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Fall 2006

Thursday, November 2 , The Twenty-Eighth Mildred Trotter Lecture, 4:00 pm, Moore Auditorium - Dr. Paula Tallal , Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark - " Language Development and Disorders: From Research to Remediation "

Friday, November 3, Neurology Grand Rounds, 8:00am – 9:00am, West Pavilion Auditorium, Dr. Martha Storandt , Dept of Psychology, "Longitudinal course of mild cognitive impairment in older adults."

Friday, November 3 , Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 426 McDonnell Science - Dr. Ross Cagan , Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology - " Flies, disease, and drugs "

Friday, November 3 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Dennis Barbour , Department of Biomedical Engineering - "Acoustic intensity encoding: Clues for organization within the auditory system"

 

Monday, November 6 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium,   Hope Center Prize Presentations , Jae-Eun Kang ,   Graduate Student (Dr. David Holtzman), “Chronic and acute environmental stress increases amyloid-? levels in the brain interstitial fluid of young APP transgenic mice”, Dr. Laurent Seugnet , Postdoctoral Research Scholar, (Dr. Paul Shaw) “Sleep loss induced cognitive impairments are reversed by enhanced Dopamine signaling”

Monday, November 6, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars (Faculty Candidate) - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Rm 725 – Dr. Wei Li , Department of Ophthalmology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.   "The first synapse in vision - the photoreceptor synapse and the retinal circuity".

Thursday, November 9, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Rm 725 - Dr. Ross Cagan , Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, "Patterning the Fly Eye: What We See".

Friday, November 10 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Paul Bridgman , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Steering mechanisms of growth cones"

 

Monday, November 13 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building , Hope Center Prize Presentation , Meghana Karnik , Graduate Student , Dr. John Csernansky, Preceptor, “Genotype, Schizophrenia and the Thalamus”

Monday, November 13 , Neuro-oncology Research Group Seminar – 3:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Joshua Rubin , Department of Hematology/Oncology - " CXCR4 in Brain Tumors:   Mediating an Environmental Influence on Behavior” "

Monday, November 13 , Physics Seminar, 4:00, 241 Compton, Danforth Campus, Dr. Thorsten Ritz (hosted by Wessel), Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, “Magnetic Sensing in Animals: Mysteries, Myths and Biophysical Mechanisms”

Tuesday, November 14 , Anesthesiology Research Seminar Series—Seminar , 4:00 P.M., CSRB., Room 5550, Dr. Linda Watkins , University of Colorado, Boulder, "Listening" and "talking" to neurons: clinical implications of immune and glial regulation of pain.

Thursday, November 16, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Rm 725 - Dr. Vaibhav Tiwari , Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago,   "Molecular Mechanism of HSV-1 Entry Into Ocular Cells".

Friday, November 17 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Dora Angelaki , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Self-motion perception: Multisensory integration in extrastriate visual cortex"

 

Monday, November 20, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 3907 South Bldg., Dr. Aaron DiAntonio, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, “Synaptic growth and stability: Walking the highwire”

Monday, November 20 , No Neurology Seminar

Monday, November 20 , Physics Seminar, 4:00, 241 Compton, Danforth Campus, Dr. Andre Longtin (hosted by Wessel), Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Canada, “Neurophysics of sensory coding”

Friday, November 24 – No Anatomy & Neurobiology Seminar

 

Monday, November 27, Thesis Defense, 9:30 A.M., Whitaker Hall, room 318, Mr. Sherwin Chan, MSTP - Biomedical Engineering, Lab of Dr. Daniel W. Moran, "Representations of Dynamics of Arm Movement in Primate Motor Cortex"

Monday, November 27 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, David Wozniak , PhD, Psychiatry,   First Floor Maternity Building, Functional deficits resulting from drug-induced neuroapoptosis during synaptogenesis: a template for developmental disorders".

 

Monday, November 27, Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Research Seminar. 1:15 pm, Rm 426 McDonnell Sci Bldg., Dr. Geoffrey Pitt, Columbia University, New York, “Ion Channels and Calcium Regulation in Excitable Cells”

 

Monday, November 27 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Allan Jones,  Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA - "The mouse transcriptome in 3D: The Allen Brain Atlas project (<http://www.brain-map.org>www.brain-map.org)."

