Past Seminars :

Fall 2007

December 2007

Monday, December 3 , - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Joseph Corbo , Pathology & Immunology, “The transcriptional regulatory networks of mammalian photoreceptors”

Monday, December 3 – Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Seminar, 12:00 p, 3907 South Bldg., Dr. Douglas Covey , “Modulation of GABA-A receptors by steroid analogues with novel ring structures”

Tuesday, December 4 – Anesthesiology Research Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 5550 CSRB, Dr. Paul Taghert , Anatomy & Neurobiology, “Neuronal mechanisms of circadian output in Drosophila”

Thursday, December 6, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. -

Maternity Building, Room 725 - - Dr. Kristen L. Kroll, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology,“Transcriptional regulatory networks controlling cell fate, proliferation and differentiation in the developing vertebrate nervous system”

Friday, December 7 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Larry Snyder , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Monkey see monkey do: Visuomotor transformations in the macaque"

Monday, December 10, Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. John Constantino , Psychiatry, “The genetics of autism: A research update”

Monday, December 10 – Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Seminar, 12:00 p, 3907 South Bldg., Dr. Peter Crawford , Medicine, “Role of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Cardiovascular Physiology”

Tuesday, December 11, Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar, 4:00 pm, CSRB 5550, Dr. John Dani, Deparment of Neuroscience,   Baylor College of Medicine "Nicotinic and Dopaminergic Mechanisms Underlying Synaptic Plasticity and Nicotine Addiction".

Wednesday, December 12 , PNP Medical School Seminar, 12:30 pm, Rm 2311 East Bldg., Dr. Charles Anderson , Anatomy & Neurobiology, “The brain is an analog computer”

Thursday December 13 , Neuroscience Program Thesis Examination, 9:00 A.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Mr. Josh L. Morgan (lab of Dr. Rachel Wong) "Development of the Bipolar Cell to Retinal Ganglion Cell Circuit in the Mouse Retina"

Thursday, December 13 , The Twenty-Ninth Mildred Trotter Lecture , 4:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, Farrell LTC - Dr. Eve Marder , Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, "Variability, compensation, and homeostasis in neuronal networks"

Friday December 14, Thesis Examination 1:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 MS. RACHEL MARILYN HUCKFELDT, MSTP - Neurosciences, Dr. Rachel Wong "Developmental Mechanisms Regulating the Spatial Organization of Retinal Horizontal Cells"

Friday, December 14 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Semin

ar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Joseph Corbo , Department of Pathology & Immunology - "The transcriptional regulatory networks of mammalian photoreceptors".

Monday December 17, Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Andrew Singleton , NIA, "Molecular Genetics of Parkinson's Disease"

No seminars December 18-31

November, 2007

Thursday, November 1, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. Daniel J. J. Carr,   Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, “The Role of Type I Interferons in Ocular Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection”.

Friday, November 2 , No Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:00 Seminar

Monday, November 5 – No Neurology/Hope Center 12:00 Seminar

Thursday, November 8, Special Neuroscience Seminar - 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Science Bldg., Dr. Henry Kennedy, INSERM, Brain Research Institute, Stem Cells & Cortical Develpment, University of Lyon/France, "Dynamic Features of Cortical Networks"

Thursday, November 8, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 -   Dr. Kendall J. Blumer, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, “Shuttling G Protein Signaling Regulators In The Nervous System”.

Friday, November 9, the Sidney Goldring Lecture in Epilepsy, 8:00 am, Wohl Auditorium*, Dr. Warren T. Blume, University of Western Ontario, "Clinically Signficant Propagations of Epileptic Seizures"

Friday, November 9, the Ninth Julio V. Santiago Lecture, 9:15 am, Clopton Auditorium*, Dr. Fred Murad, "Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP Signaling and Role in Drug Discovery and Development"

Friday, November 9 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Jeff Zacks , Department of Psychology - "Event segmentation and memory control"

Monday, November 12 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Laura Jean Bierut , Department of Psychiatry,   "Genetics of Nicotine Dependence - Insights from a Candidate Gene and Genome Wide Association Study "

Wednesday, November 14 - PNP seminar, 12:30 P.M., East Building, 2nd floor Conference Room, 2311, Dr. Ian Dobbins, Psychology, "Lateral prefrontal cortex and strategic memory retrieval"

Wednesday, November 14 , Eloctronic Radiology Seminar, 1:30 pm, Scarpellino Auditorium (lst fl Mallinckrodt Inst Radiol*), Dr. Steven J. Schiff , Enginering, Science & Mechanics, Director Penn State Center for Neural Engineering, “Towards a neural engineering of seizure control”

Thursday, November 15, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 -   Dr. Mae E. Gordon, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, “Assessing Impact of Research: Bibliometric Indices”.

Friday, November 16 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Michael Dickinson , Department of Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology - "How Flies Find Stuff"

Monday, November 19 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Estelle Bettelli , Department of Neurology, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, “Subsets of pathogenicT cells in EAE”

Friday, November 23 , No Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:00 Seminar

Monday, November 26 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Brad A. Racette , Department of Neurology,   "Exploring the Etiology of Parkinson's Disease: From Genes to Environment and Back Again"

Thursday, November 29, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Seminar - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. Richard Kramer, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, – “Inventing New Ways to Control Neurons with Light”.

