MCIN

Seminar Series
Academic Year 2000-2001
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
SEPTEMBER
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
6 Dr. James R. Bamburg
Dept. of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO		 Exploring the Causes of
Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Studies on Familial ALS and
Alzheimer's Disease
13 Dr. Kurt G. Beam
Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
The Neurobiology of Skeletal
Muscle
20 Dr. Carola Meier
Department of Anatomy
Ruhr-University Bochum
Bochum, Germany		 Schwann Cells:
Developmental Regulation of Survival, Death and
Myelination
27 Dr. John E. Rash
Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
Connexins and Gap Junctions
in the Central Nervous System:
Who is Coupled to Whom
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 
 

OCTOBER
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
4 Dr. Michael Sanguinetti
Department of Medicine
Eccles Inst. of Human Genetics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Molecular Mechanisms
of Inherited and Acquired
Long QT Syndrome
11 CANCELLED  
18 Dr. Andres Buonanno
Section on Molecular Neurobiol.
NICHD
Bethesda, MD
Neuregulin and Neural Activity
Regulate NMDA Receptor
Expression
25 Dr. Rick T. Dobrowsky
Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS		 Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase
Regulates Crosstalk Between
Tkd A and p75
Signaling Pathways
[September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 
 

NOVEMBER
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
1
  Dr. Edward Koo
UCSD
San Diego, CA		 Amyloid, Presenilins, and
Alzheimer's Disease
8
 NO SEMINAR
Neuroscience Meetings
 
13
 SPECIAL SEMINAR
Tuesday 12:10-1:00
Dr. Marco Molinari
Rome, Italy
 Cerebro-Cerebellar Interactions
in Sensory Processing: A Key for Understanding Cerebellar 
Contribution to Cognition
15
Dr. William Schwartz
Dept. of Neurology
Univ. of Mass. Med. School
Worcester, MA
Dual Circadian Oscillations in
the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
and the Regulation of 
Behavioral Rhythmicity
20-24
  NO SEMINAR
Thanksgiving Break
 
29
 Dr. Robert Zorec
Univ. of Colorado 
Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO
Distinct Molecular Mechanisms
of Exocytosis in Pituitary Cells
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 
 

DECEMBER
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
6
 Dr. Jeffrey S. Sprouse
Department of Neuroscience
Pfizer, Inc.
Groton, CT		 Serotonin Short Stories:
Laboratory Findings to
Clinical Outcomes
11-15
No Seminar
Final Exams
 
16-31
No Seminar
Winter Break
 
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 
 

JANUARY
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
17 
 Orientation Meeting
Pathology Bldg. Rm. 103
 
24 
 Dr. Alvin Beitz
Dept. of Veterinary Biology
University of Minnesota
Basic Mechanisms of
Cancer Pain:
Nerve/Tumor Interactions
 31
 Dr. Marie Legare
Dept. of Environmental Health
CSU
 Genetics, Toxicology,
and
Neurologic Disease
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 
 

FEBRUARY
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
 7
 Dr. Peter Ruben
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University
Sodium Channel Deactivation and
Slow Inactivation Defects Underlie
Myotonia and Idiopathic Ventricular
Fibrillation
 14
 Dr. Daniel Barth
Dept. of Psychology
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder		 Fast Electrical Oscillations
in Sensory Cortex
 21 Dr. Ruediger Seitz
Dept. of Neurology
Heinrich-Heine Universitaet
Duesseldorf
Recovery from Stroke:
Neurobiological and
Clinical Perspectives
28 
 Dr. Alan Rosenwasser
Dept. of Psychology
University of Maine
Circadian Rhythms,
Monoamines, and
Depression
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 
 

MARCH
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
 7
NO SEMINAR
Spring Recess
 
14
 Dr. Gerald Zamponi
Dept. of Pharmacol. & Therapeutics
University of Calgary
Structure, Function and
Modulation of
Neuronal Calcium
Channels
21
 Dr. Jeffrey L. Goldberg
Department of Neurobiology
Stanford University		 Axon Regeneration
in the 
Central Nervous System
 28
 Dr. Alexandra Zahradnikova
Lab. of Molecular Biophysics
Inst. of Mol. Physiol. & Genetics
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovak Republic

Mechanisms of RyR
Activation During
Cardiac E-C Coupling
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 
 

APRIL
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
 4
Dr. Douglas McMahon
Dept. of Physiology
University of Kentucky
A Clockwork Green:
Molecular Physiology of the
Biological Clock Revealed by
an Unstable GFP Reporter
11 
Dr. Thomas F. J. Martin
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin
Molecular Mechanisms of 
Regulated Membrane Fusion
and Neurotransmitter Secretion
18 
Dr. J. Eric Gouaux
Dept. of Biochem. & Mol. Biophys.
Columbia University
 Structure and Function
of Glutamate
Receptors
 25
  Dr. Peter Hollenbeck
Dept. of Biology
Purdue University		  Regulation of Axonal
Organelle Transport
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 
 

MAY
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
2 
Dr. J. Patrick Card
Dept. of Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
 Furnctional Dissection of the
Circadian Timing System
with Neurotropic Viruses
9 
NO SEMINAR
Finals
 
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