Friday, 20 Sep 2013
Neuroscience Day lecture: Brett Schofield
"Acetylcholine and hearing: Descending neural pathways for modulation of early sensory processing," Brett Schofield, Northeastern Ohio University Medical School, Rootstown.
Neuroscience Day lecture: George Pollack
"Dissecting the auditory system with in-vivo whole cell recordings," George Pollak, University of Texas, Austin.
Neuroscience Day lecture: John Brugge
"Unlocking the Secrets of the human brain: Neuroscience's last frontier," John Brugge, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Understanding the Mind and Brain
"Understanding the Mind and Brain," George Pollak. Pollak is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas, where he studies how the brain controls behavior, specifically, how our auditory systems process sound and the location of its source. He often uses bats as experimental subjects due to their high reliance on hearing.
A New American Space Plan: Rocket City Rednecks' Travis Taylor
Travis Taylor is the leader of the Rocket City Rednecks, a National Geographic Channel series that follows five guys from Huntsville, Ala. - home to NASA's Marshall Flight Center and the birthplace of the U.S. space programs. The Rednecks are in fact rocket scientists with PhDs, and their weekend experiments combine a little hillbilly ingenuity with advanced engineering and physics to tackle real-world scenarios. Engineers Week 2013