2009-2010
Seminar Series


All regular seminars are held on Thursdays at 1:30 p.m.
Bevill Building, Room 170

Director:
Vlad Parpura, M.D., Ph.D.
(205) 996-7369
vlad@uab.edu


Coordinator:
Jan Phillips
(205) 934-2452
jancphil@uab.edu
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009











2009-2010
Date Speaker Institution Host Title
9/10/2009

David E. Featherstone, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor
David E. Featherstone







NBL703 Credit

University of Chicago Vladimir Parpura, MD, PhD "Molecular mechanisms controlling glutamatergic synapse strength and behavior" 
9/17/2009

Joseph Ayers, Ph.D.
Professor

NBL 703 credit

Northeastern University Vladimir Parpura, MD, PhD
"Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots and Neurorehabilitation" 
10/1/2009

George Augustine, Ph.D.
Professor
Photo of George J. Augustine 
NBL703 Credit

Duke University School of Medicine

Vladimir Parpura, MD, PhD

"Synaptic biophotonics: Novel optogenetic methods for defining brain Circuitry" 
10/29/2009

Dale Benos, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
DALE BENOS, PhD
NBL 703 Credit

University of Alabama at Birmingham Vladimir Parpura, Ph.D. "Plasticity of ENaC;ASIC" 
11/5/2009

Robert Lipsky, Ph.D.
Director
Robert Lipsky  
NBL 703 Credit

Inova Health System
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Farah Lubin, Ph.D. "Epigenetic regulation of gene expression: potential targets for therapeutic intervention in the CNS." 
11/12/2009
Michael V. Sofroniew, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

NBL 703 Credit
University of California, Los Angeles Michael Brenner, Ph.D.
co-sponsored with the
Center for Glial Biology in Medicine
"Molecular dissection of reactive astrogliosis and glial scar formation" 
11/19/2009

Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor

 

 

 

 

NBL 720 Credit

University of Alabama at Birmingham David Sweatt, Ph.D. "BDNF actions on both sides of synapses: TRPC channels, MeCP2 and the cellular neuropathology of Rett syndrome" 
12/3/2009

Ricardo C. Araneda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

NBL 703 Credit

University of Maryland Lucas Pozzo-Miller, PH.D. "Neuromodulation of inhibitory neurons in the olfactory bulb" 
12/9/2009

Kelly Monk, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Developmental Biology

Stanford University

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

3:00 p.m.

BBRB 170

"Zebrafish Genetics Uncover New Regulators of Myelination" 
12/17/2009

Robin Lester, Ph.D.
Asso. Professor

 

 

 

 

NBL 703 Credit

University of Alabama at Birmingham  David Sweatt, Ph.D. “How I learned to stop worrying and love nicotine” 
1/7/2010
Selva Baltan, M.D., Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
Professional Headshot of Selva  Baltan
NBL 703 Credit
University of Washington, Seattle

Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D.

co-sponsored with CIRC & Center for Glial Biology in Medicine

"Oligodendrocyte injury following white matter ischemia " 
1/14/2010

Craig Powell, M.D., Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
Craig Powell

NBL 703 Credit

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center David Sweatt, Ph.D. "Animal Models of Autism: Molecular Mechanisms to Potential Therapies" 
1/21/2010

Scott Wilson, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor

 


 

 

 
NBL 703 Credit

University of Alabama at Birmingham David Sweatt, Ph.D. "Different roles for the proteasome at central and peripheral nervous system synapses revealed by Usp14" 
1/28/2010

Kevin J. Staley, MD
Professor
Staley Board photo

 

 



NBL 703 Credit

Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts Gen Hosp

John Hablitz, Ph.D. "Neuronal ion transport, GABA-mediated synaptic signaling and seizure therapy " 
2/4/2010

Steven E. Petersen, Ph.D.
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

 

 

 

NBL 703 Credit

Washington University St. Louis Kristina Visscher, Ph.D. "Network analysis of large-scale brain organization and development" 
2/11/2010
Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D
Professor

NBL 703 Credit
University of California, Irvine John Hablitz, Ph.D. "How does the brain become epileptic? plasticity, epigenetics, ion channels" 
2/18/2010

Shannon G. Matta, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor

Shannon G. Matta, Ph.D.

 

 




NBL 703 Credit

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Robin Lester, Ph.D.

"Neuronal mechanisms underlying transgenerational use of nicotine and alcohol" 
2/25/2010
Bruce Bean, Ph.D.
Professor
Photo of Bruce P. Bean, Ph.D.
NBL 703 Credit
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Jacques Wadiche, Ph.D. "Treating pain through TRP channels" 
2/26/2010
Zhuan Zhou, Ph.D.
Professor and Senior Investigator

Institute of Molecular Med.
Peking University

Different day, time and place!!!

Friday, Feb. 26th
11:00am
Shelby  #1015

Vladimir Parpura, M.D., Ph.D.

co-sponsored by:
Atomic Force Microscopy & Nanotechnology Laboratories.

 

"Modulation of neurotransmitter release by Action potential codes in striatum in vivo" 
3/4/2010

Massimo Scanziani, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair

NBL 703 Credit

University of California, San Diego Neurobiology Graduate Students "Excitation and Inhibition in Cortical Space" 
3/12/2010
Robert Zorec, Ph.D.
Professor

NBL 703 credit
 

University of Ljubljana 

  
Special Day
Friday, Mar 12
1:30pm
Shelby #1015

 

Vlad Parpura, M.D., Ph.D. "TBS" 
3/25/2010
Karen L. Gamble, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor

kgamble
NBL 703 Credit

University of Alabama at Birmingham John Hablitz, Ph.D "TBA" 
4/1/2010

Etty Benveniste, Ph.D.
Professor/Chairman

 

 

 

 
NBL 703 Credit

University of Alabama at Birmingham Vlad Parpura, M.D., PH.D. 'TBS" 
4/8/2010

Craig Garner, Ph.D.
Professor
Craig Garner

 

 

 

NBL 703 Credit

Stanford School of Medicine

Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D.

co-sponsored with CIRC & Center for Glial Biology in Medicine

"TBA" 
4/15/2010

Thomas Otis, Ph.D.
Professor

NBL 703 Credit

UCLA Jacques Wadiche, Ph.D. "TBA" 
5/6/2010

Jack Parent, M.D.
Assoc. Professor

Jack Parent, M.D.

NBL 703 Credit

University of Michigan Medical Center Linda Wadiche, Ph.D. "TBA" 
5/13/2010

Jens R. Coorssen, Ph.D.
Foundation Chair, Mole. Phy.
Professor Jens Coorseen

 

 




NBL 703 Credit

SOM School of Biomedical & Health Sciences
College of Health & Science
University of Western Sydney
NSW, Australia

 

 

Vlad Parpura, M.D., Ph.D.

co-sponsored by:
Atomic Force Microscopy & Nanotechnology Laboratories

"New approaches to dissecting the mechanism of Ca2+-Triggered Membrane Fusion." 
5/27/2010

Edwin R. Chapman, Ph.D.
Professor
Ed Chapman

 

 


NBL 703 Credit

University of Wisconsin Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D. "TBS" 
 
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