Seminar Series

Speaker	Title	Seminar
Haeman Jang, Ph.D.	"H5N1 Influenza Virus Induces A Parkinsonian Pathology"	Jan. 21, 2010
Dustin Wakeman, Ph.D.	"Gene Therapy Meets Midbrain Human Neural Stem Cell Transplantation in a Primate Model for Parkinson's Disease: Modality Check In-Vivo"	Oct. 28, 2009
Zinayida Shevstova, Ph.D.	"Development and use of AAV-vectors for gene therapy of Parkinson's Disease"	Sept. 4, 2009
Jesse McLean, Ph.D.	"Peripherin Isoform Expression in ALS: Converging Concepts of Splicing, Aggregation, and Motor Neuron Degeneration"	Aug. 6, 2009
Hiroko Kishikawa, Ph.D.	"Diverse Roles of Angiogenin: Implications in ALS"	June 4, 2009
Hara Kang, Ph.D.	"CDC73 is required for self-renewal of planarian stem cells"	May 13, 2009
Bikem Akten, Ph.D.	"A tale of two kinases in the Drosophia circadian oscillator"	June 4, 2008
Malu Tansey, Ph.D.	"The interplay of genetics and environment in Parkinson's disease: lessons from second-hit neuroinflammation models of neurodegeneration"	January 10, 2008
Pembe Hande Orzdinler, Ph.D.	"Corticospinal Motor Neuron Biology: Toward Functional Repair in Motor Neuron Circuitry"	December 12, 2007
Gunnar Hargus, M.D.	"Transplantation of tenascin-R overexpressing murine embryonic stem cells in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease"	June 8, 2007
Michela Deleidi, M.D.	"Analysis of subventricular zone adult neural progenitor cells in mice affected by chronic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE)"	May 15, 2007
Alexander Klein, Ph.D.	"Restorative plasticity of the dopaminergic mesotelencephalic system in an animal model for PD"	February 16, 2007
Kambiz Alavian, Ph.D.	"Engrailed Expression Controls Mitochondrial Stability and Erk1/2 Signaling by Regulation of P75NTR in Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons"	January 19, 2007
Jan Schwab, M.D., Ph.D.	"Aspects of axon growth inhibition as target for experimental therapeutic strategies following CNS injury"	March 24, 2006
Penelope Hallett, Ph.D.	"Molecular Mechanisms of NMDA Glutamate Receptor Abnormalities in Parkinson's disease"	March 23, 2006
Sean Kearns	"Characterization of adult and embryonic stem cell proliferation, differentiation and integrations in vitro and in nigrostriatal slice cultures	March 10, 2006
Shannon Mendes	"Multiple B-class Ephrins and Eph receptors regulate midline axon guidance in the developing mouse forebrain"	February 3, 2006
Pawel Licznerski	"Lentivirus-based RNA interference in neurons"	December 8, 2005
Wei-Dong Yao, Ph.D.	"Molecular mechanisms mediating dopamine-glutamate interaction in the postsynaptic density: role of PSD-95 and implications in addiction"	November 1, 2005
Enrique Salero	"Generation of cerebellar neurons from embryonic stem cells"	September 30, 2005
Frank Soldner	"Identification of BAG-2 by proteome analysis as a modifier of neuronal apoptosis"	July 29, 2005
Moshe Pritsker	"Large-scale gain-of-function genetic screen in mouse embryonic stem cells"	July 28, 2005
Arnar Astradsson, M.D.	"Deep Brain Stimulation for movement disorders"	July 22, 2005
Sharon Kolk, Ph.D.	'Ephective signaling': Eph/eprin cross-talk during (meso)cortical development	May 20, 2005
Justin D. Boyd	"Cellular Mediators of Strain-Dependent Sensitivity to MPTP in Mice"	April 15, 2005
Alexandra Blak	"Fgf signaling in the development of the midbrain and anterior hindbrain"	April 8, 2005
Myriam Cordey	"Role of protein kinase C in estrogen modulation of neuronal viability"	February 11, 2005
Antoine de Chevigny	"Migration and fate determination of the adult neuronal progenitor cells- implication for cell replacement therapies"	January 28, 2005
