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