[BIC-announce] FW: Seminar Announcement - Developmental refinement of converging excitatory and inhibitory maps in auditory brainstem

[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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Subject: Seminar Announcement

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

April 14, 2011 -  9:30AM in de Grandpré Conference Room

Speaker:  Deda Gillespie, Assistant Professor, McMaster University

Title:  Developmental refinement of converging excitatory and inhibitory maps in auditory brainstem.

Abstract:  How converging topographic maps are established and refined is a major question for developmental systems neuroscience. This question is of particular interest in the lateral superior olive (LSO) of the auditory brainstem, where the converging inputs are of opposite sign. I will discuss recent work in the lab addressed at understanding the role of glutamate release in developmental plasticity of inhibitory inputs to the LSO, transient developmental expression of the calcium-sensing protein Synaptotagmin 1 at these glutamate-releasing immature inhibitory synapses, and evidence for glutamate spillover and crosstalk between immature excitatory and inhibitory synapses in the LSO.

Host:  Ed Ruthazer (x4022)