Patrice D. Smith	"Calpain-mediated deregulation of cyclin dependent kinase 5 (cdk5) is associated with dopaminergic cell loss in the MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease"	January 21, 2005
James Koprich	"Consequences and Potential Mechanisms of Prenatal MDMA Exposure on Neurodevelopment"	December 17, 2004
Takahito Yoshizaki, M.D., Ph.D.	"Generation of dopaminergic neurons from ES cells, and Transplantation to rat models of Parkinson's disease”	June 25, 2004
Petr Dvorak, Ph.D.	"Deriving new human ES cell lines"	June 10, 2004
Zhigang He, Ph.D.	"Molecular mechanisms of axon degeneration and regeneration"	April 8, 2004
Mee-Ohk Kim, M.D.	"CD45-mediated inhibition of HIV-1 Nef signaling in human microglia: mechanisms and implications for AIDS dementia"	January 21, 2004
Daniela Ferrari	"New locations of neural progenitors in the adult brain"	November 15, 2003
Haruhisa Inoue, M.D., Ph.D.	"Differential roles of caspases in the clinical course of ALS-mouse model"	July 16, 2003
Angel Viñuela, Ph.D.	"Some anatomical aspects on the transmission of forelimb somatosensory representation in Macaque"	May 23, 2003
Nicole Roy, Ph.D.	"Investigating the development of the caudal nervous system in vertebrates using zebrafish as a model." (NRL)	April 25, 2003
Laura Korhonen, Ph.D.	“X chromosome-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) in neuronal cell death and survival”	November 8, 2002
Stefano Gustincich, Ph.D.	“Confronting complexity: dopaminergic neurons of the mouse retina”	August 8, 2002
Eva Hedlund, Ph.D.	"Search for Hox10 downstream targets: genes involved in motor neuron generation and outgrowth"	May 3, 2002
Rosario S-Pernaute, M.D., Ph.D.	"Reduced hippocampal neurogenesis in adult transgenic mice with chronic astrocytic production of interleukin-6" (NRL)	April 4, 2002
Kai Sonntag, M.D., Ph.D.	"Cell Proliferation Without Neurogenesis in Adult Primate Neocortex" (NRL)	February 28, 2002
Dong-Wook Kim, Ph.D.	"Sonic Hedgehog Facilitates Dopamine Differetiation in the Presence of a Mesencephalic Glial Cell Line" (MNL)	January 30, 2002
Chee Yeun Chung	"Glutamate Excitotoxicity Causes Rapid Degradation of the Neuronal K-Cl Cotransporter (KCC2) via a Calcium- activated Neutral Protease" (NRL)	January 25, 2002
Sangmi Chung, Ph.D.	"Generation of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Adult Brain from Mesencephalic Precursor Cells Labeled with a nestin- GFP Transgene" (MNL)	January 16, 2002
Kai Sonntag, M.D., Ph.D.	"In viteo differentiation of transplantable neural precursors from human embryonic stem cells" (MNL)	December 12, 2001
Carine Cleren	"Effects of pharmacological agents on the nigro-striatal dopaminergic neurotoxicity induced by MPP+ and 6-OHDA" (NRL)	November 20, 2001
Jason Emsley	"Revelations about the Genesis and Exodus of Neural Stem Cells" (NRL)	October 18, 2001
Stefan Haas	"Transplantation of immortalized neural progenitor cells in hemi-parkinsonian rats" (NRL)	September 21, 2001
Marina Emborg, M.D., Ph.D.	"Primate models in pre clinical studies of Parkinson's and Huntington's disease" (NRL)	June 29, 2001
Raja Kittappa, Ph.D.	"Gene expression and the emergence of stem cells” (NRL)	April 26, 2001
Antonella Consiglio, Ph.D.	"In vivo gene therapy of metachromatic leucodystrophy by lentiviral vector" (NRL)	April 12, 2001
Sangmi Chung, Ph.D.	"Neurogenin Promotes Neurogenesis and Inhibits Glial Differentiation by Independent Mechanisms" (MNL)	March 28, 2001

Speaker	Affiliation	Seminar
