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Triangle Synapse Club

Past meetings:

2009-2010

 

  • Rebecca Yang, Duke. Feb 9

  • CJ Malanga, UNC, Jan 12

  • Geoffrey Pitt, Duke, UNC. Dec 8

  • Wolfgang Liedtke, Duke. Nov 10

  • Mark Zylka UNC.  Biochemical modulation of nociceptive circuits.  Oct. 13, 2009, 101L Bryan Res. Bldg

  • Cagla Eroglu  Duke.  Look who is weaving the neural net: Astrocyte-derived factors control central nervous system synapse formation.   Sept. 22, 2009. 124 Taylor Hall.

 

2008-2009

  • Fan Wang  Dept. of Cell Biology, Duke. 6 PM Mar. 10, 2009. 101L Bryan Research Bldg, Duke.

  • Mark Wightman Dept of Chemistry, UNC - 6 PM Feb. 10, 2009. 101L Bryan Research Bldg, Duke.

  • Franck Polleux,  Dept of Pharmacology, UNC - 6 PM, Jan. 13, 2009, 101L Bryan Research Bldg, Duke.

  • Patricia Maness Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Duke 6 PM, Dec. 9, 2008.  101L Bryan Research Bldg, Duke.

  • Dan Tracey Cell Biology, Duke University - 6 PM, Nov. 11, 2008. Taylor Hall Rm 124, UNC.

  • Hiro Matsunami  Dept. Molecular Genetics, Duke.  6 PM, Oct. 14, 2008.  Taylor Hall Rm. 124, UNC

  • David Armstrong  NIEHS, RTP. 6PM,  Sept. 9, 2008. 124 Taylor Hall, UNC.

 

2007-08

  • Keith Weninger Dept. of Physics, NC State University. Dynamic protein interactions at the neuronal SNARE complex.  April 29, 2008. Duke University, Bryan Research Bldg, Room 101L

  • Scott Soderling Dept. of Cell Biology, Duke. Nucleating actin polymerization in the dendritic spine: Role of WAVE-1. Mar. 25, 2008. 124 Taylor Hall, UNC.

  • Hugh Criswell Depts. of Psychiatry and Anesthesiology, Neuroscience Center, and Center for Alcohol Studies, UNC.  How can ethanol act like a benzodiazepine without affecting a benzodiazepine sensitive receptor?  Feb. 26, 2008. Rm. 101L Bryan Research Building, Duke

  • Elizabeth Finch Dept. of Medicine, Duke.  Dynamic interactions among calcium signaling pathways in Purkinje cell dendrites.

    6 PM Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007. 124 Taylor Hall, UNC.

  • Ben Philpot Dept. of Cell and Molecular Physiology, UNC. Adjusting the properties of synaptic plasticity in the Cerebral Cortex. Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007.  Room 101L in the Bryan Building at Duke

 

2006-07

  • Lu-Yang Wang Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto. Developmental adaptations shaping high-fidelity neurotransmission at the calyx of Held synapse.  May 8, 2007 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Serena Dudek  Synaptic and Developmental Plasticity unit, NIEHS. Synaptic plasticity (and lack thereof) in hippocampal CA2. Tuesday, April 10, Duke, Bryan Research Building, room 101L

  • Michael Ehlers Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke. Receptor Trafficking and Dynamic Nanoarchitecture of the Postsynaptic Membrane.  Tuesday, March 6, 2007, Taylor Hall, Room 124, UNC

  • Robert L. Rosenberg Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, UNC. Molecular mechanisms of activation of neuronal nicotinic receptors. Feb. 20, 2007. Bryan Research Bldg, Duke University

  • George Augustine Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke. Mapping Synaptic Circuits via Photostimulation. Jan. 16, 2007. 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Richard Mailman Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Neurology, and Medicinal Chemistry, UNC. A heretical view of the neurobiology and function of dopamine receptors.  Dec. 12, 2006. 101 Bryan Research Bldg, Duke

