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Fall 2006 Seminar Series
The Texas A&M Faculty of Neuroscience sponsor a seminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in room 309 of Butler Hall. Speakers for the Fall 2006 semester are listed below with the host's name in parentheses.
  • September 14 --
    Yoonsuck Choe, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    "What Makes Your Thought March Forward?: A Role for the Thalamus and the Thalmic Reticular Nucleus"
    (host: Gregg B. Wells)
  • September 21 --
    Arum Han, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
    "Micro and Nano technology for Neuroscience Research."
    (host: Jane Welsh)
  • September 28 --
    L. Gerard Toussaint III, Mayo Clinic
    "Glioblastoma – Biology of invasion and the role of galectin-1"
    (host: William Griffith)
  • October 5 --
    TBA
  • October 12 --
    TBA


  • October 19 --
    TBA


  • October 26 --
    TBA


  • November 2 --
    Dwayne Simmons, Otolaryngology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University in St. Louis

  • November 9 --
    Joel Elmquist, Professor of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Pharmacology, Director, Center for Hypothalamic Research, UT Southwestern Medical School
    "Unraveling the CNS pathways underlying coordinated body weight and glucose homeostasis"
    (host: Mark Zoran)
  • November 16 --
    Qing Richard Lu, Center for Developmental Biology, Room NB5.110 UT Southwestern Medical Center

    (host: Jianrong Li)
  • November 23 --
    No seminar


  • November 30 --
    Paul Whalen, Department. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
    "Amygdala-prefrontal reactivity to the meaning of facial expressions of emotion"
    (host: Eddie Harmon-Jones)
Other Texas A&M seminar series of interest:
Small Red Ball Biochemistry/Biophysics
Small Red Ball Biology
Small Red Ball Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Small Red Ball Previous Neuroscience seminars
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Last updated 09/05/2006