Zoology Departmental Seminars

  • Neuromunch (Neurobiology seminar, ZOO4871/5871) meets Fridays at 12:30 in 304 Richards Hall. Anyone interested in neurobiology is welcome to attend.

Spring 2009 Schedule:

January 23: ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

January 30, Ari Berkowitz: “"Direct control of paralysed muscles by cortical neurons."

February 6, Ari Berkowitz:" Neural processing of auditory feedback during vocal practice in a songbird."

February 13, Van Herd: "Unbiased stereological quantification of unmyelinated fibers
in the rat brain white matter."

February 20, Zhaozhe Hao:" Continuous shifts in the active set of spinal interneurons during changes in locomotor speed."

February 27, Jonathan Mui: "Control of visually guided behavior by distinct populations of spinal projection neurons"

March 6, Bing Zhang: Astrocytic Modulation of Sleep Homeostasis and Cognitive Consequences of Sleep Loss"

March 13, David McCauley: "Activation of Pax3 target genes is necessary but not sufficient for neurogenesis in the ophthalmic trigeminal placode"

March 20, SPRING BREAK: NO MEETING

March 27, Sharon Carlisle: "Epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor
in human brain associates with childhood abuse"

April 3, David Durica: " Selective Erasure of a Fear memory "

April 10, Dahong Chen: " The neural basis of Drosophila gravity-sensing and hearing "

April 17, Rosemary Knapp: "A Role for Synaptic Zinc in Activity-Dependent Aβ Oligomer Formation and Accumulation at Excitatory Synapses"

April 24, Chunjing Qu: "A Selective Filter for Cytoplasmic Transport
at the Axon Initial Segment"

May 1, Phillip Vanlandingham: "Composed of the Eph Receptor, Ephexin, Cdc42,
and CaV2.1 Calcium Channels"

May 8, Randy Hewes: "A PI3-Kinase–Mediated Negative Feedback Regulates Neuronal Excitability"

 

Fall 2008 Schedule:

August 29: ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

September 5, Ari Berkowitz: “Cryptochrome mediates light-dependent magnetosensitivity in Drosophila.”

September 12, Rudi Bohm: "Cocaine Regulates MEF2 to Control
Synaptic and Behavioral Plasticity."

September 19, Doug Gaffin

September 26: Jonathan Mui: "Internal brain state regulates membrane potential
synchrony in barrel cortex of behaving mice."

October 3, Ingo Schlupp

October 10, OU-TEXAS DAY

October 17, Stephanie Easter: "Cleavage at the Caspase-6 Site Is
Required for Neuronal Dysfunction and
Degeneration Due to Mutant Huntingtin"

October 24, Chunjing Qu: "Satoh et al.2008 spatial control of branching by transport of Rab5"

October 31, Zhaozhe Hao: "Swim and scratch stimuli access a common rhythm-generating network in the spinal cord"

November 7, Jonathan Rubin (Univ. Pittsburgh): "A possible mechanism for the efficacy of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease"

November 14, Phillip Vanlandingham: "Rab7 Regulates Late Endocytic Trafficking Downstream of MVB Biogenesis and Cargo Sequestration"

November 21, Bing Zhang: "Inducible and selective
erasure of memories in the mouse brain via chemical-genetic manipulation."

November 28: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

December 5, Karen Upton: "Defining sensitive period age limits"

December 12, Sunetra Das: Expression of ecdysteroid responsive genes in response to hormonal induction and RNAi mediated gene silencing in Uca pugilator.

 


 


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