  • Fidel Santamaria Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke. How do molecules diffuse inside neurons?... Should I care?  Nov. 7, 2006, 6 PM, 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Mark Zylka Dept. of Cell and Molecular Physiology, UNC. Molecular and systems analysis of mouse pain circuitry.  Oct. 3 2006, 6 PM Bryan Research Building, Duke

2005-06

  • Paul B. Manis  Professor, Cell and Molecular Physiology, UNC, Spike timing and neural circuits in the dorsal cochlear nucleus: Mechanisms for tinnitus? Tuesday, May 16, 2006. 101 Bryan Bldg, Duke

  • Anne West Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke, Activity-dependent transcription of BDNF: implications for synaptic development. April 11, 2006, 6 PM,UNC, 124 Taylor Hall

  • A. Leslie Morrow Associate Director, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Professor, Depts. of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Ethanol alters GABAA receptor phosphorylation and trafficking, UNC, 6 PM, Tuesday, March 14, 101L Bryan Bldg, Duke

  • Sridhar Raghavachari Neurobiology Dept., Duke. The synapse is a mosaic: Modeling quantal transmission in the hippocampus. 6PM, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Mark Wightman Dept. of Chemistry, UNC,  Watching dopamine communication during behavior. 6PM, Tuesday, Jan. 10,101L Bryan Bldg. Duke

  • Ryohei Yasuda  Neurobiology Dept., Duke,   Imaging Ras Signaling in neurons.  6PM, Tuesday, Dec, 6.124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Richard Weinberg  Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, UNC. The Spine: How Can an Empty Blob Process Information? 6PM, Tuesday, Oct 25.101L Bryan Research Bldg

  • George Augustine  Neurobiology Dept, Duke. Dendritic Signal Transduction Events Underlying Cerebellar Long-term Synaptic Depression. 12:00 PM, Monday, Oct 24., G202 Medical Biomolecular Research Building, UNC

    6th Annual Neuroscience Center Symposium at UNC Thursday Oct 20, 2005, 2204 MBRB

    1:30PM Thomas Sudhof University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular Biology of Neurotransmitter Release

    2:30PM Ted Dawson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Turning on Genes to Protect the Brain

    4:00PM David Anderson California Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular Genetic Analysis of Neural Circuits Underlying Innate Behaviors in Flies and Mice

  • Nicole Calakos, Center for Translational Neuroscience, Duke,  Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity: A View from the Presynaptic Side. September 20, 2005.124 Taylor Hall, UNC

2004-05

  • Jay Brenman Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, UNC.  Fishing for Genes, Using Flies as Bait. Tuesday May 10, 2005. Bryan Research Building, Duke

  • Mike Ehlers Duke Medical Center,  Directing Secretory Cargo for Dendrite Growth and Morphogenesis. Tuesday, April 12, 2005. 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Stephanie Ceman NIEHS,  Examining the role of phosphorylation on FMRP function. Tuesday March 8101L Bryan Research Building, Duke

  • Wolf Almers  The Vollum Institute,  Adventures in synaptic vesicle trafficking, Tuesday Feb 22, 2005 124 Taylor Building, UNC

  • Nelson Spruston Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Dendritic Signaling in Hippocampal Neurons  24 January 2005, 101L Bryan Research Building, Duke

  • Karel Svoboda Geometric and functional organization of cortical synaptic circuits - canceled due to inclement weather

  • Aldo Rustioni Cell & Developmental Biology, UNC, presynaptic ionotropic glutamate receptors, Tuesday, Nov 9, 101L Bryan Research Building, Duke

  • Ed Chapman University of Wisconsin,  synaptotagmin and exocytosis. Tuesday, October 19, 124 Taylor Hall, UNC.

    5th Annual Neuroscience Center Symposium at UNC Oct 15, 2004, Carolina Club.

