Link to Events Happening This Week in the Department

Friday, November 16, 2007
"Synaptic Mechanisms of Retinal Inhibition"
Erika Eggers
Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Peter Lukasiewicz
Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Friday, December 7, 2007
"Proton Channels and More-Identification and Functional Characterization of Novel Voltage Sensor Domain Proteins"
I. Scott Ramsey
Research Fellow
Advisor: David E. Clapham
Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
"A Genetic Model of Neuronal Degeneration and Regeneration"
Marc Hammarlund
Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Erik Jorgensen
Department of Biology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
"Myotubularin Phosphoinositide 3-Phosphatases: Regulators of Membrane Traffic with Essential Functions in the Peripheral Nerve"
Fred Robinson
Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Jack E. Dixon
Department of Pharmacology
University of California School of Medicine
La Jolla, CA

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
"Voltage sensing in excitable membranes: when the sensor becomes a channel"
Francesco Tombola
Research Specialist
Advisor: Ehud Isacoff
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California Berkeley, CA

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
"Mechanisms underlying synaptic vesicle recycling"
Liangwei Gong
Research Associate Scientist
Advisor: Pietro De Camilli
Department of Cell Biology
Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Friday, February 15, 2008
"A shared regulation of plasticity in the injured and intact CNS by myelin and NgR1"
Aaron McGee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Stephen M. Strittmatter
Department of Neurology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Thursday, February 21, 2008
"Structural Insights into the ATP-driven Mechanism of Hsp70 Chaperone Activity"
Qinglian Liu
Associate Research Scientist
Advisor: Wayne A. Hendrickson
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University
New York, NY

Friday, February 29, 2008
"Ligand binding and gating in cyclic-nucleotide regulated ion channels: from static contacts to collective motions"
Lei Zhou
Associate Research Scientist
Advisor: Steven A. Siegelbaum
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University
New York, NY

Thursday, March 6, 2008
"Facilitation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels in excitable cells"
Amy Lee
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Thursday, March 13, 2008
"Regulation of dendritic excitability by the activity-dependent trafficking of voltage-gated K+ channels"
Dax Hoffman
Principal Investigator
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Laboratory of Cellular and Synaptic Neurophysiology
Molecular Neurophysiology and Biophysics Unit
Bethesda, MD

Thursday, March 27, 2008
"Circadian Output in Drosophila: How Clocks Drive Rhythmic Behaviors"
Bridget Lear
Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Ravi Allada
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Friday, April 4, 2008
"microRNAs in muscle development and function"
Da-zhi Wang
Assistant Professor
Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC