Neurosciences Seminar Series 2004-2005

All seminars at 3:00-4:00 PM in 435 BSB unless othewise noted.

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DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
September 3, 2004	CANCELLED
September 10, 2004	Chris Lapish, Graduate Student Physiology/MUSC	Fast and Slow Neurotransmission in the Meso-Cortical Pathway
September 17, 2004	Joe L. Martinez, PhD Univ of Texas, San Antonio TX	How the Brain Stores Memories: Hebbian Mechanisms
September 24, 2004	Jeremy Seamans, PhD, Physiology/MUSC	The Principal Features and Mechanisms of Dopamine Modulation in Prefrontal Cortex
October 1, 2004	Corigan Smothers, Postdoc Physiology/MUSC	Effects of Transmembrane Domain Mutations on the Ethanol Sensitivity of NMDA Receptors
October 8, 2004	Shigenobu Toda, PhD Phsyiology/MUSC	Cocaine-Mediated Cytoskeletal Rearrangement in Rat Brain
October 15, 2004	Dr. John Woodward, PhD Physiology/MUSC	Ion Channel Modulation by Toluene and Related Abused Inhalants
October 22, 2004	SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE ( San Diego )
October 29, 2004	SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE ( San Diego )
November 5, 2004	STUDENT RESEARCH DAY
November 12, 2004	CANCELLED
November 19, 2004	Barry D. Waterhouse, PhD Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia	Functional Organization of the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus - Chapter 2... "Serotonin is Only Part of the Story"
November 26, 2004	Thanksgiving holiday
December 3, 2004	Victoria Arango, PhD Columbia University/New York	Serotonergic and Morphometric Alterations in the Brains of Suicide Victims
December 10, 2004	Sven Kroener, Postdoc Physiology/MUSC	Functional Architecture of Persistent Activity and Working Memory
December 17, 2004	Kumar Sambamurti, PhD Physiology/MUSC	"Understanding the Regulation of Amyloid Beta and Its Role in Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis"
December 24,2004	Christmas holiday
December 31, 2004	New Year holiday
January 7, 2005	CANCELLED
January 14, 2005	Courtney Miller, Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Irvine	"The Neural Circuitry and Signaling Pathways Contributing to Cue-Elicited Cocaine Seeking"
January 21, 2005	CANCELLED
January 28, 2005	Jennifer Godbee, Postdoc Physiology/MUSC	"Delivery of GDNF and Minocycline to the Striatum of Parkinsonian Mice"
February 4, 2005	John Samuvel, Postdoc Physiology/MUSC	"Role of p38 MAP Kinase in Serotonin Transporter Regulation"
February 11, 2005	Marek Schwendt, Postdoc Physiology/MUSC	"Amphetamine and the Expression of RGS and AGS Proteins in the Brain - Novel Type of Adaptation Induced by Drugs of Abuse"
February 18, 2005	Tod Kippin, Postdoc Physiology/MUSC	"Regulation of Adult Mammalian Neural Stem Cells"
February 25, 2005	Les S. Satin, PhD Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond	"Ion Channels, Fuel Metabolism and the Control of Pulsatile Insulin Secretion from Pancreatic Islets"
March 4, 2005	Jamie Peters, Graduate Student Physiology/MUSC	"The Prefrontal-Accumbens Pathway and Cocaine Seeking Behavior: Toward Novel Therapeutics for Relapse"
March 11, 2005	Scott Mackler, MD, PhD, FACP Philadelphia VAMC	"NAC1, a Cocaine-Regulated POZ/BTB Protein"
March 18, 2005	FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
March 25, 2005	CANCELLED
April 1, 2005	Judson Chandler, PhD Physiology/MUSC	"The Glutamatergic Basis of Alcohol Tolerance"
April 8, 2005	CANCELLED
April 15, 2005	Kathleen Willet, Graduate Student, MUSC	"Ethanol Discrimination in C57BL6 Mice"
April 22, 2005	Robin Williard, Graduate Student, MUSC Kenneth Abernathy, Graduate Student, MUSC	"Synthesis, Pharmacology and Human Metabolic Formation of Ethylphenidate: The Transesterification Product of Methylphenidate and Ethanol" "Measuring Persistent Activity in Prefrontal Cortex with Multi-electrode Arrays"
April 29, 2005	Michael Robinson, PhD University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia	"Regulated Trafficking of Glutamate Transporters: Complementary Mechanisms that Facilitate Neuronal Plasticity?"
May 6, 2005	Antonello Bonci, MD lkj University of Californina, San Francisco	"Synaptic Plasticity in the mesolimbic system: implications for substance abuse"
May 13, 2005	Anitha Suram, Postdoc Physiology/MUSC	"DNA-Amyloid Beta Peptide Interaction"
May 20, 2005	CANCELLED
May 27, 2005	Eric Buck , Grad Student Physiology/MUSC	"Oligomerization and Phosphorylation of the Serotonin Transporter"
June 3, 2005	Matthew Feltenstein, Postdoc Physiology/MUSC	"Relapse: memory consolodation, stress, and treatment"
June 10, 2005	Glenn Andrews, Graduate Student Physiology/MUSC	"Alpha-2 Receptors and Prefrontal Cortical Activity"
June 17, 2005	Kimber Price, Grad Student Physiology/MUSC	"The Influence of Sex on Ethanol Consumption and Reward in C57BL/6 Mice"

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