Seminar Speakers from Prior Years
2008-2009
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 2, 2008 |
Robert Duvoisin Ph.D.
Associate professor |
"Signaling, distribution, and function of group III metabotrophic glutamate receptors" |
| November 20, 2008 |
Paul Brehm, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, OHSU |
“There’s something about zebrafish"
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| December 4, 2008 |
Doug Wright, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology Director of Graduate Studies Univ. of Kansas Medical Center |
"Trophic Support of Sensory Function in Peripheral Nerve Disease" |
| January 8, 2009 |
Michael Schwartz, M.D. |
"New Insights into Mechanisms Linking Obesity and Insulin Resistance" |
| February 5, 2009 |
Mike Morgan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychology Washington State Univ. |
"Tolerance to Morphine Analgesia: So Many Mechanisms, so Little Time" |
| February 19, 2009 |
Lakshmi Devi, Ph.D. Professor Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics Professor Psychiatry Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
"Neuroproteomics of the Synapse and Opiate Addiction" |
| March 5, 2009 |
Anne Murphy, Ph.D. Associate Professor Georgia State University |
"Sex differences in morphine analgesia: It's all in the brain" |
| March 19, 2009 |
Barry Levin, M.D. Clinical Professor Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey |
"Neural Control of Energy Homeostasis and the Obese Brain" |
| April 2, 2009 |
TBA | |
| April 16, 2009 |
Philip Saul, M.D. |
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| May 21, 2009 |
Ian Blair, Ph.D. A. N. Richards Professor of Pharmacology Univ. Pennsylvania |
"Stable isotope dilution chiral LC-MS analysis of oxidized bioactive lipids" |
2007-2008
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 4, 2007 | Caroline Enns, Ph.D Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Oregon Health & Science University | Hereditary Hemochromatosis: Disruption of Iron Homeostasis in the Body |
| November 8, 2007 | Allan Herbison, Ph.D. Centre for Neuroendocrinology Department of Physiology School of Medical Science University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand | Estrogen Regulation of GnRH Neurons in the Mouse Brain |
| December 6, 2007 | S. (Thai) Thayumanavan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry Co-Director and Founder, Massachusetts Center for Renewable Energy Science and Technology University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Designer Polymers of Interest in Biology and Medicine |
| January 10, 2008 | Gordon Hager, Ph.D. Chief of the Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute | Genome wide interactions of nuclear receptors with chromatin |
| January 24, 2008 | Martin Angst, M.D. Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Stanford University School of Medicine | Opioids: About their rational use and an update on a "novel" side effect |
| February 21, 2008 | TBA | |
| March 6, 2008 | TBA | |
| March 20, 2008 | John Halliwill, Ph.D. Associate Professors, Department of Human Physiology University of Oregon | Mechanisms of Postexercise Hypotension: What happens after we exercise |
| April 10, 2008 | Robin McAllen, BSc PhD MB ChB Principal Research Fellow Neurophysiology Laboratory Howard Florey Institute University of Melbourne, Australia | |
| April 24, 2008 | ||
| May 22, 2008 | Graduate Student Seminar | |
| June 5, 2008 | Tom Muir, Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Professor Head, Selma and Lawrence Ruben Laboratory of Synthetic Protein Chemistry Rockefeller University |
2006-2007
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 4, 2006 | Robert C. Ritter, V.M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience Department of V.C.A.P.P. College of Veterinary Medicine Washington State University, WA | Responding to Mixed Signals: Central and Peripheral Integration of Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Stimuli Controlling Food Intake |
| November 1, 2006 | Renato Alberto Travagli, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience Pennington Biomedical Research Center Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA | Differential Organization of Homeostatic Circuits in the Dorsal Vagal Complex
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| November 15, 2006 | Philip W. Landfield, Ph.D. Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY | Hippocampal Pathways Implicated in Aging Related Cognitive Decline
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| December 13, 2006 | Bruce D. Carter, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry, Center for Molecular Neuroscience Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN | Apoptotic Signaling Through the p75 Neurotrophin Receptor
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| January 17, 2007 | Carol A. Lange, Ph.D. Associate Professor Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology University of Minnesota Cancer Center | Mechanisms of Progesterone Receptor Cross Talk with Mitogenic Signaling Pathways in Breast Cancer Models