Thursday, November 30 , Dept. of Genetics--Seminar Series 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 823, Dr. Jeanne Nerbonne , Dept. of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology,   "Molecular Genetic Analysis of K+ Channel Diversity and Functioning in the Mammalian Heart

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Thursday, November 30, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Rm 725,   Dr. Steven Kymes , Department Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, "Aren't eyes part of the body? The apparent disjunct between health and visual health---evidence using preference based measures of quality of life"

 

Thursday, October 5, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar - 4:00 pm - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Tom Linsenmayer, Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts University Medical School, "Corneal Epithelial Nuclear Ferreting: Nuclear Transport and Prevention of U.V. and Oxidataive Damage to DNA"

Friday, October 6,, Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology, 12:00 P.M, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426, Dr. Steven Bassnett, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and of Cell Biology & Physiology, "Looking through a Glass Onion: The Cell Biology of Eye Lens Transparency"

Monday, October 9, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 3907 South Bldg, Dr. Hugo Bellen, Developmental Biology at BCM and HHMI in Houston, "Novel players in Notch Signaling"

Tuesday, October 10, Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00 p.m. - CSRB- 5550 - Dr. Kristin Engelhard, Anesthesiology - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany - "Endogenous Neuronal Stem Cells After Brain Injury".

Wednesday, October 11, Frontiers in Human Pathobiology Seminar Series--Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Auditorium, Dr. Jonathan Gitlin, "TBA"

Thursday, October 12, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar - 4:00 pm - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Jeff Gidday, Neurosurgery, "Endogenous Neuroprotection in the Retina: Relevance to Ischemia and Glaucoma"

Monday, October 16, Neuro-oncology Research Group Seminar - 3:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Eric Holland, Memorial Sloan-Kattering Cancer Center - ""Recruited Cells and Stem Cell Compartments in Mouse Models of Brain Tumors"

Thursday, October 19, Dept. of Genetics--Seminar Series, 12:00 P.M, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 823, Dr. Alison Goate, Psychiatry, "TBA"

Thursday, October 19, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar - 4:00 pm - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Claude Burgoyne, Optic Nerve Head Biomechanics Laboratory, Devery Eye Institute, "Digital 3D Reconstruction of the Normal and Early Glaucomatous Monkey Optic Nerve Head"

Friday, October 20, Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology, 12:00 P.M, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426, Dr. Russell N. Van Gelder, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, "Mechanisms of Non-visual Ocular Photoreception"

Friday, October 20, 34th Annual Carl Vernon Moore Memorial Lecture, 4:00 P.M, Moore Auditorium, Dr. Craig Thompson, Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; SAbramson Institute, "TBA"

Monday, October 23, Neurology/Hope Center Prize Presentations, 12:00 noon, Schwarz Auditorium, Maternity Bldg, Erin McCandless, Graduate Student, Dr. Robyn Klein, Preceptor, "TBA"; Shengzhou Wu, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Dr. B. Joy Snider, Preceptor, "Reduced cellular calcium in proteasome inhibitor-induced neuronal death: role of ER and mitochondria"

Friday, October 27,, Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology, 12:00 P.M, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426, Dr. Raphael Kopan,Molecular Biology & Pharmacology and of Internal Medicine, "Theme and Variations in Notch Signaling: The Vertebrate Kidney and Somite Tell Their Story"

Friday, October 27, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Darcy Kelley, Department of Biology, Columbia University - "Encoding and decoding underwater communication signals in courtship songs"

Monday, October 30, Neurology/Hope Center Prize Presentations, 12:00 noon, Schwarz Auditorium, Maternity Bldg, Biyu He, Graduate Student, Dr. Maurizio Corbetta, Preceptor, "Breakdown of intrinsic brain synchrony in spatial neglect: a novel mechanism to explain brain-behavior relationships after stroke"; Fernanda Laezza, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Drs. David Ornitz and Jeanne Nerbonne, Preceptors, "A single mutation in FGF14 interferes with function of voltage-gated sodium channels in mammalian neurons"