[Neuropostdocs] NS breakfasts: next week and beyond

[Sarah London]

Hi all,

Next week the Neuroscience speaker is William Cullinan from Marquette 
University. 
(<http://www.marquette.edu/chs/bisc/faculty/rfac_cullinan.html>http://www.marquette.edu/chs/bisc/faculty/rfac_cullinan.html 
: "We are particularly interested in understanding the link between stress 
and psychiatric illness.")

We will have breakfast at Courier Cafe from 8-9 am.  Please let me know if 
you would like to attend.

Further, I have put the speaker list for the remainder of the semester at 
the end of this email, along with website links and a summary sentence from 
their sites.  I realize everyone is busy, but it would be great if everyone 
was willing to sign up for at least one person on this list.  Just let me 
know who you would like to meet.

Thanks,
Sarah



March 14                    Charles 
Greer                                    Yale
<http://info.med.yale.edu/neurosur/faculty/greer.html>http://info.med.yale.edu/neurosur/faculty/greer.html
http://info.med.yale.edu/neurosur/research/greer/research.html
A major goal of my laboratory is understanding the basic mechanisms that 
contribute to the establishment of orderly topographic maps within the CNS, 
during both normal development and during regenerative events following 
injury or disease. We have been focusing our efforts on the olfactory 
system, in part because of the complexity of the map between the olfactory 
epithelium and the olfactory bulb.

March 21                    Spring Break

March 28                    Thomas 
Cronin                                 Univ. Maryland, Baltimore County
<http://www.mbl.edu/CASSLS/thomas_cronin.htm>http://www.mbl.edu/CASSLS/thomas_cronin.htm
Mantis shrimps (stomatopod crustaceans) possess some of the most unusual 
visual systems ever described. These tropical marine invertebrates have up 
to 16 different spectral classes of photoreceptors and 8 or more 
polarization classes as well. Their eyes may contain thousands of 
ommatidia, the sensory units of compound eyes, and are divided into three 
regions.

April 4             Ron Frostig                                        UC 
Irvine
<http://frostiglab.bio.uci.edu/>http://frostiglab.bio.uci.edu/
Our major research interest is in the field of cortical plasticity.  Our 
animal model for studying plasticity is the adult rodent's (rat or mouse) 
primary somatosensory cortex.  Our functional imaging technique is known as 
intrinsic signal optical imaging.

April 11                       Isaac 
Pessah                                      UC Davis
<http://www.envtox.ucdavis.edu/cehs/FACULTY/Pessah.htm>http://www.envtox.ucdavis.edu/cehs/FACULTY/Pessah.htm
molecular mechanism by which environmentally relevant chemical agents 
influence calcium-dependent signal transduction mechanisms in muscle and 
nerve cells.

April 18                       Donald 
Katz                                       Brandeis
<http://people.brandeis.edu/~dbkatz/ppl-dk.shtml>http://people.brandeis.edu/~dbkatz/ppl-dk.shtml
<http://people.brandeis.edu/~dbkatz/res1.shtml>Dynamics of Taste 
Responses,   <http://people.brandeis.edu/~dbkatz/res2.shtml>Interactions 
Between Taste Neurons, 
<http://people.brandeis.edu/~dbkatz/res4.shtml>Rhythms and Taste Behavior, 
<http://people.brandeis.edu/~dbkatz/res5.shtml>Experience, Expectation and 
Coding, <http://people.brandeis.edu/~dbkatz/res6.shtml>Neural Plasticity 
and Taste Learning

April 25                       Yimin 
Zou                                           U Chicago
<http://neurobiology.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/zou.htm>http://neurobiology.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/zou.htm
Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance in development.

April 11                      Peter 
Patrylo                                    Southern Illinois U
<http://www.som.siu.edu/physiology/facultybios/patrylo.html>http://www.som.siu.edu/physiology/facultybios/patrylo.html
understand how neuronal structure, function, and connectivity
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