Visiting Professors

2005

Dates Speaker Affiliation Department Institution Title
May 13th,
4:00 PM
Roger N. Lemon, Ph.D. Director Institute of Neurology University College, London England Premotor-motor cortex interactions during visually guided grasp.
October 19th,
4:00 PM
Steve I. Perlmutter, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics University of Washington Are Propriospinal Neurons an Important Pathway for Cortical Control of Voluntary Arm Movements? Insights from the Behaving Monkey

2006

Dates Speaker Affiliation Department Institution Title
January 6th,
4:00 PM
Claude P. Ghez, M.D. Professor Center for Neurobiology and Behavior Columbia University Trajectories and endpoints of reaching movements are planned independently and represented in different spatial coordinates.
January 18th,
4:00 PM
Xintian Hu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Zoology Kunming Institute of Zoology, China The Reliability of Oculomotor Command Signals Carried by Individual Neurons
February 2nd,
4:00 PM
Lee E. Miller, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Physiology Northwestern University Muscle-like commands in the motor cortex: The basis for a more natural brain machine interface?
March 16th,
4:00 PM
Apostolos Georgopoulos, M.D, Ph.D. Professor Neuroscience and Neurology University of Minnesota Mapping of preferred directions in the motor cortex
April 13th,
4:00 PM
Terrence Stanford, PhD Associate Professor Neurobiology & Anatomy Wake Forest University School of Medicine Motor Thalamus and Higher Visuo-Oculo-Motor Control
November 9th,
4:00 PM
Martha Flanders, Ph.D. Professor Department of Neuroscience University of Minnesota Patterns of Muscle Activation for Arm and Hand Movements
November 16th,
4:00 PM
Peter L. Strick, Ph.D. Professor Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh The Building Blocks for Movement in the Motor Cortex.

2007

Dates Speaker Affiliation Department Institution Title
March 8th,
4:00 PM
John I. Simpson, Ph.D. Professor Physiology and Neuroscience New York University Tales from the Most Numerous Neurons in the Brain – The Cerebellar Granule Cells
October 18th,
4:00 PM
Asaf Keller, Ph.D. Professor Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology University of Maryland School of Medicine Gateways to tactile perception: Parallel processing of pain and somatosensation
November 15th,
4:00 PM
Trevor Drew, Ph.D. Professor Dept physiologie Université de Montréal Cortical contribution to the control of precision walking in the cat.
December 13th,
3:00 PM
Nicolas Petersen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences University of Copenhagen Neural Drive during Voluntary Movement - one step back from the motoneurones