Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience

Spring 2013

• Megan Slaker (Mentor Barb Sorg), Student Presentor:  The Role of Perineuronal Nets in Mediating Cocaine-Seeking Behavior (4/19/2013)
• Christine Wu (Mentor Jim Peters), Student Presentor; Channeling Satiation at the ST-NTS Synapse:  The Roles of TRPV1 and TRPV3 in Controlling Glutamate Release (4/19/2013)
• Dr. Sheri Mizumori; University of Washington; Decision and Memory Systems of the Brain; (April 12, 2013)
• Dr. Mike Morgan; Washington State University; Opioids in the Periaqueductal Gray: From Proteins to Pain Inhibition; (Neuro March 29, 2013)
• Dr. Ray Quock; Washington State University; Hyperbaric Oxygen:  A Novel Approach to Treatment of Chronic Pain (Neuro March 22, 2013)
• Dr. Todd Thiele; University of North Carolina; Overlapping Neuropeptide Modulation of Binge Alcohol Drinking and Eating Disorders: Can We Kill Two Birds with One Stone? (Neuro March 1, 2013)
• Dr. Michael Regnier; University of Washington; Supercharging the Heart:  Elevating 2 deoxy-ATP to increase myocardial (Neuro February 15, 2013)
• Dr. Mary Heinricher; Oregon Health & Science University; How the Brain Controls Pain: A Circuit Analysis of Brainstem Pain-modulating Systems (February 1, 2013)
• Dr. Sue Aicher; Oregon Health & Science University; Pain Afferents from the Cornea:  A Unique View from the Eye (January 25, 2013)

Fall 2012

• Dr. Paul Glimcher; New York University; The Intersection of Neuroeconomics in Human Decision Making and Animal Foraging (Neuro Dec 7, 2012)
• Dr. Alex Brown, Texas A&M University; An Experimental Analysis of Charitable Donations of Time and Money (Neuro Nov. 30, 2012)
• Rita Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Drug context-induced relapse to cocaine seeking: interplay of memory, impulsive decision making, and motivation (Neuro, Nov 16, 2012)
• Joseph Garner, Stanford University, Predictive Validity and the Design of Neuroscience Experiments.
• James Coan; University of Virginia;  Social Proximity and the Economy of Action; (Neuro, Oct 5, 2012)
• William Casbeer; Defense Sciences Office, DARPA; The Neural Correlates of Moral Judgment and Narrative Processing: The Neurobiology Behind the Ethical Power of Stories; (Neuro Sept 28, 2012)
• Brian Knutson, PhD, Associate Professor, Stanford University, Anticipatory Affect and the Neural Prediction of Choice (Neuro Aug 24, 2012)
• Allison Coffin PhD, Assistant Professor, WSU Vancouver, Can you Hear me Now?  Translating Life and Death in the Zebrafish Lateral Line. (Neuro Sept 7, 2012)
• Dr. Christina Aberini, Professor, NYU, Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Long-Term Memory Formation. (Neuro Sept 14, 2012)

