Pharmacology Seminar Series
All seminars, unless otherwise stated, are presented at 4:00 pm in the Schering Foundation Library, NE 401 Medical-Dental Building, 3900 Reservoir Road, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20057; on the Campus Map. Click the Medical Center button on the left. (Directions). Parking is found on Reservoir Rd or at Entrance #2 (in front of the Hospital). For information, call (202) 687-7007.
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| September 2012 | February 2013 |
| October 2012 | March 2013 |
| November 2012 | April 2013 |
| December 2012 | May 2013 |
| January 2013 | June 2013 |
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| Aug 6 | Dr. Liset Mendez de la Prida |
| Instito Cajal Madrid, Spain | |
| "Different hippocampal circuit dynamics during physiological and pathological high-frequency oscillations in vitro" | |
| Host: Rhonda Dzakpasu | |
| Monday, 4:00 Pharm Library | |
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| Sep 4 | Ph.D. Post-Rotational Seminars |
Ph.D. Students in Pharmacology
Marie Wilcox | |
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| Sep 11 | Dr. Carol Colton |
| Professor, Department of Medicine Duke Univeristy | |
| "When friends become enemies- new ideas on immune based killing in chronic neurodegenerative disease" | |
| Host: Justin Suzuki | |
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| Sep 18 | Ph.D. Post-Rotational Seminars |
Ph.D. Students in Pharmacology
Amanda Lewin |
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| Sep 25 | Michael J. Iadorola, Ph.D. |
| Chief, Neurology and Pain Therapeutics Section NIDCR | |
| "TRPV1 agonists and positive allosteric modulators and pain transcriptome analysis using RNA-seq" | |
| Host: Bob Yasuda & Barry Wolfe | |
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| Oct 2 | Yuichiro J. Suzuki, Ph.D. |
| Professor of Pharmacology Georgetown University | |
| "Developing new therapeutic strategies to treat pulmonary hypertension" | |
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| Oct 9 | Ed Tuan |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "TBA" | |
| Mentor: Yingxian Xiao & Ken Kellar | |
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| Oct 16 | Society for Neuroscience meeting |
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| Oct 23 | John DiRaddo |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "Molecular Modeling and Drug Discovery: New Insights into the Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 3 Orthosteric Site" | |
| Mentor: Jarda Wroblewski | |
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| Nov 5 | Michael E. Greenberg, PhD |
| Chair, Dept of Neurobiology | |
| Harvard University | |
| Monday 4:00 pm Res Bldg Auditorium |
30th Annual Koppanyi Lecture "Signaling Networks that Regulate Synapse Development and Cognitive Function" |
| Reception to follow | |
| Host: Dan Pak | |
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| Nov 6 | Rupa Lalchandani |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Physiology | |
| "The effect of dopamine D2 receptor activation on striatal GABAergic feed-back microcircuits" | |
| Mentor: Stefano Vicini | |
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| Nov 13 | Ruixi Luo |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "Nicotinic AChR agonist and optogenetic activation of striatal interneurons induce GABA-mediated events in MSNs" | |
| Mentor: Stefano Vicini | |
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| Nov 20 | Gerard Ahern, Ph.D. |
| Associate Professor of Pharmacology Georgetown University | |
| "Some observations of TRP channels and immune cells" | |
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| Nov 26 | Jordan Li |
| PhD student in Pharmacology | |
| Georgetown University | |
| Monday 12:00 pm |
Thesis Defense Seminar "Transcriptional repression of the nuclear receptor coactivator AIB1 by FOXG1 leads to apoptosis in breast cancer cells" |
| Mentor: Anna Riegel | |
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| Nov 27 | Lee Campbell |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "TBA" | |
| Mentor: Italo Mocchetti | |
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| Dec 4 | Tara Gelb |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "Role of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 1 in Human Melanoma" | |
| Mentor: Jarda Wroblewski | |
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| Dec 11 | Kristen Dedominicis |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "Up-regulation and Stoichiometry of the a4b2 Nicotinic Receptor in Rat Brain" | |
| Mentor: Ken Kellar | |
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| Dec 18 | Clint Kinney |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "Investigating Neural Mechanisms of Obesity" | |
