September 19, 2002
Room F-118

Raymond E. Papka, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM "Neural Circuits of Uterine Innervation and Parturition: Neurochemistry, Estrogen Receptors and Neurogenic Inflammation"

October 3, 2002
Room F-118

Vicki Bennett, Graduate Student Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM
"Neurokinin-1 Receptor Resensitization Precedes Recycling"

October 10, 2002
Room F-118

Jennifer Unger, Graduate Student Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM
"Molecular Genetic Control of Hypothalamic Development"

October 17, 2002
Room F-118

Eric Glasgow, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM
“A Discussion of Transcription Factors, Cell Signaling, Regulatory Gene Networks and Other Fishy Tales”

October 24, 2002
Room F-118

William L.R. Cruce, Ph.D., Professor Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM
"The Gain in Pain is Mainly in the Brain; but the Real Action is in the Spinal Cord"

November 21, 2002
Room F-118

Jacqueline K. Morris, Ph.D. Department of Neurosciences
Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
"Zebrafish a Model for Myelination"

December 5, 2002
Room E-10

Albert S. Berrebi, Ph.D. West Virginia University
"The role of inhibition in the generation of offset responses in the superior paraolivary nucleus"

December 12, 2002
Room F-118

Grass Traveling Scientist Larry Trussell, Ph.D.
Oregon Health Sciences University "Regulation of transmitter release by presynaptic ionotropic receptors"

December 19, 2002
Room F-118
 

Joe LaManna , Ph.D. Department of Neurology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
"Microvascular and Metabolic Adaptation to Prolonged Mild Hypoxia in the Rat Brain"

January 23, 2003
Room F-118

Sharon Usip, Research Associate Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology
NEOUCOM
"Polymerase Chain Reaction: A Benchtop View" (Application and Discussion)

January 30, 2003
Room F-118

Stephen W. Jones, Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University
"T-type Calcium Channels: Gating and Permeation"

February 6, 2003
Room F-118

Jeffrey J. Wenstrup, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology,
NEOUCOM
"Brain Mechanisms in Sonar and Social Communication" 

February 27, 2003
Room F-118

Paul Kammermeier, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM
"A Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor in Rat Sympathetic Neurons?"

Mar. 13, 2003 Room F-118

Marc Abel, Ph.D. The Chicago Medical School
"Altered Hippocampal GABA Receptors in Cocaine-Kindled Seizures"

March 20, 2003
Room F-118

Rita Raddatz, Ph.D. AstraZeneca
"The Trace Amine Receptor Family: Discovery and Potential Functions"

April 3, 2003
Room F-118

Elizabeth Tietz, Ph.D.
Medical College of Ohio
"Synaptic Mechanisms of Hippocampal Benzodiazepine Tolerance and Dependence"
 

April 10, 2003
Room F-118

Greg Harrell, Graduate Student, Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM
"Contribution of Peripheral Inflammatory Factors to Age-Dependent Neuropathic Pain Behaviors in Rats" 

April 17, 2003
Room F-118

Mark Mattson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chief
Laboratory of Neurosciences
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
"Suppressing Neurodegenerative Cascades in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases" 

April 24, 2003
Room F-118

Sandeep Bhatt, Graduate Student, Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM
"Recent Advances in Neuronal Cell Death" 

May 1, 2003
Room F-118

Vivek Rangnekar, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky
Department of Radiation Medicine
Combs Cancer Research Center
"Apoptosis by the Leucine Zipper Domain
Protein Par-4"