Spring 1997
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
20-Feb	JOSEPH LEBOLD	Tufts Universiyt	Alcohol, androgens and aggression	James West
26-Feb	MICHAEL DAVIS	Emory University	Are different parts of the brain involved with fear and anxiety	Jim Grau
26-Mar	JOE MARTINEZ	UT-San Antonio	LTP	Jim Grau
14-Apr	DEBORAH MASH	University of Miami School of Medicine	Regulation of dopaminergic synpatic markers in human cocaine fatalities	Rajesh Miranda
Fall 1997
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
3-Sep	FARIDA SOHRABJI	Texas A&M University Health Science Center	Estrogen Regulation of Trophic Support to Forebrain Cholinergic Circuits: Relevance to Hormone Replacement Therapy in Alzheimer's Disease	Vincent Cassone
17-Sep	ARTHUR P. ARNOLD	University of California-Los Angeles	Sexual Differentiation of the Brain in Vertebrates: Hormones Aren't the Only Story	Farida Sohrabji
24-Sep	RONALD D. McKAY	LMB/NINDS	Building A Mammalian Brain	Rajesh Miranda
1-Oct	STEVEN F. MAIER	University of Colorado	Bi-directional Communication Between the Brain and the Immune System	Jim Grau
8-Oct	SUMANA DATTA	Texas A&M University	Coordinate Control of Proliferation and Cell Fate in the Postembryonic Drosophila Central Nervous System	Flora Katz
5-Nov	THERESA A. GOOD	Texas A&M University	Examples of Cellular Engineering Applied to Alzheimer's and Glaucoma	Flora Katz
12-Nov	JEFF W. LICHTMAN	Washington University School of Medicine	Synaptic Competition at the Neuromuscular Junction	Gerald Frye
19-Nov	RICHARD H. FINNELL	Texas A&M University	Title	Rajesh Miranda
3-Dec	MARTIN ZATZ	LCB/NIMH	Title	Vincent Cassone
Spring 1998
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
28-Jan	MOSES V. CHAO	New York University	Signal transduction by neurotrophin receptors	Rajesh Miranda
11-Feb	KARL HERRUP	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine	Cell cycle/cell death: Or why Alzheimer's may be more like cancer than you think	Louise Abbott
18-Feb	STUART DRYER	University of Houston	Cell-cell interactions in the development of neuronal excitability	Vincent Cassone
4-Mar	EFTHIMIOS SKOULAKIS	Texas A&M University	Title	Flora Katz
18-Mar	DIANE GRIFFIN	Johns Hopkins-School of Hygiene and Public Health	Title	Jane Welsh
1-Apr	JORGEN JOHANSEN	Iowa State University	Molecular correlates of axon pathway formation	Mark Zoran
8-Apr	EVELYN TIFFANY-CASTIGLIONI	Texas A&M University	Title	Rajesh Miranda
14-Apr	SUSAN McCONNELL	Stanford University	Title	Sumana Datta
22-Apr	BRIAN McCOOL	Texas A&M University Health Science Center	Title	Rajesh Miranda
Fall 1998
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
16-Sep	PAUL MASSA	SUNY Upstate Medical University	Regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokine activities by SHP-1 in glia	Jane Welsh
30-Sep	LEIGH HOLCOMB	TAMHSC	Title	Farida Sohrabji
7-Oct	DOUG DOHRMAN	TAMHSC	Title	Rajesh Miranda
14-Oct	LARRY ZIPURSKY	McGill University	Title	Sumana Datta
28-Oct	KEN MACKIE	University of Indiana	Title	Joe Song
4-Nov	JOAN COATES	Texas A&M University	Title	Rajesh Miranda
2-Dec	STEVE IKEDA	NIH-Neuroscience	Title	Brian McCool
9-Dec	LLOYED GREENE	Columbia University Medical Center	Title	Rajesh Miranda
16-Dec	ANTONIO CEPEDA-BENITO	Texas A&M University	Title	Rajesh Miranda
Spring 1999
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
3-Feb	JACKIE CRAWLEY	National Institute of Mental Health	Behavioral Phenotyping Of Transgenic And Knockout Mice	Louise Abbott
10-Feb	PAUL SHUGHRUE	Woman's Health Research Institute	Estrogen Receptor Beta: Novel Sites for Estrogen action in the Brain	Rajesh Miranda
15-Feb	MARGUERITE KAY	Int. Found. for Biomedical Aging Research	Senescent Cell Antigen and Band 3 in Neurological Aging and Disease	David McMurray
18-Feb	KURT WILHELMSON	University of California-San Francisco	The Role of Tau in Dementia	Julian Leibowitz
24-Feb	Fred KARSH	University	Title	Paul Harms