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| February 7, 2007 | Jack Taunton, Ph.D. Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology University of California, San Francisco, CA | How Actin Filament Networks Drive Membrane Movement
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| February 21, 2007 | Michael K. Riscoe, Ph.D. Director, Antimalarial Drug Discovery Lab Veterans Administration Medical Center, OR | Antimalarial Drug Design: Targeting the Process of Hemozoin Formation |
| March 7, 2007 | Larry J. Young, Ph.D. Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Department of Psychiatry Emory University School of Medicine, GA | Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding
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| March 21, 2007 | Landon S. King, M.D. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Department of Biological Chemistry Johns Hopkins University, MD | Recovery and Lung Injury: Changing Focus and Paradigms
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| April 4, 2007 | Leo P. Renaud, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Director & Senior Scientist Neuroscience Ottawa Health Research Institute, Canada | The Thalamic Paraventricular Nucleus: A Convergence of Circadian and Arousal Pathways
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| May 3, 2007 | Dianne Figlewicz Lattemann, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Washington, WA | Challenging the Inner Cookie Monster: Neuroendocrine Regulation of Food Reward
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| May 16, 2007 | Barbara L. Hempstead, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY | The Diverse Actions of Pro and Mature Neurotrophins
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| June 6, 2007 | Barry M. Forman, M.D., Ph.D. Ruth B. & Robert K. Lanman Chair, Department of Gene Regulation and Drug Discovery The Beckman Research Institute City of Hope National Medical Center, CA | A Tale of Orphan Receptors: Ligand Discovery and Translational Medicine
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2005-2006
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 5, 2005 | Anthony W. Norman, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA | Rapid Vitamin D Responses: The Role of the Classic Receptor and Membrane Caveolae |
| October 19, 2005 | Alain Beaudet, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, President & CEO of the Quebec Health Research Fund Montreal, Canada | In Vivo Delta Opioid Receptor Trafficking in Relation to Pain and Opiate Treatment
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| November 9, 2005 | Jeff Campbell Doctoral Candidate Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics University of Oxford, UK | The Structural Biology of the ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channel
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| December 7, 2005 | Susan J. Birren, Ph.D. Department of Biology Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | Neuronal Maturation and Function in the Peripheral Nervous System
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| December 14, 2005 | James D. Yager, Ph.D. Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Professor of Toxicology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD | Estrogen Carcinogenesis: Role of Estrogen Metabolites and ER Signaling |
| February 15, 2006 | Greg A. Gerhardt, Ph.D. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY | Intraputamenal Glial Cell-Line Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) as a Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease: Good, Bad or Placebo? |
| March 1, 2006 | Robert C. Ritter, V.M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience Department of V.C.A.P.P. College of Veterinary Medicine Washington State University Pullman, WA | Responding to Mixed Signals: Central and Peripheral Integration of Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Stimuli Controlling Food Intake |
| March 17, 2006 | Frederick M. Rieke, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | A Molecular Timer: Precise Control of the Duration of Rhodopsin Activity
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| April 5, 2006 | Philip S. Portoghese, Ph.D. Professor of Medicinal Chemistry University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN | Selective Targeting of Heterodimeric Opioid Receptors |
| April 19, 2006 | Jonathan J. Abramson, Ph.D. Department of Physics Portland State University, Portland, OR | Redox Control of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ Release
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| May 17, 2006 | Quentin J. Pittman, Ph.D. Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Once Burned, Twice Shy: Neonatal Inflammation and Adult Host Defence
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| May 31, 2006 | Catherine S. Woolley, Ph.D. Department of Neurobiology and Physiology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL | Estrogen and Synapses in the Hippocampus
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| June 21, 2006 | David E. Nichols, Ph.D. Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN | Hallucinogens: Ancient Substances in a Modern Age
