Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Seminar Schedule: October 2008 – May 2009
*All seminars are held in the PTCRC Auditorium from 11:00am until 12:00pm unless otherwise noted.
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Date | Speaker/Affiliation | Title | Host |
October 2008 | 9 | J. David Jentsch, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA | Genetic and Neurochemical Influences on Cognitive Control | Bennett |
23 | Thomas J.R. Beveridge, Ph.D., Instructor, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Abstinence from chronic cocaine exposure: is there monoaminergic recovery? | McCool |
30 | Leonard L. Howell, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of PET Research, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University | PET Neuroimaging and Cocaine Medication Development in Nonhuman Primates | Nader |
November 2008 | 13 | Stephanie W. Watts, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University | New Functions for Serotonin in the Vasculature | Tallant |
December 2008 | 4 | Patricia E. Gallagher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Surgical Sciences, Hypertension and Vascular Research Center, Physiology & Pharmacology and Director, Molecular & Genetics Core, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Angiotensin-(1-7) inhibition of cancer cell growth | McCool |
January 2009 | 29 | David P. Friedman, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Associate Dean for Research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Alcohol-Stress Interactions in monkeys | McCool |
February 2009 | 12 | David C.S. Roberts, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Modeling Cocaine Addiction Processes. How Many are There? | McCool |
26 | Leanne Groban, M.D., Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Diastolic Dysfunction and Cardiac Aging | Nicolle |
March 2009 | * Jointly Sponsored with the Sticht Center on Aging * |
19 | Tom Foster, Ph.D., The Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Brain Research in Memory Loss, University of Florida College of Medicine | Cellular and Molecular Basis of Brain Aging | Nicolle,
Aging Ctr |
April 2009 | 9 | Steven R. Childers, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Chronic Drug Effects on G-Protein-Coupled Receptors in Brain | McCool |
23 | Schahram Akbarian, Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School | Remodeling Neuronal Chromatin in the Mouse - Implications for the Neurobiology of Depression | Jones |
May 2009 | 7 | Dwayne Godwin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Assistant Dean for Postdoctoral Affairs, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Calcium channels under the influence | McCool |
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