[BIC-announce] FW: Special Seminar Speaker - Dr. Judith B. Grinspan - Monday, April 19, 2010, 4:00 p.m. - de Grandpre Communications Centre -- Dorsal signaling factors regulate oligodendrocyte maturation during development and disease

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Jennifer Chew

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

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Subject: Special Seminar Speaker - Dr. Judith B. Grinspan - Monday, April 19, 2010, 4:00 p.m. - de Grandpre Communications Centre



Special Seminar Speaker

 

Speaker:  Judith B. Grinspan, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

 

Title:  Dorsal signaling factors regulate oligodendrocyte maturation during development and disease

 

Date:  Monday, April 19, 2010

 

Place:  de Grandpre Communications Centre

 

Time:  4:00 pm

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Recent Publications:

1. Huang, Y., Grinspan, J.B., Abrams, C.K., Scherer, S.S. Pannexin 1 is expressed by neurons and glia but does not form functional gap junctions. Glia, 55, 46-56, 2007.

2. See, J. , Mamontov, P., Ahn, K., Wine-Lee, L., Crenshaw III, E.B., Grinspan, J. B. BMP mutant mice exhibit glial cell maturation defects. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 35, 171-182, 2007.

3. Ara, J., See, J., Mamontov, P., Hahn, A., Bannerman, P., Pleasure, D., Grinspan, J.B. Bone morphogenetic proteins 4, 6 and 7 are upregulated in mouse spinal cord during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 86, 125-135, 2008.

4. Marek, R., Caruso, M., Rostami, A.M., Grinspan, J. B, Das Sarma, J.  CD111b magnetic cell sorting: a fast and effective method of concurrent isolation of high purity viable astrocytes and microglia from neonatal mouse brain tissue. J Neurosci Methods, 175, 108-118, 2008.

5. French, H.M., Reid, M., Mamontov, P., Simmons, R. A., Grinspan. J. B. Oxidative stress disrupts oligodendrocyte maturation. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 87: 3076-3087, 2009.

6. Feigenson, K., Reid, M., See, J. Crenshaw, E.B., Grinspan, J.B. Wnt signaling is sufficient to perturb oligodendrocyte maturation. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 42: 255-265, 2009.