Spring 2006

May, 2006

Monday, May 1, Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Christian Sheline, PhD, Neurology, , “The Role of Zn 2+ , NAD + , and Sirtuins in Global Ischemia, Target-Deprivation and Diabetes.”

Tuesday, May 2 , Washington University Pain Center Seminar Series—Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Bldg., Room 5550, Dr. Peggy Mason , University of Chicago, "Medullary raphe and the defense of homeostasis"

Thursday, May 4 , The Ninth Annual David M. Kipnis Lecture, 4:00 pm, Cori Auditorium, Dr. Leonard P. Guarente , Biology, Massachusetts Inst of Technology, “Sir2 genes, calorie restriction, and aging”

Friday, May 5 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Raible , Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, - " Say what? The life and death of zebrafish mechanosensory hair cells "

Monday, May 8 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Charles Zorumski, Psychiatry and Neurobiology, “Ethanol and NMDA Receptors: 2B or not 2B”

Monday, May 8, Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Research Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 3907 South Bldg., Dr. Phyllis Hanson , Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, "Unraveling the role of AAA+ ATPases in membrane trafficking and human disease."

Monday, May 8 , The 51 st George H. Bishop Lecture in Experimental Neurology, 4:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, Farrell TLC, Dr. Steven M. Paul , Science & Technology, Lilly Research Laboratories, “ApoE and Alzheimer's disease: New insights into molecular pathogenesis and treatment”

Tuesday, May 9 , Anesthesiology Research Seminar Series—Seminar, Series, 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Bldg., Room 5550, Dr. Meinhart Zenk , The Danforth Plant Science Center, "Mammals produce morphine: what is the function"

Thursday, May 11 ,   Dept. of Genetics--Seminar Series, 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 823, Dr. Rachel Wong , Dept. of Anatomy and Neruobiology, "Imaging Circuit Assemby in the Vertebrate Retina"

Thursday, May 11 , Thesis Examination, 2:30 P.M., McMillan Building, Ogura Learning Center, 9th Floor, MS. KRISTIN KAY WENGER , MSTP - Neurosciences Program, Lab of Dr. Steven E. Petersen, "Functional Anatomical Development of Task Set Processes: an fMRI Examination"

Thursday, May 11 , Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar – 4:00 pm -   Maternity Building, Room 725,   Dr. Steven Bassnett, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Cell Biology & Physiology,   – Title TBA

Friday, May 12 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Rachel Wong , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - " Imaging circuit assembly in the vertebrate retina" "

Monday, May 15 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Guojun Bu , PhD, Pediatrics,   “Location, Location, Location: APP Trafficking and Processing”

Monday, May 15,   Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Research Seminar, 12:00 Noon, Room 3907, South Building, Dr. Kristin Kroll,   Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, "Regulating progenitor maintenance and differentiation in the vertebrate nervous system: how do cells keep their options open?"

Thursday, May 18 , Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar – 4:00 pm - Maternity Building, Room 725. Dr. Jian Zuo , Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN   - "Mouse genetics of Retinitis Pigmentosa 1 (RP1)"

Friday, May 19 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Anna Roe , Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University - "Encoding of surface brightness in V1 and V2 of the primate

Monday, May 22 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Gregory Zipfel , MD, Neurological Surgery, , “The role of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy in cerebrovascular dysfunction, ischemic brain injury, and dementia.”

Monday, May 22, Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Research Seminar, 12:00 Noon, Room 3907, South Building.   Dr. Shiming Chen, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, "The cone-rod homeobox (Crx) protein and retinal degeneration."

Tuesday, May 23 , WUCNS Seminar, 4:00 pm, Rm 241 Compton, Dr. Robert Shapley , Center for Neural Science, New York University, "V1 dynamics and cortical mechanisms"

Tuesday, May 23 , Anesthesiology Research Seminar Series—Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Bldg., Room 5550, Dr. Yangang Sun , Anesthesiology Pain Center, "Molecular and behavioral studies of the tyrosine-kinase receptor in the dorsal horn"

Thursday, May 25 , Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar – 4:00 pm -

Maternity Building, Room 725,   Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou , Molecular Toxicology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,   - "Diverse functions of crystallins in the eye"

Friday, May 26 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Linden , Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University - "From molecules to memory in the cerebellum"

April, 2006

Monday, April 3 , Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Seminar, 12:00 noon, Rm 3907 South Bldg. Dr. Bruce Bean , Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, "Mechanisms of spontaneous firing in central neurons."

