| Spring Semester 2013 |
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
| Jan. 23 |
Colum MacKinnon - Faculty Candidate for the GPN
"Non-dopamineregic systems and movement dysfunction in Parkinson's disease" |
| Jan. 30 |
Wensheng Lin - Faculty Candidate for the GPN
"The unfolded protein response in immune-mediated demyelinating diseases" |
| Feb. 6 |
MN State Brain Bee - Final Round |
| Feb. 13 |
No Colloquium - Campus Visit Prep |
| Feb. 20 |
Andrew Wikenheiser - Advisor David Redish
"Subjective costs drive a sunk cost-like effect in foraging rats"
Mike Olin - Faculty Candidate for the GPN |
| Feb. 27 |
Aaron Lambert - Advisor Mark Masino
"The conserved dopaminergic diencephalospinal tract contributes to ontogenesis of the foraging locomotor repertoire and prey capture performance in zebrafish larvae"
Hannah Moser - Advisor Glenn Giesler
"Analgesia and itch resulting from intrathecal application of morphine: contrasting effects on different populations of trigeminothalamic tract neurons" |
| Mar. 6 |
Jose San Miguel-Ruiz - Advisor Paul Letourneau
"Arp2/3 and the growth cone"
Katrina Schrode - Advisor Mark Bee
"Using evoked potentials to investigate auditory temporal processing in tree frogs" |
| Mar. 13 |
Gordon Legge
"Brain Plasticity and Impaired Vision"
Scott Lewis
"The Use of Magnetoencephalography (MEG) in Neurologic and Psychiatric Disease"
|
| Mar. 20 |
No Colloquium - Spring Break |
| Mar. 27 |
Jeff Stott - Advisor David Redish
"Differences in the covert representation of reward between orbitofrontal cortex and ventral striatum on an intertemporal decision making task"
Katie Weiner - Advisor Geoff Ghose
"Population coding for shape detection in area V4" |
| Apr. 3 |
Shmuel Lissek - Faculty Candidate for the GPN
"Generalization of Classically Conditioned Fear: A Central yet Understudied Marker of Clinical Anxiety" |
| Apr. 10 |
Marija Cvetanovic - Faculty Candidate for the GPN
"Starry Night of Neurodegeneration" |
| Apr. 17 |
Scott Warren - Advisor Geoff Ghose
"Attention to Visual Features in Modulates Activity in Primary Visual Cortex"
Tim Wiggin - Advisor Mark Maisno
"Spinal Circuits for Coordination of Motor Output in Larval Zebrafish" |
| Apr. 24 |
Judit Perez-Ortiz - Advisor Harry Orr
"Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 1"
Natalie Zlebnik - Advisor Marilyn Carroll
"Exercise to prevent cocaine relapse" |
| May 1 |
Anja Srienc - Advisor Eric Newman
"Blood flow and glial signaling in the mouse retina"
Christy Willoughby - Advisor Linda McLoon
"Adaptations in Ocular Motor Neurons After Sustained Neurotrophic Factor Delivery: A Potential Strabismus Treatment Approach" |
| May 8 |
Fatou Amar - Advisor Sylvain Lesne
"Aβ*56-induced CaMKII activation leads to hyperphosphorylation of Tau in the animal model of Alzheimer's disease Tg2576" |
| May 15 |
Tess Kornfield - Advisor Eric Newman
"Active regulation of blood flow in the retinal vascular network"
Anastasia Zink - Advisor Kevin Wickman
"Inhibitory metabotropic signaling modulates hippocampal dependent cognition" |
| May 22 |
Abbey Holt - Advisor Tay Netoff
"Predicting deep-brain stimulation frequencies to suppress pathological population oscillations in a network model of Parkinson's disease"
Craig Moodie - Advisor Angus MacDonald and Kelvin Lim
"fcMRI Neurometrics:
A Combined ICA and Graph Theory Approach to Intrinsic Network Connectivity" |
| May 29 |
Angela Hewitt - Thesis Defense
Advisor - Tim Ebner |
| June 5 |
Paul Regier - Advisor David Redish
Liam Callahan - Advisor Michael Georgieff
"Iron and the hippocampus: assessing cellular markers of a critical period" |
| June 12 |
Stephen Kerrigan - Thesis Defense |
| June 19 |
Nate Powell - Advisor David Redish
"Thinking about multiple things at once: The role of rodent PFC on multiple tasks"
Andrew Papale - Advisor David Redish |
| July 24 |
Eric Miller - Thesis Defense
12:00-1:00PM in
MoosT 2-520
Advisor - Dezhi Liao
|
| August 5 |
Marcos Kuroki - Thesis Defense
12:00-1:00PM in
Jackson Hall 2-137
Advisor - John Osborn |
| August 7 |
Rachael Blackman - Thesis Defense
12:00-1:00PM in
in
Jackson Hall 2-137
Advisor - Matt Chafee |
| Fall Semester 2012 |
| Date |
Speaker and Topic |
| Sept. 5 |
GPN Welcome Reception
12:00-2:00 PM |
| Sept. 12 |
Britta Veitenheimer - Thesis Defense
"Understanding Salt-Sensitive Hypertension: Spinal Regulation of Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Blood Pressure Under Conditions of Increased Plasma Osmolality"
Advisor: John Osborn
|
| Sept. 19 |
David Thomas
"Muscle Therapeutics from Biophysical Engineering" |
Sept. 26
|
Cancelled |
| Oct. 3 |
Smithberg Award Ceremony
William Frey
"Intranasal drugs, biopharmaceuticals and stem cells bypass the blood-brain barrier to treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, brain tumors, PTSD, TBI and other CNS disorders" |
| Oct. 10 |
Mark Masino
"2012 State of the Lab Address"
NRSA Discussion |
| Oct. 17 |
No Colloquium - Society for Neuroscience Meeting |
| Oct. 24 |
Teresa Nick
"Development of a cortical pattern generator" |
| Oct. 31 |
Duane Nykamp
"Capturing the effects of complex network topologies on the dynamics of neuronal networks" |
| Nov. 7 |
Martin Wessendorf
"Neuronal death and neuropathic pain" |
| Nov. 14 |
No Colloquium - Neuroscience Site Visit |
| Nov. 21 |
No Colloquium - Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Nov. 28 |
Dezhi Liao
"The ubiquitous role of tau-mediated AMPAR loss in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease" |
| Dec. 5 |
Eric Newman
"Glial cell control of blood flow in the healthy and diabetic retina" |
| Dec. 12 |
Jan Dubinsky
"BAW Impact" |
| Dec. 19 |
Bill Engeland
"Understanding Timing of Adrenal Rhythms: Controlling an Adrenal Clock" |
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