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January 2007

 

Thursday, January 4, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 – Dr. Alan Shiels, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, "Binocular Genetics: Mapping Genes for Eye Movement Disorders"

 

Friday, January 5 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Simon Fisher , Department of Internal Medicine - " Brain insulin action. Lessons from neuronal insulin receptor knockout mice "

 

 

Monday, January 8 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Michael Wong , Neurology, “Imaging seizure-induced dendritic injury in vivo”

 

Tuesday, January 9 , WUCNS (WashU Computational Neuoscience) Seminar, 4:00 p.m, Compton 241, Danforth Campus, Dr. Mark Goldman, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, "Dissecting the mechanisms underlying persistent activity in a neural

integrator"

Thursday, January 11, Psychology Colloquium, 10:00a, Psychology Bldg. 216A, Danforth Campus, Dr.Julie Fiez, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, "The brain and language: Contributions from neural systems that support learning"

Thursday, January 11, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. David Leib, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences "Herpes Strikes Back: Countering of Host Defenses By a Persistent Virus”.

 

Friday, January 12 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Robyn Klein , Department of Internal Medicine - "Neuroinflammation: A conversation initiated by the CNS"

 

Tuesday, January 16, Biomedical Engineering Colloquia - 12:00 p, Whitaker Auditorium, Rm 100, Danforth Campus, Dr. Robert Scheidt, Physical Medicine & Rehabilityation,Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, "Visual and proprioceptive contributions to adaptation of reaching movements"

Thursday, January 18, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 - Dr. Emily Chew, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, National Eye Institute Laboratories, National Institutes of Health - “Update on the Age-Related Eye Disease Study”

 

Friday, January 19 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Valeria Cavalli , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "The Multiple Roles of Sunday Driver In Axonal Transport and  Nerve Regeneration"

 

 

Monday, January 22 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Valeria Cavalli , Anatomy and Neurobiology, “ The Multiple Roles of Sunday Driver In Axonal Transport and  Nerve Regeneration"

 

Thursday, January 25, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725, Dr. Susan Dutcher, Department of Genetics - "Using Chlamydomonas to Identify and Understand the Role of Ciliary Genes in Humans”

 

Friday, January 26 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Alison Goate , Department of Psychiatry - " Genetic approaches to the study of dementia"

 

Monday, January 29 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Mark Goldberg , Neurology and Neurobiology; Director of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, TBA

Tuesday, January 30, 11:45a ;Whitaker 100, Danforth Campus; Biomedical Engineering Colloquia, Vassiliy Tsytsarev, PhD; University of Missouri, St. Louis, "In Vivo Optical Imaging of the Auditory and Somatosensory Cortex"

Tuesday, January 30, Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci Bldg., Dr. David Freedman, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, "Exploring the roles of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes in visual learning and memory"

February, 2007

Thursday, February 1 , Biology Seminar, 4:00pm Rebstock 322 (Danforth Campus), Dr. Yehuda Ben-Shahar , University of Iowa, "Operon-like Transcription Reveals a Sensory-Specific Modulatory Subunit of DEG/ENaC Ion Channels"

 

Thursday, February 1, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Bldg.,   Room 725 – Dr. Shiming Chen, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,   - "Crx activates photoreceptor gene transcription by promoting chromatin remodeling”.     

 

Friday, February, 2 , Thesis Examination, 10:00 A.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Auditorium, Mr. Jeffrey David Roizen , MSTP - Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Lab of Dr. Louis J. Muglia, "15-hydroxyprostaglandin Dehydrogenase in Mouse Pregnancy and Parturition"

 

Friday, February 2, Psychology Seminar,   3:00 pm, Psychology Bldg., 215A (Danforth Campus), Dr.   Thad A. Polk , University of Michigan, “Nature, nurture, and age in the neural organization of cognition”

 

Friday, February 2 , No Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar

 

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Monday, February 5 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Gina Story , Anesthesiology WU Pain Center,   “Sensing that sex matters when it comes to pain”

 

Monday, February 5 , NORG (Neuro-Oncology Research Group) Seminar Series, 3:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Dr. David Gutmann, Neurology, "Modeling Human Brain Tumors in Mice"

 

Wednesday , February 7 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Gregor Rainer , Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, "Neural mechanisms of cognition and learning in primate prefrontal and visual cortex"

 

Thursday February 8 , Biology Seminar, 4:00pm Rebstock 322 (Danforth Campus) Dr. Vitaly Klyachko , Salk Institute,   "Short-Term Plasticity and Presynaptic Mechanisms: from Vesicles to Circuits"

 

Thursday, February 8, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Bldg.,   Room 725 - Dr. Steve Kymes, Department of 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” .     

