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13 February Feb

Seminar: Dr. Laurel Trainor

Wed Feb 13 2013, 12:30 PM

901, Rose F Kennedy Center

Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience

Multisensory aspects of musical rhythm: Why we move to the beat

Secreted Semaphorins and Their Receptors Control Spine Distribution and Dendritic Morphogenesis in the Postnatal CNS

The dark side of the force: how inhibition controls activity in the primary visual cortex

Action selection and action value in frontal-striatal circuits

The complex of CaMKII with the NMDAR as a molecular memory at synapses

Cellular Mechanisms of Synchrony in the Basal Ganglia

Modeling the visual cortex

More - and less - than meets the eye: shape encoding under partial occlusion in primate visual cortex

Action potentials in regulating myelination and synaptic strength: Plasticity beyond the neuron doctrine

Sex and Drugs and the Medial Amygdala: Methamphetamine facilitation of female sexual behavior

Mechanisms and Functions of Synaptic and Intrinsic Plasticity in Normal and Pathological Sensory Processing

Acquisition of the sense of hearing during development

Exploring the Neurobiology of Cancer Pain

Gap junctions and synaptic integration in inhibitory interneurons

Christianson syndrome, ADHD and NHEs: How sodium/hydrogen exchangers control neuronal endocytosis and their relationship to disease

Electrical coupling, intercellular adhesion, and cell excitability: Three functions of a common molecular pool at the cardiac intercalated disc. Implications to arrhythmia mechanisms

Organization of Synapse Structure and Function by Trans-Synaptic Adhesion

Molecular control of synaptic vesicle fusion

Dissecting the role of dendritic inhibition in hippocampal memory formation

Neural mechanisms of the birdsong syntax

To branch or not to branch: Insights from a lower organism

Basic mechanisms of pediatric epilepsy: What we can learn from human studies

Neuronal calcium signaling disruptions alter synaptic homeostasis in Alzheimer’s Disease

The workings of glutamatergic synapses: parts and delivery

Statistical encoding and decoding of decision-related information from spike trains in area LIP

Inhibition through excitation beyond the synapse

GABA signaling to adult born neurons: where does it come from and what does it do?

Sex, stress and the brain: Hormone actions above the hypothalamus by novel mechanisms

Sensorimotor gating and basal ganglia dynamics

Evolution of self-identity and noradrenergic dysregulation in brain disorders

Dissecting microcircuits with a cellular bias

Genome-wide identification of novel pre- and postsynaptic MRNA targets of FMRP translational repression during elongation

Exploiting basal ganglia tricks to cure their disorders

Taking STEPS to Improve Cognition

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