiction and Associated Modulation of Immune function in Opiate Users; Speaker: Dr. Shashwat Sharad, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India-333031; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 7F Seminar Room

Monday, July 13, 2009 2:00pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: AMPA Receptors Are Locally and Briefly Exocytosed Following Single Spine Stimulation; Speaker: Michael Patterson, Duke University Medical Center; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Friday, July 10, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: The nodal-lefty-pitx2 pathway functions in two-step manner for lateralization of brain and eye-sidedness of flounder (Pleuronectiformes).; Speaker: Prof. Tohru Suzuki
Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Self-organized Formation of Cortical Tissue from ESCs; Speaker: Mototsugu Eiraku, Ph.D.
Organogenesis Neurogenesis Group (The Sasai Lab),
Center for Developmental Biology,
RIKEN Kobe; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 2:00pm - 3:30pm: BSI Forum: Reading the matrix: what eavesdropping on neurons tells us about their connectivity; Speaker: Dr. Birgit Kriener
MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization,
Goettingen, Germany; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, July 6, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Release and function of the gliotransmitter d-serine in the CNS; Speaker: Prof. Dmitri A Rusakov, Institute of Neurology, University College London; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, July 3, 2009 1:00pm - 2:00pm: BSI Forum: Biosynthesis and processing of BDNF in CNS neurons; Speaker: Dr. Tomoya Matsumoto
Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Hiroshima University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: PYROGLUTAMYL-MODIFIED Abeta PEPTIDES - Abeta SPECIES GENERATED BY GLUTAM(IN)YL CYCLASES; Speaker: Dr. Hans-Ulrich Demuth, Probiodrug AG, Halle (Saale), Germany; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Molecular mechanisms and functional significance of adult neurogenesis; Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Jessberger (Institute of Cell Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Huntington's disease: linking huntingtin function and dysfunction to pathogenic mechanisms; Speaker:Dr. Sandrine HUMBERT
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, FRANCE; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 22, 2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Noise-based logic and computing: from Boolean logic gates to brain circuitry; Speaker: Professor Laszlo B. Kish
The Department of Electrical Engineering,
Texas A&M University, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 19, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Distinct roles of the FGF system in the expansion of the cortical mantle and in the development of inhibitory neurons in the forebrain; Speaker: Flora M. Vaccarino, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 12, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Neuronal activity in area MT during perceptual stabilization of ambiguous structure-from-motion; Speaker: Naotsugu TSUCHIYA, Ph.D., JSPS SPD fellow, Tamagawa University Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Coordinate control of SPINAL motor neuron soma migration and axon pathfinding through restriction of Reeling signalling; Speaker: Artut Kania, Ph.D., Neural Circuit Development Laboratory, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal); Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Netrin-1 signalling coordinates the topography of spinal motor neuron axon projections; Speaker: Dayana Krawchuk, Ph.D., Neural Circuit Development Laboratory, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM); Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 8, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: The use of computational simulations to investigate neural models of animal hearing and signaling; Speaker: Thomas M. Poulsen, Speech and Hearing Group, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 5, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Using gene expression to delineate the components of the rostral hindbrain - the story of fgf8 and the mammalian isthmus; Speaker: Professor Charles Watson, Curtin University, Perth, Australia; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 5, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Glutamate electrodiffusion inside the synaptic cleft shapes fast excitatory signalling; Speaker: Dr. Dmitri A Rusakov, Institute of Neurology, University College London; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 4, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Mutant mice analysis reveals roles of Kif7 in Hedgehog pathway and Pericentrin in interneuron migration; Speaker: Dr. Setsu Endoh-Yamagami, Department of Molecular Biology, Genentech, Inc. USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Exploring mechanisms for the formation of columns in primary visual cortex; Speaker: Justin C. Crowley, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, May 29, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Functional integration of adult-generated granule cells into hippocampal memory; Speaker: Dr. Paul Frankland
Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 25, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Laminar structure of neural population activity in auditory cortex; Speaker: Shuzo Sakata, PhD., Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Friday, May 22, 2009 1:30pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: BRAIN CIRCUITS REGULATING MATERNAL MOTIVATION IN MAMMALS; Speaker: Prof. Michael Numan; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Single-neuron Labeling Reveals Parallel Streams of “Odor Detection” versus “Odor Identification” in the mouse Olfactory Cortex; Speaker: Dr. Kei Igarashi
JSPS Postodoctoral Research Fellow, Lab for Integrative Neural Systems, BSI
Dept of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:30pm - 5:30pm: BSI Forum: A neuro-ecological approach to understanding the neural basis of memory processing; Speaker: Dr. Tom V. Smulders
Senior Lecturer (Equivalent: Associate Professor), Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, UK; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Monday, May 18, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Molecular Taste Physiology of Tongue and Gut; Speaker: Dr. Johannes le Coutre
Nestle Research Center, Switzerland; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, May 15, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Gap junctions expand and redistribute the synaptic connectivity in the Olfactory Bulb microcircuit; Speaker: Dr. Michele Pignatelli di Spinazzola
Laboratory of Neuronal Microcircuit, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Priming factors prepare SNAREs for calcium-triggered vesicle fusion; Speaker: Dr. Thomas F.J. Martin
Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Wisconsin at Madison, WI, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 11, 2009 2:00pm -: Invited Seminar: Prominence of distinct amyloid-beta oligomers at different stages of Alzheimer's disease: implications for cures; Speaker: Prof. Karen Hsiao Ashe, University of Minnesota Medical Center; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Network connectivity of two distinct prefrontal areas 45A and 45B; Speaker: Dr. Elena Borra
Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:30pm - 5:30pm: BSI Forum: A role of Notch signaling in the lateral line morphogenesis; Speaker: Dr. Miho Matsuda
Section on Neural Developmental Dynamics
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
NICHD, NIH; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, April 17, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Axial specification of the vertebrate inner ear; Speaker: Doris K. Wu, Ph.D.
National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Unconventional transcriptional regulation and vertebrate neuronal cell fate specification.; Speaker: Seth Blackshaw, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:00pm -: BSI Forum: Gateways to tactile perception: Parallel processing of pain and somatosensation; Speaker: Prof. Asaf Keller
University of Maryland School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Synaptic conversion of diacylglycerol by DGKz and PSD-95 regulates dendritic spine maintenance; Speaker: Karam Kim, Ph.D.
Post doctral fellow
Molecular Neurobiology lab, Department of Biological Sciences
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Friday, April 3, 2009 1:00pm - 2:00pm: BSI Forum: Development of the Zebrafish Lateral Line System; Speaker: Dr. Alain Ghysen
University of Montpellier; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, April 10, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Development, death and regeneration of zebrafish mechanosensory hair cells; Speaker: Prof. David W. Raible
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 23, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Oxidative Neuroenergetics in Event-Related Paradigms; Speaker: Dr. Fahmeed Hyder, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:00pm - 3:30pm: BSI Forum: High Performance Simulations with NEURON on the Blue Gene/L; Speaker: Michael Hines, PhD
Yale University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:30pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Modular approach to computational neuroscience and using the power of graphic processors; Speaker: Dr. Anatoli Gorchetchnikov
Assistant Professor
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems,
Boston University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Discovery of new class AMPA receptor regulatory proteins; Speaker: Dr. Akihiko S Kato
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN 46285 USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Functional and neurophysiological differences of stimulus- and intention-based action control; Speaker: Florian Waszak
Laboratory of Perception Psychology
CNRS & University Rene Descartes, Paris, France; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 9, 2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Development of Self-Organizing Robotics Modules; Speaker: Pitoyo P. Hartono, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Media Architecture,
School of Systems Information, Future University-Hakodate; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, March 6, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Perceptual and neural representation of within-category similarity of everyday objects; Speaker: Prof. Johan Wagemans
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology
University of Leuven, Belgium; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, March 6, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Neural Circuits for Bias and Sensitivity in Decision-Making; Speaker: Jan Lauwereyns
Associate Professor,
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, March 5, 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Modularity, polyrhythms, dealing with noise, and what machines can yet learn from the brain; Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine
Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, MIT; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 24, 2008 3:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Synaptic level analysis of corollary discharge mechanisms in neural pathways for vocal learning; Speaker: Dr. Kosuke Hamaguchi
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Monday, February 23, 2009 3:00pm - 4:30pm: BSI Forum: Modifications in motor cortical dynamics induced by practice; Speaker: Dr. Alexa Riehle
Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée (INCM), CNRS-Univ. Aix-Marseille 2, Marseille, France; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

<<CANCELLED>> Friday, February 20, 2009 4:00pm - 5:30pm: BSI Forum: Neuronal information processing: Self organisation and spike timing code; Speaker: Dr. Gordon Pipa
Max-Planck Inst. for Brain Research, Dept. Neurophysiology, Frankfurt, Germany and Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt, Germany; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:00pm - 4:30pm: BSI Forum: Synaptic transmission and its plasticity by kinetics models : a future application of laser photolysis; Speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Kojima, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Physiology Department of Intelligent Information Systems, Tamagawa University; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 5, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Seeing is believing: Functional imaging studies of the visual system; Speaker: Prof. Daniel Y Tso
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
SUNY Upstate Medical Univ.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 5, 2009 4:00pm - 5:30pm: BSI Forum -in collaboration with Mathematical Sciences Colloquium -
Capacity of a Single Spiking Neuron Channel; Speaker: Dr. Shiro Ikeda
Institute of Statistical Mathematics
joint work with Jonathan Manton (The University of Melbourne); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:00pm - 6:00pm: BSI Forum: Convergence of genetic susceptibility factors in brain development: exploring novel animal models for schizophrenia via in utero gene transfer; Speaker: Atsushi Kamiya, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, January 29, 2008 2:00pm - 3:30pm: BSI Forum: Visual Image Recognition from Human Brain Activity; Speaker: Yoichi MIYAWAKI, Ph.D. Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Spatio-temporal organization of neuronal oscillations in the human brain; Speaker: Dr. Vadim V. Nikulin
Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology
Charite - University Medicine Berliny; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Shared mapping of own and others’ bodies in visuo-tactile bimodal area of the monkey parietal cortex; Speaker: Hiroaki ISHIDA
School of Medicine, Kinki University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Monday, January 19, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Human monogenic epilepsies: channelopathies and more; Speaker: Stephanie Baulac, Ph.D.
INSERM UMR 679
Hopital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, January 16, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Topological Effects of Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity; Speaker: James R Kozloski, PhD
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Computational Biology; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Effect of object image discrimination on view-invariance revealed by psychophysical experiments; Speaker: Wakayo YAMASHITA
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Thursday, January 8, 2009 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Glutathione and oxidative biology; from pathophysiology to novel treatments; Speaker: Professor.Michael Berk
Department of Psychiatry University of Melbourne, Australia; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Inhibitory Stabilization of the Cortical Network Underlies Visual Surround Suppression; Speaker: Dr. Hirofumi Ozeki, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

