[CS] The Christianna Smith Lecture to be held today, Tuesday, April 17 at Mt. Holyoke College

[Paula Harmon]

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Subject: 	The Christianna Smith Lecture to be held today,Tuesday, April 
17 at Mt. Holyoke College
Date: 	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:08:04 -0400
From: 	Eleanor Perrier <eperrier at mtholyoke.edu>



The Biology Department at Mount Holyoke College announces its final
lecture of the 2012 Spring Seminar Series to be held today, Tuesday,
April 17.

We are privileged to present Barbara Beltz, Ph.D., a Hallowell Farwell
Professor in Neuroscience, and Director of the Neuroscience Program at
Wellesley College.

Dr. Beltz is our Christianna Smith lecturer for 2012 and her talk is
entitled:
"NEUROGENESIS IN ADULT BRAINS:  A HEMATOPOIETIC CONNECTION?"

Date:   Tuesday, April 17
Time:	4:30 p.m. (Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.)
Place:	Hooker Auditorium

This lecture is open to the public.  Hope you can be a part of the
audience during this exciting and informative talk!

Here is a summary of Dr. Beltz's research interests:
Regulation of Life-long Neurogenesis.
New neurons are born throughout life in the brains of many organisms,
including humans. My laboratory?s primary focus is understanding the
sequence of events that leads to the production of new nerve cells and
the regulatory events that influence this process. Using the crustacean
brain as our experimental model, we have identified the primary
precursor (stem) cells that divide to produce migratory daughters; these
cells travel to proliferation zones where they will divide at least one
more time, and their descendants will differentiate into neurons. We
have tested how environmental (e.g., day-night cycle; diet), behavioral
(e.g., locomotion) and endogenous (hormones; serotonin;nitric oxide)
signals result in the selective activation of neuronal and molecular
pathways controlling neuronal birth,
migration, differentiation and apoptosis. We are particularly interested
in the relationship between the nervous and hematopoietic systems, and
how circulating cells may interact with neuronal precursors. Students
are involved in all phases of this work, which can involve chemical,
molecular, immunocytochemical, electrophysiological and behavioral
methods. Specific research projects are planned in consultation with
each student to insure that the student?s
interests as well as the lab?s goals are addressed.

-- 
Eleanor Perrier, FP '07
Administrative Assistant
Department of Biological Sciences
104 Clapp Lab
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA 01075
413-538-2149
Fax:  413-538-2548
eperrier at mtholyoke.edu


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