Upcoming Events at the Center for Neuroscience
SNRC Works in Progress meeting - 2/20/2012
Sensory Neuroscience Group Works in Progress Meeting
Event Date: 2/20/2012 1:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Presenter: George Spirou, PhD
Topic: New data on serial block face scanning EM
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC
All Sensory Neuroscience Group faculty members should plan to be there!
Also, there are still slots left for SNRC's to present at a WiP meeting - please contact Erica Stewart (elstewart@hsc.wvu.edu) for details.
Seminar in Neuroscience - 3/14/2012
Control of Synaptic Connectivity by Astrocytes
(synopsis below)
Event Date: 3/14/2012 12:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Speaker: Cagla Eroglu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Duke University
http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/research/Eroglu.html
Host: George Spirou, PhD
gspirou@hsc.wvu.edu
Seminar: 12:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC (3rd floor conference room outside the Center for Neuroscience offices)
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In the last decade, astrocytes have emerged as important regulators of excitatory synaptogenesis through secretion of signals that control synapse formation and function . These include the extracellular matrix proteins thrombospondins (TSPs), hevin and SPARC. My talk will focus on our recent findings on astrocyte to neuron signaling pathways that regulate different aspects of synapse development through these secreted signals and their neuronal receptors.
Seminar in Neuroscience - 3/21/2012
The New Roles for Dopamine and GABA in Control of Dim-Light Vision
Event Date: 3/21/2012 12:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Speaker: Vadim Arshavsky, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology and Pharmacology
Scientific Director, Basic Science Research
Duke Eye Center
Duke University
http://dukeeyecenter.duke.edu/modules/eyectr_rsrch_basic/index.php?id=5
Host: Maxim Sokolov, PhD
sokolovm@wvuhealthcare.com
Seminar: 12:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC (3rd floor conference room outside the Center for Neuroscience offices)
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Synopsis to follow...stay tuned.
Neural Injury Club Meeting - 3/23/2012
Please join us for the next meeting of the Neural Injury Club!
Event Date: 3/23/2012 2:30:00 PM
Event Location:
1st floor BMRC conference room
WHAT: Neural Injury Club (NIC) meeting
WHERE: 1st floor conference room in the Biomedical Research Center building (101 BMRC)
WHEN: Friday, March 23, beginning at 2:30 PM
We will review a journal paper from Bastian's group and discuss a WIP this Friday. Neetu Nair will present the principal component analysis (PCA) using Matlab to assess movement deficits after stroke. Chris Bauer will lead the discussion of the following paper:
Jayaram, G., Tang, B., Pallegadda, R., Vasudevan, E. V. L., Celnik, P., & Bastian, A. J. (2012). Modulating Locomotor Adaptation with Cerebellar Stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology. doi:10.1152/jn.00645.2011
For more information, contact Dr. Sergiy Yakovenko at seyakovenko@hsc.wvu.edu.
SNRC Works in Progress Meeting - 3/26/12
Sensory Neuroscience Group Works in Progress Meeting
Event Date: 3/26/2012 3:30:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Presenter: Eric Tucker, PhD
Topic: JNK signaling is required for cortical interneuron migration
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: 301 BMRC
All Sensory Neuroscience Group faculty members should plan to be there!
Also, there are still slots left for SNRC's to present at a WiP meeting this semester - please contact Erica Stewart (elstewart@hsc.wvu.edu) for details.
