Spring 2002 Seminar Series
The Texas A&M Faculty of Neuroscience sponsor a seminar series during the
Fall and Spring semesters. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held Wednesdays at 4:00pm in
room 025 of the Biological Sciences Building West. Speakers for the Spring 2002 semester are listed below with
the host's name (if available) in parentheses.
- January 17 (Thursday) -- Room 110, Koldus Building
V. REGGIE EDGERTON, Department of Physiological Sciences, University of California-Los
Angeles. (Jim Grau, 845-2584): "Motor Learning in the Spinal Cord"
- January 23 -- no seminar this week
- January 30 --
FRANK JOHNSON,
Department of Psychology, Florida State University (Vinnie Cassone, 845-2301):
"Why birds sing: motor control of neural and vocal development in songbirds"
- February 6 --
NORCROSS
GEARY, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
(Paul Wellman, 845-2557): "Sex and Food: Estradiol, Cholecystokinin and Satiation"
- February 13 -- TBA
- February 20 --
SANDRA WELCH,
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University
(Urzula Winzer-Serhan, 845-2860): "The Role of Specific Kinases in the Expression
of Tolerance and Physical Dependence to Opioids"
- February 27 -- TBA
- March 5 -- RAE
SILVER, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
(Vinnie Cassone, 845-2301): "Building a brain clock out of independent oscillators
and gatekeepers"
- March 12 -- Spring Break
- March 20 --
WILLIAM SCHWARTZ, Department of
Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School (David Earnest,
862-3109): "Dual circadian oscillators in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and
the regulation of behavioral rhythmicity"
- March 27 --
RUSS YUKHANANOV, Neurogenomic Laboratory, Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Jane Welsh, 862-4974)
- April 3 --
STEPHEN LASLEY,
Department of Basic Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine (Jack
Nation, 845-2573): "Biphasic Effects of Chronic Lead Exposure: A Link Between
Hippocampal Glutamate Release and LTP?"
- April 9 (Tuesday) -- Room 115, Biological Sciences Building East;
co-sponsored by the Department of Biology
EDUARDO MACAGNO,
Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego (Veronica Martinez,
845-7752): "Receptor phosphatases and self-avoidance in the regulation of
process outgrowth"
- April 17 --
URSULA WINZER-SIRHAN,
Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center
(Gerry Frye, 845-2888): "Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors during development"
- April 19 (Friday) -- BSBW 025: 12:00pm
ROBIN
J.M. FRANKLIN, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University
of Cambridge (Jane Welsh, 862-4974): "CNS remyelination - mechanisms
and manipulations"
- April 24 --
NANCY FORGER, Department
of Psychology, University of Massachusetts (Rajesh Miranda, 862-3418): "Sex
and Death in the Spinal Cord"
- May 1 --
ROBERT
HANDA, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University
(Rajesh Miranda, 862-3418): "Functional Variants of Estrogen Receptor Beta
in the Brain"
Other Texas A&M seminar series of interest:
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