[BIC-announce] FW: Reminder: Jerzy Olszewski Lecture - Dr. Tamas Horvath - Wednesday, April 18th @ 4:00 pm - Synapses: Renewable Building Blocks of Energy Homeostasis Regulation

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 
 

 

*REMINDER*

 

 

JERZY OLSZEWSKI LECTURE

 

 

Speaker:           Dr. Tamas Horvath

                        Chairman, Section of Comparative Medicine

                        Professor of Comparative Medicine, Ob/Gyn
Neurobiology

                        Yale University School of Medicine

                        

Title:                 Synapses:  Renewable Building Blocks of Energy
Homeostasis Regulation

 

Place:               Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre

 

Date:                Wednesday, April 18, 2007

 

Time:                4:00 pm

 

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Jerzy Olszewski Lecture - April 18, 2007 - Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre -
4pm

 

Tamas Horvath, Yale University, was selected as this year's honorary
Olszewski Lecturer.  He has made a profound contribution to
understanding the neural mechanisms of energy balance regulation.
Through remarkable studies, he has revealed that metabolic hormones
(such as leptin) induce plastic changes in excitatory vs. inhibitory
synapses in the hypothalamus and that these changes produce in turn
changes in neural transmission and behavior.  This research has
contributed to understanding of the neural substrates of obesity and
more generally of synaptic plasticity which underlies long term changes
in behavior.  He has also discovered the presence in central neurons of
mitochondrial uncoupling proteins which are importantly involved in
dynamic changes in cellular activity.  His lecture on "Synapses:
renewable building blocks of energy homeostasis regulation" promises to
introduce these remarkable discoveries while reviewing the basic
neuroendocrine and neural mechanisms of energy homeostasis, anorexia,
orexia and possibly becoming obese.  

 

I believe there should be something of interest for everyone!

 

Barbara Jones