Invited Lectures Since 1975



Symposium on Identified Neurons and Behavior of Arthropods, Ojai, CA, April 7, 1976.


California Institute of Technology, Biology Dept., Pasadena, CA, October 15, 1977.


Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, July 12, 1978.


Stanford University, Neurology Dept., Palo Alto, CA., January 12, 1979.


Gordon Research Conference on Biomathematics and Theoretical Biology, Tilton College, N.H., June 12, 1979.


Elements of Behavior Symposium, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, August 18, 1980.


Academia Sinica Neurobiology Workshop, Shanghai Institute of Physiology, China, October 7, 1980.


University of California, Berkeley, Zoology Dept., November 20, 1980.


City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, March 4, 1981.


University of California, Los Angeles, Biology Dept., March 5, 1981.


University of California, Irvine, Physiology Dept., March 6, 1981.


University of Miami, Physiology and Biophysics Dept., March 10, 1981.


Gate, Channel and Cell Function Symposium, Guanajuato, Mexico, August 31, 1981.


Conditioning Symposium, Asilomar, CA, October 25, 1981.


Albert Einstein Medical Center, Neuroscience Dept., New York, NY, April 7, 1981.


Veterans’ Administration Hospital, Sensory Physiology Group, Martinez, CA, January 29, 1982.


Gordon Research Conference on Ion Channels, Tilton College, NH, August 3, 1982.


International Physiological Congress, Sydney, Australia, August 30, 1983.


Symposium on Synaptic Transmission, Hayman Island, Australia, September 5, 1983.


Neural Mechanisms of Conditioning Symposium, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, November 3, 1983.


FASEB Theoretical Trends in Neuroscience Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, April 2, 1984.


Stanford University, Neurology Dept., Palo Alto, CA, April 23, 1984.


Winter Conference on Brain Research, Vail, CO, February 1, 1985.


University of California, San Francisco, Physiology Dept., March 28, 1985.


University of California, Los Angeles, Physiology Dept., May 6, 1985.


University of California, Irvine, Physiology and Biophysics Dept., May 7, 1985.


Lectures in Neurobiology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, November 28, 1985.


University of California, Davis, Zoology Dept., April 11, 1986.


Gordon Research Conference on Ion Channels, Tilton College, NH,  August 4, 1986.


University of Iowa, Zoology Dept., Iowa City, IA, September 24, 1986.


Mechanisms of Epileptogenesis Symposium, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, September 25, 1986.


University of Wisconsin, Biology Dept., Madison, WI, March 26, 1987.


Neural Models of Plasticity Symposium, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, April 29, 1987.


Yale University, Molecular Neurobiology Div., New Haven, CT, May 1, 1987.


Second World Neuroscience Congress, Budapest, Hungary, August 19, 1987.


International Biophysics Congress Workshop on Functional and Structural Aspects of the Cholinergic Synapse, Neve Ilan, Israel, September 1, 1987.


International Symposium on Neurosecretion, Bristol, U.K., September 4, 1987.


Iowa State University, Zoology Dept., Ames, IA, December 15, 1987.


University of Virginia, Neurosciences Dept., Charlottesville, VA, September 27, 1988.


Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology of Aplysia, C.S.H., NY, September 29, 1988.


American Cell Biology Society and American Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society Meeting, San Francisco, February 1, 1989.


Island Neuroscience Conference, Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands, February 21, 1989.


State University of New York, Stony Brook, Neurobiology and Behavior Dept., May 31, 1989.

University of Southern California, Biology Dept., Los Angeles, CA, September 20, 1989

Grass Traveling Lecturer, University of Calgary, November 30, 1989


Grass Traveling Lecturer, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alb., December 1, 1989


Society for Investigative Dermatology, Carmel, CA, February 7, 1990.


Neuroscience Winter Conference, St. Maarten, N.A., February 27, 1990.


Gordon Research Conference on Ion Channels, Colby-Sawyer College, NH, August 8, 1990.


N.Y. Academy of Sciences Conference, Calcium Entry and Action at the Presynaptic Nerve Terminal, Baltimore, MD, October 16, 1990.


Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics Dept., Göttingen, Germany, January 7, 1991.


Stanford University, Molecular and Cellular Physiology Dept., Palo Alto, CA., March 26, 1991.


University of Oregon, Portland, Institute of Neuroscience, March 28, 1991.


NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Intracellular Regulation of Ion Channels, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Tuscany, April 27, 1991.


Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Pharmacology, Tilton College, NH, June 19, 1991.


International Brain Research Organization World Congress, Montreal, Que., August 5, 1991.


Gordon Research Conference on Ion Channels, Tilton College, NH, June 22, 1992.


University of Maryland, Nachshen Memorial Lecture, Baltimore, MD, November 2, 1992.


Biochemical Society Meeting, Royal Free Hospital Medical School, London, U.K., December 1, 1992.


Lectures in Neurobiology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, December 3, 1992.


Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics Dept., Göttingen, Germany, January 4, 1993.


Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Neurobiology of Aplysia, C.S.H., NY, April 22, 1993.


National Institute for Physiological Sciences Symposium on Plasticity in Synapses and Neural Networks in the Brain, Okazaki, Japan, January 26, 1994.


Symposium on Molluscan Neurobiology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2, 1994.


University of California, San Francisco, Neuroscience Dept., October 27, 1994.


Second Joint Meeting of the Physiological Societies of Japan and U.K. and Eire, Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan, April 1, 1995.


