Please note that seminars are held in the Physiology Seminar room, RMSB 5122

Upcoming Seminars

Craig discusses a microRNA signaling pathway

Title: Keeping things quiet: A microRNA signaling cascade
Speaker: Craig Roberts
Date: Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Review paper:MicroRNAs act sequentially and asymmetrically to control chemosensory laterality in the nematode. Nature. 2004 Aug 12;430(7001):785-9.
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Previous Seminars

Alice Holohean discusses Motoneuron Excitability

Robin Smith discusses Muscle Atrophy and Hypertrophy

Title: Molecular and Cellular Determinants of Skeletal Muscle Atrophy and Hypertrophy
Speaker: Robin Smith
Date: October 14th, 2004
Review paper: Sci STKE. 2004 Jul 27;2004(244):re11
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Derek Rosenzweig discusses signaling pathways in the immune system

Title: RICK/Rip2/CARDIAK mediates signaling for receptors of the innate and adaptive immune systems
Speaker: Derek Rosenzweig
Date: September 30th, 2004
Review paper:Nature 416, 194 - 199 (14 March 2002)
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Tony DeFazio discusses GABA

Title: “GABA Excites?!: A story of Ions, Channels, and War"
Speaker: Tony DeFazio
Date: September 16th, 2004
Review paper: Mol Endocrinol. 2002 Dec;16(12):2872-91. "Activation of A-type gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors excites gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons". DeFazio RA, Heger S, Ojeda SR, Moenter SM.
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Anthony Oliva discusses JNK

Title: Why are cells cluttered with so much JNK? Tale of a MAP Kinase family member
Speaker: Anthony Oliva
Date: Thursday, July the 22nd @ 5pm
Review paper: Weston CR, Davis RJ. The JNK signal transduction pathway. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2002 Feb;12(1):14-21
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Paula Monje discusses MAPKs

Title: Transcription Factor Regulation by MAPKs
Speaker: Paula Monje
Date: Thursday, July the 8th @ 5pm
Review paper: Examining signaling specificity to transcription factors. Methods. 2002 Mar;26(3):217-25.
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Bas Blits discusses the role of cAMP in SCI

Title: A central role of cAMP to overcome growth inhibitory signals
Speaker: Bas Blits
Date: June 24th 2004
Review paper:Spencer T, Filbin MT. "A role for cAMP in regeneration of the adult mammalian CNS." J Anat. 2004 Jan;204(1):49-55. Review.
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Derek Rosenzweig Discusses Phototransduction

Title: A Novel Mechanism of Light Adaptation
Speaker: Derek Rosenzweig
Date: June 10th, 2004
Review paper: Massive Light-Driven Translocation of Transducin between the Two Major Compartments of Rod Cells: A Novel Mechanism of Light Adaptation. Neuron, Vol. 33, 95-106
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Orion Furmanski discusses Pain

Title: Central sensitization and LTP: do pain and memory share similar mechanisms?
Speaker: Orion Furmanski
Date: May 27th 2004
Review paper: TRENDS in Neurosciences Vol.26 No.12 December 2003 pp. 696-705
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Caitlin Hill Discusses Growth Cones

Title: Growth Cone Signaling
Speaker: Caitlin Hill
Date: May 13th 2004
Review paper: Huber A.B., A.L. Kolodkin, D.D. Ginty, J.F. Cloutier 2003. Signaling at the Growth Cone: ligand-receptor complexes and the control of axon growth and guidance. Ann. Rev. Neurosci 26: 509-63
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Robin Smith on the Visualization of Intracellular Signaling

Title: Pulling up a chair in Plato's Cave: Imaging intracellular signaling with GFP probes.
Speaker: Robin Smith
Date: April 29th 2004
Review paper: Visualization of the spatial and temporal dynamics of intracellular signaling. Dev Cell. 2003 Mar;4(3):295-305
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Craig Roberts on cAMP Signaling

Title: Domains of cAMP signaling
Speaker: Craig Roberts
Date: April 15th 2004
Review paper: Localized effects of cAMP mediated by distinct routes of protein kinase A. Physiol Rev. 2004 Jan;84(1):137-67.
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Sophie Loiseau on G Protein Coupled Receptors

Title: G Protein Coupled Receptors
Speaker: Sophie Loiseau
Date: April 1st 2004
Review paper: Daaka,G Proteins in Cancer: The Prostate Cancer Paradigm, Science's STKE 2004
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Richard DeFazio on Calcium Signaling

Title: The intracellular calcium enigma: Promiscuity, selectivity, and chelation.
Speaker: Richard DeFazio
Date: March 18th 2004
Review paper: Augustine GJ, Santamaria F, Tanaka K. Local calcium signaling in neurons. Neuron. 2003 Oct 9;40(2):331-46
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