Seminar Series

Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesdays, 12:00 noon, Room 6014, BST3 (unless otherwise noted)

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
September 25, 2006 Monday 1495 Starzl BST	Yu Tian Wang , Ph.D. University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada more	Synaptic plasticity in learning and memory - from molecule to behavior
October 3, 2006	Ed Levitan University of Pittsburgh more	Vesicle travels through the nerve terminal
November 7, 2006	Mike Ehlers Duke University North Carolina more	Membrane trafficking mechanisms for neural circuit development and plasticity
November 9, 2006 Thursday 11:00AM S120 Starzl BST	David J. Anderson California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California more	Growth and Transcription Factors Controlling Mammalian Neural Stem Cell Development
November 14, 2006	Raymond Lund University of Utah more	Rescue of visual function with cell based therapies
November 16, 2006 Thursday 1495 Starzl BST	Min Zhuo University of Toronto Department of Physiology Ontario, Canada more	Higher brain plasticity: from pain to fear
December 5, 2006	Christine Gall University of California, Irvine more	Integrins regulate glutamate receptor function and synaptic plasticity
January 9, 2007 1495 Starzl BST	Bruce Freeman University of Pittsburgh more	Inflammatory modulation of nitric oxide signaling
January 23, 2006	Peter Kalivas Medical University of South Carolina more	Excitatory neuroplasticity in cocaine addiction
February 20, 2007	Timothy Ebner University of Minnesota more	What cerebellar Purkinje cells encode about arm movements: Implications for theories of cerebellar function
February 21, 2007 Wednesday 4:00PM	Richard Mooney Duke University School of Medicine more	Listening to the wild songbird's brain as he sings and listens: auditory-vocal "mirror" neurons
March 13, 2007	Raymond Swanson University of California, San Francisco more	Regulation and consequences of PARP-1 activation; a “decider” molecule in cell stress
March 20, 2007	Nicholas Gaiano Johns Hopkins University Maryland more	Differential Notch signaling in telencephalic neural stem cells and neuroblasts
March 27, 2007	David Fitzpatrick Duke University Medical Center more	Learning to see: The development of direction selectivity in visual cortex
April 10, 2007	Wes Thompson University of Texas at Austin more	Schwann cells respond to and alter the innervation of neuromuscular junctions
May 8, 2007	Marc G Caron Duke University North Carolina more	Novel CNS Signaling Paradigms in Animal Models
May 15, 2007 Cancelled	Gabriella D'Arcangelo Baylor College of Medicine Texas more	Multiple functions of Reelin in embryonic and postnatal brain development

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