2006 seminars & events

Archived list of the 2006 seminars & events at the Centre for Integrative Physiology.

January 2006

25 January

The neural progenitor specifying activity of FoxG1 is regulated by CKI and FGF in opposite directions

Dr Nancy Papalopulu (University of Cambridge)

Host: John Mason

February 2006

22 February

Wound healing (somehow) in the small eye cornea

Dr Martin Collinson (Aberdeen University)

Host: Prof David Price

March 2006

17 March

Activity and plasticity in the fly nervous system

Dr James Hodge (Brandeis University, MA, USA)

Host: Prof Mike Shipston

29 March

How does the skeleton respond to the effects to exercise? The role of glutamate signalling in the response of bone to mechanical loading

Prof Tim Skerry (Division of Clinical Sciences, Sheffield)

Host: Dr Andrew Hall

April 2006

26 April

  • Gareth Evans (CIP, University of Edinburgh), 'Signalling to survival and death by the NMDA receptor'
  • Giles Hardingham (CNR), 'Visualising cAMP-dependent plasticity of synaptic vesicle cycling'
  • Chris Connolly (University of Dundee), 'Getting the right receptor to the cell surface: Receptor assembly and export from the endoplasmic reticulum'

Host: Dr Mike Cousin

May 2006

31 May

Oxygen-sensitive potassium channels - mediators and modulators of peripheral chemosensing

  • Dr Ian Fearon (University of Manchester)
  • Hosts: Dr Iain Rowe and Prof Mike Shipston

June 2006

'The role of serotonin and oxytocin in ejaculatory disorders: using the rat as a model for humans'

Dr T De Jong (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Host: Dr Alison Douglas

September 2006

13 September

Discovery and investigation of the neuropeptide TIP39

Dr Ted Usdin (NIMH Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bethesda, MD, USA)

Host: Dr Mike Ludwig

27 September

Dogs as a new model for developmental genetics and congenital disease

Dr Kirsi Sainio (Helsinki BioCentre, Finland)

Host: Dr Jamie Davies

November 2006

1 November

Consolidation of recognition memory in mice: What can we learn from forgetting?

Dr Mario Engelmann (Institute for Medical Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany)

Host: Dr Mike Ludwig

22 November

  • Dr Ian Adams (MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh), 'Sex determination in the mouse germline'
  • Dr Lee Smith (MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Edinburgh), 'Searching for novel genes functioning in mammalian sexual development'

Prof Richard Sharpe (MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Edinburgh)

  • 'Disorders of fetal testis development and their consequences'

Dr Amanda Swain (Institute of Cancer Research, London)

  • 'Transcriptional regulation in adreno-gonadal primordia development'

Host: Dr Norah Spears