3-Mar	JOHN SHERIDAN	Ohio State University Health Sciences Center	Neuroendocrine Regulation of Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity	Mary Meagher
24-Mar	WISE YOUNG	Rutgers State University of New Jersey	The Role of Stem Cells and Adhesion Moleculars in Spinal Cord Regeneration	Rajesh Miranda
31-Mar	LUIS PARADA	UT Southwestern Medical Center	Neurotrophins, Neurofibromatosis and Animal Disease Models	Rajesh Miranda
7-Apr	JONETHON SEDWICK	DNAX Research Institute	Microglial Cells in CNS Inflammation: Dogma and Paradigm Despite the Evidence	Jane Welsh
14-Apr	OWEN JONES	University of Toronto	Title	Louise Abbott
19-Apr	MARK KONISHI	California Institute of Technology	Title
28-Apr	JUAN SALINAS	University of Texas-Austin	The Amygdala and Emotional Learning	Jim Grau
Fall 1999
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
15-Sep	GEORGE RICAURTE	Johns Hopkins	The neurotoxic potential of ring-substituted amphetamines	Paul Wellman
29-Sep	JOEL GALLAGHER	University of Texas at Galveston	Non-biogenic amine mediated effects of chronic cocaine - Opportunities for novel pharmacotherapies	Brian McCool
13-Oct	JACK PANKSEPP	Bowling Green State University	Affective Neuroscience: The foundations of human and animal emotions : The case of animal laughter	Paul Wellman
3-Nov	FIRDAUS DHABHAR	Rockefeller	Good" stress "Bad" stress and in vivo immune function - Interactions between hormones, cytokines and leukocyte trafficking	Jane Welsh
10-Nov	ALLYN HOWLETT	Pharm/Physio Sciences	The Cannabinoid Receptors: Agonists, Antagonists and Signal Transduction	Joe Song
17-Nov	GERALD FRYE	Texas A&M University Health Science Center	Sensitivity of native GABA and glutamate receptors to ethanol	Paul Wellman
24-Nov	ALCINO SILVA	UCLA	Molecular and cellular approaches to unraveling elements of cognition	Efthimios "Makis" Skoulakis
8-Dec	JOSEPH JUSTICE	Emory University	Mechanisms of cocaine and amphetamine at dopamine and norepinephrine transporters	Susan Schenk
Spring 2000
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
19-Jan	MIKE MAUK	UT-Medical	Trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to build one	Jim Grau
2-Feb	MICHAEL FANSELOW	UCLA	Fear: From function to physiology	Jim Grau
25-Feb	DOMINIQUE ALLERAND	Columbia University	Novel sites and mechanisms of estrogen action in the developing brain	Rajesh Miranda
8-Mar	JON LINDSTROM	Univ. Pennsylvania Med. School	Nicotine receptors and nicotine	Doug Dohrman
5-Apr	CHRISTINE ZINK	Johns Hopkins University	Pathogenesis of SIV encephalitis as a model for AIDS dementia	Louise Abbott
25-Apr	BENJAMIN RUSAK	Dalhousie University	Light and mammalian circadian rhythms	Vincent Cassone
Fall 2000
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
6-Sep	CAROLYN WHITACRE	Ohio State University	Neuroendocrine influences on autoimmune disease	Mary Meagher
13-Sep	DOUGLAS BROOKS	Texas A&M University	Selfhood and crisis in the digital age	Vinnie Cassone
27-Sep	JACK NATION	Texas A&M University	Environmental pollution and drug abuse	Paul Wellman
4-Oct	NEIL ROWLAND	University of Florida	Fatten up America! Why do our brains make us eat too much?	Paul Wellman
15-Nov	MICHAEL YOUNG	Rockefeller University	Title	Susan Golden
6-Dec	LINDA WATKINS	University of Colorado	Title	Mary Meagher
Spring 2001
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
10-Jan	JOHN CRABBE	VA Medical Center-Portland	What are we goig to do with all these substance abuse genes?	Doug Dohrman
21-Feb	DAVID PADGETT	Ohio State University	Endocrine regulation of anti-viral immune responses	Mary Meagher
7-Mar	MICHAEL TORDOFF	Monell Chemical Senses Center	The genetics of sweet taste	Paul Wellman
21-Mar	ROBERT FUJINAMI	University of Utah School of Medicine	Virus infections can prime for and trigger Autoimmune CNS Disease: Implications for multiple sclerosis	Jane Welsh
11-Apr	KRISTEN DRESCHER	Creighton University	Effect of exogenous TGF- on demyelination in a viral model of multiple sclerosis	Jane Welsh
