Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Seminars
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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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” |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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" |
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| Date: | 27 October, Tuesday |
| Type: | Graduate Student |
| Speaker: | Poonam Sonawane Graduate Student Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience TTUHSC Lubbock |
| Title: | TBA |
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| 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". |
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| 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." |
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| Date: | 17 November, Tuesday |
| Type: | Graduate Student |
| Speaker: | Amanjot Riar Graduate Student Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience TTUHSC Lubbock |
| Title: | TBA |
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| Date: | 24 November, Tuesday |
| Type: | Graduate Student |
| Speaker: | Navya Chitte Graduate Student Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience TTUHSC Lubbock |
| Title: | TBA |
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| 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" |
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| 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." |
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