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29 February Feb

Seminar: Dr. Bruce Nicholson

Wed Feb 29 2012, 12:30 PM

901, Rose F Kennedy Center

Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience

Gap junctions and hemichannels – metabolite permeability and relevance for deafness and skin disease

Gating-ring rearrangements studied in whole BK channels

Roles of olfactory receptor neurons in establishing neural codes for odors

PAR Network Regulating Survival and Death in the Brain

Dendritic ion channels and plasticity in the hippocampus

Non-retrograde signaling mediated by endocannabinoids and TRPV1 channels: role in synaptic transmission and plasticity

Neuromodulation in the olfactory bulb and odor processing

Neurovascular coupling in health and disease: Mechanisms and implications for brain function

Voltage-gating of connexin channels: experimental and computational approaches

Activity-dependent neurotransmitter specification: rewiring the brain

Principles of neuronal network architecture: Insights from locomotor circuits in larval zebrafish

Pedal to the metal: how nucleus accumbens dopamine activates flexible navigation towards reward

Differential regulation of transmitter release by calcium; synaptic heterogeneity in neocortical neurons

Brownian permeability computation models predict that differences in the pore’s vestibule radii are determinant for the direction of preferential fluxes through heterotypic Cx45-Cx43 channels

Direct in vivo imaging of structural and functional plasticity and metaplasticity within the awake developing brain

Retinal Photoreceptors: Living Life on the Edge

Intercellular communications in sensory ganglia by purinergic receptors and gap junctions: Implications for chronic pain

Feedforward corticocortical circuits

From Synapse to Sickness: The role of SAPAP3 in regulating mGluRs, striatal activity, and compulsive behaviors

Optogenetics and Other Neural Circuit Analysis Tools

Autism and the Serotonin Transporter

Plasticity in GABA(B)-GIRK channel signaling with addictive drugs

Acute seizures and chronic epilepsy in animal models of hypoxia/hypoxia-ischemia: new insights with telemetric recordings

Transmitter, Receptor and Synapse

Motion processing with 2 eyes in 3 dimensions

CHIP-Mediated Degradation of Hippocampal Estrogen Receptor - and the Critical Period Hypothesis of Estrogen Neuroprotection

Status Epilepticus: bench to bedside

The role of plasticity at an auditory synapse

Repressors and Glia: Life Support for Neurons

Zebrafish Provides New Perspectives on Synaptic Transmission

The Brain’s Diversity Initiative: Adhesive Specificity, Intracellular Signaling, and Developmental Roles for the Gamma-Protocadherins

The prion protein beyond neurodegeneration

Endozepines as natural modulators of thalamocortical circuit function

Mu-opioid receptor desensitization and the recovery from desensitization in Locus Coeruleus neurons'

Microzonal organization and interneurons in the cerebellum

Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Signaling in Development and Disease

Neuronal mechanisms of behavioral choice

Developmental Brain Malformations: A Spectrum Along the mTOR Cascade

Genes, circuits, and dynamics: using a fixed nervous system to build flexible behaviors

The Evolution of Phrenamines in Behavior: A Trace Odyssey

Overcoming our fears: Prefrontal regulation of fear and extinction

Cerebellar Golgi cells: disentangling chemical and electrical synaptic signaling

Autism: 22q11 bridges mouse proxy and human correlation

Food Addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical overlaps between abnormal food intake and drug abuse

Molecular Mechanisms of GABA(A) Receptor Gene Regulation in Epilepsy

Death and regeneration of mechanosensory hair cells in zebrafish

GABAB receptor modulation at spines and dendrites

Ubiquitin and gravity as modifiers of synaptic function

Birdsong as a model for speech disorders

Neurovascular coupling in health and disease: Mechanisms and implications for brain function

Disease modeling in schizophrenia using induced pluripotent stem cells

AMPA receptor plasticity: A target for treating cocaine addiction

Building a Connectome of a Spinal Neural Circuit Controlling an Innate Male Behavior

Feedforward corticocortical networks

Glial gap junctions, aquaporin-4, potassium siphoning, saltatory conduction, and associated human neurological diseases

Determining the temporal role of Tsc1 in the development of the thalamus: Alterations in thalamic neurons, thalamocortical circuits, and behavior in a novel mouse model of Tuberous Sclerosis

CHIP-Mediated Degradation of Hippocampal Estrogen Receptor - and the Critical Period Hypothesis of Estrogen Neuroprotection

Variability and Robustness in Neuronal Networks

Segmentation in the mouse hindbrain revealed by fgf8 and hox gene expression in cre lineages

SK2 channels: A story of synaptic serendipity

A spectrum of connexin abnormalities is associated with diseases like cataracts and arrhythmias

Astrocytes and the regulation of cerebral blood flow and neuronal activity

Drug-evoked synaptic plasticity in the ventral tegmental area: cellular mechanisms and implications for the reward circuit

Auditory Cortex at the Cocktail Party: Some Studies of Spatial Hearing

Molecular mechanisms that regulate electrical synaptic coupling in retinal neurons during light and dark adaptation

Integrating CA2 in the cortico-hippocampal loop

What a long strange Trp it's been: mGluR6 transduction

Molecular mechanisms regulating neural specification in developing and postnatal hypothalamus

Gatekeepers of plasticity at GABA synapses: novel roles for endocannabinoids

Electrical synapses formed by interneuronal gap junctions in mammalian brain: anatomy, molecular composition and regulation

Histone deacetylases: between repair and damage

Fetal Programming of the Stress Response: Transgenerational Consequences

Cx26 mutations in syndromic deafness linked to skin disease

The Role of Adenosine in Central Nervous System Barrier Permeability

Molecular determinants of the fast and precise function of cortical fast-spiking interneurons

Refinement and Validation of Models of the Kv1.2 Channel and Calculation of the Gating Charge using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Given Biological Variation, how should we model small rhythmic networks?

Role and regulation of connexins and pannexins in the male reproductive tract

Adult neural stem cells and neural plasticity