Neuroscience Seminars Spring, 2009

Friday, January 16, noon, LBC 213 Kendall-Cram                                                                        Host: Beth Wee/Janet Ruscher

 “Interactive Specialization of the Brain Over Cognitive Development”

Dr. James R. Booth                                                                                                                   

Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders

Northwestern University

Co-Sponsored with Department of Psychology  

Wednesday, January 28, 4pm, LBC 213 Kendall-Cram                                                                 Host: Beth Wee 

 "Translating Animal Experimental Models into Human Psychiatric Disorders"

Dr. Allan Kalueff                                                                                                                                      

Department of Pharmacology

Tulane University Medical School

Wednesday February 4, 4pm, Race Room, LBC                                                                          Host: Jeff Tasker   

“Agony and Ecstasy: Opioids in Pain and Reward”

Dr. James Zadina                                                                                                                                    

Department of Medicine and VA Medical Center

Tulane University Medical School

Note Time and Day:

Thursday, February 12, 3:30pm  Stibbs, Room 203, LBC                                                        Host: Chrissie Faust

"Kennedy's Disease: A Motoneuron or Muscle Disease?" 

Dr. Cynthia Jordan                                                                                                                   

Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program

Michigan State University

Friday, February 13, noon, Stibbs Room 203, LBC                                                                       Host: Beth Wee  

"The Role of Androgen Receptors in Behavior".

Dr. Marc Breedlove                                                                                                                                                                              

Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program

Michigan State University

Co-Sponsored with Department of Psychology  

Wednesday, March 11, 4pm Stibbs, Room 203, LBC                                                                    Host: Steven Springer

"Small-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels (SK channels)"

Dr. John Adelman                                                                                                                    
Senior scientist at the Vollum Institute

Oregon Health & Science University

Friday, March 20th, 4pm, Stibbs, Room 203, LBC                                                                         Host: Ben Hall

"Regulation of AMPA Receptor Trafficking by the Ubiquitin Ligase Nedd4-1"

Dr.  Gentry N. Patrick                                                                                                             

Section of Neurobiology, Department of Biology
University of California, San Diego

Co-Sponsored with Department of Cell and Molecular Biology

Friday, April 3rd, 4pm, LBC 213 Kendall-Cram                                                                             Host: Ben Hall

"Experience-Dependent Synaptic Development in a Mouse Model of Angelman Syndrome"

Dr. Benjamin Philpot                                                                                                               

Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology and the Neuroscience Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Co-Sponsored with Department of Cell and Molecular Biology