Neuroscience 900 Seminar Series

Student Research Presentation
Wnt5a, a Repulsive Guidance Cue, Promotes Axon Growth, Li Li

Student Research Presentation
ER Ca2+ Dysregulation and ER Stress Following in Vitro Neuronal
Ischemia: Role of Na+-K+-Cl- Cotransporter and Na+/Ca2+ Exchanger, Richard Chen

Student Research Presentation
A Role for Fatty-Acid Binding Proteins in Sleep Homeostasis and Long-Term Memory in Drosophila, Jason Gerstner

Student Research Presentation
Possible Role of CCAAT/Enhancer-Binding Protein in Post-Ischemic Inflammation, Ramya Kapadia

Neuroinflammation: How Neuro-Immunology Can Change Your Way of Thinking about Neurodegenerative Diseases of the CNS (Zsuzsanna Fabry)

Introduction
The Immune System vs. the CNS
Joe Wildenberg

Interactions of Neurons with T Lymphocytes Ginny Hu

Inflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases: The Good and the Bad
Michael Zorniak

Spring Break, No Class

Neuroscience Lecture Series
Sandra Pena de Ortiz,
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
"Role of MicroRNAs in Normal and Pathological Brain"
Raghu Vemuganti

3:30pm
March 24th

4:30pm

Gene Regulatory Mechanisms that Control Neuronal Diversification in C. elegans
Oliver Hobert, Columbia University
B1118 Biochemistry

Introduction
Feeling Repressed? Blame Your miRNA
Wyatt Potter

Neuroscience Lecture Series
Immunological Synapses Coordinate Neuroimmune Signaling in the Brain during Antiviral and Anti-Tumor Immune Responses
Pedro Lowenstein
University of California-Los Angeles
1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

Interaction of Instinct, Affect, and Action in the Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex
Elizabeth Murray, NIMH
338 Psychology

Micro RNAs in Brain Development: You Can’t Make Neurons Without Them
Brendon Nacewicz

Role of miRNAs in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Tim Meier

Neuroscience Lecture Series
Role of MicroRNAs in Ischemic Tolerance
Julie Saugstad, R.S.
Dow Neurobiology Laboratories
1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

Introduction
ER Stress: Cope or Die, Jonathan Myers

Prolonged Unfolded Protein Response in Ischemia, Richard Chen

Neuroscience Lecture Series
Post-ischemic Translation Arrest: Meaning and Significance
Donald DeGracia, Wayne State University
1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

ER Stress in Alzheimer's Disease, Leo Walton

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