Recruitment News:

New faculty are being recruited into the SCNC and will also have appointments in the department of Neurology (see "Position Vacancies").  Faculty from other departments, institutes, or centers with interests in these areas are being invited to have joint appointments in the center. 

Latest Journal Sightings:

• Kirov SA, Petrak LJ, Fiala JC, Harris KM.  Dendritic spines disappear with chilling but proliferate excessively upon rewarming of mature hippocampus.  Neuroscience. 2004;127(1):69-80.   PMID: 15219670
• Drs. Josef Spacek & Kristen Harris featured in "This Week in the Journal" "Trading Secrets at the Synapse^" The Journal of Neuroscience, April 28, 2004, 24(17)
• Spacek J, Harris KM.  Trans-endocytosis via spinules in adult rat hippocampus.  J Neurosci. 2004 Apr 28;24(17):4233-41. PMID: 15115819

• Kirov SA, Goddard CA, and Harris KM (2004) Age-dependence in the homeostatic upregulation of hippocampal dendritic spine number during blocked synaptic transmission.  Neuropharmacology. Oct;47(5):640-8. PMID: 15458835

• Seid MA, Harris KM and Traniello JFA (2004) Age-related changes in the number and structure of synapses in the lip region of the mushroom bodies in the ant Pheidole dentata†.  J Comp Neurol  (in press) Email requests for this preprint to kharris@mcg.edu

• Fiala JC.  (2004) Reconstruct:  A free editor for serial section microscopy. J Microscopy (in press) Email requests for this preprint to kharris@mcg.edu

• Petrak LJ, Harris KM and Kirov SA,(2004) Synaptogenesis on Mature Hippocampal Dendrites occurs via Filopodia and Immature Spines during Blocked Synaptic Transmission. J. Comp. Neurology (In Press).  Email requests for this pub to kharris@mcg.edu