Fall 2005

December, 2005

Thursday, December 1 - Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Room 725 - -Dr . Samer Hattar , Departments of Biology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland - "Role of retinal photoreceptors in non-image-forming visual functions" 

Friday, December 2 , Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 426 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Gottlieb , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - " Transcriptional Control of Stem Cell Fate "

Friday, December 2 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Harris , Department of Cell Biology & Physiology - " How Do Prions Kill Nerve Cells ?"

Friday, December 2 , PNP WIPS (Works in Progress Session), Psych 216 A & B; 4:15 pm, Dr. Chris Hom , Philosophy, "The Semantics of Racism"

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Monday, December 5 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Anneliese Schaefer, PhD , Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, ”Axonopathy in a Mouse Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis"

Tuesday, December 6 , WUCNS (Computational Neuroscience) Seminar - 4:00 p, 241 Compton (Hilltop) - Dr. Sonya Bahar , Department of Center for Neurodynamics,   Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Missouri at St Louis - " Imaging the Neocortex and Searching for the "Elusive Initial Dip "

Thursday, December 8 - Dept.of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M.,Maternity Building,Room 725 - Dr. J. Mark Petrash , Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences -"Animal Models for Autosomal Dominant Cataract"

Friday, December 9 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Paul Taghert , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "The cell biology of peptide neurosecretion - lessons from Drosophila genetics"

Friday, December 9 , PNP WIPS (Works in Progress Session), Psych 216 A & B; 4:15 pm, Dr. Anna Alexandrova , UCSD, (visiting UMSL), "TBA"

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Monday, December 12 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Jeremy Dasen , Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, NY - " Specification of Motor Neuron Identity and Connectivity by a Hox Gene Regulatory Network "

Monday, December 12 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, David Piwnica-Worms, MD, PhD , Radiology, “TBA”

Monday, December 12 , NORG (Neuro-Oncology Research Group) Seminar Series--Seminar Series, 3:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, ARIE PERRY, M.D ., Dept. of Pathology & Immunology, "Meningiomas: Current Classification and Molecular Features"

Thursday, December 15 ,  Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 400 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. David H. Gutmann , Dept.of Neurology, - "Modeling optic nerve tumors in mice"            

Friday, December 16 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Van Essen , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - " Mapping Cerebral Cortex in Health and Disease Using a New Human Atlas "

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Monday, December 19 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg.

Monday, December 19 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Phyllis Hanson, MD, PhD , Cell Biology and Physiology, “TBA”

Tuesday, December 20 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Laura Bianchi , Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,

Rutgers University - " Normal and Aberrant Activities of C. elegans Ion Channels Involved in Sensory Perception "

December 23-30 – No Seminars

November, 2005

Tuesday, November 1, Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rounds, 9:00 am, Clopton Auditorium, Dr. Richard Todd , Department of Psychiatry, “Ten years of ADHD research: What we've learned about genetics, comorbidity and treatment”

Tuesday, November 1 , WUCNS (Computational Neuroscience) Seminar - 4:00 p, 204 Crow (Hilltop) - Dr. Nicholas Hatsopoulos , Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago - " A Language of Action in the Motor Cortex "

Tuesday, November 1, Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00pm, RM 5550, CSRB bldg, - Dr. Michael Crowder, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University, "Insulin, apoptosis, and autophagy: Determinants of hypoxic death in C. elegans "

Wednesday, November 2 , Special Neuroscience Seminar -   12:00 p, Connor Auditorium, Farrell Learning & Teaching Center- Dr. Sandra Aamodt , Editor-in-Chief, Nature Neuroscience - " The editorial process: myths, realities and the habits of highly effective authors "

Wednesday, November 2 , Department of Psychiatry Research Seminar, 1:15p, East Pavilion Auditorium, Dr. Peter de Jonge , Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, “Depression following myocardial infarction: Treatable disorder, pre-existing vulnerability, or artifact”

Thursday, November 3 ,   The 27th Mildred Trotter Lecture (Sponsored by Anatomy & Neurobiology), 4:00 pm, Moore Auditorium - Dr. Gwen A. Jacobs , Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Montana State University - "Creating a view of the sensory world: How interneurons interpret and encode sensory signals from the environment"

Friday, November 4 , Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Ginty , Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University - "Growth and Survival Signals Controlling PNS Development and Neurovascular Congruency"

Friday, November 4, Biomedical Engineering Department Seminar, 4:00 p, Whitaker Hall Rm 100, Dr. David Gottlieb, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, "From ES Cells to Neural Cells in a Dish"

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Monday, November 7 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Preparation for Neuroscience talks, John Cirrito, PhD, Neurology, "Synaptic activity regulates interstitial fluid Abeta levels in vivo" and Francesco Nodari, Anatomy and Neurobiology, "Identifying   Ligands for the Vomeronasal Sensory Neurons"

