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2024-2025

2024/2025 Academic Year

Speaker	Affiliation	Date	Talk Title
Ian Walling, Aleksandr Taranov	UC NGP	29-Aug-24	an: Stimulating breathing through locomotor circuits"; Alek - "Choroid plexus: a safeguard against injury"
Daniel Vogt, PhD(Talk is at noon)	Michigan State University	5-Sep-24	mpact of Ras/MAPK hyperactivity during cortical GABAergic interneuron development: New insights into a well-studied pathway."
Jeremy Borniger, PhD	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	12-Sep-24	A brain-body feedback loop driving HPA-axis dysfunction in breast cancer
Michael Lacagnina, PhD	CCHMC	19-Sep-24	B cells drive neuropathic pain via IgG-Fc gamma receptor signaling
Sofia Gonzalez, Meranda Quijas	UC NGP	26-Sep-24	Sofia - "Dopaminergic encoding of visual stimuli in the striatum"; Meranda: "Sex-dependent effects of prolactin receptor on muscle hypersensitivity following ischemic insult"
Erica Glasper, PhD	Ohio State University	3-Oct-24	ncreased social vigilance and altered central and peripheral immune activity to early-life adversity: adaptation or maladaptive responses?
Ivanka Rainer, Kassidy Grover	UC NGP	17-Oct-24	vanka - "Pavlovian conditioned approach and behavioral flexibility in Long-Evans rats using time-restricted feeding"; Kassidy - "A novel mouse model of MAPK1-related Rasopathy recapitulates several features of the human syndrome"
Diego Fernandez, PhD	CCHMC	24-Oct-24	ntegration of sensory and circadian signals within brain circuits controlling affective behavior
Kat Propsom, Emily Devine	UC NGP	31-Oct-24	Kat - "B cell and autoantibody contributions to chronic pain"; Emily - "Traumatic stress-induced glucocorticoid signaling and rat behavior"
Kaejaren Caldwell, Sarah Yaser	UC NGP	7-Nov-24
Brian Lundstrom, MD, PhD	Mayo Clinic Rochester	14-Nov-24	KJ - "Characterization and validation of an ex vivo ischemia model for neurochemical analysis"; Sarah - "Impact of Raptor and Rictor deletion on hippocampal dentate granule cell pathology following status epilepticus"
Nicholas Timme, PhD	UC COM	21-Nov-24	Aversion-resistant alcohol drinking in rodent and computational models
Andrew Stewart, PhD	University of Kentucky	5-Dec-24	Challenges and advancements with overcoming a sustained disruption in the neuronal phosphoproteome after spinal cord injury
Anne Murphy, Ph.D	Georgia State University	16-Jan-24	mpact of gestational opioid exposure on immune signaling in male and female rats
Diana Goode, PhD	University of Maine	23-Jan-24	Neuron, present yourself! Factors driving CD4+ T cell populations in CPIN
Nien-Pei Tsai, PhD	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	30-Jan-25	Searching for New Therapeutic Strategies for Fragile X Syndrome and Autism
Adrienne Antonson, PhD	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6-Feb-25	Prenatal originas of neurodevelopmental dysfunction: Viruses, microbes, microglia, and IL-17
Kimaya Raje, Kristen Oshima	UC NGP	13-Feb-25	Kimaya - "Behavioral and dopaminergic effect of a DRD1-specific conditional knockout of the ADHD risk-gene, Latrophilin-3 (LPHN3)"; Kristen - "Characterizing immune cell populations in frontotemporal dementia: Exploring changes in the periphery and Brain"
Lilian Jerow, Fady Eid	UC NGP	20-Feb-25	Lilian - "Deletion of TSC2 from inhibitory neurons"; Fady - "Early life stress modulates neonatal somatosensation and the transcriptional profile of immature sensory neurons"
Ram Madabhushi, PhD	UT Southwestern	27-Feb-25	Mechanisms and consequences of activity-dependent DNA double-strand breaks in neurons
Gloria Choi, PhD	MIT	6-Mar-25	TBD
Elizabeth Stegemoller, PhD	Iowa State University	13-Mar-25	Singing in Parkinson's Disease
Zoe Cappel, Kelly Bosis	UC NGP	27-Mar-25	Zoe- "Molecular and circuit mechanisms of visual hypersensitivity in neurofibromatosis type 1 model mice"; Kelly - "Stress-induced formation of DNA neuronal DNA double strand breaks lead to molecular adaptations in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus"
Tristan Shuman, PhD	Mt Sinai	3-Apr-25	Closed-loop control of inhibitory spike timing in health and disease
Lori Knackstedt, PhD	University of Florida	10-Apr-25	Rodent models of voluntary polysubstance use as platforms for screening medications to reduce drug seeking
Gregory Schwartz, PhD	Northwestern	17-Apr-25	Displaced amacrine cells of the Mouse Retina: Genes, Form, and Function

2024 Spring Semester

Date	Name	Description
January 11, 2024	Aleksandr Taranov, NGP Doctoral Student Ivanka Rainer, NGP Doctoral Student	Cerebrospinal fluid and metabolic processes Sign-Goal Tracking in a model of obesity
January 18, 2024	Cassie Gipson-Reichardt, Associate Professor, U Kentucky	Nicotine use induces sex-specific neuroimmune dysregulations that regulate glutamate dyshomeostasis and underlie sex-specific efficacy of nicotine cessation therapeutics
January 25, 2024	Amanda McGann, NGP/MSTP Doctoral Student Kassidy Grover, NGP Doctoral Student	Characterizing a novel mouse model of MAPK1-mediated Rasopathy
February 1, 2024	Sophia Gonzalez, NGP Doctoral Student Judy Yoo, NGP/MSTP Doctoral Student	Dopaminergic Encoding of Visual Stimulus in the Striatum Early life injury alters spinal astrocyte development
February 8, 2024	Kate Sadler, Assistant Professor, UT Dallas	Gastrointestinal chemosensation drives chronic sickle cell disease pain
February 15, 2024	Diego Fernandez, Assistant Professor, CCHMC	postponed
February 22, 2024	Meranda Quijas, NGP Doctoral Student Kat Propsom, NGP Doctoral Student	The sex specific role of RNA-binding protein, pAUF1, in prolonged hypersensitivity following ischemia with reperfusion injury Autoimmune Mechanisms of Chronic Pain
March 7, 2024	Franck Kalume, Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery Seattle Children's Hospital (NRC)
March 21, 2024	Austin Drake, NGP/MSTP Doctoral Student Emily Devine, NGP Doctoral Student
March 28, 2024	Vivianne Tawfik, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford
April 4, 2024	Kaejeran Caldwell, NGP Doctoral Student Taylor Zuelger, NGP Doctoral Student
April 11, 2024	Anne Murphy, Professor, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State U
April 18, 2024	Paul Territo, Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Med

