Semiar History

2007-2008

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
9/6/2007	SEMINAR SERIES 2007-2008 All regular seminars are held on Thursdays at 1:00 PM in the Dept of Neurobiology Conference Room #1015 Shelby Building	contact Jan Phillips 934-2452  in the Dept of Neurobiology if you have any questions on scheduled seminars.	Thursday SHEL 1015 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
9/18/2007	Erik David Roberson Asst.  Adjunct Professor Dept. of Neurology CV	University of California, San Francisco	David Standaert, M.D. Neurology	"Tau Regulates Susceptibility to Excitotoxicity and A-Induced Neuronal Dysfunction"
9/27/2007	Simon Alford, Ph.D. Professor CV	University of Illinois, Chicago	Linda O. Wadiche, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"G Proteins Target the Presynaptic Fusion Machinery: Beyond Release Probability and the Quantal Synapse"
10/4/2007	Gavin Rumbaugh,Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Neurobiology	University of Alabama at Birmingham	David Sweatt, Ph.D. Endowed Chair and Professor Dept. of Neurobiology	"Emerging roles for Myosin II in neurons: Implications for spine morphogenesis, synaptic plasticity and memory formation"
10/11/2007	David Mott, Ph.D. Asst. Professor Dept. of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience CV	University of South Carolina	Lynn Dobrunz, Ph.D. Dept. Neurobiology	"Subunit dependent modulation of kainate receptors: implications for epilepsy"
10/18/2007	Serena Dudek, Ph.D. CV	NIH - NIEHS	Lynn Dobrunz, Ph.D. Dept. Neurobiology	"Consolidating Long-Term Potentiation: Getting to the Nucleus"
10/25/2007	Maurizio Grimaldi, MD, PhD Pharmacologist CV	Southern Research Institute	Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology Director, CIRC and Center for Glial Biology in Medicine	"Basic science-driven drug discovery: glial cells lead the way, neurons follow "
11/15/2007	Antonello Bonci, M.D. Professor, Neurology CV	University of California, San Francisco Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center	Robin Lester, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"Synaptic Plasticity in the Mesolimbic System: Implications for substance abuse"
11/29/2007	Paul Worley, M.D. Professor CV	The Solomon H. Snyder Dept. of Neuroscience The Johns Hopkins University	Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"IEGs and synaptic plasticity"
12/20/2007	Yi Sun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences/Molecular & Medical Pharmacology CV	University of California Los Angeles Associate Academic Director UCLA Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine	Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D. Dept. Neurobiology	"Modeling neurological diseases using human embryonic stem cell-derived neurons"
1/10/2008	Craig E. Jahr, Ph.D.  Senior Scientist CV	Vollum Institute Oregon Health & Science University	Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology Director, CIRC and Center for Glial Biology in Medicine	"Neural-glial interactions"
1/24/2008	Peter Penzes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Physiology CV	Northwestern University	Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D. Dept. Neurobiology	"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic structural plasticity and pathology"
2/7/2008	Gregory Cox, Ph.D. Staff Scientist CV	The Jackson Laboratory	Scott Wilson, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"Mouse models of neuromuscular disease"
2/12/2008	Michelle Grey Postdoctoral Fellow CV	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Dr. Watts, M.D. and Dr. Standaert, M.D.  co-sponsored by Dept of Neurology and the Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics	"BACHD mice recapitulate Huntington's Disease pathology and demonstrate pathological cell-cell interactions"
2/21/2008	Stephen F. Traynelis, Ph.D. Associate Professor CV	Emory University Dept. of Pharmacolgy Atlanta, GA	Robin Lester, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"Zn2+ control of NMDA receptor gating"
2/26/2008	T. Chris Gamblin, Ph.D. Asst. Professor Department of Molecular Biosciences CV	The University of  Kansas	David Standaert, M.D.  and Ray Watts, M.D. Neurology	"Modeling Tau Polymerization in Alzheimer's Disease"
3/6/2008	Hengbin Wang, Ph.D. Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Scott Wilson, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"Epigenetic regulation of transcription "
3/13/2008	Sergio Ojeda, D.V.M. Division of Neuroscience CV	Oregon Primate Center, Oregan Health and Science University	Michael Brenner, PhD UAB/Neurobiology/Glial Center	"Involvement of glial cells in the neuroendocrine control of female sexual development."
