Seminar Series: Academic Year 2011 - 2012
Unless otherwise noted, seminars will be on Tuesday, 11am, Behavioral Sciences Bldg., Rm. 357
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NB793: Organizational Meeting, (W1, A/Z- 1:00pm-1:50pm) |
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Dr. C. William Shuttleworth, Professor, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
Mechanisms Underlying Spreading Depolarizations and the Progression of Acute Neuronal Injury |
| 20 | Dr. Lawrence B. Salkoff, Professor, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Department of Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
Are Sodium-Activated Potassium Channels the "Gatekeepers" of Synaptic Integration? |
| 27 | Dr. Felix E. Schweizer, Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
Ubiquitin as a Dynamic Regulator of Synaptic Transmission |
| OCTOBER | ||
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| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 4 | Dr. Curt R. Freed, |
Stem Cell Transplants and Other New Treatments for Parkinson's Disease |
| 11 | Dr. Jessica Prenni, Director, Specialized Facilities and Research Instrumentation, Director, Proteomics & Metabolomics Facility, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
Introduction to Mass Spectometry Based Proteomics and Metabolomics |
| 18 | Dr. Matthew N. Rasband, |
The Functional Organization of Axons in Health and Disease |
25 |
Dr. Timothy A. Benke, Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Neurology and Pharmacology, Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado, Denver and Health Sciences Center, The Children's Hospital, Aurora, CO |
Chronic Disruption og FMRP and PP2A Localization by Early Life Seizures Enhances mLTD in Adult Rats |
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1 Yates 104 4:00 pm Reception to Follow |
Dr. William N. Zagotta, Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA |
Molecular Mechanisms of Gating in Cyclic Nucleotide-Regulated Ion Channels |
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Dr. Ingo Greger, |
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NO SEMINAR Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting |
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NO SEMINAR- Fall Recess |
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Dr. James Bamburg, |
A Cell Biologist's View of Neurodegenerative Diseases - Could there be a common Mechanism and Therapeutic Strategy? |
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| 7 (Wed.) | Front Range Neurosciences Group Meeting Dr. Bertil Hille, |
G-Protein Coupled Receptors Rule the Mind Through Phosphoinositide Signals |
NO SEMINAR |
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| 1-16 | NO SEMINAR - WINTER BREAK |
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NB793 - ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING (W1, A/Z) 1:00pm |
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| 21-26 | 45th Winter Conference on Brain Research - Snowbird, UT |
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| 31 | Dr. Harold Zakon, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, Section of Neurobiology, Patterson Laboratory Bldg., Austin, TX | Electric Fish Are Green: Energy Conservation and Ion Channel Recycling |
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| 14 | Dr. William A. Catterall, Professor and Chairman, University of Washington, Pharmacology Department, F427 Health Sciences, Seattle, WA |
Structure and Function of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels at Atomic Resolution |
| 21 | Dr. John Rash, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
Saltatory Conduction Revisited: New Views Derived from Immunocytochemistry and Ultrastructure
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| 28 | NO SEMINAR February 25-29, 2012 - Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA |
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Dr. Donald R. Smith, Professor, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
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The Conundrum of Manganese: Linking Early Life Exposure to Neurological Deficits
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| 13 | NO SEMINAR - Spring Recess (March 12-16, 2012) |
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| 20 | Dr. Mark Thomas, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural & Health Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO |
Generating Rhythms in the Mouse Brain: The Role of Dopamine |
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Dr. Thomas Preuss, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Hunter College and CUNY Biopsychology Graduate Program, 695 Park Ave., New York, NY |
Mechanisms of Neural Decision-Making in the Escape Network of Fish |
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Dr. Craig Jahr, Senior Scientist, Oregon Health & Science University, Vollum Institute 2435A; 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland OR |
Presynaptic Receptors and Analog Signaling in the CNS |
10 |
Dr. Diego Krapf, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
Anomalous Diffusion and Ergodicity Breaking in the Plasma Membrane |
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Dr. Shane Hentges, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, - Neuro Division, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
Exitation and Inhibition in Neural Circuits Controlling Food Intake |
24 |
Dr. Ted Abel, Brush Family Professor of Biology; CO-Director, Biological Basis of Behavioral Neuroscience Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
Sleep and Memory |
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| 8 | Dr. Stephen W. Scheff, Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Department, Associate Director, Sanders-Brown Center of Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY | Early Alzheimer's Disease: Searching for Lost Synapses |
| 7-11 | FINALS WEEK |
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