Tuesday, November 8 , WUCNS (Computational Neuroscience) Seminar - 4:00 p, 241 Compton (Hilltop) - Dr. Mike Lewicki , Computational Neurobiology Lab, Carnegie Mellon Institute - "Information theoretic models of auditory coding"

Tuesday, November 8, Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 5550, CSRB bldg, - Dr. Judy Kerstan, Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, "Hypergylcemia: Mechanisms of Increased Cardiovascular Risk"

Thursday, November 10,  Endocrinology and Metabolism Seminar 9:45 am, Rm 728 SouthWest Tower - Dr. Barry Levin , Professor and Vice Chair, New Jersey Medical School Department of Neurosciences “Metabolic sensing neurons and the control of energy homeostasis in obesity”    

Thursday, November 10 , Dept.of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725 --Dr. Mark Sands, Departments of Internal Medicine and Genetics  - "AAV-mediated ocular gene therapy for lysosomal storage diseases"

Friday, November 11, PNP WIPS (Works in Progress Session), Seminar, Psych 216 A & B; 4:15 pm, Dr. Chris Mole, PNP Ppst-Doc, "The Metaphysics of Attention"

Friday, November 11 , No Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:00 seminar

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Monday, November 14 , No Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon   seminar

Thursday, November 17 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - Maternity Building, 4:00 P.M., Room 725 -Dr. Aaron DiAntonio, Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, - "Molecular Pathways Regulating Synaptic Size and Strength

Friday, November 18 , Special Neuroscience Seminar -   12:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Guy Orban , Department of Katholieke University of Leuven - "The extraction of 3D shape from motion and other cues: Convergence of imaging and single cell studies"

November 21 – 25 – No seminars

Monday, November 28 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Robert Cormier PhD, Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, “TBA”

Monday, October 3 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, no seminar

Monday October 3 , Physics Seminar -   4 pm in Compton 241 (host: Ralf Wessel).   Dr. Len Maler; Univ Ottawa; Dept Cell & Molec Med, “Optimal Sensory Processing with Adaptive Feedback”

Thursday, October 6 ,   Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Elaine R. Mardis - Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Genetics,   “Genomics:An ever-changing landscape"

Friday, October 7 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Elizabeth Grove , Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Chicago - "Patterning the developing cerebral cortex"

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Monday, October 10 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Russell N. Van Gelder, Ophthalmology and Molecular Biology & Pharmacology,   "Retinal ganglion cells and non-visual photoreception"

Monday, October 10 , Neuro-oncology Seminar Series, 3:00 PM - McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, "Origin of Adult Neural Stem Cells"

Wednesday, October 12 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 Noon, Room 928 McDonnell Science Bldg., Dr. Josh Huang, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,   "Construction and plasticity of GABAergic circuits in mammalian brain"

Friday, October 14 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Raphe Kopan , Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology - "Presenilin: the connection between Notch and Wnt?"

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Monday, October 17 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Michael M. Crowder, Anesthesiology, “ Genes controlling hypoxia-induced cell death in C. elegans”

Friday, October 21 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Ornitz , Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology - "Regulation of neuronal signaling by an intracellular fibroblast growth factor, FGF14”

Monday, October 24 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Catherine Lang, Physical Therapy,   "Multisegmental movement control in people with hemiparesis: relationships to hand function"

Friday, October 28 , Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Nancy Bonini , Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania - "Drosophila as a model for human neurodegenerative disease”

Monday, October 31 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Mark F. Jacquin, Neurology, “TBA”

September, 2005

Monday, September 5 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar -- no seminar

Thursday,  September 8 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Visvanathan Ramamurthy ,   Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington "cGMP, Calcium and Cell Death: Lessons from Retinal Degenerative Diseases"

Friday, September 9 , Neuroscience Student-Organized Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. William Newsome , Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University - " Perception, Decisions and Reward: Toward a Neurobiology of Decision-making "

Monday, September 12 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. M. Alan Permutt , Department Internal Medicine and Cell Biology, “Wolfram Syndrome, a disease characterized by degeneration of neurons and pancreatic islet beta cells”

Monday, September 12 , Neuro-oncology Seminar Series, 3:00 PM - Room 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg., Dr. Joshua Rubin , Pediatrics, "Targeting CXCR4 in the Treatment of Brain Tumors"

Thursday, September 15 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725 -   Dr. David C. Beebe ,   Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, “The Cause and Prevention of Nuclear Cataracts”

Friday, September 16 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Gutmann , Department of Neurology - " Modeling Brain Tumors in Mice "

Monday, September 19 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Christina Gurnett , Department of Neurology, TBA

Monday, September 19 , Biology Lecture, 3:00 P.M., Rebstock (Hilltop), Room 322, Dr. Erik Herzog , Biology, "A Clock Shop in the Brain"

Friday, September 23 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Tom Baranski , Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology - "Understanding the Receptor Switch: How do Hormones Activate G proteins?"

Monday, September 26 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar-- no seminar

Thursday, September 29 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr.   Ana   Mendez , Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, "Mammalian Genetics to Study Early Visual Signaling"

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