Spring 2012

• Robert Ritter, VMD, PhD, Professor, Program in Neuroscience, Washington State University, NMDA Receptor Mechanisms and Hindbrain Integration of Satiation Signals (Neuro January 27, 2012)
• Dian O'Dowd, PhD, Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Professor, Anatomy/Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine (Neuro February 3, 2012)
• Matt Hayes, PhD., Translational Neuroscience Program, School of Medicine School of Nursing Science University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Mechanistic Interactions Between Hindbrain Leptin and GLP-1 in Control of Food Intake, (Neuro 590 February 9, 2012)
• Dr. Peter Franzen, U. Pitts. Medical Center, Got the Low-Down Sleepless Night Blues: Sleep Deprivation Increases Stress and Emotional Reactivity, (Special Sleep Seminar February 10, 2012)
• Sue Ritter, PhD, Professor, Program in Neuroscience, Washington State University, Glucose: food for thought and a lot more...How does the brain detect and respond to deficits in its essential metabolic fuel? (Neuro 590 February 24, 2012)
• Volker Coenen, MD, Associate Professor in Neurosurgery University Hospital, Bonn, Germany, The role of affective neuroscience in the comprehension of new target regions in the treatment of severe depression with deep brain stimulation, (Special IPN Seminar February 27, 2012)
• Allison Coffin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Can You Hear Me Now? Translating hair cell life and death in the Zebrafish Lateral Line, (Neuro 590 March 2, 2012)
• Gregory Bagby, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Impact of alcohol consumption on HIV disease, (ADARP/Pharm Sci Seminar March 8, 2012)
• Steven Simasko, PhD, Professor and Chair, Program in Neuroscience, Washington State University, Feeling Fat?  Mechanisms of Lipid-Induced Activation of Vagal Afferent Neurons, (Neuro 590 March 9, 2012)
• Bryan Yamamoto, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosciences, University of Toledo, Ohio, Stressed out on methamphetamine: Biogenic amines and beyond, (ADARP Seminar March 23, 2012)
• Student presentations, (Neuro 590 March 30 and Friday, April 6)
• Timothy H. Moran, PhD, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CCM), Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, Lower gut peptides and food intake. (Neuro 590, April 13, 2012)
• Daniel L. Marks, MD, PhD, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, Hypothalamic mechanisms in cachexia, (Neuro 590, April 20, 2012)
• Bill Carlezon, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard University, Belmont, MA, CREB and kappa-opioid receptors in the study and treatment of substance abuse and depressive disorders, (ADARP Seminar, April 27, 2012)
• Colleen McClung, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Circadian genes, rhythms and psychiatric disease, (ADARP Seminar, Friday, May 4, 2012)

Fall 2011

• Dr. Mark Opp, Professor and Vice Chair for Basic Science, UW Medicine Research and Education Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Sleep and immune function (Neuro 590 August 26, 2011)
• Jerome (Jerry) Siegel, Director Center for Sleep Research, University of CA, LA. Sleep phylogeny: clues to the function of sleep (Neuro 590 Sept. 9, 2011)
• Paul Kenny, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, Scripps Institute (Florida campus) Nicotinic receptor signaling in the habenulo-interpeduncular tract regulates nicotine intake (ADARP Seminar September 16, 2011)
• Chiara Cirelli, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, U of Wisconsin, Madison, Sleep and synaptic homeostasis (Neuro 590 October 4, 2011)
• Douglas Watt, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School Clinic for Cognitive Disorders/Boston, Western lifestyles, diseases of aging and the healthcare crisis: An update on calorie restriction mimetics (Guest Seminar October 20, 2011)
• Rita Fuchs, Dept. of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Drug context-induced relapse to cocaine seeking: An interplay of memory, impulsive decision making, and motivation (ADARP Seminar October 28, 2011)
• Andres Barria, Assistant Professor Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Trafficking and function of NMDA receptors: A tale of two receptors (Special Seminar, November 3, 2011)
• Flavia Consens, Depts of Neurology and Anesthesiology/Pain Medicine, University of WA, Sleep disorders (Neuro 590 November 4, 2011)
• Oliver Schluter, The Gottingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics and Molecular Biosciences, DLG-MAGUKs: A diverse family of signaling scaffolds of synaptic plasticity and neuronal excitability (ADARP Seminar, November 8, 2011)
• Andrey Ryabinin, Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Neurocircuitry and social aspects of alcohol abuse: Novel findings with stress peptides and prairie voles (ADARP seminar, December 1, 2011)
• Ron Szymusiak, Associate Professor and Professor, University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine/Los Angeles School of Meeicine, Responses of sleep-active neurons in the preoptic hypothalamus to homeostatis sleep pressure (Neuro 590, December 2, 2011)
• Paul Shaw, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Neurosciences Program, Washington University at St. Louis Inducing sleep by remote control facilities memory consolidation (Neuro 590, December 9, 2011)

