Hey everyone,

With the start of another year, it is once again time to resume the 
time-honored tradition of lunch with the speaker.  Having lunch with 
the speaker is an excellent opportunity to gain insight into his/her 
views on current happenings in the field, approaches to scientific 
questions, or to just chat about the wild days of their youth.

In order to most fairly distribute the opportunity for a free lunch 
at that faculty club, each person should reply to this email with 
their top *6* choices in order of preference, which I will enter into 
Ed's incredibly complicated, yet brilliantly simple creation, The 
Matrixator, to determine who goes to lunch with whom.

As with last year, the dinner guests will also be recommended by the 
Matrixator.  If you requested to host someone but didn't get selected 
and would like to go to dinner with them, note that on your email as 
someone separate from your six choices and you will be inserted in 
the dinner list with that person, if you wish.

To submit your choices, you must press REPLY to this email.  If you 
send a new email and don't just press reply to this one, the 
Matrixator will go berserk and you won't get any of your choices (the 
subject line should read RE:Lunch with the Speaker Choices).

Most people will not get all of their choices, but you will be more 
likely to get your first choice than your sixth.

The ones marked with (**) are coming to us via the Neuroplasticity 
Training Grant, so those people get first dibs on dinner and lunch.

Lunches are at noon on Tuesdays at the faculty club.

Choices must be received by September 26.  If you would like to go to 
lunch with Lynn Landmesser (she is the first speaker on Sept. 23), 
have your email to me by noon on september 22 and include -Landmesser 
at the end of the subject line.

Below is a list of this year's speakers.  Email me with any questions.

Christine
Your new Lunch Czar

Final Schedule


**23-Sep	Lynn Landmesser (Case Western)
website: http://neurowww.neurs.cwru.edu/faculty/landmesser.shtml
Title:  "Presynaptic maturation and effective transmitter release: 
roles of different NCAM isoforms"
Host: Delaine Larsen (ddlarsen@ucsd.edu).

30-Sep	David Ferster (Northwestern)
website: http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~ferster/Title:  "Testing Models 
of Visual Cortical Function"
Host: Eric Shrader-Frechette (eshrader@ucsd.edu)

7-Oct		Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University)
website: http://www.bu.edu/cogneuro/
Title:  "The hippocampus: Neural coding mechanisms in episodic and 
declarative memory"
Host: Vickie Risbrough (vickie@mag.ucsd.edu)

14-Oct	Pamela Reinagel (UC San Diego)
Title: TBA
Host: DJ Brasier (dbrasier@ucsd.edu)


**21-Oct	Yi Rao (Washington U, Saint Louis)
website: http://thalamus.wustl.edu/raolab/website/
Title:  "Molecular Signaling Guiding Cell Migration in the Nervous System"
Host: Holden Higgenbotham (hhigginb@popmail.ucsd.edu)

28-Oct	David Perkel (University of Washington, Seattle)
website: http://faculty.washington.edu/perkel/lab.htm
Title:  "Cellular approaches to vocal learning in songbirds"
Host: Alexandra Nelson (abnelson@ucsd.edu)

4-Nov		Sue McConnell (Stanford)
website: http://sbrc.stanford.edu/phd/faculty/phd_fac_list/mcconnell.html
Title: "Patterning the forebrain: genetic analysis of telencephalic 
development"
Host: Dipti Prasad (prasad@salk.edu)

11 Nov	No Seminar - SFN

18-Nov	 Eric Knudsen (Stanford)
website: http://www.stanford.edu/group/knudsenlab/
Title:  "Mechanisms of Learning in the Auditory System of the Barn Owl"
Host: Valerie Uzzell (uzzell@salk.edu)

25-Nov	 Rob de Ruyter Van Stevenink (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Title: "How to compute motion from natural visual input"
Host: Jon Shlens (jshlens@ucsd.edu)

2-Dec		Dan Johnston (Baylor)
website:  http://ltp.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu/cnl/
Title:  "LTP of dendritic excitability in hippocampal neurons"
Host: Vanessa Szostak (vszostak@ucsd.edu)

9-Dec		no seminar

16-Dec	Bob Desimone  (NIMH)
website: http://neuron.nimh.nih.gov/desimone.html
Title:  "A neural basis for visual attention:  Biased competition"
Host: Kristy Sundberg (ksundberg@ucsd.edu)

6 Jan		Nelson Spruston (Northwestern)
website: http://www.northwestern.edu/neurobiology/faculty/spruston
Title:  "Dendritic excitability and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus"
Host: Lindsey Glickfeld (llglick@ucsd.edu)

13-Jan	Rob Malenka (Stanford)
website: http://malenkalab.stanford.edu/
Title:	"Synaptic plasticity: the brain's response to experience"
Host: AndrewHires (shires@ucsd.edu)

