Professor Joseph S. Francisco

William E. Moore Distinguished Professor

Physical Chemistry, Purdue University

Hosted by Professor SonBinh Nguyen

Speaker - Anindya DUtta, MD, PhD

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Va

Professor Joseph S. Francisco

William E. Moore Distinguished Professor

Physical Chemistry, Purdue University 

Speaker - Melanie Marketon, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

http://neuroscience.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=55

Dr. Swartz received his B.S. degree in Chemistry and Biology in 1986 from Eastern Mennonite College. In 1992 he received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Harvard University where he worked with Bruce Bean studying the regulation of voltage-gated calcium channels by G-proteins and protein kinases. He did postdoctoral training with Roderick MacKinnon at Harvard Medical School, where he began isolating and studying toxins that interact with voltage-activated potassium channels. Dr. Swartz joined NINDS as an Investigator in 1997 and was promoted to Senior Investigator in 2003. His laboratory is using biochemical, molecular biological and biophysical techniques to investigate the structure of voltage-activated ion channels and to explore the molecular mechanics by which these channels gate.

Weekly research presentations by the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.  Presentations are on Wednesdays at 12 Noon, currently scheduled 11.11.09 thru 5.26.10  EXCEPT ON 11.25.09, 12.9.09, 12.23.09, 12.30.09.   CMB Conference Room, Ward 4-075, Chicago campus.

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology

Please join us for our departmental seminar series:

Dr. Guri Giaever

University of Toronto

"Chemical Genomic Tools to Understand Gene Function & Drug Action"

"Hormones and Tumor Initiating Cells in Luminal Human Breast Cancers."

Carol Sartorius, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Colorado Denver

Malcolm MacIver, PhD
Depts of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology is pleased to welcome Milan Mrksich, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  You are invited to join us for his presentation on "Model substrates for studying cell adhesion".

The NUIN Student Sponsered Seminar Series

 presents

Rodolfo Llinás, MD, PhD
Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, NYU, Langone Medical Center

Rodolfo R. Llinas MD, PhD, is Chair and Professor of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience since at NYU School of Medicine since 1976. He has been instrumental in generating a major paradigm shift in various areas of neuroscience concerning the intrinsic electrical properties of nerve cells and their role in normal and abnormal function of the nervous system. He has also contributed to the study of the cerebellum, the thalamo-cortical system, synaptic transmission at the squid giant synapse and human magnetoencephalography.

TALK TITLE:

ABSTRACT:

It will be argued that global brain function is geared towards the implementation of intelligent motricity as the only possible external manifestation of nervous system function. It will be further argued that intelligence component of motricity requires, for its successful wheeling, a prediction imperative to approximate the consequences of the impending motion. Electrophysiological results will be presented addressing how such predictive function may originate from neuronal networks and the central role of the thalamocortical system in cognition, as a premotor event.

A reception will follow the talk on the Chicago campus.

NUIN Student Seminar Series Student Hosts: Rashmi Sarnaik and Christine Whiteus

Speaker - Michelle Somand

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

IGP Graduate Student, Lab of Dr. Joan Cook-Mills

Mei Hong, Professor and the first John D. Corbett Professor of Chemistry, received her B.A. degree in 1992 from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of California at Berkeley. Following one year of research as an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was a Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1999, she joined the faculty at Iowa State University. Her research centers on the development and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to investigate the structure and dynamics of membrane proteins and fibrous proteins. She serves on the organizing committees of the Experimental NMR Conference and the Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance.

The Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition

 presents

John Jonides
University of Michigan, Department of Psychology
Daniel J. Weintraub Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience;
Co-Director, functional MRI Center

Talk title: "Suppressing Short-term Memories"

Location: Swift Hall,  Room 107, Evanston Campus

 The talk will be video conferenced to the Chicago Campus

Vieo conference location: Physiology Conference Room, Ward 5-230, 303 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611

Talk Abstract: Executive processing involves cognitive control over processes of perception, memory, and responding.  I focus here on cognitive control over the contents of short-term memory.  Is there a process responsible for controlling the contents of short-term memory separable from processes responsible for controlling perception and responding?  What are the neural correlates of this process?  How might this process be implicated in cognitive deficits that accompany Major Depressive Disorder, and how is it revealed in neural differences between depressed and healthy individuals?

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology

Please join us for our departmental seminar series:

Dr. Terry Magnuson

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

" Chromatin Remodeling, Epigenetics and Mouse Development"

"Estrogen receptors and pancreatic islets lipid homeostasis."

Rebecca Harris
Graduate Student

Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine
Northwestern University

Weekly research presentations by the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.  Presentations are on Wednesdays at 12 Noon, currently scheduled 11.11.09 thru 5.26.10  EXCEPT ON 11.25.09, 12.9.09, 12.23.09, 12.30.09.   CMB Conference Room, Ward 4-075, Chicago campus.

Biophysics Club meeting. Reception with snacks to follow event. Sponsored by the Molecular Biophysics Training Grant.

Meade and Hoffman labs present.