Subject : KSEA-SD bioseminar (20th of January, Friday)

Dear all Korean bioscientists in San Diego,

I am happy to announce our first KSEA-SD bioseminar in 2012.

Please mark your calendar down for the KSEA-SD bioseminar in new starting year.

When: 11:50AM - 1PM, Jan. 20th (Friday)

Where: TSRI CB107

Speaker: Seok-Kyu Kwon, PhD. Franck Polleux's lab at The Scripps Research Institute

Title: The Bridges of the Synapses; Synaptic cell adhesion molecules (plz check attached file for more information)

As always, we will be serving lunch and refreshments and in addition we will continue the raffle drawing for a gift card out of the people on the sign-up sheet.

KSEA-SD seminar series are kindly supported by KSEA-SD chapter, Imgenex, and BMS Korea.  

The following is the link for BMS-Korea : http://www.bmskorea.co.kr/

If you need more information, please visit website and contact to 오수림 부사장님 at BMS-Korea (soolim-oh@bmskorea.co.kr). 

Here is the IMGENEX December's promotion info, and the following is the link: http://imgenex.com/view_data_page.php?id=305

If you have further question, please contact to Dr. Hyun Ku Lee at Imgenex : hklee@imgenex.com 

On behalf of all members, I'd like to thank all our supporters.

Best regards,

Hong Sook Kim

The Bridges of the Synapses; Synaptic cell adhesion molecules

Synaptic cell adhesion molecules have been implicated in the regulation of the initial contacts of dendrites and axons, early synapse formation and maturation, and maintenance and structural plasticity of established synapses. Previous studies have identified a large number of adhesion molecules that are capable of inducing pre- and postsynaptic differentiation in contacting axons and dendrites, respectively. Examples of such molecules include neuroligins, neurexins, SynCAMs, NGLs (for netrin-G ligands), LAR (for leukocyte antigen-related), LRRTMs, and EphB receptors. Here, I will introduce the leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain containing molecule NGL-3 and its binding partner LAR receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase (RPTP) family members, and present recent studies of synaptic cell adhesion molecules and implications.