2022-2023

Date	Name	Description
August 25, 2022	Mary Beth Genter, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	Intranasal (IN) drug delivery: IN carnosine in the Thy1-aSyn mouse model of Parkinson's disease
September 1, 2022	Elliott Robinson, MD, PhD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	Ventral striatal dopamine encodes unique properties of visual stimuli in mice
September 8, 2022	Matthew Robson, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy	Dazed and confused: alterations in 5-HT signaling following blast-induced traumatic brain injury
September 15, 2022	Michael Hawrylycz, PhD Allen Institute for Brain Science	Advancing open neuroscience: data, tools, and resources at the Allen Institute for Brain Science
September 22, 2022	Susan Sangha, PhD Indiana University School of Medicine	Using learned safety cues to map the behavioral and circuit mechanisms of fear regulation
September 29, 2022	Jaclyn Schwarz, PhD University of Delaware	Effect of early-life immune activation on the ontogeny of learning: importance for understanding the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders
October 13, 2022	Emma Parkins Neuroscience Graduate Program	MicroRNA-mediated regulation of excitatory synapses
October 20, 2022	Alicia Bedolla Neuroscience Graduate Program Shelby Hetzer Neuroscience Graduate Program	Straight to the source: CNS TGF-β ligand shared by neighborly microgli Untangling oxidative and endoplasmic reticulum stress after traumatic optic nerve injury
October 27, 2022	Houda Nashawi Neuroscience Graduate Program Julia Hoyda Neuroscience Graduate Program	Microcircuits of the basolateral amygdala: a possible role in resilience to stress Resting-state functional connectivity relates to structural and pragmatic language skills in school-age children
November 3, 2022	Matthew Weston, PhD Virginia Tech	Synaptic mechanisms underlying network hyperexcitability in seizure disorders caused by mTOR hyperactivation
December 1, 2022	Feni Kadakia Neuroscience Graduate Program Emily Allgire Neuroscience Graduate Program	The posterior insula enhances sensory and affective pain-related behavior Lung-to-brain communication: IL-17a in allergies
January 12, 2023	Laura Maile Neuroscience Graduate Program Andrew Gaulden Neuroscience Graduate Program	Understanding the role of prelimbic circuitry in chronic unpredictable stress-induced nociceptive hypersensitivity Stress escalation in cocaine self-administration is modulated by sex and endocannabinoid signaling
January 19, 2023	Ian Walling Neuroscience Graduate Program Faith Best Neuroscience Graduate Program	Stimulating breathing through locomotor circuits Cognition and behavior in a model of induced cortical spreading depolarizations after traumatic brain injury
January 26, 2023	Xiaowei Hou, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	Structural studies reveal insights into CRAC channel activation
February 2, 2023	Amanda McGann Neuroscience Graduate Program	The effect of antagonism of miR-324-5p on epileptogenesis
February 9, 2023	Sofia Gonzalez Neuroscience Graduate Program Taylor Zuleger Neuroscience Graduate Program	Ventral striatal dopamine encodes unique properties of visual stimuli in mice The effects of repetitive head impact exposure on functional brain activity for motor control
February 16, 2023	Lindsay DeBiase, PhD University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine	Midbrain microglia: unique cell phenotypes and their influence on neuronal health and function
February 23, 2023	Ivanka Rainer Neuroscience Graduate Program Patrick Woller Neuroscience Graduate Program	Food mediated stress relief and the endocannabinoid system Altered PI3K/mTOR signaling within the forebrain leads to respiratory deficits and SUDEP
March 2, 2023	Allan Gulledge, PhD Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College	Cholinergic modulation selectively drives corticofugal networks in the prefrontal cortex
March 9, 2023	Jordan McCall, PhD, MPH Washington University	Endogenous opioid regulation of locus coeruleus-mediated analgesia
March 23, 2023	Trent Watkins, PhD University of California at San Francisco	Harnessing intrinsic transcriptional programs for CNS neuroprotection and repair
April 6, 2023	Meaghan Creed, PhD Washington University	Non-canonical ventral pallidal neurons and their role in reward processing
April 13, 2023	Meranda Quijas Neuroscience Graduate Program Aleksandr Taranov Neuroscience Graduate Program	Sex-specific role of RNA-binding protein AUF1 on prolonged hypersensitivity after repetitive ischemia with reperfusion injury Exploring the role of the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease
April 20, 2023	Judy Yoo Neuroscience Graduate Program Austin Drake Neuroscience Graduate Program	Early-life iron deficiency persistently alters nociception Regulation of epileptogenesis by hippocampal somatostatin interneurons in a model of mTORopathies

