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Aug 31 |
James Giordano, Ph.D. |
Friday
noon
Pharm
Library
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Scholar in Residence
Center for Clinical Bioethics
Georgetown University Medical Center
"Neuroethics: The silent revolution in
neurosciences"
Pizza will be served
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Sponsor: Alexis Jeannotte |
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Sep 18 |
Gong Chen, Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Pennsylvania State University"Molecular construction of GABAergic synapses and
functional regulation of GABAA receptors"
Journal Club:
Molecular reconstitution of functional GABAergic
synapses with expression of neuroligin-2 and GABAA receptors.
Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 35:14-23, 2007
Dr. Chen's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Jian-Young Wu |
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Sep 25 |
Peter Scheiffele, Ph.D. |
Sponsored by
The Department of
Neuroscience
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Columbia University
Center of Neurobiology and Behavior
"Molecular
Mechanisms of Neuronal Circuit Assembly"
Dr. Scheiffele's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor:
Bill Rebeck |
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Sep 27 |
Kelly McVearry |
Thursday
2:00 pm
Pharm
Library
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Ph.D. Student, IPN
Thesis Defense Seminar
"Antiepileptic
Drugs as Cognitive Teratogens: Evidence for Compromised Creativity"
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Kimford Meador |
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Oct 9 |
Qiufu Ma |
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Associate Professor
Harvard University
Department of Neurobiology"Molecular
control of pain circuitry development"
Journal Club:
Runx1 determines
nociceptive sensory neuron phenotype and is required for thermal and neuropathic pain.
Neuron.
2006 49:365-77.
Dr. Ma's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Baoji Xu |
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Oct 16 |
Frances Calderone, Ph.D |
Sponsored by
The Department of
Neuroscience
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Laboratory of Molecular Signaling
National Institutes of Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse
"Role of
Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) in Neuronal Differentiation and Apoptosis"
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Sponsor: Barbara Bayer |
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Oct 23 |
Douglas Coulter, Ph.D. |
Sponsored by
UCB Pharma
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Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Neurology, & Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Neurotransmitter metabolism as a
mechanism regulating inhibitory synaptic transmission"
Journal Club paper:
Dynamic
regulation of synaptic GABA release by the glutamate-glutamine cycle in
hippocampal area CA1 J. Neurosci. 16:8537, 2006
Dr. Coulter's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Stefano Vicini |
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Nov 13 |
Chris Petkov, Ph.D. |
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Department of Logothetis
MPI for Biological Cybernetics
Tubingen, Germany"Perceptual
Continuity and Topographies of Auditory
Cortical Function"
Dr. Petkov's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Josef Rauschecker |
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Nov 20 |
Avi Nath, M.D., Ph.D. |
Sponsored by the Department of
Neuroscience
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Professor,
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University
"tba"
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Sponsor: Italo Mocchetti |
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Nov 27 |
Alexis Jeannotte |
Tuesday
9:00 am
Pharm
Library
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IPN Thesis Student
Thesis Defense Seminar"Regulation
of the Norepinephrine Transporter: A Tale of Two Synucleins"
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Mentor: Anita Sidhu |
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Dec
11 |
Mark A. Stopfer, Ph.D. |
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Investigator
NIH"Odor encoding by
ensembles of neurons"
Journal Club: Brown et al.
