Neuroscience Graduate Program Seminar Series

Jordan Hall 1-14

Tuesdays from 4:00-5:00 PM unless otherwise noted

Previews:  Mondays at 12:15 in MR4 5102

 September 8, 2009
 		  Neuroscience Graduate Program Welcome Picnic

 September 14, 2009

1 PM in Jordan Hall Conference Center
RM 2ABC

 Thesis Seminar

Mark Fitzgerald
Department of Neuroscience
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Medical Scientist Training Program

Defects in progenitor cell positioning, proliferation, and apoptosis modify neocortical development in the tish neurological mutant 

Advisor: Kevin Lee

 

 September 15, 2009

 Hosted by the Cell and Molecuar Biology Training Grant

 Erik Roberson
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
University of Alabama-Birmingham

"Neurobiology of Neurodegeneration:
         Roles for Tau"

Host: Matt Seward
Preview:  George Bloom
Roberson preview Paper #1

 September 22, 2009


Sarah Kucenas
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Virginia

"The Ins and Outs of the Nervous System:
Interactions Between Schwann Cells,
Oligodendrocytes and Perineurial Glia"

Host: Herman Wijnen
Preview:Sarah Kucenas
Kucenas preview paper #1

Kucenas preview paper #2

 October 6, 2009

 
Daniel Johnston
Director, Center for Learning and Memory
University of Texas-Austin

"The multifarious h current: Plasticity, resonance, and functional maps in hippocampal pyramidal neurons"

Host: Doug Bayliss
Preview: Geoff Horwitz, Graduate student, Holt lab
Johnston paper #1

Johnston paper #2

Johnston paper #3

 

 October 13, 2009

 

NeuroImmunology Seminar Series

Gerd Kempermann
Genomics of Regeneration
CRTD - Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden

"Immune cells and activity in the control of neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus" 

Host: Jonathan Kipnis

 

Preview: Jamie Walsh, GRaduate Student, Kipnis Lab

Kempermann #1

October 20, 2009
 		 Society for Neuroscience

 October 27, 2009

Gregor Majdic
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

"Functional consequences of Steroidogenic factor 1 deficiency on murine brain" 

Host: Emilie Rissman
Preview:  Lucia Tejada, Graduate Student, Rissman lab
Majdic paper #1

Majdic paper #2

Majdic paper #3

November 3, 2009

 
Barry Gumbiner
Professor and Chair
Department of Cell Biology
University of Virginia

"Role of cadherins in the formation of the neural crest"

Host: Noelle Dwyer

Preview: Chan Choo Yap, Instructor, Neuroscience Dep't
Gumbiner paper #1

Gumbiner paper #2

 November 10, 2009


 Alison Barth
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University

"Cellular and synaptic mechanisms for perceptual plasticity"

Host: Brian Wiltgen

Preview:  Kaycie Taylor, Graduate Student, Wiltgen Lab
Barth paper

 November 17, 2009

 

 Canceled-will reschedule

Franck Polleux
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

"Role of membrane deformation and endocytosis in neuronal migration and morphogenesis during development"


Host: Noelle Dwyer

Preview: Carlita Black Favero and Vita Vock, Post-docs,
Dwyer lab

Polleux paper #1

Polleux paper #2

November 18, 2009

 

Public Thesis Seminar

Peihan Orestes
Department of Anesthesiology
Neuroscience Graduate Program

"Modulation of T-type Calcium Channels by Anesthetics and Analgesics"

 Rotunda, Lower West Oval Room 10 AM

 

 November 24, 2009
  Thanksgiving
November 30, 2009

 

Public Thesis Seminar

Elizabeth Daubert
Department of Biology
Neuroscience Graduate Program 

"Elevated Cytoplasmic Serotonin Induces Neuroprotective Dystrophic Neurites in the Drosophila Central Nervous System"

Rotunda, Lower WEst Oval Room, Noon

 

 December 1, 2009


 Samie Jaffrey
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Weill Cornell Medical College

"Wiring the brain with RNA: Novel roles for RNA
localization in neuronal signaling" 

Host: Ian Macara

Preview:
Jaffrey #1

Jaffery #2

 December 8, 2009

 NeuroImmunology Seminar Series

David Irani
University of Michigan

Host: Jonathan Kipnis

  Winter Break
  
 February 16, 2010
 Chris Deppman
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Virginia

Host: Herman Wijnen

 February 23, 2010

 Miguel Nicholelis
Duke University

Host: Carolina Ramoa

 March 9, 2010
  Spring Break
 March 16, 2010

 Elaine Reynolds
Lafayette College

Host: NGP Graduate Students

 March 23, 2010

Co-sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology

Mark Shaprio
University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio

Host:Doug Bayliss

 March 30, 2010

 NeuroImmunology Seminar Series

Monica Carson
University of California-Riverside

Host: Jonathan Kipnis

 April 13, 2010

Dan Tracey
Duke University

Host: Barry Condron

 April 20, 2010

 Jeff Magee
HHMI-Janelia Farm 


Magee Lab information

Host: Julius Zhu

 April 27, 2010

 NeuroImmunology Seminar Series

Keith W. Kelley, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunophysiology
Integrative Immunology and Behavior Program
University of Illinois 

 Host:  Jony Kipnis