2021-2022

Date	Name	Description
August 26, 2021	Tish Hevel, CEO The Brain Donor Project	Brain donation for neuroscience breakthroughs
September 2, 2021	Igal Ifergan, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	The potential of myeloid cells in controlling CNS inflammation
September 9, 2021	Andrew Norman, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	Translational research on cocaine use disorder
September 23, 2021	Allie Greene Neuroscience Graduate Program Julia Hoyda Neuroscience Graduate Program	DEK loss is linked with the ApoE4 genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease Resting state fMRI executive and speech network connectivity in children with and without listening difficulties
October 7, 2021	Nawshaba Nawreen Neuroscience Graduate Program Christin Godale Neuroscience Graduate Program	Translational signature of prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons following chronic stress The impact of Raptor and Rictor deletion on dentate granule cell morphology in epilepsy
October 14, 2021	Marissa Smail Neuroscience Graduate Program Amanda McGann Neuroscience Graduate Program	Role of microglia and the extracellular matrix in enrichment loss miR-324-5p's role in epileptogenesis
October 21, 2021	Yang Yang, PhD Purdue University College of Pharmacy	SCN2A related autism and epilepsy: from mouse models to iPSCs models
October 28, 2021	Hyacinth Hyacinth, MD, PhD, MPH University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	Examining the biological (genetic) determinants of racial disparity in cognitive deficit: a focus on the sickle cell mutation
November 4, 2021	Michael Wong, MD, PhD Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	mTOR Signaling and non-neuronal mechanisms of epileptogenesis
December 2, 2021	Alexxai Kravitz, PhD Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	Nutritional psychiatry: how diet alters rodent brains and behavior
January 13, 2022	Adam Dourson Neuroscience Graduate Program Emma Parkins Neuroscience Graduate Program	microRNA-324-5p rescues dendritic spine density in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome Early life neuroimmune interactions modulate nociceptive priming
January 20, 2022	Samuel Woodburn Neuroscience Graduate Program	Microglial modulation of synaptic plasticity in chronic stress and low-dose ketamine treatment
January 27, 2022	Alicia Bedolla Neuroscience Graduate Program Feni Kadakia Neuroscience Graduate Program	TGFβ signaling is required for homeostatic microglia repopulation following PLX-induced depletion Chemogenetic modulation of the posterior insular cortex alters both affective and sensory pain-related behavior
February 10, 2022	Alex Bunk Neuroscience Graduate Program Faith Best Neuroscience Graduate Program	Deepening our understanding of skin-nerve communication in pain and itch control Electrocorticographic analysis of spreading depolarizations after traumatic brain injury
February 17, 2022	Alex Kwan, PhD Yale University	Psychedelics and the neurobiology of fast-acting antidepressants
February 24, 2022	Ketema Paul, PhD University of California at Los Angeles	Bmal1 in skeletal muscle provides protection against sleep loss
March 3, 2022	Annabelle Singer, PhD Georgia Tech and Emory University	Dancing to the beat: brain rhythms to boost neuroimmune function and treat pathology
March 10, 2022	Lisa Briand, PhD Temple University	Adolescent social isolation increases vulnerability to drug seeking: structural and synaptic mechanisms
March 24, 2022	Ariel Levine, MD, PhD National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke	A single cell view of degeneration and regeneration in the mammalian spinal cord
March 31, 2022	Ian Walling Neuroscience Graduate Program Shelby Hetzer Neuroscience Graduate Program	Excitation of cervical V2a neurons promotes recovery of breathing following spinal cord injury Model matters: differential outcomes in optic neuropathy severity between blunt and blast wave mediated head injuries
April 7, 2022	Cindy Cohen Neuroscience Graduate Program Laura Maile Neuroscience Graduate Program	Targeting nociceptors and transient receptor potential channels for the treatment of migraine Understanding the role of mediodorsal thalamic and prelimbic circuits in emotional and affective pain processing
April 14, 2022	Emily Allgire Neuroscience Graduate Program Houda Nashawi Neuroscience Graduate Program	Airway inflammation and fear: dissecting interleukin 17a (IL17a) mechanisms Stress resilience by natural rewards: the role of the basolateral amygdala
April 21, 2022	Andrew Gaulden Neuroscience Graduate Program Taylor Zuleger Neuroscience Graduate Program	Stress escalation in cocaine self-administration is modulated by sex and endocannabinoid signaling Sports-related concussion: utilizing integrated 3D motion analysis and neuroimaging technologies to characterize future lower extremity injury risk

2020-2021

Date	Name	Description
September 3, 2020	Elliott Robinson, MD, PhD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	A circuit-centric approach to cognitive function in mouse models of neurofibromatosis type 1
September 10, 2020	Jayme McReynolds, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	Endocannabinoid regulation of stress-escalated cocaine
September 24, 2020	Greg Harris, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science	Bioengineering next generation therapeutics for peripheral nerve injury
October 1, 2020	Richard Costanzo, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University College of Medicine	Restoring the sense of smell
October 8, 2020	Laura Ngwenya, MD, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	Spreading depolarizations in traumatic brain injury
October 22, 2020	Theodore Price, PhD University of Texas at Dallas	Molecular profiling of the human peripheral nervous system in chronic pain states
October 29, 2020	Darrin Brager, PhD University of Texas at Austin	Cell type specific regulation of h-channels by Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein
November 5, 2020	Jane Allendorfer, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine	Physical exercise and activity for improving cognition in epilepsy
November 12, 2020	Jennifer Patritti-Cram Neuroscience Graduate Program Samantha Regan Neuroscience Graduate Program	Understanding the role of purinergic signaling on tumor formation in a mouse model of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Comparison of conditional Lphn3-TH-Cre rat with global Lphn3 KO on activity and cognition
November 19, 2020	Nawshaba Nawreen Neuroscience Graduate Program	Mechanisms of adolescent stress-induced resilience
January 14, 2021	Paige Greenwood Neuroscience Graduate Program Han Tong Neuroscience Graduate Program	The role of maternal education on narrative comprehension in typical and atypical readers Pain in the adolescent brain: an fMRI study
January 21, 2021	Allie Greene Neuroscience Graduate Program	Investigating a functional role for DEK in the brain: insight from cell culture, rodent, and human studies
January 28, 2021	Marissa Smail Neuroscience Graduate Program Adam Dourson Neuroscience Graduate Program	Molecular neurobiology of enrichment loss: Multi-omics analysis reveals a role of microglia Early life neuroimmune interactions modulate nociceptive priming
February 4, 2021	Emma Parkins Neuroscience Graduate Program Samuel Woodburn Neuroscience Graduate Program	miR-324-5p regulates dendritic spine density and morphology, cytoskeletal protein expression, and long-term potentiation in the hippocampus Microglial contributions to the behavioral and synaptic effects of chronic stress
February 11, 2021	Sarah Kucenas, PhD University of Virginia	Unwrapping glial engineering in the vertebrate nervous system
February 18, 2021	Kim Kraus Neuroscience Graduate Program Houda Nashawi Neuroscience Graduate Program	Determining the role of limbic glutamatergic glucocorticoid receptors in status epilepticus Targeting the P2X4-macrophage-TGFβ pathway for the treatment of lower back pain
February 25, 2021	Cindy Cohen Neuroscience Graduate Program Emily Johnson Neuroscience Graduate Program	In vivo and in vitro modeling of migraine in mice for novel therapeutic screening Exploring the effects of airway inflammation on fear-related behaviors in mice
March 4, 2021	Jason Tchieu, PhD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	Multiplex analysis of autism-related mutations using human pluripotent stem cells
March 11, 2021	Feni Kadakia Neuroscience Graduate Program	The role of the posterior insula in affective and sensory pain processing
March 25, 2021	Yarimar Carrasquillo, PhD National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health	Neural circuits for pain modulation in the amygdala
April 1, 2021	Victoria Risbrough, PhD University of California at San Diego School of Medicine	Cross-species approaches to understanding risk mechanisms and novel treatment approaches for trauma disorders
April 8, 2021	Anne Andrews, PhD University of California at Los Angeles	Advancing in vivo neurotransmitter monitoring
April 15, 2021	Alicia Bedolla Neuroscience Graduate Program Ian Walling Neuroscience Graduate Program	The role of TGFβ signaling in maintaining microglia and astrocyte homeostasis and activation Excitation of cervical V2a neurons promotes recovery of breathing following spinal cord injury

