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Fall 2009 Seminar Series

All seminars are at 1:00 pm in Room 5AB100 unless otherwise indicated on the schedule

Date: 1 September, Tuesday
Type: Discussion
Speaker: Discuss Kellar Articles
Title: "Acute Effectso Nicotine on Prolactin Release in the Rat: Agonist and Antagonist Effects of a Single Injection of Nicotine" AND "The x4B2x5 nicotinic cholinergic receptor in rat brain is resistant to up-regulation by nicotine in vivo."


Date: 8 September, Tuesday
Type: HSC Faculty
Speaker: Lisa Popp, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Intracellular factors that contribute to the ethanol sensitivity of native N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors."


Date: 22 September, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Shouryadeep Srivastava
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Nicotine binding to brain receptors requires a strong cation-pi interaction."


Date: 29 September, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Yukun Chen
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: “Ventral Striatal Dopamine Modulation of Different Forms of Behavioral Flexibility”


Date: 6 October, Tuesday
Type: Invited Speaker
Speaker: Kenneth Kellar, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair
Department of Pharmacology
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, DC
Title: "The Role of Brain Nicotinic Receptors in Nicontine Addicition."


Date: 13 October, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Akash Pandhare
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "An Allosteric Modulator of Alpha 7 Nicotinic Receptors, N-(5-Chloro-2,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-N' -(5-methyl-3-isoxazolyl)- urea (PNU - 120596), Causes Conformational Changes in the Extracellular Ligand Binding Domain Similar to Those Caused by Acetylcholine."


Date: 20 October, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Ashujit Tagde
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Synergistic cytotoxicity of buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) and intensive melphalan (L-PAM) for neuroblastoma cell lines established at relapse after myeloablative therapy"


Date: 27 October, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Poonam Sonawane
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: TBA


Date: 3 November, Tuesday
Type: Discussion
Speaker: Discuss Dolan Articles
Title: "Neuropsychological deficits are associated with smoking cessation treatment failure in patients with schizophrenia" and "Self-efficacy for cocaine abstinence: Pretreatment correlates and relationship to outcomes".


Date: 10 November, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Rajiv Agrawal
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Increased systemic and brain cytokine production and neuroinflammation by endotoxin following ethanol treatment."


Date: 17 November, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Amanjot Riar
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: TBA


Date: 24 November, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Navya Chitte
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: TBA


Date: 1 December, Tuesday
Type: Invited Speaker
Speaker: Sara Dolan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Baylor University
Title: "Neuropsychological Predictors of Treatment Process in Residential Substance Dependent Individuals"


Date: 8 December, Tuesday
Type: Graduate Student
Speaker: Kumar Duddempudi
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "IDENTIFICATION OF AN INTESTINAL FOLATES TRANSPORTER AND THE MOLECULAR BASIS FOR HEREDITARY FOLATE MALABSORPTION."




Prior Seminars

Fall 2008 - Spring 2009

Fall 2007 - Spring 2008

Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

Fall 2005 - Spring 2006

Fall 2004 - Spring 2005

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