Seminar in Neuroscience - 4/4/12
Neurovascular Targets and Challenges in Translational Stroke Research
(synopsis below)
Event Date: 4/4/2012 12:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Speaker: Eng Lo, PhD
Professor
Harvard University
Department of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/neuroscience/fac/lo.php
Host: Jason Huber, PhD
jhuber@hsc.wvu.edu
Seminar: 12:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC (3rd floor conference room outside the Center for Neuroscience offices)
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Over the past decade, numerous advances in neuroimaging have allowed us to probe the pathophysiology of brain injury after stroke. However, in spite of these powerful in vivo techniques for "looking at stroke", we still lack clinically effective neuroprotective therapies. In this presentation, I will discuss the translational challenges involved in bridging promising experimental leads into clinically meaningful applications. Specifically, I will address the following three questions: (1) Is it possible that beyond saving neurons (i.e. neuroprotection per se), we need to consider restoring cell-cell interactions between multiple brain cell types (i.e. the neurovascular unit)? (2) Is it possible that many of the neurovascular mechanisms and targets underlying stroke are biphasic in nature, i.e. deleterious in the acute stage but beneficial during recovery? (3) Finally, in addition to cell and animal models, is it possible to develop "human models" that may help us link experimental platforms to the stroke patient?
SNRC Works in Progress Meeting - 4/9/12
Sensory Neuroscience Group Works in Progress Meeting
Event Date: 4/9/2012 12:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Presenter: Miranda Reed, PhD
Topic: Submission for an R15 grant in June, entitled, "Effects of Risk Factors on Tau-Mediated Memory Deficits"
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC
All Sensory Neuroscience Group faculty members should plan to be there!
Also, there are still slots left for SNRC's to present at a WiP meeting this semester - please contact Erica Stewart (elstewart@hsc.wvu.edu) for details.
Seminar in Neuroscience - 4/11/12
"Human brain evolution: role of human-specific gene duplication of SRGAP2 in regulation of synaptic maturation"
Event Date: 4/11/2012 12:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Speaker: Franck Polleux, PhD
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute - California campus
http://www.scripps.edu/research/faculty/polleux
Host: Eric Tucker, PhD
etucker@hsc.wvu.edu
Seminar: 12:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC (3rd floor conference room outside the Center for Neuroscience offices)
Biotechnology Seminar - 4/11/12
Dr. Bandettini will present some of his own research, as well as give a preview of the Workshop.
Event Date: 4/11/2012 4:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC (3rd floor conference room outside the Center for Neuroscience offices)
Speaker: Peter Bandettini, PhD
Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition
National Institute of Mental Health
http://fim.nimh.nih.gov/people/peter-bandettini-phd
Dr. Bandettini received his B.S. from Marquette University in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1994, where he played a role in the early development of magnetic resonance imaging of human brain function using blood oxygenation contrast. During his postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital with Bruce Rosen, he continued his investigation of methods to increase the interpretability, resolution, and applicability of functional MRI techniques. In 1999, he joined NIMH as an Investigator in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition and as the Director of the NIH Functional MRI core facility. In 2001, he was awarded the Scientific Director's Merit Award for his efforts in establishing the NIH FMRI core facility. In 2002, he was awarded the Wiley Young Investigator's at the annual Organization for Human Brain Mapping Meeting. His laboratory is currently developing MRI methods improve the spatial resolution, temporal resolution, sensitivity, interpretability, and applications of functional MRI.
Thsis workshop is sponsored by the WVU Center for Neuroscience and the WVU Center for Advanced Imaging Core Facility.
Biotechnology Workshop - 4/12/12
We are pleased to annouce the Biotechnology Workshop, featuring Dr. Peter Bandettini and a team of NIH experts.
Event Date: 4/12/2012 9:00:00 AM
Event Location:
301 BMRC, except where noted.
This is a chance for anyone with an interest in MRI imaging to learn more about it, gain more experience, and participate in data collection and hands-on analysis. The entire workshop will be held in the 3rd floor conference room of the Biomedical Research Center (BMRC, Rm. 301), with the exception of the 3T scanner demo on Friday morning (Basement of Health Science South, meet in Rm. B126).
Thursday, April 12, will include a series of talks on MRI topics by a team of NIH researchers, including topics of functional MRI, resting state MRI, and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI).
Please RSVP to Dr. Brefczynski-Lewis if you are interested in attending and if you are interested in having the analysis software installed on your laptop, indicating your operating system and version. We will have multiple computers available for the workshop, but bringing your own would be helpful.
