Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Seminars
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" |
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| Date: | 19 February, Tuesday |
| Time: | 12:00 Noon |
| Place: | 5AB100 |
| Type: | Discuss article by Douglas B. Matthews, Ph.D. |
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| Title: | "The use of acute ethanol administration as a tool to investigate multiple memory systems" |
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| Date: | 26 February, Tuesday |
| Time: | 12:00 Noon |
| Place: | 5AB100 |
| Type: | Discuss article by Jennifer D. Thomas, Ph.D. |
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| Title: | "Administration of eliprodil during ethanol withdrawal in the neonatal rat attenuates ethanol-induced learning deficits" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| Date: | 18 March, Tuesday |
| Time: | 12:00 Noon |
| Place: | 5AB100 |
| Type: | Discuss article by David M. Lovinger, Ph.D. |
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| Title: | "Combined Activation of L-Type Ca2+ Channels & Synaptic Transmission Is Sufficient to Induce Striatal Long-Term Depression" |
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| Date: | 25 March, Tuesday |
| Time: | 12:00 Noon |
| Place: | 5AB100 |
| Type: | Discuss article by Neil L. Harrison, Ph.D. |
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| Title: | "Alcohol Regulates Gene Expression in Neurons via Activation of Heat Shock Factor 1" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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" |
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| 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?" |
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| 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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