After chronic stress: Living with a different brain
Marian Joëls, Ph.D. - University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Science, Center for Neuroscience, The Netherlands
July 13, 2006
Regulation mechanisms and structural rearrangements of metabotropic glutamate receptor
Yoshihiro Kubo, M.D., Ph.D. - National Institute of Physiological Sciences,
Division of Biophysics and Neurobiology,
Okazaki, Japan
September 19, 2006
ApoE Receptors and Alzheimer's Disease
Guojun Bu, Ph.D. - Washington University School of Medicine,
Departments of Pediatrics, Cell Biology and
Physiology
September 26, 2006
Effect of alpha-synuclein and DJ-1 on neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease
Chris Rochet, Ph.D. - Purdue University,
Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular
Pharmacology
October 3, 2006
MAPK is the D quadrant organizer of the squid embryo Loligo pealei
Karen Crawford, Ph.D. - St. Mary's College of Maryland,
St. Mary's City, MD
October 24, 2006
It Takes Nerve to Tell a B Cell What to Do
Virginia M. Sanders, Ph.D. - The Ohio State University,
Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics
November 2, 2006
Rab5 guanine nucleotide exchange factors: Regulators of receptor trafficking from yeast to neurons
Bruce Horazdovsky, Ph.D. - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Rochester, MN
November 14, 2006
Protecting Axons and Promoting Plasticity In Demyelinating Disease
George DeVries, Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Chicago,
Anatomy and Cell Biology,
VA Hines Hospital
November 21, 2006
Lenti on the Brain: Strategies for reducing beta-amyloid pathology in Alzheimer disease
Robert Marr, Ph.D. - Rosalind Franklin University, Department of Neuroscience,
North Chicago, Illinois
December 5, 2006
Lewy bodies – good synuclein gone bad
Tamie J. Chilcote, Ph.D. - Active Site Pharmaceuticals,
187 Magellan Ave.,
San Francisco, CA
December 12, 2006
Communication coding in mouse cortex: from sounds to spikes
Robert C. Liu, Ph.D. - Emory University, Department of Biology,
Atlanta, GA
January 4, 2007
Cellular mechanisms of working memory and attention in prefrontal cortex and their modulation by dopamine
Jeremy Seamans, Ph.D. - University of British Columbia Hospital,
Brain Research Center,
Vancouver, British Columbia
January 23, 2007
Noradrenergic control of brain activation: Effects on Inflammation and Amyloid Burden
Douglas Feinstein, Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Chicago,
Departments of Anesthesiology and Anatomy & Cell Biology
February 6, 2007
Understanding the roles of Rho GTPase Guanine-nucleotide Exchange Factors (GEFs) in the regulated secretory pathway
Francesco Ferraro, Ph.D. - University of Connecticut Health Center Neuroscience Department,
Farmington, Connecticut
February 9, 2007
Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: What do these two groups of diseases have in common?
Virginia Lee, Ph.D. - University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine,
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2007
Excitoxic Mechanisms in Inflammatory Aspects of Neurodegeneration
Steven Barger, Ph.D. - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences; and GRECC, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
March 13, 2007
Taking a tryp across the human blood-brain barrier
Dennis Grab, Ph.D. - The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics Division of Infectious Diseases
April 10, 2007
Ultrastructural Analysis of Synapses within Brains of Alzheimer’s Disease Model Mice
Chiye Aoki, Ph.D. - New York University Center for Neural Science New York, NY
April 24, 2007
LDLR splicing: Genetics, cholesterol and Alzheimers disease
Steven Estus, Ph.D. - University of Kentucky, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging,
Lexington, KY
May 3, 2007
Cell biology of Alzheimer's disease beta-amyloid production
Gopal Thinakaran, Ph.D. - University of Chicago,
Department of Neurobiology
May 8, 2007
Shifting sands of cholinergic neurotrophic activity in prodromal Alzheimer's Disease
Elliott J. Mufson, Ph.D. - Rush University Medical Center,
Alla and Solomon Jesmer Chair in Aging
May 15, 2007
Modulation, Maturation and Morphology; The roles of reelin signaling in the hippocampus
Edwin J. Weeber, Ph.D. - Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development,
Department of Molecular Physiology Biophysics,
Department of Pharmacology,
Nashville, Tennessee
May 24, 2007
Functional significance of Arf-GEF (a small G protein and its activator) in the regulation of neuronal dendritic formation
Hisatake Kondo, M.D, Ph.D. - Tohoku University,
Graduate School of Medical Science, Department of Cell Biology,
Division of Histology, Sendai, Japan
May 29, 2007