MCIN

Seminar Series
Academic Year 2001-2002
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
SEPTEMBER
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
5 Dr. Janice L. Nerger
Dept. of Psychology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO		 Psychophysical Studies of Peripheral Color Vision
12 Dr. Vicki J. Volbrecht
Dept. of Psychology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO		 Spatial Areas and Color Vision
19 Dr. Thomas Otis
Department of Neurobiology
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA		 Glutamate Transporter Function and Contributions to Excitatory Synaptic Transmission
26 Dr. Anthony N. van den Pol
Sect. of Neurosurgery
Yale University School of Med.
New Haven, CT		 Viral Substrates for Neurological and Psychiatric Disease
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 

OCTOBER
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
3 Dr. Craig E. Jahr
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health Science Univ.
Portland, OR 		Multivesicular Release at Climbing Fiber Synapses on Purkinje Cells
10 Dr. Douglas A. Coulter
Pediatrics Div. of Neurology
Children's Hosp. of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
 Neurotransmitter Receptor Alterations in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
17 Dr. Adam Zweifach
Dept. of Physiol/Biophysics.
Univ. of CO Health Sci. Ctr.
Denver, CO		 Calcium Influx and Killing by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes
24 Dr. Cathleen Kuehl-Kovarik
Dept. of Anat. & Neurobiology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
 Spontaneous Activity and Response to Glutamate in Isolated GnRH-EGFP Neurons
31 Dr. Colin M. Clay
Dept. of Physiology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO		 The Pituitary GnRH Receptor: At the Interface of the Brain and Reproductive Biology
[September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 

NOVEMBER
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
7
 NO SEMINAR  
14
 NO SEMINAR
Neuroscience Meetings
 
19-23
  NO SEMINAR
Thanksgiving Break
 
28
 Dr. Wendy B. Macklin
Dept. of Neurosciences
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
Transgenic Approaches to Understanding Oligodendrocyte Differentiation
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 

DECEMBER
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
5
 Dr. William Sather
Dept. of Pharmacology
Univ. of CO Health Sci. Ctr.
Denver, CO		 Mechanism of Selective Permeability in Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Channels
10-14
No Seminar
Final Exams
 
15-31
No Seminar
Winter Break
 
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 

JANUARY
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
16
 Orientation Meeting
Anatomy/Zoology Bldg W1
 
23
 Dr. Martyn D. Goulding
Molecular Neurobiology
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, CA

Wiring up the Spinal Cord:
From Embryo to Adult
30

Dr. Sarah K. England
Dept. of Physiol/Biophysics
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Modulation at the Maxi-K
Channel in Gestation
and Parturition
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 

FEBRUARY
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
6
 Dr. Alcino J. Silva
Depts. of Neurobiology, Psychiatry, Psychology and
Brain Research Institute
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Molecular, Cellular and Network Mechanisms of
Cognitive Function
13
 Dr. Joseph J. Falke
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochem.
Univ. of Colorado
Boulder, CO

The Conserved C2 Domain:
Calcium Trigger for
Neurotransmitter Release and
Other Membrane Signals
20 Dr. Peter Agre
Dept. of Biological Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Aquaporin Water Channels -
From Atomic Structure
to Clinical Medicine
27
 Dr. Lawrence M. Parsons
Cognitive Neurosciences Prog.
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA

Adventures in Cognitive Neuroscience: New Studies of Music,
Language and the Cerebellum
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 

MARCH
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
6
Dr. Raymond J. Dingledine
Dept. of Pharmacology
Emory Univ. School of Med.
Atlanta, GA

Genomic Approaches to
Epileptogenesis
9-17
 NO SEMINAR
Spring Recess
 
20
 Dr. Gary L. Westbrook
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health Sciences Univ.
Portland, OR 		Synaptic Integration in the Olfactory Bulb: A Tale of Two Dendrites
27

Dr. Noreen Reist
Dept of Anat and Neurobiol.
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO

Molecular Mechanisms of the Synapse: Analysis of Awkward Arthropods
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 

APRIL
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
3

Dr. Brett Adams
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University
Logan, UT

Reconstituting Slow Muscarinic Inhibition of Neuronal L-Type and N-Type Calcium Channels
10
Dr. Paul Letourneau
Dept. of Neuroscience
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Regulation of Growth Cone Motility by Interactions Between Guidance Cues
17
Dr. David Standaert
Dept. of Neurological Services
Massachusetts General Hosp.
Charlestown, MA

NMDA Glutamate Receptors in Parkinson's Disease

 
24
 Dr. John Adelman
Vollum Institute &
Dept. of Cell & Dev. Biol.
Oregon Health Sciences Univ.
Portland, OR

Structure, Function and Physiological Roles of Small-Conductance Ca2+-Activated K+ Channels

 
[ September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May ]
 
 

MAY
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
1

Dr. R. Bryan Sutton
Dept of Biophysics and Physiol.
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Neuronal Exocytosis: A Structural Retrospective
6-10
NO SEMINAR
Finals

 

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