18-Apr	LAURENCE TECOTT	University of California, San Francisco	Genetic insights into serotonergic mechanisms regulating ingestive behavior and adiposity	Paul Wellman
25-Apr	JEAN CHEN SHIH	University of Southern California	Probing the role of serotonin in agression	Paul Wellman
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
Fall 2002
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
18-Sep	ROBERT BONNEAU	Penn State University	Stress-Induced Modulation of Immunity to Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Infection - Its Impact on Pathogenesis in both the CNS and Periphery?	Jane Welsh
25-Sep	MARK PACKARD	Texas A&M University	Neurobiology of Multiple Memory Systems?	Paul Wellman
2-Oct	LEE ANNA CUNNINGHAM	University of New Mexico	Neuron death and protection in mouse models of Parkinson's disease and stroke?	Ron Tjalkens
9-Oct	DOROTHY GIETZEN	University of California-Davis	Neural Responses to Dietary Essential Amino Acids?	R. Chapkin
16-Oct	VERN PETER BINGMAN	Bowling Green State University	Bird Navigation: Behavioral Mechanisms and Neural Bases	Vincent Cassone
23-Oct	MILES HERKENHAM	NIMH, Functional Neuroanatomy	Cytokine signaling in the brain in several in vivo animal models?	Jane Welsh
30-Oct	W. LES DEES	Texas A&M University	Positive and Negative Influences on the Neuroendocrine Timing of Female Puberty	Louise Abbott
13-Nov	ERIC STONE	New York University	Alpha-1 adrenergic neurotransmission and behavioral activation?	Paul Wellman
4-Dec	RONALD TJALKENS	Texas A&M University	Astroglia and NF-KB in Parkinson's Disease: Allies or Accomplices?	Louise Abbott
Spring 2003
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
13-Jan	ESTHER M. STERNBERG	NIMH and NIH	Neural and neuroendocrine factors in autoimmune, inflammatory and infectious diseases	Jane Welsh
22-Jan	KEVIN BURGESS	Texas A&M University	Solid phase syntheses of small molecules to mimic or disrupt interactions of the neurotrophins with their Trk receptors	Rajesh Miranda
5-Feb	GERIANNE ALEXANDER	Texas A&M University	Gender and the Brain	Paul Wellman
12-Feb	FRANCISCO GONZALEZ-LIMA	University of Texas at Austin	Metabolic mapping of brain activity after extinction of conditioned behavior	Jack Nation
26-Feb	BRUCE RILEY	Texas A&M University	How the Zebrafish got its ears and other just-so stories	Vincent Cassone
5-Mar	CLAIRE HULSEBOSCH	University of Texas Medical Branch	Dysfunctional plasticity after spinal cord injury: central neuropathic pain	Jim Grau
19-Mar	JAROSLAW ARONOWSKI	University of Texas at Houston	Inflammatory response following intracerebral hemorrhage	Louise Abbott
26-Mar	TIM SCHALLERT	University of Texas at Austin	Motor enrichment effects on trophic factors, neural degeneration and synaptogenesis in animal models of early-stage Parkinson's disease and stroke	Jim Grau
2-Apr	IM JOO RHYU	Beckman Institute, University of Illinois	Ataxic calcium channel mutants: What happens in their cerebel?	Louise Abbot
9-Apr	CLIFF SAPER	Harvard Medical School	Circadian regulation of sleep and wakefulness	Paul Wellman
16-Apr	ANTONIO CEPEDA-BENITO	Texas A&M University	Development of associative tolerance to the analgesic effects of nicotine	Paul Wellman
30-Apr	RICHARD ROTHMAN	National Institute on Drug Abuse	Psychostimulants	Paul Wellman
Fall 2003
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
24-Sep	GREGG WELLS	Texas A&M University	Structure of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: putting the pieces together	Gerry Frye
8-Oct	MICHAEL RACKE	UT Southwestern Medical Center	The pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis	Jane Welsh
22-Oct	JESSICA MONG	University of Maryland School of Medicine	Estrogen mediated neuronal-glial interactions in the rodent brain: from gene expression to behavior	Rajesh Miranda
29-Oct	PAUL WELLMAN	Texas A&M University	Psychostimulants and feeding
