The Seminars in Neuroscience series is held in the Baxter I Auditorium at 4:00 PM. The series is sponsored by the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, Biochemistry, The Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, The Kentucky Head Injury Research Trust, The Kentucky Biomedical Research & Infrastructure Network, Grass Traveling Scientist Program, and the Louisville Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 23, 2008 | Michael Tymianski, M.D.,
Ph.D. | Excitotoxic and non-excitotoxic mechanisms of ischemic brain damage |
| January 29,2009 | Derek van der Koov,
Ph.D. University of Toronto |
How stem cells make the nervous system |
| February 5, 2009 | Teepu Siddique,
Ph.D. Northwestern University |
Lessons about degeneration from the genetic pathology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| March 19, 2009 | David G. Nicholls, Ph.D. Buck Institute/Lund University |
Mitochondrial spare respiratory capacity and neuronal survival |
| March 26, 2009 | Kathryn Alberts,
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh |
Growth factor modulation of sensory afferent phenotype and response properties |
| April 16, 2009 Neuroscience Research Day |
Robert P. Friedland, M.D. Case Western Reserve University |
Molecular Mimicry and the Immunobiology of Alzheimer's Deisease |
| Lorne Mendell, Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook |
Enhancing circuit performane in the injured spinal cord | |
| May 14, 2009 | Mark Noble, Ph.D. University of Rochester |
Expanding the frontiers of stem cell medicine |
| May 28, 2009 | Allan I. Basbaum,
Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco |
The neurobiology of pain: From molecules, to circuits to behavior |