| Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
| Jan 5 |
"Probing cerebellar circuitry in vitro with multielectrode arrays." |
Dr. Detlef Heck,
Univ. of Freiburg |
| Jan 12 |
"Rapid cortical cooling to examine cortical function." |
Dr. Steve Lomber,
Boston Univ. |
| Jan 19 |
Presentation of 1st year project:
"Plasticity of spectrotemporal coding in primary auditory cortex enabled by cholinergic modulation." |
Raluca Moucha,
Kilgard lab |
| Jan 26 |
Presentation of 1st year project:
"Enriched auditory experience increases the response strength and selectivity of rat primary auditory cortex neurons." |
Navzer Engineer,
Kilgard lab |
| Feb 2 |
Special Groundhog Day talk:
"Neural plasticity: Cause of tinnitus and other hyperactive disorders." |
Dr. Aage Moller |
| Feb 9 |
Presentation of 1st year project:
"Experience dependent plasticity alters cortical synchronization." |
Jessica Vazquez,
Kilgard lab |
| Feb 16 |
"Neurobiology of learned helplessness." |
Dr. Fred Petty,
Mental Health Clinic Director,
VAMC;
Dept. of Psychiatry,
UTSWMS |
| Feb 23 |
Discussion of journal article:
"Corticofugal modulation of frequency processing in bat auditory system",
by Zhang et al., Nature (1997), 387: 900. |
Pritesh Pandya,
Kilgard lab |
| Mar 2 |
Early release, No meeting. |
Spring break! |
| Mar 9 |
Last weekday of spring break. |
No meeting |
| Mar 16 |
Presentation of 1st year project:
"Context recollection hypothesis: Explanation for age-related differences in old-new recognition and lineup tasks." |
Ann Medley,
Bartlett lab |
| Mar 23 |
2 papers for visit by Golda Kevetter, UT Houston Med. Branch:
(1) Ca2+ binding proteins and vestibular afferents;
(2) NMDA-NR1 hypofunction, apoptosis, and behavioral sensitization. |
Visha Raman &
Maneesha Bendkhale,
Thompson lab |
| Mar 28 (Special day, time, and place: Wed., 10:30, Fish Bowl) |
"Plasticity and the vestibular system." |
Dr. Golda Kevetter,
ENT Research,
UT Houston Med. Branch |
| Mar 30 |
Presentation of his master's thesis:
"Human frequency following response correlates of the 2F1-F2 distortion product." |
Pritesh Pandya,
Kilgard lab |
| Apr 6 |
Discussions of paper1 and paper 2 by Dr. Mark Mattson, NIA. |
YongTao Wang &
Chris Gant,
Thompson lab |
| Apr 13, 11 a.m. |
(Videoconferenced from Callier)
"Genes and diet in brain aging and neurodegeneration disorders:
Molecular mechanisms". |
Dr. Mark Mattson,
NIA |
| Apr 20 |
"The role of corticotropin releasing factor in stress and anxiety-disorders." |
Dr. Patrick Ronan,
VA Medical Center |
| Apr 27 |
"The serotonin transporter, serotonin receptors and autism." |
Dr. Yan Ni,
Dept. of Physiology,
UTSWMS |
| Thursday, May 3 |
"Workshop on Post Genomic Research"--
multiple speakers from UTD and elsewhere, at Callier Center Lecture Hall. |
Dr. Tres Thompson
et al. |
| May 11 |
Finals week, Spring 2001 semester. |
No meeting |
| May 18 |
"Mathematical models for
bursting neurons." |
Dr. Jianzhong Su,
Mathematics Dept.,
UT Arlington |
| June-Sept. |
Summer 2001 |
No meetings |
| Oct 5 |
Dr. Cauller's talk postponed;
go to Y2K Chemistry Nobel laureate talk at the Conference center at noon! |
Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid,
UTD Distinguished
Scholar in Residence,
Nanotechnology |
| Oct 12 |
"Top-down backward chaos". |
Dr. Larry Cauller |
| Oct 19 |
"Paradoxical effects during bilateral cortical and collicular
deactivation." |
Dr. Steve Lomber |
| Oct 26 |
"Regulation of addictive behavior by dopamine signaling." |
Scott Edwards,
Dept. of Psychiatry,
UTSWMS |
| Nov 2 |
"Doing brain research in the O.R." |
Dr. George Ojemann,
Univ. of Washington |
| Nov 9 |
Last chance for student presentations before SFN meeting... |
TBA |
| Nov 16 |
Return from Annual SFN meeting, San Diego. |
No brownbag |
| Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving holiday. |
No meeting |
| Nov 30 |
"TBA." |
TBA |
| Dec 2 |
"TBA." |
TBA |
| Dec 9 |
End of semester |
No meeting |