 

Friday, February 9 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Brad Schlaggar , Department of Neurology - "Functional neuroimaging of typical and atypical cognitive development"

 

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Monday, February 12 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Nigel Cairns , Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Neurology, “"Making Inroads into the Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in
Frontotemporal Dementia."”

 

Tuesday, February 13 , Biomedical Engineering Colloquia- 12:00p, Whitaker Auditorium, Rm 100, Danforth Campus, Dr. Michael Kotlikoff , Department of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, “Genetic Tools to Study Heart Development and Repair”

 

Wednesday, February 14, BBC Colloquia, 4:00 pm, Psychology Bldg. Rm 216B, Dr. Nicola De Pisapia. Psychology, "Anterior Prefrontal Cortex and the integration of information in working memory "

Thursday, February 15 , The Guze Symposium on Alcoholism.   Alcohol use across the lifespan. For more information and to register see www.alcoholdependence.org

 

Thursday February 15 , Biology Seminar, 4:00pm Rebstock 322 (Danforth Campus) Dr. Bruce Carlson , University of Virginia, "Probing the Physiology of Perception in Electric Fish: From Stimulus Encoding to Combination Sensitivity"

 

Thursday, February 15, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Bldg.,   Room 725 - Dr. Eugene M. Johnson, Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, Department of Neurology,   - “GFL neurotrophic factors: biology, pharmacology, and clinical development”.     

 

Friday, February 16 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Ken Blumer , Department of Cell Biology & Physiology - "RGS protein regulation of G protein-coupled receptor signaling in the CNS"

 

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Monday, February 19 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Jeffrey Gidday , Neurological Surgery, “ Neurovascular Unit Protection in Stroke by Preconditioning

Tuesday, February 20,   ERL/NIL seminar, 1:00 pm, Erlanger Auditorium, Dr. Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, "Imaging neurovascular coupling in-vivo: from single neurons to BOLD"

Wednesday, February 21 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa , Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School - "Neuronal encoding of economic value"

 

Thursday February 22 , Biology Seminar, 4:00pm Rebstock 322 (Danforth Campus), Dr.   Suzanne Paradis , Harvard University, "Molecular Mechanisms of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapse Development: an RNAi-based Approach"

 

 

Thursday, February 22, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Bldg.,   Room 725, Ms. Ramya Rajagopal,   - “Regulation of Lens Induction by Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor Signaling”.

 

 

Friday, February 23 , Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Isabel Gauthier , Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University - "Trading modularity for cerebral functional distance: Reconciling expertise and domain specificity"

 

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Monday, February 26 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Terri Inder, Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine, "New MR imaging approaches to the developing brain"

Monday, February 26 , Biology Seminar - 4:00 pm, Rebstock 322 (Danforth Campus), Dr. Phillip Haydon, Center for Dynamic Imaging of Nervous System Function, University of Pennsylvania, "Glia: Listening and talking to the synapse"

 

Tuesday, February 27 , Biomedical Engineering Colloquia- 12:00p, Whitaker Auditorium, Rm 100, Danforth Campus, Dr. Kevin Plaxco , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Better Living Through Biotechnology”

 

Tuesday, February 27 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Doris Tsao , Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Institute for Brain Research, University of Bremen - "Neural machinery for face processing in the macaque monkey

March, 2007

Thursday, March 1, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Rm 725 Maternity Bldg, - Dr. Edward M. Barnett, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, " Towards Imaging of Retinal Caspase Activity Using an Activatable Peptide Probe

Thursday March 1 – Biology Seminar - 4:00pm Rebstock 322 (Danforth Campus), Dr.   Xiangmin Xu, Salk Institute, "Mapping Brain Organization: From Cortical Areas To Specific Cell Types"

 

