Brian J. Bacskai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit
Mass General Institute

“A window into the Alzheimer brain: In vivo imaging with multiphoton microscopy”

8/31/2006

Michael K Lee, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology & Neuropathology
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

“Neurodegeneration in transgenic mouse models of Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease”

9/14/2006

Steve Stice, Ph.D
Professor AND GRA EMinent Scholar of Animal Reproductive Physiology
Director of UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center

“Human neural stem cells: are they ready for drug discover assays?”

10/13/2006

Nancy Ip, Ph.D
Head of Biochemistry, Associate Dean of Science & Director of Biotechnology Research Institute Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

"Cdk5: a key regulator of synaptic functions"

11/9/2006

Gunnar Gouras, M.D.
Head, Laboratory of Alzheimer’s Disease Neurobiology
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience & Graduate Program in Neuroscience

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

“Biology of b-amyloid induced neuronal dysfunction on Alzheimer’s Disease”

12/14/2006

Karl Herrup, Ph.D.
Chair of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Rutgers University, New Brunswick

“Cell cycle control in the mature neuron: the road to perdition”

1/11/2007

Erika Holzbaur, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology
University of Penn

“Function and Dysfunction of the Microtubule Motor Cytoplasmic Dynein in Axonal Transport”

2/8/2007

Bai Lu, Ph.D.
Chief, Section on Neural Development and Plasticity
PNRC, LCSN, NICHD, NIH

“Role of BDNF in cognitive brain function and dysfunction”

3/8/2007

Richard Nass, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

"Pharmacogenetic analysis in a novel model of Parkinson's disease: Identification of genetic and chemical modulators of dopamine neuron degeneration in C. elegans"

   4/12/2007    

Joachim Herz, M.D.
Professor, Biophysics and Molecular Genetics
Professor, Center for Basic Neuroscience

Southwestern Medical Center

“Molecular basis of signaling by lipoprotein receptors”

5/10/2007

Peter S. Klein, M.D., Ph.D.
Asst Professor, Departments of Medicine
and Cell and Developmental Biology
Assistant Investigator, HHMI
University of Penn

“Exploring a role for GSK-3 in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders”