Manitoba Neuroscience Network Seminar - Dr. Jim Nagy

Date:

Friday, October 29, 2010

Time:

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Location:

THEATRE C , Bannatyne Campus

**note room change**

Dr. Jim Nagy Professor

Department of Physiology University of Manitoba

TOPIC: Neuroanatomy, structural composition and regulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian central nervous system.

Dr. James I. Nagy's Summary of Research:

Identification of gap junction proteins, connexins, expressed by astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and neurons in the central nervous system.

Analysis of the regulation of glial gap junctional communication and the contribution of glial gap junctions to neural injury and to neuroprotection in animal models of stroke.

Elucidation of the role of neuronal gap junctions in electrical synaptic transmission and inter-neuronal communication in the adult central nervous system in normal and disease conditions.

Studies on the developmental regulation of neuronal connexins and the contribution of inter-neuronal gap junctions to neuronal development in mammalian CNS.

Kelly Jorundson

Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience http://www.sfn-manitoba.ca/

R4046 - 351 Taché Avenue Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6 CANADA

Tel: 204.235.3939 7Fax: 204.237.4092 Email: kjorund@sbrc.ca mailto:kjorund@sbrc.ca