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Seminar Series
Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Biomedical Research Building II
Tuesdays,
Noon - 1:00 PM unless otherwise noted
Departmental Seminar Series - Spring 2008
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Topic- Click to read abstract
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January 8 |
Dept. |
Sami Harik, MD, Dept. of Neurology, UAMS |
The Blood Brain Barrier in Health and Disease
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January 15 |
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January 22 |
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January 23, Wed. 2:00 p.m., COPH, Rm 8240 |
Microanatomy Course Review
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Steve Downing, PhD, Dept. of Anatomy
Microbiology and Pathology, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School Duluth
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Curricular Changes at the
University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth: Internal Perspectives |
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January 29 |
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February 5 |
CTN |
Major General Bill Lefler, DDS, FACP, US Army
(Retired), Hot Springs Village, AR Tobacco Settlement
Commission Chairman
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The history, progress and future impact of
the Tobacco Settlement in Arkansas |
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February 12 |
Graduate/Postdoc |
Shuliang Liu |
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February 19 |
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February 26 |
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March 4 |
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March 11 |
Dept. |
Marie-Francoise Chesselet, MD, PhD, UCLA |
Behavioral phenotypes of mouse models of
neurodegenerative diseases |
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March 18 |
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March 25 |
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April 1 |
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April 8 |
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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 |
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April 22 |
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April 29 |
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May 6 |
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May 13 |
Dept. |
John Tower, PhD, Univ. Southern California
(Host: Dr. Helen Benes) |
Nuclear-mitochondrial signaling and
Drosophila life span |
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May 20 |
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May 27 |
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For scheduling seminars please contact Dr. Abdallah Hayar
amhayar@uams.edu
Departmental Seminar Series - Fall 2007
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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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September 4
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CTN |
Michael Borrelli, PhD, UAMS Radiology |
Biofunctional imaging and image guided therapies for
Neuroscience |
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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 |
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September 18 |
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September 25
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Bench-to-Bedside |
Alice Fann, MD, PhD &
Elie Al-Chaer, PhD, JD
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Dr. Fann:
“Functional Pain: Fiction, Function or Dysfunction”
Dr. Al-Chaer: “Pain: The Paradox of Research Advances and
Clinical Retreat” |
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October 2 |
PhD Candidacy Exam |
Meijun Ye (Mentor: Dr. Edgar Garcia-Rill) |
Cholinergic Modulation of Arousal
in the Pedunculopontine (PPN) and Parafascicular (Pf) Nuclei |
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October 9 |
Graduate/Postdoc |
Wei Wang |
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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 |
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October 16 |
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" |
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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 |
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October 30 |
Graduate/Postdoc |
Chaoxuan Dong |
Ketamine Neurotoxicity in the Newborn Brain is Dose-Dependent and
Developmentally Regulated |
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November 6 |
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November 13 |
Dept. |
William Hickey, PhD, Dartmouth Medical
School (Host: Dr. Tammy Kielian) |
An Update on Microglia and Perivascular
Cells: their roles expand |
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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. |
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November 20 |
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Thanksgiving Day Week |
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November 27 |
CTN |
Mark Hallett, MD, PhD, Human Motor Control
section, NINDS, NIH |
Pathophysiology of Focal Dystonia and
Implications for Treatment |
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Nov 28, Wed. 10:00 am |
Dissertation Defense |
Nirmal Phulwani – Dissertation Defense |
Modulating Astrocyte Activation in
Response to Staphylococcus Aureus: Relevance to Brain Abscess
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December 4 |
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December 11 |
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December 18 |
Dept. |
Zach Brodrick |
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December 25 |
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January 1 |
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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
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Date
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Series
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Speaker
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Aug. 15
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Grad/Postdoc
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Meijun Ye
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Year 1 - Literature Review
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Thursday
Aug. 17
9 AM
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Grad/Postdoc
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Cindy Zhang
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Annual Research Seminar
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Aug. 22
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Grad/Postdoc
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David
Davies
Amanda Charlesworth
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Course Objectives & Expectations Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
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Aug. 29
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Grad/Postdoc
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Shuliang Liu
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PhD Candidacy Exam Seminar
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Sept. 5
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Grad/Postdoc
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David
Davies
Amanda Charlesworth
Steve Barger
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Presentation Techniques, Styles and PowerPoint
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Sept. 19
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Grad/Postdoc
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Zach Brodrick &
Kim Lockhart
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Mini-review of a recent or classical research paper by year-1 students
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Sept. 26
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Dept.
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Dr. Linda Restifo
Univ. of Arizona
Guest of Dr. H. Benes
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TBA
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Oct. 3
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Grad/Postdoc
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Taasin Srivastava
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TBA
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Oct. 10
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Dept.
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Dr. Philip Wong
Guest of Dr. Y. Chen
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TBA
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Thursday
Oct. 12
Noon
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Dept.
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