Kevin Davis, Ph.D.

• Up and down in the brainstem: Auditory processing of spectral cues to sound localization. Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, March 2008.

Greg Gdowski, Ph.D.

• Society for the Neural Control of Movement, 2008 Track Chair and Organizer: Sensory reweighting, what is it, and how is it used to control posture. Participants: Greg T. Gdowski, Robert Peterka, Emily Keshner, Paul DiZio

Ania K. Majewska, Ph.D.

• Imaging rapid plasticity in the visual cortex. Imaging neural circuits symposium, University of Chicago, IL. 2008.

M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D.

• Prostaglandin Production and Signaling in Chronic Neuroinflammation. Invited Speaker, Symposium entitled: Cyclooxygenases: Protectors or Enhancers of Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration? 39^th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Neurochemistry, San Antonio, Texas, March, 2008.
• IL-1 in Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s Disease. Invited Speaker, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May, 2008.

Gary Paige, Ph.D.

• Eye-position and Cross-Sensory Learning both Contribute to Prism Adaptation of Auditory Space, Cui, Q.N., O’Neill, W.E. and Paige, G.D., Assoc. for Res. in Otolaryngol., Midwinter Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, February 16-21, 2008.
• Influence of Auditory and Visual Distraction on Spatial Localization, Dobreva, M.S., O’Neill, W.E. and Paige, G.D., Assoc. for Res. in Otolaryngol., Midwinter Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, February 16-21, 2008.
• Prism Adaptation Revisited: Eye Position and Cross-Sensory Learning both Contribute to Auditory Spatial Shift,  Cui, Q.N., O’Neill, W.E. and Paige, G.D., Neural Control of Movement, 18th Annual Meeting, Naples, Florida, April 28-May 4, 2008.
• Optical Prisms Shift Visual Space, Paige, G.D., Cui, Q.N. and O’Neill, W.E., International Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (INOS), Napa, California, June 8-12, 2008.
• Spatial Orientation: A Multisensory Challenge for the Elderly, Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center of Upstate New York Grand Rounds, Monroe Community Hospital and University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, January 23, 2008.
• Perception of Self-Motion:  What is Vestibular and What is Not.  Basic and Clinical Aspects of Vertigo and Dizziness: A Symposium in Honor of Thomas Brandt, Kloster Seeon, Germany, June 22-25, 2008.

David Pinto, Ph.D.

• “The Dynamics of Neuronal Activity Waves in Neocortex” Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies, George Mason University Lehigh University, Department of Mathematics, Bethlehem, PA SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah

Laurel H. Carney, Ph.D.

• German-USA Collaborative Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, Munich June 2008, “Computational models for the tuning of inferior colliculus neurons to periodicities in amplitude-modulated tones, noise, and click trains.”
• Carney, L.H. (2008) Tuning of inferior colliculus neurons to amplitude-modulation frequency of tone and noise carriers and to the frequency of click trains, Abstract, Assoc. for Res. in Otolaryngol.
• Carney, L.H. (2008) Sensitivity of high-frequency inferior colliculus neurons to sinusoidal amplitude-modulation of low-frequency tones, Abstract, Acoustical Society of America, joint meeting with European Acoustical Society, Paris, France.

Ian Dickerson, Ph.D.

• I. Dickerson, R. Bussey-Gaborski, S. Supowit, A. Luebke. “CGRP Receptor Protein Interactions Required For CGRP Signaling In Live Cells.” Sixth International Symposia on the CGRP Family, San Diego, CA, 10/31/2007-11/2/2007.

Ed Freedman, Ph.D.

• Invited Speaker: Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France – April 2007.
• Invited Speaker: Neural Control of Movement  – Seville, Spain, March 2007

Greg Gdowski, Ph.D.

• Society for the Neural Control of Movement, 2008
  Track Chair and Organizer: Sensory reweighting, what is it, and how is it used to control posture.  Participants: Greg T. Gdowski, Robert Peterka, Emily Keshner, Paul DiZio

Martha Johnson Gdowski, Ph.D.

• VaNTH Workshop (May 8 & 9, 2007, By invitation)
  How People Learn Engineering: A Workshop on Designing Effective Instruction (Alene H. Harris, Ph.D., Stacy S. Klein, Ph.D., and Larry Howard, Vanderbilt University Faculty Course Instructors)

John T. Hansen, Ph.D.