Thursday, November 29 , Student-Organized Computational, Cognitive & Systems Neuroscience (CCSN) seminar, 5:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, Farrell LTC*, Dr. Robert Desimone , McGovern Institute of Brain Research, MIT, “Neural Synchrony and Selective Attention"

Friday, November 30 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, Sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Rachel Wilson , Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School - "Probing a Sensory Microcircuit: Olfactory Processing in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe"

October, 2007

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00 p. m - Clinical Sciences Research Building (CSRB), Room 5550 – Dr. David Hildeman, Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, "Bcl-2 Family Members and Control of T-Cell Homeostasis".

Thursday, October 4, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 -   Dr. Sheng-Kwei Victor Song, Radiology, “MR Biomarkers of CNS Injury: Applications in the Visual System”.

Friday, October 5 , No 4:00 Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar

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Monday, October 8 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, David Pitt , MD, Neurology, ""What drives axonal loss in multiple sclerosis?"

Wednesday October 10, JOINT PNP/MEDICAL SCHOOL LUNCHTIME SEMINAR, 12:30 p, 2 nd fl large Conf Rm 2311, East Bldg., Jason Hill,   MD/PhD student (Dr. Jeffrey Neil's lab), Dept. Neurology, Pediatrics, & Radiology, “Baby Brains: A surface based approach to studying cortical development in neonates”

Thursday, October 11, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 -   Dr. J. William Harbour, Ophthalmology, Developmental Genomics and Ocular Melanoma”.

Friday, October 12 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Sacha Nelson , Department of Biology, Brandeis University - " Physiological genomics of cortical circuits in health and disease "

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Monday, October 15 - No Neurology/Hope Center Seminar

Friday, October 19 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Michael Nonet , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - " Cellular mechanisms controlling mechanosensory neuron synapse development "

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Monday, October 22 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, Wensheng Lin, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, "Endoplasmic reticulum stress modulates the response of oligodendrocytes to interferon-gamma"

Monday, October 22 , Neuro-Oncology Seminar, 3:00, Rm 3907 South Bldg, Dr. Meng Law , Mt. Sinai Medical Center, “Increasing Diagnostic Specificity in Brain Tumors with MR Spectroscopy, Diffusion and Perfusion MR Imaging”

Monday, October 22, Physics Seminar, 4:00 pm, Compton 241, Dr. John Milton* (hosted by Ralf Wessel), Joint Science Department, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California, “Balancing at the Edge of Stability”

Thursday, October 25, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 -   Dr. Erik D. Herzog, Biology, – “For Whom the Bells Toll: A Network of Circadian Clocks in the Mammalian Brain”.

Friday, October 26 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Nancy Ip , Department of Biochemistry, Hong Kong University – “Regulation of synapse development by receptor tyrosine kinase signaling”

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Monday, October 29, Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Erlanger Auditorium, 1st floor McDonnell Science Building, Sheng-Kwei (Victor) Song, PhD, Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, "MRI biomarker of axonal
injury: Are we there?"

September, 2007

Tuesday, September 11, 1:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library, Ms. Midori Jane Seppa , MSTP - Neurosciences Program, Dr. Ross L. Cagan

"The Role of Adhesion in Morphogenesis and Patterning of the Drosophila Pupal Retina"

Wednesday September 12 , JOINT PNP/MEDICAL SCHOOL LUNCHTIME SEMINAR 12:30pm, 2nd Floor Large Conference Room (Rm# 2311), East Building, Dr. Joseph Price , Anatomy and Neurobiology, "Differential subregions and connectional circuits within   the prefrontal cortex."

Thursday, September 13, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. David Beebe, Ophthalmology, - "Preventing Nuclear Cataracts: Ascorbic Acid and the Vitreous Gel Protect the Lens from Oxygen Exposure”.

Friday, September 14 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Jeffrey Taube , Department of Psychology & Brain Science, Dartmouth College - "Which Way is that Arch?   The Neurobiology for a Sense of Direction"

Tuesday, September 18, Biomedical Engineering Seminar, 11:45 am, Whitaker Hall, Rm 100, Dr. Kurt Thoroughman, "Neural computation and human motor behavior"

Tuesday, September 18 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00 p. m - Clinical Sciences Research Building (CSRB), Room 5550 - Charles C. Caldwell, Ph.D., Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, "TCell Responses to Sepsis and Trauma".

Thursday, September 20, Biomedical Engineering Program Thesis Defense - 10:00am, Whitaker 316 (Danforth Campus) - Mr. Jordan Taylor (laboratory of Dr. Kurt Thoroughman), "Human motor control and learning of novel dynamic forces and the influence of attentional control"

Thursday, September 20, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. Usha Andley, Ophthalmology, "Mechanism of Hereditary Cataract Formation”.

Friday, September 21 , Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Eric Nestler , Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center - " Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Addiction "

Monday, September 24 ,   Neurology and Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, *Erlanger Auditorium,   (*note NEW LOCATION FOR THIS SEMINAR SERIES), Drs. Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, David Clayson, Depts Neurology and Pathology & Immunology and Internal Medicine, "Axonal Degeneration: Mitochondria, Energy, and Redox"

Tuesday, September 25 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00 p. m - Clinical Sciences Research Building (CSRB), Room 5550 - Yan Mei A. Wang, Ph.D., Physics, "Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging of Protein-DNA Interactions"

Wednesday, September 26, Mutant Mouse Production at Washington University, 1:00, Room 928 McDonnell Science Building, Renate Lewis, Dept. Neurology, “Transgenic Vectors Core”, Mia Wallace, Dept. Pediatrics, “Mouse Genetics Core”.

Thursday, September 27 , Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminras - 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725, Dr. Milam Brantley , Ophthalmology, "Neurturin-RET Mediated Signaling is Critical for Normal Retinal Function"