The Epilepsy Research Laboratory

Epilepsy Research Seminar Series Archives

2007 Lecture Series:

• "Plasticity of GABAA Receptor Subunits and Localization of Activity-Related Markers: Some Surprises from a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy"
  February 21st ARC 123C
  A presentation by Caroline Houser, Ph.D. Professor Department of Neurobiology UCLA


• "Broadband Intracranial EEG Recordings from Human Epileptogenic Brain"
  March 21st ARC 123C
  A presentation by Greg Worrell, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Associate Professor of Neurology Rochester, Minnesota


• "Taming timing with inhibitory interneurons"
  April 17th ARC 123C
  A presentation by Barry Connors, Ph.D. Brown University
  Professor and Chair Department of Neuroscience


• "Circuit Abnormalities in an Animal Model of Cortical Dysplasia"
  May 16th ARC 123C
  A presentation by Steve N. Roper, Ph.D. University of Florida

• "Activation of neurotrophin receptor tyrosine kinase, TrkB, by a non-neurotrophin"
  June 27th ARC 123C
  A presentation by Jim McNamara, Ph.D., Carl R. Dean Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University


• NO SEMINAR
  July 18th


• NO SEMINAR
  August 15th


• "Mechanisms of Gene Regulation in Epilepsy"
  September 19th ARC 123C
  A presentation by Amy R. Brooks-Kayal, M.D.  Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


• "Sleep Oscillations and Seizures in Thalamocortical Networks"
  October 17th  ARC 123-C
  A presentation by Diego Contreras, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine


• "Regulating GABA-A Receptor Activity"
  November 21st ARC 123-C
  A presentation by Trevor G. Smart, M.D., Ph.D., Schild Professor of Pharmacology, Department Head of Pharmacology, University College London
  
  
• "Where has all the GABA gone?  ARX, malformations, epilepsy, mental retardation and pleiotrophy"
• This talk reviews XLAG, ACC, infantile spasms and other disorders due to ARX and now CDKL5 mutations, and basic developmental biology of the ARX gene
  December 19th @ 12:00 noon in ARC 123-C
  A presentation by William B. Dobyns, MD.  Professor of Human Genetics, Neurology and Pediatrics, The University of Chicago

 

All Seminars are from NOON - 1PM.  Lunch provided

For more information about the Epilepsy Research Seminar Series, please contact:
Douglas A. Coulter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology
Abramson Research Building, Room 410D
215-590-1937 (office)
215-590-4121 (fax)
email: coulterd@email.chop.edu
email: coulterd@mail.med.upenn.edu (use for large attachments)

   

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