Georgopoulos Keynote Speaker at “MidBrains” Neuroscience Conference

     Brain Sciences Center Director Apostolos Georgopoulos was the keynote speaker at the inaugural MidBrains Undergraduate Neuroscience Conference, Saturday, April 28, at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. Georgopoulos presented a lecture on “The Brain as a Dynamic Network,” to MidBrain 2007 conference attendees from 9:10 – to – 10:10 a.m. on Saturday morning.

      The conference provides a forum for undergraduate students in the Midwest to present research findings, to attend research lectures and special panels, and to meet other undergraduate students interested in the neurosciences.

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13th Annual American Legion and University of Minnesota Lecture in Brain Sciences
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Speaker: Serge Rossignol, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Center for Research in Neurological Sciences, University of Montreal Faculty of Medicine

Topic:  “Locomotor adaptation after lesions of the nervous system.”

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Note: The Lecture in Brain Sciences was preceded by the presentation of the annual Brain Sciences Scholarship from 3:45 – 4:00 p.m.

According to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research:
“Dr. Serge Rossignol has spent the past 25 years studying spinal cord injuries and the physiological, pharmaceutical and neurobiological approaches used to help their victims. His work has suggested that the spinal cord has intrinsic adaptive mechanisms, leading to the potential for the recovery of locomotion after an injury.”

Location:
University of Minnesota Medical School, 
Phillips Wangensteen Building Auditorium, Room 2-470
420 Delaware Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Sponsors: The Brain Sciences Center, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, and the
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota Medical School.

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Ashe Presents to "Future Science Giants"
      Brain Sciences Center Principal Investigator James Ashe spoke to middle school students about his career in science and medicine, at the meeting of the “Future Science Giants” club, Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m., in the St Paul suburb of Eagan, MN. The “Future Science Giants” club at the Dakota Hills Middle School, began this year with the goal of inspiring school children to study math and science by learning about the work and careers of top science professionals. In addition to his research work at the Brain Sciences Center, Dr. Ashe is a practicing neurologist and director of the Movement Disorder Clinic at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis.   He is also a professor of neuroscience and neurology at the University of Minnesota. 

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Neuroanatomist Jorge Antononio Larriva Sahd, of the Instituto de Neurobiologia in Juriquilla, Mexico, presented a lecture at the Brain Sciences Center on April 5, 2007 entitled "Endogenous control of principal neurons in the accessory olfactory bulb".

Dr. Sahd is known for his work involving the Golgi staining process which helps shed light on new cells in the accessory olfactory bulb of mammals. Dr. Sahd uses this system to understand neural networks and characteristics of previously unknown cells in the olfactory bulb.

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