[BIC-announce] FW: Seminar - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - Activity-Dependent and Independent Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Axon Targeting

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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.

***COOKIES AND COFFEE SERVED BEFORE TALK***
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