• Invited Panel Participant, Northeast Group on Student Affairs and NEAAHP Joint Meeting, “Criminal Background Check: What It Is and How It Will Be Used,” Boston, MA, 2007
• Invited Lecture and Visiting Professor, American University of Antigua College of Medicine, “Inguinal Hernias and Scrotal Masses,” St. Johns, Antigua, W.I., 2007.
• Invited Presentation, “Medical School Admissions: The Rochester Experience and Process,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• Invited Presentation, The Michael J. Wolk ’60 Conference on Medical Education: Diversity in Health Careers, “Admissions Perspectives: What Are They Really Looking For?”; Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
• Four Invited Lectures and Presentations, The First Pamplona-Rochester Conference on Medical Education: "Pedagogical Approaches to Learning,” “The Medical Curriculum at the University of Rochester School of Medicine,” “Mr. Stein’s Headache: Two PBL Workshop Demonstrations as a Small Group Facilitator,” University of Navarra School of Medicine, Pamplona, Spain
• Invited Presentation, “Medical School Admissions at the University of Rochester Medical Center,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Invited Panel Presentation, “Medical School Admissions,” Barnard College and NYC area colleges, New York, NY

David R. Kornack, Ph.D.

• Invited Speaker
  "New neurons in old brains?"  Neuroscience Program Seminar Series, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY, March 2006.
  
• "Immature neurons in mature brains."Neuroscience Colloquium, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, May 2007.

Anne E. Luebke, Ph.D.

• Guest speaker Western NY Safety conference, Grand Island, NY
• Guest speaker Michigan Industrial Hygienist’s meeting, Flint, MI
• 2007 ARO, Molecular Biology of Hearing and Deafness (3 posters presented)
• Society of Toxicology poster presented

Ania K. Majewska, Ph.D.

• “Imaging rapid plasticity in the visual cortex.” Imaging neural circuits symposium, University of Chicago, IL. 2008.
• “Imaging structure and function in the intact visual cortex.” Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop, Berkeley, CA. 2007.
• “Applications of two-photon microscopy: understanding the synapse” Wake Forest University 2007.

M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D.

• Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease: Friend or Foe?  Invited Speaker, Special Symposium on Neuroimmunomodulation in Alzheimer’s Disease, Montreal, Quebec, November, 2007.
• Prostaglandin Production and Signaling in Chronic Neuroinflammation.  Invited Speaker, Symposium entitled: “Cyclooxygenases: Protectors or Enhancers of Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration?” 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Neurochemistry, San Antonio, Texas, March, 2008.
• Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease.  Invited Speaker, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, April, 2008.
• IL-1 in Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s Disease.  Invited Speaker, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May, 2008.

Gary Paige, Ph.D.

• Multi-Sensory Integration and Plasticity:  Relevance to Recovery of Function, Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, July 6, 2007.
• Making Sense of Reflexes and Perceptions of Vestibular Origin in Balance Disorders: Research Perspectives and Implications of Patient Management, Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, October 11-12, 2007.
• Influence of Eye Position on Auditory and Egocentric Space, Eye Movements as an Experimental Probe of Brain Function: A Symposium in Honor of Jean Büttner-Ennever, London, UK, December, 5-6, 2007.
• Eye Position and Cross-Sensory Learning both Contribute to Prism Adaptation of Auditory Space, Cui, Q.N., O’Neill, W.E. and Paige, G.D., Eye Movements as an Experimental Probe of Brain Function: A Symposium in Honor of Jean Büttner-Ennever, London, UK, December, 5-6, 2007.

Tania Pasternak, Ph.D.

• Columbia University, Center for Neuroscience, April 2007
• National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited speaker, July 2007
• National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan, invited speaker, July 2007
• Cold Spring Harbor Summer Course, invited faculty, July 2007
• ECVP, Arezzo, Italy, Symposium speaker, August 2007
• UC Irvine, Department of Psychology, December 2007

David Pinto, Ph.D.

• “The Dynamics of Neuronal Activity Waves in Neocortex”
  Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies, George Mason University
  Lehigh University, Department of Mathematics, Bethlehem, PA
  SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah
• Director: RCSD/UR High School Summer Bioengineering Research Program
  Students (2007): Wanda Perez, Keanna Cathey, Tu Nguyen, Ngoc Nguyen, Jovany Martinez, Casey Sukhavong

Lizabeth Romanski, Ph.D.

