2011-2012
Seminar Series


All regular seminars are held on Thursdays at 1:30 p.m.
Shelby Building, Room 1015

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


Coordinator:
Jan Phillips
(205) 934-2452
jancphil@uab.edu
2006-2007
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2011-2012
Date Speaker Institution Host Title
9/29/2011

Matthew Rasband, Ph.D.
Assiocate Professor

NBL 703 Credit

Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Neuroscience

Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D.

Co-sponsored with the Center for Glial Biology in Medicine

"The Functional Organization of Axons in Health and Disease" 
10/13/2011

Henrique von Gersdorff, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist

NBL 703 Credit

Oregon Health & Science University
Ph.D. in Physics
Ph.D. in Neurobiology

Jacques Wadiche, Ph.D.

"Multivesicular release at sensory synapses of the eye and ear" 
10/20/2011

Paul E. M. Phillips, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

NBL 703 Credit

University of Washington

Jeremy Day, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

"Coupling value to actions: Dopamine and decision making" 
10/27/2011

Andre H. Lagrange, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Lagrange, Andre's picture

NBL 703 Credit

Vanderbilt University

John Hablitz, Ph.D.

David Standaert, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Neurology

"GABA: the brain's swiss-army knife" 
11/10/2011

UAB scholarship to offer free tuition for AP testsMini
Symposium

Frank Kirchhoff, Ph.D.
Saarland University, Germany
 

Swen Hülsmann, Ph.D.
University of Göttingen, Germany
GGNB Huelsmann

 

 

 

 Thomas van Groen, Ph.D.
UAB
Thomas van Groen

Catherine Fuller, Ph.D.
UAB

 
Sergey Kasparov, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Bristol, UK
Sergey Kasparov

Vlad Parpura, MD, PhD
co sponsored by: Comprehensive Neuroscience Center and with the Center for Glial Biology in Medicine

NBL 703 Credit

Neurons and an Astrocyte Cell

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         Talks:                
Thomas Van Groen   "The role of astrocytes in Alzhemier's disease" 

Cathy Fuller     "Deg/ENaC cation channels in glioblastoma" 

Frank Kirchhoff   "Genetic manipulations in studying of astrocyte-neuron signaling"  

Swen Hülsmann "Determinants of functional coupling between astrocytes and respiratory neurons in the pre-Botzinger complex"

Sergey Kasparov "Optogenetic analysis of astrocyte-to neurone communication in the brainstem?"

"Physiology & pathophysiology of Astroglia" 
12/1/2011

Andrew West, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Andy West, PhD

NBL 703 Credit

UAB scholarship to offer free tuition for AP tests
Department of Neurology

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

"Pieces of the Parkinson's Disease Puzzle" 
1/19/2012

Candace Floyd, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

NBL 703 Credit 

UAB scholarship to offer free tuition for AP tests
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

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

"Spinal cord injury and NF-kB: Of pains and gains" 
1/23/2012

Jeffrey L. Neul, M.D., Ph.D.
Asspcoate Professor

Faculty Applicate

Jeffrey L. Neul, M.D., Ph.D.

 

 

 

Baylor College of Medicine

Department of Molecular & Human Genetics


DIFFERENT DAY & TIME 1:00

 

Leon Dure, M.D.
Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D.

Jointly sonsored with the Department of Pediatrics , Civitan, and Neurobiology

"Pathophysiology of cardiac arrhythmias in Rett syndrome" 
1/26/2012

Andrew Pieper, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Andrew Pieper, MD. PH.D
NBL 703 Credit

UT Southwestern Medical Center

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

"'Discovery of a Neuroprotective Chemical" 
2/2/2012

Rajesh Kana, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Contact

NBL 703 Credit

UAB scholarship to offer free tuition for AP tests
Social and Behavioral Science

John Hablitz, Ph.D.
Vlad Parpura, M.D., Ph.D.

"Neural Signatures of Autism" 
2/9/2012

David Knight, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Contact

NBL 703 Credit

UAB scholarship to offer free tuition for AP tests
Psychology

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

"Neural Mechanisms of the Threat-related Emotional Response" 
2/16/2012

Mel Feany, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor

 

 

 

 

NBL 703 Credit

Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Department of Pathology

Michael Brenner, Ph.D.

"Genetic analysis of neurodegeneration" 
3/1/2012

Lawrence Sincich, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

NLB 703 Credit

UAB scholarship to offer free tuition for AP tests
Vision Sciences

Kristina Visscher, Ph.D.

"Orientation Selectivity and Cytochrome Oxidase Architecture in Macaque V1" 
3/8/2012

Peter W. Kalivas, Ph.D.
Porfessor / Co-Chair

 

 

 

NBL 703 Credit

Medical University of South Carolina

Robin Lester, Ph.D.

"Using neuroplasticity to cure addiction" 
3/15/2012

Marcelo A. Wood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
It's Me! Marcelo!
NBL 703 Credit

University of California, Irvine

David Sweatt, Ph.D.

"TBA" 
3/22/2012

David Katz, Ph.D.
Professor

NBL 703 Credit

Case Western Reserve University

Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D.

co-sponsored with IDDRC

"TBA" 
3/29/2012

Marie Castro, Ph.D.
Professor

NBL 703 Credit

University of Michigan

Gwen King, Ph.D.

"TBA" 
4/6/2012

Luis Puelles, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Luis Puelles

NBL 703 Credit

University of Murcia in Spain


DIFFERENT DAY

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

Co-host:
Emma Perez-Costas, Ph.D.

"New concepts on the morphological organization of the forebrain and midbrain" 
4/19/2012

Talene Yacoubian, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

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NBL 703 Credit

UAB scholarship to offer free tuition for AP tests

Department of Neurology

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

"Role of 14-3-3s in Parkinson's Disease" 
 
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