<<RESCHEDULED>> Friday, December 19, 2008 3:00pm - 4:30pm: BSI Forum: New thoughts on the requirement of Notch for mouse segmentation; Speaker: Dr. Miguel Maroto
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. Scotland, UK; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:00pm - 5:30pm: BSI Forum: Neuronal synchrony during a behavioral-planning process in the prefrontal cortex; Speaker: Kazuhiro Sakamoto
Assistant Professor
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, December 15, 2008 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: GABA_B receptor variants fulfill distinct pre- and postsynaptic functions; Speaker: Unit for Molecular Neurobiology of Learning & Memory,
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: The malin-laforin complex suppresses the cellular toxicity of misfolded proteins by promoting their degradation through the ubiquitin-proteasome system; Speaker: Subramaniam Ganesh, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur 208016, INDIA.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 1:30pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Brain imaging of speech perception in early infancy: Exploring the neural mechanisms for language acquisition; Speaker: Dr.Fumitaka Homae; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: The mirror neuron system: data and models; Speaker: Giorgio Metta, Ph.D.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 5, 2008 1:00pm -: BSI Forum: Defining the spatiotemporal origins of GABAergic cortical interneuron subtypes; Speaker: Goichi Miyoshi
Smilow Research Center, New York University School of Medicine; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:30am - 11:30am: BSI Forum: Functional analyses of BMP signaling during neural tissue induction and neural tube closure; Speaker: Yuji Mishina, Ph. D.
(Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences
School of Dentistry
University of Michigan); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:00pm - 2:00pm: BSI Forum: Size constancy & self motion; Speaker: Emmanuelle COMBE, Research Engineer, Renault; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Monday, December 1, 2008 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Molecular control of cell fate specification in the cerebral cortex; Speaker: Victor Tarabykin, MD, PhD
Heisenberg Group Leader
Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, November 28, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Why does jugde activate COURT? Cracking the orthographic code; Speaker: Dr. Manuel Perea
Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, November 28, 2008 4:00pm - 5:30pm: BSI Forum: Microtubules, microfluidics, and cell shape; Speaker: Phong TRAN, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
(Cell and Developmental Biology)
Institute Curie - CNRS, Paris, FRANCE; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, November 27, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Diversity of Odorant Receptor Function and Odor Perception; Speaker: Dr. Hiroaki Matsunami
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University Medical Center; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Individual recognition, vocal imitation and reference in dolphin communication; Speaker: Dr. Vincent M. Janik
Sea Mammal Research Unit, School of Biology,
University of St Andrews, UK; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, November 7, 2008 9:30am - 10:30am: BSI Forum: Reverse engineering the brain: tools to image activity and structure; Speaker: Dr. Winfried Denk
Director of Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, November 7, 2008 3:00pm -: BSI Forum: Repression of the hindbrain developmental program by Cdx factors is required for the specification of the vertebrate spinal cord; Speaker: Robert Keith Ho; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, November 6, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Computational approach to schizophrenia: modeling associative learning; Speaker: Prof. Peter Erdi(Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 3:00pm -: BSI Forum: Patterning the zebrafish embryo: from hindbrain to pancreas; Speaker: Victoria Prince; Place:BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: How mGluR5 signaling contributes to the development and plasticity of cortical maps?; Speaker: Dr. Hui-Chen Lu
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston,Texas; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Molecular Markers of Glutamate Transmission and Their Disruption in Schizophrenia; Speaker: Prof. James H. Meador - Woodruff, M.D. (Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Disturbed glutamate neurotransmission in schizophrenia as a target for development of novel antipsychotics; Speaker: Associate Prof. Guochuan E. Tsai, M.D., Ph.D (Department of Psychiatry, Harbor - UCLA Medical Center); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, October 24, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Contextual emergence of mental states from neurodynamics; Speaker: Dr. Harald Atmanspacher, Head, Theory Department, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology, Freiburg; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Decision making as a competition mechanism between feedback loops in the cortex-basal ganglia loops.; Speaker: Thomas Boraud, MD, PhD
Directeur de Recherche CNRS
Basal Gang
Laboratoire Motricité-Adaptation-Cognition; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:30am - 11:30am: BSI Forum: Stimulus Representation in Reinforcement-Learning Models of Brain and Behaviour; Speaker: Dr. Elliot Ludvig
Computing Science, University of Alberta; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Friday, October 17, 2008 5:30pm - 6:30pm: BSI Forum: Genome-wide studies of bipolar disorder and beyond; Speaker: Thomas G.Schulze,MD
Unit on the Genetic Basis of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
(National Institute of Mental Health); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Model-based fMRI: from reward to social interactions; Speaker: Dr. John O'Doherty; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 9, 2008 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Molecular control of vertebrate retinal development
~From cell fate determination to synapse formation~; Speaker: Takahisa Furukawa, M.D. & Ph. D.
Head
Department of Developmental Biology, Osaka Bioscience Institute; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 9, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Hierarchical and adaptive coding in the monkey prefrontal cortex; Speaker: Dr. Natasha SIGALA
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow
Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 9, 2008 2:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Integrating EEG and fMRI for Inferring Cortical Networks Underlying Rapid Decision Making; Speaker: Dr. Paul Sajda
Dept. Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Recombinant probes for Hepatitis C Virus protease and Ca2+ based on resonance energy transfer; Speaker: Dr. Juan Llopis, Albacete School of Medicine, UCLM, Spain; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 2, 2008 5:00pm - 6:00pm: BSI Forum: Interneuron specification in the vertebrate spinal cord; Speaker: Dr. Katharine E. Lewis
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, September 26, 2008 11:00am - 12:30pm: BSI Forum: Deciphering neuron-glia compartmentalization in cortical energy metabolism; Speaker: Dr Renaud Jolivet
Roche Research Fellow
University of Zurich
Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, September 22, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Beyond sensory coding: the physiology of cognitive dynamics; Speaker: Leslie M. Kay, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Director, Institute for Mind & Biology
The University of Chicago; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: A Unified Bayesian Framework for MEG/EEG Source Imaging; Speaker: Dr. David Wipf
University California San Diego; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, September 1, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Molecular Regulation of NADPH Oxidases in Health and Disease; Speaker: Prof. John F. Engelhardt; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Adaptive roles of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for conflict detection and resolution; Speaker: Dr. Yosuke Morishima
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, August 22, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Dynamic Image Brain: Brain mechanisms of prediction and imitation; Speaker: Prof. Toshio Inui
(Dep. of Intelligence Science and Technology, Grad. Sch. of Informatics, Kyoto Univ.); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, August 15, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Functional micro-architecture of visual cortex revealed by two-photon calcium imaging in vivo; Speaker: Dr. Kenichi Ohki
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, August 15, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Predictive activity in Macaque frontal eye field neurons during natural scene searching; Speaker: Adam Phillips, Northwestern University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: Synaptic function and plasticity in mouse models of Down syndrome:implication for learning and memory; Speaker: Dr. Alexander Kleschevnikov, Stanford University Medical School; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Imaging signal transduction in single synapses; Speaker: Assistant Professor Ryohei Yasuda
Duke University Medical Center; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: This forum is cancelled
BSI Forum: Optical Brain Control: Analyzing and Engineering Normal and Pathological Neural Circuit Dynamics; Speaker: Dr. Ed Boyden
Assistant Professor
MIT Media Lab; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 1:30pm-: BSI Forum: Activity-dependent growth cone guidance and synaptic plasticity controlled by the membrane potential shifts; Speaker: Dr. NISHIYAMA, Makoto
(Department of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine); Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, August 1, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Replay of Memory Traces in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Strengthens with Experience; Speaker: Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi
ARL, Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging
University of Arizona; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:30pm - 6:00pm: Cancelled: BSI Forum: State-space methods for real-time cortical control of neuroprosthetic devices; Speaker: Shinsuke Koyama, PhD
Research Scholar
Department of Statistics and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Carnegie Mellon University, the United States; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: THE NEURAL MECHANISMS OF LUMINOSITY PERCEPTION; Speaker: Matthias S. Keil, Ph.D.
(University of Barcelona, Faculty for Psychology, Basic Psychology Department); Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:00pm - 6:00pm: BSI Forum: Mathematical Science Tutorial Series
Modern convex optimization and interior-point methods; Speaker: Dr. Takashi Tsuchiya
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:00pm - 2:00pm: BSI Forum: Boredom and excitement: Genetic analysis of neural circuit development and function in zebrafish; Speaker: Prof. John Y. Kuwada
Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
USA; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Targeting memories as a new therapeutic approach to psychopathologies; Speaker: Professor Karim Nader
Department of Psychology
McGill University, Montreal Canada; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

