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Seminar Program 2008-2009

Seminars are on Tuesdays, 4:00 – 4:50 pm in Sanger Hall, Room 1-044

 

Contact  Jennifer Mooney for further information

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept. 9

Paul Fisher, Ph. D

VCU Human Genetics

Richmond, VA

Host: Andrew Davies, Ph.D.

“ New Gene Targets for Inhibiting Cancer Progression and Metastasis”

Sept. 23

 

 

 

Henry Lester, Ph.D

California Institute of Technology

Division of Biology

Pasadena, CA

Host: Darlene Brunzell, Ph.D.

“Changes in the brain during chronic exposure to nicotine.”

Oct. 7

 

 

John Imig, Ph.D

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI

Host: Pin-Lan Li, M. D., Ph.D.

“Cardiovascular Protection by Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Inhaibition and Expoxyeicosandiods

Oct. 21

 

 

 

Dr. Frederick Monsma, Jr.

Schering-Plough Research Institute

Department of New Lead Discovery

Kenilworth, NJ

Host: Dana Selley, Ph.D.

"Cells on Drugs: High Throughout Cellular Microscopy in Drug Discovery.”

Nov. 4

 

 

 

Candace Floyd, Ph.D

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Birmingham, AL

Host: Kate Nicholson, Ph.D., D.V.M.

“Estrogens as protective agents in spinal cord injury”

Nov. 11

 

 

Kurt Hauser, Ph. D

Virginia Commonwealth University

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Richmond, VA

Host: Andrew Davies

Glia orchestrate the neurodegenerative response of the CNS to opioid drug abuse and HIV-1”

Dec. 2

 

 

 

Robert W. Williams  Ph.D
University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

Memphis, TN

Host: Mike Miles, M.D., Ph.D.

“Large Scale Analysis of Gene Expression in the CNS: A Rapidly Expanding Collaborative Lanscape.”

Dec. 16

 

 

 

 

Edward Schwartz, Ph. D

Albert Enstein College of Medicine

Montefiore Medical Center

Department of Oncology

Bronx, NY

Host: David Gewirtz, Ph.D.

 “Inhabiting Angiogenesis and Disrupting the vasculature in Tumors: A New Target for Microtubule – Binding Drugs.”

Jan. 13

 

 

 

Candace Johnson, Ph. D

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Buffalo, NY

Host: David Gewirtz, Ph. D.

“Epigenetic Silencing of Endothelial Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment.”

Jan. 27

 

 

Marilyn Carroll, Ph. D

Professor

University of Minnesota

Host: Patrick Beardsley, Ph. D.

“Modeling addiction-prone and resistant phenotypes in the animal laboratory.”

Feb. 10

 

 

Daniel McGehee, Ph. D

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

University of Chicago

Host: Galya Abdrakhmanova, Ph. D.

Excitating effects of nicotine in brain reward areas.”

Feb. 24

 

 

 

 

Loren H. Parsons, Ph. D

Associate Professor

Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders

The Scripps Research Institute

La Jolla, CA

Host: Aron Lichtman, Ph.D.

“TBA”

Mar. 17

 

 

George Koob, Ph. D

Sterling Visiting Professor

The Scripps Research Institute

LoJolla, CA

Host: Lou Harris, Ph. D.

“TBA”

Mar. 31

 

 

Al Munson, Ph. D.

Director, Health Effects Laboratory, NIOSH

“TBA”

April 14

 

 

 

 

William Carlezon, Ph. D

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Behavioral Genetics Lab

Belmont, MA

Host: Steve Negus, Ph.D.

“TBA”

April 28

 

 

Alan Gintzler, Ph. D

Professor and Interim Chair,

Department of Biochemistry

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Brooklyn, NY

Host: Hamid Akbarali, Ph, D.

“TBA”

May 12

 

 

Robert Messing, M. D

Professor, Associate Director

Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center

University of California, San Francisco

Emeryville, CA

Host: Mike Miles, M.D.,Ph.D.

“TBA”