Location: NE 401 Med-Dent
Time: Friday,
2-4 PM
September 7: No Class (IPN Retreat)
Rescheduled for Monday, Sept 10.
September
10 (MONDAY): Dr. Joseph Neale
Professor, Department of Biology
Neurochemical and Behavioral Activity of NAAG in Animal Models of
Schizophrenia
NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME: Monday, Sept 10 from 1-3 PM
September
14: Drs. Guinevere Eden and Daniel Koo
Associate Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of
Pediatrics
Mechanisms of Reading in Deaf Children: Neuroplasticity of written language
function in deaf populations
September 21: Dr. John VanMeter
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Director of the Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging
Investigation of Perceptual Skills and Cognitive Strategies
Using Functional Brain Imaging
[inter-institutional collaborative project funded by the Department of Defense,
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency University Research Initiatives (NURI)]
September 28th: Dr. Chandan Vaidya and
Ericka Burgos-Ruiz
Associate Professor of Psychology and IPN thesis student
Integrating brain imaging and genetic analysis of ADHD
(awarded RO-1)
October 5: Dr. Daniel Pak and Danielle
Evers
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and IPN thesis student
Regulation of N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor (NSF)and AMPA receptor by
serum inducible kinase (SNK)
(NRSA fellowship application funded on the first try)
October 12: Dr. Karen Gale and Patrick
Forcelli
Professor of Pharmacology and prethesis student
Seizures and anti-epileptic drugs: effects on the immature brain
(RO-1 application and Epilepsy Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship application)
October
19: Dr. Jian-Young Wu
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Spiral dynamics in the cortex during seizure and evoked activity
(awarded RO-1)
October 26: Dr. James Gnadt
Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics (Howard Univ
and Georgetown Univ)
Modulation of Thalamic Relay
November 2: Dr. Milton Brown
Professor, Departments of Oncology and Neuroscience
Development of new antiepileptic compounds targeting sodium channels
November 9: Dr. Kathleen Maguire Zeiss
Associate Professor of Neuroscience (Dr. Maguire Zeiss is a
new faculty member who just this fall has moved to Georgetown from Univ of
Rochester)
Toxicant, oxidative injury, dopamine & synuclein in Parkinson's Disease
(awarded RO-1)
November 16: Dr. Howard Federoff
Executive Vice President of Health Sciences and Executive
Dean of the Medical School
CNS Gene Therapy: Will it ever work?
(this session will present an overview of research approaches to gene
therapy in the CNS and translational implications and prospects)
November 23: Dr. Ima Turkey
Assistant Professor, Department of Farm Ecology
The effects of cranberry sauce on the absorption of avian proteins
November 30: Dr. Rhonda Dzakpasu
Assistant Professor of Physics (Dr. Dzakpasu is a new faculty
member in the Physics department who will be starting her appointment next
month, in January).
Understanding the neural circuit: how network dynamics are influenced by
synaptogenesis
December 7: Italo Mocchetti
Professor of Neuroscience
Neurotrophins and Neuroprotection
December
14: Dr. Jeffrey Urbach
Professor of Physics
Axon motility and guidance in three dimensional matrices
(awarded R21 application)
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