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Departmental Seminar Series - Fall 2008
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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 9
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CTN |
Edgar Garcia-Rill, PhD, Director, Center for
Translational Neuroscience |
Center for Translational Research, 4 years
of progress |
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September 16 |
CTN |
Jeffrey R. Kaiser,
MD, MA, Dept. of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatology, Arkansas Children's
Hospital |
The Influence of
Hypercapnia (↑CO2) on Neonatal Brain Injury: How High is Too High? |
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September 23 |
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September 30
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CTN |
F. Edward Dudek, PhD,
Professor, Dept. of Physiology,
Univ. of Utah School of Medicine |
Progressive development of
spontaneous seizures in experimental epilepsy |
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October 7 |
CTN |
William Fantegrossi, PhD,
Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology, UAMS |
Nantenine analogues as MDMA antagonists and
PET ligands: a translational approach toward novel therapeutics |
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October 14 |
CTN |
Richard Whit Hall, MD,
Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatology, UAMS |
Beam me in, Scotty: Telemedicine in Education, Clinical
Medicine and Research |
October 21
11:00-12:00 a.m. |
CTN |
John Dornhoffer, MD,
Professor, Director, Division of Otology/ Neurotology, Dept. of Otolaryngology,
UAMS |
Repetitive
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Tinnitus |
October 28
11:00-12:00 a.m. |
CTN |
Subimal Datta, PhD, Dept. of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Boston University |
Sleep: Learning
and Memory |
November 4
Education West Building, Room
226 |
Arkansas Chapter Soc. for Neuroscience |
William E. Sonntag, PhD, Professor and Donald W.
Reynolds Chair in Aging Research, Dept. of Geriatric Medicine,
Univ. of Oklahoma Health Science Center |
Worms, Flies, Dwarfs and Things That Go Bump in the Night: Growth
Hormone, IGF-1 and the Aging Brain |
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November 11 |
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November 18 |
Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics |
John Solaro, PhD,
Chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University
of Illinois at Chicago |
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November 25 |
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November 27 |
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Thanksgiving Day Holiday |
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December 2 |
Graduate |
Ms. Wei Wang, PhD candidate working in the
laboratory of Dr. Steve Barger |
Structure-Function Study of Serine Racemase |
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December 9 |
CTN |
Melanie MacNicol, PhD,
Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology & Developmental
Sciences |
Neural Stem Cells; Developmental Decisions through mRNA
Translational Control |
Departmental Seminar Series - Spring 2008
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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 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 |
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 |
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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Departmental Seminar Series - Spring 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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January 16 |
CTN |
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 |
The role of the adenosine A1 receptor in
sleep homeostasis |
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January 23 |
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Yuzhi Chen, Ph.D.,
Reynolds Center on Aging & Dept. of Neurobiology & Dev. Sciences
UAMS |
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February 6 |
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John P. Crow, Ph.D., guest of Dr. Paul Drew,
Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology,
UAMS |
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February 20 |
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Syed F. Ali, Ph.D., Senior Biomedical Research
Scientist, Division of Neurotoxicology,
National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA |
Alteration in mitochondrial proteome and
oxidative damage in MPTP-induced Parkinsonian model |
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February 27 |
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Barbara Clancy, Ph.D., Dept. of Biology,
University of Central Arkansas |
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March 13 |
CTN |
Irving Vega, Ph.D.,
University of Puerto Rico |
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March 20 |
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Malathi Srivatsan, Ph.D., Dept. of Biological Sciences
Arkansas State University |
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March 27 |
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Lori Hensley, Ph.D.,
Dept. of Biology
Ouachita Baptist University |
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April 3 |
CTN |
Scott Whittemore, Ph.D.,
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY |
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April 10 |
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Giulia Baldini, Ph.D., guest of Dr. Steve Barger,
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
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April 17 |
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Sandy Legan, Ph.D.
, Distinguished Lecturer for the Arkansas INBRE
Dept. of Physiology,
University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington |
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April 18 |
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Michael A. Weiss, Ph.D.,
guest of Dr. Helen Benes, Chair, Dept. of
Biochemistry,
Case School of Medicine, Jointly hosted with the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molec. Biology, UAMS |
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April 24 |
CTN |
David
Dinges, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania |
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May 1 |
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John F. Bowyer, Ph.D.,
Research Pharmacologist, Division of
Neurotoxicology,
National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA/HHS |
Gene
Expression Changes Related to the Toxicity of Amphetamines: Lost in Translation? |
Departmental
Seminar Series -
Fall 2006
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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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August 15 |
Graduate/Postdoc |
Meijun Ye
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Year 1 - Literature
Review |
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August 17, Thursday
9 AM
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Graduate/Postdoc |
Cindy Zhang
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Annual Research Seminar
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August 22
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Graduate/Postdoc |
David
Davies
Amanda Charlesworth
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Course Objectives & Expectations Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
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August 29
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Graduate/Postdoc |
Shuliang Liu
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PhD Candidacy Exam Seminar
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September 5 |
Graduate/Postdoc |
David
Davies
Amanda Charlesworth
Steve Barger
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Presentation Techniques, Styles and PowerPoint
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September 19
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Graduate/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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September
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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October 3
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Graduate/Postdoc |
Taasin Srivastava
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TBA |
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October 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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October 12, Thursday Noon |
Dept.
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Kathryn Howell
Univ. of Colorado Health Science Ctr.
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New Insights into Golgi Function from 3D Structure and Proteomics |
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October 17
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Soc. For Neuroscience Meeting |
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October 24
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Dept.
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Dr. Mohan Sopori
Guest of Dr. Srivatsan
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Role of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Neuroimmune Interactions
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October 31 |
Graduate/Postdoc
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Chaoxuan Dong &
Prashanthi
Gummireddy |
Mini-review of a recent or classical research paper by year-1 students |
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November 14
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Dept.
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Dr. Galen Wenger
UAMS Pharmacology
Guest of Dr. C. Kane
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TBA
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November 16, Thursday
Noon
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Graduate/Postdoc |
Wei Wang
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PhD Candidacy Exam
College of Public Health Bldg. Rm. G232
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November 28
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Dept.
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Dr. Barry Connors
Brown University
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Guest of the Center for
Translational Neuroscience
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November 30, Thursday
11 am
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Graduate/Postdoc |
Tiffany Wallace Huitt
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE
College of
Public Health Bldg. Rm. 3202
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December 5
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Graduate/Postdoc |
Charlotte Yates
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE
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December 12
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Dept.
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Dr. Yuzhi Chen
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