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Neuroscience Journal Club Archives, 2004-2005

Time: Wednesdays at Noon

Location: RMSB 6018 (Pharmacology Conference Room)

Description: The Neuroscience Journal Club covers a variety of topics within the field of neuroscience. Interested individuals are invited to attend and can find a copy of the current week's article outside of the Neuroscience Program Office (RMSB 6001).

Contact: Ellen Barrett

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Date		Presenter	Research Article
September	8	Kevin Golden	Increased Nuclear NAD Biosynthesis and SIRT1 Activation Prevent Axonal Degeneration
	15	Robin Smith	The sequential activity of the GTPases Rap1B and Cdc42 determines neuronal polarity
	22	Luminita Luca	Chromatin Acetylation, Memory, and LTP Are Impaired in CBP+/- Mice: A Model for the Cognitive Deficit in Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome and Its Amelioration
	29	Willie Buchser	Role of Superior Colliculus in Adaptive Eye-Head Coordination During Gaze Shifts
October	6	Laura Arias	Endothelial Cells Stimulate Self-Renewal and Expand Neurogenesis of Neural Stem Cells
	13	Cindy Achat	Enhanced partner preference in a promiscuous species by manipulating the expression of a single gene
	20	Shannon Mendes	RESCHEDULED
	27	No Journal Club
November	3	No Journal Club
	10	Julie Pendergast	RESCHEDULED
	17	Craig Roberts	MicroRNAs act sequentially and asymmetrically to control chemosensory laterality in the nematode
	24	Gregory Bigford	Differential activation of mTOR signaling by contractile activity in skeletal muscle
December	1	No Journal Club
12 pm	8	Julie Pendergast	Circadian and Light-Induced Transcription of Clock Gene Per1 Depends on Histone Acetylation and Deacetylation
12:15 pm	15	Ryan Williams	Identification of human brain tumour initiating cells
1:15 pm	15	Shannon Mendes	To Be Announced
	22	No Journal Club
	29	No Journal Club
January	5	Alma Rodenas-Ruano	Calcium Waves Propagate through Radial Glial Cells and Modulate Proliferation in the Developing Neocortex
	12	No Journal Club
	19	No Journal Club
	26	Alex Peyser	Lineage selection and the evolution of multistage carcinogenesis
February	2	No Journal Club
	9	No Journal Club
	16	Minh Tran	Beta-amyloid-induced neuronal apoptosis involves c-Jun N-terminal kinase-dependent downregulation of Bcl-w
	23	Mike White	Apoptosis-Inducing Factor Is a Key Factor in Neuronal Cell Death Propagated by BAX-Dependent and BAX-Independent Mechanisms
March	2	No Journal Club
	9	Amy Hower	Magnetoreception and its trigeminal mediation in the homing pigeon
	16	George Brittain	Beta-amyloid-stimulated microglia induce neuron death via synergistic stimulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha and NMDA receptors
	23	Andrew Darr	A Differentially Autoregulated Pet-1 Enhancer Region Is a Critical Target of the Transcriptional Cascade That Governs Serotonin Neuron Development
	30	Khanh Nguyen	Uncharged tRNA and Sensing of Amino Acid Deficiency in Mammalian Piriform Cortex
April	6	No Journal Club
	13	No Journal Club	Dissertation Seminar (Andrew Rosendahl)- 1:30pm, RMSB 6018
	20	Hiro Fukui	Thrombospondins are astrocyte-secreted proteins that promote CNS synaptogenesis
	27	Florence Chaverneff	Encoding social signals in the mouse main olfactory bulb
May	4	No Journal Club
	11	Sandra Schaal	Mouse Model of Multiple System Atrophy alpha-Synuclein Expression in Oligodendrocytes Causes Glial and Neuronal Degeneration
	18	Rei Nakamura	Nicotinic Cholinergic Synaptic Mechanisms in the Ventral Tegmental Area Contribute to Nicotine Addiction
	25	Mara Balda	Altered Depression-Related Behaviors and Functional Changes in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus of Serotonin Transporter-Deficient Mice
June	1	Darcie Moore	Truncated TrkB-T1 mediates neurotrophin-evoked calcium signaling in glia cells
12:00 pm	8	Raul Corredor	Nuclear Ca2+ and the cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein Family Mediate a Late Phase of Activity-Dependent Neuroprotection
1:00 pm	8	Orion Furmanski	Proliferation of Functional Hair Cells in Vivo in the Absence of the Retinoblastoma Protein

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