Friday, March 2 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Naren Ramanan , Anatomy & Neurobiology - " Transcriptional control of neuronal plasticity by serum response factor "

 

Monday, March 5 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, 1st Fl Maternity Bldg, Dr. Kelvin Yamada ,   Neurology, " Anticonvulsant Effects of Leptin "

Monday, March 5 , Neuro-Oncology Seminar Series, 3:00pm –   South Building, Room 3907,

Dr. Abhijit Guha , University of Toronto, “ Transgenic Glioma Models as Gene Discovery Tool

 

 

Monday March 5 – Biology Seminar - 4:00pm Rebstock 322 (Danforth Campus), Dr. Dawn Blitz, University Of Pennsylvania, "Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Regulation Of A Well-Defined Motor Circuit"

 

Tuesday, March 6 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science – Dr. Adam Messinger , Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, NIMH - " What our brains know that we don't - Attention, working memory, and multi-tasking "

 

Thursday, March 8 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science –

Dr. Leslie Osborne , Physiology, UCSF - " Contributions of sensory and motor noise to behavioral variation in smooth pursuit eye movements "

Thursday March 8 – Biology Seminar - 4:00pm Rebstock 322 (Danforth Campus), Dr. Zhe Chen, Genentech, "Navigating Intermediate Targets: Switch of Axonal Response from Attraction to Repulsion"

 

Thursday, March 8, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Rm 725 Maternity Bldg, - Dr. A. Sue Menko, Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, “ How Structural Components of The Lens Can Influence Development and Protect Against Disease

Friday, March 9, Special Neuroscience Seminar - 2:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Bertram Gerber, Genetics & Neurobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, "Mechanisms of learning in adult and larval Drosophila"

 

Friday, March 9 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Andreas Burkhalter , Anatomy & Neurobiology - " Maps and streams in mouse visual cortex "

 

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Monday, March 12 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, 1st Fl Maternity Bldg, Dr. Anne Fagan , Neurology,   " Biomarkers of preclinical and early stage Alzheimer's disease:   The promise of old stand-bys and emerging technologies "

 

Monday, March 12 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science –

Dr. Christos Constantinidis , Neurobiology & Anatomy, Wake Forest University - " Neurophysiological studies of working memory in the primate prefrontal and parietal cortex "

 

 

Wednesday, March 14 , The 27 th Annual Viktor Hamburger Lecture, 4:00 pm, Rebstock 215, Danforth Campus - Dr. Denis Duboule ,   University of Geneva - " Engineering chromosomes to study vertebrate development and evolution "

Wednesday, March 14, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars, 5:00 PM - Eric P. Newman Education Center, Seminar Room B (320 South Euclid),   Dr. David R. Williams, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Optics, Ophthalmology, & Biomedical Engineering. "High Resolution Imaging of the Living Retina with Adaptive Optics".

 

Thursday, March, 15, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Rm 725 Maternity Bldg, - Dr. Joseph Corbo, Pathology and Immunology, “ The Transcriptional Regulatory Networks of Mammalian Photoreceptors

 

Friday, March 16 , Thesis Defense, 9:30 am, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Ms. Christine MacDonald , from the labs of Drs. David Brody and Philip Bayly, “ Evaluation of traumatic brain injury by diffusion tensor imaging

 

Friday, March 16 , N euroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Fritjof Helmchen , Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich - " Imaging cellular network dynamics   in the neocortex in vivo ""

 

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Monday, March 19, Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, 1st Fl Maternity Bldg, Dr. Steve J. Mennerick , Psychiatry, " Actions of anticonvulsant, anesthetic neuroactive steroid analogues on GABA receptors "

 

Tuesday, March 20 , Biomedical Engineering Colloquia- 11:45a, Whitaker Auditorium, Rm 100, Danforth Campus, Dr. Denis Wirtz , Chemical and Biological Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, “ Cell Microrheology in Health and Disease

 

Tuesday, March 20 , Pain Center Basic Research Seminar Series—Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Bldg., Room 5550, Dr. Emeran Mayer, University of California, Los Angeles, " Affective modulation of pain "

 

Thursday, March 22, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Bldg Rm 725, - Dr. William S. Sly, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis Univ Sch Med- “ Ocular Carbonic Anhydrases.   Why So Many For Such a Simple Reaction, and Which Do Our Drugs Target ?”

