| 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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