Recent Recovery of Function Colloquia include:

  • MICHAEL BEATTIE, Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University: "Cell death, regeneration, and recovery after spinal cord injury"
  • REGGIE EDGERTON, UCLA: Spinal cord injury.
  • MILES HERKENHAM (NIH)National Institute of Mental Health, Functional Neuroanatomy: "Cytokine signaling in the brain in several in vivo animal models."
  • CLAIRE HULSEBOSCH, Univ. of Texas Medical School-Galveston: Neurotrauma
  • TIM SCHALLERT, Univ. of Texas-Austin: Neurotrauma
  • LARRY SQUIRE, Univ. of California-San Diego, "Memory systems of the mammalian brain"
  • ESTHER STERNBERG (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health, Neuroimmunology
  • WISE YOUNG, Professor II and Director of Neuroscience Center, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Nelson Biological Laboratories, Piscataway, NJ : "The Role of Stem Cells and Adhesion Moleculars in Spinal Cord Regeneration"
  • LUIS PARADA, Center for Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center: "Neurotrophins, Neurofibromatosis and Animal Disease Models"
  • JONETHON SEDWICK, Associate Director, DNAX Research Institute, Palo Alto CA: "Microglial Cells in CNS Inflammation: Dogma and Paradigm Despite the Evidence"
  • JUAN SALINAS, Department of Psychology, University of Texas-Austin: "The Amygdala and Emotional Learning"
  • ALCINO SILVA, Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, UCLA : "Molecular and cellular approaches to unraveling elements of cognition"
  • FIRDAUS DHABHAR, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller: "Good" stress "Bad" stress and in vivo immune function - Interactions between hormones, cytokines and leukocyte trafficking"
  • LINDA WATKINS, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado-Boulder: "The Pain of Being Sick"
  • CAROLYN WHITACRE, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University: "Neuroendocrine influences on autoimmune disease"
  • KRISTEN DRESCHER, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University: "Effect of exogenous TGF- on demyelination in a viral model of multiple sclerosis"
  • ROBERT FUJINAMI, Department of Neurology, University of Utah School of Medicine: "Virus infections can prime for and trigger Autoimmune CNS Disease: Implications for multiple sclerosis"
  • DAVID PADGETT, College of Dentistry, Ohio State University: "Endocrine regulation of anti-viral immune responses"
  • MARK PACKARD, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University: "Neurobiology of Multiple Memory Systems
  • RONALD TJALKENS, Department of Veterinary Anatomy & Public Health, Texas A&M University: "Astroglia and NF-KB in Parkinson's Disease: Allies or Accomplices?"
  • ROBIN J.M. FRANKLIN, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge: "CNS remyelination - mechanisms and manipulations"
  • ROBERT HANDA, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University: "Functional Variants of Estrogen Receptor Beta in the Brain"
  • NANCY FORGER, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts: "Sex and Death in the Spinal Cord"
  • STEVEN F. MAIER, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado. "Bi-directional Communication Between the Brain and the Immune System"
  • ROBERT BONNEAU, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Penn State University: "Stress-Induced Modulation of Immunity to Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Infection - Its Impact on Pathogenesis in both the CNS and Periphery"
  • JOHN SHERIDAN, Professor of Oral Biology, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Ohio State University Health Sciences Center, and Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, Columbus, Ohio: "Neuroendocrine Regulation of Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity"
  • RONALD GLASER,Ohio State University Health Sciences Center, and Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, Columbus, Ohio: "Stress and Immunity"
  • PAUL SHUGHRUE, Senior Scientist, Woman's Health Research Institute, Wyeth-Ayerst, Radnor PA: "Estrogen Receptor Beta: Novel Sites for Estrogen action in the Brain"
  • KURT WILHELMSON, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of California-San Francisco: "The Role of Tau in Dementia. Co-sponsored with the Faculty of Genetics
  • JACKIE CRAWLEY, Chief, Section on Behavioral Neuropharmacology, Experimental Therapeutics Branch, National Institute of Mental Health: "Behavioral Phenotyping Of Transgenic And Knockout Mice"
  • LEE ANNA CUNNINGHAM, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico: "Neuron death and protection in mouse models of Parkinson's disease and stroke
  • MARGUERITE KAY, Director of the International Foundation for Biomedical Aging Research, Temple, TX : "Senescent Cell Antigen and Band 3 in Neurological Aging and Disease"
  • MICHAEL RACKE, Neuroimmunology Research Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center: "The pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis."
  • JERRY YAKEL, Ion Channel Physiology Section, Laboratory of Signal Transduction, NIEHS: "Nicotinic receptors in rat hippocampal interneurons; functional and molecular characterization.
  • JESSICA MONG, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland School of Medicine: "Estrogen mediated neuronal-glial interactions in the rodent brain: from gene expression to behavior."
  • SANDRA GARRAWAY, SUNY at Stony Brook: "BDNF acutely facilitates nociceptor-evoked synaptic currents in the spinal cord dorsal horn ."
  • EDWARDO MACAGNO, Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego: "Receptor Phosphatases and Self-Avoidance in the Regulation of Process Outgrowth"

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