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2004-2005
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 4, 2004 | Kevan Shokat, Ph.D. Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology UC San Francisco, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley | New Chemical Methods for Studying Cell Biology |
| November 3, 2004 | David G. Levitt, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Physiology, University of Minnesota | Human Pharmacokinetics of Propofol |
| November 17, 2004 | Peter G. Smith, Ph.D. Director, R.L. Smith Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities Research Center Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center | Two Faces of Estrogen: Axon Degeneration and Outgrowth in the Peripheral Nervous System |
| December 1, 2004 | Kamran Khodakhah, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Channelopathies and Cerebellar Ataxia |
| December 14, 2004 | Michael J. Baum, Ph.D. Department of Biology Boston University | The Role of Olfaction in Mammalian Mate Recognition |
| January 5, 2005 | Norman M. Greenberg, Ph.D. Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA Co-Sponsored by Molecular and Medical Genetics | Genetically Engineered Mouse Models for Prostate Cancer Research: Lessons from TRAMP
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| March 2, 2005 | Philip S. Portoghese, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry University of Minnesota | Selective Targeting of Heterodimeric Opioid Receptors |
| March 16, 2005 | Anne M. Etgen, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York | Neuroprotective Actions of Estrogen in Global Ischemia: Cellular Mechanism and Functional Implications |
| April 6, 2005 | Brian J.P. Harvey, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Medicine Director, Institute of Biopharmacuetical Sciences Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland Beaumont Hospital Dublin, Ireland | Rapid Anti-Secretory Responses to Steroid Hormones in Lung and Intestine |
| May 4, 2005 | Bruce P. Branchaud, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR | Chemical Biology Studies of Caged (Masked) Oxidatively-Released Antioxidants and Novel Nitrated Lipid Signaling Molecules |
| May 18, 2005 | Paul E. Micevych, Ph.D. Department of Neurobiology and Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology of the Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | Estrogen Signaling and Progesterone Synthesis in Astrocytes: A Mechanism for Estrogen Positive Feedback
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| June 1, 2005 | Graeme Davis, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry University of California, San Francisco, CA | Synaptic Homeostasis, Synapse Stability and Synapse Disassembly |
| June 15, 2005 | Nael A. McCarty, Ph.D. School of Biology Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | Peptide Inhibitors from Scorpion Venom: New Inhibitors of Permeation and Gating in CFTR and CLC Chloride Channels |
2003-2004
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| September 17, 2003 | Andrea J. Yool, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Physiology and Department of Pharmacology University of Arizona College of Medicine | New Roles for Old Holes: Ion Channel Functions of Aquaporin-1. |
| October 6, 2003 | David C. Gadsby, Ph.D. Laboratory of Cardiac/Membrane Physiology Rockefeller University, NY | Turning the Na/K Pump into a Dual-Gated Cation Channel with Palytoxin |
| October 15, 2003 | Robert L. Tanguay, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Enviornmental and Molecular Toxicology Oregon State University Corvallis, OR | Zebrafish Molecular Toxicology: Ethanol, Dioxin and Regeneration |
| October 20, 2003 | David N. Sheppard, Ph.D. Department of Physiology School of Medical Sciences University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom | Therapeutic Potential of Fluorescein Derivatives in the Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis |
| October 31, 2003 | David J. Adams, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Physiology, Head of School of Biomedical Sciences University of Queensland, Australia | A Cone Snail's View of the Nervous System |
| November 5, 2003 | Clint Makino, Ph.D. Associate Professor Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary and Department of Opthamology, Harvard Medical School | Testing the Functional Diversity of G Proteins in Retinal Rods and Cones |
| November 19, 2003 | Yoichi Osawa, Ph.D. Associate Professor The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI | Regulation of Neuronal NO-Synthase: Effect of Drugs and Hsp90-based Chaperones |
| December 3, 2003 | Javier Stern, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH | Nitric Oxide in the PVN: A Local Molecule Contributing to Autonomic and Neuroendocrine Integration |
| December 17, 2003 | Diomedes Logothetis, Ph.D. Vice Chair of Physiology and Biophysics Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York | Gating of Potassium Channels by the Membrane Phospholipid PIP2 |