<RESCHEDULED>Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:30pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: From spiking networks to population rate models; Speaker: Tom Tetzlaff, PhD
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, July 14, 2008 10:00am - 11:00am: BSI Forum: The Impacts of Acute and Chronic Stress on Prefrontal Cortical Functions; Speaker: Yukiori Goto, Ph.D.
Department of psychiatry, McGill University,
Montreal, QC, Canada; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:00am - 11:00am: BSI Forum: Untangling object recognition:
How does the visual system achieve "invariant" object representation?; Speaker: Prof. James J. DiCarlo
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: The Na,K-ATPase/inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor complex: A novel signaling system that protects from apoptosis; Speaker: Dr. Anita Aperia, Professor of Pediatrics
Dept. of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 6:00pm - 7:30pm: BSI Forum: Systematic mapping of neural function to structure.; Speaker: Dr. Klaus M. Stiefel
Principal Investigator,
Theoretical and Experimental Neurobiology Unit,
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology,
Okinawa, Japan; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, July 7, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Regulation of Neuronal Development and Plasticity by CaM-kinase I.; Speaker: Prof.Thomas R. Soderling
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Sciences University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, July 4, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Oscillatory EEG based Brain-computer interface; Speaker: Prof. Shangkai Gao
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 3, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Molecular characterisation of the ghrelin-GHSR axis; Speaker: Inge Seim
Queensland University of Technology; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: Mice deficiento in protruden display spastic paraplegia: Implications for neuron-glia interaction via sphingolipid binding; Speaker: Michiko Shirane, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Medical Institute of Bioregulation,
Kyushu University,Fukuoka,Japan; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 30, 2008 11:00am - 12:00am: BSI Forum: Narcolepsy: Etiology, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology; Speaker:Professor Seiji Nishino
Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology Laboratory
Center for Narcolepsy,
Stanford University School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 30, 2008 11:00am - 12:00am: BSI Forum: Narcolepsy: Etiology, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology; Speaker:Professor Seiji Nishino
Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology Laboratory
Center for Narcolepsy,
Stanford University School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 30, 2008 1:00pm - 2:00pm: BSI Forum: Visualization of protein interactions and post translational modifications using Duolink^TM; Speaker: Erik Nyström, Application Specialist,Olink Bioscience; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 27, 2008 11:00am - 12:00am: BSI Forum: Axonal motility and its modulation by activity in the live, adult cerebellum; Speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Nishiyama
The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 27, 2008 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: New insights into the roles of voltage-gated calcium channels; Speaker: Fuminori Tsuruta
Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Essential role of tyrosine phosphorylation of NMDA receptors in the amygdala function; Speaker: Takanobu Nakazawa, Division of Oncology, Department of Cancer Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: How to Tame a Fruit Fly: Octopamine in Drosophila Male Aggression; Speaker: Dr. Susanne Christine Hoyer
Biocenter – Department of Genetics and Neurobiology
University of Wuerzburg
Germany; Place:BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Dynamic visual processing with spiking neural networks.; Speaker: Dr. Sophie Deneve
Assistant professor CNRS, Group of theoretical Neuroscience, LSCP; Place:BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 23, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Conscious control of perceptual states differs from spontaneous control both in behavior and in brain activity; Speaker: Dr. Eugenio Rodriguez
1)Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2)Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 20, 2008 10:30am - 11:30am: BSI Forum: A Refresher Course on Basic Statistical Methods
Day 5: Bootstrap Method and its Applications
(Basics of Resampling Methods, Confidence Intervals and Testing of Hypothesis with Bootstrap); Speaker: Dr. Sumona Mondal
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 16, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Towards structural basis for regulation of store-operated calcium entry (SOCE); Speaker:Mitsuhiko Ikura, Ph.D.
1) Division of Signaling Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute,
2) Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 13, 2008 3:30pm - 5:00pm: 85th RIKEN BSI Invited Seminar: Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release; Invited Lecturer: Prof. George J. Augustine, G.B. Geller Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, U.S.A.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Delay representation during maintenance: The role of theta oscillations and sustained activity; Speaker: Prof. Emrah Duzel
Inst. of Cognitive Neuroscience
Univ. College London; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Information Processing for Sensor Networks using Distributed Kernel Methods; Speaker: Dr. Anthony KUH
Professor and Department Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, U.S.A.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 6, 2008 10:30am - 11:30am: BSI Forum: A Refresher Course on Basic Statistical Methods
Day 4: Nonparametric Statistics: methods and domain of applicability
(Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, Mann-Whitney U-test, Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed Rank Test, Kruskal Wallis Test); Speaker: Dr. Sumona Mondal
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 5, 2008 , 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Mutation of juxtamembrane cysteines in the tetraspanin CD81: More than meets the eye; Speaker: Caroline Delandre, Ph.D., Kansas State University, Division of Biology; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 11:00am - 12:00pm: BSI Forum: A novel role for Dbx1-derived Cajal-Retzius cells in early regionalization of the cerebral cortical neuroepithelium; Speaker: Dr. Alessandra Pierani
Dept. de Biologie du Développement
INSTITUT JACQUES-MONOD
CNRS UMR 7592, Université Paris Diderot et UPMC; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, May 30, 2008 10:30am - 11:30am: BSI Forum: A Refresher Course on Basic Statistical Methods
Day 3: Factorial Design (Emphasis on Two-Factor ANOVA)
(Applications, Main Effects, Interaction Effects, Effects Plots with Interpretation, Multiple Comparisons using Tukey’s Method); Speaker: Dr. Sumona Mondal
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:00am - 5:40pm: BSI Forum: Symposium on Information Geometry; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Regulation of AMPA receptor mRNA trafficking in dendrites and its dysregulation in Fragile X syndrome; Speaker: Ruth Suzanne Zukin; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 26, 2008 11:00am - 12:00am: BSI Forum: Alzheimer’s Disease and TNF death receptor; Speaker: Yong Shen, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Neurology and Molecular Biology, Director and Senior Scientist Haldeman Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology of Diseases Sun Health Research Institute, US; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 26, 2008 2:00pm - 3:30pm: 84th RIKEN BSI Invited Seminar Series: Connexin hemichannels: a new signaling channel in the plasma membrane; Invited Lecturer: Prof. Michael V.L. Bennett, Department of Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine, U.S.A.; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:30pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Receptors, Synapses and Memories; Speaker: Richard L. Huganir,
Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore MD USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, May 23, 2008 10:30am - 11:30am: BSI Forum: A Refresher Course on Basic Statistical Methods
Day 2: One way ANOVA with Multiple Comparisons
(Applications, Assumptions, Methods, Interpretation, Tukey’s Multiple Comparisons); Speaker: Dr. Sumona Mondal
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Understanding neural circuits through integration of genetic, synaptic and systems approaches in the Drosophila brain; Speaker: Rachel Wilson Lab
Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, Boston, MA, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Friday, May 16, 2008 10:30am - 11:30am: BSI Forum: A Refresher Course on Basic Statistical Methods
Day 1: Strength and Limits of Parametric Statistics
(Single Sample z-Test, Single Sample t-Test, t-Test for Two Independent/ Dependent Samples); Speaker: Dr. Sumona Mondal
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, May 16, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: TEMPORAL REQUIREMENT OF FGF8 SIGNALING FOR TECTUM/CEREBELLUM DEVELOPMENT; Speaker:Dr. Tatsuya Sato
Developmental Biology Program, Rockefeller Research Labs
Sloan-Kettering Institute
USA; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Monday, May 12, 2008 3:30pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Application of Neuroinformatics to Cancer Research; Speaker: Dr.Mustafa B A　Djamgoz
Professor of Neurobiology & Cancer Biology
Imperial College London, UK
http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/mbad/; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:00am - 11:00am: BSI Forum: Predicting spike times using a non-resetting leaky integrator with dynamical threshold; Speaker: Dr. Shigeru Shinomoto
Department of Physics, Kyoto University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:00pm -: BSI Forum: Local Field Potential in Supplementary Motor Area; Speaker: Ryosuke Hosaka, Ph.D
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:30pm - 4:30pm: BSI Forum: Research in Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, and Natural Computing; Speaker: Dr. Alfons Schuster, University of Ulster at Jordanstown,Faculty of Engineering, School of Computing and Mathematics, Northern Ireland; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:30pm - 2:30pm: BSI Forum: "New physiological roles of cellular sphingolipid metabolism": Lessons from SIP receptor knockout mouse; Speaker: Dr. Mari Kono
Genetics of Development and Disease Branch
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Place: Biology Building Seminar Room (Room #S311)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Theoretical statistics from the viewpoint of Bayesian prediction; Speaker: Dr. Fumiyasu Komaki
Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:00pm -: BSI Forum: The variable discharge of cortical neurons - a quantitative analysis of contributing factors; Speaker: Martin Paul Nawrot, Ph.D.,
Junior Professorship, Freie Universitat Berlin; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, April 21, 2008 1:00pm - 2:00pm: BSI Forum: Toward the neurocomputer: goal-directed learning in embodied cultured networks; Speaker: Zenas C. Chao, Ph. D.
Lab for Neuroengineering, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 17 , 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: From Stem Cells to Neuronal Networks, from Mouse to Man: Genetic Mechanisms of Development and Evolution of the Cerebral Cortex.; Speaker: Dr. Pierre Vanderhaeghen
IRIBHM, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Brussels, Belgium; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:00pm - 4:30pm: BSI Forum: Neuronal morphology and electrical activity in developing neuronal networks; Speaker: Dr. Jaap van Pelt
Neuroinformatics Group, Department of Experimental Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Monday, April 14, 2008 1:30pm - 3:00pm: 83rd BSI Invited Seminar Series: GABAergic transmission and endogenous network activity in the developing and epileptic hippocampus; Speaker: Prof. Kai Kaila, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, April 4, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: Analysis of lipid-based cellular structures by electron microscopy
（This seminar is presented in Japanese.）; Speaker: Prof. Toyoshi Fujimoto
Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, April 4, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm: BSI Forum: A window into molecular systems for vocal learning; Speaker: Dr. Erich D. Jarvis
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University Medical Center, USA; Place: BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 3, 2008 11:00am - 12:30pm: BSI Forum: Visual processing and short term synaptic depression; Speaker: Mark van Rossum, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Informatics, The University of Edinburgh; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:00pm - 3:00pm: BSI Forum: Models of synaptic plasticity and their computational consequences; Speaker: Thomas P. Trappenberg, Ph.D.
Professor, Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, March 28, 2008 2:30pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Hippocampal-prefrontal-accumbens network activity for navigation learning, decisions and strategy shifts; Speaker: Dr. Sidney Wiener, Research Director CNRS; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:00pm - 4:00pm: BSI Forum: Dynamics of co-transcriptional pre-mRNA folding influences the efficacy and efficiency of antisense oligonucleotides to induce exon skipping; Speaker: Dr. YEE WOON CHEE
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Division of Research, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Monday, March 24, 2008 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Myelination Defects and Recovery Assessment by DT-MRI invivo: Fine Microstructural Analysis of Brain White Matter; Speaker: Professor Said Ghandour
Universite luis Pasteur, France; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 24, 2008 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Neuronal PAS Domain Protein 3 and Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Schizophrenia; Speaker: Andrew Allen Pieper, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, March 21, 2008 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Homeostatic and anti-homeostatic regulation of excitation-inhibition balance by modulation in lateral diffusion of glycine and GABA_A receptors; Antoine Triller, MD, Ph.D.
Director of Reseach at Inserm, Chairman of the Biology Department of the "Ecole Normale Supérieure", Paris, France; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, March 21, 2008 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Genetic Architecture of Visual Perception: From morphogens to action potentials; Speaker: Herwig Baier
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Physiology, USA; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, March 21, 2008 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Glycobiology of Neural Stem Cells
-Functional Aspects-; Speaker: Dr. Robert Yu
Professor and Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:00-11:30: BSI Forum: On Software Distribution; Speaker: Dr. Raphael Ritz
Scientific Officer, INCF(International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility) Secretariat; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Thursday, March 13 2008 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Role of hippocampus in anxiety-related behavior; Speaker: Dr. Cornelius Gross
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Mouse Biology Unit; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, March 13 2008 14:30-15:30: BSI Forum: The monogamous male brain; Speaker: Dr. Zuoxin Wang
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 11 2008 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum:
[Talk 1] Decision support systems, human centric/centered computing, and computing with words: a synergistic combination?
[Talk 2] Differences in the human processing of music and soundscapes signals; Speaker: [Talk 1] Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk
Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
[Talk 2] Dr. Jean-Julien Aucouturier
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in Takashi Ikegami's laboratory, University of Tokyo; Place: BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wedneday, March 5, 2008 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Digital versus analog in spatiotemporal learning in the real nervous system; Speaker: Dr. Masahiko Yoshioka
Department of Physics, University of Salerno; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 16:30-17:30: BSI Forum: The contingent brain; Speaker: Dr. Ken Mogi
Sony Computer Science Laboratories & Tokyo Institute of Technology; Place: BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Pharmacology and Neurobiology of Neuropeptide S; Girolamo Calo, Ph.D.
University of Ferrara, Italy; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Second Order Cone programming formulations for Classification; Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Assistant Professor Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, February 25, 2008 13:30-15:00: BSI Forum: Characterization and Roles of Neocortical Interneurons; Jean ROSSIER, MD, PhD.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Biology
Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
Director of the CNRS Unit (Neurobiology and Cellular Diversity); BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

<Rescheduled> Tuesday, February 19, 2008 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Cortical dynamics of visual contour and object processing; Dr. Topi Tanskanen
Brain Research Unit
Low Temperature Laboratory
Helsinki University of Technology
Finland; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, February 8, 2008 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Visual symmetry and human object perception; Ryosuke Niimi, Ph.D., University of Tokyo; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

<Rescheduled> Friday, February 8, 2008 16:30-: BSI Forum: Taking apart the Neural Machinery of Face Processing; Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D.
Center for Advanced Imaging & Center for Cognitive Science University of Bremen,
Bremen Germany and Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Boston, USA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 7, 2008 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Invariant Common Spatial Patterns: Alleviating Nonstationarities in Brain-Computer Interfacing; Dr. Motoaki Kawanabe, Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, Germany; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, February 4, 2008 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Two more faces of the Stroop task: eye-blinking and negative priming; Dr. Jaeseung Jeong, Assistant Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, January 24, 2008 13:30-: BSI Forum: A model for learning view-invariant object representations in the perception-action loop; Thomas Wachtler, Ph. D.
Neurophysics Group, University of Marburg, Germany; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: A microcircuit view of receptive field structure along the early visual pathway; Prof. Luis M. Martinez
Instituto de Neurociencias. CSIC-Univ Miguel Hernández, Spain.
l.martinez@umh.es; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Innate versus learned odour processing in the mouse olfactory bulb; Dr. Ko Kobayakawa
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science,
University of Tokyo; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Decoding of human intracranial EEG responses to dynamic facial expressions; Dr. Naotsugu Tsuchiya
California Institute of Technology; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, January 17, 2008 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Tracing Cell Behaviors in the Developing Brain and Nervous System using Photoactivation; Paul M. Kulesa, PhD
Stowers Institute for Medical Research; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 13:30-: BSI Forum: Graphical Models and How to Learn Them from Data; Christian Borgelt, Ph.D.
Intelligent Data Analysis and Graphical Models Research Unit
European Center for Soft Computing
Edificio Cientifico-Tecnologico; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 20, 2007 15:00-18:00: BSI Forum: Memory-trace replay: a new analysis framework and fast-forward playback in rat medial prefrontal cortex; Masami Tatsuno, Ph.D.
ARL Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging
University of Arizona, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 16:30-17:30: BSI Forum: Ubiquitin-proteasome dysfunction in Lafora disease; Prof. Subramaniam Ganesh
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: SUMOylation: a novel posttranslational modification for synaptic proteins - its role in the regulation of synaptic transmission; Dr. Atsushi Nishimune
MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity,
University of Bristol, UK; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, December 17, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Cellular and molecular basis of the neuronal circuit for circadian rhythms in Drosophila; Dr. Emi NAGOSHI
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 15:00-16:30: 82nd BSI Invited Seminar Series: From Gene to Brain to Disease: A Systems Biology Approach.; Prof. Daniel H. Geschwind,
Prof. of Neurology and Psychiatry,
Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA of Medicine, U.S.A.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, December 10, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Mechanisms of Attention; Prof. Zhong-Lin Lu
Laboratory of Brain ProcessES (LOBES)
Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center
& Departments of Psychology & Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, December 14, 2007 16:45-17:45: BSI Forum: Molecular Mechanism Of Dendritic Spinogenesis: Function And Regulation Of Syndecan-2, Neurofibromin, And CASK Protein Complex; Dr. Yi-Ping Hsueh
Associate Research Fellow
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, December 10, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: New Metallochaperone Functions for the Copper Chaperone for SOD1 (CCS) in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Prof. Thomas V. O’Halloran
Associate Director for Basic Sciences
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Director, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
Northwestern University, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, December 4, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Cortico-hippocampal activity during behavior and sleep and its implications for memory formation; Mayank R. Mehta, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
Brown University, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, November 22, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: The Repertoire of Mammalian Odorant Receptors; Dr. Harumi Saito
Department of Cell Biology
Duke University, Medical Center
USA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 13:00-14:00: BSI Forum: Learning Visual Representations for Detection, Recognition and Interaction; Justus H. Piater, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Univ. of Liege, Belgium; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, November 19, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Design Principles and Constraints Underlying the Construction of Brain-Based Devices; Dr. Jeffrey L. Krichmar
(The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego,California, USA); BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, November 19, 2007 13:30-15:00: BSI Forum: Sleep, wake and gating in thalamocortcal system; Dr. Igor Timofeev (Laval University, Canada); BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, November 19, 2007 14:30-15:00: BSI Forum: Self-consistent Optimal Perception; Alan Stocker, Ph.D.
Laboratory for Computational Vision
Center for Neural Science, New York University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, November 16, 2007 11:00-: BSI Forum: Error Bars and Degrees of Freedom for Kernel Partial Least Squares; Dr. Nicole Kraemer
Machine Learning/Intelligent Data Analysis Technical University
Berlin Germany
http://ml.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nkraemer; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Thursday, November 15, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Stathmins and microtubules in neuronal morphogenesis; Chris Trengove, Ph.D.
Bionic Ear Institute
Melbourne; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Stathmins and microtubules in neuronal morphogenesis; André SOBEL, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Institut du Fer à Moulin (IFM)
Group leader: "Intracellular cell signaling and relay"
Inserm/UPMC UMR 839,
Institut du Fer à Moulin, Paris, France; BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Monday, November 12, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Meta-Learning and learning in highly non-separable cases; Prof. Wlodzislaw Duch
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torum, Poland; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 13:30-: BSI Forum: Binding and border-ownership: The neural basis of perceptual organization in extrastriate cortex; Ernst Niebur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Revealing Neural Mechanism of Adaptive Social Behavior; Naotaka Fujii, M.D., Ph.D.
Deputy Laboratory Head
Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development
BSI, RIKEN; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 18:00-19:00: BSI Forum: Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching; Dr. Lakshmanan Vetrivel
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry and Institute for Laser Science,
University of Electro-Communications, Japan; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, October 29, 2007 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Refining fNIRS to be a 'standard' functional brain mapping tool; Ippeita Dan, Ph.D.
Principal investigator
Sensory and Cognitive Food Science Laboratory,
National Food Research Institute; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:00-11:00: BSI Forum: Neural synchrony in attention and consciousness; Prof. Lawrence M. Ward
Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 25, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: A New Psychophysics; Stephen Link
Professor, Dept. of Psychology,
University of California, San Diego; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 13:30-15:00: BSI Forum: Building associative memory representations in the medial prefrontal cortex; Dr. Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi
ARL, Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging
University of Arizona; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, October 19, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Lysophosphatidylmethanol is a pan lysophosphatidic acid receptor agonist and is produced by autotaxin in blood; Prof. Junken Aoki
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Tohoku University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:00-11:00: BSI Forum: Neural Mechanism of Parent-Infant Relationship; Dr. Kumi Kuroda
Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders RIKEN Brain Science Institute; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: The Blue Brain Project; Dr. Henry Markram
Project Director of the Blue Brain Project,
Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Technology,
Co-Director of EPFL's Brain Mind Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Optical analysis of synaptic transmission and long-term plasticity at single synapses; Dr. Ryosuke Enoki
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Canada.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Cerebral Blood Volume-based fMRI: Signal Sources and Utility; Prof. Seong-Gi KIM
Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburg, U.S.A.; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 4, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Modulation of polyglutamine neurodegeneration by ubiquitin protein ligase; Prof. Nihar Ranjan JANA
Associate Professor
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Laboratory
National Brain Research Centre, India; BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Complexity and Ambiguity in Language; Prof. WANG, William Shi-Yuan,
Research Professor of Electronic Engineering,
DSP and Speech Technology Laboratory,
Department of Electronic Engineering,
Chinese University of Hong Kong; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Simple Algorithmic Principles of Discovery, Subjective Beauty, Selective Attention, Curiosity & Creativity; Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber
Cognitive Robotics, Technische Universitat Munchen; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

[Japanese] Friday, September 21, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: 認知症診療の課題と今後の戦略; 浦上克哉教授
鳥取大学大学院医学系研究科保健学専攻・病態解析学分野; BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Friday, September 21, 2007 15:30-16:30: BSI Forum: Mechanism of sensing sodium levels in the mammalian brain; Professor Masaharu Noda
Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology;
School of Life Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, September 21, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Therapeutic strategy for the polyglutamine diseases targeting the toxic conformational transition and aggregation of the polyglutamine protein; Dr. Yoshitaka Nagai
Division of Clinical Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Read-out and write-in of visual percepts in macaque AIT cortex; Chou Po Hung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center
National Yang Ming University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Community Services at a Glance: Organization, Policies, and Research at the Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC); Dr. Zoltan M. Varga
Zebrafish International Resource Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5274, zoltan@zfin.org .; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Development and Function of Spinal Locomotor Circuits in Zebrafish; Dr. Shin-ichi Higashijima
National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Phenotypic studies in mice mutant for genes associated with risk for schizophrenia; John L. Waddington, PhD, DSc, MRIA
(Professor of Neuroscience, Molecular & Cellular Therapeutics,
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland); BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, September 14, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Motile axons in the intact, adult cerebellum; Prof. David J. Linden
Professor of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, September 14, 2007 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Climbing fibre controlled synaptic plasticity in Purkinje cells and stellate and basket cells; Dr. Carl-Fredrik Ekerot
Dept. of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Sweden; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:00-11:30: BSI Forum: Nonhuman Primate Models Of Normal Social Behavior And Functional Reorganization Following Early Brain Damage; Dr. David G. Amaral
The M.I.N.D. Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the California National Primate Research Center, UC Davis, Davis, California, USA.; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:00-12:30: BSI Forum: Voltage Gated Sodium Channels: Molecular Machines for Electrical Signaling in Health and Disease; Prof. William A. CATTERALL
Professor and Chair Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington, US; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 13, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF MONKEY VENTRAL PREMOTOR AND PARIETAL CORTICES; Dr. Pier Francesco Ferrari
Researcher
Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Funzionale, and Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Parma, Italy; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 13, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: What auditory cortex sees, what inferotemporal cortex hears, and how quickly they get the message.; Dr. Kari L. Hoffman
Assistant Professor
Psychology Department
York University; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 13, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Phosphorylation of neurodegenerative disease proteins impacts on protein aggregation; Prof. Guanghui WANG
Professor School of Life Sciences
University of Science and Technology of China; BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 13, 2007 15:00-16:30

BSI Forum: Systems Neurogenetics and Genetic Control of Expression in the Mouse Brain

Prof. Robert W. Williams

Professor of Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology Dunavant Chair: Developmental Genetics, Department of Pediatrics University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Chair: Neuroinformatics Committee of the Society for Neuroscience

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 6, 2007 11:00-: BSI Forum: Eye movements and neuronal activity during natural vision.; Pedro Maldonado, Ph.D
Center for Integrative Neuroscience &
Institute for Biomedical Studies
Faculty of Medicine
University of Chile; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 6, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Exploration of Mechanotransduction in Cells: Mechano-Sensing by Physical Extension of the Src Family Kinase Substrate p130Cas; Dr. Yasuhiro Sawada
Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 6, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Actin-based Metaplasticity in Cocaine Addiction; Shigenobu Toda, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Dept. Neurosciences,
Medical University of South Carolina; BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 6, 2007 15:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Singing in the Brain: Neural Mechanisms of Birdsong Memory; Professor Johan J. Bolhuis
Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 5, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Differential Notch signalling distinguishes neural stem cells from intermediate progenitors; Nicholas Roger Gaiano, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 4, 2007 14:00-: BSI Forum: Representations in Embodied Agents; J. Bernstein
Center for Computational Neuroscience and Inst. for Nonlinear Dynamics
Goettingen University
Bunsenstrasse 10, 37073 Goettingen, Germany; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 4, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Neuroscience and Nature Publishing Group; Dr. Daniel Evanko
Senior Editor Nature Methods, Nature Publishing Group; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, September 3, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Encoding Space & Context in the Hippocampal Circuit; Dr. Thomas J. McHugh
Research Scientist
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, August 27, 2007 10:00-12:30: BSI Forum: A UNIFIED PERSPECTIVE ON ADVANCES OF INDEPENDENT SUBSPACES: BASIC, TEMPORAL, AND LOCAL STRUCTURES; Professor Lei Xu
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
Chinese University of Hong Kong
lxu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~lxu/; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Monday, August 27, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Synergistic Intelligence Project: aims and preliminary experiments; Prof. Minoru Asada and Dr. Masaki Ogino
JST ERATO Asada Synergistic Intelligence Project
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: An integrative model of binocular vision capturing stereopsis, binocular rivalry, and a novel dichoptic motion illusion; Ryusuke HAYASHI, PhD
Department of Integrative Brain Science
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University; BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, July 20, 2007 13:30-15:00: BSI Forum: Two-photon microscopical imaging of neurons and glia during osmotic stress and simulated stroke; Dr. Sergei A. Kirov; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, July 20, 2007 16:00-18:00: BSI Forum: Denoising and Dimension Reduction in Feature Space; Prof. Klaus-Robert Muller
Machine Learning Group
Technical University of Berlin
Computer Science
and
Fraunhofer Institut FIRST
Intelligent Data Analysis Group (IDA), Berlin; BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 19, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: (Proto-) Consciousness as a Contextually-Emergent Property of Self-Sustaining Systems; J. Scott Jordan
Professor, Department of Psychology, Illinois State University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 19, 2007 17:00-18:00: BSI Forum: Neural Stem Cells: their involvement in adult neurogenesis and CNS-repair; Hideyuki Okano, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Language and Number: Towards a Psychosemantics for Natural Language Quantifiers; Dr. Jeffrey L. Lidz
Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland; BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 12, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: The expression landscape of the adult mouse brain: mining the Allen Brain Atlas; Susan Sunkin, Ph.D.
Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Dlx gene regulation in the forebrain: a model for the evolution of expression control mechanisms in duplicated genes.; Marc EKKER
Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Effects of task and expertise on postural control; John F. Stins, Ph.D.
Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, July 6, 2007 17:10-18:00: BSI Forum: Ubiquitination of Active Zone Protein RIM1 by SCRAPPER Regulates Synaptic Vesicle Release; Mitsutoshi SETOU, M.D., Ph.D.
Laboratory of Nano-Structure Physiology,
National Institutes of Natural Sciences,
National Institute for Physiological Science.; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Monday, July 2, 2007 14:00-15:30: 81st RIKEN BSI Invited Seminar Series: Theme and variation in Notch signaling; Professor Raphael Kopan
Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology and Department of Medicine (Division of Dermatology), Washington University, U.S.A.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 7, 2007 15:30-17:00: 80th RIKEN BSI Invited Seminar Series: Information processing and neurotransmitter release in taste buds; Professor Stephen D. Roper
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, June 6, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Direct observation of yeast prion Sup35 dynamics: from a single-molecule to a single-cell approach; Dr. Hideki Taguchi Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan; BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Tuesday, June 5, 2007 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Development of Bile Salt Sensitivity in the Zebrafish Olfactory System; Dr. Yoko Sakata
Department of Physiology
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, USA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 28, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Neural interpretation of BOLD fMRI maps at sub-millimeter columnar resolution; Dr. Mitsuhiro Fukuda Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 28, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Sensory substitution and cross-modal plasticity in blindness; Ron Kupers, Ph.D
PET Unit & Dept. Surgical Pathophysiology
Rigshospitalet Copenhagen
Denmark; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 24, 2007 15:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Multimodal integration of neuroimaging data in a framework provided by probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps; Dr. Simon B. Eickhoff
Institut für Neurowissenschaften und Biophysik - Medizin; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 24, 2007 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Automatic analysis of functional PET brain images; Prof. Ulla Ruotsalainen
Tampere University of Technology
Institute of Signal Processing
Finland; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Monday, May 21, 2007 15:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Incorporating Prior and Evidence for Optimal Decision-Making: A Bayesian Algorithm for Sequential Updating of Belief; Prof. Jun Zhang
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 14, 2007 10:30-: This forum scheduled for May 8 has postponed to May 14 at 10:30.
BSI Forum: Time estimation and the readiness to go: spiking activity and local field potentials in motor cortex; Alexa Riehle
Mediterranean Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (INCM)
CNRS & Univ. Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 14, 2007 14:00-: BSI Forum: Evolution of sound localization circuits Shared computational principles; Professor CARR, Catherine
Department of Biology
University of Maryland; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 7, 2007 14:00-15:30: 79th RIKEN BSI Invited Seminar Series: Alzheimer: 100 years and beyond: Towards aging without Alzheimer‘s disease; Dr. Konrad Beyreuther
ZMBH, University Heidelberg, Germany; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Monday, April 23, 2007 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Deep Brain Stimulation for the Alleviation of Movement Disorders and Pain; Professor JOHN F. STEIN
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Department of Neurosurgery
University of Oxford; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Dichotomies of Learning, Memory & Conscious Perception; Shaul Hochstein
Professor at the Center for Neural Computation and
the Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Life Sciences,
Hebrew University; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:00-: BSI Forum: Forebrain NMDA NR2B receptor in prefrontal synaptic plasticity and pain; Hideaki Shimazaki, Ph.D
Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Monday, April 16, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Forebrain NMDA NR2B receptor in prefrontal synaptic plasticity and pain; Professor Min Zhuo
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Toronto Center for the Study of Pain,; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, April 16, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Control of CNS and limb patterning by the LIM-homeodomain transcription factor lmx1b.; Randy L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, April 13, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Neural Mechanisms of top-down feedback mediating attention and memory in the primate visual system; Trichur Vidyasagar
Depts of Optometry & Vision Sciences and Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Melbourne, Australia.; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 5, 2007 13:30-15:00: BSI Forum: Sensory intelligence in the auditory cortex: experimental evidence from adult and children MMN studies; Dr. Anna Shestakova,
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology,
University of Helsinki, Finland; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 16:00-17:30: 78th RIKEN BSI Invited Seminar Series: The sense of smell: multiple olfactory subsystems; Prof. Heinz Breer
University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physiology, Stuttgart, Germany; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, March 22, 2007 16:00-17:30: BSI Forum: Inter subject correlation analysis as a new tool for studying the brain during free viewing of dynamic natural scenes.; Dr.Uri Hasson
Center for Neural Science
New York University, USA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 13:00-14:00: BSI Forum: Patterning the Vertebrate Midbrain; Seema Agarwala Ph. D.
Section of Neurobiology
University of Texas, Austin; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Mechanisms for establishment of vertebrate left-right asymmetry; Dr. Yasuhiko Kawakami
Staff Scientist
Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Short term changes in bilateral hippocampal coherence precede epileptiform events in the kainate mice model.; Dr. Ralph Meier
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 12, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Calpain: a critical element in both synaptic plasticity and neurodegeneration; Prof. Michel Baudry
Biol. Sci., Neurol. & Biomed. Eng.,
University of Southern California; BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Monday, March 12, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Blue Brain Project Overview: High Performance Computing and Data Driven Models of the Neocortical Column; Dr. James Kozloski
Research Staff Member
Biometaphorical Computing
Computational Biology Center
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Spectral color imaging and color vision models; Jussi Parkkinen, Ph.D. Professor, Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Statistics University of Joensuu, Finland; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 16:00-17:30: BSI Forum: Parabolic segments constitute geometric motion primitives: evidence from mathematical, behavioral, and neurophysiological perspectives; Felix Polyakov Ph. D
Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

[CANCELED] Friday, March 2, 2007 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Probing population activity in cortical microcircuits from joint thalamic single-electrode and cortical laminar-electrode recordings in rat whisker-barrel system; Dr. Gaute T. Einevoll
Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
As & INCF Norway, University of Oslo; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, February 26, 2007 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Population responses in primary visual cortex to natural movies; Dr. Shih-Cheng Yen
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, February 26, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Neuronal selection and competition in memory formation: The role of CREB; Dr. Sheena Josselyn
Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
University of Toronto, Canada.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, February 26, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Preferential incorporation of adult-generated granule cells into spatial memory networks in the dentate gyrus; Dr. Paul W. Frankland
Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
University of Toronto, Canada.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 22, 2007 13:30-15:00: BSI Forum: Validated Theoretical Approaches to Lysophospholipid Targets at the Cell Surface and in the Nucleus; Prof. Gabor Tigyi
Department of Physiology,
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, USA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 22, 2007 14:00-15:30: 76th BSI Invited Seminar: Interpreting spike timing: patterns, synfire chains, irregularity; Prof. George L. Gerstein
Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Synchronisation and coordination in mechanical systems; Hendrik Nijmeijer
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, February 19, 2007 13:00-14:30: BSI Forum: The cerebellar basis of saccadic adaptation; Prof. Peter Thier
Department of Cognitive Neurology,
Hertie-Institute of Clinical Brain Research, Tubingen, Germany; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Risk and Reward Encoding in the Human Brain; Peter Bossaerts
Professor of Economics and Management and Professor of Finance
Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~pbs/; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 13:00-14:00: BSI Forum: Male birds with amygdala lesion are not attractive to female birds: behavioural and neuroanatomical studies of the avian amygdala, Taenial amygdala (TnA), in Zebra Finches; Dr. Maki Ikebuchi
Human Information Systems Laboratory
Kanazawa Institute of Technology; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 311 Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding the role of nicotinic receptors in nicotine dependence and nicotine-induced cognitive enhancement; Mohammed Shoaib, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, U. K.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, January 15, 2007 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Biological insights from a decade of functional genomics and perspectives for the neurobiology; Dr.Piero Carninci
Genome Exploration Research Group
RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 15:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Biological insights from a decade of functional genomics and perspectives for the neurobiology; Dr. Takeyuki Hida
Faculty of Science and Technology,
Meijo University, Aichi Japan; BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, January 9, 2007 11:00-12:30: BSI Forum: THE ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THALAMO-CORTICAL CONNECTIONS AND THEIR RELATION TO PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING; Dr. R W Guillery,
Anatomy Department, Marmara University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 15:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Minimum Spanning Trees Displaying Semantic Similarity; Professor Wlodzislaw Duch
Dept. of Informatics,
Nicolaus Copernicus University,
Poland; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Neural Circuit of Orexin Neurons: A Mechanism that Maintains Proper Sleep/wakefulness States According to Inner and Outer Environments of Animals; Dr. Takeshi Sakurai
Institute of Basic Medical Science,
University of Tsukuba; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, December 22, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: DeMISTifying the brain Dissecting the function of complex neural circuits; Dr. Alla Karpova
HHMI, Cold Springs Harbor Lab.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Roles of autophagy in neuron death; Prof. Yasuo UCHIYAMA
Professor
Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, December 15, 2006 10:30-12:00: BSI Forum: Modularity, synchronization, and what robotics may yet learn from the brain; Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine
M.I.T.
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 14, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Modularity, synchronization, and what robotics may yet learn from the brain; Michail Maniadakis, Ph.D.
Institute of Computer Science,
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
University of Crete, Greece; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 7, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: The roles of attention, reinforcement, and consolidation in sensory learning; Prof. Aaron Seitz
Department of Psychology
Boston University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 7, 2006 16:30-18:30: BSI Forum: Experimental and mathematical analyses in calling behaviors of Japanese tree frogs (Hyla japonica); Ikkyu Aihara,
Graduate School of Informatics,
Kyoto University; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Wednesday, December 6, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Organization of topographic projections of spinal motor neurons; Artur Kania Ph. D.
Division of Experimental Medicine
McGill University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, December 4, 2006 17:00-18:00: BSI Forum: Experience-driven synaptic delivery of AMPA receptors in vivo; Prof. Takuya Takahashi
Yokohama City University
Graduate School of Medicine, Dept. of Physiology
Albert Einstein College School of Medicine, Dept. of Neuroscience; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:00-12:30: BSI Forum: Kainate Receptors and Rhythmic Network Activity-Gamma Oscillations as a Tool; Jonathan C. Horton MD PhD
William F. Hoyt Professor of Neuro-Ophthalmology
Beckman Vision Center
10 Koret Way, Room K-331
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California 94143-0730; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 13:30-15:00: 75th Invited Seminar: Synaptic determinants of signal processing at the input layer of the cerebellar cortex; Dr. Robin Angus Silver
Department of Physiology, University College London; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Cerebellar control of the VOR in primate: Studies in cerebellar patients and cerebellar-lesioned monkeys; Dr. David Samuel Zee
Department of Neurology
The Johns Hopkins Hospital; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Monday, November 27, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Functional analysis of LolA, a lipoprotein-specific molecular chaperon in Escherichia coli, based on crystal structure.; Shoji WATANABE, Ph.D
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience, University of Tokyo; BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Monday, November 27, 2006 13:30-15:00: BSI Forum: Key questions in the new field that bridges neuroscience and psychoanalysis; Fred M. Levin. M.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Feinberg School of medicine
Northwestern University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 16:00-18:00: BSI Forum: Acoustic Communication by Toothed Whales; Tadamichi MORISAKA, Ph.D.
Research Fellow at Lab. of Ethology,
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: EEG synchronization analysis combined with imaging techniques: a noninvasive window into the brain functioning; Maria G. Knyazeva
Departments of Radiology and Neurology
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, November 16, 2006 14:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Volitional control of neural activity and implications for brain-computer interfaces; Dr. Eberhard E. Fetz
Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Core staff, Washington National Primate Research Center
University of Washington; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 13:00-14:30: BSI Forum: From an old glycolytic enzyme to a novel translational research for schizophrenia; Akira Sawa, M.D.
Program in Molecular Psychiatry, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, November 13, 2006 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: How does the brain learn to control movements; from basic research to brain machine interface; Prof. Eilon Vaadia Dept. Physiology, Faculty Medicine The Jack H. Skirball Chair & Research Fund in Brain Research
The Interdisciplinary center for neural computation (ICNC)
The Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, October 27, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Making and Saving Dopamine Neurons; Dr.Andre Fisahn, Assistant Professor, Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Kainate Receptors and Rhythmic Network Activity-Gamma Oscillations as a Tool; OZAKI,Tohru
Professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Graduate University of Advanced Studies; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 14:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Taiwan-Japanese Mini-Symposium on Dementia; Drs. Naruhiko Sahara, Takaomi C. Saido, Rivka Ravid, Yu-Min Kuo, Rivka Ravid & Lih-Fen Lue; BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Thursday, October 5, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Kainate Receptors and Rhythmic Network Activity-Gamma Oscillations as a Tool; Dr.Andre Fisahn, Assistant Professor, Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, October 2, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Mouse genetic approaches to memory and related disorders: Generation of two novel hypotheses; Prof. Karl Peter Giese, Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, September 22, 2006 17:30-18:30: BSI Forum: Are XX and XY brain cells intrinsically different?; Dr. Arthur P. Arnold, Distinguished Professor, Principal Investigator, University of California, Los Angeles CA USA; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, September 22, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Neural mechanisms of action learning: from molecules to systems in mouse models; Dr. Rui M. Costa, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:30-12:00: BSI Forum: Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers; Dr. Arnaud Doucet, Dept. of Statistics & Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 15:00-16:30

BSI Forum: Towards a workbench for rodent brain image data: systems architecture and design

Dr. Jan G. Bjaalie

Professor of Neural Systems and Graphics Computing Laboratory, Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience & Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Exective Director of International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility(INCF), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 7, 2006 15:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Combining binary classifiers for multi-class problem; Dr. Shiro Ikeda, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, September 7, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Genomic regulatory blocks form the basis of conserved synteny in vertebrate genomes; Dr. Hiroshi Kikuta, Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Norway; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 6, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Categorization, functional equivalence relations, and the structure of natural categories.; Prof. Masako Jitsumori, Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba University; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, September 6, 2006 15:30-16:30: BSI Forum: Analysis on the function of the central nervous system in syntaxin1A/HPC-1 knock-out mice: Are they model animals for human autism?; Prof. Kimio Akagawa, MD, PhD, Department of Cell Physiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Rate Coding by Noise-Induced Attractor Selection in Multistable Neuronal Networks; Dr. Leonid Safonov, Educational Physiology Laboratory, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Genome-Wide Association Analysis for Complex Diseases and Its Application to Human Narcolepsy; Professor Katsushi TOKUNAGA, Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: The hippocampal formation applies 'Independent Process Analysis' and breaks the curse of dimensionality: A model; Prof. Andras Lorincz, Department of Information Systems, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Drug Discovery Approaches Leading to Investigational Compounds in Diabetes and Alzheimers; Dr. Hans-Ulrich Demuth, Vice-CEO and CSO, Probiodrug AG, Germany; BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Behavioral and physiological analysis of vibrissal touch and object recognition; Michael Brecht, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Neuroscience, Dr. Molewaterplein 50; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, August 9, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: The importance of studying behaviour in mouse models of neurodegenerative disease; Professor Richard E. Brown, Psychology Department and Neuroscience Institute, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, August 9, 2006: BSI Forum: Exact Concept Manipulations in Humans; Kenji Kansaku, M.D., Ph.D., Section Chief, Cognitive Functions Section, Department of Rehabilitation for Sensory Functions, Research Institute of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 8, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Regularized Least Squares for Pattern Discovery in Time Signals; Mr. Gustavo Sato dos Santos, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, August 2, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Wholes, Holes, and Objects in Attention; Prof. Lin Chen, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Graduate School and Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, July 31, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Low-Rank Nonnegative Factorizations for Spectral Data and Imaging Applications; Dr. Ed Callaway, Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, July 28, 2006 13:30-14:45: BSI Forum: Unraveling fine-scale and cell-type specificity of cortical circuits; Dr. Ed Callaway, Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 13:00-14:00: BSI Forum: Apoptosis and beyond: Sphingolipids in stem cell biology system; Dr. Erhard Bieberich, Medical College of Georgia, USA; FRP Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Processing of spatio-temporal activity patterns by neuronal circuits in the olfactory bulb; Dr. Rainer W. Friedrich, Research Group Leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: p45, an ATPase Subunit of the 19S Proteasome, Targets the Polyglutamine Disease Protein Ataxin-3 to the Proteasome; Prof. Guanghui WANG, Professor School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China; BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Monday, July 24, 2006 11:00-12:30

BSI Forum:

Prof. Alex Thiele, The Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, July 24, 2006 16:00-18:00: BSI Forum: Comparative aspects of cortical control of hand function: the role of the corticospinal system; Professor Roger Nicholas LEMON, Director, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, University College London; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: In search of the Hebbian cell assembly: from synaptic plasticity to network dynamics; Dr. Kazuo Imaizumi, Coleman Memorial Laboratory, W.M. Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Department of Otolaryngology,
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 13, 2006 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Parallel Processing in Cat Primary Auditory Cortical Fields; Dr. Kazuo Imaizumi, Coleman Memorial Laboratory, W.M. Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Department of Otolaryngology,
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 13, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: CARMEN: An E-Science Infrastructure for the Storage and Analysis of Electrophysiological Data; Professor Colin Ingram, Director, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, UK; BSI Central 2F Seminar Room

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 14:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Exploring the Minimal Dynamics of Behavioural Preference; Dr. Hiroyuki IIZUKA, Postdoc fellow at Future University-Hakodate, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting research fellow at University of Sussex, UK; S108 room at BSI Central Bldg.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 14:00-16:00: BSI Forum: From Muscle to Brain: Development of Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots and Human Neural Simulator; Dr.Mihoko Otake, Assistant Professor, Science Integration Program - Humans, Department of Frontier Sciences and Science Integration, Division of Project Coordination, The University of Tokyo; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Friday, July 7, 2006 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: From artificial neural networks to industrial data mining; Dr. Francoise Soulie Fogelman, KXEN; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, July 5, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Comparative genomic analyses of mammalian species including human; Saitou Naruya,Ph.D, (Professor in Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics; BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Thursday, July 6, 2006 11:00-12:30: BSI Forum: Modeling diffusion of receptors in neuronal micro-domains; Prof. David Holcman
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, July 3, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Temporal integration of information in perceptual decision making: a recurrent network model; Kong-Fatt Wong, Physics Department, Brandeis University, USA; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, July 3, 2006 14:30-15:30: BSI Forum: Overcoming Our Fears: Prefrontal -amygdala interactions in extinction; Gregory J. Quirk, PhD, Dept. of Physiology, Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, July 3, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Midline radial glia translocation and cortical astrocyte migration require Fgf signaling; Dr. Yas OHKUBO, Yale School of Medicine, Child Study Center; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, June 30, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Molecular Mechanism of Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity in the Cerebellum; Dr. Shin-ya Kawaguchi, Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:15-12:45: BSI Invited Seminar Series: Neural Synchrony and Selective Attention; Prof. Robert Desimone, Director of the McGovern Institute and Professor in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, MIT; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, June 29, 2006 16:00-18:00: BSI Forum: How does niche construction provide a mechanism for Deacon's masking effect?; Dr. Hajime Yamauchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science And Technology; BSI Ikenohata Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Friday, June 23, 2006 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: Bacterial-induced reprogramming adult glial cells to multipotent stem cell-like cells; Anura Rambukkana, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 26, 2006 14:30-15:30: BSI Forum: Cell and Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Migration of Cortical Interneurons; Professor John G. Parnavelas, Department of Anatomy and Development Biology, University College London, UK; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Monday, June 26, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Regulation of Neuronal Morphology by Synaptic Activity; Dr. Edward S. Ruthazer, Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, CANADA; BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Investigation of memory-trace replay following a novel experience: Evidence of short-lasting reactivation but not long-lasting reverberation; Masami Tatsuno, Ph.D., ARL Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, The University of Arizona; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Different memories are used for generating saccades at different stages of learning; Takahiro Horaguchi, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba; BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Wednesday, June 7, 2006 17:00-18:00: BSI Forum: Lipid-protein interactions in cell signaling & real-time monitoring of lipid mediators; Prof. Wonhwa Cho, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.; BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Friday, May 26, 2006 14:00-15:00: Three-Part Series Talks as BSI Forum (Part-III): The Relative Importance of Temperature, Body Size, and the Estimation of their Ancestral States to Explain Variability in DNA Substitution Rate in 54 Species of North American Minnows (Cyprinidae); Professor George F. Estabrook, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, USA; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, May 26, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Analysis of Mammalian Hedgehog Signal Transduction in Neural Tube Development and Spermatogenesis; Dr. Shigeru Makino, Program in Developmental Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; BSI Central Bldg 5F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 25, 2006 15:00-16:30: Three-Part Series Talks as BSI Forum (Part-II): Metabolic Rate Tends to Vary Monotonically with Evolutionary Rate of Mitochondrial DNA among 54 Species of minnows (Cyprinidae); Professor George F. Estabrook, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, USA; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:00-12:30: BSI Forum: Probing EEG Oscillations in Vitro: Multiple Interdependent Rhythm Generators in Neocortex; Prof. Miles Whittington, Professor of Neuroscience, School of Neurology, Neurobiology & Psychiatry, The Medical School, University of Newcastle, U.K.; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 15:00-16:00: Three-Part Series Talks as BSI Forum (Part-I): Computational Approach to Predicting Statistical Probability Distributions and its Application to Evaluating Appropriateness of DNA Base Pair Sites for Estimating Evolutionary Relationships; Professor George F. Estabrook, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, USA; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Neuroinformatics: From Neural Models to Virtual Brains; Giorgio Ascoli, Ph.D., Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University; BSI Central Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Molecular Mechanisms that Control the Fate of Inhibitory and Excitatory Neurons in the Dorsal Spinal Cord; Dr. Rumiko Mizuguchi, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: ER Stress Signaling Pathways in Health and Disease; Fumihiko Urano, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 22, 2006 10:00-11:00: BSI Forum: Feedback Inhibition in the Neocortex and Feedforward Inhibition in the Striatum; Dr. Scott Makeig, Director, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego; BSI East Bldg 2F Room 219

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Using Neural Modeling and Functional Neuroimaging to Study the Neuralbasis of Object Processing; Prof. Barry Horwitz, National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:00-12:30: BSI Forum: Feedback Inhibition in the Neocortex and Feedforward Inhibition in the Striatum; Dr. Gilad Silberberg, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 18, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Bimanual Co-ordination in Cortical and Subcortical Areas; Dr. Demetris Soteropoulos, Sir James Spence Institute, University of Newcastle, Royal Victoria Infirmary, UK.; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 14:00-14:00: BSI Forum: 15 Years of AChE Structural and Functional Analysis What Have We Learned and What Still Remains To Be Resolved; Dr. Avigdor Shafferman, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel; BSI Central Bldg 4F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: M1 Muscarinic Agonists (B Promising Agents on Major Hallmarks of Alzheimer's Disease; Dr. Abraham Fisher, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel; BSI Central Bldg 4F Seminar Room