5-Nov	SANDRA GARRAWAY	SUNY at Stony Brook	BDNF acutely facilitates nociceptor-evoked synaptic currents in the spinal cord dorsal horn	Jim Grau
3-Dec	JERRY YAKEL	Laboratory of Signal Transduction, NIEHS	Nicotinic receptors in rat hippocampal interneurons; functional and molecular characterization	Ursula Winzer-Serhan
Spring 2004
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
4-Feb	LUIS RENE GARCIA	Texas A&M University	Regulation of male behaviors in C. elegans during mating	Mark Zoran
11-Feb	MARK ZORAN	Texas A&M University	Neural morphallaxis in L. variegatus during regeneration and asexual reproduction	Rene Garcia
18-Feb	HEATHER FUGGER	Texas A&M University	The role of estrogen receptor alpha in cognitive and hippocampal function	Mark Zoran
25-Feb	PERRY FUCHS	University of Texas at Arlington	Behavioral studies of supraspinal pain processing	Mary Meagher
2-Mar	CARLA GREEN	University of Virginia	Keeping time in the vertebrate retina	Vincent Cassone
3-Mar	BRUCE McCORMICK	Texas A&M University	Imaging and reconstruction of the whole mouse brain at a neuronal level: a progress report
10-Mar	RAFAEL PEREZ-BALLESTERO	Texas A&M University, Kingsville	Biochemical and functional studies on zRICH, a protein induced during optic nerve regeneration in zebrafish	Suma Datta
24-Mar	HAROLD H. ZAKON	University of Texas	Neurobiology meets molecular evolution: ion channels and electric fish	Mark Zoran
2-Apr	Multiple	Symposium on Neurodegenerative Diseases	Louise Abbott
7-Apr	MICHAEL REA	University of Houston	Neurochemical regulation of circadian phase in hamsters	David Earnest
13-Apr	JANET RICHMOND	University of Illinois at Chicago	Molecular Mechanisms of Docking & Priming in Exocytosis	Mark Zoran
21-Apr	JOE MARTINEZ	University of Texas at San Antonio	How the Brain Stores Information: Hebbian Mechanisms	Veronica Martinez
Fall 2004
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
9-Sep	LINDA PHILLIPS	Virginia Commonwealth University	Matrix Metalloproteinases: Architects of Plasticity in the Injured Brain	Louise Abbott
16-Sep	SALLY WARD	UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	FcRn as an IgG homeostat: from protein engineering to single molecule imaging	Louise Abbott
23-Sep	NICHOLAS HATSOPOULOS	University of Chicago	Coding of action from cortical ensembles	Heather Bortfeld
30-Sep	IAN RUSSELL	TAMHSC	The Rabbitt Duplex Visual System: a model for brain imaging	Rajesh Miranda
7-Oct	VINCENT CASSONE	Texas A&M University	Functional Genomics of the Avian Circadian Clock	Rajesh Miranda
14-Oct	PAUL WELLMAN	Texas A&M University	Diet, Obesity, and Psychostimulants	Rajesh Miranda
4-Nov	DORIT RON	Univ.	Protein Compartmentalization and Phosphorylation Determine Ethanol's Actions	Doug Dohrman
11-Nov	HOWARD LIPTON	Northwestern Univeristy	A role for viral co-receptors in Theiler's virus persistence in mice	Doug Dohrman
18-Nov	JOHN GUZOWSKI	University of New Mexico, HSC	FISHing for Memories: Genes, Cell Networks, & Behavior	Jennifer Bizon
2-Dec	REBECCA CORWIN	Univ.	Bingeing rats: Possible relevance to substance abuse	Paul Wellman
9-Dec	TERRY E. ROBINSON	University of Michigan	Drugs, Neuroplasticity, and Addiction	Barry Setlow
Spring 2005
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
27-Jan	MARLA FELLER	University of California, San Diego	The How and Why of Retinal Waves" Seminar Cancelled
3-Feb	STUART DRYER	University of Houston	Modulation of potassium channel trafficking and the development of excitability in an identified population of vertebrate neurons
10-Feb	HEATHER BORTFELD	Texas A&M University	Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) as a Tool for Tracking Infant Hemodynamics
24-Feb	MICHAEL SMOTHERMAN	Texas A&M University	Central mechanisms for the coordination of speech and breathing
3-Mar	STEVE MILLER	Northwestern University Medical School	CNS Dendritic Cells Drive Activation of Naòve T Cells and Epitope Spreading in Two Models of Multiple Sclerosis: Implications for Specific Immunotherapy"?
