2004-2003

2004

Wednesday, December 1, Special Guest Seminar  4:00 p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci Bldg, - Dr. Mark Nawrot, North Dakota State University - "The role of slow eye movements in the perception of depth from motion parallax"

Thursday, December 2, Genetics Seminar  12:00p, Rm 823 McDonnell Sci Bldg - Dr. Tom Schwarz, Harvard Medical School - "The Cell Biology of the Synapse: The View from the Eye of the Fly"

Thursday, December 2, Neuroscience Program Thesis Defense, from the Laboratory of Dr. Maurine Linder, 2:00 pm, Rm 823 McDonnell Sci Bldg - Mr. Andrew Grillo-Hill, "Structural characterization of the membrane targeting domain of regulator G protein signaling"

Thursday, December 2, The 47th Annual Robert J. Terry Lecture - 4:00, EPNEC Auditorium - Dr. Bert Sakmann, Department of Cell Physiology, Max-Planck-Institut fÙr Medizinische Forschung - "Structure and function of microcircuits in the barrel cortex"

Friday, December 3, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Paul Shaw, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "The effects of sleep deficits on learning in Drosophila"

Monday, December 6, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr David H. Gutmann, Neurology, "Modeling Brain Tumors in Mice"

Monday, December 6, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Research Seminar, 12:00p, Rm 3907 South Bldg. Dr. Alex L. Kolodkin, Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ñMolecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Growth Cone Guidanceî

Tuesday, December 7, Molecular Microbiology Seminar, 12:00p, Cori Auditorium - Dr.

Robert Lamb, Northwestern University - "Mechanisms of Virus-Cell Membrane Fusion"

Thursday, December 9, Maternity Bldg. Rm 725- 4:00 p, East Pavilion Auditorium - Dr. Paul Taghert, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Neuronal Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythmic Behavior in Drosophila"

Friday, December 10, Special Neuroscience/Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Terunaga Nakagawa, Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MIT - "3D structure and different conformational states of native AMPA receptor complex" T

Monday, Decenber 13, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Kelvin Yamada, Neurology, "TBA"

Monday, December 13, Neuro-oncology Research Seminar, 3:00p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Joshua Rubin, Department of Pediatrics - "The Developmental Biology of Pediatric Brain Tumors"

Monday, December 13, Biology Seminar, 4:00 p, Rebstock (Hilltop), Rm 322 - Dr. Tim Holy, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiolgoy - "Second Scent: Explorations of the Pheromone Olfactory System in Mice"

Tuesday, December 14, Anesthesiology Seminar, 4:00 pm, CSRB, Rm 5550, Dr. Jim Lederer, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, "Immunological effects of injury and sepsis"

Thursday, December 16, Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00, Rm. 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Susumu Tomita, Department of Physiology, Univ California San Francisco - "Uncovering TARPs: Regulation of AMPA receptors by stargazin-like proteins"

Friday, December 17, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Mike Nonet, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Roles of rab GTPases in synaptic transmission"

Monday, December 20, Biology Seminar, 4:00 p, Rebstock (Hilltop), Rm 322 - Dr. Paul Shaw, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Molecular-Genetic Dissection of Sleep in Drosophilia"

Tuesday, December 21, 4:00 pm, CSRB, Rm 5550, Dr. Ling-Gang Wu, Synaptic Transmission Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, "Mechanisms of neurotransmitter vesicle release and cycling"

Monday, November 1 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Eugene Johnson , Departments of Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, "Review and update on GFL neurotrophic factors"

Monday, November 1 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 4:00p, Rm. 928 McDonnell Sci - Dr. Nicolas Catz , Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tübingen, Germany, " Cerebellar mechanisms underlying saccadic learning "

Tuesday, November 2 , WUCNS (WU Computational Neuroscience) Seminar, 4:00p, Rm 241, Compton (Hilltop), Wei Wang , Biomedical Engineering, "TBA"