    9:00AM Silvia Arber Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel Division of Cell Biology Genetic control of neuronal circuit assembly in the developing spinal cord

    9:55AM Anirvan Ghosh Stephen Kuffler Professor of Biology, University of California San Diego Molecular control of cortical connectivity

    11:00AM Mark Bear HHMI Investigator, Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The ups and downs of ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex

    11:55AM Louis Ptacek HHMI Investigator, Professor, University of California San Francisco Molecular characterization of episodic neurological disorders

  • Ben Philpot Cell & Molecular Physiology, UNC. 2B or not 2B? Experience-dependent modifications of NMDA receptor composition and function in visual cortex. Tuesday, September 7, 2004 6pm, Room 101L  Bryan Research Building

2003-04:

  • Hugh Criswell  Center for Alcohol Studies, UNC,Tuesday, May 4, 2004. Effects of alcohols and volatile anesthetics on ligand-gated ion channels. 6pm, 101L  Bryan Research Building, Duke

  • Pietro DeCamilli Dept. of Cell Biology, Yale, April 13, 2004 Molecular pathways for synaptic vesicle endocytosis. 6pm, 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Serena Dudek NIEHS, March 2, 2004. Synapse-to-nucleus signaling in late LTP: connecting the dotted line (or not?)6pm. 101L  Bryan Research Building, Duke

  • Tom Blanpied  Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke. Organization and Dynamics of the Endocytic Machinery in Dendrites and Spines. 6 pm, 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Ken McCarthy Pharmacology, UNC December 2, 2003 Conversations between astrocytes and neurons in situ. 6 pm, 301 Bryan Research Building, Duke

  • Steven Siegelbaum Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, November 19,2003 Bryan Research Building, Duke

    4th Annual Neuroscience Center Symposium at UNC Thursday Oct 9, 2003, Carolina Club, George Watts Hill Alumni Hall

    9:00AM Freda Miller Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. Becoming a Neuron: Signaling Mechanisms That Regulate Neurogenesis

    9:55AM Richard Axel Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Internal Representations of the Olfactory World

    11:00AM Richard Huganir Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Receptors, Synapses, and Memory

    11:55AM Steven Petersen Washington University School of Medicine. Studying Cognitive Development Using fMRI

  • Roger Nicoll Dept. Physiology, UCSF, Tuesday, October 7, 2003 6 pm, 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

    "Roger and me"

  • Mark Wightman UNC Chemistry, September 23, 2003, 6 pm, 301 Bryan Research Building, Duke University Medical Center

2002-03:

  • George Augustine What are Dendritic Spines good for? May 13, 2003 6 p.m., 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

  • Leslie Morrow Neurosteroids Contribute to Ethanol Action, Tolerance and Dependence Apr 1, 101 Bryan Research Bldg, Duke

  • Rich Mooney Songbirds, synapses, and second messengers: synaptic signaling in vocal learning circuits Mar 4, UNC, 6 p.m.  3118 Neuroscience Building (BSRC)

  • Richard Weinberg Nitric oxide signaling in the hippocampus: synaptic or extrasynaptic? 6:00 p.m.,  101L Bryan Research Bldg., Duke

  • Lutz Birnbaumer  Emerging Phenotypes of G protein KO mice.  Jan. 7, 6:00 p.m.,  Lobby of Taylor Hall on the UNC

  • Paul B. Manis  Listening quickly: Synaptic and voltage gated conductances in auditory information processing. Dec. 6 6:00 p.m. 

    October 24, 2002 9:00 a.m. UNC Neuroscience Symposium at Carolina Club, George Watts Alumni Hall

    9:00 am  Michael Greenberg, Ph.D.  Signal Transduction Pathways that Regulate Nervous System Development
    10:00 am  Joseph S. Takahashi, Ph.D.  Molecular Genetics and Neurobiology of Circadian Clocks in Mammals
    11:00 am  David Holtzman, M.D.  Role of A-beta binding molecules in pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

  • Shirish Shenolikar How the Brain Forgets - Understanding Phosphatase Regulation in the Nervous System at UNC 6:00 P.M. October 8, 2002

  • Jerrel Yakel of NIEHS at Duke, 6:00 P.M. September 17, 2002

 

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