Seminar Series 2008-2009

Jordan Hall 1-17  Tuesdays @ 4 PM (unless otherwise noted)

Preview:  Mondays @12:15 in MR4 5102 (unless otherwise noted)


  Fall 2008
   
September 2, 2008  NGP New Student Welcome Picnic
   
September 9, 2008

Benjamin Purow, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Virginia

"microRNAs in brain tumors and the Notch pathway"

Host: Bettina Winckler

Preview:  Benjamin Kefas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Purow Lab
Paper #1
Paper #2

   
September 16, 2008

NISS series 

Uwe-Karsten Hanisch, PhD
UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN GÖTTINGEN
GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITÄT
Institut für Neuropathologie

Microglia: active sensor and versatile effector cells in the normal and pathologic brain 

Host: Jonathan Kipnis

Preview: Noel Derecki, Graduate Student, Kipnis Lab

Paper #1
Paper #2

   
September 30, 2008

Xin-Yun Lu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
University of Texas Health Science Center

"A possible biological link between obesity and mood disorders" 


Lu lab information

Host: Chien Li

Preview:Chien Li, Department of Pharmacology
Paper #1

Paper #2

   
October 7, 2008

Slobodan Todorovic, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Neuroscience
University of Virginia

"Voltage-gated calcium channels in the thalamus as targets for general anesthesia" 

Todorovic Lab information

Host: Bettina Winckler

Preview:  Peihan Orestes, Graduate Student, Todorovic Lab
Paper #1

Paper #2

   
October 14, 2008

Linda Phillips, PhD
Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

"Extracellular Matrix Regulation of Reparative Plasticity Following Brain Injury"


Phillips Lab information

Host: Pat Trimmer

Preview:  Emily Cronin-Furman, Graduate Student, Trimmer Lab
Paper #1

Paper #2

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October 21, 2008

Brian Smith, PhD
Professor
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University

"Plasticity tunes spatiotemporal dynamics of early olfactory processing"


Smith Lab information

Host: Jay Hirsh
Preview:  Noel Derecki, Graduate student, Kiipnis Lab
Paper #1

Paper #2

Paper #3

   
November 4, 2008

Paul Yates, MD
Department of Opthalmology
University of Virgina

"Retinal vascular and neural development: common molecules/ common mechanisms"

Host: Bettina Winckler

Preview:  Paul Yates, Department of Opthalmology
Review #1
Review #2

Other background materials:
Review #3
Paper #4

   
November 11, 2008

NeuroImmunology Seminar Series 

Rodney Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor of Integrative Biology
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois

"Aging, Microglial Cell Priming and Discordant Communication between the Immune System and Brain"

Johnson Lab information

Host: Jonathan Kipnis
Preview: Noel Derecki, Graduate Student, Kipnis Lab
Paper #1
Paper #2
Paper #3

   
November 18, 2008 No Seminar-Society for Neuroscience
   
November 25, 2008 No Seminar-Thanksgiving
   
 December 9, 2008

Public Thesis Seminar

Heidi Walsh
Graduate Student
Neuroscience Graduate Program and Endocrinology

"Modulation of GnRH-Stimulated LHb Transcription by Steroid Hormones and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System" 

Mentor: Dr. Peggy Shupnik

 

   
 
Spring 2009
   
January 20, 2009

NISS series 

Stanley H. Appel, MD
Peggy and Gary Edwards Distinguished Endowed Chair
for the Treatment and Research of ALS
Chair, Department of Neurology
Co-Director of the Methodist Neurological Institute

Host: Jonathan Kipnis 

Preview:  Jonathan Kipnis
Paper #1

Paper #2

   

Special Date and Time
12:30
Friday, February 6, 2009

Canceled- WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR FALL 2009

 

Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD
Professor
Neurobiology Biomedical Engineering and Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Co-Director, Center for Neuroengineering
Duke University Medical Center


Nicolelis Lab information

Host: Carolina Ramoa

   
February 10, 2009 Open Date
   
February 17, 2009

Distinguished Lecturer

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Bioengineering and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University


"Optogenetics: development and application"

Deisseroth Lab information

Host: Doug Bayliss
Preview: Michal Fortuna

   
March 3, 2009

No Seminar-Spring Break

   
March 10, 2009

Christine Thisse, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology
University of Virginia

Inducing morphogenesis using the zebrafish model organism 

Host:  Bettina Winckler
Preview:  Ben Thiede, Graduate student, NGP

Thisse, B., Wright, C. V. E. and Thisse, C. (2000). Activin and Nodal-related factors control antero-posterior patterning of the zebrafish embryo. Nature 403, 425-427.

Agathon, A., Thisse, C. and Thisse, B. (2003). The molecular nature of the zebrafish tail organizer, Nature, 424, 448-452.

Seiliez, I., Thisse, B. and Thisse, C. (2006). FoxA3 and goosecoid promote anterior neural fate through inhibition of Wnt8a activity before the onset of gastrulation. Dev. Biol., 290(1), 152-163.

 

 

   
March 17, 2009

 

Brian Wiltgen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology

The contribution of NMDA receptor-independent plasticity to learning and memory. 

Host: Bettina Winckler
Preview: Brian Wiltgen

Wiltgen #1

Wiltgen #2

   
March 24, 2009

CANCELED

Janice Juraska, PhD
Professor
Department of Pyschology-Biological Division
University of Illinois

Juraska Lab information

Host: Emilie Rissman 

   

please note special time

 12:00 PM

 March 31, 2009

 

Virginia Lee, PhD
Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
The John H. Ware 3rd Professor in Alzheimer’s Research

"Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration:Connecting the Dots Through TDP-43" 

Lee Lab information 

Host: George Bloom
Preview:  Emily Cronin-Furman

Lee #1

Lee #2

   
April 14, 2009

 Canceled

 

NISS Seminar

Michal Schwartz
Weizmann Institute of Science 

 April 21, 2009

  Canceled

Dan Tracey
Asst Professor
Duke University Medical Center
Depts of Anesthesiology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology

 "Genetic analysis of nociception in Drosophila: a painless operation"

Host: Barry Condron
Preview:Peihan Orestes

Paper #1

Paper #2