2019-2020

Date	Name	Description
August 29, 2019	Fumika Hamada, PhD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	Temperature homeostasis: circadian rhythms and hunger
September 5, 2019	Temugin Berta, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	Resolution of pain: a story of macrophages
September 12, 2019	Todd Vanderah, PhD University of Arizona College of Medicine	Cannabinoid treatment on metastatic cancer and morphine's deleterious effects
September 26, 2019	Muriel Darnaudéry, PhD Université de Bordeaux	Modulation of early-life stress consequences by maternal nutrition
October 3, 2019	Michael Lehman, PhD Kent State University	Neuroendocrinology of reproduction: brain health as a window into disease
November 7, 2019	June Goto, PhD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	Investigations of motile cilia functions and new imaging tools for pediatric hydrocephalus management
November 14, 2019	Hongbing Wang, PhD Michigan State University	Analysis of HITS-CLIP and transcriptome data identifies therapeutic strategies for fragile X syndrome in a mouse model
November 21, 2019	Étienne Sibille, PhD University of Toronto	GABA deficits and cognition in depression and aging: mechanisms and therapeutic targeting
December 5, 2019	Ruth Asch Neuroscience Graduate Program Emily Pitzer Neuroscience Graduate Program	Effects of perinatal omega-3 fatty acid deficiency and psychostimulant treatment on brain network connectivity in rats Effects of developmental deltamethrin exposure (postnatal days 3-20) on cognition, neurotransmitters, and long-term potentiation in adult Sprague-Dawley rats
January 16, 2020	Jennifer Patritti-Cram Neuroscience Graduate Program	Understanding the role of purinergic signaling on tumor formation and blood-nerve-barrier function in mouse model of Neurofibromatosis Type 1
January 23, 2020	Ukpong Eyo, PhD University of Virginia College of Medicine	Microglial P2Y12R in CNS physiology and pathology
January 30, 2020	Samantha Regan Neuroscience Graduate Program Kelsey Lloyd Neuroscience Graduate Program	Heterozygous latrophilin-3 knockout rats show a gene dosage effect on locomotor activity and cognitive performance Effects of adolescent high-fat diet on cognition and behavior in adult mice
February 6, 2020	Christin Godale Neuroscience Graduate Program Paige Greenwood Neuroscience Graduate Program	Adeno-associated viral strategy to delete the mTORC1 adaptor protein Raptor from dentate granule cells The synchronization of the reading network and its relations to maternal variables during childhood
February 20, 2020	Nawshaba Nawreen Neuroscience Graduate Program Han Tong Neuroscience Graduate Program	Single prolonged stress (SPS) reduces intrinsic excitability and alters synaptic tone in the infralimbic prefrontal cortex of adult rats Brain mechanisms of pain processing in adolescents with juvenile fibromyalgia
March 5, 2020	Samuel Woodburn Neuroscience Graduate Program Marissa Smail Neuroscience Graduate Program	Temporal and sex-dependent effects of chronic stress on microglia Neurobiology of enrichment loss
March 12, 2020	Adam Dourson Neuroscience Graduate Program Emma Parkins Neuroscience Graduate Program	Neonatal nociception is modulated by a unique immune, endocrine, and peripheral sensory systems interaction after injury MicroRNA regulation of dendritic spines in the healthy and disordered brain

2003-2004

Date	Name	Description
October 2, 2003	Kevin Grove, PhD Oregon Health and Science University	Regulation of feeding during development: development of the neuropeptide Y system in the rodent and nonhuman primate
October 16, 2003	Robert McNamara, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Is MACS a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia?
October 16, 2003	Akira Chiba, PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Cellular and molecular bases of neuronetworking
October 30, 2003	Vittorio Gallo, PhD George Washington School of Medicine	Heterogeneity and lineage potential of NG2 progenitors in the postnatal brain
November 6, 2003	Francis Szele, PhD Northwestern University Medical School	Should I stay or should I go? - renegade migration of SVZ cells in the adult brain
November 20, 2003	Greti Aguilera, MD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	Positive and negative regulation of corticotropin-releasing hormone expression by cyclic AMP
December 4, 2003	Thad Polk, PhD University of Michigan	Changes in the neural architecture of cognition with experience and age
December 18, 2003	Eric Brunskill, PhD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	NPAS3 deficient mice: neurodevelopmental and behavioral abnormalities in limbic system function. Similarities to treatment refractory schizophrenia?
January 8, 2004	Catherine Woolley, PhD Northwestern University	Estrogen and synapses in the hippocampus
January 22, 2004	Yi Rao, PhD Washington University at St. Louis	Signal transduction in neuronal migration
January 29, 2004	Nicholas Gaiano, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Notch and FGF signaling in embryonic mammalian neural stem cells
February 5, 2004	Seema Bhatnagar, PhD University of Michigan	Neural circuitry underlying chronic stress effects on hypothalamic pituitary adrenal function
February 12, 2004	Kellie Tamashiro Neuroscience Graduate Program	Chronic social stress: It doesn't do a body good
February 26, 2004	James Sartin, PhD Auburn University	Myostatin: muscle protein or hypothalamic neurotransmitter?
March 11, 2004	Mark Seeger, PhD The Ohio State University	Mechanisms of axon guidance at the Drosophila CNS midline
March 18, 2004	Boris Tabakoff, PhD University of Colorado Health Sciences Center	Signaling depression
March 23, 2004	John Searle, PhD University of California at Berkeley	Consciousness, causation and reduction
March 25, 2004	Ron de Kloet Leiden University Medical Center	The neurobiology of stress: focus on cortisol
April 1, 2004	Rick Flannery Neuroscience Graduate Program Anna Guerdjikova Neuroscience Graduate Program	Cyclic-nucleotide-gated channels in olfactory cilia Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its association with mood and eating disorders in a group of people seeking weight management
April 15, 2004	Jon Davis Neuroscience Graduate Program Brooke Davis Neuroscience Graduate Program	Fatal attraction: the role of the mPFC for male sexual behavior Opioids are a 'turn on'
April 29, 2004	Dennis Choi Neuroscience Graduate Program Chris LaPensee Neuroscience Graduate Program	The role of the BST in HPA axis regulation Prolactin as a regulator of adipose tissue homeostasis in mice
May 13, 2004	Megan Straiko Neuroscience Graduate Program Mary Nguyen Neuroscience Graduate Program	Functional and neurochemical consequences of MDMA administration to rats The effects of testosterone in a model of chronic social stress
May 20, 2004	Jon Williams Neuroscience Graduate Program Amy Furay Neuroscience Graduate Program	Evidence for incomplete differentiation in neurofibromin-deficient Schwann cells A kinetic analysis of glucocorticoid receptor translocation