Friday, November 5 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Karen O'Malley , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - " Intracellular G-Protein Coupled Receptors: Spare Receptors or Functional Signaling Entities?" "

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Monday, November 8, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Stephen P. Duntley , Neurology “TBA”

Monday, November 8 , Neuroscience Thesis Defense, from the laboratory of Guojun Bu, 2:00 p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Ms. Judy Cam , "Opposing roles of the LDL Receptor-Related Protein (LRP1) and the LDL Receptor-Related Protein 1B (LRP1B) in ? -Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Trafficking and Processing ”

Tuesday, November 9 , Special Neuroscience Seminar - 12:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Mazahir Hasan , Department of Biomedical Optics, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg - " Functional imaging of neuronal circuits in vivo "

Thursday, November 11 , Dept.of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725, Dr. Patrick Stuart , Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, "Fas Ligand,what it does and does not do during Corneal T"

Friday, November 12 , Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar, 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426 , Dr. Joshua B. Rubin , Dept. of Pediatrics Hematology/Oncology, "The Molecular Basis for CXCR4 Dependent Brain Tumor Growth"

Friday, November 12 , Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar, 3:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426, Dr. Edwin W. McCleskey , Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, "ASIC3, an Ion Channel to Sense the Pain of a Heart Attack"

Friday, November 12 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Leslie Griffith , Department of Biology, Brandeis University - "Sex and the single fly: Learning and memory in Drosophila"

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Monday, November 15, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Dennis Barbour, Biomedical Engineering, “TBA”

Tuesday, November 16 , WUCNS (WU Computational Neuroscience) Seminar, 4:00p, Rm 241, Compton (Hilltop), Dr. Dennis Barbour , Biomedical Engineering, "TBA"

Tuesday, November 16 , Pain Center Seminar, 4:00pm, CSRB 5550, Dr. Paul Durham , Southwest Missouri State University, "Regulation of CGRP gene expression: implications for migraine pathology and treatment"

Thursday, November 18 , Thesis Defense, from the Laboratory of Dr. Louis Muglia, 2:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci., Mr. James Maas , "Calcium-stimulated adenylyl cyclases are critical modulators of ethanol sensitivity in adult and neonatal brain"

Friday, November 19 , Neuroscience Seminar (Student-Organized) - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Larry Katz , Department of Neurobiology, Duke University - " Sex cells: encoding social signals in mammalian chemosensory systems "

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Monday, November 22 , No Neurology 12:00p seminar

Monday, November 22 , Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Seminars, 12:00p noon, Rm 3907 Sout Bldg., Dr. Paul Taghert , Anatomy & Neurobiology "TBA"

Tuesday, November 23, Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Dr. Geoffrey Swanson , Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, " Subcellular trafficking and synaptic function of kainate receptors "

Friday, November 26 – No Friday 4:00p seminar.

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Monday, November 29, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Michael Wong , Neurology, “Seizure-induced brain injury in mice and men".

Tuesday, November 30 , WUCNS (WU Computational Neuroscience) Seminar, 4:00p, Rm 241, Compton (Hilltop), Dr. Babette Dellen , Physics, "TBA"

Tuesday, November 30 , Pfizer Visiting Professorship in Pain Medicine (awarded to the Pain Center) Seminar, 4:00pm, EPNEC Seminar Room A (reception to follow), Dr. James Campbell , Johns Hopkins University , "The role of intact nociceptors in the production of neuropathic pain"

Monday, October 4, - No Monday, noon Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar

Thursday, October 7, Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725,  Dr. Arthur H. Neufeld, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences - "Activation of Astrocytes by the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor "

Friday, October 8, - No Friday 4p Neuroscience Seminar (Neuroscience Retreat)

Monday, October 11, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Marc Diamond, Departments of Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF, " Polyglutamine Disease:  A Chemical Genetic Approach"

Thursday, October 14, Dept.of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Shalesh Kaushal, Dept. of Ophthalmology - University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida -"Pharmacological Chaperones and the Intracellular Folding of P23H Opsin"