3/20/2008	Manzoor Bhat, M.S., Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Cell & Molecular Physiology, UNC Neuroscience Center CV	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SOM	Susan Campbell, Ph.D. Dept. Neurobiology	"Organizing Principles of Axo-Glial Junctions Across Species"
3/27/2008	David Gadsby, Ph.D. Patrick A. Gerschel Family Professor and Head Laboratory of Cardiac/Membrane Physiology CV and news & views	Rockefeller University	Jacques Wadiche, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"Mapping the ion pathway through the living Na,K-ATPase pump in situ"
3/28/2008	Anastassios Tzingounis, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow Roger Nicoll lab Special time for this seminar!!! 11:30 am - 12:30 pm	University of California, San Franciso, CA	Jacques Wadiche, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"Seizing the brake: how global calcium limits neuronal excitability"
4/1/2008	Danielle Simmons, PhD. Postdoctoral Researcher Dept. of Psychiatry CV	University of California, Irvine	Gavin Rumbaugh, PhD Dept. of Neurobiology	"Up-regulating BDNF as a therapeutic strategy for Huntington Disease"
4/3/2008	Kristina Visscher, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher CV	Brandeis University	Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology Director, McKnight Brain Institute, CIRC and Center for Glial Biology in Medicine	"Background activity alters the way we perceive and remember"
4/8/2008	Chad Antony Dickey, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology CV	University of South Florida College of Medicine	co-sponsored by the Dept. of Neurology and the Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics	"Chaperones and Kinases Converge to Regulate Tau Proteotoxicity"
4/24/2008	R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D. Chief, Nervous System Development & Plasticity Section CV	National Institutes of Health, NICHD	Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology Director, CIRC and Center for Glial Biology in Medicine	"Activity-Dependent Myelination: Plasticity Beyond the Synapse"
4/24/2008	David Petrik, Ph.D. Postdoc Candidate **Special time** 10:30am - 11:30am	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	Linda Wadiche, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Neurogiology	"The Accessory Beta4 Subunit Regulates Response of BK Channels to Dephosphorylation"
5/1/2008	Richard Robitaille, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Physiology CV	Université de Montréal	Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology Director, CIRC and Center for Glial Biology in Medicine	"Glial cells govern synaptic plasticity"
5/15/2008	Randy Blakely, Ph.D. Professor Pharmacology & Psychiatry CV	Vanderbilt University	Jacques Wadiche, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology	"Suck It Up, Pay Attention and Get Moving: Dopamine, Dopamine Transporters and ADHD"
5/20/2008	Stefan Clemens, Ph.D. Instructor Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Candidate	Emory University *Special day for seminar* Tuesday	David Sweatt, Ph.D. John Hablitz, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology UAB	"Dynamic neuromodulation in the spinal cord: Dopamine, the autonomic system, and Restless Legs Syndrome "
5/22/2008	Wen-Biao Gan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept of Physiology & Neruoscience	Skirball Institute Program New York University	Michael Brenner, Ph.D./Glial Center	"Structural dynamics of synapses and microglia in vivo."
5/29/2008	Farah Lubin, Ph.D.  Postdoc Dept. of Neurobiology Faculty Candidate	University of Alabama at Birmingham *Special time for seminar* 10:30 a.m.	David Sweatt. Ph.D. John Hablitz, Ph.D.	"EPIGENETIC GENE REGULATION IN THE ADULT HIPPOCAMPUS: IMPLICATIONS IN MEMORY FORMATION AND EPILEPSY "
5/29/2008	Kim McAllister, Ph.D. Associate Professor Center for Neuroscience	University of California, Davis	Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Neurobiology	cancelled
6/3/2008	Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, Ph.D. Instructor Dept. Neurology Faculty Candidate	Mass General Hospital MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease	David Sweatt, Ph.D. John Hablitz, Ph.D. Dept. of Neurobiology UAB