| January 21, 2004 | Maribel Rios, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA | Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor: A Regulator of Energy Balance and Affective Behavior |
| February 4, 2004 | Synthia H. Mellon, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco, CA | Neurosteroids in Health and Disease |
| March 3, 2004 | Eric Vilain, M.D., Ph.D. UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA | Pink, Blue or Purple? A Genetic Approach to Intersexuality |
| March 17, 2004 | Floyd Bloom, M.D. Chairman and Professor Department of Neuropharmacology The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA | Neuroinformatics: A New Tool for Neuroscientists |
| April 7, 2004 | Jane V. Aldrich, Ph.D. Department of Medicinal Chemistry University of Kansas | A Tale of Two Labels: The Design and Synthesis of Labeled Opioid Peptide Analogs as Pharmacological Tools |
| April 21, 2004 | Jeffrey G. Tasker, Ph.D. Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Tulane University, New Orleans, LA | Evidence of a Novel Membrane Glucocorticoid Receptor in the Hypothalamus: Implications for Stress and Feeding |
| May 19, 2004 | Glenn M. Toney, Ph.D. Department of Physiology The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | Regulation of Sympathetic Activity by the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus |
2002-2003
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 16, 2002 | Michal Schwartzman, Ph.D. Department of Pharmacology New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY | CYP4A, 20-HETE and Hypertension |
| December 4, 2002 | Peter Aronson, Ph.D. Section of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT | Characterization of Ion Exchangers Mediating Epithelial NaCI Transport |
| December 18, 2002 | David Mendelowitz, Ph.D. Department of Physiology & Pharmacology George Washington University, Washington, DC | Respiratory Modulation of Brainstem Cardiac Vagal Neurons and its Modulation by Prenatal Nicotine |
| January 31, 2003 | Carole Mendelson, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | Mechanisms in Tissue-Specific Regulation of Estrogen Biosynthesis in Humans |
| February 5, 2003 | Jean C. Shih, Ph.D. University Professor, Boyd and Elsie Welin Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, Department of Cell and Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California | Regulation and Function of Monoamine Oxidases (MAO) |
| February 19, 2003 | Teresa Nick, Ph.D. Senior Postdoctoral Scholar Division of Biology California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA | Neural Correlates of Sleep and Plasticity: Lessons from the Song System |
| March 5, 2003 | Kent E. Vrana, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology The Wake Forest University School of Medicine, NC | Functional Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of Primate Parthenogenetic Stem Cell Differentiation |
| March 12, 2003 | Barbara A. Baird, Ph.D. Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University | A Closer Look at Lipid Rafts in IgE Signaling |
| March 19, 2003 | Phyllis Wise, Ph.D. Dean, Division of Biological Sciences University of California Davis, Davis, CA | Neuroprotective Actions of Estrogens: Insights into Multiple Mechanisms of Action |
| April 2, 2003 | Randy Hampton, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology University of California, San Diego | ER Protein Degradation in Cellular Quality Control and Metabolic Regulation |
| April 16, 2003 | Geoff Head, Ph.D., B.Sc Honorary Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Australia | The Role of Angiotensin in the Hindbrain in Cardiovascular Regulation |
| April 18, 2003 | Roger Dampney, Ph.D., DSc Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia | Hypothalamic Mechanisms Controlling Sympathetic Outflow |
| April 24, 2003 | Anita Zimmerman, Ph.D. Professor of Medical Science Brown University | All-Trans-Retinal Shuts Down Rod Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Ion Channels: A Novel Role for Reinoids in the Response to Bright Light? |
| May 15, 2003 | Russell D. Fernald, Ph.D. Physiology and Human Biology Stanford University, CA | Size, Sex and Status: Social Control of the Brain |
| July 2, 2003 | Andrew J. Lawrence, Ph.D. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia | Purinerigc Transmission & Central Autonomic Regulation |
2001-2002
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| November 7, 2001 | Sarah England, Ph.D. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa | Potassium Channels in Pregnancy: Modulation and Location |
| November 14, 2001 | Conrad Sernia, Ph.D. University of Queensland, Australia | Growth Hormone and the Cardiovascular System: Studies in GH-Deficient Rats |
| December 19, 2001 | Thomas Scanlan, Ph.D. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, CA | Selective Thyroid Hormone Analogs: New Tools and Therapeutics for Metabolic Disorders |
| January 16, 2002 | Deborah Brown, Ph.D. SUNY at Stony Brook, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Saturated Chain Gangs: Organization of Proteins and Lipids in Membrane Rafts |
| January 30, 2002 | Robert A. Shapiro, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School Of Medicine | Cell Cycle re-entry can Induce Alzheimer's Disease-specific Epitopes in Primary Neurons |