10-Mar	LARRY GROVER	Marshall University School of Medicine	Acute effects of growth hormone on excitatory synaptic transmission in the hippocampus
24-Mar	MIKE MILES	Virginia Commonwealth University	Genetic Influences on Brain Region-Selective Gene Expression Patterns with Ethanol
31-Mar	BRIAN PERKINS	Texas A&M University	Traffic jams in the retina: ciliary transport and photoreceptor degeneration
5-May	JENNIFER WEST	Rice University	Biomimetic Approaches to Vascular Tissue Engineering
19-May	STEVEN WRIGHT	Texas A&M University	Single Echo Acquisition MRI: Dynamic MRI at 125 frames/second
26-May	ROBERT DOTY	University of Rochester	Unity from Duality - The Why and How of Having Two Brains (Right and Left)
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
Fall 2006
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
14-Sep	Yoonsuck Choe	Texas A&M University	What Makes Your Thought March Forward?: A Role for the Thalamus and the Thalmic Reticular Nucleus	Gregg B. Wells
21-Sep	Arum Han	Texas A&M University	Micro and Nano technology for Neuroscience Research	Jane Welsh
28-Sep	L. Gerard Toussaint III	Mayo Clinic	Glioblastoma ? Biology of invasion and the role of galectin-1	William Griffith
2-Nov	Dwayne Simmons	Washington University	title
9-Nov	Joel Elmquist	UT Southwestern Medical School	Unraveling the CNS pathways underlying coordinated body weight and glucose homeostasis	Mark Zoran
16-Nov	Qing Richard Lu	UT Southwestern Medical Center	title	Jianrong Li
30-Nov	Paul Whalen	Dartmouth College	Amygdala-prefrontal reactivity to the meaning of facial expressions of emotion	Eddie Harmon-Jones
Spring 2007
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
22-Mar	Michelle M. Nicolle	Wake Forest University School of Medicine	Muscarinic and Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor G-Protein Coupling in Aged, Cognitively Impaired Rats
5-Apr	Ted Wensel	Baylor College of Medicine	Molecular Determinants of Photoreceptor Structure and Function
10-Apr	Sangram Sisodia	University of Chicago	Molecular neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease
3-May	Caurnel Morgan	Texas A&M University	title
Fall 2007
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
31-Aug	Jim Grau	TAMU	FNS business meeting	Jim Grau
14-Sep	Yvon Delville	UT Austin	aggression, neuroendocrinology	Eddie Harmon-Jones
21-Sep	Deeann Wallis	IBT & TIGM-College Station	ADHD and lphn3	Barry Setlow
28-Sep	Darcy Burgund	Rice University	Developmental cognitive neurosci, fMRI	Eddie Harmon-Jones
5-Oct	Greg Quirk	Univerity of Puerto Rico	Fear conditioning, extinction, amygdala-PFC	Barry Setlow
12-Oct	Michael Beauchamp	UT Houston	Visual motion perception and multisensory integration; fMRI	Eddie Harmon-Jones
19-Oct	Zen Faulkes	UT-Pan American	Neural networks in invertebrates	Mike Smotherman
26-Oct	Erin Young	TAMU	Each experience leaves its mark: the impact of early stress and injury on subsequent health, inflammation, and pain	Erin Young
16-Nov	Reginald Adams	Penn State	Social perception at the functional and neuroanatomical levels	Eddie Harmon-Jones
30-Nov	Candice Askwith	Ohio State	ion channels in synaptic plasticity, signal transduction	Gregg Wells
7-Dec	Kent Berridge	University of Michigan	Reward, motivation, dopamine	Jim Grau
Spring 2008
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
18-Jan	David Schnyer	UT Austin	Implicit memory, metamemory, human imaging	Eddie Harmon-Jones
25-Jan	Karl Obrietan	Ohio State	Circadian timing, SCN, micro-RNAs	Gladys Ko
1-Feb	Masashi Yanigasawa	UT Southwestern	Orexins in sleep/wake and energy homeostasis	Vinnie Cassone
8-Feb	Rejji Kuruvilla	Johns Hopkins	Neurotrophins and development	Paul Hardin
15-Feb	Shoshana Eitan	TAMU	Insights from opiates	Shoshana Eitan
