MCIN

Seminar Series
Academic Year 2002-2003

SEPTEMBER
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
4	Dr. Kathryn Partin Dept. of Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Glutamate Receptors: Target for Cognition-Enhancing Drug Therapy or Dot.Com Disaster?
11	NO SEMINAR
18	Dr. Michael Tamkun Dept. of Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins,CO	Ion Channel Targeting to Membrane Lipid Raft Domains
25	Dr. Charles F. Stevens Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology Salk Institute of Biological Studies La Jolla, CA	Mechanism of calcium sensing for synaptic transmission

OCTOBER
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
2	Dr. James I. Nagy Physiology Department University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	Glial and Neuronal Gap Junctions and Connexins in the Central Nervous System
9	Dr. Russell DeValois Psychology Department University of California Berkeley, CA	Color Processing from Retina to Striate Cortex
16	Dr. Gerald Jacobs Dept. of Psychology University of California Santa Barbara, CA	Opsin Genes, Photopigments and the Evolution of Primate Color Vision
23	Dr. Gary Pickard Dept. of Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Pseudorabies Virus in Red, Green and BaBlu: Important Neuroanatomical Tools
30	NO SEMINAR

NOVEMBER
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
6	NO SEMINAR Neuroscience Meetings
13	Dr. Lisa Elferink Dept. of Physiol & Biophys Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX	Rab15 and Rab5: A Yin and Yang Relationship in Early Endocytosis
20	Dr. Michael Welsh Dept. of Internal Medicine and Physiology University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	Role of DEG/ENaC Channels as Sensory Receptors
25-29	NO SEMINAR Thanksgiving Break

DECEMBER
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
4	Dr. William Greenough Beckman Institute University of Illinois Urbana, IL	Plastic Mechanisms in Brain Development and Patholody
11	Dr. Janis Burt Physiology Department College of Medicine University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	Mixed-Up Gap Junctions: Why all the confusion?
16-20	NO SEMINAR Finals
21-31	NO SEMINAR Winter Break

JANUARY
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
1-20	NO SEMINAR Winter Break
22	Orientation Meeting Anatomy/Zoology Bldg. W1
29	Dr. Patricia L. Davies Department of Occupational Therapy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Cogent Event-Related Potentials and Brain Maturation

FEBRUARY
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
5	Dr. Jerome Sanes Dept of Neuroscience Brown Medical School Providence, RI	Human Brain Networks and Motor Skill Learning
12	Dr. Paul Forscher Dept. of Mol. Cell. & Dev. Biology Yale University New Haven, CT	Molecular Dynamics of Guided Axon Growth
19	Dr. John S. Werner Dept. of Ophthalmology Sect. of Neurobiol., Physiol. & Behav. University of California, Davis Sacramento, CA	Possible Senescent Reorganization of Human Visual Pathways
26	Dr. C. Sue Furman Dept. of Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Assembly of Aquaporin-4 Square Arrays
27	SPECIAL SEMINAR Dr. Stuart A. Tobet Dept. of Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Transcription Factor Expression in Developing Brain: Indicators and Effectors

MARCH
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
5	Dr. Alfredo O. Caceres Visiting Scientist Dept. of Ophthalmology Cornell Medical School New York, NY	Role of MAP1B and the Actin Cytoskeleton in Axon Formation
6	SPECIAL SEMINAR Dr. William Horne Dept of Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Alternative Splicing of a 4 Subunit Regulates Voltage-Dependent Gating and Pharmacology of Cav2 Ca2+ Channels
10-14	NO SEMINAR Spring Recess
19	Dr. John Gabrieli Department of Psychology Stanford University Stanford, CA	Emotion and Memory Systems of the Human Brain
26	Dr. Richard Aldrich Dept of Mol. & Cell. Physiology Stanford Univ. Sch. of Medicine Stanford, CA	CANCELLED

APRIL
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
2	Dr. Mark Dell'Acqua Dept. of Pharmacology School of Medicine UCHSC Denver, CO	AKAP79: Coordinating PKA and Calcineurin Signalling in Synaptic Plasticity
9	Dr. Frank Gertler Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	CANCELLED
16	Dr. John Rash Dept of Biomedical Sciences Anatomy/Neurobiology Section Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Connexins in Neuronal and Glial Gap Junctions in the Rat CNS: Evidence from FRIL
23	Dr. Roger D. Traub Dept. of Physiol. & Pharmacol. State Univ. of NY Health Sci. Center at Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY	Electrical Coupling, Synapses and Gamma Oscillations
30	Dr. Amy Arai Department of Pharmacology Southern IL University School of Medicine Springfield, IL	AMPA Receptor Modulators and Synaptic Transmission

MAY

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

Dr. Wendy A. Pouliot
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO

Synaptic Mechanisms of
Neurons that Secrete
Gonadotropin-Releasing
Hormone (GnRH)

12-16

NO SEMINAR
Finals

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