RSVP your information to:
Dr. Julie Brefczynski-Lewis
jblewis@hsc.wvu.edu
293-4820
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012:
9:00 AM: Latest Issues in fMRI - Dr. Peter Bandettini
10:30 AM: Comparing Brains - Dr. Ziad Saad
12:00 PM: Working lunch - attendees will present one slide to illustrate current or potential MRI-related project (RSVP to Dr. Brefczynski-Lewis if you plan to attend the lunch)
1:15 PM: Real-time fMRI and fMRI Neurofeedback - Dr. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo
2:45 PM: AFNI Interactive Demo - Mr. Daniel Glen (computers will be used for this session)
3:45 PM: Dealing with Physiological Noise, TSNR, and some ideas on how to easily improve alignment - Dr. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (Advanced) (Will be held in the Lewis Lab, room 345 BMRC)
Click here for more information.
Biotechnology Workshop - 4/13/2012
Day two of the Biotechnology Workshop (April 13) will be a continuation of Day One's seminars. Participants will be able to see data collection from start to finish, working with fMRI, resting state, DTI and animal imaging (no collection but discussion of atlases, and other issues).
Event Date: 4/13/2012 8:45:00 AM
Event Location:
301 BMRC, except where noted.
Please RSVP to Dr. Brefczynski-Lewis if you are interested in attending and if you are interested in having the analysis software installed on your laptop, indicating your operating system and version. We will have multiple computers available for the workshop, but bringing your own would be helpful.
RSVP your information to:
Dr. Julie Brefczynski-Lewis
jblewis@hsc.wvu.edu
293-4820
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012:
8:45 AM: Safety session for those without imaging experience - (Basement of HSC-South - meet in room B126)
9:00 AM: MRI scan session (Basement of HSC-South - meet in room B126)
10:30 AM: fMRI start to finish - Drs. Ziad Saad and Gang Chen
10:45 AM: Registration/ROIs/Atlases - Mr. Daniel Glen (Advanced) (Lewis Lab, room 345 BMRC)
11:45 AM: Animal Imaging group meeting (Lewis Lab, room 345 BMRC)
12:45 PM: Continued Working Lunch
1:30 PM: Resting State: Lingering headaches to instant gratification - Dr. Ziad Saad
2:45 PM: Beyond the basics: AFNI and SUMA - Dr. Ziad Saad
2:45 PM: DIffuser Tensor Imaging (DTI) demo - Mr. Daniel Glen (Lewis Lab, room 345 BMRC)
Click here for more information.
Seminar in Neuroscience - 4/18/2012
"Emergence of Multidimensional Sound Processing in the Central Auditory System"
Event Date: 4/18/2012 12:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Speaker: Christoph Schreiner, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
http://keck.ucsf.edu/neurograd/faculty/schreiner.html
Host: Dr. George Spirou
gspirou@hsc.wvu.edu
Seminar: 12:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC (3rd floor conference room outside the Center for Neuroscience offices)
CMED/SoPH Faculty Candidate Presentation - 4/23/12
Full-time Tenure-Track Faculty Position in CMED/SoPH Presentation
Title: "BIOINFORMATICS AND HUMAN DISEASES - A ROAD MAP TO BIOMARKER DISCOVERY"
Event Date: 4/23/2012 11:30:00 AM
Event Location:
101 BMRC
Presenter: Spencer Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Genomics Consultant with Genowledge LLC
and a
Community Medicine Faculty Search Candidate
When: Monday, April 23 @ 11:30 AM
Where: room 101 BMRC (1st floor conference room in the Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Center)
This presentation should have special relavance to those interested in the Stroke Initiative.
Click here to view the flyer.
MOBB Meeting - 4/23/12
Join us for April's Meeting of Behavioral and Biomedical researchers (MOBB)!
Event Date: 4/23/2012 11:30:00 AM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
What: MOBB meeting
Where: 3rd floor conference room in the Biomedical Research Center building (301 BMRC)
When: Monday, April 23, 2012, beginning at 11:30 AM
As always, lunch is provided!
