Spring 1999 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 various locations around campus. Speakers for the Spring 1999 semester are listed below with the host's name (if available) in parentheses.

• February 3 --
  JACKIE CRAWLEY, Chief, Section on Behavioral Neuropharmacology, Experimental Therapeutics Branch, National Institute of Mental Health (Louise Abbott, 845-2269): "Behavioral Phenotyping Of Transgenic And Knockout Mice"
• February 10 --
  PAUL SHUGHRUE, Senior Scientist, Woman's Health Research Institute, Wyeth-Ayerst, Radnor PA (Rajesh Miranda, 862-3418): "Estrogen Receptor Beta: Novel Sites for Estrogen action in the Brain"
• February 15 (Monday)--
  MARGUERITE KAY, Director of the International Foundation for Biomedical Aging Research, Temple, TX (David McMurray, 845-1367): "Senescent Cell Antigen and Band 3 in Neurological Aging and Disease"
• February 18 --
  KURT WILHELMSON, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of California-San Francisco (Julian Leibowitz, 845-7288): "The Role of Tau in Dementia. Co-sponsored with the Faculty of Genetics
• February 24 --
  Fred KARSH (Paul Harms, 845-3560). Co-sponsored with the Faculty of Reproductive Biology
• March 3 --
  JOHN SHERIDAN, Professor of Oral Biology, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Ohio State University Health Sciences Center, and Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, Columbus, Ohio (Mary Meagher, 845-2564): "Neuroendocrine Regulation of Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity"
• March 10 --
  BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK
• March 24 --
  WISE YOUNG, Professor II and Director of Neuroscience Center, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Nelson Biological Laboratories, Piscataway, NJ (Rajesh Miranda, 862-3418): "The Role of Stem Cells and Adhesion Moleculars in Spinal Cord Regeneration"
• March 31 --
  LUIS PARADA, Center for Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. (Rajesh Miranda, 862-3418): "Neurotrophins, Neurofibromatosis and Animal Disease Models"
• April 7 --
  JONETHON SEDWICK, Associate Director, DNAX Research Institute, Palo Alto CA (Jane Welsh, 862-4974): "Microglial Cells in CNS Inflammation: Dogma and Paradigm Despite the Evidence"
• April 14 --
  OWEN JONES, University of Toronto (Louise Abbott, 845-2269)
• April 19 --
  MARK KONISHI, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology. TBA (sponsored by the Robert and Emily Walker '45 Endowed Lectures in the Frontiers in Biology Lecture Series
• April 28 --
  JUAN SALINAS, Department of Psychology, University of Texas-Austin (Jim Grau, 845-2584): "The Amygdala and Emotional Learning"

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