• 6/08 Symposium speaker, Gordon Research Conference, The Auditory System, Colby Sawyer College, New London, Hampshire.
• 12/07 Seminar, Psychology Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Graduate Neuroscience Seminar Series, “Encoding and Integration of vocalizations and faces in the prefrontal cortex”
• 9/07 Seminar, Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, WI, “Encoding and integration of auditory and visual communication stimuli in the prefrontal cortex”
• 5/07 Center for Cognitive Sciences Colloquium Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, “Encoding and integration of auditory and visual communication stimuli in the prefrontal cortex”
• 4/07 Symposium speaker, Center for Hearing Research, University of California at Irvine, Computational Streams in Auditory Cortex: Representation and Encoding of Vocalizations by the Primate Prefrontal Cortex
• 2/07 Seminar, Yale University, Psychology Department, “Representation and Encoding of Vocalizations by the Primate Prefrontal Cortex”
• 10/07 Symposium speaker, Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology (APAN), Atlanta, GA“Neural responses to congruent and incongruent face-voice stimuli in the primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex”

 

 

Robert Doty, Ph.D.

• Lecture: “Unity from Duality” Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 23 May 2007.

Ed Freedman, Ph.D.

• Invited Speaker: Behavioral Neuroscience Program, University at Buffalo, October 2006.
• Invited Speaker: Neural Control of Movement  – Seville, Spain, March 2007.
• Invited Speaker: Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France – April 2007.

John T. Hansen, Ph.D.

• The George Washington Corner History of Medicine Society, Rochester Academy of Medicine, 2006.
• Invited Panel Member, Smith College, "Medical School Admissions," Northampton, MA, 2006.
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2006.
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 2006.
• University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, 2006.
• Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Krakow, Poland, 2006.
• Bowdoin College, "Medical School Admissions," Brunswick, ME, 2006.
• Rochester Academy of Medicine, 2006.
• Northeast Group on Student Affairs and NEAAHP Joint Meeting, Boston, MA, 2007.
• merican University of Antigua College of Medicine, St. Johns, Antigua, W.I., 2007.

David R. Kornack, Ph.D.

• Neuroscience Program Seminar Series, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY, March 2006.
• Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, May 2007.

Anne E. Luebke, Ph.D.

• Guest speaker Western NY Safety conference, Grand Island, NY
• Guest speaker Michigan Industrial Hygienist’s meeting, Flint, MI
• Society of Toxicology (poster presented)
• 2007 ARO, Molecular Biology of Hearing and Deafness (3 posters presented)

Ania K. Majewska, Ph.D.

• Participant in NIA workshop on molecular and cellular mechanisms undelying aging, January 2006.
• Society for neuroscience minisymposium on Optogenetics, October 2006.
• Participant in DARPA meeting on new directions in the Human Assisted Neural Devices program, February, 2007.

M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D.

• New York University College of Medicine, New York, New York, March, 2007.
• University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry Graduate Alumni Reunion, Rochester, New York, April, 2007.
• American Society of Investigative Pathology Annual Meeting, at the FASEB Experimental Biology Meeting, Washington, DC, May, 2007.

Gary Paige, Ph.D.

• Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD, February 5-9, 2006.
• Rochester Early Medical Scholars Program:  Grand Rounds, University of Rochester, February 17, 2006.
• Neural Control of Movement, 16th Annual Meeting. Key Biscayne, Florida.  May 2-7,  2006.
• International Multisensory Research Forum, Dublin, Ireland, June 18-21, 2006.
• Anatomy and Neurobiology Seminar, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia,  October 27, 2006.
• Symposium, Neural Control of Movement, 17th Annual Meeting, Seville, Spain, March 25-31, 2007
• Assoc. for Res. in Otolaryngol., Midwinter Meeting, Denver, CO, February 10-15, 2007.
• American Neurotology Society meeting, San Diego, California, April 27-28, 2007.
• Neuroscience Symposium, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania,  May 18, 2007.
• Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, University of Rochester, July 6, 2007.

Tania Pasternak, Ph.D.

• Center for Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, January 2006.
• CIHR Summer Workshop, York University, July 2006.
• Columbia University, Center for Neuroscience, April 2007.
• National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited speaker, July 2007.
• National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan, invited speaker, July 2007.
• Cold Spring Harbor Summer Course, July 2007.
  

David Pinto, Ph.D.

• 17th Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Acadamy of Science, Irvine.
  
• Barrels XVIII Annual Conference and Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
  
• Instructor, Computational Neuroscience National Training Course, Woods Hole, MA
• Faculty of 1000 Members (online), Dept. of Theoretical Neuroscience
• Workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland

Lizabeth Romanski, Ph.D.

• Yale University, Psychology Department Seminar Series, February, 2007.
• Center for Cognitive Sciences Colloquium Series, University of Minnesota, May 3, 2007.
• Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, May 7, 2007.
• Weill Medical College Cornell University, May 25, 2006.
• Kavli Symposium:  Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2006.
• International Multisensory Research Forum, Mini-symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 18-21, 2006. 
• International Neuropsychological Symposium, Estoril, Portugal, June 20-24, 2006.

Peter Shrager Ph.D.

• Burke Medical Research Institute, White Plains, NY, 2007.

Robert Doty, Ph.D.

• Two lectures at Texas A&M, 26 and 27 May 2005.
• Photographic Exhibit, Rush Rhees Gallery, 16 May-12 June 2005.

Kevin Davis, Ph.D.

• Lake Ontario Auditory Neuroscience Meeting, Rochester, NY, June 2005.

Ian Dickerson, Ph.D.

• XVI meeting of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension, Cancun, Mexico, April 17-20, 2005.
• University of Texas A&M Medical School, Cardiovascular Institute, 22 April 2005.

Greg Gdowski, Ph.D.

• NeuralEngineering, Washington DC 2005.
• Biomed. Eng. Soc., Baltimore, 2005.
• Soc. Neuroscience, Washington DC, 2005.

John T. Hansen, Ph.D.

• Biomed. Eng. Soc., Baltimore, 2005.
• Soc. Neuroscience, Washington DC, 2005.
• The Association of Clinical Anatomists, July 2005.

Diane Piekut, Ph.D.

• Association of Clinical Anatomists, July 2005.

Lizabeth Romanski, Ph.D.

• University of Rochester, Department of Neurology Grand Rounds, January 2005.
• Colombia University, Center for Neurobiology & Behavior, New York, NY, June 2005.
• NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series, Bethesda, MD,  September 2005.

Lin Gan, Ph.D.

• Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

John Hansen, Ph.D.

• Medical School Admissions.
  Pomona College and the University of Washington.
• Medical School Admissions.
  George Washington University Prehealth Student Fair, Washington, DC
• Meeting organizer and presenter, Northeast Group on Student Affairs (AAMC) Spring Meeting
  Integrating our Missions: Fostering Personal and Professional Growth.
  Workshop presentation: How to Begin an International Medicine Program
  Rochester, New York
• Meet the Deans.
  National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions meeting, Washington, DC
• Integrating Basic and Clinical Sciences in the First Two Years of Medical School.
  Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
• Process of Discovery-Basic Science Course for Fourth Year Medical Students.
  Poster presentation at the Association of American Medical College annual meeting, Boston, MA

David Kornack, Ph.D.

• Route 28 Summits in Neurobiology: Adult Neurogenesis and Neuropsychiatric Disorders.
  Frauenchiemsee, Bavaria, Germany, August 2004.
• Stem cell update: Can evolving developmental insights inform intelligent therapeutic translation and its limitations?
  Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA, October, 2004.

M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D.

• COX-2: Discovery, Controversy and Role in Alzheimer's Disease.
  Ruakura Agricultural Research Station, Hamilton, New Zealand, December, 2004.
• PGE2 Synthetic Pathways in Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's Disease.
  Plenary Speaker. Tenth Annual Queenstown Molecular Biology Symposium, Queenstown, New Zealand, December, 2004.
• Roles and Regulation of Prostaglandin E2 Production in Neuroinflammation.
  National Institute of Drug Addiction (NIDA). Baltimore, Maryland, May 2004.
• Prostaglandin Synthesizing Enzymes in Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's Disease.
  University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center, Farmington, Connecticut, March, 2004.

Gary Paige, M.D., Ph.D.

