PBIO SEMINAR SERIES: 2009-2010
All seminars take place THURSDAYS in G-328 at 10:30am (unless otherwise noted).
Refreshments follow.
September 24, 2009
"Imaging modules of perception and attention in Macaque visual cortex"
Anna Roe
Associate Professor, Vision Research Center at Vanderbilt University
October 01, 2009
"A Unified Model for Optimizing Actin Filament Lengths in Muscle"
Ryan Littlefield
University of Washington
Wednesday October 07, 2009
4:00 pm T-639
2009 Lamport Lecture -
"Coupling of neuronal activity to local cerebral blood flow through astrocytic Ca2+ and BK channels."
Mark T. Nelson, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Pharmacology, University of Vermont College of Medicine
October 15, 2009
"CaBP4, a neuronal calcium-binding protein essential for photoreceptor synaptic function"
Francoise Haeseleer
Physiology and Biophyics, University of Washington
October 29, 2009
"Lettvin's bug detector: multiple systems in the visual system"
Harvey Karten
Professor of Neurosciences, UC San Diego
Wednesday November 04, 2009
11:30 am
"Stimulus dependence of the functional connectivity between neurons in primary visual cortex"
Andrea Benucci
January 07, 2010
"Brain Rhythm in Normal and Disease Model States: From Autism to Alcoholism"
John Welsh, PhD
Professor, Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Seattle Childrens' Hospital
January 21, 2010
1:00pm
"Sinoatrial Node and Atrial Fibrillation: to beat or not to beat?"
Vadim Fedorov
Research Assistant Professor, Washington University
January 28, 2010
11:30am
"TRPM4 Regulates Smooth Muscle Cell Membrane Potential"
Scott Earley
Assistant Professor , Colorado St. University
February 11, 2010
"Seeking the function of CD133/Prominin-1 - a marker of stem cells and cilia."
Mark Bothwell
Professor, University of Washington
March 04, 2010
"One channel, one vesicle; two channels, two vesicles: synaptic transmission at an analog synapse in the mammalian retina"
Josh Singer
Assistant Professor , Northwestern University
March 11, 2010
"Spatiotemporal regulation of cAMP/PKA and ERK activities induced by GPCRs in cardiac myocytes"
Kevin Xiang
Univ. of Illinois
March 18, 2010
"Bi-directional communication between L-type Ca2+ channels and ryanodine receptors in skeletal muscle"
Roger Bannister
Univ. of Colorado
March 25, 2010
"Role of TAK1 Signaling Network in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Failure"
Qinghang Liu, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Wednesday March 31, 2010
4:00pm T-739
2010 Hille Lecture -
"The release of transmitter and the recycling of synaptic vesicles at the vertebrate neuromuscular junction"
Bill Betz
Professor and Chair, Univ. of Colorado Denver
April 08, 2010
"Differential Contributions of Frontal Eye Fields and Parietal Cortex for Smooth Pursuit Initiation and Maintenance"
Mike Mustari
Washington National Primate Research Center, Univ. of Washington
April 15, 2010
" Exploring neuro-ecology: Brain plasticity and brain evolution in social wasp"
Sean O'Donnell
Associate Professor - Animal Behavior Program, University of Washington, Dept. Psychology
May 13, 2010
"Acquired ion channelopathy in epilepsy"
Nick Poolos
Associate Professor, U. Washington
May 18, 2010
4:00pm T-747
2010 Crill Lecture -
"Input-dependent switching of inhibitory configurations in neural networks"
Alex Reyes
Associate Professor , Center for Neural Science, New York University
June 03, 2010
"Using genetics to dissect visual computation"
Thomas Clandinin
Associate Professor, Stanford University