| February 6, 2002 | Paul Denney Allen, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA | E-C Coupling, Signaling Among Proteins |
| March 20, 2002 | Haley Melikian, Ph.D. Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine | Basal and Regulated Trafficking of Cocaine-Sensitive Dopamine Transporters |
| April 3, 2002 | Hidekazu Tsukamoto, Ph.D., DVM Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California | Dysregulation of Hepatic Macrophages and Stellate Cells in Chronic Liver Disease |
| May 15, 2002 | Charles W. Bourque, Ph.D. Centre for Research in Neuroscience, Montreal General Hospital & McGill University | Signal Transduction and Gain Control in Osmosensory Neurons |
2000-2001
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 18th, 2000 | Dona Chikaraishi, Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center | The Essential Role of Norepinephrine in Embryonic Survival |
| November 1st, 2000 | Lamberto Maffei, M.D. National Research Council | Role of Neurotrophins in the Development of the Visual System: Do We Really Learn to See? |
| December 6th, 2000 | Albert J. Berger, Ph.D. Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington | The Role of Opioids in Pain Modulation |
| January 17th, 2001 | Jennifer Whistler, Ph.D. Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center, University of California, San Francisco | RAVE and Opiate Receptors |
| February 7th, 2001 | Pedro Jose, M.D., Ph.D. Georgetown University School of Medicine | Role of Dopamine Receptor Subtypes in Hypertension |
| March 7th, 2001 | Steven Glickman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology and Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley | Sex and the Spotted Hyena: General Principles from an Unusual Animal |
| March 21st, 2001 | Ling Xu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Nephrology, OHSU | Angiotensin II Increases Sympathetic Outflow in Freely Moving Rats |
| April 18th, 2001 | Mary-Jeanne Kreek, M.D., Ph.D. Rockefeller University | Opioids, Stress Responsivity and the Addictions |
| May 2nd, 2001 | Alan Sved, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh | Vasopressin and Oxytocin in Cardiovascular Regulation: Some New Ideas on Some Old Hormones |
1999-2000
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| October 6, 1999 | Karie Scrogin, Ph.D. Loyola University Medical Center | Protective Effects of Serotonergic Agonists in Hypotensive Hemorrhage |
| October 18, 1999 | Hiroshi Uda, Ph.D. Nagasaki University, Japan | In Vivo Pain Regulatory Role of Nociceptin-OFQ |
| October 20, 1999 | Wise Young, M.D., Ph.D. Rutgers University | Cytokines and Methylprednisonolone: Therapy of Spinal Cord Injury |
| November 3, 1999 | Ellis Levin, M.D. University of California at Irvine | Plasma Membrane Estrogen Receptor: Role in Cell Physiology |
| March 15, 2000 | Antonello Bonci, M.D. University of California, San Francisco | Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity on Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons |
| March 29, 2000 | Michael S. Levine, Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles | Cellular Alterations in the Striatum in Transgenic Mouse Models of Huntington's |
| April 5, 2000 | Frank L. Moore, Ph.D. Oregon State University | Converging Opioid and Corticosteroid Pathways that Control Stress Responses in an Amphibian |
| April 12, 2000 | Robert Speth, Ph.D. Washington State University | Looking for Angiotensin Receptors in All the Wrong Places or Is there Function after Binding |
| April 19, 2000 | Michael M. Morgan, Ph.D. Washington State University | Tolerance to the Antinociciptive Effects of Morphine: In Search of the Responsible Neurons |
| April 26, 2000 | Art Arnold, Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles | Do Sex Chromosomal Genes Contribute Directly to the Induction of Sex Differences in Brain Development? |
| May 24, 2000 | Jon E. Levine, Ph.D. Northwestern University | Neuronal Progerterone Receptors: Where Signals Converge to Surge |
| May 31, 2000 | Ruth Siegel, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University | Cerebellar Differentiation and the Regulation of GABAA Receptor Gene Expression |
1998-1999
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| September 16, 1998 | Nicholas Holford, MB, ChB University of Auckland | Population Modeling of Disease Progress Applied to Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease |
| October 21, 1998 | Tom Scanlan, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco | Nuclear Hormone Receptor Structure, Ligands and Signaling |
| October 29, 1998 | Jane Harding, ONZM, DPhil University of Auckland | Nutrition, Fetal Growth, and Its Consequences |
| November 11, 1998 | Alan Gintzler, Ph.D. SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn | Female-Specific Pain Processing: Relevance of Reproductive State |
| November 13, 1998 | Alexander T. McKnight Cambridge University Forvie Site | Classical Pharmacological Approach to Recombinant Receptors |
| November 17, 1998 | Johan Storm, M.D., Ph.D. University of Oslo | Modulation of K+ Channels in the Hippocampus |
