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1 Seminars Director: Vlad Parpura, M.D., Coordinator: Jan Phillips Date Speaker Institution Host Title 9/29/2011 Matthew Rasband, PH.D. Assiocate Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience Harald Sontheimer, Co-sponsored with the Center for Glial Biology in Medicine "The Functional Organization of Axons in Health and Disease" 10/13/2011 Henrique von Oregon Health & Gersdorff, Science Senior Scientist University in Physics in Neurobiology Jacques Wadiche, "Multivesicular release at sensory synapses of the eye and ear"

2 10/20/2011 Paul E. M. Phillips, Associate Washington Jeremy Day, Postdoctoral Fellow "Coupling value to actions: Dopamine and decision making" 10/27/2011 Andre H. Lagrange, M.D., Vanderbilt University John Hablitz, David Standaert, M.D., Co-sponsored by the Department of Neurology "GABA: the brain's swiss-army knife" 11/10/2011 Mini Symposium Frank Kirchhoff, Saarland University, Thomas van Groen, UAB Vlad Parpura, MD, PhD co sponsored by: Comprehensive Neuroscience Center and with the Center for Glial Biology in Medicine "Physiology & pathophysiology of Astroglia" CLICK HERE to download the flyer

3 Germany Catherine Fuller, UAB Talks: Thomas Van Groen "The role of astrocytes in Alzhemier's disease" Swen Hülsmann, Göttingen, Germany Sergey Kasparov, M.D., Bristol, UK Cathy Fuller "Deg/ENaC cation channels in glioblastoma" Frank Kirchhoff "Genetic manipulations in studying of astrocyte-neuron signaling" 12/1/2011 Andrew West, Swen Hülsmann "Determinants of functional coupling between astrocytes and respiratory neurons in the pre-botzinger complex" Sergey Kasparov "Optogenetic analysis of astrocyte-to neurone communication in the brainstem?" Vlad Parpura, M.D., "Pieces of the Parkinson's Disease Puzzle" Department of Neurology

4 1/19/2012 Candace Floyd, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Vlad Parpura, M.D., "Spinal cord injury and NF-kB: Of pains and gains" 1/23/2012 Jeffrey L. Neul, M.D., Asspcoate Faculty Applicate Baylor College of Medicine Leon Dure, M.D. Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Department of Jointly sonsored with the Molecular & Department of Pediatrics, Human Genetics Civitan, and Neurobiology "Pathophysiology of cardiac arrhythmias in Rett syndrome" DIFFERENT DAY & TIME 1:00 1/26/2012 Andrew Pieper, M.D., UT Southwestern Vlad Parpura, M.D., Medical Center "'Discovery of a Neuroprotective Chemical"

5 2/2/2012 Rajesh Kana, Social and Behavioral Science John Hablitz, Vlad Parpura, M.D., "Neural Signatures of Autism" 2/9/2012 David Knight, Psychology Vlad Parpura, M.D., "Neural Mechanisms of the Threat-related Emotional Response" 2/16/2012 Mel Feany, M.D., Associate Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Pathology Michael Brenner, "Genetic analysis of neurodegeneration"

6 3/1/2012 Lawrence Sincich, Vision Sciences Kristina Visscher, "Orientation Selectivity and Cytochrome Oxidase Architecture in Macaque V1" NLB 703 Credit 3/8/2012 Peter W. Kalivas, Porfessor / Co- Chair Medical South Carolina Robin Lester, "Using neuroplasticity to cure addiction" 3/15/2012 Marcelo A. Wood, Associate California, Irvine David Sweatt, "The role of chromatin modifying enzymes in long-term memory processes."

7 3/22/2012 David Katz, Case Western Reserve University Lucas Pozzo-Miller, "Circuit dysfunction and repair in Rett syndrome: co-sponsored with IDDRC What mice are teaching us about the reversibility of autism spectrum disorders" 3/29/2012 Maria Castro, Michigan Gwen King, "Immune-Mediated Therapeutic Strategies for Brain Cancer: Signaling via Toll Receptors on Tumor Infiltrating Dendritic Cells" 4/6/2012 Luis Puelles, M.D., Murcia in Spain Vlad Parpura, M.D., Co-host: Emma Perez-Costas, "New concepts on the morphological organization of the forebrain and midbrain" DIFFERENT DAY

8 4/19/2012 Talene Yacoubian, M.D., Department of Neurology Vlad Parpura, M.D., "Role of s in Parkinson's Disease"

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