2002-2003

Date	Name	Description
September 12, 2002	Benjamin Neel, MD, PhD Harvard Institutes of Medicine	Role of tyrosine phosphatases in control of body mass and glucose homeostasis
October 17, 2002	Timothy Moran, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Integration of satiety and adiposity signaling in the control of food intake
October 24, 2002	Francis White, PhD The Chicago Medical School	Neurophysiology of cocaine addiction in animal models
October 31, 2002	Thomas Dockendorff, PhD Miami University	A Drosophila model to study the fragile X mental retardation protein
November 14, 2002	Catherine Dulac, PhD Harvard University	Molecular biology of pheromone detection in mammals: from genes to behavior
November 21, 2002	Anthony Brown, PhD The Ohio State University	Slow axonal transport: stop and go traffic in the axon
December 5, 2002	John Rinzel, PhD New York University	Modeling spontaneous episodic activity in the developing spinal cord
January 16, 2003	John Hopfield, PhD Princeton University	Computational olfaction: algorithms and implementation
January 30, 2003	Martha Cruz-Soto Neuroscience Graduate Program Mike Bennett Neuroscience Graduate Program	Effects of prolactin deficiency and tumor growth on the response to restraint stress in female prolactin knockout mice Aberrant growth and differentiation of CNS oligodendrocyte progenitors in neurofibromatosis type 1 mutants
February 13, 2003	Laurel Pritchard Neuroscience Graduate Program Fatima Rangwala Neuroscience Graduate Program	Role of the D3 dopamine receptor in behavioral responses to novel stimuli and psychostimulants Enhanced migration of neurofibromin-deficient Schwann cells is mediated by TC21
March 6, 2003	Rick Flannery Neuroscience Graduate Program	Localization of ion channels in olfactory cilia
April 3, 2003	Gregory Ball, PhD Johns Hopkins University	Androgens, song behavior and seasonal neuroplasticity: where, how and why?
April 10, 2003	Alier Franco Neuroscience Graduate Program Chris LaPensee Neuroscience Graduate Program	The role of corticotropin-releasing factor in stress-induced analgesia The role of prolactin in preadipocyte proliferation and differentiation
May 1, 2003	William Schwartz, MD University of Massachusetts Medical School	Dual circadian oscillators in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the regulation of behavioral rhythmicity
May 8, 2003	Louis Muglia, MD, PhD Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine	Molecular genetic analyses of adrenal and behavioral responses to stress
May 22, 2003	Kellie Tamashiro Neuroscience Graduate Program Miyuki Tauchi Neuroscience Graduate Program	Attack of the obese clones: Episode II Mechanism of Slit signaling in embryonic nervous system development
May 29, 2003	Polly Dornette Neuroscience Graduate Program	Investigating a potential receptor for the rapid effects of estrogen
June 5, 2003	George Ricaurte, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center	Neurotoxic potential of amphetamine-type stimulants

2001-2002

Date	Name	Description
July 26, 2001	Mark Smith, PhD Case Western University	Debunking dogma in Alzheimer disease
September 20, 2001	Marina Wolf, PhD Chicago Medical School	Glutamate, plasticity and drugs of abuse
September 27, 2001	Min Zhuo, PhD Washington University School of Medicine	Synaptic mechanisms of persistent pain and memory
October 4, 2001	Charles Chavkin, PhD University of Washington School of Medicine	Mechanisms of tolerance to opiate analgesics
October 11, 2001	Horace Loh, PhD University of Minnesota	Regulation of opioid receptor signaling
October 18, 2001	Anthony Bretscher, PhD Cornell University	Ezrin and EBP50 protein families in the functional organization of the cell cortex: implications for merlin
October 25, 2001	Robert Spencer, PhD University of Colorado	Stress adaptation: exploring neuroendocrine mechanisms
November 1, 2001	David Kreulen, PhD Michigan State University	Interactions between sympathetic and sensory neurons: possibilities for cross-talk
November 29, 2001	Robert Handa, PhD Colorado State University	Cellular and molecular mechanisms of estrogen receptor beta action: a neurobiological perspective
December 6, 2001	Yavin Shaham, PhD National Institute on Drug Abuse	Stress and relapse to heroin and cocaine: behavioral and neurochemical mechanisms
January 10, 2002	Richard Bodnar, PhD Queens College, City University of New York	Supraspinal circuitry mediating opioid antinociception: antagonist, synergy and sex-specific effects
January 17, 2002	David Fink, MD University of Pittsburgh	A good herpes infection: HSV-mediated gene transfer to the nervous system
January 24, 2002	Chad Foradori Neuroscience Graduate Program Jill McQuade Neuroscience Graduate Program	The role of endogenous opioid peptides in the ovine estrous cycle Stress response in mice deficient in hippocampal c-fos
February 7, 2002	Randy Nelson, PhD The Ohio State University	Using gene-knockout mice in behavioral neuroscience: a cautionary tale
February 14, 2002	Martha Cruz-Soto Neuroscience Graduate Program Mike Bennett Neuroscience Graduate Program	Bromocriptine response and PTTG expression in the pituitary tumors of PRL-deficient female mice Neurofibromatosis Type-1: CNS glial progenitor defects in Nf1 mutant mice
February 21, 2002	Andy McQuade Neuroscience Graduate Program Wen-rui Xie Neuroscience Graduate Program	Integration of fuel availability in mice with a targeted disruption of the dopamine 3 receptor Spontaneous activity, what a pain! Can chronic pain be prevented?
March 7, 2002	Erin Murphy Neuroscience Graduate Program Yang Tang Neuroscience Graduate Program	Effects of aging and stress on steroid receptor expression in the hippocampus: a new perspective Blood genomic response to experimental neuronal injuries
March 21, 2002	Martin Myers, MD, PhD Joslin Diabetes Center	Leptin signaling and links to physiology
March 28, 2002	Hansung Lee Neuroscience Graduate Program Laurel Pritchard Neuroscience Graduate Program	Circadian rhythmicity of ERK phosphorylation in the hamster suprachiasmatic nucleus The role of the D3 dopamine receptor in rodent locomotor behavior: effects of environmental context
April 4, 2002	Michael Rosbash, PhD Brandeis University	Circadian rhythms in flies, mice and humans
April 25, 2002	Kim Kinzig Neuroscience Graduate Program	Multiple roles of the CNS glucagon-like peptide-1 system
May 9, 2002	Rita Valentino, PhD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Intersection of the stress axis with monoamine systems
May 23, 2002	Margaret Balfour Neuroscience Graduate Program Fatima Rangwala Neuroscience Graduate Program	Sex, drugs, and reward Enhanced migration of neurofibromin-deficient Schwann cells is inhibited by dominant negative R-Ras

