Synapses and Disease Journal Club, Fridays 10 am, 2^nd Floor Biotech (Note change in location)

January 9	Steve Mennerick	Translational science: philosophy Translational science: practice Translational science: implementation
January 16	No meeting, Follow up readings	Marks critique of NIH roadmap and responses
January 23	Tomomi Ichinose	Astrocyte glutamate comment
January 30	No meeting, student interviews
February 6	Xudong Qiu	Pikachurin and photoreceptor synapses
February 13	No meeting, student interviews
February 20	Martha Bhattacharya	Insulin receptor and visual circuit plasticity Needleman and McAllister preview
February 27	Vera Valakh	Fragile X and glutamate receptors Background
March 6
March 13	Michele Pergadia	mGluRs and nicotine dependence
March 20	Sarah Naylor	Nieman-Pick C in flies
March 27	Tina Chang	Social isolation and CREB
April 3	Hannah Arnson	Neuronal chloride gradient and stress
April 10	Joey Mertz	Developmental neuroapoptosis Background 1 Background 2 Lay media article
April 17	Devon Crawford	Synaptic pruning and parkin
April 24	Peter Lukasiewicz	Astrocytes, sleep, and cognition
May 1	Diwakar Turaga	Astrocytes and Alzheimer’s
May 8	Tammy Hershey/Steve Mennerick	Optical deconstruction of PD Supplemental material

Link to Fall 08 schedule

Link to Spring 08 schedule

Link to Fall 07 schedule