**20-Jan	John Allman  (Cal Tech)
website: http://www.allmanlab.caltech.edu/
Title: "The Spindle Neurons of Frontoinsular (FI) Cortex: 
APhylogenetic Specialization Related to Social Cognition"
Host: Pam Tangvor (ptangvor@ucsd.edu)

27-Jan	Earl Miller (MIT)
website: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ekm/
Title: "The prefrontal cortex: concepts and cognitive control"
Host: Dan Kennedy (dkennedy@ucsd.edu)

3-Feb		Rodolfo Llinas (NYU)
website: http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/R.Llinas.html
Title:  "Two Thalamo-cortical Circuits and the Genesis of Cognition"
Host: Ian Wickersham

10-Feb	Murray Sherman (SUNY Stony Brook)
website: http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/neurobiology/faculty/sherman.html
Title:  "The Role of Thalamus in the Flow of Information to Cortex"
Host: Amir Zarrinpar (azarrinp@ucsd.edu)

17-Feb	Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins)
website: http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~reza/
Title: "Learning dynamics of reaching movements"
Host: Chris Carello (ccarello@salk.edu)

24 Feb	no seminar -- recruitment

**2-Mar		David McCormick  (Yale )
website: http://info.med.yale.edu/neurobio/mccormick
Title: "Possible cellular mechanisms of rapid cortical dynamics"
Host: Jason Nathanson (nathanson@salk.edu)

9-Mar		Indira Raman (Northwestern)
website: http://www.northwestern.edu/neurobiology/faculty/raman.html
Title:  "High-frequency signaling at the Purkinje to cerebellar 
nuclear cell synapse: Ionic and synaptic mechanisms."
Host: Martha Bagnall (mbagnall@ucsd.edu)

16-Mar	Wade Regehr (Harvard)
website: http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/R.Llinas.html
Title: TBA
Host: Gabe Murphy (gjmurphy@ucsd.edu)

23-Mar	Manuel Nicolelis  (Duke)
website: http://www.neuro.duke.edu/Faculty/nicolelis.htm
Title:  "Computing with neural ensembles."
Host: Dorion Liston (dliston@salk.edu)

30-Mar	Eve Marder (Brandeis)
website: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty01/marder.html
Title: "Plasticity and Stability: the Balance between Modulation, 
Development and Homeostasis"
Host: Kevin Briggman (briggman@ucsd.edu)

6-Apr	Massimo Scanziani (UC San Diego)
Title: "Distinct qualities of conventional inhibitory loops in
cortical microcircuits"
host: Ian Wickersham

13-Apr	Yang Dan (U.C. Berkeley)
website: http://impulse.berkeley.edu/
Title: "Visual cortical plasticity: from synapse to perception".
Host: Diane Whitmer (dwhitmer@ucsd.edu)

20-Apr	Alcino Silva (UCLA)
website: http://www.silvalab.com/
Title: "Unraveling the molecular, cellular and system basis of 
permanent memory storage."
Host: Aryn Gittis (agittis@ucsd.edu)

27-Apr	Kevin Campbell (U. Iowa).
website: http://www.physiology.uiowa.edu/Campbell/index.htm
Title: "Glycosylation and Dystroglycan Function in Congenital 
Muscular Dystrophy with Brain Abnormalities."
Host:Christine Torborg (ctorborg@ucsd.edu)

4-May	Ardem Patapoutian (Scripps Research Institute)
website: http://www.scripps.edu/cb/patapoutian/
Title: "How do you feel? Molecular mechanisms of temperature sensation"
Host: Christine Paczkowski (cpaczkow@ucsd.edu)

11-May	Mu-ming Poo (U.C. Berkeley)
website: http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/poo/
Title: "Spike-timing depedent modification of developing neural circuits."
Host: DJ Brasier (dbrasier@ucsd.edu)

18-May	Jeffrey Noebels  (Baylor)
website:  http://mrrc.bcm.tmc.edu/view_researcher.jsp?id=25.
Title:  "The Biology of Epilepsy Genes."
Host: Jacob Ong

25-May	John Williams (Vollum)
website:  http://www.ohsu.edu/vollum/faculty/williams.htm
Title: 'g-protein receptor mediated release of calcium from 
intracellular stores in dopamine cells'
Host: Gabe Murphy (gjmurphy@ucsd.edu)

**1-Jun		John Donoghue  (Brown)
website: http://donoghue.neuro.brown.edu/
Title :TBA
Host:Mary von dem Bussche (mbussch@ucsd.edu)


**8-Jun	David Bredt (UCSF)
website: http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~bredt/
Title:  " Synaptic Plasticity Regulated by stargazin and PSD-95"
Host: Kerri Massey (kamassey@ucsd.edu)