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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
Fall 2009
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August 4 |
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August 11 |
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August 18 |
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August 25 |
Graduate |
Jennifer Watts |
Report: P2XT Receptor
& Spinal Injury |
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September 2 (Wed.) |
Graduate |
Martin Watts |
Report: TRPV4 &
Visceral Hypersensitivity |
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September 8 |
Graduate |
Gregory Sorenson |
Report: Transcranial
Current Stimulation |
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September 15 |
Graduate |
Angela Odle |
Report: Deletion of
Leptin Receptor in Neurons Leads to Obesity |
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September 22 |
Graduate |
Christen
Simon |
Report: Properties of
a T-Type Ca2 Channel-Activated Slow Afterhyperpolarization in the
Thalamic Paraventricular Nucleus |
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September 29 |
Graduate |
James Hyde |
Report:
Confocal Mapping of Cortical Inputs
onto Identified Pyramidal Neurons |
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October 6 |
Graduate |
Gwendolyn Carter |
Report: Gene
Expression in Drosophila Model of Parkinson's Disease |
October 12
(Mond.) |
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Chapter Meeting |
Arkansas Chapter of
the Society for Neuroscience Meeting |
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October 20 |
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No Seminar |
Soc. for Neuroscience Mtg. |
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October 27 |
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No Seminar |
Chancellor's Teaching Award Ceremony |
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November 3 |
Graduate |
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Meet to Discuss Invited Extramural Speaker for the
Spring Semester |
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November 10 |
Graduate |
Sasikanth Gorantla |
Report: Predicting Clinical Progression in Multiple
Sclerosis with the Magnetic Resonance Disease Severity Scale |
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November 17 |
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November 24 |
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December 1 |
Department |
Mark Hannink, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Univ. of
Missouri. Host: Dr. Helen Benes |
Structural and functional analysis of Keap1: New
insights into regulation of anti-oxidant gene expression |
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December 8 |
Graduate |
Nebojsa Kezunovic |
Report: High-Frequency Network Oscillations in
Cerebellar Cortex |
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December 15 |
Department |
Jihong Xu, PhD, Dept. of
Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, UAMS |
Immune Suppression of β-Lapachone on Inflammatory
Cytokines IL-23 and IL-17: Relevance to Autoimmune Diseases |
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December 22 |
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Spring 2010
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Date
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Series
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Speaker
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Topic- Click to read abstract
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January 5 |
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January 12 |
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January 19 |
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January 26 |
CTN |
Kathryn A. Hamilton, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of
Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State Univ. Health Sci. Cent.
Host: Dr. Abdallah Hayar |
The "forgotten" olfactory bulb interneurons:
characteristics and functions |
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February 2 |
CTN |
Helen Baghdoyan, PhD, Professor, Dept. of
Anesthesiology, Univ. of Michigan |
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February 9 |
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February 16 |
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February 23 |
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March 2 |
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March 9 |
Department |
Yunjun Wang, PhD; Xiong Liu, PhD,
Mesolight, LLC, UAMS BioVentures. Host: Dr. Jason Chang |
Biomedical Applications of Luminescent
Semiconductor Nanocrystals |
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March 16 |
CTN |
Luis de Lecea, PhD,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford University |
Optogenetic control of arousal and reward |
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March 23 |
CTN |
Peter Kalivas, PhD,
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Neurosciences, Medical Univ. of South
Carolina |
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March 30 |
CTN |
Thomas R. Kosten, MD, Jay H Waggoner Chair and
Professor Psychiatry, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Baylor & VA Houston |
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April 6 |
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April 13 |
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April 20 |
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April 27 |
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May 4 |
Department |
Yuzhi Chen, PhD, Dept. of Geriatrics and Neurobiology
and
Developmental Sciences, UAMS |
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May 11 |
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May 18 |
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May 25 |
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June 1 |
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June 8 |
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June 15 |
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June 22 |
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June 29 |
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Spring 2009
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Date
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Series
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Speaker
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Topic- Click to read abstract
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January 6 |
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January 13 |
CTN |
Donald J. Woodward, PhD, President and Director,
Neuroscience Research Institute of North Carolina, Winston Salem, NC |
Evolution of
Enabling Technology for Multineuron Recording: Impact on Studies of
Brain and Behavior |
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January 20 |
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January 27 |
Department |
Raghu Vemuganti, PhD,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurological Surgery, University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School |
Role of transcription factors and MicroRNAs in ischemic
brain damage |
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Thursday January 29,
4:00 pm, Pauly Auditorium G219, COPH |
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Paul Ford, PhD, Clinical Bioethicist, The
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland
Clinic Lerner College of Medicine |
Innovating the Brain: Ethics of Neuro-technology |
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February 3 |
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February 10 |
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February 17 |
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February 24 |
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March 3 |
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March 10 |
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March 17 |
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March 24 |
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March 31 |
CTN |
Jim Marcin, MD, MPH,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics
Section of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of California
Davis |
Pediatric
Telemedicine and its Applications in the ED and ICU |
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April 7 |
Graduate |
Chaoxuan Dong |
Effects of Ketamine on Apoptosis and Neurogenesis of
Rat Fetal Cortical Neural Stem Progenitor Cells (NSPCs) |
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April 14 |
CTN |
G. William Rebeck, Associate Professor, Dept. of
Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Georgetown University. Host: Dr. Yuzhi
Chen |
Synaptic Functions of Alzheimer's Proteins APP and ApoE |
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April 21 |
Graduate |
Meijun Ye |
Cholinergic modulation of fast synaptic transmission in
the Pedunculopontine and Parafascicular nuclei: Implications for the
regulation of cortical arousal |
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April 28 |
Graduate |
Christen Simon |
Glutamatergic
Modulation of the Pedunculopontine Nucleus and its Potential Effects on
Waking and REM Sleep |
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May 5 |
Graduate |
Shuliang Liu |
Microglial Activation by Citrobacter koseri is Mediated by TLR4- and
MyD88-dependent Pathways |
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May 12 |
Department |
Kumar Sambamurti, PhD, Professor,
Dept. of Physiology and Neurosciences, Medical University of South
Carolina |
Understanding AD through retinal degeneration |
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May 19 |
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May 26 |
Graduate |
Jennifer Watts |
Novel Mechanisms of Visceral Pain:
Functional Properties of Microglia |
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June 2 |
Graduate |
Nebojsa Kezunovic |
Gamma
Oscillations During Brain Activity: Properties, Significance, and Future
Experiments |
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June 9 |
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June 16 |
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June 23 |
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June 30 |
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