• Multi-Sensory Integration and Plasticity in Spatial Orientation.
  SUNY Upstate Medical University. Syracuse, New York. January 16, 2004.
• Adaptation of Sound Localization by Eccentric Gaze.
  Razavi, B., O’Neill, W.E. and Paige, G.D.
  Society for Neuroscience, 34th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 23-28, 2004.
• Spatial Memory in Sound Localization.
  Dobreva, M.S., O'Neill W.E. and Paige, G.D.
  Society for Neuroscience, 34th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 23-28, 2004.

Tatiana Pasternak, Ph.D.

• Helmholtz Club, UC Irvine
• Smith-Kettllewell Institute, San Francisco
• Stanford University, Department of Neurobiology
• UCLA, Department of Psychology
• U of Arizona, Dept. of Psychology, Tucson
• U of Arizona, Neuroscience Seminar, Tucson
• University of Rochester, 24th CVS Symposium
• Caltech, Special Sloan-Swartz Seminar, Pasadena
• USC, Neuroscience Seminar
• U of Pittsburgh, Dept of Neuroscience

David J. Pinto, Ph.D.

• Instructor, Computational Neuroscience Training Course
  Woods Hole, MA
• Session Organizer and Chair, SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Systems
  Orlando, Florida

Lizabeth M. Romanski, Ph.D.

• Functional Organization of Working Memory Domains in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex.
  Chicago Society for Neuroscience Memorial Symposium for Patricia Goldman-Rakic, March 2004.
• Encoding of Species-Specific Vocalization by the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Invited Lecture, March 2004.
• Multisensory processing of vocalizations and faces in the prefrontal cortex.
  Advances in Primate Neurophysiology Conference (APAN), November 2004.

Peter Shrager, Ph.D.

• Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center
• W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscatoway, New Jersey

Barbara J. Davis, Ph.D.

• Relationship Between Group Function, Tutor Skills and Case Quality in Problem Based Learning
  Medical Education Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York, June, 2003.

Kevin Davis, Ph.D.

• A computational model of afferent activity from dorsal cochlear nucleus to inferior colliculus.
  Biomedical Engineering Society, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.

Ian Dickerson, Ph.D.

• CGRP-RCP: A Novel Protein Required for G-protein coupled Receptor Signaling
  S. C. Loiseau, B. N. Evans-Bain, M. A. Prado, and I. M. Dickerson
  Gordon Conference on Molecular Pharmacology, Ventura, CA. February 9, 2003
• Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP)-Receptor Component Protein (RCP): A Novel Protein Required for G Protein-Coupled Signal Transduction at CGRP Receptors.
  S. C. Loiseau, B. N. Evans-Bain, M. A. Prado, and I. M. Dickerson
  NIH Workshop Proteomics in Diabetes, Bethesda, MD, 4/24-4/26/2003.
• The Role of Receptor Component Protein (RCP) in the CGRP receptor complex assembly and signaling.
  A.R. Davis, S.C. Loiseau, I.M. Dickerson
  Summer Neuropeptide 2003 Conference, Montauk, NY, 6/8/03-6/12/2003.
• CGRP-Receptor Component Protein (RCP): A Multi-Protein Complex Required For G Protein-Coupled Signal Transduction.
  S.C. Loiseau, A.R. Davis, M.A. Prado, B. Evans-Bain, and I.M. Dickerson
  Gordon Conference on Second Messengers and Protein Phosphorylation, Kimball Union Academy, NH 6/8/2003-6/13/2003.
• Upregulation of Calcitonin Gene-Regulated Peptide Receptor Component Protein in Subtotal Nephrectomy Salt Hypertension
  Khurshed A. Katki, Huawei Zhao, Avanti Mehrotra, Ian M. Dickerson, Donald J. DiPette, Scott C. Supowit
  57th Annual Fall Conference – Council for High Blood Pressure Research in association with the Council on Kidney in CV Disease, 9/23 – 9/26, 2003, Omni Shoreham, Washington DC.

Edward Freedman, Ph.D.

• What can head movements teach us about oculomotor control?
  Syracuse University, March 7, 2003

Lin Gan, Ph.D.

• Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, FL
• College of Life Sciences, Zhongshan University, China

Greg T. Gdowski, Ph.D.

