THURSDAYS / 1:30PM / BBRB 170 / JUNE 2 - SEPTEMBER 1 

JUNE 2 

• IAN THORNELL (Bevensee Lab)
  "Ca2+ stimulation of the electrogenic Na/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 heterologously expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes"
• MING-CHI TSAI (J Wadiche Lab)
  "Unmasking the presynaptic actions of phorbol esters at climbing fiber synapses" 

JUNE 9

• KATE KOSMAC (Britt Lab)
  "Host immune responses, secondary to neonatal infection with MCMV, alter Granule neuron development within the Cerebellum"
• CRISTIN GAVIN (Rumbaugh Lab)
  "Myosin II regulates plasticity at single spines"

JUNE 16 

• MACK NOWAK (Gawne/Amthor Lab)
  "Direction Decoding from Responses of On-Off Directionally Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells"
• GUYLA JOHNSON (Grimaldi Lab)
  "A compound, identified through small molecule screening, strongly activates endoplasmic reticulum stress response by lowering ER Ca²⁺ and causes glioma cell death"

JUNE 23 

• MARK KILGORE (Sweatt Lab)
  "The effects of HDAC inhibitors on Learning and Memory"
• AIMEE FRANKLIN  (McMahon Lab)
  "The Role of GSK3 in Fragile X Syndrome"

JUNE 30

• RACHEL BESING (Gamble Lab)
  "Neuropeptide Y Induces Long-Term Suppression of PER2 and Neuronal Excitability in a Phase-Specific Manner"
• AMY NELSON (McMahon Lab)
  "The role of hippocampal noradrenergic sympathetic sprouting after cholinergic degeneration"

JULY 7

• LESLEY BRYANT McCOLLUM (Roberts Lab)
  "Ultrastructural localization of enkephalin in postmortem human tissue"
• PHILIP WEBBER (West Lab)
  "Autophosphorylation regulates LRRK2 activity"

JULY 14

• ANDREA MARSHALL (Wilson Lab)
  "It does matter if it’s black or white: Identification of a novel mutation in Usp14 and discovery of a suppressor of Usp14 deficiency"
• SARAH DOUGHERTY (Cowell Lab)
  "Presymptomatic Abnormalities in Purkinje Cell Function in a Mouse Model of Huntington Disease"

JULY 21

• RYLEY PARRISH (Lubin Lab)
  "DNA Methylation Changes Triggered by Status Epilepticus"
• JASON LOWERY (Sztul Lab)
  "Novel regulatory Motif in the BIG2 member of the Sec7 family of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors"

JULY 28

• SHARDAY EWELL (Theibert Lab)
  "Regulation of Neurosecretory Vesicle Trafficking"
• CHRIS AURA (Gamlin Lab)
  "Processing of Cyclopean Stereomotion in the Intraparietal Sulcus of the Rhesus Macaque"

AUGUST 4

• ELENA ADLAF (L Wadiche Lab)
  "Induced Survival of Adult-Generated Neurons through Inhibition of Cell Death"
• HEATHER MINKEL (DeSilva Lab)
  "Excitotoxic mechanisms modulate the glutamatergic system in glia"

AUGUST 11

• JENNIFER WATSON (Wilson Lab)
  "Cloning and analysis of a novel epileptic mouse mutant"
• JANA DRUMMOND (Meador-Woodruff Lab)
  "Dysregulation of AMPA Receptor Trafficking Molecules in Schizophrenia"

AUGUST 18 --- No seminar this week

AUGUST 25

• FRANKIE HEYWARD (Sweatt Lab)
  "Diet-induced obseity effects long-term spatial memory and gene expression in the hippocampus"
• NATHAN HUTCHESON (Lahti Lab)
  "Assessment of memory dysfunction and hippocampus pathology in schizophrenia using multimodal neuroimaging modalities"

SEPTEMBER  1

• SIDNEY WILLIAMS (Hablitz Lab)
  "HCN Channel Modulation of Synchronous Cortical Network Activity"
• REED PEAVY (Kim Lab)
  "Alterations in microtubule proteins in the tau knockout mouse"