[BIC-announce] FW: Dr. Chattarji, Killam lecture "Impact of Stress on the Amygdala", Tuesday Nov 25

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Please plan to attend the Killam lecture on Tuesday, November 25 at 4 pm
in the deGrandpre Centre

 

"The fear of fear itself:  Impact of stress on the amygdale"

 

Dr. Sumantra Chattarji

 

National Centre for Biological Sciences

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 

Bangalore, India

 


Professor Sumantra Chattarji is a member of the faculty in the
Neurobiology Division of the National Centre for Biological Sciences in
Bangalore, India. He received his Master's degree in Physics in 1986
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He then went on
to do a PhD in Neuroscience (1993), under the supervision of Terry
Sejnowski, at the Johns Hopkins University and Salk Institute. After
post-doctoral research at Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), he started his own laboratory at NCBS in 1999. 

 

His laboratory studies the effects of stressful experiences on synapses,
and cells in the amygdala, by using a combination of behavioral,
neuroanatomical, genetic engineering and electrophysiological
techniques. His research has identified several novel neural correlates
of stress-induced plasticity in the amygdala, which are strikingly
different from those observed in the hippocampus. These findings suggest
that prolonged stress leaves its mark by enhancing both the
physiological and structural basis of synaptic connectivity in the
amygdala, thereby triggering the emotional symptoms observed in
stress-related psychiatric disorders. 

 

More recently, he was part of an international team that used a mouse
model to reverse the symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome, the most common
form of heritable mental retardation and the leading identified cause of
autism. Since 1999 he is also a visiting scientist in Susumu Tonegawa's
lab at MIT. Professor Chattarji was awarded an International Senior
Research Fellowship by The Wellcome Trust in 2003. He is a member of the
Council of the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (MCCS) and
serves as the Secretary of MCCS-Asia.


For more biographical information,             see
http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroscience/profiles/sumantrachatterji/detai
l/

For more information about his research, see
http://www.ncbs.res.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Ite
mid=145

 

 

 

Elizabeth Kofron, PhD

Associate Director

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Suite 636 

3801 University Street

Montreal, Quebec, Canada  H3A 2B4

 

Tel:  514-398-2316

Fax: 514-398-8248

elizabeth.kofron at mcgill.ca

 

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