 

Friday, March 23 , Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Donna Ferriero , Neurology, University of California, San Francisco - "P reconditioning as a tool to uncover novel neuroprotective strategies "

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Monday, March 26 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, 1st Fl Maternity Bldg, Dr. David M. Holtzman , Neurology, "Synaptic activity, stress, and metabolism of the amyloid-beta peptide"

 

Thursday, March 29 , The Nineteenth CR Stephen Lecture, 4:00 pm - Dr. Cliff Saper , Department of Neurology, Harvard Medicial School - " Relationship of Sleep and Anesthesia "

 

Friday, March 30 , Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Jeff Lichtman , Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University,   " Connectomics and brainbow mice "

 

April, 2007

 

 

Monday, April 2 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Paul T . Kotzbauer , Neurology,   "Neurodegeneration due to pantothenate kinase and phospholipase gene mutations.”

 

Monday April 2, Thesis Examination, 2:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Ms. Jane Kenney-Hunt , Evolution, Ecology & Population Biology, Lab of James Cheverud, PhD

"Modularity of Pleiotrophy Effects on Skeletal Morphology"

 

Tuesday, April 3 , Biomedical Engineering Colloquia- 11:45a, Whitaker Auditorium, Rm 100, Danforth Campus, Dr. Andres J. Garcia, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Engineering Cell Adhesive Biointerfaces and Tissue Constructs”

 

Tuesday, April 3 , 2007, Pain Center Basic Research Seminar Series—Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Bldg., Room 5550, Dr. Daniela Salvemini , Saint Louis University, "Oxidative and nitrative stress in pain"

 

Thursday, April 5 , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725   Dr. Radha Ayyagari , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, "Molecular Mechanism Underlying Stargardt-Like Macular Degeneration”.

 

Friday, April 6 , Neuroscience Student-Organized Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci.   Dr. Michael Platt , Neurobiology, Duke University, "Economics in the Primate Brain"

 

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Monday, April 9 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, McDonnell Science Building room 928, Dr. B. Joy Snider , Neurology, W"Calcium and neuronal death:   too much, too little or in the wrong place?"

 

Monday, April 9 , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conf Rm 725,   Dr. James S . Friedman , Ophthalmology, W.K. Kellogg Eye Center, Univ Michigan,   " Genetic Defects Causing Retinitis Pigmentosa.   Insights from Two Genes: NRL and RD3”.

 

Wednesday, April 11 , Joint PNP/Medical School Lunchtime Semoinar, 12:30pm, East Bldg. (4525 Scott), 2 nd fl large conf rm, Dr. Jeff Zacks , “What's hot in psychology?”

 

Thursday, April 12 , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725   Dr. Rajendra Apte , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, - "Senescence, Innate Immunity and Ocular Angiogenesis”.

 

Friday, April 13 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Michael Crowder , Department of Anesthesiology - "Genetic dissection of hypoxic sensitivity and adaptation"

 

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Monday, April 16 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, McDonnell Science Building room 928, Dr, Liu Lin Thio ,   Neurology, Pediatric Epilepsy Center, "Potential Anticonvulsant Effects of Zinc and Glycine"

 

 

 

Monday, April 16 , Neuro-oncology Seminar Series, 3:00 PM – Phillip Needleman Library, South Bldg, Room 3907,   Dr. Joshua Rubin , Department of Hematology/Oncology, “The Roots of Pediatric Brain Tumors, Mutations and Normal Development”.

 

Thursday, April 19 , Kipnis Lecture, 4:00 pm, Moore Auditorium - Dr. Connie Cepko , Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School - ""Cell Fate Determination in the Vertebrate Retina"

 

Thursday, April 19 , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 5:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725,   Dr. Robert B. Nussenblatt , National Eye Institute, NIH - “Age Related Macular Degeneration: The Argument for Immune Mediation and Therapeutic Approaches”.