| December 18, 1998 | Susan A. Aicher, Ph.D. Cornell University Medical College | Brain Stem Pathways that Regulate Sympathetic Outflow |
| January 20, 1999 | Rick R. Neubig, M.D., Ph.D. University of Michigan | Mechanisms of G Protein Activation and Deactivation |
| February 17, 1999 | Kenneth E. Thummel, Ph.D. University of Washington | Kinetics of Intestinal First-Pass Drug Metabolism: Investigations with Caco-2 Monolayers |
| February 18, 1999 | Kush Paul Doctoral Student University of Texas | Chaos in Thalamocortical Oscillations |
| March 3, 1999 | Frank Porreca, Ph.D. University of Arizona | Pathological Role of Dynorphin in Pain |
| March 31, 1999 | D. James Surmeier, Ph.D. NUIN Northwestern University Medical School | So That's What Dopamine Does! New Insights from Patch Clamp and scRT-PRC |
| April 14, 1999 | Joan J. Kendig, Ph.D. Stanford University | Excitatory Actions of Depressant Drugs: Acute Tolerance and Withdrawal |
| April 15, 1999 | Karen L. Barstow, Ph.D. Boston University | Subthalamic Neurons Trigger Dendritic Release of Dopamine in Rat Substantia Nigra |
| April 21, 1999 | Carl Kovelowski, Ph.D. University of Arizona Health Sciences Center | Delta-Opioid Receptor Mediated Antinociception in the Rat: Acute, Tonic and Neuropathic Pain States |
| April 28, 1999 | Linda S. Sorkin, Ph.D. University of California at San Diego | Actions of TNT-Alpha on Nociceptive Sensory Afferent Fibers |
| May 12, 1999 | James R. Bloedel, Ph.D. Barrow Neurological Institute | The Role of the Cerebellum in the Acquisition of Motor Behavior |
| May 19, 1999 | Paul Micevych, Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles | The Two Sides of the Same Coin: Opioid and Nociceptin Modulation of Reproduction |
| May 26, 1999 | R. Lane Brown, Ph.D. Neurological Sciences Institute | Molecular Dissection of Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel Function |
| June 24, 1999 | Toru Aizawa, M.D., Ph.D. Shinsshu University, Japan | Functional Heterogeneity of Pancreatic Islets: Implication for Impaired Insulin Secretion in Diabetes |
| June 30, 1999 | Brigitte Kieffer, Ph.D. Univ. Louis Pasteur, France | Genetic Approaches to Study Opioid Receptor Function |
| July 1, 1999 | Randolph J. Nudo, Ph.D. University of Kansas Medical Center | Role of Neuroplasticity in Functional Recovery after Stroke |
| July 14, 1999 | Daniel J. Spergel, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany | GABA- and Glutamate-Gated Channels of GFP-Labeled GnRH Neurons in Brain Slices of Transgenic Mice |
1997-1998
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| September 10, 1997 | Steve Sorota, Ph.D. Columbia University | Role of Tyrosine Phosphorylation and cAMP in the Activation and Modulation of Cardiac Swelling-Induced Chloride Current |
| September 17, 1997 | Mary E. Abood, Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University | Marijuana: From Medicinal Plant to Receptor Genes |
| September 24, 1997 | Paul B. Bennett, Jr., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University | Molecular Physiology and Pharmacology of Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias: Ion Channels and the Long QT Syndrome |
| October 1, 1997 | Paul R. Ernsberger, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University | Discovery and Characterization of the I1-imidazoline Receptor |
| November 5, 1997 | B. L. Langille University of Toronto | Developmental Remodeling of Arteries: Influence of Blood Flow |
| November 19, 1997 | Carmen C. Canavier, Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston | Computer Modeling of Firing Pattern Regulation in Dopamine Neurons |
| November 26, 1997 | Jeffry S. Isaacson, Ph.D. University of Washington | Reciprocal Synapses Revisited: Dendritic Signaling in an Olfactory Circuit |
| February 9, 1998 | Diane E. McClure, Ph.D., DVM Ohio State University | Comparative Host Defense Systems Interactions with Cardiopulmonary Systems |
| February 11, 1998 | Makoto Sato Iwate Medical University, Japan | Modulatory Effects of Protein Kinases and Phosphatases on Receptor Activated Potassium Currents |
| June 17, 1998 | Margaret K. McLaughlin, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh | Is Endothelin a Renal Vasodilator During Pregnancy? |
1996-1997
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| January 23, 1997 | Michael Robinson, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania | Pharmacology, Regulation and Function of Na+-Dependent Glutamate Transporters |
| February 27, 1997 | William Rainey, Ph.D. University of Texas, Dallas | Calcium Signaling: An Alternate Pathway Regulating Steroid Hormone Synthesis |
| April 2, 1997 | Kathleen Ryan, Ph.D. University of Pittsburg | Sexual Maturation in Ferrets: Prolactin or Dopamine? |
| April 16, 1997 | Ted Slotkin, Ph.D. Duke University | Prenatal Nicotine Exposure: Is it Worse than Cocaine? |
| April 30, 1997 | Nicholas Sperelakis, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati | Regulation of Ca+ Channels in Heart and Vascular Smooth Muscle by Phosphorylation |
| May 7, 1997 | David Averill, Ph.D. Bowman-Gray University | Area Postrema Lesion in Hypertensive Rats |
