SEMINARS (2007-2008)

Friday September 21, 2007	Dr. Chris Naus The University of Western Ontario	"A Tail of Connexin43 in Development and Disease"
Friday September 28, 2007	Dr. Richard Drake Cleveland Clinic Case Western University	"Anatomy Education for Medical Students: There is Another Way"
Thursday October 11, 2007 Auditorium A, 3rd Floor London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), University Campus 9:00am	14th Annual Murray Barr Lecture Dr. Mary Hendrix President and Scientific Director Children's Memorial Research Center Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois Poster Brochure	"Reprogramming Metastatice Tumour Cells with Embryonic Microenvironments"
Friday October 19, 2007	Dr. Martin Ralph Professor of Psychology Director, Centre for Biological Timing and Cognition University of Toronto	"Neural Mechanisms of Time Memory in Mammals"
Friday October 26, 2007	Dr. Michael Adams Professor Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology Queen's University	"Therapeutic Strategies to Regain the Sexual Function Lost to Aging and Cardiovascular Disease: Impact of Diet, Exercise and Antihypertensive Drugs"
Friday November 9, 2007	Dr. Michael Ohh Canada Research Chair in Molecular Oncology Associate Professor Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology University of Toronto	"The HIF-centric tumour suppressor model of VHL"
Friday November 16, 2007	Dr. Steve Ferguson Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario Career Investigator Canada Research Chair in Molecular Neurobiology Professor Department of Physiology & Pharmacology The University of Western Ontario	"G protein-coupled receptor trafficking and patterning of signal transduction"
Friday November 23, 2007	Dr. Stephen Pang Professor Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology Queen's University	"Endocrine Function of the Mammalian Heart"
Friday November 30, 2007	Dr. Andrew Nelson Faculty Scholar - Social Sciences Associate Professor Department of Anthropology The University of Western Ontario	"The Anatomy of the Ancient World: The Practice of Paleoanatomy at UWO"
Friday December 7, 2007	This seminar has been CANCELLED
Friday December 14, 2007	Dr. Lalit Srivastava Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry, McGill University Senior Scientist Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal	"Testing Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis of Schizophrenia in Animals"
Friday December 21, 2007	Dr. Stewart Whitman Associate Professor Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine University of Ottawa Heart Institute This seminar has been CANCELLED	"The Periodontal Pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis and the Participatory Role of Caspase-1 in the Progression of Atherosclerosis"
Friday January 11, 2008 MSB 282 9:30am	Gap Junction Research Day Dr. Glen Fishman Director, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology William Goldring Professor of Medicine Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology Professor of Pharmacology Director, Cardiovascular Biology Program New York University School of Medicine and Medical Centre Program	"Gap Junction Remodeling in Acquired and Inherited Diseases"
Friday January 18, 2008	Dr. Silvia Penuela \ Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology The University of Western Ontario	"Pannexins: A New Family of Channel Forming Glycoproteins"
Friday January 25, 2008	Dr. Rama Khokha Professor, Dept of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Professor, Dept of Medical Biophysics Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute University of Toronto	"Integrating the ECM and Cytokine Networks Through Extracellular Proteolysis"
Friday February 1, 2008	Dr. Isabelle Plante Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology The University of Western Ontario	"Role of Cx43 in Mammary Gland Development and Function: Potential Implications in Breast Cancer"
Friday February 15, 2008	Dr. Ashley Monks Assistant Professor Department of Psychology & Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto (at Mississauga)	"Androgens in Neuromuscular Health and Disease"
Friday March 7, 2008	Dr. Barbara Zielinski Professor Department of Biological Sciences University of Windsor	"Follow Your Nose - A Neural Pathway from Olfaction to Locomotion?"
Friday March 14, 2008	Dr. Janet Sparrow Professor Department of Ophthalmology Department of Pathology & Cell Biology Columbia University	"Autofluorescent Pigments of Retina and Macular Degeneration"
Friday April 4, 2008	Dr. Sheena Josseyln Scientist, Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health Canada Research Chair in Molecular & Cellular Cognition EJLB Scholar Hospital for Sick Children Assistant Professor Department of Physiology & Institute of Medical Sciences University of Toronto	"Neuronal Selection and Competition in Memory Formation: the Role of CREB"
Friday April 25, 2008	Dr. Kevin Shoemaker Associate Professor Neurovascular Research Laboratory School of Kinesiology Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Physiology & Pharmacology The University of Western Ontario	"Functional Organization of the Cortical Autonomic Networks in Conscious Humans"
Friday May 2, 2008	Dr. Regina Hanstein Fellow Johannes Gutenberg University - Mainz, Germany	"Functional Organization of the Cortical Autonomic Networks in Conscious Humans"
Monday May 5, 2008 *4:00 pm	Co-Sponsored by The Department of Physiology & Pharmacology and The Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology Dr. Catherine Woolley Associate Professor Department of Neurobiology and Physiology Northwestern University	"Estrogen, Synapses, and Hippocampal Seizure Susceptibility"
Friday May 9, 2008 London Hall 1140 Western Road (near Sarnia Road intersection) *10:30 am	Southern Ontario Neuroscience Association (SONA) 2008 Annual Meeting & Poster Day Dr. Diego Restrepo Univeristy of Colorado Agenda	"The Olfactory Bulb: an olfactory thalamus?"
Friday May 9, 2008 Auditorium A, 3rd Floor London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), University Campus *2:00 pm	Inaugural Suzanne M. Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology Dr. Kenneth Yamada Chief, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, NIDCR Editor, Journal of Cell Biology Scientist, Cell-Matrix Interactions Poster	"New Dimensions and Dynamics in Cell-Matrix Interactions"
Friday June 6, 2008	Dr. Rajni Patel Professor Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering CSTAR Scientist The University of Western Ontario	"Robotics and Haptics in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Therapy"
Friday June 13, 2008	Dr. Bill Yates Professor of Otolaryngology & Neuroscience Co-Director, Research Conduct & Compliance Office University of Pittsburgh	"Vestibular System Influences on Cardiovascular Control During Movement: Neural Substrate and Physiological Role"
Thursday August 14, 2008	Dr. Corey Moore Assistant Professor Department of Otolaryngology Department of Oncology University of Western Ontario	"Exciting Developments in Anatomy & Cell Biology at Western"