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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Network Seminar - Dr. L. Jordan\, Nov. 25\, 2011
LOCATION:PX236/238 PsychHealth Centre\, Bannatyne Campus
ORGANIZER;CN=the MNN Office:MAILTO:mnn@sbrc.ca
URL:http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/news/?id+20111025wcsn.txt
DESCRIPTION:  The Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience is pleased to 
 announce this upcoming\n  Manitoba Neuroscience Network Seminar...\n\n  D
 ate:  Friday\, November 25\, 2011\n  Time:  9:00 AM - 10:00 AM\n  Locatio
 n:  PX236/238 PsychHealth Centre\, Bannatyne Campus\n\n  Dr. Larry Jordan
 \n  Professor\, Department of Physiology\n  University of Manitoba\n\n  T
 opic: Control of locomotion by a serotonergic pathway arising in the para
 pyramidal region of the medulla.\n\n  Please see the attached notice and 
 post in your area to advertise.\n\nDr. Jordan's Bio:\nBorn in Paris\, Tex
 as\, in 1944\, I grew up in Texarkana\, Texas\,\nthe son of a bakery work
 er/farmer and a first grade teacher.\nI earned a B.A. degree in zoology a
 t the University of Texas at Austin\, and\nthen entered graduate studies 
 at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical\nSchool in Dallas\, where
  I was supervised by William D. Willis\, Jr.\, a student\nof John Eccles 
 in Canberra\, Australia\, and a former President of the Society\nfor Neur
 oscience. I moved to Winnipeg in 1970 to assume a post-doctoral\nposition
  with Dr. John Phillis\, also trained in Canberra\, who was a pioneer in
 \nCNS neuropharmacology. John moved to Saskatoon to take up the position 
 of Head\nof Physiology there\, and I remained in Winnipeg\, supported by 
 a Medical Research\nCouncil Scholarship. Since that time I was able to pa
 rticipate in the creation of the Winnipeg\nSpinal Cord Research Centre (h
 ttp://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/)\,\nwith funding from the Health Sciences Ce
 ntre Research Foundation\, the annual\nWill-to-Win Golf Tournament (2012 
 will be its 29th year!)\, the Canadian\nInstitutes for Health Research\, 
 the International Human Frontier Science\nProgram\, the Canadian Network 
 of Centres of Excellence\, and the U.S. National\nInstitutes of Health. I
  was the PI in the Canadian Institutes of Health\nResearch Group on Spina
 l Cord Functional Systems for a number of years. I\ninitiated the formati
 on of the Winnipeg Chapter of the Society for\nNeuroscience\, and I serve
 d two terms as Head of the Department of Physiology\nat the University of
  Manitoba (1992-2001). My research has focused on the neural control of\n
 locomotion\, with progress along three major lines of investigation: (1)
 \nidentification of the brain areas and neural pathways responsible for\n
 providing descending messages for the initiation of locomotion\, (2) the 
 study\nof spinal cord neurons that control locomotion at the spinal level
  and (3)\ndiscovery of new physiological properties of spinal motoneurons
  and\ninterneurons that are central to their recruitment during locomotio
 n. I am\ncurrently focusing on a descending pathway from a discrete serot
 onergic\nnucleus in the medulla that is involved in the initiation of loc
 omotion and in\ncontrol of inter- and intralimb coordination\, and I am d
 oing experiments to\nevaluate the potential of these neurons to restore c
 oordinated locomotor\nmovements after transplantation into the spinal cor
 d of paraplegic rats.\n\n For more information on Dr. Jordan's research\,
  visit his website at:\n http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/physiolog
 y/contacts/jordan.html\n\n  For more information\, contact the MNN Office
  at\n  (T) 235.3939 or email: mnn@sbrc.ca\n\n  Presented in co-operation 
 with University of Manitoba Clinical Neuroscience Rounds\n  An initiative
  of the Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience\n\nSee attachment: http
 ://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/news/attach/MNN_Jordan_Nov25_2011.pdf
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