| 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

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
|
Mini Symposium
Frank Kirchhoff, Ph.D. Saarland University, Germany
Swen Hülsmann, Ph.D. University of Göttingen, Germany
 |
Thomas van Groen, Ph.D. UAB

Catherine Fuller, Ph.D. UAB
|
Vlad Parpura, MD, PhD co sponsored by: Comprehensive Neuroscience Center and with the Center for Glial Biology in Medicine
NBL 703 Credit

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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

NBL 703 Credit |
 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 |
 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

|
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
 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

NBL 703 Credit |
 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

NBL 703 Credit |
 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 |
 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
 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

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
NBL 703 Credit |

Department of Neurology |
Vlad Parpura, M.D., Ph.D. |
"Role of 14-3-3s in Parkinson's Disease" |