2000-2001

Date	Name	Description
July 12, 2000	Marc Abrahams Editor, Annals of Improbable Research	The Ig Nobel Prize and Advances in Improbable Research
September 14, 2000	Dianne Figlewicz Lattemann, PhD University of Washington	Insulin and brain reward pathways
September 28, 2000	Jeffrey Tasker, PhD Tulane University	State-dependent modulation of synaptic inputs to hypothalamic neuroendocrine cells
October 5, 2000	Martha Constantine-Paton, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Regulation of glutamate receptors during synaptogenesis in the visual pathway
October 12, 2000	Morgan Sheng, MBBS, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital	Molecular dynamics of the postsynaptic specialization
October 26, 2000	Ben Packard Neuroscience Graduate Program Jill McQuade Neuroscience Graduate Program	Oxidative injury following hemorrhagic stroke The role of c-fos in hippocampal learning and stress response and the role of DFF45 in hippocampal learning
November 2, 2000	Martha Cruz-Soto Neuroscience Graduate Program Chad Foradori Neuroscience Graduate Program	"Neuroendocrine regulation of lactotroph proliferation" The role of endogenous opioid peptides in the ovine estrous cycle
November 16, 2000	Andy McQuade Neuroscience Graduate Program Mike Bennett Neuroscience Graduate Program	Body weight of mice with a targeted deletion of the dopamine-3 receptor Progenitors run amuck: the plight of the glial lineage in the neurofibromatosis type 1 knockout mouse
November 30, 2000	James Woods, PhD University of Michigan Medical School	New pharmacological avenues toward antidepressants
December 14, 2000	Gavril Pasternak, MD, PhD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	Opioid analgesics: from the bedside to the gene
January 11, 2001	Li-Huei Tsai, PhD Harvard Medical School	Neuronal phosphorylation in brain development and degeneration
January 18, 2001	Terry Davidson, PhD Purdue University	The hippocampus and inhibitory learning revisited
January 23, 2001	Fang Liu, PhD University of Toronto	Direct protein-protein coupling enables cross-talk between dopamine D1-like receptors and ligand-gated ion channels
January 25, 2001	Steven Scherer, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	The role of the gap junction protein connexin32 in the myelin sheath
January 26, 2001	Benoît Malpaux, PhD National Institute of Agricultural Research Nouzilly, France	Melatonin and seasonal breeding: localization of hypothalamic sites of action
February 8, 2001	Costa Colbert, MD, PhD University of Houston	Action potentials in pyramidal neurons: initiation, propagation and modulation
February 8, 2001	Mahendra Rao, MD, PhD University of Utah School of Medicine	Stem cells and neurogenesis
March 1, 2001	Scott Fraser, PhD California Institute of Technology	Imaging neuronal development with laser-scanning and MRI microscopy
March 8, 2001	Peter Dallos, PhD Northwestern University	The molecular basis of cochlear amplification
March 22, 2001	David Anderson, PhD California Institute of Technology	Control of cell fate determination by neural crest stem cells
March 29, 2001	Robert Meisel, PhD Purdue University	Dopamine control of female sexual behavior: pleasure, not procreation
April 5, 2001	Wen-rui Xie Neuroscience Graduate Program	Nerve injury, ectopic activity and pain
April 12, 2001	Mariana Morris, PhD Wright State University	Oxytocin as a cardiovascular and behavioral peptide: perspectives from the knockout strategy
April 26, 2001	Ryan Walsh Neuroscience Graduate Program Jennifer Lachey Neuroscience Graduate Program	Response of the mesolimbic system to systemic administration of drugs of abuse: a functional neuroanatomic approach The role of the GLP-1 pathway in mediating the central effects of visceral illness
May 3, 2001	Paul Plotsky, PhD Emory University School of Medicine	Are animal models of perinatal adversity valid models of human psychiatric disorders? A focus on neonatal maternal separation in the rat
May 17, 2001	Bruce McEwen, PhD The Rockefeller University	Sex, stress and the hippocampus: from serendipity to clinical relevance
May 24, 2001	Yang Tang Neuroscience Graduate Program	Genomic analysis of acute neuronal injury

1999-2000

Date	Name	Description
September 16, 1999	Howard Schulman, PhD Stanford University Medical Center	Spatial and temporal signaling by a calcium-dependent protein kinase
October 7, 1999	Phil Skolnick, PhD, DSc (hon) Eli Lilly and Company	New concepts in antidepressant action
October 13, 1999	Joshua Sanes, PhD Washington University School of Medicine	Genetic analysis of synapse formation in mice
October 14, 1999	Joshua Sanes, PhD Washington University School of Medicine	Formation and maturation of the postsynaptic membrane at a chemical synapse
October 21, 1999	Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras Neuroscience Graduate Program Joan Lau Neuroscience Graduate Program	Single-channel recordings of voltage-gated calcium channels in vertebrate hair cells Towards potassium channel structure using atomic force microscopy
November 4, 1999	Rebecca Tuttle, PhD The Salk Institute	Neurotrophins as modulators of growth cone responses to axon guidance molecules
November 16, 1999	Scott Harvey, PhD Eli Lilly and Company	Polyamine-like actions of aminoglycosides at recombinant NMDA receptors
November 18, 1999	Robert Sapolsky, PhD Stanford University	Stress, neurodegeneration, and strategies for saving the endangered neuron
December 14, 1999	Ivan Berlin, MD, PhD Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France	Implications of reduced MAO activities in smokers: future research directions
January 13, 2000	Story Landis, PhD National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke	Developmental interactions required for synapse formation in the sympathetic nervous system
January 27, 2000	Erin Schuman, PhD California Institute of Technology	mRNA trafficking and local protein synthesis at the synapse
February 3, 2000	Adrian Dunn, PhD LSU Medical Center	Corticotropin-releasing factor as a regulator of stress responses
March 16, 2000	John Bickle, PhD East Carolina University	Modeling cortical excitatory and intrathalamic inhibitory synapses on thalamic sensory relay neurons
March 23, 2000	Ryan Walsh Neuroscience Graduate Program	The D1-dopamine receptor is crucial in the murine response to chronic cocaine administration -- a behavioral, immunocytochemical, and microarray analysis
March 30, 2000	Jennifer Lachey Neuroscience Graduate Program	The role of GLP-1 in mediating the central effects of visceral illness
April 6, 2000	Joe Tsien, PhD Princeton University	Genetic enhancement of learning and memory in mice
April 11, 2000	Eline Van Der Beek, PhD University of Wageningen	Time for sex: integration of circadian and hormonal information regulating reproduction
April 13, 2000	Jennifer Nelms Neuroscience Graduate Program	The circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: neural and diffusible outputs
April 20, 2000	Elis Stanley, PhD Toronto Western Research Institute	Calcium channels and the gating of the transmitter release site
April 27, 2000	Clifford Saper, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School	To sleep, perchance to dream: mechanisms of sleep-wake regulation
May 4, 2000	Wen-rui Xie Neuroscience Graduate Program	Spontaneous activity - a primary factor in neuropathic pain?
May 11, 2000	Roger Nicoll, MD University of California at San Francisco	Synaptic plasticity and the redistribution of glutamate receptors
May 18, 2000	Kalpana Merchant, PhD Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc.	Neuroplasticity and schizophrenia pathophysiology: effects of classical and novel antipsychotic drugs
May 25, 2000	Matt Wortman Neuroscience Graduate Program	Mechanisms that regulate food intake and body weight

