Department of Neuroscience
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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Department of Neuroscience Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Tuesday, February 13, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Linear and non-linear signal processing in the dorsal cochlear nucleus" | Eric Young, Ph.D./Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, February 20, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Spectral and temporal factors in binaural hearing." | Constantine Trahiotis, M.D.,./UCHC, Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
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Tuesday,
February 27, 2001
CANCELLED |
4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Joseph Loturco, Ph.D./UCONN, Assistant Professor, Departments of Physiology and Neurobiology | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, March 6, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Mechanisms Regulating Calcium-Dependent Transmitter Release." | Amy Harkins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, University of Chicago | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, March 13, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Plastic changes in neural activity induced in the cochlear nucleus by loud sound" | James Kaltenbach, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Laboratories of Auditory Neurobiology | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, March 20, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Oligodendrocyte Differentiation and Myelin Biogenesis." | Steven Pfeiffer, Ph.D./UCHC, Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, March 27, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "TRH Receptor: Studies Integrating Computer Simulation and Molecular Biology" | Marvin Gershengorn, M.D./Cornell University Medical College, Professor and Chair, Division of Molecular Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 3, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Doctor, I can't see my granddaughter's face anymore but I don't bump into things. Why? What can green-eyed frogs tell us about the answer to this question?" | David Papermaster, Ph.D./UCHC, Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 10, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Seizure Resistance in Response to Calorie Restriction and the Ketogenic Diet." | Jacob Harney, Ph.D., University of Hartford, Department of Biology | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 17, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Neural Processing of Sound Viewed from Inside and Outside the Brain" | Shigeyuki Kuwada, Ph.D./UCHC, Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 24, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Regulation of gene expression in neurons and glial by action potentials" | Douglas Fields, Ph.D., Professor, Neurocytology and Physiology Unit, National Institute of Health | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 1, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Trafficking of mRNA in neural cells" | Elisa Barbarese, Ph.D./UCHC, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 8, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Receptor-Associated Scaffolding Proteins in Polarized Cells" | Sharon Milgram, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 15, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Synaptic nests, synaptic plasticity, and synaptogenesis in vivo, in vitro, and in situ" | D. Kent Morest, Ph.D./UCHC, Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 22, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Molecular Dissection of the Node of Ranvier" | Matthew Rasband, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SUNY Stony Brook | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Thursday, May 24, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Independent regulation of exocytosis and secretion in pituitary lactotrophs" | William Betz, Ph.D., Department of Physiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 29, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | James Hewett, Ph.D./UCHC, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, June 5, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Nerve growth factor and semaphorin signaling in developing neurons" | David Ginty, Ph.D./Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, June 12, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Martin Schiller, Ph.D./UCHC, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, June 19, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Chuck Stiles, Ph.D./Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Microbial & Molecular Genetics | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, September 4, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Mechanistic studies of Kalirin induced neurite outgrowth" | Martin Schiller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
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Thursday,
September 13, 2001
CANCELLED |
4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Mechanisms of learning in the auditory system of the barn owl." | Eric Knudsen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, September 18, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Genetic analysis of glial development in the vertebrate central nervous system" | Charles Stiles, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, September 25, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Membrane Properties and LTP in Auditory Processing" | Douglas Oliver, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 2, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Monaural and Binaural Processing of the Envelopes of High-frequency Stimuli: Evidence for a Common "Rate-Limitation"" | Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 9, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Novel Mechanisms and Molecules Involved in Pain Transmission" | James E. Krause, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, Neurogen Corporation, Branford, CT | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 16, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Synaptic mechanisms of retinal bipolar neurons" | Gary Matthews, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, SUNY, Stony Brook | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 23, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Calcium Dependent LTD in Purkinje Spines: The Virtual Cell Resolves a Paradox" | Leslie Loew, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 30, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "RNA Trafficking in Oligodendrocytes and in the 'Virtual Cell'" | John Carson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, November 6, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Oligodendrocyte differentiation in mutant and transgenic animals" | Wendy Macklin, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, November 20, 2001 | 12:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Mechanisms of neuronal migration in the early development of the cerebral cortex" | Alan Pearlman, M.D., Department of Cell Biology and Neurology, Washington University Medical School | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, November 27, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Biogenesis of the golgi apparatus" | Graham Warren, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Thursday, November 29, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "A New Approach to Measuring Neuropeptide Secretion Reveals Rapid, Activity-Dependent Changes in Release" | Matthew Whim, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, University College London | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, December 4, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Regional patterning and cell specification in the mammalian telencephalon" | Gordon Fishell, Ph.D., Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, December 11, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Methuselah's Paradox: A Heptahelical Receptor Regulating Neurotransmitter Exocytosis and Life Span" | Konrad Zinsmaier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, December 18, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Peripheral Coding in Mammalian Olfactory Systems" | Minghong Ma, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, January 8, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Trey McPherson, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, January 9, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "What the Nose Tells the Brain: Imaging Receptor Neuron Input to the Olfactory Bulb" | Matthew Wachowiak, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, January 15, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Deprogramming cell death in cortical neurons: sequence-selective DNA binding drugs as novel inhibitors of neuronal apoptosis" | Rajiv Ratan, M.D., Ph.D., Neurology Labs, Harvard Institutes of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, January 16, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "A Role of EphB in Synapse Development: Regulating NMDA Receptor Localization and Function" | Matthew B. Dalva, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, Children's Hospital, Boston | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, January 22, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Genetic Functional dissection of the role of dopamine D2 receptor isoforms in learning and neuropsychiatric disorders" | Yanyan Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, January 29, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Studies of photoreceptor membrane transport and cell death using transgenic X. laevis" | Orson Moritz, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, February 5, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Cell Biology of a Copper-Dependent Peptide Processing Enzyme" | Tammy Steveson, Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Gary Bassell, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, February 19, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Animals Behaving Badly Due to Molecular Mayhem-Messages from the RNA World" | Robert Reenan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, February 26, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Kalirin and Neuronal Development" | Clifton McPherson, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, March 5, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Nogo and molecular determinants of axonal regeneration" | Steven Strittmatter, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, March 12, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Binaural cochlear amplifiers and their feedback control by the brain stem" | Duck Kim, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, March 19, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Sequential Interactions of Growth Factors and their Receptors Define Critical Periods in the Development of Sensory Neurons" | D. Kent Morest, M.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, March 26, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Plasticity in brain auditory pathways after hearing loss" | Steven Potashner, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 2, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Carol Ann Mason, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology, Columbia University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Thursday, April 4, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Regulation of neurotransmitter release by pre-synaptic calcium-activated potassium channels" | Zhao-Wen Wang, Ph.D., Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 9, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Pre- and postsynaptic regulation of information transfer at synapses" | Shobhana Sivaramakrishnan, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Monday, April 15, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Carla Shatz, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 16, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Frames of Reference in the Auditory Pathway" | Jennifer Groh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Monday, April 22, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Excitotoxic calcium signaling in dendrites of hippocampal neurons" | Bill Shuttleworth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 30, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Neural Plasticity: Stem Cells and Synapses" | Ira Black, M.D., Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 7, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Molecular mechanisms of neuronal degeneration in Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease" | Jorge Busciglio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Monday, May 13, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Friends Lecture Room (LM034) | "Neuropeptides-superfluous or useful" | Thomas Hokfelt, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 14, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Tim Vartanian, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Institutes of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 21, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The Myelin-Axolemma Organelle" | Steven Pfeiffer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Coincidences between Auditory and Visual Processing" | Shihab Shamma, Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, June 4, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Binaural Processing of Spatial Cues in a GABA-ergic Structure" | Shigeyuki Kuwada, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, September 3, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Sounds that are "not there" can determine how well you can detect sounds that "are there"" | Constantine Trahiotis, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, September 10, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Oligodendrocytes Development in Human Brain" | Nada Zecevic, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, September 17, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The function of brain serotonin in physiology and behavior" | Barry Jacobs, Ph.D., Neuroscience Program, Princeton University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, September 24, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Brain waves and immune genes in brain wiring" | Carla Shatz, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 1, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Molecular Mechanisms in Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis" | Pietro DeCamili, M.D., Yale University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 8, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The cellular basis of amplification in the cochlea" | Joseph Santos-Sacchi, Ph.D., Department of Surgery/Otolaryngology, Yale University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 15, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Oligodendrogenesis in the Lesions of Multiple Sclerosis" | Bruce Trapp, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 22, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Survival of Oligodendrocyte Progenitors: Differential Effects of Trophic Factors on Akt Activation" | Teresa L. Wood, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience and Anatomy, Penn State University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Wednesday, October 23, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Regenerative Responses of Neural Stem Cells to Perinatal Ischemic Brain Damage" | Steven W. Levison, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience and Anatomy, Penn State University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, October 29, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Growth Cone Guidance" | Alex Kolodkin, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, November 12, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Mechanisms of Neurogenic Mitosis and Cytokines" | Joseph LoTurco, Ph.D. | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, November 19, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "RNA Trafficking; are we there yet?" | Elisa Barbarese, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, November 26, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Binaural Performance with Impaired Hearing, Hearing Aids, and Cochlear Implants" | Steven Colburn, Ph.D., Boston University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, December 3, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Do Gap Junctions Precede Functional Chemical Synapse Formation in Development" | Kathryn Curtin, Ph.D., Yale University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Muscarinic Receptor Signaling in the Heart: Intracellular Regulation by Calcium and the Cytoskeleton" | Dr. Achilles Pappano, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, December 17, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Reciprocal Interactions of Rapsyn and Ach Receptors in Synapse Development" | Fumihito Ono, M.D., Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook | Penny Skenderian (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "What's One Gene, More or Less? Gene Delivery to Study the Neural Substrates of Spatial Learning" | Theodore Dumas, Ph.D, Stanford University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, January 14, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Conversations with the Schwann Cell: How Axons Signal to the Cells that Enwrap them" | Haesun Kim, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, January 21, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Mechanisms of Plasticity at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse" | Anis Contractor, Ph.D., The Salk Institute | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, January 28, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Modulators of the Acid-Sensing Ion Channels: Protons, Peptides and Temperature" | Candice Askwith, Ph.D., University of Iowa College of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, February 4, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Role of Wnt Signaling in Development of the Central Nervous System" | Shigemi Hayashi, Ph.D., Harvard University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, February 18, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Reconstructing Smell: the Olfactory System as a Neurodevelopmental Model" | Gabriele Ronnett, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Monday, February 24, 2003 | 10:00 A.M. | Link Room (CG076A) | "Studies on Electrostatic Modulation of Membrane Physiology" | Chang Xu
Ph.D. Thesis Defense |
Lori Capozzi, (860) 679-2658 |
| Tuesday, March 4, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Regulation of Oligodenfrocyte Terminal Differentiation: Analysis of Genetically Modified Mice" | Rashmi Bansal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
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Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Control of Synapse Number and Strength in Developing Cortical Networks" | Gina Turrigiano, Ph.D., Brandeis University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Ion Channel Trafficking and Localization" | James Trimmer, Ph.D., State University of New York | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, March 25, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Reconstructing Smell: the Olfactory System as a Neurodevelopmental Model" | Gabriele Ronnett, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, April 1, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Back-talk at the Synapse: The Role of Endogenous Cannabinoids in the Neocortex" | Eric Levine, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, April 8, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Kalirin and Trio: a Medley of Interactors" | Richard Mains, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, April 15, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The regulation of local mRNA translation in neurons and the Fragile X connection" | Justin F. Fallon, Ph.D., Brown University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Unraveling Neurodegenerative Mechanisms: Transcriptional Dysregulation in Huntington's Disease" | Jang-Ho Cha, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, April 29, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Effects of context on the neural representation of dynamic acoustic signals" | Malcolm N. Semple, Ph.D., New York University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, May 6, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Lecture Room A (LM036) | "Transduction and Adaptation by Auditory Hair Cells" | David P. Corey, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, May 13, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The Dance of Transduction: The Implications of the Movement of Arrestin and Transducin in Light and Dark" | David S. Papermaster, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday, May 14, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Cellular Mechanisms Linking Dysfunction of Ion Channels to Cochlear Disorders" | Xi Lin, Ph.D., House Ear Institute | Penny Skenderian (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, May 20, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The Prefrontal Cortex: Categories, Concepts and Cognition" | Earl Miller, Ph.D., MIT | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, May 27, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Dimensions of Taste from Receptors to Perceptions" | Marion Frank, Ph.D., Department of Oral Diagnosis, University of Connecticut Health Center | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, June 3, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Myelin - it's not just for insulation anymore!" | Matthew Rasband, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, September 9, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Retrograde Signaling by Endocannabinoids" | Wade Regehr, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, September 16, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "New roles for the myelin basic protein gene in neurons, glia and T-cells" | Anthony T. Campagnoni, Ph.D., Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, September 23, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "What it Takes to Secrete a Bioactive Peptide" | Betty Eipper, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, September 30, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Adaptive Plasticity of the Auditory System of the Barn Owl" | Duck O. Kim, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, October 7, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Chemokines and chemokine receptors along the brain microvasculature" | Joel Pachter, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, October 14, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Computing sound source location (and what textbooks don't tell you)." | Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D., Departments of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Brown University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Functions of electrical synapses in the mammalian brain" | Barry W. Connors, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Brown University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, November 4, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Sensoineural deafness in claudin 11-null mice" | Alexander Gow, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, November 18, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Optical studies of exocytosis and secretory granule dynamics using total internal reflection microscopy" | Ronald W. Holz, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medical School | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, November 25, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Serine Proteases and Serpins in Learning and Neurodegeneration" | Robert Pawlak, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Circadian regulation of cGMP-gated cation channels in vertebrate cone photoreceptors" | Gladys Y. Ko, Ph.D., Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, December 9, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Control of axon branch dynamics by correlated activity in vivo" | Edward S. Ruthazer, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Lab | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, December 16, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Estrogen and Synapses in the Hippocampus." | Catherine S. Woolley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Physiology, Northwestern University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, January 6, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Functional organization of basal dendrites of neocortical pyramidal neurons-voltage imaging." | Srdjan D. Antic, M.D., Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The Social Brain: the Physiology of Pheromonal Communication in Mammals" | Minmin Luo, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, January 20, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Functional microcircuits and plasticity in auditory cortex" | Li Zhang, Ph.D., Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, University of California | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The physiological and psychophysical bases of sound localization" | Daniel J. Tollin, Ph.D., Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Melanopsin-Containing Retinal Ganglion Cells: Novel Photoreceptors Involved in Non-Image-Forming Visual Functions" | Samer Hatter, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, February 17, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Enhancing ITD-Based Extents of Laterality at High Frequencies: The Use of 'Transposed Stimuli'" | Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Molecular mechanisms that regulate the light response in the rod photoreceptor cells of the mammalian retina" | Ana Mendez, Ph.D., Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, March 2, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Prostaglandin Synthesizing Enzymes in Neuron Inflammation and Alzheimer's Disease" | M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, MD/PhD Program, Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Rochester | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, March 9, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Patterns of Neurogenesis and Migration in the Developing Cerebral Cortex" | Arnold R. Kriegstein, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, March 16, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Molecular mechanisms of docking and priming in exocytosis" | Janet E. Richmond, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, March 23, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Where is the Spike Generator of the Cochlear Nerve? Expression of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels in the Inner Ear of the Mouse." | Waheeda Amin Hossain, M.D., Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, March 30, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Corticotropin-releasing factor disrupts sensori-motor gating as assessed with prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in rats." | Lisa Conti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, April 6, 2004 | 3:30 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Pathological gambling: Clinical presentation, comorbidities and treatments" | Nancy Petry, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, April 13, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "K+ Channels and the Ketogenic Diet Treatment for Epilepsy" | Gary Yellen, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, April 20, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Influences of Synaptic Organization and Membrane Properties on Auditory Processing in the Inferior Colliculus." | Douglas Oliver, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Regulation of Spontaneous Neurotransmitter Release by Presynaptic Ryanodine Receptors" | Zhao-Wen Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, May 4, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Genetic Dissection of Sweet Taste." | Alexander A. Bachmanov, DVM, Ph.D., Associate Member, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Friday, May 7, 2004 | 2:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Clinical Neuroscience Research at the IOL." | Godfrey D. Pearlson, M.D., Director, Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University of School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, May 11, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Olig Gene Function in CNS Development and Disease" | David H. Rowitch, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Monday, May 17, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Neurovascular Proteolysis in Stroke" | Eng H. Lo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, May 18, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Unique Features of NGH Receptor Signaling." | Moses V. Chao, Ph.D., Professor, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Link Room (CG076A) | "Scaffolding and Adaptor Proteins in Polarized Cells" | Sharon L. Milgram, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, June 1, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Efferent control of the inner ear: electrophysiological, surgical and genetic dissection of a complex feedback system" | M. Charles Liberman, Ph.D., Director, Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Monday, August 23, 2004 | 12:00 P.M. | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Neuroimmunology of Multiple Sclerosis" | Charles Linington, Ph.D., Professor of Immunobiology and Senior Research Fellow in Multiple Sclerosis, University of Aberdeen | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Tuesday, September 7, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Unique Features of NGF Receptor Signaling" | Moses V. Chao, Ph.D., Professor, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, September 14, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Neurotrophins and epileptogenesis: in search of an ounce of prevention." | James O. McNamara, M.D., Carl R. Deane Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Director, Center for Translational Neuroscience, Duke University Medical Center | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, September 21, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Gender Differences in Stroke" | Louise D. McCullough, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, September 28, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Linking the hippocampus prefrontal cortex and dopamine projections in a developmental animal model of schizophrenia." | Patricio O'Donnell, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience, Albany Medical College | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, October 5, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Multiple functions of Kalirin related to neurite outgrowth" | Martin R. Schiller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Presynaptic Differentiation: What Makes a Strong Synapse?" | Milton P. Charlton, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology Department, University of Toronto, Canada | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Thursday, October 21, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "How plastic is spatial hearing?" | Professor Andrew J. King, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford University, UK | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, November 2, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Human auditory steady-state responses" | Terence W. Picton, Ph.D., Anne and Max Tanenbaum Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Toronto & Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Neuroprocessing of a primary localization cue and other things." | Shigeyuki Kuwada, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Connexins and Neurological Diseases." | Steven Scherer, M.D., Ph.D., William N. Kelley Professor of Neurology, The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, November 30, 2004 | 4:00 P.M. |