Fall 2005
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
15-Sep	KETEMA PAUL	Northwestern University	Diurnal Sex Differences in the Sleep-Wake Cycle are Dependent on Gonadal Control	Vincent Cassone
22-Sep	JAMES FADOOL	Florida State University	From flies to fishes; Mosaic patterns and photoreceptor cells	Brian Perkins
6-Oct	DOUGLAS DEWITT	University of Texas Medical Branch	Gap Junctions and Traumatic Cerebral Vascular Injury	Louise Abbott
13-Oct	BRUCE McCORMICK	Texas A&M University	Bioimaging and reconstruction of the mouse brain at a cellular level of detail	Rajesh Miranda
20-Oct	MADY HORNIG	Columbia University	Of mercury, microbes, mice and men: using the environment as a probe of developmental brain plasticity	Ursula Winzer-Serhan
3-Nov	EMILIE RISSMAN	University of Virginia	Roles of sex hormones and sex chromosomes in sexually dimorphic behavior	Vincent Cassone
10-Nov	CYNTHIA BEARER	Case Western Reserve Univ.-Medicine	Who gets Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Why	Rajesh Miranda
1-Dec	BARNEY SCHLINGER	University of California at Los Angeles	Neurosteroids, Neuroplasticity and Behavior in Avian Models	Thierry Lints
Spring 2006
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
5-Jan	BRUCE MCEWEN	Rockefeller University	Stress and the Mind Body Connection	Mary Meagher
9-Mar	JONATHON FRIEDMAN	, St. Joseph’s Hospital	Surgical Repair of the Injured Spinal Cord: Using Biodegradeable Polymer Implants to Facilitate Axon Regeneration	Rajesh Miranda
10-Apr	HUGO BESEDOVSKY	University of Marburg	Cytokines integrate immune and neural signals at brain levels
19-May	DOUGLAS RUDEN	Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAB	Toxicogenomics of lead in Drosophila
14-Jul	MARK STANTON	University of Delaware	Developmental psychobiology of eyeblink conditioning: A model system for studying the mechanisms of normal and abnormal memory development