Monday, April 3 , No Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar

Tuesday, April 4 , Anesthesiology Research Seminar - 4:00pm - CSRB 5550 – Dr. Joyce De Leo , Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center - "Snypatic Networks in Chronic Pain: How Glia may regulate synaptic plasticity"

Thursday, April 6 , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars -   4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, University of Kentucky, "The Bizarro World of Angiogenesis"

Friday, April 7 , Neuroscience Student-Organized Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. David Berson , Department of Neuroscience, BrownUniversity - " Ganglion-cell photoreceptors, melanopsin and the fly in your eye "

Monday, April 10 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Gabriel de Erausquin , MD, PhD, Psychiatry,   “Genetics of Parkinsonism in Schizophrenia ”

Monday, April 10 , Neuro-Oncology Research Group Seminar Series (NORG), 3:00 PM,   Room 928 McDonnell Sci, Robert C. McKinstry, III, MD, PhD, “Advanced MR Imaging of CNS Neoplasms”

Monday, April 10 ,   The 48 th Annual Robert J. Terry Lecture - 4:00 pm EPNEC Auditorium - Dr. Amiram Grinvald , The Grodetsky Center for Research of Higher Brain Functions, The Weizman Institute of Science - " It is all in the eye of the beholder "

Tuesday, April 11 , Anesthesiology Research Seminar - 4:00pm - CSRB 5550 – Dr. Octavia Peck , Pathology and Immunology - "Signaling Pathways in T Cell Apoptosis in Sepsis"

Wednesday, April 12, PNP Medical School Seminar, 12:00 pm, East Building, 2nd floor conference room, Dr. IAN GOLD , Monash University, Melbourne, "TBA (delusions)"

Thursday, April 13 , --Neuroscience Thesis Examination,   2:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library, MR. PRESTON C. KELLER II, Labs of David Cistola and Raphael Kopan, "Structural Analysis the Notch Transmembrane Domain Explains Substrate Preference of gamma-Secretase and Reveals Conformational Variants of Bacterially Expressed Substrates"

Thursday, April 13 - Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Room 725,   Dr. Jeffrey Milbrandt ,   Dept. of Pathology and Immunology, Medicine and Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine - "Molecular Insights into Myelination and Axonal Degeneration"

Friday, April 14 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Lonnie Wollumuth , Department of Neurobiology & Behavior) SUNY Stony Brook - ""Gating Rearrangements in the Glutamate Receptor Ion Channel"

Friday, April 14,The Erlanger-Gasser  Lecture, 4:00 pm, EPNEC, Dr. Thomas Pollard, Department of Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University, "

“Exploration of actin dynamics from atoms to cells”

Monday, April 17 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, David Harris , MD, PhD, Cell Biology and Physiology, “Prion neurotoxicity: what are the players and the pathways? ”

Thursday, April 20 - Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars -4:00 P.M. - Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Jeffrey M. Gidday,   Departments of Neurosurgery and Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences    - "Retinal protection from ischemic and glaucomatous injury by preconditioning"

Friday, April 21 ,   - No 4:00 Anatomy & Neurobiology seminar

Monday, April 24 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Alexander Parsadanian, PhD, Neurology,   “GDNF-mediated neuroprotection following peripheral nerve injury and in a mouse model of ALS."

Tuesday, April 25 - Anesthesiology Research Seminar - 4:00pm - CSRB 5550 - Richard Benzinger , MD, Anesthesiology - "The role of accessory subunits in BK channel function"

Thursday, April 27 - The 18th Annual C.R. Stephen Lecture - 4:00 pm, EPNEC, Dr. Kevin Tracey, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, "HMGB1 and the Inflammatory Reflex".

Thursday, April 27, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725, Dr. S. John Curnow, University of Birmingham, UK , "The Control of Leukocyte Accumulation in Uveitis"

Friday, April 28 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Marla Sokolowski , Department of Genetics, University of Toronto - "Food related behaviours: From nature to gene to molecule and back again"

 MARCH, 2006

Thursday, March 2 , Midwest Alcoholism Research Center & Washington University School of Medicine, 6th Annual Guze Symposium on Alcoholism: "Alcohol and Tobacco Dependence: From Bench to Bedside", 8:30 A.M., Eric P. Newman Education Center, SPEAKERS: Dr. Pamela A. F. Madden; Allan C. Collins; George F. Koob; Rachel F. Tyndale; Stephanie S. O'Malley; Richard D. Hurt. www.alcoholdependence.org.

