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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
For Department Events,
click here; For previous seminars 2006 - 2011,
click here
Spring 2012
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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 |
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February 14 |
CTN |
Veronica Bisagno, PhD, Research Scientist, ININFA-CONICET, Univ. of Buenos
Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
Neuroprotective role of modafinil against methamphetamine toxicity |
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February 21 |
Graduate |
Orwa Aboud (Mentor: Dr. Griffin) |
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February 28 |
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March 6 |
Dissertation Defense |
Nebojsa Kezunovic (Mentor: Dr. Garcia-Rill) |
Mechanism of Gamma Band Activity of Pedunculopontine and Parafascicular
Neurons: Implications for Arousal |
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March 13 |
Department |
John Crow, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology &
Toxicology, UAMS |
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March 20 |
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March 27 |
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April 3 |
Department |
Jerry Ware, PhD, Professor,
Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, UAMS |
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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 |
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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) |
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May 8 |
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May 15 |
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May 22 |
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May 29 |
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June 5 |
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June 12 |
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June 19 |
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June 26 |
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Fall 2011
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Date
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Series
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Speaker
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Topic- Click to download abstract /
presentation
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September 20 |
Department |
William Culp, MD, Professor
of Radiology and Surgery, Dept. of Radiology, UAMS |
Novel Stroke Therapies Using a Rabbit Model |
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September 27 |
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October 4 |
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October 11 |
Graduate |
Melody Allensworth (Mentor: Dr.Childs) |
Exploring a Mouse Model of Pre-obesity and Obesity |
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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 |
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October 25 |
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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 |
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November 1 |
Graduate |
Xiong Bin Lin (Mentor: Dr. Hayar) |
Electrophysiological approach to establish a link between cerebellar
activity and rhythmic licking |
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November 8 |
Department |
Ken Hensley, PhD,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Univ. of Toledo Health Sciences
Center (Host: Dr. Kiaei) |
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November 15 |
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November 22 |
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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 |
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December 6 |
Graduate |
Naveen Kandavalli (Mentor: Dr. Barger) |
To be announced |
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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 |
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December 20 |
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December 27 |
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For previous seminars 2006 - 2011,
click here
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