Previous Seminars
2008 NExT Seminar Series
Tuesday September 23rd
11:00-12:00 a.m.
NExT Seminar Series: Opening Speaker
"Commercialization of Brain and Treat of Glaucoma and AMD"
Dr. George Chiou,NExT Department, TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Tuesday October 14th
11:00-12:00 a.m.
NExt Seminar Series
"Channelopathic Mechanisms of Epileptogenesis After Perinatal Cerebral Hypoxia and Seizures"
Dr. Russell Sanchez, TAMHSC/COM, Temple
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Tuesday November 11th
11:00-12:00 a.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Does Estrogen Treatment Alter Severity of Stroke In Females- Insights From An Animal Model"
Dr. Amutha Selvamani, NExt Department, TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Tuesday November 25th
11:00-12:00 a.m.
NExt Seminar Series
"Modeling Aspects of Alzheimers Disease in C. elegans"
Dr. Chris Link, University of Colorado, Boulder
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Tuesday December 9th
11:00-12:00 a.m.
NExt Seminar Series
"Synaptic Plasticity and Motor Skill Re-learning After Brain Damage"
Dr. Theresa Jones, UT Austin
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
2009 NExT Seminar Series
Tuesday Jan 13th
11:00 - 12:00 AM
NExT Seminar Series
"Chronic Neonatal Nicotine Exposure Increases Survival of GABAergic Interneurons and Expressions of Neurotrophic Factors in the Hippocampus"
Jong Hyun (Dissertation Defense)
NExT Dept, TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Wednesday January 14th
4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
NExt Seminar Series
"Use of Problem-based Learning in Basic Science Courses of a Medical Curriculum"
Dr. Diane Chico, UTMB
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Tuesday February 24th
11:00 - 12:00 AM
NExT Seminar Series
"The versatility of Mass Spectrometer for Biological Sample Analysis, from Lipid Discovery to Targeted Proteomics."
Dr. John Hevko, Applied Biosystems
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Thursday February 26th
9:00 - 10:00 AM
NExT Seminar Series
"New frontiers in RNA Biology: Devolopmental and Teratogen Sensitivity of MicroRNA's"
Pratheesh Sathayan (Dissertation Defense)
NExT Dept, TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Tuesday March 10th
11:00-12:00 AM
NExT Seminar Series
"What Electron Tomagraphy is Telling Us About the Biophysics of Transmitter Release at Synapses"
Dr. U.J. McMahan, Chair Biology Department, TAMU
Reynolds Medical Building, Lecture Hall 1
Tuesday April 14th
11:00 - 12:00 AM
NExT Seminar Series
TBA
Dr. David Lovinger, NIH
NExT Dept, TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Thursday April 23rd
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Special NExT Seminar/ Neuroscience Seminar
"Research Advances in Alzheimer's Disease"
Steven DeKosky, MD
Vice President and Dean, School of Medicine, University of Virginia.
Lecture Hall 2: Reynolds Medical Building - College Station
Lecture Hall 2: MEC - Temple
Tuesday May 26th
11:00 - 12:00 AM
NExT Seminar Series
"Regulation of synaptic plasticity and neuronal network activity by the NRG-ErbB4 signaling
pathway: Possible relevance for psychiatric disorders"
Dr. Andres Buonanno, NIH
NExT Dept, TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Tuesday June 23rd
11:00 - 12:00 AM
NExT Seminar Series
TBA
Joanne Damborsky, Graduate Student
NExT Dept, TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
June-Aug
11:00 - 12:00 AM
2009 NExT Seminar Series
Tuesday September 8th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series: Opening SpeakerM
Vasomotor Regulation of Retinal Microcirculation: Physiology and Pathophysiology
Lih Kuo, Ph.D., Professor
TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Tuesday September 22nd
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Fishing for Genes Required for Locomotive Behavior: Genetic Analysis of Movement Disorders in Zebrafish"
Gerald Downes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday October 13th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Regulation of Motivated Behavior and Control of Circuit-Specific Seizures in C. Elegans".
L. Rene Garcia, Ph.D., Associate Professor, TAMU
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday November 10th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Long-term Effects of Neonatal Nicotine Exposure and Potential Gender Differences on the Developing Hippocampus"
Joanne Damborsky, Graduate Student, TAMHSC
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: UWSerhan@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday December 8th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
Mapping Sexually Dimorphic Circuits in C. Elegans Using Light-Inducible Channels
Robyn Lints, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, TAMU
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
2010 NExT Seminar Series
Tuesday January 26th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Protein Misfolding in Alzheimer's and Prion Diseases".
Claudio A. Soto, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Neurology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday February 9th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
Inflammatory and Neurogenic Mechanisms of Epileptogenesis
Lee Shapiro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, TAMHSC - Temple
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Thursday February 11th
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Faculty of Neuroscience Seminar Series
"Mitochondria in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease"
P. Hemachandra Reddy, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist & Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday February 23rd
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Sex-Specific Responses to Stroke"
Louise McCullough, M.D., Associate Professor & Director of Stroke Research, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Health Center
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: sohrabji@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday March 9th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Toward Understanding Alcoholism"
Susan Bergeson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: miranda@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday March 23rd
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Control of Synaptic Development and Plasticity by Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein"
Kimberly M. Huber, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: MJRimer@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday April 13th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"CNS PPARγ Rescues Cognitive Function in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease"
Kelly T. Dineley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Thursday April 15th
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Faculty of Neuroscience Seminar Series
"Mitochondria at the Center of Oxidative Stress In Alzheimer Disease"
George Perry, Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday April 27th
11:00 - 12:00 PM
"Role of MicroRNA in Adaptation: From Molecules to Species"
NExT Seminar Series
Andrzej Pietrzykowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey Cook Campus
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday May 11th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Mechanisms of Nicotinic Receptor Trafficking and Nicotine Addiction"
Mariella De Biasi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: MJRimer@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Tuesday June 8th
11:00-12:00 p.m.
NExT Seminar Series
"Combined Behavioral and Pharmacologic Treatments for Multiple Diagnosed Veterans".
Suzanne Gulliver, Ph.D., TAMU - Waco
Reynolds Medical Building, Room 162
Contact person: IVMurray@medicine.tamhsc.edu