 

Friday, April 20 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Gina Story , Department of Anesthesiology - "Thermosensation: Sensing that sex matters"

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Monday, April 23 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, McDonnell Science Building room 928, Dr. Robyn S. Klein , Internal Medicine , “Push me, pull you: chemokine control of leukocyte trafficking into the CNS”

Wednesday April 25, Inaugural Annual Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (CCSN) Invited Lecture, 4:00 PM : Whitaker Hall Auditorium (room 100).   Dr. Eberhard Fetz, Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, "Volitional control of neural activity and recurrent brain-computer interfaces"

 

Thursday, April 26 , Symposium on Translational Neuroscience featuring the 52nd Annual George H. Bishop Lecture,   3:00 P.M., Eric P. Newman Education Center, George H. Bishop Lecturer: Dr. Story Landis , NIH/NINDS, "Opportunities And Challenges For NINDS" and Guest Speaker: Dr. Steven Wagner , Torreypines Therapeutics, "Hoping to Impede the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease: Discovery of Orally Bioavailable Gamma-Secretase Modulators"

 

Thursday, April 26 , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Conference Room 725,   Dr. Fatema Ghasia , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, - “Visuomotor deficits in children with Cerebral Palsy”

 

Friday, April 27 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Peter Lukasiewicz , Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences - "How are retinal outputs modulated?"

 

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Monday, April 30 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon,   no seminar

 

Friday, May 4 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. David Gottlieb , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - " ES cell-derived neurons: a round-trip from basic to translational research "

 

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Monday, May 7 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, McDonnell Science Building room 928,   Dr. Alexander Parsadanian , Neurology, ""The Infant Mouse Model of Traumatic Brain Injury: Temporospatial Pattern of Neuronal Cell Death and Axonal Degeneration."

 

Friday, May 11 – No Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:00 Seminar

 

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Monday, May 14 - Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, McDonnell Science Building room 928, Dr. Mingjie Li , Neurology, " Viral Vectors and Their Applications in Neuroscience"

 

Tuesday, May 15 , Anesthesiology Basic Resarch and Pain Center Seminar, 4:00p, 5550 CSRB, Dr. Youxing Jiang, Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

“Structural and Functional Studies of a Ca 2+ -gated K + Channel”

 

Thursday, May 17 , The 49th Robert J. Terry Lecture, 4:00 pm, Moore Auditorium - Dr. Michael Greenberg , Department of Neuroscience, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School - " Signaling networks that regulate synapse development and cognitive function "

 

Friday, May 18 , Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Dan Feldman , Department of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego - "Sensory processing and plasticity in rat somatosensory cortex"

 

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Monday, May 21, Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, McDonnell Science Building room 928, Dr. Anne Cross , Neurology " Calorie Restriction in EAE, the Mouse Model for MS "

Thursday May 24, Dept. of Genetics Seminar - 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 823 - Dr. Paul Gray, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, "Neural Circuits, Development, and the Evolution of Breathing"

 

Friday, May 25 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Science - Dr. Gord Fishell , Department of Developmental Genetics, NYU Sch Medicine - "Making up your mind: The developmental specification of cortical interneurons"

 

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Monday, May 28 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon,   no seminar


Tuesday, May 29,
Neuroscience Thesis Defense, 3:00pm, 725 Maternity Bldg., Mr. Ken Kompass (from the laboratory of Dr. Rosario Hernandez) “Bioinformatic and statistical analysis of a primate model of ocular hypertension”


Thursday May 31
, Dept. of Genetics Seminar - 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 823, Dr. Ross Cagan,Dept. of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, "Diabetic Flies with Tumors: My WashU Legacy"

Friday, June 1, Neuroscience Student-Organized Seminar -4:00 pm, McDonnell Sci Bldg., Dr. Giulio Tononi, Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Sleep function and synaptic homeostasis"

Friday, June 15 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00p noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Science, Dr. Ken Britten , Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, “Cortical mechanisms for the perception of self-motion:

 

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Monday, June 18, Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Research Seminar, 12:00p, Rm 3907 South Bldg, Dr. Ryoichiro Kageyama, M.D., Ph.D, Director, Institute for Virus Research,   Kyoto University, Japan,   “The bHLH gene network in neural development.”

 


Wednesday, June 20, Special Seminar, 12:00p, Moore Auditorium, Dr. Yuan Liu, Chief, Office of International Activities, Program Director, Computational Neuroscience & Neuroinformatics, NINDS, NIH, "NIH Grantmanship: Elements of Success" (download the summary)