• Neural model of the central connections between the Vestibular Nerve and the Vestibular Nuclei
  Raleigh, Lisa M. and Gdowski, Greg T
  Biomedical Engineering Society, October 2003

John Hansen, Ph.D.

• Enhancing the Culture of Medical Education: Assessing Humanistic Growth and Mission.
  Invited Participant, Overcoming the Barriers to Sustaining Humanism in Medicine, Symposium VI
  The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, New York, NY
• Counseling the Unsuccessful Applicant
  Joint Meeting of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions and the Northeast Group on Student Affairs, Philadelphia, PA
• Problem-based Learning in the Basic Sciences.
  Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• Physiology From 30,000 Feet: A New Netter Atlas.
  Association of Medical Illustrators, New Orleans, LA
• The Medical School Admissions Process
  Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
• Choosing Medicine.
  Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
• Why Don't More Medical Schools Have Integrated Anatomy and Physiology Courses? A Four-year Perspective on a Successful Human Structure-function Course
  First Joint European Association of Clinical Anatomy and the American Association of Clinical Anatomists, Graz, Austria

David Kornack, Ph.D.

• Invited workshop presenter. A lifetime of neurogenesis in the primate hippocampus. In workshop: Environmental and Pharmacological Regulation of Hippocampal Neurogenesis.
  Organizer: H.A. Sackeim. Society for Biological Psychiatry's 58th Annual Scientific Convention and Program, San Francisco, CA, May 15, 2003.
• Invited guest speaker. A lifetime of neurogenesis in the primate forebrain
  2003 James S. McDonnell Foundation Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience. Organizer: M.S. Gazzaniga. Lake Tahoe, CA, June 22-23, 2003.
• Adult Neurogenesis: Function and Malfunctions.
  International Graduate School for Neuroscience, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, Sept 22, 2003.

M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D.

• Prostaglandin Synthetic Pathways in Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease
  Invited Speaker. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, May, 2003.

William E. O'Neill

• Spectral Bandwidth has Minimal Impact on Directional Selectivity in the Mustached Bat Inferior Colliculus.
  Lake Ontario Hearing Conference, University of Rochester, June 23 – 24, 2003.
• The Expression of Directional Selectivity for Frequency Modulated Sounds in an Extralemniscal Auditory Pathway of the Mustached Bat.
  Institute for Sensory Systems, Dept. of Bioengineering, Syracuse University, Nov. 21, 2003.

Gary Paige, M.D., Ph.D.

• Multi-Sensory Integration and Plasticity in Spatial Orientation.
  Hearing and Chemical Senses Seminar, Kresge Hering Research Institute University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. April 30, 2003.
• Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar, Wake Forest University School of Medicine .
  Winston-Salem, North Carolina. May 12, 2003.
• Department of Physiology Seminar, Northwestern University
  Chicago, Illinois. May 23,2003
• Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar, SUNY Stony Brook
  Stony Brook, New York. October 16, 2003
• Effects of Acoustic Reflection on Sound Localization.
  Razavi, B., Dobreva, M., O'Neill, W.E., and Paige, G.D
  Lake Ontario Auditory Meeting. University of Rochester, June 23-24, 2003.

Tatiana Pasternak, Ph.D.

• Progress in Sensorimotor Research.
  25th anniversay of LRS Meeting
• Integrative Activity of the Brain.
  Jerzy Konorski Memorial Symposium,Warsaw, Poland; IBRO satellite; July 2003.

Lizabeth M. Romanski, Ph.D.

• Auditory and Visual domains in the primate prefrontal cortex.
  Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, May 2003.
• Processing of Complex Sounds in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex.
  Lake Ontario Auditory Research Meeting, June 2003.
• Auditory and Visual Domains in Primate Prefrontal Cortex.
  University of Iowa, Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Neurosurgery, June 2003.
• Auditory and Visual Domains in Primate Prefrontal Cortex.
  Georgetown Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience, December 2003
• Responses of ventrolateral prefrontal neurons to complex sounds.
  Romanski, L.M., Hauser, M.D. and B.B. Averbeck
  Advances in Primate Neurophysiology Conference , November 2003.
• Auditory neurons in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex respond to behavioral relevance and caller identity of vocalizations.
  Romanski, L.M., Hauser, M.D. and B.B. Averbeck
  Society for Neuroscience, 2003.

Peter Shrager, Ph.D.

• American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, San Diego, CA, April, 2003
• Pathogenesis of Neuroimmunologic Diseases, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, August,2003
• Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience Colloquium, University of Rochester Medical Center, October, 2003.

Lin Gan, Ph.D.

• Molecular mechanisms of retinal neurogenesis.
  Eye Research Institute, Oakland University, MI, March, 2002.
• Math, Brain and Genomics in Retinal Neurogenesis. 22nd Great Lakes Mammalian Development Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April, 2002.
• A transcription cascade in the development of mouse retinal ganglion cells.
  Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, MI, May, 2002.

Suzanne Haber, Ph.D.

• Biological models of basal ganglia networks.
  Winter Conference on Brain Research-Panel, January 2002.
• Pallidal plasticity.
  Winter Conference on Brain Research-Panel, January 2002.
• The importance of the anterior cingulate in mood regulation and psychosis.
  Winter Conference on Brain Research-Panel, January 2002.
• Integrating emotion and cognition into the basal ganglia pathways of action.
  Mailman Research Center, Harvard Medical School, February 2002.
• Compensatory changes in the midbrain and striatum following a partial dopamine lesion.
  7th Neurodegenerative disorder: common molecular mechanisms conference, April 2002.
• Integrating emotion and cognition into the basal ganglia pathways of action.
  Center for Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience, Albany Medical School, May 2002.

Gary Paige, M.D., Ph.D.

• Spatial calibration and plasticity across multiple modalities. Multisensory Interactions Subserving Orienting Behavior.
  A satellite meeting preceding the Neural Control of Movement, 12th Annual Meeting, Naples, FL, April 14-16, 2002.

Kevin Davis, Ph.D.

• Functional pathways in the auditory midbrain. International Symposium on the Central Auditory System, Salamanca, Spain, May 2001.

Lin Gan, Ph.D.

• Function of POU-domain transcription factor in the development of sensory neurons.
  Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, May, 2001.
• The Genetic Circuity of Retinal Neurogenesis.
  Frontiers of Biological Sciences in the 21st Century, Beijing, China, June, 2001.
• Making of retinal ganglion cells: a simple math and brain story.
  College of Life Sciences, Zhongshan University, China, July, 2001.
• The roles of math5 and brn-3b in the development of retinal ganglion cells.
  The Second Symposium on Aging Retina and Early Degeneration, Boston, Massachusetts, October, 2001.

Suzanne Haber, Ph.D.

• Responses to a partial dopaminergic lesion: evidence for compensatory sprouting from the ventral striatum.
  International Basal Ganglia Society, February 2001.
• Anatomical foundations of ventral striatal organization.
  International Basal Ganglia Society: Satellite Symposium: From motivation to action: linkages between the ventral and dorsal striatum, February 2001.
• Compensation of the dopamine system to a partial lesion.
  Spring Brain conference, March 2001.
• Integrating emotion and cognition into the basal ganglia pathways of movement.
  University of Baltimore, Department of Psychiatry, March 2001.
• The central place of the primate ventral striatum in the neuronal network of emotive behavior.
  International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, May 2001.
• The central place of the primate ventral striatum in the neuronal network of emotive behavior.
  Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Mclean Hospital, May 2001.
• Forebrain neuronal network underlying reward.
  Neurofest: Central NY Neuroscience Community Research Day, June 2001.
• Integrating emotion and cognition into the basal ganglia pathways of movement.
  Columbia University, Division of Functional Brain Mapping, July 2001.

John Hansen, Ph.D.

• Human Structure and Function: An Integrated Course in Anatomy, Histology and Physiology.
  American Association of Clinical Anatomists, Nashville, TN, 2001.

David Kornack, Ph.D.

• Making New Neurons in the Developing and Adult Primate Brain.
  Neurology Grand Rounds, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2001.

M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D.

• Cyclooxygenases as Targets in Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration.
  Keystone Symposium on "Neuronal and Vascular Stress: A New Window on Alzheimer's Disease", Durango, Colorado. January, 2001.
• Cyclooxygenases in Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's Disease.
  University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. February, 2001.
• COX-1 and -2 Expression in Alzheimer's Disease.
  Winter Eicosanoid Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. March, 2001.
• Cyclooxygenases in Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflammation.
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. May, 2001.