Thursday, March 2, BME Special Seminar, 4:30 pm, Room 218, Whitaker Hall, Dr. Zhuan Zhou , Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, China, "The timing of endocytosis following activation of a G-protein-coupled receptor in a rat sensory neuron"

Friday, March 3, Otolaryngology Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00 p (lunch provided), Ogura Learning Ctr., 9th fl McMillan, Dr. David Ryugo, Otolaryngology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, "Neural activity, deafness, and synaptic plasticity in the auditory nerve"

Friday, March 3 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Paul Gray , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - " The Simplest Behavior:   Neural Circuits, Development, and Evolution "

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Monday, March 6 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity, Hope Center Prize Presentations, Conrad Weihl , Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Neurology (Phyllis Hanson, MD, PhD andAlan Pestronk, MD, Preceptors), “The role of p97/VCP in inclusion body myopathy”, Elizabeth Tank , Graduate Student, Cell Biology and Physiology (Heather True-Krob, Preceptor), “PrP repeat expansion confers increased conformational flexibility”

Monday, March 6 , Dept. of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology--Seminar Series 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library Dr. Kirst King-Jones, Univ. Utah, Howard Hughes Medical Institute "Nuclear Receptor Action in Drosophila: At theCrossroads of Metabolism and Development"

Monday, March 6 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 4:00 pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Adam Carter , Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School - " Dendritic calcium signaling and synaptic integration in striatal medium spiny neurons "

Tuesday, March 7 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00pm - CSRB 5550 - Dr.David Williams, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tenessee State University, Department of Surgery - "Modulation of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3k) Akt signaling pathway alters outcome in polymicrobial sepsis and septic shock".

Wednesday, March 8 , PNP Medical School Seminar--Seminar Series,   1:00 pm., East Building, 2nd floor conference room, Dr. Alvin Goldman , Rutgers University, "TBA"

 Thursday, March 9, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars -   4:00 pm. - Maternity Building, Room 725 -- Dr. Susan M. Culican ,   Pediatric Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Washington University School of Medicine - "Evidence for activity-independent topographic specification of retinal projections by Phr1"

Friday, March 10 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Peter Strick , Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition,   Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh - "Building Blocks for Movement in the Motor Cortex"

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Monday, March 13 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, “Controlled delivery of neurotrophins for nerve injury ”

Monday, March 13 , Neuro-Oncology Research Group Seminar Series (NORG), 3:00 PM,   Room 928 McDonnell Sci, Dr. Charles Stiles , PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, "Transcription Factors and Glial Development in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System"

Tuesday, March 14 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00pm - CSRB 5550 - Dr. Zhao-Wen Wang ,   University of Connecticut, Department of Neuroscienc - "Regulation of transmitter release in C elegans"

Wednesday, March 15 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Ji-fang Zhang , Department of Physiology, Thomas Jefferson University - "Feeling Calcium: Role of a novel calcium sensor in regulation of synaptic vesicle endocytosis"

Friday, March 17 ,   Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 10:00 am.-   Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Paul Sieving , Director, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland - "X-linked retinoschisis: A case study in how molecular genetics informs clinical understanding"

Monday, March 20 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Mark Sands , Internal Medicine and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, “TBA ”

Monday, March 20 - Dept.of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Alecia K. Gross, Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas "Rhodopsin: From Atoms to Disease."

Tuesday, March 21 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00pm - CSRB 5550 – dr. Josephine   Garcia-Ferrer, Department of Anesthesiology - "Alternate-site phosphorylation of 20 kDa regulatory myosin light chain"

Wednesday, March 22 , PNP Medical School Seminar--Seminar Series, 12:00 noon., East Building, 2nd floor conference room, Dr. Dan Moran , Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, "Neuroprosthetics: Brain Computer Interfaces"

Thursday, March 23 - Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Roderick Bremner, Cell and Molecular Division, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada - "RB and E2F in retinal development and retinoblastoma"

