2004-2005 Academic Year
SEPTEMBER 2004
K Channel Biology: From Structure to Disease
Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine
September 13, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Ed McCleskey
Signaling through protein phosphorylation
Tony Hunter, Ph.D.
The Salk Institute, San Diego, CA
September 30, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Scott
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OCTOBER 2004
Autoregulation of synaptic strength in central neurons
Richard Tsien, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford
October 7, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Adelman
Nuclear receptor control of lipid metabolism
David Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, HHMI Investigator
October 14, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Dick Goodman
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NOVEMBER 2004
Imaging circuit assembly in the retina
Rachel Wong, Ph.D.
Washington University at Saint Louis
November 4, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Larry Trussell
Stop and go during development: Directing vesicular traffic during synapse formation
A. Kimberly McAllister, Ph.D.
Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis
November 11, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Gary Westbrook
Signaling to extrasynaptic receptors in cerebellum
Thomas Otis, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology, UCLA Medical School
November 18, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Craig Jahr
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DECEMBER 2004
Transcriptional activators, co-factor complexes and disease
Robert Tjian, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
December 2, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Dick Goodman
Quantification of transporter protein densities and modelling of transmitter diffusion in a CNS synapse
Knut Petter Lehre, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy, University of Oslo, Norway
December 6, 2004 at 2:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Henrique von Gersdorff
Mechanisms Regulating Synaptic Dynamics in Layers 2/3 in the Visual Cortex
Lonnie Wollmuth, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology & Behavior, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York
December 9, 2004 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Henrique von Gersdorff
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JANUARY 2005
The Dystrophin Complex: a Membrane Scaffold for Signaling Proteins in Muscle and Brain
Stan Froehner, Ph.D.
Physiology & Neurophysiology, University of Washington
January 20, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Gary Westbrook
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FEBRUARY 2005
The Dystrophin Complex: a Membrane Scaffold for Signaling Proteins in Muscle and Brain
Stan Froehner, Ph.D.
Physiology & Neurophysiology, University of Washington
February 3, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Gary Westbrook
Seeing Circuits Assemble
Stephen Smith, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University
February 10, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Wolfhard Almers
Activity-dependent homeostatic specification of neurotransmitter choice
Nicholas Spitzer, Ph.D.
Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego
February 17, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Tom Soderling
PRIALT® (ziconotide intrathecal infusion): A newly approved calcium channel blocker to treat severe, chronic pain
George Miljanich, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Medical Affairs, Elan Pharmaceuticals, San Diego
February 22, 2005 at 2:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Ed McCleskey
The hyperpolarization-activated pacemaker channel: A gate of learning and memory
Steven Siegelbaum, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York, NY
February 24, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Adelman
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MARCH 2005
Protein synthesis at the synapse
Erin Schuman, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
March 3, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Phil Stork
Protein interactions
Stan Fields, Ph.D.
Genome Sciences, University of Washington
March 10, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Mike Forte
Shining a light on dendritic integration and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus with glutamate photolysis
Scott Thompson, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
March 17, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Adelman
The molecular machinery for cAMP-dependent immunomodulation in T cells
Kjetil Taskén, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Centre Director, The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, Norway
March 31, 2005 at 2:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Scott
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APRIL 2005
Comparative Kinomics: How Genome Sequences and a Billion Years of Evolution can Help Us Understand Protein Kinases and Cell Signaling
Gerard Manning, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, San Diego, CA
April 7, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Scott
Cross-talk between the mechano-gated K2P channel TREK-1 and the actin cytoskeleton
Eric Honoré, Ph.D.
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, France
April 8, 2005 at 2:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Adelman
NHR-49: A C. elegans nuclear hormone receptor that affects lifespan and modulates fat storage, consumption and composition
Keith Yamamoto, Ph.D.
Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine, UC San Francisco, CA
April 14, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Dick Goodman
Regulating early signaling by antigen receptors
Arthur Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.
HHMI; Director, MSTP; Assoc. Director, Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis; Microbiology & Immunology; Ephraim P. Engelman Distinguished Professsor, Rheumatology, UCSF, CA
April 21, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Phil Stork
Phosphoserine/Threonine-Binding Domains: Integrators of Protein Kinase Signaling in Cell
Cycle Control and Cancer
Michael Yaffe, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 28, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Scott
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MAY 2005
Molecular Control of the Cellular Response to Oxidative Stress
Yuxin Yin, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
May 9, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
The Computational Algorithm of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells
Kamran Khodakhah, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
May 12, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Williams
Regulation of receptor signaling and trafficking by phosphoinositide lipids and ubiquitin
Scott Emr, Ph.D.
HHMI, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine
May 26, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Gary Thomas
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JUNE 2005
Herbert Memorial Lecture
Oxygen Sensation: Unconventional Signaling for an Unconventional Sense
Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
June 2, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Dick Goodman
Integration of small G protein function
Phil Stork, M.D.
The Vollum Institute
June 3, 2005 at 2:30 PM in Room M1441
MicroRNAs, transcription factors and neuronal development in C. elegans
Oliver Hobert, Ph.D.
HHMI, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Columbia University, NY
June 16, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Dick Goodman
Gene and Cell Therapy for Parkinson's and Huntington's Disease
Jeffrey H. Kordower, Ph.D.
Jean Schweppe-Armour Professor of Neurological Sciences, Director, Research Center for Brain Repair, Section Head, Neuroscience, Rush University Medical Center
June 22, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Gary Westbrook
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JULY 2005
Paved with Good Intentions: The Role of Cell Cycle Events in Neurodegenerative Disease
Karl Herrup, Ph.D.
Director, Alzheimer Research Center, Case Western Reserve University
July 8, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: Sponsored jointly by The Vollum Institute and the OHSU Department of Neurology
Dissecting Synaptic Learning Rules in the Hippocampus
Gayle M. Wittenberg, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
July 28, 2005 at 12:00 PM in Room M1441
Host: John Adelman
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