Seminar Series

Departmental Seminar Series 2008-2009

Tuesdays, 12:00 noon, Room 1495 BSTWR (unless otherwise noted)

Date	Speaker	Research Interests	Talk Title
09/23/08	Martin Oudega, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD more	Spinal cord injury	Repair strategies for the injured spinal cord
10/07/08	Hongjun Song, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD more	Mammalian Neural Stem Cells and Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain	Mechanisms Regulating Adult Mammalian Neural Stem Cells and Neurogenesis
10/21/08	David Ginty, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD more	Growth and Survival Signals Controlling Nervous System Development	Growth and survival signals controlling development and maintenance of the mouse peripheral nervous system
11/11/08 6014 BST3	Lyanne Schlichter, Ph.D. Toronto Western Research Institute Ontario, Canada more	Role of microglia and K channels in neuronal survival	Ion channels as therapeutic targets for controlling inflammation in the CNS
12/02/08	Carlos Aizenman, Ph.D. Brown University Providence, RI more	Development of neural circuits and the role the external environment plays in shaping these circuits	Functional regulation of a developing visual circuit
12/09/08 6014 BST3	Anne Rittenhouse, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Worcester, MA more	Regulation of calcium channels by lipids. Her story is interesting and she speaks well.	Palmitoylated Cavβ2a toggles N-type Ca2+ current modulation from inhibition to enhancement: A Fatty Acid Tale
02/24/09	Marc H. Schieber, M.D. Ph.D. University of Rochester Rochester, NY more	How the brain controls movements of the body	Changing circuits that control the fingers
03/10/09	Christof T. Grewer, Ph.D. Binghamton University Binghamton, NY more	To understand the function and the working mechanism of membrane-bound transport proteins	What can we learn about glutamate transporter function by studying their pre-steady-state kinetics
03/17/09	Randy Blakely, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center more	Transporters	The Wrong Way to Think About Dopamine: ADHD and the Dopamine Transporter
03/24/09	Kevin Alloway, Ph.D. Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA more	Research Interest: Anatomy and physiology of interactions between somatosensory and motor cortex - rat whiskers	Processing Streams and the Neural Basis of Sensorimotor Interactions in the Rat
04/14/09	Timothy E. Kennedy, Ph.D. McGill University Health Center Quebec, Canada more	Molecular mechanisms of neural development	Moving Beyond Axon Guidance: Novel Roles for Netrin-1 Regulating Cell - Cell Interactions in the CNS
05/05/09 CANCELLED	Miguel Nicolelis, M.D. Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC more	Computing with Neural Ensembles	TBA
06/30/09	Michael Matise, Ph.D. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ more	Molecular determinants of cell fate specification in the developing CNS	Regulation of Shh target gene expression in the developing CNS
07/07/09	Julie Blendy, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA more	Understanding the molecular basis for the biochemical and behavioral changes associated with drug addiction and depression	Making a bad thing worse: adverse effects of stress on drug addiction
08/24/09 10am Monday	C. William Shuttleworth, Ph.D. University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM more	Basic mechanisms that contribute to cell death in the central nervous system.	Different roles for Zn2+ and Ca2+ in acute injury of hippocampal CA1 neurons

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