Fall 2001
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
5-Sep	PAUL RUSHING	University of Cincinnati	The Calcitonin Family of Peptides: Role in Feeding and Body Weight Regulation	Paul Wellman
19-Sep	EDWARDO MACAGNO	University of California, San Diego	Receptor Phosphatases and Self-Avoidance in the Regulation of Process Outgrowth	Veronica Martinez
26-Sep	MICHAEL BEATTIE	Ohio State University	Cell death, regeneration, and recovery after spinal cord injury	JIM GRAU
3-Oct	JAMES SMITH	Wake Forest University Medical Center	Neurobiological Substrates of Drug Self-Administration	JACK NATION
17-Oct	FRANCIS WHITE	Chicago Medical School	Neurophysiological indices of cocaine addiction: focus on dopamine receptors and voltage-gated channels"
24-Oct	LARRY BELLINGER	Baylor College of Dentistry	The role of the dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus in ingestive behavior and body weight regulation	Paul Wellman
31-Oct	RAE SILVER	Columbia University	The brain clock has two compartments: oscillators and gates of the SCN	Vincent Cassone
30-Nov	LARRY SQUIRE	University of California, San Diego	Memory systems of the mammalian brain	Jim Grau
Spring 2002
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
17-Jan	REGGIE EDGERTON	UCLA	Motor Learning in the Spinal Cord	Jim Grau
30-Jan	FRANK JOHNSON	Florida State University	Why birds sing: motor control of neural and vocal development in songbirds	Vinnie Cassone
6-Feb	NORCROSS GEARY	Weill Medical College, Cornell University	Sex and Food: Estradiol, Cholecystokinin and Satiation	Paul Wellman
20-Feb	SANDRA WELCH	Virginia Commonwealth University	The Role of Specific Kinases in the Expression of Tolerance and Physical Dependence to Opioids	Urzula Winzer-Serhan
5-Mar	RAE SILVER	Columbia University	Building a brain clock out of independent oscillators and gatekeepers	Vinnie Cassone
20-Mar	WILLIAM SCHWARTZ	University of Massachusetts Medical School	Dual circadian oscillators in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the regulation of behavioral rhythmicity	David Earnest
27-Mar	RUSS YUKHANANOV	Harvard Medical School	Title	Jane Welsh
3-Apr	STEPHEN LASLEY	University of Illinois College of Medicine	Biphasic Effects of Chronic Lead Exposure: A Link Between Hippocampal Glutamate Release and LTP?	Jack Nation
9-Apr	EDUARDO MACAGNO	University of California, San Diego	Receptor phosphatases and self-avoidance in the regulation of process outgrowth	Veronica Martinez
17-Apr	URSULA WINZER-SIRHAN	TAMU Health Science Center	Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors during development	Gerry Frye
19-Apr	ROBIN J.M. FRANKLIN	University of Cambridge	CNS remyelination - mechanisms and manipulations	Jane Welsh
24-Apr	NANCY FORGER	University of Massachusetts	Sex and Death in the Spinal Cord	Rajesh Miranda
1-May	ROBERT HANDA	Colorado State University	Functional Variants of Estrogen Receptor Beta in the Brain	Rajesh Miranda