Academic Year 2009-10:

Seminars are held in RC1 North, 7th Floor Conference Room 7108 unless otherwise noted.   A.R. Martin Lectureship
Upcoming Seminars:    

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
William Klingensmith, M.D.
Department of Radiology - Nuclear Medicine
University of Colorado Denver
"PET as the Imaging Component of Molecular Medicine:  Possible Implications for Physiology."

Past Seminars 2008:

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 12:00 p.m.
Jeffrey Karpen, PhD
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Oregon Health & Science University
"G-protein-coupled Receptors that don't Desensitize."

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
Angie Ribera, PhD
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Lecture title to be announced

Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
Ben Strowbridge, PhD
Department of Neurosciences
Case Western Reserve University
Lecture title to be announced

Monday, March 17, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Achim Klug, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
"Processing of Complex Streams of Activity in the Auditory Brainstem: A Combined in vivo-in vitro Approach."

Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Matt Wachowiak, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
"Seeing what the Nose tells the Brain: Imaging Odor Coding in the Awake Rat."

Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Seminar
David McLean, PhD
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell University
"Using Zebrafish to Reveal Principles of Motor Circuit Function."

Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Hui (Iris) Zhang , PhD
Department of Neurology
Columbia University
"Plasticity of Dopamine Release and its Effect on Corticostriatal Synapses."

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
Angie Ribera, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics Department
University of Colorado Denver
" Ion Channels and Spinal Cord Development."

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 12:00 p.m.
Serguei Skatchkov, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Universidad Central del Caribe
"New Function of Glial Cells:  Mueller Cells as Living Optical Fibers."

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 12:00 p.m.
Jeff Wenstrup, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
"Audition and Emotion:  The Amygdala and Auditory Processing."

Past Seminars 2009:

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
Roger Bannister, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics Department
University of Colorado Denver
"A Role for the L-type Ca2+ Current in Skeletal Muscle Function and Disease."

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Hee Jung Chung, PhD
Department of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
"The Role of Potassium Channel Trafficking in Inherited Epilepsy and Activity-Dependent Plasticity."

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Chalk Talk
Hee Jung Chung, PhD
Department of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
"Molecular Mechanism of Synaptic and Intrinsic Plasticity."

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Bridget Lear, PhD
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
Northwestern University
"Circadian Output in Drosophilia:  How Clocks Drive Rhythmic Behaviors."

Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Chalk Talk
Bridget Lear, PhD
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
Northwestern University
"Regulation and Function of a Unique Ion Channel Important for Circadian Rhythmicity."

Friday, January 23, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
Silvio Rizzoli, PhD
STED Microscopy of Synaptic Function European Neuroscience Institute
Goettingen Germany
"Super-resolution Investigations of Synaptic Vesicle Recycling."

Friday, January 23, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
Ian Forsythe, PhD
MRC Toxicology Unit
University of Leicester
NO Signaling at the Synapse:  Activity-Dependent Modulation by Nitric Oxide in the Auditory Pathway.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Jamie Maguire, PhD
Department of Neurology
University of California at Los Angeles
"GABA-A Receptors and Neurosteroids in Health and Disease."

Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Chalk Talk
Jamie Maguire, PhD
Department of Neurology
University of California at Los Angeles
"Investigating GABAergic Control of the HPA Axis in Neuropsychiatric Disorders."

Monday, February 9, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Gautam Awatramani, PhD
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Dalhousie University
"Seeing without Photoreceptors:  An Optogenetic Strategy for Vision Restoration."

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Chalk Talk
Gautam Awatramani, PhD
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Dalhousie University
"An Active Role for Bipolar Cells in Healthy, Degenerating and Optogentically Rescued Retina."

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Gidon Felsen, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Neural Substrates of Sensorimotor Decisions in Rats."

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
Physiology Faculty Recruitment Chalk Talk
Gidon Felsen, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Pathophysiology of Movement Disorders in a Behaving Rodent Paradigm."

Monday, March 16, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
Richard Johnson, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine, Division Chair
Temple Hoyne Buell and NKF of Colorado
University of Colorado Denver
"Pathogenic Mechanisms Underlying Essential Hypertension. "

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
Michael Stowell, PhD
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
University of Colorado Boulder
"Structure, Function and Disease at the Chemical Synapse. "

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
Emily A. Gibson, PhD
Department of Physics
University of Colorado Denver
"Microfluidics and Laser Technology for Biomedical Applications. "

Friday, June 19, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
Stephan Neuhauss, PhD
Institute of Zoology
University of Zurich
"Earning its Stripes:  Studying Cone Vision in Zebrafish. "

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
Henrique von Gersdorff, PhD
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
"Multiquantal Release at Hair Cell Synapse. "

   

 

   



   




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