Gary Paige, M.D., Ph.D.

• Multi-Modal Cues Underlying the Perception of Translational Motion.
  Young, N.A., Seidman S.H., and Paige G.D. Society for Neuroscience, 30th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 10-15, 2001.
• Tilt-Translation Ambiguity in the Linear Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (LVOR).
  Paige, G.D., and Seidman S.H. Society ofr Neuroscience, 30th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 10-15, 2001.
• Implications of Physics in Spatial Orientation.
  Department of Neurology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, April 3, 2001.
• Eye Movement Responses to Auditory, Visual, Vestibular, and Combined Motion.
  J. Van Opstal, D. Munoz, G. Paige, and C. Spence, In workshop: Multi-sensory Interactions subserving Orienting Behavior. Neural Control of Movement, 11th Annual Meeting, Seville, Spain, March 25-30, 2001.

Scott Seidman, Ph.D.

• Multi-Modal Cues Underlying the Perception of Translational Motion.
  Yong, N.A., Seidman S.H., and Paige G.D. Neural Control of Movement, 11th Annual Meeting, Seville, Spain, March 25-30, 2001

Peter Shrager, Ph.D.

• Ion channel clustering in axons in development and disease.
  Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, CNRS, Marseille, France, 2001.
• Pathogenesis of Neuroimmunologic Diseases.
  MBL, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 2001.
• Role and distribution of ion channels in myelinated axons.
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 2001.
• Analysis of NrCAM, Ankyring, and Caspr at the developing node of Ranvier.
  Custer, A.W., Sakurai, T., Grumet, M., Shrager, P. Society for Neuroscience, 2001.
• Contactin requires 1 subunits to increase Na+ channel cell surface expression.
  McEwen, D.P., Kazarinova-Noyes, K., Malhotra, J.D., Mattei, L.N., Levinson, S.R., Xiao, Z.C., Shrager, P., and Isom, L.L. Society for Neuroscience, 2001.

Stanislaw Sobotka, Ph.D.

• The role of neurons in inferotemporal and perirhinal cortices in visual recognition memory.
  Public defense of habilitation thesis in the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland, January, 2001.

Gary Paige, M.D., Ph.D.

• Fundamentals of Balance Disorders Medicine.
  Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. April 4, 2000.
• What's Up in the Otolith System? How is Head Orientation Determined by the Vestibular System, and Why Do We Care?
  W.M. King, G.D. Paige, D. Angelaki, D. Merfeld, and B. Yates. Workshop In: Neural Control of Movement, 10th Annual Meeting, Key West, Florida, April 9-14, 2000.
• Anticipatory VOR Suppression with Visual and Non-Visual Stimuli in Humans.
  G.R. Barnes and G.D. Paige. Neural Control of Movement, 10th Annual Meeting, Key West, Florida, April 9-14, 2000.

Scott Seidman, Ph.D.

• Perception and Eye Movements During Low Frequency Sinusoidal Translational Motion in the Absence of Non-Otolith Cues.
  S.H. Seidman, G. Bush, G.D. Paige, and D.L. Tomko. Neural Control of Movement, 10th Annual Meeting, Key West, Florida, April 9-14, 2000

M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D.

• COX-2 and brain inflammation: role in acute injury and expression in an Alzheimer's model.
  O'Banion, M. K., S. Kyrkanides, J. Macoretta, Y. Matsuoka, K. Duff, and J. A. Olschowka. Eleventh International Conference on Advances in Prostaglandin and Leukotriene Research, Florence, Italy. June 4-8, 2000.

Peter Shrager, Ph.D.

• Chair of Session: The Node of Ranvier.
  Gordon Conference on Myelin at Il Ciocco, Italy (Tuscany), May 2000.

Edward Freedman, Ph.D.

• Organized and Chaired: Current directions in head-free gaze control: the superior colliculus and beyond.
  Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. April, 2000.

Tatiana Pasternak, Ph.D.

• Organized a symposium at ARVO on Visual Working Memory.
  Presented Memory for Visual Motion: Cortical Mechanisms

David R. Kornack, Ph.D.

• Neurogenesis and the Evolution of Cortical Diversity: Mode, Tempo, and Persistence in Adulthood
  Eleventh Annual Karger Workshop on Diversity of Cerebral Cortex, Miami Beach, FL, October 1999.

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