| Date | Speaker and topic |
|---|---|
| Wednesday July 5 2006 | Dr. David Stellwagen Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine TNFα as a mediator of homeostatic synaptic plasticity |
| Wednesday May 24 2006 | Dr. Chieh Chang Department of Biology McGill University Wiring and rewiring of sensory and motor neural circuits |
| *Tuesday* May 23 2006 | Dr. Lidong Liu Brain Research Centre University of British Columbia NMDA receptor subtypes play different roles in synaptic plasticity and excitotoxicity |
| *Thursday* May 18 2006 | Dr. Mauro Costa- Mattioli Department of Biochemistry McGill University Translational control of synaptic plasticity and behavioural learning |
| Wednesday May 17 2006 | Dr. Richard Robitaille Departement de Physiologie Universite de Montreal Glial-mediated homosynaptic and heterosynaptic plasticities |
| **Tuesday** May 9 2006 4:00pm | Dr. Scott Thompson Department of Physiology University of Maryland Shining a light on the needle-in-the-haystack: using photolysis of caged glutamate to study dendritic spines This is a Joint Seminar with Dept. Pharmacology and Therapeutics Please note the special time and location: McIntyre Bldg, McGill Room 1345 |
| **Monday** May 1 2006 | Dr. Nima Marandi Institute for Neuroscience Technical University of Munich Developmental switch of visual cortex network activity after eye opening in the mouse |
| Wednesday Apr 26 2006 | Dr. Ian Meinertzhagen Neuroscience Institute, Life Sciences Centre Dalhousie University The Drosophila photoreceptor terminal: how an identified synapse gets its own back |
| Wednesday Apr 19 2006 | Dr. Ted Fon Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Parkin in Traffic: Novel Functions of the Ubiquitin System in Parkinson's Disease |
| Wednesday Apr 12 2006 | Dr. Tak Pan Wong Brain Research Centre University of British Columbia Long-term depression: a cellular substrate of memory? |
| Wednesday Apr 5 2006 | Dr. Huey Hing Department of Cell & Developmental Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Axon targeting and synapse formation in the olfactory system |
| Wednesday Mar 29 2006 | Carbonetto Lab CRN Research Update |
| Wednesday Mar 22 2006 | Dr. Alyson Fournier Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University CNS Regeneration: Molecular approaches to identify novel therapeutic strategies for nerve repair |
| Wednesday Mar 15 2006 | Dr. David Juncker Biomedical Engineering Department McGill University Micro- and nanobioengineering technologies and applications: New concepts for engineering neuronal microenvironments |
| Wednesday Mar 8 2006 | Dr. Chiou-Fen Chuang Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Rockefeller University Assembling functional neural circuits: molecular mechanisms of neuronal diversification in C. elegans |
| Wednesday Feb 22 2006 | Dr. A. Claudio Cuello Department of Pharmacology McGill University Intraneuronal accumulation of beta-amyloid peptide: does it matter? |
| Wednesday Feb 15 2006 | Dr. Tim Kennedy Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Beyond axon guidance: novel roles for Netrin-1 in the mature CNS |
| Wednesday Feb 8 2006 | Dr. Benjamin Eaton Division of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California San Francisco Cellular mechanisms of synaptic stability and neurodegeneration |
| *Tuesday* Jan 31 2006 | Dr. Glenn Turner Division of Biology California Institute of Technology Electrophysiological investigation of olfactory representations in a learning and memory center of the Drosophila brain |
| Wednesday Jan 25 2006 | Dr. Till Marquadt Gene Expression Laboratory The Salk Institute Receptor-based signaling interactions underlying the selective targeting of sensory and motor neuron axons |
| Wednesday Jan 18 2006 | Dr. Narendrakumar Ramanan Department of Neuroscience The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Transcriptional control of synaptic plasticity, an essential role for SRF |
| Wednesday Jan 11 2006 | Dr. Hiroshi Nishimune Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Organization of the nerve terminal by synaptic cleft components |
| Wednesday Dec 14 2005 | Dr. Liliana Pedraza Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Myelin membrane formation: looking at the Schwann cell in action |
| Wednesday Dec 7 2005 | Dr. Wenbiao Gan Skirball Institute New York University Synaptic plasticity and pathology in vivo |
| Wednesday Nov 30 2005 | Dr. Patrik Verstreken Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine Maintaining neurotransmission: Mitochondria, Kiss-and-run and Clathrin-mediated endocytosis |
| Wednesday Nov 23 2005 | Dr. Wolfgang Liedtke Department of Neurobiology Duke University Medical Center Signal transduction by TRPV ion channels: add osmo-TRP and mechano-TRP to the lexicon ! |
| *Thursday* Nov 17 2005 | Dr. Stéphane Dieudonné Laboratoire de Neurobiologie CNRS-Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Following neuronal dynamics in the granular layer of the cerebellum: how physiology can lead to TREMOR (Time REsolved Multisite Optical Recording) |
| Wednesday Nov 9 2005 | Dr. Xinzhong Dong Dept. of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University Identification and characterization of nociceptive neuron specific genes |
| Wednesday Nov 2 2005 | Dr. Terry Hébert Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University Biosynthetic aspects of GPCR signalling complex formation monitored in living cells |
| Wednesday Oct 26 2005 | Dr. Phil Barker Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Regulating p75 neurotrophin receptor signaling – a matter of life and death |
| Wednesday Oct 19 2005 | Dr. Michael Reber INSERM U.575, Centre de Neurochimie Strasbourg A relative signaling model for the formation of the retinocollicular map |
| Wednesday Oct 12 2005 | Murai Lab CRN Research Update |
| Wednesday Oct 5 2005 | Dr. Alexandre Prat CHUM Hopital Notre Dame Université de Montréal Mechanism of Astrocytic Regulation of the Human Blood-Brain Barrier |
| Wednesday Sept 28 2005 | Dr. Pablo E. Castillo Department of Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine Endocannabinoid signaling and synaptic plasticity |
| Wednesday Sept 21 2005 | Dr. Michel Cayouette Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM) Asymmetric cell divisions in the developing retina |