Friday, October 15, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Rob Gereau, Department of Anesthesiology - "Fighting pain where it hurts: Peripheral metabotropic glutamate receptors regulate inflammatory pain"

Monday, October 18, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, TBA

Monday, October 18, Neuroscience Thesis Defense, from the laboratory of Dr. Jeff Lichtman, 12:30p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Mr. John David (JD) Wylie, Anatomy & Neurobiology, "Large Scale Removal of Synaptic Branches from Motor Axons in Neonatal Mice"

Monday, October 18 , Neuro-Oncology Research Group Seminar, 3:00p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Dr. Terry Van Dyke, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Perturbing the CNS with disturbing consequences: Cell cycle regulation in brain development and cancer"

Friday, October 22, -No Friday 4p Neuroscience Seminar (Society for Neuroscience Meeting)

Monday, October 25, - No Monday, noon Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar

Thursday, October 28, Dept of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Nader Sheibani,Depts. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Pharmacology, University of Wisconsin - "Thrombospondin-1 and Diabetic Retinopathy"

Thursday, October 28, Special ADRC Lecture, 4:00pm, East Pavilion Auditorium, Dr. Christian Haass, Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Uniersity, Muenchen, "Take Five-BACE and the gamma-secretase quartet conduct Amyloid ¤-Ðpeptide generation

Friday, October 29, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Pieter Roelfsema, Department of Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute - ""

Friday, October 29, - Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Sandra K. Masur, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY - " Dynamic Reorganization at the Cell-Stromal Interface after Wounding "

Past Seminars:

Friday, September 10 , Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar - 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sci, Rm 426, Dr. Barbara Joy Snider , Neurology, " Ups and Downs of Proteasome Activity in Neuronal Death "

Friday, September 10 , Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Alex Martin , Laboratory of Brain and Cog, NIMH/NIH - " How are object concepts represented in the brain?

Monday, September 13 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Bldg, Dr. Jeffrey J. Neil , Neurology, Pediatrics and Radiology, "Evaluation of brain injury and structure using diffusion tensor imaging."

Tuesday, September 14 , WashU Pain Center Seminar, 4:00p, CSRB, Rm 5550, Dr. Danny Winder , Vanderbilt University, " Synaptic modulation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: Potential roles in anxiety and addiction "

Thursday, September 16 , Thesis Defense, MSTP Program, from the laboratory of Dr. Charles Anderson, Anatomy & Neurobiology, 10:00am, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Mr. Michael Brandon Westover , " Image representation and pattern recognition in brains and machines "

Friday, September 17 , Thesis Defense, Neuroscience Program, from the laboratory of Dr. Rachel Wong, Anatomy & Neurobiology, 1:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Mr. Jay Demas , " Cellular regulation and developmental function of retinal spontaneous activity "

Friday, September 17 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Dept Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Josh Rubin , Pediatrics - " The Developmental Biology of Pediatric Brain Tumors "

Monday, September 20 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Bldg, Dr. Craig M. Powell , Psychiatry and Neurology, Univ Texas Southwestern Med Ctr, "Presynaptic Proteins and Presynaptic Function in Cognitive Behavior"

Tuesday, September 21 , WUCNS (Wash U Computational Neuroscience) Seminar, 4:00 p, Rm 241 Compton, Hilltop, Dr. Carlos Brody , Cold Spring Harbor,"TBA"

Thursday, September 23 , Thesis Defense, Neuroscience Program, from the laboratory of Dr. Ann Marie Craig, Anatomy & Neurobiology, 1:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci, Ms. Kimberly Harms , "Regulation of synpatic proteins by activity: Contrasting global and local activity blockade"

Friday, September 24 , Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar - 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sci, Rm 426, Dr. Shelly E. Sakiyama-Ebert, Biomedical Engineering " Biologically-inspired Approaches to Drug Delivery for Nerve Regeneration "

Friday, September 24 , Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Wendy Suzuki , Center for Neural Science, New York University " Associative memory signals in the medial temporal lobe "

Monday, September 27 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. David M. Holtzman , Neurology, "Intra-CNS lipoprotein metabolism:  Control of CNS apoE levels, lipidation, and its effects" 

Thursday, September 30 , 4:00 PM - Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Shiming Chen , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, " The photoreceptor nuclear receptor Nr2e3 promotes rod development by interacting with Crx "

May, 2004

Monday, May 3 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Jorge Ghiso , Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, "Biochemical analysis of cerebral amyloid deposits"

Thursday, May 6 , Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Nathan V. Ravi - Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, "Viscoelastic properties of the Ocular Lens"

Friday, May 7 , Neuroscience Seminar (Student-Organized) - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Erin Schuman , Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology - "Local protein synthesis and synaptic function"

Monday, May 10, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Bibi Bielekova , Neuroimmunology Branch, NINDS, NIH, "NK Cells Mediate Immunomodulatory Effects of IL-2Ralpha-Targeted Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis."

Friday, May 14 , Neuroscience Seminar (Student-Organized) - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Reza Shadmehr , Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University - " Learning dynamics of reaching movements "

Monday, May 17 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Lawrence Eisenman , Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, TBA.

Wednesday, May 19 , Special Neuroscience Seminar, 12:00p noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci – Dr. Yale Cohen , Department of Brain & Psychological Sciences, Dartmou th University, "Behavioral and neurophysiological mechanisms of categorical discrimination of vocalizations in primates "

Friday, May 21 – No Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:00 Seminar

Monday, May 24 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Xiaofeng Yang , Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, "Focal Cooling: A New Antiepileptic Therapy for Intractable Neocortical Epilepsy".

Friday, May 28 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Dora Angelaki , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology- " Non-

April, 2004

Thursday, April 1 , Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. David C. Beebe , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine - "Using targeted gene knockouts to dissect the functions of the TGFbeta superfamily in eye development"

Thursday, April 1 , Neuroscience Thesis Defense (laboratory of Dr. David Van Essen), 4:15 p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. - Dr. Xinmiao Peng , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Peaked Luminance Encoding in Macaque Areas V1 and V2"


Friday, April 2 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Ann Marie Craig , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Molecular Assembly and Dynamics of Hippocampal Synapses"


Monday, April 5 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Barbara A. Bohne , Department of Otolaryngology, “Noise-induced hearing loss: A persistent problem” by Barbara A. Bohne and Gary W. Harding.

Monday, April 5 , Neuroscience Thesis Defense (laboratory of Dr. David Holtzman), 3:00 p, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. - Dr. John Cirrito , Department of Neurology - "Amyloid- B Metabolism in the Brain Interstitial Fluid of a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease"

Tuesday, April 6 , The Twenty-Sixth Annual Mildred Trotter Lecture – 4:00 pm, Eric P. Newman Education Center - Dr. Susan L. Lindquist , Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - "Prions: One Surprise After Another"

Friday, April 9 , No Friday Anatomy & Neurobiology 4pm seminar -


Monday, April 12 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Robert W. Gereau , Chief of Basic Research Washington University Pain Center, Department of Anesthesiology, “Modulation of pain sensation and spinal cord function by metabotropic glutamate receptors.”

Thursday, April 15 , The 16th Annual CR Stephen Lecture, 4:00p, Eric P. Newman Education Center - Dr. Mervyn Maze , Imperial College, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, U.K. - "Molecular Mechanisms, Neural Substrates, and Clinical Implications for the Behavioral Effects of General Anesthetics"

Friday, April 16 , Cell Biology & Physiology Departmental Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 426 McDonnell Sci, Dr. Jeanne Nerbonne , "Molecular genetic dissection of K + channel diversity and functioning"

Friday, April 16 , Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Robert Darnell , Department of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, Rockefeller University - "Regulation of RNA expression in neurons and neurologic disease"


Monday, April 19 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Paul Kotzbauer , Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania, TBA

Monday, April 19 , The 24th Annual Viktor Hamburger Lecture, 4:00p, January Hall, Rm 110 (Hilltop) - Dr. Eddy Robertis , UCLA, HHMI and and Department of Biological Chemistry "Induction of the Vertebrate Central Nervous System"

Friday, April 23 , Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Gary Banker , Oregon Health Science University - "Membrane Trafficking and Neuronal Polarity"


Monday, April 26 , No Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon,

Friday, April 30 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Miguel Nicolelis , Department of Neuroengineering, Duke University - "TBA"

March 2004

Monday, March 1 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Tamara G. Hershey , Psychiatry, "Type 1 diabetes, cognition and the brain"

Thursday, March 4 , 4:00 PM - Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Steven Bassnett , Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences - "Looking through a glass onion: The cell biology of lens transparency"

Friday, March 5 , Special Neuroscience Seminar - 12:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. James Jontes , Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University - " Cadherins and Synapse Formation Studied in the Embryonic Zebrafish "

Friday, March 5 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Jeff Lichtman , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "What I learned in St. Louis (1973-2003)"

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Monday, March 8 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. R. Mark Grady , Pediatrics, "Missing dystrobrevin: neuromuscular and CNS consequences"

Tuesday, March 9 , Anesthesiology Research Seminar , 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Building, Room 5550, Dr. Hongwen Ji , Anesthesiology Research, "Myosin Phosphorylation in Vascular Smooth Muscle and it's Role in Halothane Actions"

Friday, March 12 , Depts. of Cell Biology & Physiology--12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426

Dr. Raphael Kopan , Depts. of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology and of Medicine, "Diverse Roles for Notch Signaling in Kidney and Skin Development"

Friday, March 12 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Don Cleveland , Department of Ludwig Inst for Cancer Research, Univ California, San Diego - "Neuronal growth and death: neurofilaments, SOD1 and Lou Gehrig"

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Monday, March 15 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. David Van Essen , Anatomy and Neurobiology, "Mapping Structure and Function in Human and Monkey Cerebral and Cerebellar Cortex"

Monday March 15 , Biology Departmental Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rebstock 322, Dr. Dale Purves , Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical School, "Why we see (and hear) what we do", Host: Gar Allen (935-6808)

Friday, March 19 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Charles Zorumski , Department of Psychiatry - "Effects of CNS Depressant Drugs on the Developing Nervous System: Implications for Psychiatry"

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Monday, March 22 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Brad A. Racette , Neurology, "TBA"

Thursday, March 25, The James L. O'Leary Prize Competition for Outstanding Research in Neuroscience, 1:00-4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Predoctoral category (1:00-2:15PM): John Fryer, Jerry Nguyenkim, John Wylie, Jay Demas, Kristina Visscher. Post-doctoral category (2:30-4:00PM): Jun Wang, Hiroshi Nishimune, Anneliese Schaefer, Hisashi Umemori, Eric Leuthardt

Friday, March 26 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Glenn Conroy , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Paleoanthropological Explorations in Ethiopia's Afar Desert: A documentary film"
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Monday, March 29 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Michael N. Diringer , Director, Neurology-Neurosurgery ICU (NNICU), Head, Neurological Critical Care Section, "Use and abuse of osmotic therapy in the treatment of intracranial mass lesions"

Tuesday, March 30, Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00p.m. - CSRB 5550 - Dr. Sandy Martin, Ph.D., Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine - "Reversible molecular events during torpor arousal cycles in mammalian hibernation"

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February 2004

Monday, February 2, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Thomas A. Woolsey, Departments of Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering, "CNS Plasticity in Health and Disease: Findings from an Animal Model"

Tuesday, February 3, Department of Anesthesiology Seminars-4 PM, CSRBRoom 5550, Dr. Gustav Akk, Department of Anesthesiology,"Neuroactive Steroid Effects on GABA(A) Receptors"

Thursday, February 5, Vision Science Seminar – 4:00 pm, Rm 725 Maternity Bldg - Dr. Joshua Weiner, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Synaptic specificity: the Cadherin superfamily as molecular cues"

Friday, February 6, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. David Dickman, Department of Otolaryngology - "The nature of gravity in motion detector development: Can embryos voyage to Mars?"

