[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - June 6 - Plasticity and processing the Whisker Map in Rodent Somatosensory Cortex

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Subject: Killam Lecture - June 6


 
****KILLAM LECTURE****
 
Speaker:  Dan Feldman, Ph.D
                Assistant Professor of Biology - University of California 
 
Title:     Plasticity and Processing the Whisker Map in Rodent Somatosensory Cortex
 
Place:    de Grandpre Communication Centre
 
Date:    Tuesday, June 6, 2006
 
Time:    4:00 pm
 
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Please welcome Dr. Dan Feldman who will be giving the Killam seminar   Tuesday, June 6 at 4:00.   Dr.  Feldman holds the Walter F. Heiligenberg 
Professorship in the Biology Division at UCSD, where he has used a combination of behavioral, in  vivo and in vitro electrophysiological techniques to reveal the 
mechanisms responsible for activity-dependent development and  plasticity of rodent "barrel" cortex.  Dr. Feldman was among the first researchers to appreciate the importance of spike time-dependent plasticity in cortex as a practical mechanism by which phenomena like LTP and LTD might guide response refinement in the  developing cortex.  His lab in recent years has provided some of the clearest evidence that spike timing is indeed a key player in activity-dependent plasticity in the developing cortex.

Dr. Feldman is an excellent, engaging speaker and is certain to be entertaining and informative.



Edward S. Ruthazer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair, Tier II
Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery
Adjunct Anatomy & Cell Biology, Psychology
McGill University - Montreal Neurological Institute
3801, rue University, rm. F121
Montréal (Québec) Canada H3A 2B4
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Telephone:  514-398-4022 (office) / -1448 (lab) / -6547(fax)
Email:  edward.ruthazer at mcgill.ca
Web:  http://www.ruthazerlab.mcgill.ca
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Wayne Sossin 

Associate Professor, McGill University 

Dept. Neurology and Neurosurgery 

Dept. Anatomy and Cell Biology 

3801 University St. 

Montreal Neurological Institute 

Montreal, Quebec 

Canada H3A-2B4 

Phone: 1-514-398-1486 

Fax: 1-514-398-8106 

e-mail wayne.sossin at mcgill.ca 

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