To get to the BMRC, take the elevators located behind the pylons/cafe to the second floor of the HSC. Turn right out of the elevator, and follow the signs for the BMRC to the end of the hallway. Go through the double doors at the end of the hallway, and you'll be in the BMRC. Take the stairs or elevator to the third floor.
Hope to see you at 11:30 AM!
Seminar in Neuroscience - 4/25/2012
How modern-life stress affects your brain: mechanisms, dendritic spines, memory
(synopsis below)
Event Date: 4/25/2012 12:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Speaker: Tallie Baram, MD, PhD
Professor
Departments of Pediatrics; Anatomy & Neurobiology; and Neurology
University of California, Irvine - School of Medicine
http://www.anatomy.uci.edu/baram.html
Host: Dr. Aric Agmon
agmon.aric@gmail.com
Seminar: 12:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC (3rd floor conference room outside the Center for Neuroscience offices)
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Stress is ubiquitous in modern life, and exerts profound effects on cognitive and emotional functions. Whereas acute stress may enhance memory, longer episodes exert negative effects through as yet unresolved mechanisms. We study hours-long naturalistic stress, and employ live multi-photon imaging and molecular technologies to uncover novel, hippocampus-intrinsic mechanisms for the selective memory defects that are provoked by stress.
5/14/12 - PhD Dissertation Defense Seminar
"Pharmacological Characterization of an Optimized Sigma Receptor Ligand"
Event Date: 5/14/2012 9:00:00 AM
Event Location:
201 BMRC
SNRC Works in Progress Meeting - 5/14/12
Sensory Neuroscience Group Works in Progress Meeting
Event Date: 5/14/2012 12:00:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Presenter: Max Sokolov, PhD
Topic: TBD
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 301 BMRC
All Sensory Neuroscience Group faculty members should plan to be there!
Also, there are still a few slots left for SNRC's to present at a WiP meeting this semester - please contact Erica Stewart (elstewart@hsc.wvu.edu) for details.
SNRC Works in Progress Meeting - 5/21/12
Sensory Neuroscience Group Works in Progress Meeting
Event Date: 5/21/2012 3:30:00 PM
Event Location:
301 BMRC
Presenter: Eric Tucker, PhD
Topic: TBD
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: 301 BMRC
All Sensory Neuroscience Group faculty members should plan to be there!
2012 Annual Neuroscience Retreat
Join us for the Annual Center for Neuroscience Retreat on July 27 - 28, 2012, at Snowshoe Mountain!
Event Date: 7/27/2012 11:00:00 AM
Event Location:
Snowshow Mountain
Snowshoe, WV
A beautifully scenic drive, approximately 2.5 hours from Morgantown.
The 2012 Annual Center for Neuroscience Retreat will be held on July 27 - 28 at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Activities for the two-day event will include poster sessions, podium talks, and discussions and presentations on special neuroscience-related topics. Planning is underway, and an itinerary should be out soon, but mark your calendars!!! Registration has begun, and is now available through the web!
This event is intended to facilitate multidisciplinary scientific exchange in the hopes of increasing translational research among members of the Center for Neuroscience, including scientists, researchers, clinicians, faculty members postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.
Click here to register now!
2012 Annual Neuroscience Retreat
Join us for the 2012 Annual Center for Neuroscience Retreat, on July 27 - 28, 2012, at Snowshoe Mountain!
Event Date: 7/28/2012 8:00:00 AM
Event Location:
Snowshoe Mountain Resort
Snowshoe, WV
A beautifully scenic drive, approximately 2.5 hours from Morgantown.
The 2012 Annual Center for Neuroscience Retreat will be held on July 27 - 28 at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Activities for the two-day event will include poster sessions, podium talks, and discussions and presentations on special neuroscience-related topics. Planning is underway, and an itinerary should be out soon, but mark your calendars!!! Registration has begun, and is now available through the web!
This event is intended to facilitate multidisciplinary scientific exchange in the hopes of increasing translational research among members of the Center for Neuroscience, including scientists, researchers, clinicians, faculty members postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.
Click here to register now!