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Monday, February 9, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Jeff W. Lichtman, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, "TBA"

Tuesday, February 10, Special Neuroscience Seminar - 12:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Nigel Daw, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Yale University Sch Med - "Ocular dominance plasticity, LTP and LTD in the visual cortex"

Tuesday, February 10, Biophysical Evenings Seminar – 5:30p, Cori Auditorium (Med Sch Campus) - Dr. Ralf Wessel, Department of Physics - "Systems biophysics of visual motion analysis"

Thursday, February 12, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 p.m.-Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Sabine Fuhrmann - Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah - "Regulation of Early Eye Development in Vertebrates"

Friday, February 13, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. John McDonald, Department of Neurology - "Repairing the damaged CNS: From stem cells to activity based restoration therapies"

Friday, February 13, Hematology Division Seminar, 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Building, Room 8841 - Dr. Raphael Kopan, Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology- "Multiple Roles for Notch in Mouse Development and Tissue Renewal"

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Monday, February 16, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, TBA

Friday, February 20, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Russ Van Gelder, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences - "Non-visual ocular photoreception"

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Monday, February 23, Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. K. Liu Lin Thio, Neurology and CSNSI, "Redox agents modulate inhibitory glycine receptors by chelating zinc"

Thursday, February 26, Special Neuroscience Seminar - 12:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Hong Chen, Department of Cell Biology,Yale University School of Medicine, "The role of clathrin-mediated endocytosis and protein ubiquitination in synaptic regulation" 

Thursday February 26, 12:00 pm, Cori Auditorium, Dr. Patricia Churchland, "What Happens to Free Will if the Brain is a Causal Machine?"

Friday, February 27, Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Andreas Burkhalter, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Maps and streams in mouse visual cortex"

Friday, February 27, Biomedical Engineering Department Seminar, 4:30 p, Whitaker Hall Room 100, Dr. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Biomedical Engineering, "Bioactive drug delivery systems for nerve regeneration "

January, 2004

Monday, January 5 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Carmelo Romano , Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, "Survival and susceptibilities of adult mammalian retinal neurons in dissociated culture"

Monday, January 5 , Special Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Michael Ehlers , Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center - " Secretory Organelles, mRNA Splicing, and Trafficking Mechanisms to the Synapse "

Tuesday, January 6, Department of Anesthesiology Seminars-4 PM, CSRB Room 5550,- Dr. Mike Crowder , Department of Anesthesiology,-"Searching for Anesthestic Targets in C. Elegans: Where Does Syntaxin Fit In?"

Friday, January 9 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Amita Sehgal , Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania - " Molecular analysis of circadian rhythms and sleep "

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Monday, January 12 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Paolo Muraro MD, PhD, Neuroimmunology Branch, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, "TBA"

Friday, January 16 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Rachel Wong , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Imaging synaptic layer assembly in the zebrafish retina in vivo"

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Monday , January 19 , No Seminar, Martin Luther King Day

Tuesday, January 20 , Department of Anesthesiology Seminars,-4 PM, CSRB Room 5550,- Dr. Steve Mennerick , Department of Psychiatry, -"Direct and Potenting Actions of Anesthetic Steroids at the GABA-A Receptor"

Thursday, January 22 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4 PM, Maternity Building, Room 725 – Dr. Maarten Kamermans , Retinal Signal Processing Group, The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research, Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "A retinal mechanism for instantaneous color constancy"

Friday, January 23 , Neuroscience Seminar (Student-Organized) - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Mu-Ming Poo , Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley - "Spike timing dependent plasticity of developing neural circuits"

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Monday, January 26 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr William Powers , Departments of Neurology and Radiology, "TBA"

Tuesday, January 27 , Department of Anesthesiology Seminars-4 PM, CSRB Room 5550,- Dr. Spencer Yost , Department of Anesthesiology, University of California at San Francisco-"Tandem Pore K Channels: How Important Are They?"