Friday, March 24 , Neuroscience Student-Organized Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Ed Callaway , Salk Institute of Biological Studies - "Unraveling fine-scale and cell-type specificity of visual cortical circuits"

Monday, March 27 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Dr. Alexander Parsadanian , Neurology, Washington University School ”

Tuesday, March 28 , Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00pm - CSRB 5550 - Dr. Gustav Akk, Department of Anesthesiology - "Interaction of neurosteroids with the GABAz receptor"

Friday, March 31 , Neuroscience Student-Organized Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Gene Robinson , Department of Entymology, Univ Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - "Molecular and genomic analyses of social behavior in honey bees

February, 2006

Wednesday February 1 , Physics Seminar, 4 pm, Crow 204 (Hilltop) Dr. Loic Le Goff, The Rockefeller University Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, Sound Detection in the Inner Ear : How Hair Cells Oscillate to Amplify Mechanical Stimuli

  Thursday, February 2 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Michael Sutton , Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology   " Local protein synthesis in neuronal dendrites and the control of synaptic function "

Thursday, February 2,  Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars -  4:00 P.M,, Maternity Bldg., Room 725 - Dr. Mae Gordon , Dept. of   Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences - "Prediction Model for Glaucoma: Validation in 2 Continents"

Friday, February 3 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Ralf Wessel , Department of Physics - " Computing visual context with complex synaptic circuits "

Monday, February 6 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, 1st fl. Maternity Bldg., Dr. Aaron DiAntonio , Molecular iology & Pharmacology, "Ubiquitin, JNK and the Control of Synaptic Growth"

Tuesday, February 7 , PNP Medical School Seminar--Seminar Series, 12:00 A.M., East Bldg., 2nd floor conference room, Dr. Robert Cloninger , Dept. of Psychiatry, "The Psychobiology of Well-being"

Thursday, February 9, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars 4:00 P.M. - Maternity Bldg., Room 725- Dr. Tomomi Ichinose , Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, "Novel mechanism of retinal light adaptation"

Friday, February 10 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Mark Sands , Department of Medicine - "Lysosomal Storage Diseases: CNS Dysfunction and Therapy"

Monday, February 13 , Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, 1st fl. Maternity Bldg., Hope Center Prize Presentations.  Mr. Fernanda Laezza, Mr. Tim West, Dr. Helen Hu.  For further information see http://hopecenter.wustl.edu/research_seminar.html

Monday, February 13 , Neuro-Oncology Research Group Seminar Series (NORG) 3:00 PM, McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928, Dr. David H. Gutmann , Neurology, ÒGenetically-Engineered Mice to Understand Human Brain Tumors"

Thursday, February 16 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Stephan Brenowitz , Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School   "Local and global endocannabinoid signaling by cerebellar Purkinje cells"

Thursday, February 16,  Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 P.M., Maternity Bldg., Room 725 - Dr. J. William Harbour , Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences - "The Rb tumor suppressor as a dynamic regulator of cell cycle and apoptotic decisions"

Friday, February 17 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Tim Holy , Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - "Melodies, Molecules, Microscopes, and Memories: the Meurobiology of the Mouse accessory olfactory system"  

Monday, February 20 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Valeria Cavalli , Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego - "Sunday Driver: Linking Axonal Transport to Injury Signaling and Nerve Regeneration"

Monday, February 20 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, 1st fl. Maternity, Hope Center Prize Presentations.  Mr. Mingming Zhu, Dr. Sujin Bao.  For further information see http://hopecenter.wustl.edu/research_seminar.html

Tuesday, February 21 , Anesthesiology Research Seminar Series--Seminar Series, 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Bldg., Room 5550, Dr. Eugene Johnson ,   Neurology, "Overview of GFL neurotrophic factors with an emphasis on pain"

Thursday, February 23, Dept of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars - 4:00 PM, Maternity Bldg., Room 725 - Dr. Steve Bassnett , Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences - "Light at the end of the tunnel: Organelle degradation in the developing lens"

Friday, February 24 , Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Indira Raman , Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University - "Signaling in cerebellar circuits"

January, 2006

Friday, January 6 , Otolaryngology Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00 pm noon (lunch provided), Ogura Learning Ctr, 7 th fl, McMillan, Dr. Donald M. Caspary , Department of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University Sch Med, “Age-related plastic inhibitory changes in central auditory pathways”

