The Synapse:Electronic Edition
Electronic Newsletter of the Philadelphia Chapter
Society for Neuroscience
Volume XX, Number 1, October, 1995
Celebrating our Twentieth Anniversary
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T. Shickley, editor [shickley at vm.temple.edu]
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We wish to recognize the valued and generous support of our
Corporate Members: Pharmacia Biotech, VWR Scientific and Oncor
Imaging.
In this issue:
--Neuroscience job opportunity, Dept. of Biology, Temple
University.
--Recap of last year's events
--Tentative calender for 95-96 events (watch for updates!)
--List of Officers and Councillors for 1995-96
--Listing of Seminars from around the region
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Recap of 1994-1995 events:
We had 5 events this past year. We began the year with an end of
summer picnic at Fort Washington State Park in which several
members and their children enjoyed barbecuing and socializing.
Elis Stanley of NIH was our
speaker for the fall seminar. Elis presented an excellent talk
on transmitter release at Med Coll PA. About 50 people attended;
the seminar was followed by lots of conversation over wine and
cheese, and dinner.
In March, the Tom Rainbow Memorial Lecture was held at U Penn.
Barry Wolfe of Georgetown Pharmacology gave a superior seminar,
followed by wine and cheese and dinner.
The Past President's Symposium: Neuroscience Literacy for area
grade 6-12 Students, was held at Jefferson. Approximately 160
students participated in over 20 demonstrations
To end the year, the Annual Meeting was held at the American
Philosophical Society in downtown Philadelphia. The attendance
was high with over 100 people. Eric Kandel's seminar was key to
meeting's popularity. We also overran the poster board session,
and are planning to have more poster boards from a better source
this next year, as well as improve other parts of this meeting in
order to maintain this wonderful attendance rate.
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Tentative Calendar for upcoming year:
Fall Symposium (Topic TBA: G proteins?) Friday, Dec 15
Tom Rainbow Memorial Lecture. Jan. or Feb.
Teacher education in Neuroscience, to coincide with
Neurochemistry Meeting in March
Annual Meeting May 3
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Council List
President: Tim Shickley, Temple University, email:
shickley at vm.temple.edu
Vice President: Mary Barbe, Temple University, email:
mbarbe at aol.com
Secretary: Doug Baird, Medical College of PA and Hahnemann,
baird at ccc.medcolpa.edu
Treasurer: Russ Buono, Thomas Jefferson University, email:
rbuono at tjuvm.tju.edu
Past President: Helen Pearson, email: pearson at vm.temple.edu
Councilors:
Nancy Bonini of Univ. of Pennsylvania. email:
nbonini at sas.upenn.edu
Don Faber of Medical College of PA and Hahnemann,
email:dfaber at ccc.medcolpa.edu
Amita Sehgal of Univ. of Pennsylvania, email:
sehgal at al.mscf.upenn.edu
Bill Saidel of Rutgers Unive, email: saidel at crab.rutgers.edu
Steve Wieland of Medical College of PA and Hahnemann, email:
wielands at hal.hahnemann.edu
Rob Waldeck of Medical College of PA and Hahnemann,email:
waldeck at ccc.medcolpa.edu
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Upcoming Seminars in the Area:
Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Michael E. Goldberger
Conference
Room , 6th floor EPPI, Room 960.
October 6 at 4 pm. Anne L. Calof. Dept of Anatomy and
Neurobiology and
Developmental Biology Center, Univ of Calf, Irvine. Neuronal
Birth and Death
in the Mammalian Olfactory Epithelium.
October 18 at 1 pm. Ron McKay. National Institute of Neurological
Disorders
and stroke. Directed differentitation of stem cells from the
developing
adult brain.
Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University, Dept
of
Pharmacology.
October 9. Thomas Gennarelli. Chairman of Dept of Neurosurgery,
Medical
College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. Dopamine
receptors in
human brain injury.
October 23. Hazel Szeto. Dept of Pharmacolgy, Cornell University
Medical
School.
October 30. Richard Eisenberg. Dept of Pharmacology, University
of Minnesota,
Duluth Campus. Multimedia in the phamacology classroom- seminar
and workshop.
November 20. Gemma Salt. Graduate student.
December 4. Gary Schwartz. Dept of Pharmacology, John Hopkins
University
School of Medicine.
December 11. Wangfang Hou. Graduate student.
David Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of
Pennsylvania.
Neuroscience Conference Room/Library, 140 John Morgan Building /
36th &
Hamilton Walk, Refreshments at 4:00 / Colloquia begin at 4:15.
For
additional information, call: 215/898-5250/-8754
Colloguium Series, Fall 1995.
September 20 Rita Balice-Gordon, Department of Biology,
University of
Pennsylvania. Synaptic plasticity: insights from the
neuromuscular junction.
September 27 Justin Fallon, Worcester Foundation of Experimental
Biology.
Building synapses with agrin and dystroglycan.
October 1 Ronald L. Calabrese, Department of Biology, Emory
University. A
realistic model of a neuronal oscillator: how realistic is real
and how real
is realistic?