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: The Multiscale Properties of Evoked Cortical Activity; Dr. Michael Breakspear, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, May 15, 2006 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: How the Whole is Put Together: Understanding Gestalts; Prof. Michael Kubovy, University of Virginia, Department of Psychology; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: A Functional Role for Motor Cortical Oscillations; Dr. Stuart Baker, Sir James Spence Institute, University of Newcastle, Royal Victoria Infirmary, UK.; BSI West Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 11, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Improved Estimation of Human Cortical Activity and Connectivity with the Multimodal Integration of High Resolution EEG Recordings and Hemodynamic Data; Dr. Fabio Babiloni, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome "La Sapienza"; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, May 11, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Estimation of brain functional connectivity by using high resolution EEG recordings, directed transfer function and partial directed coherence; Laura Astolfi, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome "La Sapienza"; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:00-11:30: BSI Forum: Anatomical Approaches for Identification of Neural Circuits in Electrosensory and Visual Systems; Dr. Atsuko Matsushita, Research scientist at Dept. of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, April 28, 2006 14:30-15:30: BBSI Forum: Caspase-like Activity is Essential for Long-term Synaptic Plasticity in the Terrestrial Snail Helix; Prof. Pavel M. Balaban, Director of Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 26, 2006 11:00-12:30: BSI Forum: Arrhenius-type Kinetics of Emergent Perception: Random Basis of Top-down Effect; Dr. Tsutomu Murata, Kansai Advanced Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 20, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Molecular Machinery Governing GABAergic Neuron Specification in the Cerebellum; Dr. Mikio Hoshino, Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Event Related Changes in Functional Brain Connectivity are Correlated with Cognitive Ability; Richard Bernard Silberstein, Professor at Brain Science Institute, Swinburne University of Technology and Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, Melbourne, Australia; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, April 13, 2006 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Seeing the Invisible: Perceptual Organization in Pigeons; Dr. Yasuo Nagasaka, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa; BSI Central Bldg 2F Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 14:00-15:30: 73rd Invited Seminar: Current Insights in the Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Brain Diseases; Christine Van Broeckhoven PhD DSc, Neurodegenerative Brain Diseases Group, Department of, Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Investigating Face Recognition with Event-related Brain Potentials; Prof. Werner Richard Sommer, Humboldt-University at Berlin; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, April 7, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Entrainment of Complex Oscillator Networks: Strong Impact of the Network Architecture and Implications for Design of Biological Clocks; Dr. Hiroshi Kori, Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, March 31, 2006 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Francisco Varela and the new science of networks; Prof. Hugues Bersini, The AI laboratory, Free University of Brussels (ULB); BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 27, 2006 10:30-12:00: BSI Forum: State-Dependent Long-Lasting Bidirectional Modification of Somatic Inhibition in Visual Cortical Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons; Dr. Tohru Kurotani, Department of Visual Neuroscience, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 27, 2006 17:00-18:30: BSI Forum: Dynamic Images of CNS Network Plasticity; Prof. Hiromu Yawo, Dept. of Developmental Biology and Neuroscience, Tohoku Univ. Graduate School of Life Sciences; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, March 17, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Development, Regeneration and Protection of Inner Ear Hair Cells; Dr. Azel Zine, University of Montellier I, Institute of Neurosciences, France; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Molecular Cell Biology of Cerebral Cortex Evolution; Dr. Cliff Ragsdale, The University of Chicago, Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Patterning the Cerebral Cortex; Dr. Elizabeth Grove, The University of Chicago, Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 14:00-15:30: 72nd Invited Seminar: Neural and Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Drug Addiction; Prof. Barry Everitt, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 16:00-17:30: 71st Invited Seminar: The Dynamics of Evoked and Ongoing Activity in the Behaving Monkey; Dr. Ariram Grinvald, Dept Neurobiol, Weizmann Inst for Sci, Rehovot, Israel; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Animal Contests: Game Theory, Fighting Behaviour and Parasitic Wasps.; Dr. Ian C.W. Hardy Associate Professor in Animal Population Biology School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, March 6, 2006 14:00-15:00: BSI Forum: Genetic Approaches to Study Opioid Receptor Function; Dr. Brigitte L. Kieffer; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, March 2, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Quantitative Imaging of the Brain; Prof. Nadim Joni SHAH; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, March 2, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Guides Migration of New Neurons in the Adult Brain; Dr. Kazunobu Sawamoto, Bridgestone Laboratory of Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Sensory Cortex Changes Caused by Discrimination Learning; Prof. David Blake, Dept. of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity by Presynaptic Functional Molecules in the Hippocampal CA1 Region; Dr. Noriko Kumazawa, Research Scientist, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo; BSI Central Bldg 2F Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 16:00-17:30: 70th Invited Seminar: Glutamatergic Dysfunction and Schizophrenia; Joseph T. Coyle, M.D., Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical Schoo; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 23, 2006 16:30-17:30: BSI Forum: Genetic Labeling of Neurons in Mice; Mineto Yokoi M.D., Ph.D., Molecular Neurogenetics Unit, Horizontal Medical Research Organization (HMRO), Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine; BSI Ikenohata Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:00-12:00: BSI Forum: Motion Adaptation in Human V1 and MT: Event-Related fMRI Study; Prof. Sang-Hun Lee of Psychology Department and Interdisciplinary, Program in Brain Science, Seoul National University; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Wnt and Hedgehog Organize Topographic Mapping of Retinal Axon Projections in the Drosophila Visual System; Dr. Tetsuya Tabata, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, February 20, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Membrane Potential and Conductance Changes Underlying Surround Suppression in Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Dr. Hirofumi Ozeki, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University; BSI Central Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Friday, February 17, 2006 17:00-18:30: BSI Forum: The Role of NMDA Receptors in Spatial Leaning of Rats; Tomoko Uekita, Doshisha University; BSI Ikenohata Bldg 311 Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: The Proximal Part of Spinal Motor Axons: From the Initial Segment to the Following Internode; Dr. Yanchao Li; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: In Situ Imaging Analysis of Directed Migration of Neuronal Precursors in the Developing Chicken Cerebellum; Akira Sakakibara, Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:30-11:15: BSI Forum: The Expression of Neuronal Growth-Associated Proteins in Relation to the Development and Plasticity of Cortical Networks; Dr. Noriyuki Higo, Neuroscience Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:15-12:00: BSI Forum: Sequential Mutiplexed Coding of Associative Factors Related to Reward Expectation in Monkey Basolateral Amygdala; Dr. Yasuko Sugase-Miyamoto, Neuroscience Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, February 8, 2006 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Neural and Statistical Methods for Multidimensional Data Visualization; Dr. Antoine Naud, Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; BSI Central Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Monday, February 6, 2006 15:30-16:30: BSI Forum: Brains for Robots: Integrating Language Understanding, Vision and Action in a Neuromorphic Robot Control System; Guenther Palm, Department of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, February 3, 2006 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: TCollaboration of PSD-Zip70 with Its Binding Partner, SPAR, in Dendritic Spine Morphology; Hisato Maruoka, Department of Neuroscience (D13), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, February 3, 2006 14:00-15:30: BSI Forum: Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1: Current Concepts and Perspectives; Hisato Maruoka, Prof. Francesco Ferraguti, Dept. of Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria; BSI East Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Monday, January 30, 2006 16:00-17:00: BSI Forum: The Neural Adhesion Molecule TAG-1: Different Functions in the Adult and the Developing Nervous System; Dr. Domna Karagogeous, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience University of Crete Medical School; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Sunday-Monday, January 29-30, 2006: BSI Forum: Information Geometry from the Perspective of Affine Differential Geometry; BSI Central Bldg 2F Seminar Room

Friday, January 27, 2006 10:00-11:30: BSI Forum: Dynamics of Functional Columns and Modulatory Action of Dopamine in the Monkey Prefrontal Cortex; Yoshihiro Hirata, Laboratory of cognitive neurobiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, January 27, 2006 15:30-16:30: BSI Forum: Gamma-Secretase: Endoproteolysis within Transmembrane Domains; Dr. Taisuke Tomita, Assistant professor, Department of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo; BSI Central Bldg 4F Seminar Room

Monday, January 23, 2006 11:00-12:30: BSI Forum: Traveling Waves in Visual Cortex during Binocular Rivalry; Prof. David Heeger, New York University; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, January 23, 2006 15:00-: BSI Forum: Neural Bases of Object Recognition and Temporal-Order Memory in the Rat; Prof. Anthony G. Phillips, Brain Research Centre and Institute of Mental Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; BSI Central Bldg 5F Seminar Room

Monday, January 23, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Neural Bases of Object Recognition and Temporal-Order Memory in the Rat; Drs Nobuo Funatsu & Takayoshi Inoue, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, January 20, 2006 15:00-16:30: BSI Forum: Impaired Flexible Learning and Audio-Visual Integration after Lesion in the Auditory Cortex; Kentaro Ono, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University; BSI Central Bldg 5F Seminar Room

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 13:30-14:30: BSI Forum: The Complex Structure of a Simple Memory; Prof. Jonathan Wolpaw, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York 12201-0509; BSI Ikenohata Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Monday, January 16, 2006 15:00-16:00: BSI Forum: Pathogenesis and Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease; Prof. Olaf Riess, Full Professor (C4) of Medical Genetics, Head of the Department of Medical Genetics and of the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Tubingen, Germany; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, January 16, 2006 17:00-18:00: BSI Forum: A Genetic Link between Pax6 and Fabp7 in Embryonic and Postnatal Neurogenesis; Prof. Noriko Osumi, Division of Developmental Neuroscience, CTAAR, Tohoku University School of Medicine; BSI Ikenohata Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 15:00-17:00: BSI Forum: Brain Mechanisms of Visual Motion Perception; Prof. J Anthony Movshon, Center for Neural Science, New York University; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, January 6, 2006 14:00-15:30: 69th Invited Seminar: Cognitive Neural Prosthetics; Richard A. Andersen, James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, December 26, 2005 15:00 - 16:00: BSI Joint Forum: 1. Exploiting Characteristics of Short Sequences to Construct 3-D Structures of Proteins; Dr. Nikhil Ranjan Pal, Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta; BSI Central Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Monday, December 26, 2005 16:00 - 17:00: BSI Joint Forum: 2. Robustness, Evolvability, and Optimality of Evolutionary Neural Networks; Dr. Paulito Pedregosa Palmes, Technical Staff, Laboratory for Neuroinformatics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute; BSI Central Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 14:00 - 15:00: BSI Forum: Altered Reinforcement Mechanisms in Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Gail Tripp, PhD., ADHD Research Clinic, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, New Zealand; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Friday, December 16, 2005 16:00 - 17:00: BSI Forum: Comparative Cognitive Neuroscience; Prof. Shigeru Watanabe, Department of Psychology, Keio University; BSI Ikenohata Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:00 - 11:30: BSI Forum: Molecular Basis of Electrical and Morphological Diversity of Neocortical Neurons; Dr. Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 13:30 - 15:00: BSI Forum: Opioids and Cannabinoids Control P2X Nociceptors in Mammalian Sensory Neurons; Dr. O. Krishtal, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, Ukraine; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 14:00 - 15:00: BSI Forum: Negative Regulation of Hedgehog Signaling by the Cholesterogenic Enzyme, 7-Dehydrocholesterol Reductase; Dr. Tetsuya Koide, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 15:30 - 16:30: BSI Forum: Modeling Language Evolution in Simulated Robots: Issues in Compositionality; Dr. Paul Vogt, Language Evolution and Computation research unit, University of Edinburgh, UK; BSI Central Bldg 2F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 8 2005 15:00 - 16:30: BSI Forum: Image Segmentation by Complex-Valued Units; Dr. Cornelius Weber, Center for Hybrid Intelligent Systems School of Computing and Technology, Univearsity of Sunderland, UK; BSI Central Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Monday, December 5, 2005 16:00 - 17:00: BSI Forum: Enhancer Detection in Zebrafish : Search for Developmentally Important Genes and Regulatory Sequences; Dr. Thomas Becker, Group Leader, Development of Fish Visual System Sars Centre, University of Bergen, Norway; BSI Ikenohata Bldg 3F Seminar Room

Friday, December 2 2005 16:00 - 17:00: BSI Forum: From Mirror Neurons to Empathy; Dr. Christian Keysers, Associate, Neuro-Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands; BSI Central Bldg 2F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 1, 2005 14:00 - 15:00: BSI Forum: Dopamine, Motivation and Learning: A Genetic Approach; Barbara Cagniard Ph.D.; BSI East Bldg 1F Seminar Room

Thursday, December 1, 2005 14:00 - 15:30: BSI Forum: Logical Words in Child Language; Utako Minai, Department of Linguistic, University of Maryland, College Park; BSI Central Bldg 2F Seminar Room

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