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SEMINAR  SERIES     2002-2003
Unless indicated otherwise, all regular seminars are held on Thursdays 
at 1:00 PM in the Department of Neurobiology Conference Room 
in the Sparks Building, 1720 7th Ave. South, Room 546.

Date SPEAKER INSTITUTION HOST TITLE
10/02/02

12:00 noon

Bevill Building

Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D.* Allan D. Bass Professor of Pharmacology, Center for Molecular Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine CMB Distinguished Scholars Seminar Program "Genetic Analysis of Catecholamine Transporters"
10/24/02 Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.** Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Departmental Retreat Speaker  
10/31/02 Shigang He, Ph.D. Professor and Head   
Laboratory of Retinal Circuitry and Information Processing
Institute of Neuroscience
Chinese Academy of Sciences
                                      
Lin Mei, Ph.D. "Emerging Diversity in Morphology of the Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells"

 

11/21/02 Anthony M. Zador, M.D., Ph.D. Cold Spring Harbor Lab

 

Lynn Dobrunz, Ph.D. "Binary Coding in the Auditory Cortex"

 

12/12/02 Kevin A. Roth, M.D. Clinical Pathology, UAB Michael Brenner, Ph.D. "Neuronal Cell Death Regulation: Complex Answers to Simple Questions" 
1/16/03 Alan K. Percy, M.D. Department of Pediatrics, UAB

 

Michael Brenner, Ph.D.

 

"Rett Syndrome, Exploring the Molecular Links"
1/23/03 Kendal S. Broadie, Ph.D. Vanderbilt Brain Institute Douglas Ruden, Ph.D. "Forward Genetic Screens Identify Novel Mechanisms Essential for Synaptic Development and Function"
2/12/03

 

Ursula Sonnewald Norwegian University of Science and Technology Michael J. Friedlander, Ph.D. "What Can Ex Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Do For The Study of Cerebral Metabolism; Special Emphasis on Epilepsy" 
2/13/03

*4:00 pm

David M. Lovinger, Ph.D. NIH, National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcohol Robin A.J. Lester, Ph.D. "Drugs of Abuse and Striatal Synaptic Plasticity"
2/27/03 Robin Lanzi, Ph.D. Civitan International Research Center   "Teen Parenting and Child Neglect"
3/13/03 Ira B. Black, M.D. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Lucas D. Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D. “Neuronal Plasticity:  From Stem Cells to Synapses”
4/3/03 Dwight E. Bergles, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience, John Hopkins University John J. Hablitz, Ph.D. "Synaptic Signaling in CNS Glia"
4/10/03 David L. Paul, Ph.D. Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School Stuart C. Mangel, Ph.D. "Critical Functions for Gap Junctions in the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems"
4/17/03 Mark S. Mennemeier, Ph.D. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, UAB Michael Brenner, Ph.D. "Cortical Components of the Power Law in Sensory Psychophysics"
4/24/03 Michael S. Levine, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry, UCLA John J. Hablitz, Ph.D.

“Analyzing Neuronal Communication in Mouse Models of Huntington’s Disease”

5/01/03 Bertil Hille, Ph.D. Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington Michelle Olsen, UAB Neurobiology Graduate Student

“How do G-Protein Coupled Receptors Rule the Mind?”

5/08/03 Lucas D. Pozzo-Miller, Ph.D. Neurobiology, UAB Robin A. J. Lester, Ph.D.

"On the Functional and Structural Changes Triggered by Neurotrophins at Excitatory Synapses and Their Potential Role in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity"

5/15/03 Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D. Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Lin Mei, Ph.D.
How neurons find their way? Lessons from  reelin, cdk5 and lis1 deficient animals”
5/22/03 Liqun Luo, Ph.D. Department of Biological Science, Stanford University Lin Mei, Ph.D. "Wiring Up the Olfactory Circuit in the Fly Brain"
5//29/03 Stuart C. Mangel, Ph.D. Neurobiology, UAB Robin A.J. Lester, Ph.D. "Chloride Cotransporters and the Chloride Gradient Mediate Neural Computation in the Retina"

 

*Note Time Change

**Neurobiology Retreat Speaker
 

 

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