Chemical Senses Seminar Summer 2014

We will meet from 2 pm to 3pm every Wednesday in King 3009. All are welcome.

Papers

Meeting	Presenter	Paper
May 28	Bell	Jones (2008) Learning-dependent structural plasticity in the adult olfactory pathway. PMID 19052201
		Dias (2014) Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations. PMID 24292232

June 4	Kimbrough	Wu (2013) NR2B subunit of the NMDA glutamate receptor regulates appetite in the parabrachial nucleus. PMID 23964123

June 11	Biggs	Sosulski (2011) Distinct representations of olfactory information in different cortical centres. PMID 21451525
		Axel optogenetics (not yet published?)

June 18	Alkoborssy	Kanoski (2012) The role of nausea in food intake and body weight suppression by peripheral GLP-1 receptor agonists, exendin-4 and liraglutide. PMID 22227019

July 9		Ryan (2014) FXR is a molecular target for the effects of vertical sleeve gastrectomy PMID 24670636

June 18		Darnell (2011) FMRP stalls ribosomal translocation on mRNAs linked to synaptic function and autism. PMID 21784246

June 25		Ward (2014) Strong static magnetic fields elicit swimming behaviors consistent with direct vestibular stimulation in adult zebrafish. PMID 24647586


Past	Presentations
May 21	Houpt	Nesher (2014) Self-recognition mechanism between skin and suckers prevents octopus arms from interfering with each other.
		additional background:
		Mather (1998) How do octopuses use their arms? PMID 9770317
		Gutfreund (1996) Organization of Octopus Arm Movements: A Model System for Studying the Control of Flexible Arms
		Graziadei (1962). Receptors in the suckers of Octopus. Nature, Lond., 195, 55-9
		Wells (1963). Taste by touch; some experiments with Octopus. J. Exp. Biol. 40, 187-93.