October 18 Ian Creese, Center for Molecular and Behavioral
Neuroscience,
Rutgers State University of New Jersey. Molecular biological
studies of
dopamine receptor function: insights into schizophrenia.
October 25 Edward Stricker, Department of Behavioral
Neuroscience, University
of Pittsburgh. Central neuropeptidergic control of thirst and
salt appetite.
November 1 Paul Patterson, Division of Biology, California
Institute of
Technology. A cell surface protein and an oligosaccharide that
mark position
in the nervous system and signal in the immune system
November 8 Thomas Hughes, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual
Sciences,
Yale University School of Medicine. Glutamatergic synapses in the
retina: how
many kinds are there and how do we learn what they do?
November 29 Christopher Miller, Department of Biochemistry,
Brandeis
University. Ion channel structure and function (without
structure)
December 6 David McCormick, Section of Neurobiology, Yale
University School
of Medicine. Thalamocortical activity: sleep, arousal, vision,
and epilepsy
December 13 Lawrence Katz, Department of Neuroscience, Duke
University
Medical Center. Linking layers and connecting columns: the
development of
local circuits in visual cortex
U Penn Dept. of Psychology Colloquium
Mondays, 4:00 pm. B26 Stiteler Hall (just south of Walnut St. at
37th Street,
west of Annenberg Theater).
FALL 1995 Psychology Colloquia
10/2 Fernando Nottebohm, Rockefeller U. The neurobiology of song
learning in
birds
10/9 Henry Roediger, Rice University Memory illusions:
Remembering events
that never happened
10/23 Ruben Gur, University of PA Mapping behavior into regional
brain
function: Findings, limitations and potential in using resting
and activated
measures of cerebral metabolism and blood flow
10/30 Sam Glucksberg, Princeton When jobs are -really-jails:
Understanding
nominal metaphors
11/6 V. Lee Hamilton, Univ. of MD Responsibility for wrong doing
in
organization settings: Who's to blame?
11/20 Paul Ekman, UCSF. What do expressions express?
12/4 Martha McClintock, Univ. of Chicago To be announced
12/11 Mike Landy, NYU. Issues in depth cue combination
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Dept of Pharmacology.
October 6 at 4 pm. The 12th annual student symposium in
Pharmacology. The
Gregg Conference Center at the American College, Bryn Mawr, PA.
Moses Chao,
Dept of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Cornell University Medical
Center.
Receptor-mediated mechanisms underlying cell survival and
differentiation.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Dept of Pharmacology. Seminar Room
M100-101,
Mezzanine, John Morgan Building.
October 9. Jon Lindstrom. Depts Neuroscience and Pharmacology.
Neuronal
nicotinic receptors.
October 16. Alan Gewirtz. Depts Pathology and Internal Medicine.
Will
oligonucleotides ever make it as pharmaceuticals? The Penn
experience.
October 23 Jeffrey Field. Dept of Pharmacology. Ras signaling
pathways.
October 30. Terry Reisine. Depts of Pharmacology and psychiatry.
Moleuclar
biology of somatostatin and opiate receptors.
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University at Newark, New Jersey. Thursday 4:30 PM,
Neuroscience
Seminar Room, Aidekman Research Center. 197 University Avenue,
Newark, New
Jersey 07102. There will be an opportunity for informal
discussion before the
lecture in the lobby.
Colloquium Series: The Biology of Thought
September 14, 1995 James H. Eberwine, Department of Pharmacology
University of Pennsylvania. Neural plasticity: lessons from
single neurons
October 12, 1995 Monte Piercey, Central Nervous System Research
Upjohn Company. Pharmacological & clinical implications of the
dopamine D3
receptor
November 2, 1995 David C. Van Essen, Department of Anatomy &
Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine . Information
processing
strategies in the primate visual cortex
November 30, 1995 Vernon Mountcastle, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute
Johns Hopkins University . Epistemology of the cerebral cortex
January 18, 1996 Bruce H. Wainer, Department of Pathology
Emory University School of Medicine . Early signals in basal
forebrain
development
February 8, 1996 Elizabeth Bates, Department of Psychology
University of California, San Diego . Brain organization for
language in
children and adults
February 29, 1996 Carla Shatz, Department of Molecular and
Cellular Biology
University of California, Berkeley . Brain waves and brain
wiring
March 7, 1996 William T. Greenough, Beckman Institute
University of Illinois . The cell biology of memory
April 18, 1996 Huda Akil, Mental Health Research Institute
University of
Michigan . Endogenous opioid receptors and their relation to
endogenous
ligands
May 30, 1996 VS Ramachandran, Department of Psychology University
of
California, San Diego . Illusions of body image: what they reveal
about human
nature
Call Ralph Siegel 201-648-1080 x3294 or
http://www.cmbn.rutgers.edu for
further information.
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Send comments or news items to Tim Shickley, editor of the
electronic edition of The Synapse: shickley at vm.temple.edu.
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