Seminars are held on Fridays at 3:45pm in the Finkel Lecture Theatre on level 2 of the new building of the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.
Please direct any enquiries to the seminar convenor Dr Jaakko Jarvinen, tel. (02) 6125 2757, e-mail: jaakko.jarvinen@anu.edu.au.
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February 03	No seminar	*** ANS 2006, Sydney ***
February 10	Dr Matthew Larkum Physiological Institute University of Bern, Switzerland	Dendritic inhibition in layer V pyramidal neurones
February 17	Prof. Bob Foehring University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, Tennessee	The slow AHP: Relationships with spikes, calcium channels and temperature sensitivity
February 24	Prof. Bill Spain University of Washington Seattle, Washington	Cellular mechanisms for input phase modulation of firing rate: review and new insights from the system for sound location
March 03	No seminar	*** Kioloa Neuroscience Colloquium 2006 ***
March 10	Dr John Bekkers JCSMR, ANU	Probing dendritic function using corrective surgery
March 17	Ms Jianhong Zhang JCSMR, ANU	PhD Seminar: Connexin expression in the renal vasculature: effects of endothelial nitric oxide and diabetes
March 24	Prof. Cliff Abraham Department of Psychology University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand	Secreted amyloid precursor protein: yang to amyloid's yin in Alzheimer's disease
March 31	Dr Frank Edwards JCSMR, ANU	Cancelled
April 07	Prof. Maarten van den Buuse Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory Mental Health Research Institute, Victoria	Behavioural phenotyping in genetically modified mice: prepulse inhibition studies in mice deficient in the alpha subunit of GZ
April 14	No seminar	*** Good Friday ***
April 21	Dr Maarten Kole JCSMR, ANU	Dendritic HCN channels: novel mechanisms for neocortical epileptogenesis
April 28	No seminar	Cancelled
May 05	Prof. Caryl Hill JCSMR, ANU	Endothelium derived hyperpolarizing factor, gap junctions and hypertension
May 08 (Note unusual time: Monday 3:45 pm)	Dr Massimo Scanziani Division of Biology University of California, San Diego, California	Dynamics of recurrent inhibitory circuits in the cortex
May 12	Prof. Bill Ross Department of Physiology New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York	Calcium waves in pyramidal neurons
May 19	Ms Monique Youssoufian Batten JCSMR, ANU	PhD Seminar: Synaptic transmission in the auditory brainstem of normal and congenitally deaf mice
May 26	Prof. Luciano da Fontoura Costa Institute of Physics at Sao Carlos University of Sao Paulo, Brazil	Simplifying complexity: integrating neuronal shape and function through complex networks
June 02	Dr Zan-Min Song JCSMR, ANU	Roles of endothelin receptor B in brain development - lessons from spotting lethal rats
June 09	Dr Michael Ibbotson RSBS, ANU	Active versus passive vision in primates
June 16	Dr Amy Berntson JCSMR, ANU	Leek currants: ion channels for vegetarians
June 23	Ms Katarina Leao JCSMR, ANU	PhD Seminar: The role of activity in regulating the properties of brainstem auditory neurons - part II
June 30	Ms Kaori Ikeda JCSMR, ANU	PhD Seminar: Presynaptic properties of cultured hippocampal neurons
	*** Winter Break ***	Seminars move to Finkel lecture theatre in the new JCSMR after Winter Break (unless otherwise indicated).
August 04 (Note venue: Florey Theatre, old JCSMR)	Dr Greg Stuart JCSMR, ANU	From action potential generation to perception in 45 minutes
August 11	Dr Richard Leao JCSMR, ANU	Sodium channels at the calyx of Held synapse
August 18	No seminar	*** JCSMR Open Day ***
August 25	Dr Clarke Raymond JCSMR, ANU	The role of action potentials in the induction of different forms of LTP
September 01	Mr Manuel Navarro-Gonzalez JCSMR, ANU	PhD Seminar: Calcium channels, vasomotion and cerebrovascular tone
September 11 (Note unusual time: Monday 4:15 pm)	Dr Bruce Graham Dept. of Computing Science and Mathematics University of Stirling, United Kingdom	Computational models of short-term plasticity and information transmission at the calyx of Held
September 15	Dr Keith Brain Department of Pharmacology University of Oxford, United Kingdom	Resolving sympathetic purinergic transmission with Ca2+
September 22	Ms Helen Berg School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BaMBi), ANU	PhD Seminar: Cortical spreading depression in the neocortex
September 29	Mr Johannes Letzkus JCSMR, ANU	PhD Seminar: Learning rules for spike timing-dependent plasticity depend on dendritic synapse location
October 06	Ms Lucy Palmer JCSMR, ANU	PhD Seminar: Voltage imaging in dendritic spines
October 13	No seminar	*** SfN 2006, Atlanta, GA, USA ***
October 20	No seminar	*** SfN 2006, Atlanta, GA, USA ***
October 27	Special event: Opening ceremony of Finkel lecture theatre
November 03	Dr Allison Cameron JCSMR, ANU	Dark adaptation of human rod bipolar cells
November 10	Dr Jaakko Jarvinen JCSMR, ANU	Recovery of light responses in mouse rod photoreceptors recorded with the suction pipette
November 17	Dr Andrew James RSBS, ANU	Multimodal imaging of function in human visual cortex
November 24	Associate Professor Joe Lynch School of Biomedical Sciences University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD	Glycine receptors - recent insights into their structure and function
December 01	No seminar	Cancelled due to unavailability of lecture theatre
December 08	Special event: Hendry Symposium	Link to symposium website
December 15	Special event: DNS Christmas party
	*** Summer Break ***	Back to the top of the program