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Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2 
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Tuesdays, Noon - 1:00 PM unless otherwise noted

Departmental Seminar Series - Spring 2008

Date

Series

Speaker

Topic- Click to read abstract

January 8 Dept. Sami Harik, MD, Dept. of Neurology, UAMS The Blood Brain Barrier in Health and Disease
January 15      
January 22      
January 23, Wed. 2:00 p.m., COPH, Rm 8240 Microanatomy Course Review
 
Steve Downing, PhD, Dept. of Anatomy Microbiology and Pathology, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Curricular Changes at the University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth: Internal Perspectives
January 29      
February 5 CTN Major General Bill Lefler, DDS, FACP, US Army (Retired), Hot Springs Village, AR Tobacco Settlement Commission Chairman The history, progress and future impact of the Tobacco Settlement in Arkansas
February 12 Graduate/Postdoc Shuliang Liu  
February 19      
February 26      
March 4      
March 11 Dept. Marie-Francoise Chesselet, MD, PhD, UCLA Behavioral phenotypes of mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases
March 18      
March 25      
April 1      
April 8      
April 15 Ph.D. Dissertation Defense David Heister, Dept. of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences (Thesis director: Dr. Edgar Garcia-Rill) Intrinsic mechanisms and cholinergic modulation of the dorsal subcoeruleus: Implications for REM sleep
April 22      
April 29      
May 6      
May 13 Dept. John Tower, PhD, Univ. Southern California (Host: Dr. Helen Benes) Nuclear-mitochondrial signaling and Drosophila life span
May 20      
May 27      
       

For scheduling seminars please contact Dr. Abdallah Hayar amhayar@uams.edu


Departmental Seminar Series - Fall 2007

Date

Series

Speaker

Topic- Click to read abstract

September 4 CTN Michael Borrelli, PhD, UAMS Radiology Biofunctional imaging and image guided therapies for Neuroscience
September 11 CTN Carlos Schenck, MD, Hennepin Med. Ctr. Univ. Minneapolis Psychiatry REM sleep behavior disorder and Parkinsonism, and Zolpidem-Induced Sleep Related Eating Disorder
September 18      
September 25 Bench-to-Bedside Alice Fann, MD, PhD &
Elie Al-Chaer, PhD, JD
 
Dr. Fann: “Functional Pain: Fiction, Function or Dysfunction”
Dr. Al-Chaer: “Pain: The Paradox of Research Advances and Clinical Retreat”
October 2 PhD Candidacy Exam Meijun Ye (Mentor: Dr. Edgar Garcia-Rill) Cholinergic Modulation of Arousal in the Pedunculopontine (PPN) and Parafascicular (Pf) Nuclei
October 9 Graduate/Postdoc Wei Wang  
October 11, Thursday 9:00 a.m. Dissertation Defense Taasin Srivastava (Mentor: Dr. Angus MacNicol) College of Public Health Building, Room 8-240 Role and Regulation of CPEB1 in Neuronal Cells
October 1 Bench-to-Bedside Mark Mennemeier, PhD, & John Dornhoffer, MD Dr. Mennemeier: "Is the ringing in your ears all in your head?"
Dr. Dornhoffer: "Beating Back the Noise: TMS and Tinnitus"
October 23 Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting Roger Reep, PhD, Dept. of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gainesville, Florida Neural Circuitry and Plasticity in a Rodent Model of Hemispatial Neglect
October 30 Graduate/Postdoc Chaoxuan Dong Ketamine Neurotoxicity in the Newborn Brain is Dose-Dependent and Developmentally Regulated
November 6      
November 13 Dept. William Hickey, PhD, Dartmouth Medical School (Host: Dr. Tammy Kielian) An Update on Microglia and Perivascular Cells: their roles expand
November 14, Wed. 11:00-12:00 Bench-to-Bedside Alison Oliveto, PhD and Michael Mancino, MD Drug Abuse and Relapse: The Never-ending Story.
November 20   Thanksgiving Day Week  
November 27 CTN Mark Hallett, MD, PhD, Human Motor Control section, NINDS, NIH Pathophysiology of Focal Dystonia and Implications for Treatment
Nov 28, Wed. 10:00 am Dissertation Defense Nirmal Phulwani – Dissertation Defense
Modulating Astrocyte Activation in Response to Staphylococcus Aureus: Relevance to Brain Abscess
December 4      
December 11      
December 18 Dept. Zach Brodrick  
December 25      
January 1      

