PBIO SEMINAR SERIES 2004-2005
October 13, 2004
2004 Lamport Lecture -
"A Cascade Model of Synaptic Plasticity and Memory"
Laurence F. Abbott, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
November 17, 2004
"Synaptic inhibition of dopamine neurons"
John Williams
Professor, Vollum Institute
December 01, 2004
"NanoScale Chemistry and Technologies"
Daniel Chiu
Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemistry, University of Washington
December 08, 2004
"Regulation of Intrinsic Excitability During Motor Learning"
Sascha du Lac
Associate Professor, Salk Institute
December 15, 2004
"Direction selective calcium signals in retinal amacrine cell dendrites"
Peter Detwiler
Professor, University of Washington
January 12, 2005
"Physiological genomics of cortical circuits"
Sacha Nelson
Brandeis
January 19, 2005
"Shutting off GPCR signaling: Insights gained from Dynamic Studies of Rhodopsin"
David Farrens
Assistant Professor, OHSU
January 26, 2005
"Dendritic Plateau Potentials, Persistent Neural Activity and Spatio-temporal Integration"
Guy Major
Princeton
March 09, 2005
"How do you feel? TRP channels and Thermosensation"
Ardem Patapoutian
Scripps Institute
Friday April 01, 2005
Title To Be Announced
Benjamin Kaupp
Professor, Institut fuer Biologische Informationsverarbeitung
April 06, 2005
"Molecular and Biophysical Principles of Presynaptic Function"
Tim Ryan
Associate Professor, Cornell
April 13, 2005
"Combining working memory and decision-making in a simple model of two-stimulus-interval discrimination"
Carlos Brody, PhD.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
April 20, 2005
"Dynamic properties of neural circuits for vision"
Marty Usrey
Professor, University of California, Davis
April 27, 2005
"Mechanisms of chromosome movement in human cells"
Duane Compton
Professor of Biochemistry, Dartmouth
May 04, 2005
"Inhibiting the inhibitors; on the road to regeneration"
Marie Filbin
Distinguished Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York
Thursday May 05, 2005
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"Neural mechanisms underlying olfactory decisions in the rat"
Zachary Mainen
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
May 11, 2005
"MaxiK channels and vascular function"
Ligia Toro
Professor, UCLA
May 18, 2005
"Changing Your Mind? The Role of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor(BDNF) Signaling Cascades in Synapse-Specific Plasticity"
Susan Patterson
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
June 01, 2005
"Scaffolds, Signals, and Syntrophin at the Neuromuscular Synapse"
Marv Adams
Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington
June 08, 2005
"Activity-dependent mechanisms govern multiple aspects of visual system development."
Holly Cline
Hille Lecture, Cold Spring Harbor
June 15, 2005
"Mechanisms of mitosis in Xenopus egg extracts"
Rebecca Heald
Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, UC Berkeley