Upcoming Seminars and Events
Department of Neuroscience Seminar:
February 9, 2010
Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.
A219B Langley Hall
Jean-Claude Lacaille, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology
University of Montreal
Seminar Title: Persistent Plasticity of Inhibition in Brain Memory Circuits
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
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PhD Dissertation Defense: Kate Cosgrove
February 10, 2010
Wednesday, 9:00 am
A219B Langley Hall
CNUP PhD Defense, School of Arts and Sciences
Title: High Affinity Group III mGluRs Regulate Mossy Fiber Input to CA3 Interneurons
Department of Neuroscience Seminar:
February 17, 2010
Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.
A219B Langley Hall
Rebecca A. Berman, PhD
Research Fellow, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
National Eye Institute
National Institutes of Health
Seminar Title: Pathways to Perception: Interactions between the Visual Thalamus and Cortex
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience Seminar:
February 22, 2010
Monday, 9:30 a.m.
A221 Langley Hall
Gareth M. Thomas, PhD
Department of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Regulation of Glutamatergic Synapses in Health and Disease
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience Seminar:
February 24, 2010
Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.
A219B Langley Hall
Marlene R. Cohen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Seminar Title: Using Attention to Study Cortical Population Codes
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
Recent Faculty Publications
Cosgrove K.E., Galván E.J., Meriney S.D., and Barrionuevo, G. Area CA3 Interneurons Receive Two Spatially Segregated Mossy Fiber Inputs. Hippocampus, 2009 (in press).
Totah NK, Kim YB, Homayoun H, Moghaddam B. Anterior cingulate neurons represent errors and preparatory attention within the same behavioral sequence.
Journal of Neuroscience. 2009 May 20;29(20):6418-26.
Gonzalez-Burgos, G., Kroener, S., Zaitsev, A.V., Povysheva, N.V., Krimer, L.S., Barrionuevo, G. and Lewis, D.A. Functional Maturation of Excitatory Synapses in Layer 3 Pyramidal Neurons during Postnatal Development of the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Cereb Cortex. Jun 24, 2007; [Epub ahead of print].
Lodge, D.J. and Grace, A.A. (2008) Augmented hippocampal drive of mesolimbic dopamine neurons: A mechanism of psychostimulant sensitization. Journal of Neuroscience 28 7876-7882.
Clarke, R.J. and Johnson, J.W. (2008). Voltage-dependent gating of NR1/2B NMDA receptors. J. Physiol. 586, 5727-5741.
Keith, R.K., Poage, R.E., Yokoyama, C.T., Catterall, W.A., and Meriney, S.D. Bidirectional modulation of transmitter release by calcium channel/syntaxin interactions in
vivo. Journal of Neuroscience 27: 265-269, 2007.
Moghaddam, B. and Homayoun, H. Divergent Plasticity of Prefrontal Cortex networks. Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews, 33: 42-55, 2008.
Koehnle, T.J., and Rinaman, L. Progressive postnatal increases in Fos immunoreactivity in the forebrain and brainstem of the rat in response to viscerosensory stimulation with lithium chloride. American Journal of Physiology Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology 292: R1212-R1223, 2007.
Omelchenko, N., Sesack, S.R. Glutamate synaptic inputs to ventral tegmental area neurons in the rat derive primarily from subcortical sources. Neuroscience 146: 1259-1274, 2007.
Smith, C.A., Curtis, K.S., Smith, J.C., and Stricker, E.M. Presystemic influences on thirst, salt appetite, and vasopressin secretion in the hypovolemic rat. Amer. J. Physiol. Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 May;292(5): R2089-99. Epub 2007 Jan 4.
Adams, J.M., Madden, C.J., Sved, A.F., and Stocker, S.D. Increased dietary salt enhances sympathoexcitatory and sympathoinhibitory responses from the rostral ventrolateral medulla. Hypertension. 50(2): 354-9, 2007. Epub 2007 Jun 25.
