![]() | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Departmental Seminar Series
|
Date | Speaker | Research Interests | Talk Title |
09/08/09 | Rebecca Seal, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco, CA more |
Glutamate transporters, pain, and the auditory system | "Unraveling mammalian sensory circuits: insights from an unconventional glutamate transporter" |
10/06/09 | Mark M. Rasenick, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois more |
Cytoskeletal modulation of neuronal signal transduction | G protein signaling, lipid rafts and the neuronal cytoskeleton: Implications for the biology of depression |
10/07/09 Wednesday |
Mark M. Rasenick, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois more |
Cytoskeletal modulation of neuronal signal transduction | Advocacy for biomedical research: Amalgamating policy, politics and passion |
11/17/09 | Garrett B. Stanley, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University Atlanta, GA more |
Electrical activity of neurons | Decoding the Thalamocortical Circuit in the Visual and Somatosensory Pathways |
11/24/09 1495 BSTWR |
Bevil R. Conway, MMSc, Ph.D. Wellesley College Wellesley, MA more |
Neural basis for color vision | "Neural mechanisms of color" |
12/01/09 | Wei-Dong Yao, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School Boston, MA more |
Synaptic function and plasticity | Open or Close: Dopamine as a Gate for Synaptic Modifications in the Prefrontal Cortex |
01/19/10 | John Martin, Ph.D. City University of NY |
Development of corticospinal system & its dependence on activity | Bringing the Corticospinal System Online During Postnatal Development |
02/02/10 | Anna Wang Roe, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN more |
Understanding the neuronal circuitry underlying vision and touch | "Imaging modules of perception and attention in Macaque visual cortex" |
03/09/10 | Marina Picciotto, Ph.D. Yale University New Haven, CT more |
Addiction, depression, learning | "Intracellular signaling pathways downstream of nicotinic receptors in addiction- related behaviors" |
03/23/10 | Richard Zigmond, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH more |
Neurochemical plasticity in adult neurons | Cytokines and Neurotrophins: Signals Utilized by Injured Neurons |
04/06/10 | Geoffrey Schoenbaum M.D., Ph.D. University of Maryland Baltimore, MD more |
Reward learning, decision making (goal-directed behavior) | The role of orbitofrontal cortex in estimating likely outcomes |
04/20/10 1495 BSTWR |
Fabrisia Ambrosio, PhD, MPT University of Pittsburgh more |
regenerative rehabilitation to enhance skeletal muscle function after injury or disease | "Terminal differentiation of a muscle stem cell: Where do we go from here?" |
05/04/10 | Beatriz Luna, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh more |
Changes in brain function that subserve maturation of cognition | "Neuroimaging Evidence of Immaturities in Cognitive Control, Reward Processing, and Brain Connectivity During Adolescence" |
05/25/10 | Alex Kolodkin, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD more |
Semaphorins | "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Establishment of Neuronal Connectivity" |
Click here for the 2002-2003 seminar series.
Click here for the 2003-2004 seminar series.
Click here for the 2004-2005 seminar series.
Click here for the 2005-2006 seminar series.
Click here for the 2006-2007 seminar series.
Click here for the 2007-2008 seminar series.
Click here for the 2008-2009 seminar series.
© Copyright 2001 - University
of Pittsburgh Department of Neurobiology
Webmaster S Hunter Simpson