Giovanni Manfredi, M.D., Ph.D.	Weill Medical College of Cornell University	Sep. 28, 2009(notice)
Siew-Lan Ang, Ph.D.	MRC National Institute for Medical Research	June 9, 2008(notice)
Bernardo Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School	June 2, 2008(notice)
Clay Reid, M.D., Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School	March 3, 2008(notice)
Anthony A. Grace, Ph.D.	University of Pittsburgh	December 3, 2007(notice)
Kenneth Williams, M.D.	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	January 12, 2007
Alberto Ascherio, M.D., Dr. PH	Harvard School of Public Health	April 18, 2006(notice)
Michelino Puopolo, Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School	March 28, 2006(notice)
Zbigniew Wszolek, M.D.	Mayo Medical School	January 31, 2006 (notice)
Beverly Davidson, Ph.D.	University of Iowa College of Medicine	January 24, 2006 (notice)
Joshua Sanes, Ph.D.	Harvard University	December 6, 2005 (notice)
Lorenz Studer, M.D., Ph.D.	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	October 25 , 2005 (notice)
Enza Maria Valente, M.D., Ph.D.	Mendel Institute, Rome, Italy	June 28, 2005 (notice)
Valina Dawson, Ph.D.	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	May 3, 2005 (notice)
James Surmeier, Ph.D.	Northwestern University Med. Sch.	April 12, 2005 (notice)
Bernardino Ghetti, M.D.	Indiana University School of Medicine	January 4, 2005 (notice)
Mahendra S. Rao, M.D., Ph.D.	National Institute of Aging	September 14, 2004 (notice)
Robert E. Burke, M.D.	Columbia University	June 22, 2004 (notice)
Mark Cookson, Ph.D.	National Institute on Aging, NIH	April 27, 2004 (notice)
Karen K. Hsiao Ashe, M.D., Ph.D.	University of Minnesota	April 6, 2004 (notice)
Pullanipally Shashidharan, Ph.D.	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	March 23, 2004 (notice)
Roberto Malinow, M.D., Ph.D.	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	December 16, 2003 (notice)
H. Georg Kuhn, Ph.D.	University of Regensburg	November 18, 2003 (notice)
George Augustine, Ph.D.	Duke University Medical Center	April 8, 2003 (notice)
Ryosuke Takahashi, M.D., Ph.D.	RIKEN Brain Science Institute	April 1, 2003 (notice)
Warren Olanow, M.D.	Mt. Sinai Medical Center	March 18, 2003 (notice)
David van Vactor, Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School	February 11, 2003
Su-Chun Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.	University of Wisconsin	January 14, 2003
David H. Rowitch, M.D., Ph.D.	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	October 23, 2002
Cynthia A. Lemere, Ph.D.	Brigham & Women’s Hospital	March 5, 2002
Elena Cattaneo, Ph.D.	University of Milano	March 19, 2002
Mel B. Feany, M.D., Ph.D.	Brigham and Women's Hospital	November 27, 2001
Martin Marsala, M.D.	University of California, San Diego	November 20, 2001
Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, M.D.	UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Med Sch	October 23, 2001
Stephen Davies, Ph.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	October 2, 2001
Dan Lindholm, Ph.D.	Uppsala University	June 26, 2001
Robert Edwards, M.D.	Univ. of California San Francisco	April 10, 2001
Bruce Trapp, Ph.D.	The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	February 6, 2001
William Hickey, M.D.	Dartmouth Medical School	January 9, 2001
Thomas Perlmann, Ph.D.	Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research	December 5, 2000
Ivar Mendez, M.D., Ph.D.	Dalhousie University	October 24, 2000
Clive Svendsen, Ph.D.	Cambridge Center for Brain Repair	September 26, 2000
Jonas Frisen, M.D., Ph.D.	Karolinska Institute	September 12, 2000