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Killam Seminar Series 2002 – 2003


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2002 - 2003 Series

Date Speaker Lecture Host

June 10, 2003

     
June 17, 2003      

2002-2003 Series

September 10, 2002

     
September 17, 2002   BTRC GRAND OPENING   
September 24, 2002 Dr. Alan North
University of Sheffield
Ion Channels Gated by Extracellular ATP Philippe Séguéla
October 1, 2002 Dr. David Sulzer
Columbia University
The AM and FM of Central Dopamine Neurotransmission Ted Fon
October 8, 2002
 Dr. Guy Rouleau
McGill University
Rescheduled  Phil Barker
October 15, 2002  Dr. Daniel Madison
Stanford University
Plasticity in Very Small Populations of Hippocampal Synapses: New Insights into Synaptic Potentiation and Depression Angel Alonso
October 22, 2002   No lecture   
October 29, 2002  Dr. Susan Meakin
The John P. Robarts
 Research Institute
University of 
Western Ontario
 Neurotrophin Signaling:  Tracking Novel Directions and Perspectives  Phil Barker
November 5, 2002     NEUROSCIENCE MEETING - NO KILLAM SEMINAR  
November 12, 2002  Dr. Sam Weiss
University of Calgary
 Stem Cell Neurogenesis in the Adult Mammalian Forebrain Jack Antel
November 19, 2002  Dr. Mei Zhen
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Synapse Formation - Dissecting out the Molecular Mechanisms Using the C. Elegans Model System Ted Fon
November 26, 2002             
December 3, 2002 Dr. Paul Rutecki
University of Wisconsin
Paroxysmal and Paradoxical Effects of 
Group I Metabotropic Receptor Activation
Massimo Avoli
December 10, 2002  Dr. Cory Teuscher University of Vermont The Role of Histamine Receptors in Autoimmune Disease Trevor Owens
December 17, 2002      
December 24, 2002   No Lecture  
December 31, 2002   No Lecture  
January 7, 2003  Dr. Juri Gelovani
Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer
Center
 Molecular-Genetic Imaging:  Current State and Future Perspectives  Mirko Diksic
January 14, 2003  Dr. Rosalind Segal
Dana Farber 
Cancer Institute
A Spatial View of Neurotrophin Signaling Phil Barker
January 21, 2003 Dr. Bruce G. Jenkins
Director, Neurochemical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
Imaging Dopaminergic Function in the Brain Using MRI  Alain Dagher
January 28, 2003         
February 4, 2003  Dr. Sylvain Houle
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
and University of Toronto
 Serotonin and Treatment of Depression:  New Insights from PET  Mirko Diksic
February 11, 2003  Dr. Paul Van Bergen
en Henegouwen
Universiteit Utrecht
Downregulation of EGF Receptor Signaling   Ted Fon
and
Peter McPherson
February 18, 2003  Dr. Guy Rouleau
Centre for Research in Neuroscience
McGill University
Molecular Genetics of Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy  Phil Barker
February 25, 2003 Dr. Stephen Miller
Northwestern University Medical School
Mechanisms by which Molecular Mimicry and Epitope Spreading Lead to CNS Autoimmunity in the Theiler's Virus Model of Multiple Sclerosis  Jack Antel
March 4, 2003  Dr. Azad Bonni 
Harvard Medical School
Signal Transduction Pathways Regulating Apoptosis and Survival of Neurons in the Mammalian Brain  Rick Riopelle
March 11, 2003 Dr. Craig Garner
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
Cellular mechanisms of nascent synapse assembly Peter McPherson
March 18, 2003  Dr. Yokiko Goda
University College
 London
Regulating Synapse Form and Function:  The Role of Actin Cytoskeleton  Wayne Sossin
March 25, 2003 Dr. Mohanish Deshmukh
Neuroscience Center
Department of Cell &
Developmental Biology
UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Mechanism of Neuronal Apoptosis: How is Caspase Activation Regulated? Phil Barker
April 1, 2003  Dr. William Gehring
University of Michigan
    The Role of the Medial Frontal Cortex in the Processing of Errors and Monetary Losses  Tomáš Paus 
April 8, 2003 Dr. Robert Miller
Case Western
Reserve University
 School of Medicine
 The control of CNS gliogenesis in development and disease  Trevor Owens
April 15, 2003 Dr. Richard Robitaille
Université de Montréal
The tripartite synapse: glial cells as determinants of synaptic properties  Wayne Sossin
April 22, 2003 Dr. Stephen A. Wood
Women's and
Children's Hospital
Foundation
Child Health
Research Institute
  Role of FAM deubiquitylating enzyme in trafficking of the cadherin-catenin complex  Peter McPherson
April 29, 2003   Dr. Carol Mason
Columbia University
Crossing the Midline: Molecular cues and codes in the optic chiasm and retina  John Robson
May 6, 2003  Dr. Yu Tian Wang
Brain Research Centre
University of British Columbia
AMPA receptor trafficking in synaptic plasticity and excitotoxicity  Barbara Jones
May 13, 2003  Dr. Pietro De Camilli
Yale University
HHMI
K.A.C. Elliot Lecture
Phosphoinositides in the Regulation
of Membrane Traffic at the Synapse
 Named Lecture
May 20, 2003 Dr. Ronald Blasberg
Memorial Sloan
 Kettering Cancer
 Center
In Vivo Imaging of Endogenous Signal Transduction Pathway Activity:  Molecular Imaging Roger Gunn
May 27, 2003 Dr. Jocelyne Bachevalier
University of Texas- Houston
Parsing the neural subcomponents of emotion and social cognition: Perspectives from neuropsychological studies in nonhuman primates   Michael Petrides
June 3, 2003  Dr. Oswald Steward
University of California
Irvine
Selective Delivery of mRNA to Synaptic Sites on Dendrites:  How and Why Wayne Sossin