Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs Seminars
ADDICTION RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
These seminars, hosted by the Alcohol Research Center (ARC), Neurobiology of Addictions Research Center (NARC), and the Women’s Research Center (WRC), are held on THURSDAYS from 12:00p.m. to 1:00p.m. in the Institute of Psychiatry Auditorium unless otherwise indicated. Seminar speakers present a formal lecture and then meet individually or in small groups with interested faculty and trainees. Although intended primarily for the enrichment of the faculty and trainees, the presentations of these prominent scientists are advertised to the MUSC academic community, as well. UPCOMING ADDICTION RESEARCH SEMINARS | Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | | 9/3/2009 | John Neumaier, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington | Role of 5-HT1B and 5-HT6 receptors in modulating drug reward | | 9/24/2009 | Howard Fields, PhD
Professor, University of California
San Francisco | Action selection circuits in the ventral striatum | 10/12/2009
| Mart Saarma, PhD
Director and Professor
Institute of Biotechnology
University of Helsinki, Finland
*2:00pm-3:00pm/BSB 402 | Structure and therapeutic potential of new neurotrophic factors | | 10/15/2009 | Uri Shalev, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology
Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology of Drug Abuse
Concordia University | What can we learn from the rat about the interaction between relapse to drug use and eating-control mechanisms? | | 11/19/2009 | Christopher L. Cunningham, PhD
Professor, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience
Oregon Health & Science University | Seeking ethanol reward | | 12/3/2009 | Kathleen M. Kantak, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Director, Lab of Behavioral Neuroscience
Boston University | Pharmacological strategies to enhance extinction of drug-seeking behavior | | 12/17/2009 | Julie A. Blendy, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Translational Research Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania | Functional characterization of mu-opioid receptor variant A118G in addiction: Of men and mice | | 1/7/2010 | Stephen Dewey, PhD
Senior Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmacology
State University of New York, Stony Brook | TBA | | 1/21/2010 | Maxine Stitzer, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University | TBA | | 2/4/2010 | Susan F. Tapert, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego | TBA | | 2/18/2010 | Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Mount Sinai Medical Center | TBA | | 3/4/2010 | Stephen Tiffany, PhD
Empire Innovation Professor, Department of Psychology
State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo | TBA | | 3/18/2010 | Colleen A. McClung, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas | TBA | | 4/1/2010 | Charlotte Boettiger, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | TBA | | 4/15/2009 | Carl Hart, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Columbia University
Director, Residential Studies and Methamphetamine Research Laboratories
New York State Psychiatric Institute | TBA | | 5/6/2010 | John T. Williams, PhD
Senior Scientist, Neuroscience Graduate Program
Oregon Health & Science University | TBA | | 5/20/2010 | Dorit Ron, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center
University of California, San Francisco | TBA |
NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES
These seminars are part of the Neuroscience course education/training. These seminars are held on FRIDAYS from 3:00p.m.-4:00p.m. in 402 BSB unless otherwise noted. Seminars are usually based on Neuroscience research. Although intended primarily for the enrichment of the Neuroscience faculty and students, these presentations are open to the MUSC academic community, as well. For a complete listing of the seminar speakers, please click on the Neuroscience Seminar Series link.
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