2008-2009 Series
SEPTEMBER 2008
September 18, 2008
Special Seminar: A cellular mechanism for general enhancement of learning capability
Edi Barkai, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, University of Haifa, Israel
Host: John Adelman
OCTOBER 2008
October 2, 2008
Neurotrophin endosomes: Signaling in time and space
Simon Halegoua, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY at Stony Brook
Host: Gail Mandel
October 9, 2008
Threshold, inhibition and the assembly of receptive fields in visual cortex
David Ferster, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Host: Larry Trussell
October 16, 2008
Sonic hedgehog-proteoglycan interactions promote proliferation of neural precursors
Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Host: Phil Stork
October 23, 2008
Synapses and microcircuits tuned for speed and resilience in the sense of balance
Sascha du Lac, Ph.D.
Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Host: Teresa Nicolson
October 30, 2008
Regulation of meiosis in mammalian oocytes by receptors, cyclic nucleotides, and gap junctions
Laurinda Jaffe, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
Host: Gail Mandel
NOVEMBER 2008
November 6, 2008
Synaptic toxicity of Huntington disease protein
Xiao Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Host: Mike Forte
DECEMBER 2008
December 4, 2008
Optical monitoring of synaptic vesicle recycling at the neuromuscular junction with SynaptopHluorin and FM1-43
William Betz, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Host: Larry Trussell
JANUARY 2009
January 15, 2009
How flies find stuff
Michael Dickinson, Ph.D.
Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Host: Larry Trussell
FEBRUARY 2009
February 12, 2009
Tracking ATP P2X receptor signaling dynamics in vitro and in vivo
Baljit Khakh, Ph.D.
Departments of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Eric Gouaux
February 17, 2009
Special Seminar: Chasing protons through a chloride transporter
Christopher Miller, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry, HHMI, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Host: John Adelman
February 26, 2009
Mechanisms of associative learning in young and aging hippocampus
John Disterhoft, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Host: John Adelman
MARCH 2009
March 11, 2009
Special Seminar: Gq/Phospholipase C-beta signaling in cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and atrial dilatation
Theresa Filtz, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Host: Tom Soderling
March 12, 2009
Sex battles in the brain
Catherine Dulac, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, HHMI, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Host: Teresa Nicolson
March 13, 2009
Special Seminar: Neural circuits and synapses for early visual processing
Jonathan B. Demb, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Host: Henrique von Gersdorff
March 19, 2009
A tale of two substrates: A novel mechanism for neurotransmitter:sodium symport
Jonathan Javitch, M.D., Ph.D
Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Center for Molecular Recognition, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
Host: Eric Gouaux
APRIL 2009
April 9, 2009
Monitoring extracellular dopamine during reward-based behaviors
R. Mark Wightman, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host: John Williams
April 15, 2009
Jungers Center Lecture: Astrocytes, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration
Joseph Beckman, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Host: Neurobiology of Disease Course for 2009 and Gary Westbrook
April 17, 2009
Jungers Center Lecture: Understanding ALS: Mechanisms and treatment of motor neuron disease
Don W. Cleveland, Ph.D.
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California, San Diego
Host: Neurobiology of Disease Course for 2009 and Gary Westbrook
April 23, 2009
From peppers to peppermints: Natural products as probes of the pain pathway
David Julius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
Host: Teresa Nicolson
April 24, 2009
Jungers Center Lecture: Abeta and tau in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease: Whether, when, and how to treat
David M. Holtzman, M.D.
Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Host: Neurobiology of Disease Course for 2009 and Gary Westbrook
MAY 2009
May 11, 2009
Special Seminar: Synaptic circuit organization of mouse motor cortex
Gordon M. G. Shepherd, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Host: Neuroscience Graduate Program and Henrique von Gersdorff
May 14, 2009
Molecular characterization of episodic neurological disorders
Louis J. Ptáček, M.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
Host: Gail Mandel
May 26, 2009
Jungers Center Lecture: Basal ganglia function in health and Parkinson's disease
Charles J. Wilson, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, University of Texas, San Antonio
Host: Neurobiology of Disease Course for 2009 and Gary Westbrook
JUNE 2009
June 15, 2009
Special Seminar: Cornichon proteins: Novel regulators of AMPA receptor function
Bernd Fakler, M.D.
Institute of Physiology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Host: John Adelman
June 30, 2009
Special Seminar: A nuclear phosphoinositide signaling pathway that controls the expression of 'old professor' genes
Richard Anderson, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Host: Tom Soderling
JULY 2009
July 16, 2009
Special Seminar: Evolution of steroid hormone receptor structure and function
Joseph Thornton, Ph.D.
HHMI, Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene
Host: Dick Goodman
July 16, 2009
Special Seminar: Cellular mechanisms of synaptic and non-synaptic plasticity in cerebellar circuits
Christian Hansel, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Host: John Adelman
AUGUST 2009
August 17, 2009
Special Seminar: Set1-like complexes containing MLL3/4 in metabolism and tumorigenesis
Jae W. Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Host: Dick Goodman and Stephen Back, OHSU Department of Pediatrics
