[BIC-announce] FW: KILLAM Lecture TODAY - To Cross or Not to Cross: Mechanisms Regulating Axon Guidance at the Midline

Tue Apr 13 11:11:19 EDT 2010

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Jennifer Chew

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

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REMINDER

KILLAM LECTURE

Speaker:  Greg Bashaw, PhD

Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Title:  To Cross or Not to Cross:  Mechanisms Regulating Axon Guidance at the Midline

Date:  TODAY

Place:  de Grandpre Communications Centre

Time:  4:00 pm

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Greg Bashaw from the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania will present the Killam lecture at the MNI today. Greg's work studying the development of the Drosophila CNS has provided fascinating novel insights into the mechanisms that regulate axon guidance at the midline. 

The title of his talk is "To cross or not to cross: mechanisms regulating axon guidance at the midline."

Recent publications from the Bashaw lab are listed below.

Evans TA, Bashaw GJ. (2010) Functional diversity of robo receptor immunoglobulin domains promotes distinct axon guidance decisions. Curr Biol. Mar 23;20(6):567-72. Epub 2010 Mar 4.

Evans TA, Bashaw GJ. (2010) Axon guidance at the midline: of mice and flies. Curr Opin Neurobiol. Feb;20(1):79-85. Epub 2010 Jan 14

O'Donnell M, Chance RK, Bashaw GJ. (2009) Axon growth and guidance: receptor regulation and signal transduction. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2009;32:383-412. Review.

Yang L, Garbe DS, Bashaw GJ. (2009) A frazzled/DCC-dependent transcriptional switch regulates midline axon guidance. Science. May 15;324(5929):944-7.

Garbe DS, O'Donnell M, Bashaw GJ. (2007) Cytoplasmic domain requirements for Frazzled-mediated attractive axon turning at the Drosophila midline. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18003737>  Development. Dec;134(24):4325-34.

Garbe DS, Bashaw GJ. (2007) Independent functions of Slit-Robo repulsion and Netrin-Frazzled attraction regulate axon crossing at the midline in Drosophila. J Neurosci. Mar 28;27(13):3584-92.