Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

Title: Molecular mechanisms of long term memory

Location: Speakers Auditorium
Host: Marise Parent, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Infantile amnesia, A critical period of learning to learn and remember.
2. Infantile amnesia reflects a developmental critical period for hippocampal learning.
3. Mechanisms of critical period in the hippocampus underlie object location learning and memory in infant rats.

Title: Developmental and adult neurogenesis, learning, and neurological disorders

Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Kim Huhman, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:

1. Re-evaluating the link between neuropsychiatric disorders and dysregulated adult neurogenesis_Review.
2. Adult neurogenesis and psychiatric disorders_Review.
3. Dentate gyrus neurogenesis ablation via cranial irradiation enhances morphine self-administration and locomotor sensitization.
4. Stimulation of entorhinal cortex–dentate gyrus circuitry is antidepressive.
5. Whole-Body exposure to 28Si-Radiation dose-dependently disrupts dentate gyrus neurogenesis.

Title: Chemical communication and social behavior

Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Aras Petrulis, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. State-dependent responses to sex pheromones in mouse - Review.
2. Mammalian Pheromones - Review.
3. Cyclic regulation of sensory perception by a female hormone alters behavior.
4. Voluntary urination control by brainstem neurons that relax the urethral sphincter.

Title: Memory suppressor genes and active forgetting

Location: Speakers Auditorium
Host: Dan Cox, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. The biology of forgetting - A perspective - Review.
2. Stromalin constrains memory acquisition by developmentally...
3. Dopamine neurons mediate learning and forgetting through bidirectional modulation of a memory trace.

Title: Smooth muscle physiology and neural rhythms

Location: Speaker's Auditorium
Host: Gennady Cymbalyuk, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Interstitial cells- Review.
2. Inhibitory regulation of ICC-DMP.
3. Clusting of Ca2+ transients.
4. Temporal sequence of activation of cells involved in purinergic neurotransmission in the colon.

Title: Primate brain evolution

Location: Speaker's Auditorium
Host: David Washburn, Ph.D. B&B Psychology Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Brain plasticity and human evolution
2. Are we wired differently?
3. A cerebellar substrate for cognition evolved multiple times independently in mammals

Title: Molecular biology of synaptic connections

Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Angela Mabb, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Activity-dependent trafficking of lysosomes in dendrites and dendritic spines.
2. AB-induced synaptic alterations require the E3 ubiquitin ligase Nedd4-1.
3. Synaptic strength Is bidirectionally controlled by opposing activity-dependent regulation of Nedd4-1 and USP8.
4. Ubiquitin dependent trafficking and turnover of ionotropic glutamate receptors.

Title: Neuroprosthetics in human patients and non-human primates

Location: Speaker's Auditorium
Host: TBD, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Subcortical neuronal ensembles. An analysis of motor task association, tremor, oscillations, and synchrony in human patients.
2. Assimilation of virtual legs and perception of floor texture by complete paraplegic patients receiving artificial tactile feedback.
3. Expanding the primate body schema in sensorimotor cortex by virtual touches of an avatar.

Centennial Hall
12:30-6:45pm
RSVP to Liz Weaver