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All seminars will be held in Room 301
Alcee Fortier, at 4:00 p.m.
(unless otherwise
noted)
click here for 2006-2007
seminars
Classes begin Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Friday, September 14th - Bret Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky
"Cannabinoid modulation of
neuronal excitability in murine model of temportal lobe epilepsy"
Host: Dr. Jeffery Tasker
Friday, September 21st - Eduardo Martinez-Ceballos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Southern University
Baton Roug
"Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of Apoptosis Induced by Diepoxybutane"
Host: Dr. Carol Burdsal
Friday, October 19th - Samir S. El-Dahr, M.D.
Jane B. Aron Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA
"Regulation of renal growth and
differentiation by the tumor suppressor protein p53"
Host: Ms. Lisa Hua
Friday, October 26th - Andrei Belousov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Life Science Innovative Center Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
"Regulation of neuronal gap junctions during development and injury"
Host: Mr. Eric Leininger
Friday, November 9th - Liang Ma, Ph.D.
Division of Dermatology
Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
"Wnt signaling in external genitalia development"
Host: Dr. Laura Schrader
Friday, November 16th - James Meador-Woodruff, M.D.
Heman E. Drummond Chair and Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Schizophrenia as a Disorder of Glutamate Receptor Trafficking”
Host: Dr. Fiona Inglis
Thanksgiving Holiday: Wednesday November 21st through Sunday November 25th
Monday, November 26th - Peter Cserjesi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
“Regulation of neural crest differentiation”
Friday, November 30th - Jakob Reiser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine,
Microbiology, Immunology& Parasitology
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
"Virus-based vectors for transgene delivery in vitro and in vivo"
Last day of class is Friday, December 7th
Classes begin Monday, January 14th, 2008
Friday, January 25th - Jian-Ping (J.-P.) Jin, M.D., Ph.D.
Section Chief of Molecular Cardiology
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Evanston, IL
"Thin Filament Regulation of Motility"
Host: Dr. Jeffery Tasker
Tuesday, January 29th - Benjamin Hall, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
University of California, San Diego
"Molecular Control of Glutamatergic Synapse Development and Function"
Host: Dr. Jeffery Tasker
Thursday, January 31st - Matthew Kohn, Ph.D.
IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institute of Health
Laboratory of Molecular Growth Regulation
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Bethesda, MD
"TEAD proteins and trophoblast development"
Host: Dr. Jeffery Tasker
Mardi Gras Break: Monday, February 4th and Tuesday,
February 5th
Thursday, February 7th - Eric Swindell, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
"Analysis of Forebrain and Eye Development in Mouse and Zebrafish"
Host: Dr. Jeffery Tasker
Friday, February 8th - Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“New Neurons in Old brains”
Host: Dr. Laura Schrader
Friday, February 15th - Fiona Inglis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Developmental Neurobiology; Neuronal Plasticity
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
“Learning to walk: Steps in understanding the basis of synaptic plasticity
underlying movement and psychiatric disease“
Friday, February 29th - Shaoguang Li, MD, PhD.
Associate Professor
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME
"Key signaling pathways and leukemic stem cells in therapy of human
Philadelphia chromosome-positive leukemia"
Host: Dr. Ken Muneoka
Friday, March 7th - Catherine E. Krull, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
"Out on a limb: axon pathfinding in the periphery"
Host: Dr. Peter Cserjesi
Friday, March 14th - Jeff Taube,Ph.D.
Professor Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
“Which Way is that French Quarter? The Neurobiology for a Sense of Direction”
Spring Break: Sunday, March 16th through Sunday,
March 24th
Friday, April 4th - Yuka Morikawa, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University
" Developmental roles of the neural crest lineage"
Host: Dr. Peter Cserjesi
Friday, April 11th - Barbara Kozak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Regenerative Biology Laboratory
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, LA
" Regeneration in FoxN1 deficient (nude) mice”
Host: Dr. Ken Muneoka
Friday, April 18th - Weinian Shou Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine
“The role of FKBP12 and BMP10 in cardiac development and function”
Host: Dr. Jeffery Tasker
Wednesday, April 23rd - Mike Gershon, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Columbia University, New York
“The gut has nerve: serotonin, enteric reflexes, and bowel-brain
communication”
*12:00PM at 301 Alcee Fortier*
Friday, April 25th - Elizabeth L. Rugg, Ph.D.
Associate Researcher, Dermatology
University of California Irvine
Host: Dr. Ken Muneoka
Last day of class is Tuesday, April 29th
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