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: TBD
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: TBD
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: TBD
Host: Angela Mabb, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

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Title: Neuroprosthetics in human patients and non-human primates

Location: TBD
Host: Sarah Pallas, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

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