The University of Arizona

Neuroscience Colloquium - Fall 2009
NRSC 695B/C

Date
Event
Speaker
Title
Time
Location
8/25/09
DB
Data Blitz
Speakers: Anthony Lewis (ECE), Russell Witte (Radiology), Nadia Corral-Frias (Neuroscience GIDP), Hong Lei (Neuroscience), Greg Dussor (Pharmacology)
5:30
TBG
9/1/09
RS
Erika Eggers, PhD
UA, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering
Synaptic Mechanisms of Retinal Inhibition
4:00
GS601
9/8/09
JC
Lilian Patron
Rapid Erasure of Long-Term Memory Associations in the Cortex by an Inhibitor of PKMz (Shema et al, Science 317, 2007)
5:00
GS601
9/15/09
JC
Sarah Lewis
Myosin-dependent targeting of transmembrane proteins to neuronal dendrites (Lewis et al, Nat Neurosci 12, 2009)
5:00
GS601
9/22/09
JC
Clayton Mosher
Reversible Silencing of Neuronal Excitability in Behaving Mice by a Genetically Targeted, Ivermectin-Gated Cl Channel.
(Lerchner et al, 2007 Neuron 54, 35)
5:00
GS601
9/29/09
RS
Torsten Falk, PhD
UA, Neurology

Novel neurotrophic factor candidates for the treatment of
Parkinson's disease
4:00
10/6/09
SS
Bethany Jones
Re-making memories: A novel paradigm to investigate memory reconsolidation
5:00
GS601
10/13/09
RS
Dan Johnston, PhD
U Texas, Austin

Plasticity of dendritic excitability
4:00

10/20/09
 
Society for Neuroscience Meeting 10/17-21
   
10/27/09
DB
Data Blitz
Speakers: Julie Barkmeier (Speech, Lang., & Hearing), Tom Davis (Pharmacology), Ralph Fregosi (Physiology), Dave Andrew (Neuroscience GIDP), Kati Gothard (Physiology)
5:30
TBG
11/3/09
JC
Judith Tello
Cryptochrome mediates light-dependent magnetosensitivity in Drosophila
(Gegear et al., 2008, Science 454, 1014)
5:00
GS601
11/10/09
RS
Spatial organization of chromosomes and gene regulation (and
some speculations on maintenance of long term memory).
4:00
11/17/09
JC
Lucy Sanchez-Covarrubias
PKM zeta maintains late long-term potentiation by N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor/GluR2-dependent trafficking of Postsynaptic AMPA receptor
Yao 2008 J Neurosci 28
5:00
GS601
11/24/09
JC
Laura Nickerson
Altering expectancy dampens neural response to aversive taste in primary taste cortex.
Nitschke et al. (2006) Nat Neurosci 9:435
5:00
GS601
12/1/09
SS
Stuti Jasiwal

TBA
5:00
GS601
12/8/09
RS
Ming Guo, MD, PhD
Neurology, UCLA
TBA
5:00
GS601

This seminar series includes Research Seminars (RS), Student Seminars (SS), Data Blitzes (DB), and Journal Clubs (JC).
GS 601: Gould Simpson Bldg; TBG: Tucson Botanical Garden

Course Coordinator
Konrad E. Zinsmaier, Ph.D. (Dept. of Neuroscience), Gould-Simpson 627, 626-1343, kez@neurobio.arizona.edu 

Description:
Further information can be found in the syllabi.
1st year students see: Syllabus NRSC 695B
2nd year and up students: Syllabus NRSC 695C

Other departmental seminar/colloquiua announcements:

Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute

ARL Division of Neurobiology

Psychology Colloquium

 

 
Graduate Program in Neuroscience
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