22-Feb	Jeremy Gray	Yale	Emotion-cognition interactions	Eddie Harmon-Jones
1-Mar	David Amodio	NYU	fMRI, EEG, hormone measures	Eddie Harmon-Jones
7-Mar	Eyal Seidemann	UT Austin	Primate ephys in sensory-motor cortical systems	Heather Bortfeld
21-Mar	Wayne Aldridge	University of Michigan	Ephys, movement, motivation, reward	Jim Grau
28-Mar	Atom Sarkar	Ohio State	Neurosurgery, nanomedicine	Jon Friedman
4-Apr	Marilyn Carroll	U Minnesota	Drug addiction, sex differences	Jack Nation
11-Apr	Greg Bix	NExT	The Matrix Reloaded: Perlecan Domain V in Angiogenesis and Stroke	Greg Bix
25-Apr	George Stoica	TAMU-CVM	Identification of cancer stem cells in dog glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)	George Stoica
2-May	Tina Machu	U North Texas HSC	5-HT receptors and alcohol binding
9-May	Jim Grau	TAMU	Neuroscience business meeting	Jim Grau
Fall 2008
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
4-Sep	Greg Hajcak	Stony Brook	The importance of errors:  Error-related brain activity, motivation, and risk for psychopathology	Eddie Harmon-Jones
11-Sep	Mark Baxter	University of Oxford (UK)	New insights into the cog. functions of the basal forebrain cholinergic system from studies in macaque monkeys	Jennifer Bizon
18-Sep	Raju Metherate	UC Irvine	Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in cortex: regulation of cells, systems and behavior	Ursula Winzer-Serhan
25-Sep	Nigel Atkinson	UT Austin	Ion channel regulation, epigenetics & drug tolerance	Mendell Rimer
2-Oct	John Oghalai	Baylor College of Medicine	Cochlear implants	Heather Bortfeld
9-Oct	Kristen Harris	UT Austin	Neuroplasticity, LTP	Gladys Ko
16-Oct	Rita Fuchs	UNC Chapel Hill	Drug addiction, brain systems	Barry Setlow
23-Oct	Kyle Baumbauer	TAMU	Learning, recovery of function in spinal cord	Kyle Baumbauer
30-Oct	Hugh Perry****	Univ. of Southampton (UK)	The factors affecting the contribution of inflammation to chronic neurodegeneration	Jane Welsh
6-Nov	Jonah Chan	USC	Myelin regulation	Jianrong Li
13-Nov	Patrick Dougherty	UT/MD Anderson	Pain, cognition & cancer treatment	Mary Meagher
4-Dec	Samba Reddy	TAMU	Epilepsy, neurosteroids and new drug development	Samba Reddy
11-Dec	Jim Grau	TAMU	Faculty of Neuroscience business meeting	Jim Grau
Spring 2009
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	A&M Contact
22-Jan	Jim Grau	TAMU	Faculty of Neuroscience business meeting	Jim Grau
29-Jan	Catherine Wooley	Northwestern	Neural plasticity; neuroendocrinology	Farida Sohrabji
5-Feb	Chris Cowen	UT-Southwestern	Molecular mechanisms of drug addition	Brian Perkins
12-Feb	Robert Zatorre	McGill University	Neural bases for complex auditory processes in humans, with a particular focus on music and speech	Jyotsna Vaid
19-Feb	Joseph F. Margiotta	Univ. of Toledo Medical Center	Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor development and plasticity	Rajesh Miranda
26-Feb	Gary Boehm	TCU	Psychoneuroimmunology	Erin Young
5-Mar	Michael A. Silverman	Simon Fraser University (Canada)	Protein transport in neurons	Shoshy Eitan
12-Mar	Evanna Gleason	Louisiana State University	Retinal physiology	Gladys Ko
26-Mar	David Krantz	UCLA	Using Drosophila to study neurotransmitter transport, synaptic transmission, behavior and disease	Ginger Carney
2-Apr	Tim Johnson	TAMU	Behavioral Methods for Assessing Learning, Memory, and Neuropathology in Sheep	Marcel Amstalden
9-Apr	Keith Trujillo	Cal State San Marcos	Neural basis of drug abuse and addiction	Ian Mendez
23-Apr	Steven DeKosky	University of Virginia	Research advances in Alzheimer's disease	Ian Murray
30-Apr	Patrick Douherty	MD Anderson Cancer Center	Mechanisms of chemotherapy induced pain	Mary Meagher
7-May	Kevin Pang	Rutgers University	Modulation of learning and memory: Importance of GABAergic neurons of the medial septum	Jennifer Bizon