Neuroscience Seminar Series 2006-2007

All seminars at 3:00-4:00 PM in 402 BSB unless othewise noted.

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DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
August 25, 2006	Akira Sawa, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins Univ School of Med	Biology of Schizophrenia: Neurodeveloment, Glutamate, and Dopamine
September 1, 2006	"Cancelled due to Weather"
September 7, 2006	Plenary Grand Rounds Thursday 9/7 (11:00 am IOP Auditorium)
September 15, 2006	Jakie McGinty, PhD Department of Neurosciences MUSC	"Psychostimulants and Striatal Signaling"
September 22, 2006	William J. Berglind, Graduate Student Department of Neurosciences MUSC	"Molecular and Behavioral Effects of BDNF Infusions into the mPFC of Cocaine Self-Administering Rats"
September 29, 2006	Peter W. Kalivas, PhD Department of Neurosciences MUSC	"Can We Forget to be Addicted? New Paths for Treating Addiction in Excitatory Neuroplasticity"
October 5, 2006	Plenary Grand Rounds Thursday 10/5 (11:00 am Room 809 SEI)
October 13, 2006	Society For Neuroscience Atlanta, GA 10/14 - 10/18
October 20, 2006	Andrew J. Lawrence, PhD NHMRC Senior Research Fellow Howard Florey Institute	"The mGlu5 Receptor, Drug-Seeking & Plasticity"
October 27, 2006	David Bachman, MD Department of Neurosciences MUSC	"Alzheimer's Disease and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: An Epidemiologic Perspective"
November 3, 2006	Student Research Day	No Neuro seminar
November 10, 2006	Cancelled
November 17, 2006	Cancelled
November 24, 2006	Thanksgiving Holiday
December 1, 2006	Prakasam Annamalai, Postdoc Department of Neurosciences MUSC	"Amyloid and Retinal Degeneration"
December 7, 2006	Plenary Grand Rounds Thursday 12/7 (11:00 am Room 809 SEI)
December 15, 2006	Geoffrey Schoenbaum, MD, PhD University of Maryland School of Med	"The Orbitofrontal-Amygdalar Circuit, Associative Learning, and Addiction"
December 22, 2006	Christmas Holiday
December 29, 2006	New Year Holiday
January 4, 2007	Plenary Grand Rounds Thursday 1/4 (11:00 am Room 809 SEI)
January 12, 2007	Jack Waters, PhD Northwestern University	"Sparse Coding in the Cortex: Synaptic and Dendritic Activation in Layer 2/3 Cortical Pyramidal Neurons in Anaesthetized and Awake Rats"
January 19, 2007	3:00 pm Eric Buck, Grad Student	"Oligomerization of the Serotonin Transporter is Acutely-Regulated By Protein Kinases: A Novel Mechanistic View"
January 26, 2007	3:00 pm Matt Hearing, Grad Student 3:30 pm Tim Whitfield, Grad Student	"Neural Substrates of Contextual Relapse Following cocaine Abstinence" "The Role of Prefrontal Cortical BDNF in Cocaine-Seeking"
February 1, 2007	Plenary Grand Rounds Thursday 2/1 (11:00 am Room 809 SEI)
February 9, 2007	3:00 pm Lauren Willis, Grad Student	"Modulation of Microglial Activation through Dietar Blueberry Supplementation"
February 16, 2007	3:00 pm Adrian Sproul, Grad Student 3:30 pm Sandra Tye, Grad Student	"Hypoxic Regulation of NMDA Receptors in the Cortex and Medulla" "The Role of Hyaluronan and Ceruloplasmin in Gliomas"
February 23, 2007	3:00 pm Jason Lockrow, Grad Student 3:30 pm Emily Denehy, Grad Student	"Effects of Vitamin E Supplementation on Cognition in a Mouse Model for Down Syndrome" " The Additive Effects of Decreased GDNF and Methamphetamine Exposure on Motor Activity"
March 1, 2007	Plenary Grand Rounds Thursday 3/1 (11:00 am Room 809 SEI)
March 9, 2007	Ryohei Yasuda, PhD Duke University	"Imaging Signal Transduction in Single Dendritic Spines"
March 16, 2007	Frontiers In Neuroscience	No Neuro Seminar
March 23, 2007	3:00 pm Chitra Venugopal, Grad Student 3:30 pm Bailey Glen, Grad Student	"Localization of BACE1 is regulated by its intracellular domain" "Norepinephrine Modulation of Inhibitory Transmission in the Prefrontal Cortex"
March 30, 2007	Gary Aston-Jones, PhD Professor, MUSC	"The Cortex in Context: Locus Coeruleus, Optimal Performance and Maximal Utility"
April 5, 2007	Plenary Grand Rounds Thursday 4/5 (11:00 am Room 809 SEI)
April 13, 2007	Darrell Jackson, PhD University of Montana	"The Role of Transient Hypoxic-Induced Sequestration of M1 mAChR and GRK2 Degradation"
April 20, 2007	David Krizaj, PhD UC San Francisco	"Mechanisms Governing Calcium Homeostatis in Photoreceptor Inner Segments"
April 27, 2007	3:00 pm Kenneth Abernathy, Grad Student 3:30 pm Michele Bongiovanni, Grad Student	"Modulation of Hippocampal Activity by Orexin and Alcohol" "Sex, Cocaine and a Cold Swim"
May 3, 2007	Plenary Grand Rounds Thursday 5/3 (11:00 am Room 809 SEI)
May 11, 2007	Luis Alguacil, PhD University of San Pablo, Madrid	"Gene and Protein Expression in the Brain of Rats with Different Vulnerability to Addiction"
May 18, 2007	3:00 pm Matthew Pava, Grad Student 3:30 pm Armina Wiggins, Grad Student	"Ethanol and prefrontal cortical function" "Integrating integrins into cocaine-induced actin dynamics"
May 25, 2007	"Cancelled"
June 1, 2007	3:00 pm Christina Demos, Grad Student 3:30 pm Alicia Saylor, Grad Student	"BDNF and Psychostimulant Interactions APP adn Beta Secretase Interactions through Evolution to the Present" "Dysbindin A Schizophrenia Susceptibility Gene"