Departmental Seminar Series - Spring 2007
 

January 16                 Robert Greene, M.D., Ph.D. guest of Dr. Edgar Garcia-Rill
Sherry Knopf Crasilneck Distinguished Chair in Psychiatry

Director National Clozapine Coordinating Center
Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas, Southwestern
Title: “The role of the adenosine A1 receptor in sleep homeostasis”

January 23                 Yuzhi Chen, Ph.D.
Reynolds Center on Aging & Dept. of Neurobiology & Dev. Sciences
UAMS
Title: TBA

February 6                 John P. Crow, Ph.D., guest of Dr. Paul Drew
Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology
UAMS
Title: TBA

February 20               Syed F. Ali, Ph.D., Senior Biomedical Research Scientist
Division of Neurotoxicology
National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA

Title: “Alteration in mitochondrial proteome and oxidative damage in MPTP-induced Parkinsonian model”

February 27               Barbara Clancy, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biology
University of Central Arkansas

Title:  TBA

 March 13                   Irving Vega, Ph.D.,
Distinguished Lecturer for the UAMS Center for Translational Neuroscience

Dept. of XXXX      
University of Puerto Rico
Title: 
TBA

 March 20                   Malathi Srivatsan, Ph.D.
                                    Department of Biological Sciences

                                    Arkansas State University
                                    Title:  TBA

 March 27                   Lori Hensley, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Ouachita Baptist University
Title:  TBA

April 3                         Scott Whittemore, Ph.D., Distinguished Lecturer for the UAMS Center for Translational Neuroscience
Dept. of XXXXXXXXXXXX
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY   
Title:  TBA

April 10                       Giulia Baldini, Ph.D., guest of Dr. Steve Barger
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
UAMS
Title: TBA

 April 17                      Sandy Legan, Ph.D. , Distinguished Lecturer for the Arkansas INBRE
Dept. of Physiology
University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington
Title:  TBA

 April 18                      Michael A. Weiss, Ph.D., guest of Dr. Helen Beneš 
Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry
Case School of Medicine
Title: 
TBA
Jointly hosted with the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molec. Biology, UAMS

 April 24                      David Dinges, Ph.D., Distinguished Lecturer for the UAMS Center for Translational Neuroscience
Dept. of XXXXXXXXX

University
of Pennsylvania
Title: TBA

 May 1                         John F. Bowyer, Ph.D., Research Pharmacologist
Division of Neurotoxicology
National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA/HHS

Title: 
Gene Expression Changes Related to the Toxicity of Amphetamines: Lost in Translation?


Graduate/Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Fall 2006

Date

Series

Speaker

Topic

Aug. 15

Grad/Postdoc

Meijun Ye

Year 1 - Literature Review

Thursday
Aug. 17
9 AM

Grad/Postdoc

Cindy Zhang

Annual Research Seminar

Aug. 22

Grad/Postdoc

David Davies
Amanda Charlesworth

Course Objectives & Expectations Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs

Aug. 29

Grad/Postdoc

Shuliang Liu

PhD Candidacy Exam Seminar

Sept. 5

Grad/Postdoc

David Davies
Amanda Charlesworth
Steve Barger

Presentation Techniques, Styles and PowerPoint

Sept. 19

Grad/Postdoc

Zach Brodrick &
Kim Lockhart

Mini-review of a recent or classical research paper by year-1 students

Sept. 26

Dept.

Dr. Linda Restifo
Univ. of Arizona
Guest of Dr. H. Benes

TBA

Oct. 3

Grad/Postdoc

Taasin Srivastava

TBA

Oct. 10

Dept.

Dr. Philip Wong
Guest of Dr. Y. Chen

TBA

Thursday
Oct. 12
Noon

Dept.