Herbert Jasper Lecture

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Herbert Jasper Lecture

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 16:00to17:30

Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre (accessible via 2nd floor), Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, CA, 3801 University Street, CA

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The Herbert Jasper lecture will be delivered by Richard L. Huganir, Professor and Director, Department of Neuroscience, Director, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Co-Director, Brain Science Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA at 4 pm on April 18, 2017 in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre of the Neuro. His talk is entitled 鈥淩egulation of Neurotransmitter Receptors and Synaptic Plasticity in Cognition and Cognitive Disorders鈥�.

Dr. Jasper, who passed away in 1999, worked together with Wilder Penfield at the MNI during his early and very seminal years (1937-1964) and remained associated with the Institute for the remainder of his career and life in Montreal.听 This lectureship, which is focused like the work of Jasper upon Neurophysiology was instituted in his honor.

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Richard Huganir

Dr. Richard Huganir is Professor and Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute and Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute. Dr. Huganir received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University in 1982 where he performed his thesis research in the laboratory of Dr. Efraim Racker. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the Nobel Laureate, Dr. Paul Greengard, at Yale University School of Medicine from 1982-1984.