Satellite Symposium on New Aspects of Molecular Neurosecretory Mechanisms of 15th International Society for Neurochemistry, Hamamatsu, Japan, June 28, 1995.


Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Cell Physiology Dept., Heidelberg, Germany, September 19, 1995.


Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics Dept., Göttingen, Germany, September 21, 1995.


Columbia University, Biology Dept., New York, NY, October 31, 1995.


Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, New York, NY, November 1, 1995.


Satellite Symposium on Presynaptic Mechanisms of Neurotransmission, Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 9, 1995.


City of Hope, Neuroscience Dept., Duarte, CA, March 7, 1996.


Emory University, Cell Biology and Anatomy Dept., Atlanta, GA, November 6, 1996.


University of California, Los Angeles, Neurosciences Dept., November 26, 1996.


American Physical Society Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, January 16, 1997.


University of California, San Diego, Biology Dept., April 9, 1997.


Yale University, Pharmacology Dept., New Haven, CT, May 15, 1997.


Imaging Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, July 31 to August 2, 1997.


Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, February 12, 1998.


Chemical Synapse Symposium, Neurological Sciences Research Center, Montreal, Que., May 4, 1998.


International Society for Heart Research Congress, Rhodes, Greece, May 28, 1998.


FASEB Calcium and Cell Function Conference, Snowmass, CO, July 8, 1998.


Gordon Research Conference on Synaptic Transmission, Plymouth, NH, August 5, 1998.


Van Der Kloot Symposium on Synaptic Transmission, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook, NY, October 21, 1998.


University of California, Riverside, Biomedical Sciences Dept., November 1, 1998.


Society for Neuroscience Special Interest Social on Synapses, Los Angeles, CA, November 11, 1998.


German Foreign Research Administration Series on Synaptic Interactions in Neural Networks, Göttingen, March 23, 1999.


Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics Dept., Göttingen, Germany, March 24, 1999.


Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, April 6, 2000.


Gordon Research Conference on Synaptic Transmission, New London, CT, July 20, 2000.


Symposium on Synapses, Pools and Mini's, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, September 28, 2000.


Symposium in honor of Ricardo Miledi on Synaptic Transmission 100 Years after L. Luciani, University of Rome La Sapienza, Human Physiology and Pharmacology Dept., Rome, Italy, September 30, 2000.


Stanford University, Molecular and Cellular Physiology Dept., Palo Alto, CA, November 14, 2000.


University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Center for Basic Neurosciences, Dallas, TX, January 23, 2001.


International Union of Physiological Sciences Satellite Symposium on Synaptic Transmission in the Central Nervous System, Heron Island, Australia, September 4, 2001.


American Physical Society Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, September 11, 2001.


University of Toronto, Physiology Dept., Toronto, Canada, March 28, 2002.


Baylor College of Medicine, Neuroscience Dept., Houston, TX, May 24, 2002.


Imaging Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, August 4-6, 2002.


Gordon Research Conference on Synaptic Transmission, Meriden, NH, August 20, 2002.


Emory University, Physiology Dept., Atlanta, GA, September 19, 2002.


University of California, San Diego, Institute for Nonlinear Science, October 4, 2002.


University of California, San Francisco, Neuroscience Program, November 14, 2002.


Fluorescence Imaging in Neuroscience Course, Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia, Chile, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Dept., December 3, 2002.


Winter Conference on Synaptic Plasticity, Le Rosier, Guadeloupe, February 27, 2003.


Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Neurobiology Unit, Milan, Italy, July 11, 2003.


Symposium on Synaptic Transmission: From Ion Channels to Neuronal Network Function, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain, Göttingen, Germany, June 5, 2004.


Gordon Research Conference on Synaptic Transmission, Meriden, NH, August 6, 2004.


Boston University, Neuroscience Program, Boston, MA, December 1, 2004.


Winter Conference on Synaptic Plasticity, Le Rosier, Guadeloupe, February 24, 2005.


Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Cell Physiology Dept., Heidelberg, Germany, July 14, 2005.


Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Membrane Biophysics Dept., Göttingen, Germany, July 18, 2005.


Symposium on Fundamental Mechanisms in the Nervous System, Heron Island, Australia, September 8, 2005.


Gordon Research Conference on Synaptic Transmission, Meriden, NH, July 24, 2006.


University of Wisconsin, Biology Dept., Madison, WN, November 1, 2006.


Winter Conference on Synaptic Plasticity,  Moorea, French Polynesia, February 11, 2007.


Exocytosis and Endocytosis Subgroup, Biophysical Society, Baltimore, MD,  March 3, 2007.


Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Synapses: From Molecules to Circuits & Behavior, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, April 13, 2007.


Presynaptic Terminal Course, Spring School in the Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, May 1 & 2, 2007.


University of Colorado Medical School, Physiology Dept., Denver, CO October 9, 2007.


American Society for Cell Biology Meeting, Washington, DC, December 5, 2007.
University of Shizuoka, Global Center of Excellence Program, Shizuoka, Japan, June 13, 2008.

Neurizons 2009: Wiring the Brain from Synapses to Ensembles, Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany, May 15, 2009.


The NeuroPhysiome: Bridging Computational Neuroscience and Systems Biology, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan, October 6, 2010.


Cosyne 2011 Workshop: Synaptic Plasticity across Multiple Time Scales, Snowbird, UT, March 1, 2011.


Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop, Berkeley, CA, January 20, 2012.


Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Neuroscience Dept., New York, NY, September 9, 2013.


Brain Meets Cognition Symposium, New York University, New York, NY, September 10, 2013.


Frontiers in Synaptic Function, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, January 11-14, 2014.



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