Monday Noon Seminars

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Monday Noon seminars are hosted by the Hope Center and the Department of Neurology. Talks are organized around mini-series topics; each mini-series is organized by Hope Center faculty members to feature investigators from Washington University as well as one outside speaker. Monday Noon seminars run from November through May each year. (There are no Monday Noon seminars in September and October, as the Hope Center and the Department of Neurology participate in the Neuroscience Colloquium and have agreed to suspend the seminar series for these two months each year.)

All seminars are listed on the Neuroscience Calendar of the Office of Neuroscience Research.

2014/2015 Schedule

Mondays, 12-1p
November – June
Holden Auditorium (Farrell Learning and Teaching Center)

Beyond Genes
Neurobiology of Brain Tumors
Insights into autism spectrum disorder
Advanced Imaging Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Circuit Assembly and Plasticity

Beyond Genes

Organizer, Carlos Cruchaga

November 10: Alison Goate (WUSTL Psychiatry), “Studying genetically at-risk populations to understand Alzheimer’s disease”
November 24: Philip De Jager (Harvard University), “Towards an integration of Alzheimer ‘omics’ data: translation of susceptibility networks into drug discovery efforts”
December 8: Jason Ulrich (WUSTL Neurology), “TREM2 and microglial function in the context of Alzheimer’s disease Pathology”
December 15: Celeste Karch (WUSTL Psychiatry), “Novel Alzheimer’s disease risk variants and their roles in disease pathways”

Neurobiology of Brain Tumors

Organizer, David Gutmann

January 5: David Gutmann (WUSTL Neurology), “What developmental neurobiology can teach us about pediatric neurooncology”
January 12: Michelle Monje-Deisseroth (Stanford University), “Myelin plasticity in health and disease”
January 26: Albert Kim (WUSTL Neurosurgery), “Control of Glioblastoma Stem-Like Cells by the Anaphase-Promoting Complex”
February 2: Joshua Rubin (WUSTL Pediatrics), “Circadian Biology of Glioblastoma”

Insights into autism spectrum disorder

Organizer, Karen O’Malley

February 23: Kelly Botteron (WUSTL Psychiatry), “Early Brain Development in Autism: Insights from Longitudinal Multimodal Infant Neuroimaging Investigations”
March 2: Beth Kozel (WUSTL Pediatrics), “Williams syndrome: a window into autism spectrum conditions”
March 9: John Constantino (WUSTL Psychiatry), “Sex Specific Modulation of Inherited Susceptibility to the Autism Spectrum Disorders”
March 16: Mustafa Sahin (Harvard University), “Dissecting the Neural Circuitry of Autism”