Spring 2011

• Dr. Pamela Lein, Associate Professor (Department of Molecular Biosciences, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine) Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) modulate neuronal connectivity via ryanodine receptor-dependent mechanisms (February 25, 2011)
• Dr. Scott Soderling, Assistant Professor (Dept of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center) Insights into Synapse formation by the retardation associated Rac regulatory protein WRP. (March 22, 2011)
• Dr. Soren Impey, Assistant Professor (Cell and Development Biology/Stem Cell Center, Oregon Health and Science University) Functional genomic profiling of the noncoding transcriptome and miRNA target networks (March 25, 2011)
• Graduate Student Presentation: Brandon Roberts (Appleyard Lab) Serotonin and glucose modulate hindbrain catecholamine neurons (April 1, 2011)
• Special Seminar (Not part of Neuro 541)
  Dr. Alan Rosenwasser, Professor  of Psychology (School of Biology and Ecology and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine) Chronobiology of alcohol and alcoholism (April 14, 2011)
• Graduate Student Presentations: Peter Neuman (Yan Dong Lab) Labeling cocaine-induced synaptogenesis from the lateral hypothalamus to the nucleus accumbens using GRASP (April 15, 2011)
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  Graduate Student Presentation: John Jeshurun Michael (Murali Chandra Lab) Role of the flexible linker and the H1-helix of the carboxyl terminus of troponin T in modulating cardiac myofilament activation (April 15, 2011)
• Dr. Gary Banker, Professor of Neurology/Senior Scientist (Jungers Center, Oregon Health and Science University) Membrane trafficking and neuronal polarity (April 29, 2011)
• Dr. Andrea Hohmann, Professor and Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience (Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University) Endocannabinoid mechanisms of pain suppression (April 29, 2011)

Fall 2010

• Dr. Paul Vezina, Professor (Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Chicago) Dopamine-glutamate signaling and amphetamine sensitization (September 3, 2010)
• Dr. Michela Marinelli, Associate Professor (Dept. of Pharmacology, Chicago Medical School) Age, stress and dopamine neurons: factors facilitating cocaine addiction (October 8, 2010)
• Dr. John Neumaier, Professor (Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Washington) Probing striatal function using pathway-selective viral vectors and neoceptors (October 15, 2010)
• Dr. Paul Phillips, Associate Professor (Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences/Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Washington) Coupling value to action: dopamine and decision making (October 29, 2010)
• Dr. Michele Fornaro, Associate Professor (Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turnin, Italy) Is adulthood too late for DRG cell population to be dynamic? (November 10, 2010)
• Dr. David Lovinger (National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)Synaptic Plasticity in the Dorsal Striatum: Roles in Learning and Memory (December 10, 2010)
• Applicant seminar videos: James Peters (November 3); Ilia Karatsoreos (November 4); Michael Silverman (November 5; audio cuts out of presentation at 27 minutes)
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Spring 2010

• Dr. Craig Jahr (University of Oregon) Presynaptic NMDA receptors are postsynaptic (Feb. 5, 2010) (See video of presentation)
• Dr. Douglas G. Cole (University of Idaho) Intraflagellar Transport: Moving from Green Algae to Ciliopathies (March 5, 2010) (See video of presentation)
• Dr. David Wieczorek (University of Cincinnati) The Role of Tropomyosin in Cardiovascular Disease (March 12, 2010)
  
• Dr. Jil C. Tardiff (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, NY) From computational biophysics to complex cardiomyopathies: An integrative approach to familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (March 26, 2010)
• Students: Matasha Dhar (Wayman Lab) and Zach Gallaher (Czaja Lab; April 2, 2010) Role of leptin in mediating effects of maternal nutritional state on hippocampal development (Dahr); Neurogenesis within the dorsal root ganglia of the adult rat following nerve damage(Gallaher)
• Student: Bradley Winters (Drs. James Krueger and Yan Dong labs)Connectivity and Sleep: The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Synaptic Strength and Intrinsic Membrane Excitability (April 8, 2010)
• Dr. Danuta Szczesna (University of Miami, FL) Molecular Mechanisms of Myosin Light Chain-Induced Cardiac Disease (April 9, 2010)
• Dr. Jenny L. Wiley (Research Triangle Institute)Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice? Cannabinoid Pharmacology in Females (April 16, 2010)
• Dr. Kevin Y. Xiang (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL) Spatiotemporal regulation of PKA and ERK induced by GPCRs in cardiac myocytes (April 16, 2010)
  

   

  Special Seminar:

• Dr. Yavin Shaham, National Institute on Drug Abuse Incubation of Drug Craving (May 6, 2010)