The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Foundation Seminar Series on Neurobiology and Disease at Duke University seeks to promote Translational Neuroscience by facilitating the interactions of fundamental and clinical neuroscientists. Translational Neuroscience applies insights gained through fundamental research on brain structure and function to develop novel pharmacological, surgical, and behavioral therapies of these diseases. This seminar series will feature national and international neuroscientists of the highest caliber. Neuroscientists from Duke and other academic institutions, government, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology institutions throughout the region are welcome to attend. To facilitate access of an even broader audience, the seminars will be recorded, digitized, and posted on this web site, thereby giving neuroscientists worldwide access to this valuable resource. This lectureship series is made possible by the generous support of the Ruth K. Broad Biomedical Research Foundation.

Upcoming Seminars

Paul Worley

The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:30 pm, 103 Bryan Building The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Foundation Seminar Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Nathaniel Heintz

James and Marilyn Simons Professor The Rockefeller University Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:30 pm, 103 Bryan Building The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Foundation Seminar Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Rob Malenka

Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford School of Medicine Tuesday, March 20, 2011 11:30 pm, 103 Bryan Building The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Foundation Seminar Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Barry Dickson

Scientific Director, Senior Scientist Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:30 pm, 103 Bryan Building The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Foundation Distinguished International Seminar Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Terry Sejnowski

Professor and Laboratory Head Francis Crick Professorship  Computational Neurobiology Laboratory Salk Institute for Biological Studies Thursday, April 10, 2011 The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Foundation Seminar Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Carla Shatz

Director, Bio-X Professor of Biology & Neurogiology Stanford University Wednesday, May 16, 2012 11:30 pm, 103 Bryan Building The Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Foundation Seminar Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Previous Seminars

Rachel Wong

University of Washington Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Building Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Amy Arnsten

Professor of Neurobiology Yale University School of Medicine Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Building Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Joseph Takahashi

HHMI Investigator Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Building Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Nikos Logothetis

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Building Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Roderick MacKinnon

Nobel Laureate HHMI Investigator The Rockefeller University Thursday, March 24, 2011 Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Christof Koch

Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology California Institute of Technology Tuesday, 2/22/2011 12:30 pm, 103 Bryan Building Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Mu-Ming Poo

Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology University of Calilfonia - Berkeley Tuesday, 2/15/2011 12:30 pm, 103 Bryan Building Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Li-Huei Tsai

Picower Professor of Neuroscience Picower Institute of for Learning and Memory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, 1/25/2011 12:30 pm, 103 Bryan Building Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Raymond Dingledine

Professor and Chair of Pharmacology Emory University School of Medicine "COX2 signaling pathways in epilepsy" Tuesday, 11/30/2010 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Building Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Brandi Ormerod

J. Crayton Pruitt Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Florida Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:00pm 106 LSRC Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Randall Bateman

Washington University School of Medicine "Measuring Amyloid-Beta Production & Clearance Rates in Blood" Tuesday, May 25,2010 12:00pm 103 Bryan Res Bldg Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease

Antonello Bonci

University of California at San Francisco Tuesday,April 13, 2010 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Bldg Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Markus Meister

Jeff C Tarr Professor of Biology Harvard University "Visual computations in the retina and beyond" Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:00 pm 147 Nanaline Duke The Lawrence C. Katz Memorial Prize Lecture

Jacqueline Crawley

Chief, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience National Institute of Mental Health "Mouse Models of Autism to Test Hypotheses and Discover Treatments" Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Bldg Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Shumin Duan

Institute of Neuroscience Chinese Academy of Sciences Glial cells and synaptic plasticity Tuesday, February 9, 2010 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Bldg Ruth K. Broad Foundation Distinguished International Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Bert Sakmann

Max Planck Florida Institute 1991 Nobel Prize Recipient Tuesday, January 29, 2010 4:00 pm, 103 Bryan Bldg Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Department of Neurobiology and Then Ruth K. Broad Foundation Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Steve Traynelis

Department of Pharmacology Emory University Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:00 pm, 103 Bryan Bldg Ruth K. Broad Foundation Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Haruo Kasai

Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine University of Tokyo Thursday, December 10, 2009, 4:00 pm, 103 Bryan Bldg Ruth K. Broad Foundation Distinguished International Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Stanley Prusiner

Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases University of California at San Francisco 1997 Nobel Laureate "Design and Construction of Synthetic Prions" 12:00pm on Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Richard Frackowiak

Institute of Neurology University College of London April 27, at 4:00 pm in 103 Bryan Ruth K. Broad Foundation Distinguished International Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Leslie Vosshall, PhD

The Rockefeller University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Chemers Family Associate Professor "Mosquitoes, Body Odor, Insect Repellents: The Molecular Genetics of Smell" Friday, April 3, 2009 The Lawrence C. Katz Memorial Prize Lecture

Yves-Alain Barde

Biozentrum, University of Basel "Trophic mechanisms in the developing nervous system" Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Ruth K. Broad Foundation Distinguished International Lecture Series on Neurobiology and Disease Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Bill Mobley

Stanford University 12:00pm on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Constance Scharff

Freie Universität Berlin 12:00pm on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Columbia University 12:00pm on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Columbia University Who's Afraid of Chaotic Networks? Models of Sensory and Motor Processing in the Face of Spontaneous Neuronal Activity 12:00pm on Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Susumu Tonegawa

MIT Molecular, cellular and circuit mechanisms for hippocampal learning and memory. 12:00 pm on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1987 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Gang Yu

UTSW Toward A Mechanistic Understanding Of Alzheimer's Disease Through Basic Biology 12:00 pm on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Alan Basbaum

UCSF The Neurobiology of Pain: From molecules, to circuits, to behavior 12:00 pm on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Karl Deisseroth

Stanford University "Optogenetics development and application: multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry" 12:00 pm on Tuesday, March, 2008 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Ann Graybiel

MIT Building Neural Representations of Habits 12:00 pm on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008 Note: Introduced by Bill Hall Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Bob Darnell

The Rockefeller University Title: RNA regulatory maps in the brain 12:00 pm on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Note: Introduced by Anne West Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Jeff Friedman

The Rockefeller University Title: Leptin, behavior and metabolism: Balancing the energy equation in vivo 12:00 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007 Note: Introduced by Wolfgang Liedtke Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

University College London "Regulating synaptic strength; integrins and homeostatic mechanisms" 12:00 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007 Note: Introduced by Mike Ehlers Webcast available here (choose your preferred format)

Jeffrey Noebels, M.D., Ph.D.

Baylor College of Medicine "Profiling ion channel genes in epilepsy" 12:00 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format): Quicktime Streaming - 768x576 Note: Introduction by Jim McNamara.

Eric Kandel, M.D.

Columbia University "Molecular mechanisms for the persistence of memory storage" 12:00 pm on Thursday, April 26, 2007 (New Date) Webcast available here (choose your preferred format): Quicktime Streaming - 768x576 Note: Introduction by Richard Mooney.

Daniel Wolpert, M.D., D.Phil

University of Cambridge "Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control" 12:00 pm on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format): Quicktime Streaming - 768x576

David Bredt, M.D., Ph.D.

Lilly Research Laboratories, Corporate Center "Synaptic plasticity regulated by stargazin and novel TARPs" 12:00 pm on Thursday, April 12, 2007 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format): Quicktime Streaming - 768x576

Karel Svoboda, Ph.D.

Janelia Farms Research Campus "Imaging experience-dependent plasticity of synapses and circuits" 12:00 pm on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format): Quicktime Streaming - 768x576 Note: Introduction by Ryohei Yasuda.

James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D.

The Rockefeller University "Making an effort to listen: Mechanical amplification by myosin molecules and ion channels in hair cells of the inner ear" 2:00 pm on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format): Quicktime Streaming - 768x576 Real Media Streaming - 768x576 Windows Media Streaming - 768x576 Note: Introduction by Richard Mooney.

Donald Cleveland, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego "From Charcot to Lou Gehrig: Mechanism and treatment of ALS" 12:00 pm on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Webcast pending

Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles "Microarrays in neuroscience: Moving from gene expression to biological networks" 12:00 pm on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Webcast available here (choose your preferred format): Quicktime Streaming - 768x576 Real Media Streaming - 768x576 Windows Media Streaming - 768x576 Note: Introduction by Nicole Calakos.