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Seminar and Graduate Journal Club Series

Seminars: Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2, Biomedical Research Building II
Graduate Journal Club: 4th Floor Conf. Room, Biomedical Res. Building II
Tuesdays, Noon - 1:00 PM unless otherwise noted

To schedule seminars please contact Dr. Abdallah Hayar amhayar@uams.edu, Tel. 686-6362
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For previous seminars 2006 - 2011, click here

Spring 2012

Date

Series

Speaker

Topic- Click to download abstract / presentation

February 7 Department James E. Blankenship, PhD, Dept. of Neuroscience & Cell Biology, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch. Be Not Afraid: You Can Build a Student-Centered Learning Curriculum
February 14 CTN Veronica Bisagno, PhD, Research Scientist, ININFA-CONICET, Univ. of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Neuroprotective role of modafinil against methamphetamine toxicity
February 21 Graduate Orwa Aboud (Mentor: Dr. Griffin)  
February 28      
March 6 Dissertation Defense Nebojsa Kezunovic (Mentor: Dr. Garcia-Rill) Mechanism of Gamma Band Activity of Pedunculopontine and Parafascicular Neurons: Implications for Arousal
March 13 Department John Crow, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology, UAMS  
March 20      
March 27      
April 3 Department Jerry Ware, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, UAMS  
April 11
(Wed. noon)
Graduate (candidacy exam) James Hyde (Mentor: Dr. Garcia-Rill) To be announced
April 18
(Wed. noon)
Graduate (candidacy exam) Paige Beck  (Mentor: Dr. Garcia-Rill) To be announced
April 24 Department Usha Ponnappan, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, UAMS To be announced
May 4
(Friday noon)
Graduate (candidacy exam) Orwa Aboud (Mentor: Dr. Sue Griffin)  
May 8      
May 15      
May 22      
May 29      
June 5      
June 12      
June 19      
June 26      

Fall 2011

Date

Series

Speaker

Topic- Click to download abstract / presentation

September 20 Department William Culp, MD, Professor of Radiology and Surgery, Dept. of Radiology, UAMS Novel Stroke Therapies Using a Rabbit Model
September 27      
October 4      
October 11 Graduate Melody Allensworth (Mentor: Dr.Childs) Exploring a Mouse Model of Pre-obesity and Obesity
October 18 Department Shiguang Yu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Immunology, Arkansas Biosciences Institute, Arkansas State University (Host: Dr. Drew) Suppressing Production of Interleukin 17 (IL-17) and GM-CSF in T Helper Cells by Immunomodulator
October 25      
October 28 (Friday) Graduate and CTN Christen Simon (Mentor: Dr. Garcia-Rill) Glutamatergic Fast Synaptic Neurotransmission in the Pedunculopontine and Dorsal Subcoeruleus Nuclei: Implications for Arousal
November 1 Graduate Xiong Bin Lin (Mentor: Dr. Hayar) Electrophysiological approach to establish a link between cerebellar activity and rhythmic licking
November 8 Department Ken Hensley, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Univ. of Toledo Health Sciences Center (Host: Dr. Kiaei)  
November 15      
November 22      
November 29 Department Steve W. Barger, PhD, Professor of Geriatrics, Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, and Internal Medicine, UAMS When is a lipoprotein receptor not a lipoprotein receptor?
When it completes the Grand Unified Theory for Alzheimer pathogenesis
December 6 Graduate Naveen Kandavalli (Mentor: Dr. Barger) To be announced
December 13 Department Syed Imam, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (Host: Dr. Barger) Drug Repositioning of Abl Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A new avenue for the treatment of neurological disorders
December 20      
December 27      

For previous seminars 2006 - 2011, click here