SEMINAR
Dopamine Regulation
Of The Ras Homolog Enriched In Striatum
Laura Harrison, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor/Research, Department of Psychology
University of New Orleans
New Orleans Louisiana
January 19, 2007, 12:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
CHANCELLOR'S AWARD LECTURE
Microglia and T cells
contribute to CNS maintenance, repair, neurogenesis, and cognition
in health and disease
Michal Schwartz,
Department of Neurobiology,
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
January 29, 2007, 4:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
CHANCELLOR'S AWARD LECTURE
Structure and Function
of the Cerebral Cortex in Health and Disease
David Van Essen, Ph.D.
Edison Professor of Neurobiology and Head
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
February 5, 2007, 4:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
19th
Annual Neuroscience Retreat
Viability, compensation, and homeostasis
in rhythmic motor networks
Keynote and Award Lecturer
Dr. Eve Marder
Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience
Volen Center and Biology Department
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts
Neurons can live many years while ion channels and receptors turn
over in neuronal membranes in minutes, hours, days or weeks. Therefore
homeostatic mechanisms are needed to provide stable neuronal and
network function over an animal's lifetime. Consequently, it is
important to determine how tightly regulated synaptic and intrinsic
properties must be to ensure adequate network performance. Moreover,
it is important to determine the extent to which compensatory mechanisms
allow for multiple solutions to the production of similar behaviour.
I will use examples from theoretical and experimental studies using
the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system to argue that synaptic
and intrinsic currents can vary far more than the output of the
circuit in which they are found. These data have significant implications
for the mechanisms that maintain stable function over the animal’s
lifetime.
April 14, 2007, 9:30am, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
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SEMINAR
Faculty Candidate
"Genome-Scale Approaches to Understanding Transcription Factors: Focus on the E2F Family"
Mark Bieda, PhD
University of California, Davis
Genome Center and Bioinformatics Program
11:00 am April 26, 2007
8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion's Building
2020 Gravier St, New Orleans
Chancellor’s Award Lecture in Neuroscience
A Fine Balance: Contributions of Disrupted Neurotransmitter Transport to the Origins and Pharmacology of Psychiatric Disorders
Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D.
Allan D. Bass Professor of Pharmacology & Psychiatry
Director, Vanderbilt Center for Molecular Neuroscience
Director, Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
Nashville, TN
3:00pm May 29, 2007, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building,
2020 Gravier Street
New Orleans
N. Bazan Lab Meeting
Neuroprotective Mechanisms of Carnosine in Ischemic Stroke
G. K., Rajanikant, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology & Ophthalmology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MIStroke is the third leading cause of mortality and adult disability in the Western world. The recombinant tissue plasminogen activator is the only FDA approved thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke and benefits only 2-5% of all hospitalized stroke patients. Therefore, a quest for safe and effective drug that will benefit a larger number of acute stroke patients remains an urgent priority.
Carnosine is a naturally occurring endogenous dipeptide, antioxidant and a popular dietary supplement with no known side effects or adverse interactions with other drugs. It has been shown to have a wide range of properties that enable it to act as antioxidant, metal chelator, inhibitor of protein glycosylation, neuroprotectant and neuromodulator. To date, little has been reported on the effect of carnosine on stroke or ischemia in the brain.
This talk will describe the efficacy and the potential neuroprotective mechanisms of carnosine in the mouse model of permanent focal cerebral ischemia. Further, the limitations and avenues for future research on carnosine relating to stroke will be discussed.
12:30pm June 8, 2007
8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building,
2020 Gravier Street, New Orleans
Chancellor’s Award Lecture in Neuroscience
“Sound communication in noisy ambiance: Lessons from torrent frogs”
Albert S. Feng, Ph.D.
Richard & Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar
Professor of Physiology, Neuroscience, Bioengineering,
and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
12:00pm July 9, 2007, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building,
2020 Gravier Street
New Orleans
Faculty Candidate
"Identification of Protein-interactors/ functional regulators of the ABC
transporter Ycf1p from Sacharomyces cerevisiae and its human
homologue,
MRP1"
Christian M. Paumi, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Thursday
July 26, 2007
11:00 a.m.
Lion's Bldg.
2020 Gravier Street
8th Floor Large
Conference Room
Seminar
"Experience-dependent Rewiring of Cortical Circuits"
Arianna Maffei, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
12:00pm September 11, 2007, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building,
2020 Gravier Street, New Orleans
Neuroscience Lab Meeting/Journal Club
“Neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1) rescues 15-lipoxygenase-1 deficient retinal pigment epithelial cells against oxidative stress damage”
Jorgelina Calandria
N.G. Bazan lab
12:00 PM - MONDAY, September 24, 2007
8TH floor conference room,
2020 Gravier Street
Chancellor’s Award Lecturer
Lysophospholipid Receptors:
Discovery, Development, Diseases
Jerold Chun, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology
Helen L. Dorris Child and Adolescent
Neuropsychiatric Disorder Institute
The Scripps Research Institute
September 28, 2007 12:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
New Orleans
Seminar
"Behavioral and Network States: Making Sense of
Variability in Sensory Response"
Alfredo Fontanini, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Psychology and Volen Center
for Complex Systems
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
11:45 am October 9, 2007, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building,
2020 Gravier Street,
New Orleans LA
The Kline Festschrift Symposium on “Nerve”
Symposium Website
October 19-20, 2007
LSU Health Sciences Center
Neuroscience Center Conference Room 835 – 8th Floor
New Orleans, Louisiana
Seminar
“Astrocyte Regulation of Vascular Remodeling: Insight from a Novel Crystallin Mutation”
Debasish Sinha, Ph.D.
Wilmer Eye Institute
Baltimore, MD
Monday November 5, 2007 12:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
New Orleans
Seminar
"Group VIA calcium-independent phospholipase A2 - possible pharmaceutical target in retinal diseases involving retinal pigment epithelium maintenance, proliferation and cell death"
Miriam Kolko, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen
The Panum Institute
Copenhagen, Denmark
Wednesday November 7, 2007
4:00pm, Lion’s Building, 8th Floor Conference Room
2020 Gravier Street, New Orleans, LA 70112
Seminar
"Regulation of Synaptic Development by a Ubiquitination Pathway"
Chunlai Wu, Ph.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Molecular Biology
and Pharmacology
St. Louis, Missouri
Thursday November 14, 2007, 12:00pm,
8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building,
2020 Gravier Street, New Orleans
Chancellor's Award Lecture
"Oscillatory Organization of Neuronal Ensembles"
Gyorgy Buzsaki
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
November 26th, 2007
12:00 pm, 8th Floor Conference Room
2020 Gravier St. New Orleans LA
Chancellor's Award Lecture
"The Origin of Cellular Regulation by Protein Phosphorylation"
Edmond H. Fischer
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington, Seattle
November 29, 2007 12:00 pm, 8th Floor Conference Room
2020 Gravier St. New Orleans, LA
