Spring 2012 Seminar Series
Fall 2012 Seminar Series is currently
being scheduled
Neuro 542/Special Topics in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
"Enuroeconomics/Neuroethics"
COMPLETED
FALL SEMESTER 2012
Neuro 590 "Neuronal Control of Feeding"
and
WSU Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program
(ADARP)
Spring Seminar Series
Earlier Seminars
Spring 2012
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Robert Ritter, VMD, PhD, Professor, Program in
Neuroscience, Washington State University, NMDA
Receptor Mechanisms and Hindbrain Integration of
Satiation Signals (Neuro January 27, 2012)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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 VCAPP Seminar February 27,
2012)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Student presentations, (Neuro 590 March 30 and
Friday, April 6)
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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)
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Daniel L. Marks, MD, PhD, Oregon Health and
Sciences University, Portland, OR, Hypothalamic mechanisms in cachexia, (Neuro
590, April 20, 2012)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
and
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)
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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)
NOTE: viewer will need password to access videos
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)
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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)
Videos
