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Colloquium Series

The Neuroscience Colloquium Series is sponsored by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. All seminars are held from 12:00 noon to 1:00pm in Room 2-101 of the Basic Sciences Biomedical Engineering (BSBE) Building, preceded by lunch at 11:45 am in the atrium.
SCHEDULE: Fall 2002- Spring 2003
updated 5/6/03
Sept 18 Dr. Eric Newman
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Glia, the unsung heroes of the nervous system: Release of ATP from glial cells inhibits neurons"
Sept 25

Dr. Janet Fitzakerley
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience,University of MN -- Duluth Campus
"Kvs and NPs: New developments in auditory research"

Sept 27 Stanislav Kholmanskikh - Thesis Defense
"Abnormalities of neuronal migration in mouse models of lissencephaly"
2:00 - 3:00 PM 2-101 BSBE
Dr. Paul Letourneau and Dr. Elizabeth Ross, Co-Advisors
Oct 2

Presentation of Morris Smithberg Award
Presenter: Dr. Glenn Giesler
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
             and
Dr. Catherine Kotz
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Orexins (Hypocretins) in Energy Balance: To Eat or to Exercise?"

Oct 9 Dr. Michael Bowser
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
"High-Temporal Resolution Monitoring of Neurotransmitter Dynamics Using Online Microdialysis-Capillary Electrophoresis"
Oct 16 Dr. David R. Brown
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Adrenergic Neuromodulation of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Intestine"
Oct 23 Dr. Björn Ekesten
Assistant Professor; Director of Electrodiagnostics, Department of Ophthalmology
"Stimulating dark-adapted opsins in the light-adapted mouse retina"
Oct 30 Dr. James Ashe
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Cerebellum: A Learning Machine?"
Nov 6 no colloquium
Nov 13 Dr. Michael O'Connor
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"BMP and Activin signals regulate synapse growth and remodeling in Drosophila"
Nov 20 Dr. David Redish
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Routes, Sequences, and the Striatum"
Nov 27 no colloquium
Dec 4 Dr. Linda McLoon
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Extraocular muscles and myonuclear turnover: What can this tell us about muscle disease?"
Fri, Dec 6 GRASS LECTURE FEATURING:
Dr. Morgan Sheng
Professor of Neuroscience Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Dynamic molecular organization of the postsynaptic membrane"
12:00 - 1:00 PM in 2-137 Jackson Hall
Dec 11 Dr. Jan Dubinsky
Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Mitochondrial (Dys?)function in Neurodegeneration"
Dec 18 Combined Colloquium/Thesis Defense
Shannon Wright
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Delta- and Mu-Opioid Receptor Trafficking in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney Cells"
Dr. Robert Elde, Advisor
Jan 1 no colloquium
Jan 8 no colloquium
Jan 15 Annual MD/PhD Student Sponsored Lecture
Dr. Howard Eichenbaum
University of Boston
"The hippocampus and declarative memory: Cognitive mechanisms and neural codes"
Co-Hosted by the MD/PhD Program, the Department of Neuroscience, and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Student Organizers: Fred Langheim (fred@brain.umn.edu)
                               and Romina Sosa (sosa0007@tc.umn.edu)
Jan 22 Forum on Postdoctoral Activity
Organized By: Drs. Linda Boland, Ginger Seybold, Esam El-Fakahany
Presentation Handout ("pdf" file)
Jan 29 Kevin Crisp
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Presentation
Feb 5 Jadin Jackson
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Coherency: Assessing the consistency of a neuronal ensemble"

Neil Schmitzer-Torbert
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Neural representation in the rodent dorsal striatum on the multiple T task"
Feb 12

Lisa Johanek
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Peripheral Cannabinoid Antinociception"

Kristin Schreiber
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Neural-Immune Interactions in the Enteric Nervous System"

Feb 19

Jason Weick
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Interactions with PDZ Domain Proteins are Necessary for L-type Calcium Channel-Mediated Gene Expression"

Rachel Groth
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"BDNF Activates NFAT-Dependent Transcription in the Hippocampus: A Role for the Transcription Factor NFATc4 in Neurotrophin-Mediated Synaptic Plasticity"

Feb 26

Antonio Fortes
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Categorical and Comparative Judgments of Space in Monkeys"

Thomas Naselaris
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Mapping of Preferred Directions in the Motor Cortex"

Mar 5 no colloquium
Mar 12

Leigh Ann Mrotek
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Tracking Changes in the Direction of Target Motion"

Lyric Jorgenson
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"The Effects of Perinatal Iron Deficiency on the Developing Hippocampus"

Mar 19

no colloquium -- Spring Break

Mar 26

Murray Blackmore
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"The Failure of Axon Regeneration in the Developing Spinal Cord: A role for integrin expression?"

Cheryl Olman
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Visual Processing of Natural Images: fMRI, psychophysics, and modeling"

Apr 2

Joe Fullmer
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Identification of the target glycoprotein(s) of the Lectin IB4"

Xilma Ortiz-Gonzalez
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Stem cell transplants into Blastocysts: Differentiation into neural phenotypes in vivo"

Apr 9

J.P. Clark
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Obligate HIV protein, Transactivator of Transcription (Tat), resets the Circadian Clock"

Ken Reinert
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Novel Intrinsic Autofluorescence Signal in the Cerebellar Cortex"

Apr 16

Amy MacDonald
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"The Role of Dopamine and Opioids in Reward for Food Intake"

Andy Thorpe
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Neuropeptides and Obesity: Orexins as a Modulator of Appetite or Arousal?"

Apr 23

Scott Gehler
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"BDNF Regulates the Growth Cone Cytoskeleton through Modulation of RhoA Activity"

Roberto Zayas
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Kinetic and Pathobiochemical Consequences of Slow Channel Syndrome Mutations"

Apr 30

Anne Mosemiller
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Testing RNA pathogenesis in SCA8"

May 7

Rob Raike
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Partial disruption of the CACNA1A gene results in a mouse model of EA2"

Nate Connors
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
"Mechanisms of Subcellular Localization in Glial Cells"
May 21 Dirk Keene
Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Presentation
 
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