Friday, January 6 , Neuroscience Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Steven Scherer , Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania - " Finding the Causes of Inherited Neuropathy "

Monday, January 9 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Sheng-Kwei Song, PhD, Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, “Accurate Diagnosis of White Matter Injury using MRI: Fact or Fiction"

Monday, January 9 , Neuro-oncology Seminar Series, 3:00 PM - McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928,   Dr. Peter Dirks, University of Toronto, "Stem Cells:   Unlocking the Secrets of Human Brain Tumors"

Tuesday, January 10 , WUCNS seminar,   4:00 pm, Compton 241, (Hilltop campus), Dr. Michael J Berry, II, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, “Detection and Prediction of Temporal Patterns by the Retina”

Tuesday, January 10 ,   Department of Anesthesiology - Basic Research and Pain Center Seminar - 4:00 p.m. - CSRB 5550 - Dr. Xiaoming Xia, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University - "Intrigued in a PH puzzle"

Thursday, January 12 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Till Marquardt , Department of Gene Expression Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies - " Receptor-based signaling interactions underlying the selective targeting of sensory and motor neuron axons "

Friday, January 13 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Reha Erzurumlu , Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Louisiana State University (Visiting Professor in Neurology, WUSM) - "Multiple mechanisms underlying development of sensory maps, neural patterns and their plasticity"

January 13-15 , Cultural Evolution Workshop,   Crowne Plaza Hotel, Clayton, MO.   Hosted by Dr. Pascal Boyer, Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University.   More information at: http://artsci.wustl.edu/%7Epboyer/CEwebsite/index.html

Monday, January 16 , No Neurology/Hope Center Research Seminar

Tuesday, January 17 , Department of Anesthesiology- Basic Research and Pain Center Seminar - 4:00 p.m. - CSRB 5550 - Dr. Tim Brennan, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Iowa - Topic: "Mechanisms of incisional pain".

Wednesday, January 18 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Yi Zuo , Department of Neurobiology, University of Texas at Austin - "In vivo imaging of structural plasticity at synapses"

Wednesday, January 18 , Anesthesiology Grand Rounds, and Pain Center Seminar - 4:00 p.m. –Wohl Auditorium- Dr. Tim Brennan, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Iowa , "Preemptive analgesia, plasticity and postoperative pain"

Thursday, January 19 - Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar - 4 pm, Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. George Cioffi,Oregon Health Sciences University;Glaucoma Service,Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon -"Ischemic Optic Nerve Damage and Glaucoma" 

Friday, January 20 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Oliver Hobert , Department of Biochemistry, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons - "Gene regulatory mechanisms that generate cellular diversity in the nervous system of C.elegans"

Monday, January 23 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Sonya Bahar, PhD, Biophysics, Center for Neurodynamics, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Missouri at St Louis, "Imaging Focal Seizures in the Neocortex…and Searching for the "Elusive Initial Dip"

Tuesday, January 24 , 2006, Anesthesiology Research Unit Seminar - 4:00 p.m. - CSRB 5550 - Xuhui Zeng, Staff Scientist, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University - Topic: "Auxiliary beta3a subunits regulate the functional properties of mslol BK channels".

Thursday, January 26 , Special Neuroscience Seminar – 12:00 noon, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Naren Ramanan , Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - "Transcriptional control of synaptic plasticity: an essential role for SRF'"

Thursday, January 26 - Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminar - 4 pm, Maternity Building, Room 725 - Dr. Rosario Hernandez,Department of Ophthalmology/ Visual Sciences - "Astrocytes in glaucomatous optic neuropathy,10 years later".

Friday, January 27 , Anatomy & Neurobiology Departmental Seminar - 4:00pm, Rm 928 McDonnell Sci. Bldg. - Dr. Jeanne Nerbonne , Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology   "Molecular and functional diversity of voltage-gated K+ channels in the mammalian nervous system......fine tuning neuronal membrane excitability."

Monday, January 30 , Neurology/Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Research Seminar, 12 Noon, Schwarz Auditorium, First Floor Maternity Building, Raphael Kopan,   PhD, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, “TBA”

Tuesday, January 31 ,Department of Anesthesiology - Basic Research and Pain Center Seminar - 4:00 p.m. - CSRB 5550 - Dr. Andy Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University. "Activation and modulation of the GABAa receptor".

December, 2005