The Mary Notter Lectureship
Mary Notter was internationally known for her research in cell biology and growth factors. She received her BA at Pennsylvania State University, in zoology in 1969 and her master's and doctorate in physiology in 1971 and 1973, respectively. She also completed post-doctorate studies in microbiology and cell biology there. She joined the UR in 1976 and led a successful research laboratory until her death in 1991. Her research studies focused on neuronal growth, differentiation and development with implications for Parkinson’s disease and retinoblastoma.
But, the story at the UR does not end there since her daughter Sarah, Notter graduated from the UR medical school and now practices medicine in Florida.
This named Lectureship commemorates Mary Notter as a renowned scientist, mentor, educator and beloved member of the Neuroscience community here at the University of Rochester.
Past Events
The Bodily Senses
Fan Wang , PhD - Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT McGovern Institute
January 17, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
A Context-Dependent Switch From Sensing to Feeling in the Primate Amygdala
Katalin Gothard, MD, PhD - Professor Departments of Physiology and Neuroscience, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
March 30, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Decisions, Movements and the Brain
Anne Churchland, PhD - Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Mar 04, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Host: Department of Neuroscience and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience
Functional Micro-Architecture and Joint Representation of Shape and Color in Primate Primary Visual Cortex
Edward Callaway, PhD - Vincent J. Coates Chair and Professor
Systems Neurobiology Labs, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Oct 03, 2019 @ 4:00 p.m.
Host: Department of Neuroscience and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience
A Role for the Basal Ganglia and Superior Colliculus in Decision-Making
Michelle Basso, PhD - UCLA
May 10, 2018 @ 4:00 p.m.
Host: Dept. Neuroscience
Cortical Plasticity Within and Across Lifetimes
Leah Krubitzer, PhD - Prof. Psychology, Lab of Evolutionary Neurobiology, Univ. Cal. Davis
May 04, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.
Functional Specificity in the Human Brain
Nancy Kanwisher, PhD - MIT
Sponsor: Dept. of Neuroscience
May 26, 2016 @ 4:00 p.m.
Next-generation Sequencing as a Tool to Explore Neuronal Circuitry in the Brain
Troy Hackett - Associate Professor, Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Oct 16, 2014 @ 4:00 p.m.