| Date |
SPEAKER |
INSTITUTION |
TITLE |
9/2/99 |
J. David Sweatt,
Ph.D. |
Baylor
College of Medicine |
"The MAP
Kinase Cascade in Synapatic Plasticity and Memory" |
9/9/99 |
Edward Taub, Ph.D. |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
"CI
Therapy: A New Family of Treatments in Rehabilitation Stemming from Basic Research
in Neuroscience and Behavioral Science" |
| 9/16/99 |
Lin Mei, M.D., Ph.D. |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
Neuregulin at
the Neuromuscular Junction and Central Synapses" |
9/23/99 |
Rodolfo
R. Llinas, M.D., Ph.D. |
New
York University Medical Center |
"The
Role of Calcium in Transmitter Release: A Squid Giant Synapse Study" |
| 10/7/99 |
Eric Klann, Ph.D. |
University
of Pittsburgh |
"A Role for
Superoxide in Long-Term Potentiation and Associative Learning" |
| 11/4/99 |
Gary G. Mathews,
Ph.D. |
SUNY,
Stony Brook |
"Synaptic
Mechanisms of Retinal Bipolar Neurons" |
| 11/11/99 |
Eric A. Newman,
Ph.D. |
University
of Minnesota |
"Glial Cell
Modulation of Neural Activity: Calcium Waves in the Retina" |
| 11/18/99 |
Chris J. McBain,
Ph.D. |
National
Institutes of Health |
"Target
Specific Innervation and Pre and Postsynaptic Mechanisms at Mossy Fiber Synapses" |
| 12/16/99 |
Louis J. DeFelice,
Ph.D. |
Vanderbilt
University |
"Electrodiffusion
in Neurotransmitter Transporters: How Monoamine Transporters Accumulate Substrate
Against a Gradient" |
| 1/13/00 |
David R. Kaplan,
Ph.D. |
McGill
University |
"The
Regulation of Neuronal Survival, Apoptosis, and Growth by Trk Receptors" |
| 1/20/00 |
George A. Graham,
Ph.D. |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
"The Seven
Most Difficult Problems in Cognitive Science: Plus or Minus Two" |
| 1/27/00 |
James B. Rand, Ph.D. |
Oklahoma
Medical Research Foundation |
"Molecular
and Genetic Analysis of Synaptic Vesicle Function in C. elegans: What Makes the Worm
Squirm?" |
| 2/10/00 |
Lori L. McMahon,
Ph.D. |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Glycine:
The Other Inhibitory Neurotransmitter Affecting Hippocampal Excitability" |
| 2/24/00 |
Virginia Lee, Ph.D. |
University
of Pennsylvania |
"Tauopathies:
Past, Present and Future" |
| 3/2/00 |
Vytas Bankaitis,
Ph.D. |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Phospatidylinositol
Transfer Proteins: From Neurodegeneration to Yeast" |
| 3/16/00 |
Britt Anderson, M.D. |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Visual
Neglect: Halfway Around the World in 40 Days" |
| 3/23/00 |
Mark L. Mayer, Ph.D. |
National
Institutes of Health |
"Bugs in
the Brain: Molecular Details Revealed by Studies on GluR0 A Prokaryotic Glutamate
Receptor" |
| 4/6/00 |
Neil L. Harrison,
Ph.D. |
Cornell
University |
"Volume of
a Single TM2 Residue Determines Agonist Gating and Anesthetic Potentiation in the GABA-A
Receptor" |
|
4/13/00
|
Philip
G. Haydon, Ph.D.
|
Iowa
State University
|
"Astrocyte Induced Synaptic Modulation"
|
| 4/20/00 |
Timothy J. Gawne,
Ph.D. RESCHEDULED FOR 5/18/00 |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Primary Visual Cortex in the Blink of an
Eye and the Swiftness of a Passing Glance. " |
| 4/27/00 |
J.Michael Wyss,
Ph.D. |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Sex,
Salt and Sympathetics: What Drives Hypertension?" |
| 5/4/00 |
Charles F. Stevens,
M.D., Ph.D. |
Salk
Institute |
"The
Mechanism of Memory" |
| 5/11/00 |
Michael
J. Friedlander, Ph.D. |
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Goosing
the Mind's Eye - Nitric Oxide in Visual Health & Disease" |
| 5/18/00 |
Timothy
J. Gawne, Ph.D. |
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Primary
Visual Cortex in the Blink of an Eye and the Swiftness of a Passing Glance. " |
| *5/19/00 |
Michael Brenner,
Ph.D. |
University
of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Clinical Correlates for GFAP: Candidate Gene for
Alexander Disease and Protection From Spinal Cord Injury" |
| 5/25/00 |
Stanley C. Froehner,
Ph.D. |
University
of North Carolina |
The Dystrophin
Complex - a Scaffold for Signaling Proteins at Synaptic Specializations" |