| Mentor: Baoji Xu | |
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| Jan 8 | Rhonda Dzakpasu, Ph.D. |
| Assistant Professor of Physics and Pharmacology Georgetown University | |
| "How synaptic potentiation modulates in vitro neuronal network dynamics" | |
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| Jan 22 | Michael Chien-cheng Shih |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "TBA" | |
| Mentor: Baoji Xu | |
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| Jan 29 | Thomas J. Meade, Ph.D |
| Eileen Foell Chair in Cancer Research
Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Physiology, and Radiology
Director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI) Northwestern University "Seeing is Believing: Coordination Chemistry of Molecular Imaging Probes" | |
| Host: Ken Dretchen | |
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| Feb 5 | Ph.D. Post-Rotational Seminars |
Ph.D. Students in Pharmacology
Khalid Garman | |
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| Feb 12 | Ph.D. Post-Rotational Seminars |
Ph.D. Students in Pharmacology
Marie Wilcox | |
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| Feb 26 | Rashmi Venkatesh |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "Exploring nAchR Sub-types: Voyage to the Medial Habenula" | |
| Mentor: Ken Kellar | |
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| Mar 5 | Yasmine Ibrahim |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "The role of anthracyclines in reversing pulmonary vascular remodeling and treating pulmonary arterial hypertension" | |
| Mentor: Justin Suzuki | |
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| Mar 15 | Joel Elmquist, DVM, PhD |
| Professor of Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, & Pharmacology | |
| Univ. Texas, Southwestern | |
| Friday 3:00 pm Pharm Library |
Annual Stephen & Mary Krop Lecture "Unraveling CNS Pathways Regulating Energy Balance and Glucose Homeostasis" |
| Reception to follow | |
| Host: Baoji Xu | |
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| Mar 19 | Sang H. Lee, Ph.D. |
| Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Medical College of Wisconsin | |
| "Too much Synaptic SCAM in the brain and schizophrenia" | |
| Host: Dan Pak | |
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| Mar 26 | Dr. Suzanne Bausch |
| Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | |
| "Differential Effects of Distinct NMDAR Receptor Antagonists on Seizures and Synaptic Plasticity" | |
| Host: Stefano Vicini | |
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| Apr 1 | Jesse Hanisch |
| PhD student in Pharmacology | |
| Georgetown University | |
| Monday 12:00 pm |
Thesis Defense Seminar "Elucidating the role of insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA binding protein 2 in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes" |
| Mentors: Francis S. Collins & Lawrence C. Brody | |
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| Apr 9 | Dr. Yousef Tizabi |
| Professor Department of Pharmacology Howard University | |
| "In Search of Novel Antidepressants" | |
| Host: Richard Gillis | |
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| Apr 11 | Susan Amara, PhD |
| Intramural Director, NIMH | |
| Thursday 2:45 pm Res Bldg Auditorium |
Annual Frank Standaert Lecture "A new take on uptake: Neurotransmitter transporters and the cellular mechanism of amphetamine action" |
| Reception to follow | |
| Host: Karen Gale | |
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| Apr 19 | Sarah Haviland |
| Thesis Student, Pharmacology | |
| Friday 9:00 am Pharm Library |
Thesis Defense Seminar "Calcium signaling in cardiac myocytes: Contributions from mitochondria, sodium-calcium exchanger, and ryanodine receptor" |
| Mentor: Martin Morad | |
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| Apr 23 | Jisoo Lee |
| Ph.D. Student, Department of Pharmacology | |
| "The role of amyloid precursor protein in synaptic plasticity" | |
| Mentor: Dan Pak | |
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| May 7 | Dr. David M. Lovinger |
| Senior Investigator Clinical and Biological Research Unit National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | |
| "Optogenetic Measurement of Striatal Calcium Transients in Slices and In Vivo" | |
| Host: Stefano Vicini | |
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| May 21 | Ph.D. Post-Rotational Seminars |
Ph.D. Students in Pharmacology
Marie Wilcox | |
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| June 24 | John DiRaddo |
| Thesis Student | |
| Monday 12:00 pm |
Thesis Defense Seminar "mGlu3 Receptors - How to make them work" |
| Mentor: Jarda Wroblewski | |
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