Center for Addiction Research 2007-2008 Seminar Series

Date

Time/Location

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

9/30/07

5:30 PM
Levin Hall Dining Room

 

William Moyers     

   Hazelden Foundation       

"Broken:  My Story of Addiction and Redemption"

10/12/2007

12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

Frank Ivy Carroll, Ph. D.      Director of Organic and Medicinal         Chemistry  Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

 

"Development of Selective Kappa Opiod Receptor Antagonists"
1/11/2008

12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Candidate

Helen K. Sable, Ph.D.       University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Department of Veterinary Bioscience Urbana, Illinois

"Developmental PCB Exposure:  Implications for Neuropsychiatric Conditions:
1/18/2008 12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Candidate

Alexandre Bonnin, Ph.D.     Department of Pharmacology Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

 

"Serotonin-mediated aspects of neurodevelopment"
1/23/2008 12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Candidate

Tie-Shan Tang, Ph.D.  Department of Physiology
University of Texas
Southwest Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

 

"Disturbed Ca2+ signaling and apoptosis of medium spiny neurons (MSN) in Huntington's disease"
2/1/2008 12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Candidate       

Thomas Arthur Green, Ph.D.                                       Assistant Professor Department
of Pharmacology Toxicology
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
Richmond, Virginia

 

"Regulation of emotional behavior by CREB activity in the nucleus accumbens"
2/6/2008 12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Candidate

Vinay Parikh, Ph.D.

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Minnesota

 

"Real time cognitive neurochemistry and function of forebrain cholinergic systems:  new insights and translational implications"
2/20/2008 12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Candidate

Michael Bruchas, Ph.D.

University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

 

"Stress-Induced Dysphoria: A Role for CRF, Kappa-Opioid, and p38 MAPK Pathways"

2/22/2008

 

12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

 

Toni Shippenberg, Ph.D.  

Chief, Integrative Neuroscience Section
NIDA IRP
Baltimore, MD

 

"Opioid Modulation of Monoamine Transporters:  Implications for Addiction Treatment"

3/7/2008

12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room

Ronald Emeson, Ph.D.    

Joel G. Hardman Chair in Pharmacology
Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Physicology & Biophysics
Director, Vanderbilt Transgenic Mouse/ES Cell Shared Resource Deputy Director, Center for Molecular Neuroscience Vanderbilt University

"Physiologic roles of edited serotonin 2C receptor isoforms"
10/17/2008 12:00 PM
Pharmacology Conference Room
Nora Volkow, M.D.

Director National Institute on Drug Abuse

Bethesda, MD