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Cell Signaling
Cell Signaling: the process of cells communicating with other cells within the body, or with the external environment. As a process, cell signaling refers to a vast network of communication between, and within, each cell of our body.
MAR 19, 2015 | 9:00 AM
Impulsivity can be defined as the tendency to act prematurely without foresight. Behavioural and neurobiological analysis of this construct, based on evidence from both animal and human studi...
MAR 19, 2015 | 7:30 AM
Traditional psychiatric textbooks describe schizophrenia as a clinical enigma of unknown aetiology. However, this is no longer true. We now know a great deal about the risk factors, or contr...
MAR 19, 2015 | 6:00 AM
This presentation will include both preclinical and small clinical studies with details on mechanism of action, safety and efficacy of a candidate drug that has the capability of alleviating...
MAR 18, 2015 | 3:00 PM
Recent advances in noninvasive neuroimaging have set the stage for the systematic exploration of human brain circuits in health and disease. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is systematical...
MAR 18, 2015 | 1:30 PM
At the cellular and molecular levels of operation, neurons and their circuits achieve brain functions by chemical signals, in which the principle agents, neurotransmitters convey the signal f...
MAR 18, 2015 | 12:00 PM
The hippocampal formation is one of the most extensively studied regions of the brain, with well described anatomy and basic physiology; moreover, aspects of human memory mediated by hippocam...
MAR 18, 2015 | 10:30 AM
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the world’s population, leading to high human, social and economic burdens. Understanding how the interaction of gene and...
MAR 18, 2015 | 9:00 AM
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative has the ambitious goal of elucidating how neuronal ensembles interactively encode higher brain processes....
MAR 18, 2015 | 7:30 AM
The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ventrolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vlPFC, vmPFC) and their connections with the basal ganglia play a ce...
MAR 18, 2015 | 6:00 AM
The dopamine-containing neurons of the midbrain have been implicated in a broad array of psychiatric disorders, ranging from schizophrenia to drug abuse and depression. However, studies seem...
JAN 26, 2015 | 8:00 AM
Advances in stem cell biology have raised great expectations that diseases of the central nervous system may be ameliorated by the development of non-haematopoietic stem cell medicines. Yet,...
DEC 16, 2014 | 8:00 AM
 Single-cell analysis is one of the most rapidly growing fields in biomedical research that is significantly expanding our understanding on the biologic characteristics of various diseases. F...
OCT 30, 2014 | 3:00 PM
Oncogenic mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) or 2 (IDH2) compromise their normal activity and induce NADPH-dependent (D)2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG) production within the cytosol or m...
OCT 30, 2014 | 1:30 PM
Advances in genomic research have led to identification of the majority of the drivers of tumor progression. However, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms propelling tumor growth is...
OCT 30, 2014 | 6:00 AM
When the BCR/ABL1 fusion protein was identified in chronic myelogenous leukemia and the JAK2 V617F mutation was identified in patients with other myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) such as p...
OCT 29, 2014 | 3:00 PM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, as...
OCT 29, 2014 | 1:30 PM
Tumor cells often display fundamental changes in metabolism and increase their uptake of nutrients to meet the increased bioenergetic demands of proliferation. Glucose and glutamine are two m...
OCT 29, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Obesity is associated with an aggressive subtype of breast cancer called basal-like breast cancer (BBC). Using C3(1)-TAg mice, a genetically engineered mouse model that resembles human BBC, w...