1998-1999

Date	Name	Description
October 8, 1998	Scott Brady, PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Life in the fast lane – the cell and molecular biology of kinesin in the nervous system
November 18, 1998	Oliver Sacks, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Alzheimer's and the preservation of self
November 19, 1998	Antony Stretton, PhD University of Wisconsin	A rich world of neuropeptides in a simple nervous system
December 17, 1998	Thomas Carew, PhD Yale University	Multiple phases of memory processing in Aplysia: a mechanistic analysis
January 7, 1999	Audrey Seasholtz, PhD University of Michigan	Corticotropin-releasing hormone-binding protein: role in the HPA axis and CNS
January 15, 1999	Ajay Chitnis, PhD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	Patterning neurogenesis in the zebrafish embryo
January 28, 1999	Ruth Anne Eatock, PhD Baylor College of Medicine	Stimulus processing by mammalian vestibular hair cells
February 18, 1999	Allan Basbaum, PhD University of California at San Francisco	The neurochemistry of acute and persistent pain
February 25, 1999	Peter Kalivas, PhD Medical University of South Carolina	Addiction to cocaine: a collaboration between cell biology and learning
March 2, 1999	Marianne Bronner-Fraser, PhD California Institute of Technology	Molecular analysis of neural crest formation
April 1, 1999	Michael Vasko, PhD Indiana University School of Medicine	Transduction cascades mediating peptide release from sensory neurons
May 6, 1999	Michael Shipley, PhD The University of Maryland School of Medicine	Towards the physiology of a neuronal pattern analyzer: integrative and synaptic properties of olfactory bulb neurons
May 27, 1999	Richard Hauger, MD University of California at San Diego	The role of GRKs and PKA in the CRF receptor desensitization process in human Y-79 retinoblastoma cells

1997-1998

Date	Name	Description
September 18, 1997	Michael Owens, PhD University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	Antibody-based therapy for drug abuse
October 2, 1997	Martin Philbert, PhD University of Michigan, School of Public Health	Neural distribution of glutathione as a determinant of regional / cellular susceptibility
October 2, 1997	Michael Kawaja, PhD Queen's University Kingston, Ontario	Effects of elevated levels of nerve growth factor on axon growth in the mammalian peripheral and central nervous systems
October 9, 1997	Xiaodong Wang, PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	Biochemical study of apoptosis: putting a colorful puzzle together
October 16, 1997	Gary Ciment, PhD Oregon Health Sciences University	Role of the metalloproteinase stromelysin-1 in axonal growth
November 6, 1997	David Self, PhD Yale University & Connecticut Mental Health Center	Intracellular mechanisms of drug reinforcement and relapse
November 13, 1997	Ronald Kuczenski, PhD University of California at San Diego School of Medicine	Relationships between caudate dopamine and amphetamine-induced stereotyped behaviors
November 20, 1997	Steven Leslie, PhD University of Texas College of Pharmacy	Effects of ethanol on NMDA receptor function
December 5, 1997	Larry Squire, PhD University of California at San Diego	Memory systems of the brain
December 11, 1997	Peter Gunning, PhD The New Children's Hospital, Parramatta, NSW, Australia	Distinct populations of microfilaments are present in neurites and growth cones
January 22, 1998	Mary Dallman, PhD University of California at San Francisco	Chronic stress: feedback and facilitation
February 12, 1998	Stanley Kater, PhD University of Utah School of Medicine	For amber waves of glia
March 12, 1998	Richard Simerly, PhD Oregon Regional Primate Research Center	Development and activation of sexually dimorphic neural circuits
March 27, 1998	Samuel Hunter, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University	Mature brain oligodendrocytes: development and repair
April 9, 1998	James Bower, PhD California Institute of Technology	What does the cerebellum do?
April 10, 1998	Elliot Valenstein, PhD University of Michigan	Prefrontal lobotomy: a cautionary tale?
April 16, 1998	Saul Schanberg, PhD Duke University Medical Center	Maternal touch: a prime regulator of proto-oncogene transcription and infant growth
April 22, 1998	Steven Younkin, MD, PhD Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville	The role of amyloid beta protein in Alzheimer's disease
May 7, 1998	Paul Fuchs, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Cochlear function and the regulated expression of hair cell potassium channels

1996-1997

Date	Name	Description
September 12, 1996	Marie Filbin, PhD Hunter College, CUNY	Myelin-associated glycoprotein, MAG, as an inhibitor of axonal regeneration
October 3, 1996	Mary Lucero, PhD University of Utah	Dopaminergic modulation of olfactory sensitivity
October 10, 1996	Mary Jo LaDu, PhD University of Chicago	Apolipoprotein E and β-amyloid interactions: from test tube to cell culture
October 17, 1996	James Meador-Woodruff, MD, PhD University of Michigan Medical Center	Dopamine receptor transcripts in the human brain
November 6, 1996	Steven Green, PhD University of Iowa	Nerve membrane electrical activity as a neurotrophic stimulus
December 5, 1996	Michele Basso, EdD, PT The Ohio State University	Substrates of recovery after spinal cord injury
December 10, 1996	Ebenezer Yamoah, PhD Johns Hopkins University	Molecular mechanisms of hearing and the role of calcium in hair cell function
December 12, 1996	Rae Silver, PhD Barnard College of Columbia University	Behaviorally-triggered appearance of mast cells in the brain
January 23, 1997	Justin Zivin, MD, PhD University of California at San Diego	The experimental basis for TPA therapy for stroke
January 30, 1997	Rosalind Segal, MD, PhD Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School	Neurotrophins: function and mechanisms of action in cerebellar development
February 13, 1997	James Salzer, MD, PhD New York University Medical Center	The role of the neuregulin family of growth factors in axon-glial interactions
February 20, 1997	David Nichols, PhD Purdue University	Full efficacy dopamine D1 agonists: potential late stage therapy for Parkinson's disease
February 27, 1997	Jack Diamond, PhD McMaster University	Neurotrophins and sprouting
April 10, 1997	George Augustine, PhD Duke University Medical Center	Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release: a functional view
April 17, 1997	Michael Gazzaniga, PhD Dartmouth College	The biology of mind ...
April 24, 1997	James Herman, PhD University of Kentucky Medical Center	Neurocircuitry of stress
May 1, 1997	John Scott, PhD Emory University	Clues to the basic chemical dimensions of olfaction
May 8, 1997	Lawrence Cohen, PhD Yale University School of Medicine	Optical studies of distributed neuron activity on a large and small scale
June 6, 1997	Stephen Woods, PhD University of Washington	The control of adiposity by the brain

