Welcome to Dr. Simon Kaja's Research Pages
Invited Lectures and Departmental Seminars:
21st July 2011
Seminar Series, Shock/Trauma Research Center, University of Missouri- Kansas City, School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO (Host: Dr. Charles Van Way III)
“qPCR: a user’s perspective”
9th December 2010
Departmental Seminar, Institute of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland (Host: Dr. Nina Ullrich)
“Novel neuroprotective strategies for neurodegenerative disease: targeting intracellular calcium signaling”
6th February 2010
Invited Lecture, Perkin Elmer Germany and Hamburg Screening Port, Hamburg, Germany (Host: Dr. Martin Daffertshofer)
“Novel neuroprotective strategies for neurodegenerative disease: using high-resolution and high-throughput imaging for targeting intracellular calcium signaling”
6th November 2010
Opening lecture, European Molecular Biology Organization US Fellows Meeting 2010, San Diego, CA
“Neuroprotection in Alzheimer’s disease”
26th August 2010
Departmental Seminar, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO (Host: Dean Lawrence Dreyfus)
“Calcium signaling in neurological and neurodegenerative disease: novel avenues for neuroprotection”
12th February 2010
Departmental Seminar, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, UK (Host: Dr. P.L. Chazot)
“Ca2+ signaling in neurodegenerative disease: novel avenues for neuroprotection”
8th May 2009
McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Host: Dr. D. Steindler)
Special Seminar: “Migraine, epilepsy, cerebellar ataxia and trauma: one pathophysiological mechanism?”
11th March 2009
Eye Foundation of Kansas City, UMKC School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Kansas City, MO (Host: Dr. N. Sabates)
Vision Research Seminar: “Novel Insights into Familial Hemiplegic Migraine: Involvement of the Visual System”
7th October 2008
Scientific Seminar, Memory Disorders Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital,
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark (Host: Dr. Joergen E. Nielsen)
“Novel therapeutic approaches for cerebellar ataxias.”
3rd October 2008
Scientific Seminar, Glostrup Research Institute, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
(Host: Dr. Inger Jansen Olesen)
“Migraine: Insights from transgenic mouse models.”
22nd June 2008
Expert Seminar, Neuromed Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
“The role of Cav3.1 and GABA-A receptors in cerebellar ataxia.”
8th April 2008
The Chris Thompson Memorial Symposium and Neuroscience North East,
School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, Durham, UK
“Migraine: Insights from two novel transgenic mouse models.”
22nd January 2008
Departmental Seminar, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX (Host: Dr. M. Singh)
"Migraine: Insights from a novel transgenic mouse model."
23rd November 2007
Departmental Seminar, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
(Host: Prof. Steve Edwards)
“Migraine: Insights from two transgenic mouse models.”
11th May 2007
Departmental Seminar, Department of Pharmacology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (Host: Prof. Dr. J. Striessnig)
"Calcium Channel Dysfunction in Mouse Models for Epilepsy and Migraine."
9th May 2007
Departmental Seminar, Institute for Surgical Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany (Host: Prof. Dr. N. Plesnila)
"Cacna1a S218L Knock-In Mice: A Model for Migraine, Trauma and Ataxia."
7th May 2007
Departmental Seminar, Institute for Physiology II/Neurophysiology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany (Host: PD Dr. F. Richter)
"The Role of Calcium Channel Dysfunction in Migraine."
4th May 2007
Expert Seminar, Neuromed Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
“Migraine: Insights from a novel mouse model with the S218L mutation in the P/Q-type Ca2+ channel.”
10th October 2006
Colloquium, Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Muscle Weakness Contributes to the Phenotype of Rolling Nagoya Mutant Mice."
3rd October 2006
Departmental Seminar, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX (Host: Professor P. Koulen)
"Synaptic effects of mutations in neuronal Cav2.1 calcium channels."
22nd March 2006
Departmental Seminar, Department of Neuropathology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany (Host: Prof. Dr. I. Blümcke)
“Synaptic effects of neurological disease-associated mutations in Cav2.1 calcium channels.”
11th October 2005
Departmental Seminar, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (Host: Prof. Dr. T. Jentsch)
"Characterization of neuromuscular synaptic transmission in the novel Cacna1a knock-in mouse model for familial hemiplegic migraine."
16th May 2005
Laboratory Seminar, Professor Terrance Snutch, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
"Recent advances in the study of Ca2+ channel mutant mice."
20th July 2004
Departmental Seminar Molecular and Cell Biology Series, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom (Host: Dr. C.L. Thompson)
"P/Q-Type Calcium Channels in Health and Disease."