[BIC-announce] FW: Seminar announcement - Activity-Dependent and Independent Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Axon Targeting

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975


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From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff
[mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms.
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:35 AM
To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA
Subject: Seminar announcement
Importance: High

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT:

10:00AM on Thursday September 20 in the deGrandpre Seminar Room

"Activity-Dependent and Independent Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Axon
Targeting"

Prof. Nobuhiko Yamamoto
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Graduate School of
Frontier Biosciences Osaka University

Dr. Yamamoto is one of the pioneers in organotypic culturing of cortical
slices, first describing the thalamocortical coculture preparation in
his seminal 1989 Science paper.  Since then, he has used this
preparation to examine numerous mechanisms involved in thalamocortical
and corticocortical axon targeting and morphogenesis.  More recently he
has used multielectrode arrays to correlate axonal growth with activity
levels in slice cultures during development as well as in utero
electroporation methods to study neuronal growth and targeting in vivo.
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