MCIN

Seminar Series
Academic Year 1999-2000

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SEPTEMBER
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
1	No Seminar
8	Jeff Martens Department of Physiology Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Differential Targeting of Shaker-Like Potassium Channels to Lipid Rafts
15	Douglas N. Ishii Department of Physiology and Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	Neurotrophic Actions of IGFs on the PNS and CNS
22	Robert Spencer Department of Psychology University of Colorado Boulder, CO	Stress Adaptation: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms
29	Edwin S. Levitan Department of Pharmacology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA	Shedding Light on Channels and Secretion

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OCTOBER
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
6	Gail Robertson Department of Physiology University of Wisconsin Madison, WI	Gating Mechanisms in HERG Potassium Channels
13	Robert McGivern Department of Psychology San Diego State University San Diego, CA	CANCELLED
20	Robert Dores Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Denver Denver, CO	Deciphering the Molecular Evolution of the Opioid/Orphanin Gene Family
27	NO SEMINAR Neuroscience Meeting

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NOVEMBER
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
3	Sandra Bajjalieh Department of Pharmacology University of Washington Seattle, WA	Neurotransmitter Secretion
10	R. Douglas Fields NICHD-LDN National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD	Regulation of Gene Expression in Neurons and Glia by Neural Impulses
17	Richard H. Price, Jr. Dept. of Cell Biol., Neurobiol. and Anatomy Loyola Univ. Medical Center Maywood, IL	Splice Variants of Estrogen Receptor-Beta Yield Functional Diversity of Estrogen Action in Brain
22-26	NO SEMINAR Thanksgiving Break

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DECEMBER
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
1	Eric Accili School of Kinesiology Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC	The Hyperpolarization-Activated Mixed Cation Cyclic Nucleotide-Modulated Cardiac Pacemaker Funny Channel
8	Charles N. Allen CROET Oregon Health Sciences Univ. Portland, OR	The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: Regulation by OFQ and F+ Channels
13-17	No Seminar Final Exams
19-31	No Seminar Winter Break

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JANUARY
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
5	No Seminar Winter Break
12	No Seminar Winter Break
19	Michele H. Jacob Department of Neuroscience Tufts University School of Med. Boston, MA	Receptor Targeting and Heterogeneity at Interneuronal "Cholinergic" Synapses in vivo
26	Craig H. Gelband Depts. of Physiology and Pharmacology and Therapeutics Univ. of Florida School of Med. Gainesville, FL	Angiotensin II Signaling in the Hypothalamic and Brainstem Neurons

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FEBRUARY
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
2	Laurence O. Trussell Oregon Hearing Research Ctr. Oregon Health Sciences Univ. Portland, OR	The Control of the Time Course of Transmitter Release at a Central Auditory Synapse
9	Catherine E. Carr Department of Biology University of Maryland College Park, MD	Development of Sound Localization in Barn Owls
16	No Seminar Biophysics Meetings
23	Nick Ryba NIDCR National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD	Molecular Approaches to Taste

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MARCH
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
1	James I. Koenig MD Psychiatric Research Ctr. Univ. of MD School of Medicine Baltimore, MD	Glutamatergic Mechanisms in the Hypothalamic- Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
8	No Seminar Spring Recess
15	Kathy R. Magnusson Associate Professor Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	NR2B or NOT NR2B? Experimenting with Not Making Sense of an NMDA Receptor Subunit
22	Amy MacDermott Dept. of Physiol. & Cell. Biophysics Center for Neurobiol. & Behavior Columbia University New York, NY	Nociceptors, Glutamate Receptors and the Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn
29	Tom Kirchhausen Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	How Clathrin Sorts

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APRIL
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
3	Eline van der Beek Dept of Animal Science Human and Animal Physiology Group Wageningen Univ. Wagening Netherlands	Time for Sex: Integration of Circadian and Hormonal Information Regulating Reproduction
5	Gail V. W. Johnson Department of Psychiatry University of Alabama Birmingham, AL	The Regulation and Function of Tissue Transglutaminase: A Possible Role in Huntington's Disease
12	Jan West Department of Physiology Monash University Clayton, Victoria Australian	Changes in the Properties of Fast- and Slow-Twitch Mammalian Muscles During Development
19	Lawrence P. Morin Department of Psychiatry SUNY, Health Science Ctr. Stony Brook, NY	The Circadian Visual System
26	Peter Ruben Department of Biology Utah State University Logan, UT	TBA

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MAY
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
3	Stuart A. Tobet Dept. of Biomedical Sciences The Shriver Center and Harvard Medical School Waltham, MA	Determining Cell Positions in the Developing Neuroendocrine Brain
10	No Seminar Finals

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