Wednesday, January 28 , Special Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Binhai Zheng , Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University - "Axon Regeneration in Adult Mammalian CNS: Nogo, NgR and Beyond"

Friday, January 30 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Aaron DiAntonio , Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology - "TBA"

Monday, December 1 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Yvette Sheline , Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine and Radiology, "Hippocampal abnormalities in major depression: 3D MRI and PET studies"

Tuesday, December 2 , Thesis Examination, 3:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928

Mr. Leo Hong-Li Wang, MSTP-Program in Neurosciences, Lab of Dr. Eugene M. Johnson Jr., "Mixed-lineage Kinase Inhibitors Require the Activation of Trk Receptors and the PI3-kinase Pathway to Maintain Neuronal Trophism and Survival"

Tuesday, December 2 , WUCNS (WU Computational Neuroscience) Seminar, 4:00 p, Rm 204 Crow (Hilltop), Dr. Ralf Wessel , Physics Department, "Systems biophysics of visual motion computation"

Tuesday, December 2 , Anesthesiology Unit Seminar, 4:00 p, Rm 5550 Clin Sci Res Bldg., Dr. Thomas Blanck , Department of Anesthesiology, New York Univ, "Anesthetics and Neuronal Calcium"

Thursday, December 4 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars, 4 PM, Maternity Building, Room 725, - Dr. Usha Andley , Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, "Alpha-crystallin and sHSP function"

Friday, December 5, Center for Computational Biology--Seminar Series, 12:30 P.M., South Building, Room 2918, Dr. Victor Bastista , Yale University, Dept. of Chemistry, "Coherent Control of the Primary Step in Human Vision"

Friday, December 5 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. W. Thomas Thach , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "The cerebellum in learned eye-hand coordination:

Where is the memory stored? What is learned? What is taught?"

Monday, December 8 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Steven Mennerick , Departments of Psychiatry and Anatomy & Neurobiology, "Synaptic changes accompanying pathophysiological depolarization"

Tuesday, December 9 , Anesthesiology Unit Seminar, 4:00 p, Rm 5550 Clin Sci Res Bldg., Dr. Colin Nichols , Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, "TBA"

Thursday, December 11 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars, 4:00 PM.- Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Mae Gordon , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences/Biostatistics, - "Demonstration of Efficacy of Anti-glaucoma Medication in African Americans":

Friday, December 12 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Rachel Wong , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Imaging synaptic layer assembly in the zebrafish retina in vivo"

Monday, December 15 , Neurology/CSNSI Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Drs. D. Anne Cross and Jennifer Stark , Department of Neurology, "Suppressors of Cytokine Signalling in glial cells and immune cells"

Tuesday, December 16 , WUCNS (WU Computational Neuroscience) Seminar, 4:00 p, Rm 204 Crow (Hilltop), Dr. Alex Reyes, New York University, "TBA"

Tuesday, December 16 , Anesthesiology Unit Seminar, 4:00 p, Rm 5550 Clin Sci Res Bldg., Dr. Janet Richmond , Biological Sciences, Univ Illinois at Chicago, "TBA"

Friday, December 19, Depts. of Cell Biology & Physiology--Seminar Series, 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426, Dr. Rohit Pappu, Biomedical Engineering & Center for Computational Biology, "On the Importance of Being Unfolded In vivo"

Friday, December 19 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00 p, Rm. 928, McDonnell Sci - Dr. Bruce McNaughton , Department of Neural Systems, University of Arizona - "TBA"

December 22-31 – No seminars