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Spring 2008 Seminar Series and Journal Club

Date: 12 February, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Seminar - Invited Speaker
Speaker: Eugene Shek, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
TTUHSC School of Pharmacy, Amarillo, TX
Title: "Dysregulation of leptin receptors expression and signaling mechanisms in age-related hypertension"


Date: 19 February, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Discuss article by Douglas B. Matthews, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Title: "The use of acute ethanol administration as a tool to investigate multiple memory systems"


Date: 26 February, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Discuss article by Jennifer D. Thomas, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Title: "Administration of eliprodil during ethanol withdrawal in the neonatal rat attenuates ethanol-induced learning deficits"


Date: 4 March, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Seminar - Invited Speaker
Speaker: Douglas B. Matthews, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Baylor University, Waco, TX
Title: "Toward an Understanding of Ethanol's Effect in the Central Nervous System: A Multi-Level Analysis"


Date: 11 March, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Seminar - Invited Speaker
Speaker: Jennifer D. Thomas, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Title: "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: From Mechanisms of Damage to Treatments"


Date: 18 March, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Discuss article by David M. Lovinger, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Title: "Combined Activation of L-Type Ca2+ Channels & Synaptic Transmission Is Sufficient to Induce Striatal Long-Term Depression"


Date: 25 March, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Discuss article by Neil L. Harrison, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Title: "Alcohol Regulates Gene Expression in Neurons via Activation of Heat Shock Factor 1"


Date: 1 April, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Alexander D. Kenny Memorial Lecturer
Speaker: David M. Lovinger, Ph.D.
Chief, Laboratory for Intergrative Neuroscience
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Rockville, MD
Title: "Endocannabinoid Retrograde Signaling and Synaptic Plasticity: Bidirectional Synaptic Communication"


Date: 8 April, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Seminar - Invited Speaker
Speaker: Neil L. Harrison, Ph.D.
Title: "Alcohol and GABA: Receptors, Synapses and Gene Expression"


Date: 15 April, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Journal Club
Speaker: Shan Ding
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Association of the serotonin transporter with alcohol-use-disorder youth:  Use of PCR for genotyping"


Date: 22 April, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Journal Club
Speaker: Rajiv Agrawal
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Use of the Morris water maze in behavioral and psychopharmacology."


Date: 29 April, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Journal Club
Speaker: Kumar Duddempudi
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Cell Culture & Radioligand Binding Methods for Expression and Affinity Purification of human α7 neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor stably expressed in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells."


Date: 6 May, Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Journal Club
Speaker: Shouryadeep Srivastava
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Photoaffinity Labeling of the α4β4 Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor with the Agonist[125I] Epibatidine"


Date: TBA
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Journal Club
Speaker: Yukun Chen
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: "Does chronic opioid use modify learning and memory?"


Date: TBA
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: 5AB100
Type: Journal Club
Speaker: Mitesh Sanghvi
Graduate Student
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
TTUHSC Lubbock
Title: TBA


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