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Graduate Program in Neuroscience Colloquium Series
2007 - 2008 Schedule

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: 2-101 Nils Hasselmo Hall (formerly BSBE)

Colloquia time and location remain the same unless otherwise noted below.
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Spring Semester 2008
Date Speaker and Topic
Jan. 23 Erik Carlson - Thesis Defense
"Effects of Genetic and Dietary Iron Deficiency in the Developing Hippocampus"
View Talk: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p65094098/
Jan. 30

Eric Gustafson
"D-serine: function and regulation in the retina"

Jan Dubinsky
"What Does Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Mutant Huntingtin Mice Tell Us About the Disease?"
View Talk: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p69919981/

Feb. 6 Minnesota State Brain Bee Finals
Feb. 13

Dan Franc
"Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging in Type I Diabetes"

Ben Clark
"Adenosine-evoked potassium currents in retinal ganglion cells"

Feb. 20

NO COLLOQUIUM (Campus Visit)

Feb. 27

Catherine Satterfield
"Inflammation and Peripheral Opioid Receptors"

Meredith Noetzel
"Acute and delayed modulation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors by a quasi-irreversible agonist"

Mar. 5

Patrick Rothwell
"Stress, drugs, and synaptic plasticity: tales from the nucleus accumbens"

Justin Barnes
"Sibling Rivalry: Parallel Fiber- and Climbing Fiber-Purkinje Cell Circuits in SCA1 Mice  An Optical Imaging Story"

Mar. 12

Anusha Mishra
"Nitric Oxide and Oxygen Modulate Neurovascular Coupling"

Cicely Schramm
"Regulation of Peripheral Opioid Receptor Function"

Mar. 19

NO COLLOQUIUM (Spring Break)

Mar. 26

Aaron Overland
"Adrenergic-Opioid Analgesic Synergy"

Marcela Maldonado
"The role of Arp2/3 complex in spinogenesis"

Apr. 2

Katya Brunette
"Altered CA1 apical dendrite morphogenesis and signaling molecules due to early iron deficiency anemia"

Blaine Schneider
"The Neural Basis of Precisely Timed Behavior"

Apr. 9

Serena Thompson
"V1 BOLD response to image regions defined by first and second order luminance contrast"

JOsh Puhl
"Neural correlates of locomotion in a simpler model system"

Apr. 16

NO COLLOQUIUM (Brain Awareness Week)

Apr. 23

Mitch Arnhold - Thesis Defense
"Peripheral Mechanisms Mediating Stress Relief Following Water
Restriction-Induced Drinking in the Rat"

Apr. 30

Jessie Luoma
"Afferent Regulation of AVCN Neuron Survival During a Developmental Critical Period"

Bonnie Marsick
"Growth cones are cool"

May 7

Colloquium Cancelled

May 14

Tou Vue
"Roles of Shh signaling in cell fate specification in the developing mouse thalamus"

Marc Parent
"The Prefrontal Cortex and Experience Dependent Changes in Glutamatergic Neurotransmission"

May 21

Adam Johnson - Thesis Defense
"On the use of cognitive maps"

Tuesday, May 27 Joanna Abrams - Thesis Defense
"The Effect of Mineralocorticoid Treatment on Sodium Homeostasis and Cardiovascular Function in the Rat: a Role for Brain Benzamil-Sensitive Proteins"
2-137 Jackson Hall
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
May 28

Carl Potenzieri
"Activation of Peripheral CB1 receptors Attenuates Inflammatory Mechanical Hyperalgesia and Aδ Nociceptor Activity"

Jun. 4

Steve Sullivan
"D-serine release in the retina"

Mai-Lan Leong
"The serotonergic system in animal model of neuropathic pain"

Jun. 11

Katie Howe
"Dietary rescue of behavioral and morphological abnormalities produced by activation of the Tor pathway in the nervous system"

Zeb Kurth Nelson
"Age-related spontaneous calcium waves in glia"

Jun. 18

Bridget Campion
"A role for Akt in synapse assembly in a Drosophila model of TSC"

Steve Davidson
"The developing spinothalamic tract"

Jun. 25

Bobby Shannon
"Cortical processing of visible and invisible faces"

Daniel Mickelson
"Introducing the Neuroscience Viral Vector Core"

July 2

Stephanie Bohmer
"Iron deficiency alters mTOR signaling during hippocampal development"

Jennifer Schumacher
"BOLD fMRI response to contextually modulated stimuli: suppressive and facilitative interactions"

July 23 Dan Franc - Thesis Defense
"Quantification of uncertainty in DTI tractography of cerebral white matter"
Fall Semester 2007
Date Speaker and Topic
Sept. 5

Lihsia Chen
"L1CAM function and adhesion: clues from C. elegans"

Sept. 12

Robert Miller
"The simple elegancy of initiating a spike: why did it have to get complicated?"
View Talk: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p81008358/

Sept. 19

Steve McLoon
"Seeing if Stem Cells Can Be Made to See"

Sept. 26

John Soechting
"Intercepting targets: Eye-hand coordination and strategies"

Oct. 3 Scott Selleck
"Genomic disorders and contributions of copy number variation to autism spectrum disorders"
Oct. 10

Smithberg Award Presentation
2006-2007 Recepient: Tiffany Schmidt

Kevin Wickman
"Neuronal GIRK channels: 5-year progress report and the 5-year plan"
View Talk: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p39834701/

Oct. 17

Dwight Burkhardt
"Potent multi-dimensional filters at the first synapse of the visual pathway: intracellular recordings from cones and retinal bipolar cells"
View Talk: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p19122439/

Oct. 24

Raghu Rao
"Hypoglycemia and the Developing Brain"
View Talk: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p29448013/

Oct. 31

Mu Sun
"Delineate BMP signaling pathway in synaptic plasticity and learning"
View Talk: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p47065783/

Nov. 7

NO COLLOQUIUM (SFN Conference)

Nov. 14

Alice Larson
"Musculoskeletal Hyperalgesia and Depression during Endotoxemia"
View Talk: https://umconnect.umn.edu/p71096333/

Nov. 21 NO COLLOQUIUM (Thanksgiving Holiday)
Nov. 28

Stan Thayer
"Modulation of Ca2+ Clearance in Neurons: Signaling and Survival"

Dec. 5

Dale Branton
"Hydrophobic Tales of Calcium Channels and Their Antagonists"

Steve Rothman
"New Strategies for the Treatment of Epilepsy: Focal Cooling and Uncaging"

Dec. 12

Eric Newman
"Conversations Between Glia, Neurons and Blood Vessels in the Retina"

Janet Fitzakerley
"Natriuretic peptides and hearing"

Dec. 19

NO COLLOQUIUM (Finals Week)

 
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