January 25, 2001
Room F-118

Don Wallick, Ph.D., Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation "New Therapy for Heart Failure: Better Living Through Electricity"

February 1, 2001
Room E-10

J. Pat Card, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
"Exploring the Functional Architecture of the CNS with Neurotropic Viruses"

February 8, 2001
Room E-10
*11:00am*

James Krause, Ph.D., VP & Director of Biochemistry, Neurogen Corporation
"Vanilloid ReceptorMechanisms and the Development of Novel Analgesics"

February 15, 2001
Room E-10 

Ruth Siegel, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine "Cerebellar Differentiation and GABA-A Receptor Gene Expression"

March 1, 2001
Room E-10

GRASS TRAVELING SCIENTIST Virginia Seybold, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy, University of Minnesota
"An Emerging Role for Peptides in Chemical Transmission of Primary Sensory Neurons: Regulation of Gene Expression"

March 8, 2001
Room E-10

John Horn, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"Synaptic Computation in Sympathetic Ganglia"

April 5, 2001
Room E-10

Qin Liu, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Akron "R-Cadherin in the Development of Zebrafish Visual System"

April 12, 2001
Room F-118

David Glass, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Kent State University "Dynamic Regulation of Polysialylated NCAM in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: Plasticity of Cell-Cell Interactions is Necessary for Circadian Clock Function"

April 19, 2001
Room E-10

GRASS TRAVELING SCIENTIST Paul Sawchenko, Ph.D., Neuronal Structure & Function, Salk Institute, San Diego "Functional Organization of Stress-Related Circuits in the Mammalian Brain"

April 20, 2001
Room E-10
*3:00*

Luis Saria, Ph.D., Director of the Neurochemistry Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Innsbruck, Austria
"The Role of Neutral Endopeptidase in the Central Nervous System as Studied by Knockout Mice"

April 26, 2001
Room E-10

Dan Margoliash, Ph.D. Dept. of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago "Neural Codes, State Dependency, and Computational Rules of Reinforcement Vocal Learning"

May 3, 2001
Room F-118 

Carl Ansevin, M.D., Tom Watkins and Diane Arnett "Rippling Muscles with Myasthenia Gravis: An Autoimmune Mechanosensitive Channelopathy?" and
"Enteroviruses and ALS: Association and Possible Treatment?"

May 10, 2001
Room F-118

Steve Fountain, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Kent State University "Deconstructing Animal Cognitive Processes: Behavioral, Computational, and Psychobiological Approaches"

September 13, 2001
Room F-118

Dean Dluzen, Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, NEOUCOM
"Estrogen as a Neuroprotectant of the Nigrostriatal
Dopaminergic System -Implications for Parkinson's Disease" 

September 27, 2001
Room F-118

Vicki Bennett, Graduate Student, Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology "Receptor Trafficking : A look at the substance P receptor"

October 4, 2001
Room F-118

Barb Puder, Graduate Student, Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM "Central Nervous System Circuits Involved in the Female Reproductive System"

October 11, 2001
Room F-118
*12:00*

Carl Gruetter, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Marshall University School of Medicine "Non-Mast Cell Histamine in Blood Vessels"

October 18, 2001
Room F-118

Qing Guo, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM "Physiology and Pathophysiology of Par-4: Recent Advances and Possible Future Directions"

October 25, 2001
Room F-118

Sherry Stuesse, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM "Does Age Matter? Studies on Neuropathic Pain in Rats"

MONDAY October 29, 2001 Kiva, Kent Student Center KSU
*7:30pm*

Sandra Witelson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMasters University, Toronto "Dispatches From the Neurological Frontier: What Cutting-Edge Brain Research Tells You About Genius, Gender and How Your Mind Works"

November 29, 2001
Room F-118

Shane Perrine, Graduate Student, Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology
"Pharmacological analysis of tachykinin peptides: a structure-activity relationship"

December 6, 2001
Room F-118

Tim Teyler, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM "Does the human brain have LTP?"

February 7, 2002
Room F-118

Jon Walro, Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, NEOUCOM "Nerve-muscle interactions in the developing mammalian muscle spindle"

February 14, 2002
Room F-118

Nathan Mowa, DVM, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM "Expression of ER alpha and beta mRNA in sexual organs and neurons"

February 21, 2002
Room F-118

Angela Ridgel, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University
"Roles of descending control in leg movement during complex locomotory tasks.

February 28, 2002
Room F-118

Stephen G. Graber, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, West Virginia University "Mechanisms of a molecular switch: receptor-G protein coupling"

*FRIDAY* 3:00pm
March 8, 2002
Meshel Conference Center

Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Stanford University "Stress, neuron death and strategies for saving the endangered neuron"

March 14, 2002
Room F-118

Kianoush Sheykholeslami, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM "Electrophysiological and histopathological evaluation of the auditory system in a neurofilament-deficient Japanese quail (Quv)"

March 21, 2002
Room F-118

Sandeep Bhatt, Graduate Student, Department of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM "Neuroprotection by estrogen"

April 18, 2002
Room F-118
*2:00pm*

George M. Martin, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
President, American Federation for Aging Research
University of Washington
"Classes of gene action that escape the force of natural selection and contribute to senescent phenotypes"
 

April 26, 2002
E-10
*1:00pm* 

Neuroscience Symposium 2002
Honoring the Career of Tim Teyler, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, NEOUCOM

Nick Chiaia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medical College of Ohio
"Factors influencing the development and plasticity of the rodent whisker-barrel system"

Idil Cavus, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Yale Medical School
In vivo microdialysis in awake humans- unique insights into the neurobiology of epilepsy and cognition"

Mike Foy, Ph.D.
Professor
Loyola Marymount University
"Estrogen and hippocampal synatpic plasticity"  

May 2, 2002
Room F-118

Lydia DonCarlos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Stritch School of Medicine Loyola University Chicago
"Gonadal steroid receptors in the brain: They're not just for reproduction anymore"

Grass Traveling Scientist
May 16, 2002 

Gloria E. Hoffman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine "The ups and downs of transmitter expression: regulating prolactin during lactation"