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Spring 2003 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 on Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. in room 025 of the Biological Sciences Building West (BSBW). Speakers for the Spring 2003 semester are listed below with the host's name in parentheses.

  • January 13 --
    ESTHER M. STERNBERG, National Institute of Mental Health and National Institutes of Health
    (host: Jane Welsh, 862-4974): "Neural and neuroendocrine factors in autoimmune, inflammatory and infectious diseases."

  • January 22 --
    KEVIN BURGESS, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University (host: Rajesh Miranda, 862-3418): "Solid phase syntheses of small molecules to mimic or disrupt interactions of the neurotrophins with their Trk receptors."

  • February 05 --
    GERIANNE ALEXANDER, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University
    (host: Paul Wellman, 845-2557):
    "Gender and the Brain."

  • February 12 --
    FRANCISCO GONZALEZ-LIMA, Institute for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin (host: Jack Nation, 845-2573):
    "Metabolic mapping of brain activity after extinction of conditioned behavior "


  • February 26 --
    BRUCE RILEY, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University (host: Vincent Cassone, 865-2301):
    "How the Zebrafish got its ears and other just-so stories."

  • March 05 --
    CLAIRE HULSEBOSCH, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, University of Texas Medical Branch (host: Jim Grau, 845-2584):
    "Dysfunctional plasticity after spinal cord injury: central neuropathic pain."

  • March 19 --
    JAROSLAW ARONOWSKI, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas at Houston (host: Louise Abbott, 845-2269): "Inflammatory response following intracerebral hemorrhage ."
  • March 26 --
    TIM SCHALLERT,
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin (host: Jim Grau,
    845-2584): "Motor enrichment effects on trophic factors, neural degeneration and synaptogenesis in animal models of early-stage Parkinson's disease and stroke."

  • April 02 --
    IM JOO RHYU, The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (host: Louise Abbot, 845-2269): "Ataxic calcium channel mutants: What happens in their cerebel

  • April 09 -- Grass Speaker and TAMU Chapter SNS Poster Session -- see Abstracts
    CLIFF SAPER, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School (host: Paul Wellman, 845-2557): "Circadian regulation of sleep and wakefulness."

  • April 16 --
    ANTONIO CEPEDA-BENITO, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University (host: Paul Wellman, 845-2557): "Development of associative tolerance to the analgesic effects of nicotine."

  • April 23 -- TBA

  • April 30 --
    RICHARD ROTHMAN, National Institute on Drug Abuse (host: Paul Wellman, 845-2557): "Psychostimulants"
 

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