Encoding a temporally structured stimulus with a temporally structured
neural representation. Nature Neuroscience 8:1568, 2005
Dr. Stopfer's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Jian-Young Wu |
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Jan 15 |
Chris Baker |
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Chief, Unit on Learning and Plasticity
NIMH"Learning
and Plasticity in Human Visual Cortex"
Dr. Baker's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Max Riesenhuber |
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Jan 22 |
Mona Thiruchelvam, Ph.D. |
Sponsored by the Department of Neuroscience
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Environmental and Occupational Health
Sciences Institute
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - UMDNJ
"Interactions of Risk Factors in a
pesticide exposure model of Parkinson's Disease" |
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Sponsor:
Timothy Mhyre |
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Jan 29 |
Yale Cohen, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor
Dartmouth University
Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences
"Vocalization
Processing: features, categories, and attention"
Dr. Cohen's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Josef Rauschecker |
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Feb 12 |
Roman Giger, Ph.D. |
Sponsored by
The Department of
Neuroscience
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University of Rochester
"Synaptic Function
for the Nogo-66 Receptor NgR1: Regulation of Dendritic Spine Morphology and
Activity-Dependent Synaptic Strength"
Dr. Giger's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Seung Lim |
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Feb 19 |
Eva Anton, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor
University of North Carolina
Neuroscience Research Center"Mechanisms
of neuronal differentiation in the developing cerebral cortex"
Dr. Anton's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsors: Maria Donoghue & Meredith Clifford |
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Feb 26 |
Diane E. Merry, Ph.D. |
Sponsored by
the Department of
Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Thomas Jefferson University
"Using Cell
and Animal Models to Understand Altered Androgen Receptor Metabolism in the
Polyglutamine Disease Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy"
Dr. Merry's HOMEPAGE |
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Sponsor: Bill Rebeck |
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Mar 11 |
Rohit Bakshi, M.D. |
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Associate Professor
Harvard University
Center for Neurological Imaging
"New neuroimaging developments and
applications in Multiple Sclerosis"
Dr. Bakshi's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Alan Faden |
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Mar 18 |
David Ginty, Ph.D. |
Sponsored by
the Department of
Neuroscience
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Johns Hopkins University
Department of Neuroscience
"Growth and survival signals controlling
development of the peripheral nervous system" Dr. Ginty's
HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Italo Mocchetti |
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Mar 25 |
Angel de Blas, Ph.D. |
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Professor
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
University of Connecticut"GABAA
receptors, gephyrin and the stability ofGABAergic synapses"
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Sponsor: Stefano Vicini |
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Apr 1 |
George J. Augustine, Ph.D. |
Sponsored by
the Department of
Neuroscience
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Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Duke
University
"Molecular mechanisms of
neurotransmitter release"
Dr. Augustine's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Bill Rebeck |
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Apr 8 |
Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Georgetown
University
"Connections between alpha-synuclein,
inflammation and Parkinson's disease"
Dr. Maguire-Zeiss' HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Barry Wolfe |
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Apr 9 |
Sunbin Song |
Wednesday
9:30 am
Pharm
Library
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IPN Ph.D. student
Thesis Defense Seminar
"Explicit/Implicit Interactions in
Motor
Sequence Learning"
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Mentor: Darlene Howard |
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| Apr 15 |
Matthew Dalva, Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Neuroscience
"EphB-ephrinBs and the Differentiation of
Glutamatergic Contacts"
Dr. Dalva's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsors: Maria Donoghue & Hilary North |
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Apr 22 |
Timothy R. Mhyre, Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Georgetown
University
"Are Brain Diseases Systemic? The
Rationale and
Search for Peripheral Biomarkers of
Neurodegenerative Diseases"
Dr. Mhyre's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Barry Wolfe |
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Apr 29 |
Mark Henkemeyer, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology
University of Texas, Southwestern
"Eph-Ephrin
Bidirectional Signaling:
At the Midline and Beyond"
Dr. Henkemeyer's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Larry Kromer |
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Apr 30 |
Stuart Washingon |
Wednesday
10:00 am
NRB
Auditorium
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IPN Student
Thesis Defense Seminar
"Neural
Mechanisms for Call Processing in the Primary Auditory Cortex of
Mustached Bats: Frequency Modulated Sounds and their Lateralization"
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Mentor: Jag Kanwal |
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May
13 |
Husseini K. Manji, M.D. |
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Chief, Laboratory of Molecular
Pathophysiology
Director, NIMH Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program
National Institutes of Mental Health
"Cellular
Plasticity Cascades: genes to behavior pathways in the pathophysiology
and treatment of severe mood disorders"
Dr. Manji's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Barry Wolfe |
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May 20 |
Seung Lim, Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Georgetown
University
"the role of nectin-1 shedding in
synaptogenesis"
Dr. Lim's HOMEPAGE
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Sponsor: Barry Wolfe |
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May 30 |
Kristen Ade |
Friday
2:00
Research
Bldg.
Auditorium
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IPN Student
Thesis Defense Seminar
"GABAergic
control of striatal
medium spiny neurons"
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Mentor: Stefano Vicini |
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____________________________________ |
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June 16 |
Alexandria Nugent |
Monday
1:00
Pharm
Library
NE401
Med/Dent
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IPN Student
Thesis Defense Seminar
"Morphine
activation of stress pathways alters peripheral immune cell signalling"
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Mentor: Barbara Bayer |
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