1995-1996

Date	Name	Description
September 21, 1995	Arlene Chiu, PhD City of Hope Medical Center	Target regulation of motoneurons
September 26, 1995	Mark Mattson, PhD University of Kentucky Medical Center	Messengers of neuronal death: censorship by neurotrophic factors
October 9, 1995	Michael Beattie, PhD The Ohio State University	Degeneration and plasticity after experimental spinal cord injury
October 12, 1995	Dale Purves, MD Duke University Medical Center	Movies, disappearing images and the way we see
October 26, 1995	Freda Miller, PhD Montréal Neurological Institute	Molecular mechanisms regulating neuronal growth
November 2, 1995	Christina Enroth-Cugell, MD, PhD Northwestern University	The early history of recording from single sensory neurons in general and from vertebrate retinal ganglion cells in particular
November 17, 1995	David Geoffrey Parkes, PhD Howard Florey Institute, Melbourne, Australia	Regulation of hypothalamic hormones mediating the response to stress
January 4, 1996	John Carney, PhD University of Kentucky	The etiological role of oxidative stress and energy failure in Alzheimer's disease
January 11, 1996	Eric Turner, MD, PhD University of California at San Diego	Transcription factors in specification of neuronal identity
February 8, 1996	Don Gash, PhD University of Kentucky Medical Center	Transplantation and trophic factor approaches towards tracking Parkinson's disease
February 29, 1996	Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD University of California at San Francisco	Axon guidance by diffusible attractants and repellents
March 7, 1996	Andrew Fix, DVM, PhD Miami Valley Laboratories, Procter and Gamble	MK-801: a neuroprotective agent with unique neurotoxicity
March 28, 1996	Jeffrey Corwin, PhD University of Virginia School of Medicine	Sensorineural deafness and the mechanisms of hair cell regeneration
April 4, 1996	Burton Slotnick, PhD American University	How does the nose know? Problems in olfactory coding
April 11, 1996	Fredrick Seil, MD Veterans Administration Medical Center, Portland, OR	Neuron-glia interactions in culture models of neural plasticity and transplantation
April 17, 1996	Randall McKinnon, PhD University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey	Transplantation of mutant oligodendrocyte precursors reveals critical roles for growth factor signalling during CNS myelin development
May 2, 1996	Robert Gesteland, PhD University of Cincinnati	Olfactory signalling: detecting novel events by avoiding homeostasis
May 9, 1996	Jacqueline McGinty, PhD East Carolina University School of Medicine	Glutamatergic and cholinergic regulation of immediate early gene and neuropeptide gene expression in the striatum
May 14, 1996	Fred Turek, PhD Northwestern University	Circadian and seasonal rhythms: neural, central, genetic bases and importance for human health
May 16, 1996	Jill Becker, PhD University of Michigan	Non-traditional effects of estrogen on the brain

1994-1995

Date	Name	Description
September 21, 1994	Edward Perl, MD University of North Carolina School of Medicine	Sense organs and sympathetically related pain: a lesson in changing neuronal phenotype
September 22, 1994	Mark Kindy, PhD University of Kentucky	Amyloidosis: the role of apolipoprotein E in amyloid formation
October 13, 1994	Malcolm Low, MD, PhD Oregon Health Sciences University	Production of β-endorphin-deficient mice by gene targeting
December 15, 1994	Rhona Mirsky, PhD University College, London
January 12, 1995	George Robertson, PhD University of Ottawa	Induction and function of dopamine-receptor-mediated increases in immediate early gene expression
January 26, 1995	Pietro DeCamilli, MD Yale University Medical School	GTPases in the exo-endocytotic recycling of synaptic vesicles
March 2, 1995	Timothy McClintock, PhD University of Kentucky College of Medicine	Chimeric olfactory receptors assayed by imaging of pigment movement in melanophores
May 11, 1995	Scott Rivkees, MD James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children	Developing circadian rhythmicity in primates
May 18, 1995	Kate Barald, PhD University of Michigan Medical School	The role of the neurofibromatosis I gene in neural crest development
May 25, 1995	Martin Chalfie, PhD Columbia University

1993-1994

Date	Name	Description
October 7, 1993	Zach Hall, PhD University of California at San Francisco	Assembly of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
December 2, 1993	Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, PhD NEC Research Institute	Movement estimation in the fly visual system
January 6, 1993	James Sikela, PhD University of Colorado School of Medicine	Large-scale sequencing and mapping of human brain cDNAs
January 20, 1994	Sally Moody, PhD George Washington University Medical Center	Early cell interactions that bias cells to become neural precursors
February 3, 1994	Gene Block, PhD University of Virginia	Cellular analysis of a retinal biological clock
March 3, 1994	Robin Rockhold, PhD University of Mississippi Medical Center	Excitatory amino acids and cocaine intoxication
March 24, 1994	Robert Bradley, PhD University of Michigan	Neurobiology of the gustatory zone of nucleus tractus solitarius
April 7, 1994	Harald Jockusch, MD University of Bielefeld	Molecular and cellular analysis of neuromuscular diseases: mouse models of muscular hyperexcitability (myotonia) and neurodegeneration (spinal muscular atrophy)
April 28, 1994	Cornelia Bargmann, PhD University of California at San Francisco	Kinetic and cellular mechanisms of olfaction in Caenorhabditis elegans

1992-1993

Date	Name	Description
October 8, 1992	Robert Miller, PhD Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine	Glial cell development in the spinal cord
November 18, 1992	Takashi Kurahashi, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Chemical transduction mechanisms studied on isolated olfactory receptor cells
December 3, 1992	Scott Brady, PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Molecular mechanisms of fast axonal transport
December 10, 1992	David Hubel, MD Harvard Medical School	Eye, brain, and perception
December 17, 1992	Marianne Bronner-Fraser, PhD University of California at Irvine	Formation and lineage of the neural crest
January 21, 1993	James Eberwine, PhD University of Pennsylvania Medical Center	Coordinate changes in gene expression as a marker of a cell's physiological state
February 18, 1993	James Hyde, PhD University of Kentucky Medical Center	Neuroendocrine regulation of galanin gene expression in the hypothalamo-pituitary axis
February 25, 1993	Michael Zigmond, PhD University of Pittsburgh	Compensatory neurochemical responses in an animal model of Parkinson's disease
March 18, 1993	Linda Van Eldik, PhD Vanderbilt University	S100Aβ: a glial derived neurotrophic/growth factor in the brain
April 29, 1993	Lawrence Katz, PhD Duke University Medical Center	A system of neuronal domains in the developing neocortex and the emergence of columnar architecture
May 6, 1993	Harold Gainer, PhD National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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