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PHARMACOLOGY SEMINARS

The Department of Pharmacology hosts vibrant seminar speakers every academic year to inspire new scientific thoughts and exploration.

BROWSE SEMINARS
PHARMACOLOGY SEMINARS Krebs Lecture Laura Sheard Lecture Calendar of Events

Winter 2022

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John Neumaier

Dr. Marco Pravetoni

2/22/22

2:30pm

via Zoom

Vaccines and antibody-based strategies for treatment and prevention of substance use disorders and overdose

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Dr. Larry Zweifel

Dr. Meaghan Creed

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Center
Washington University School of Medicine

3/10/22

10:30AM

via zoom

Dissecting the Role of Non-canonical Ventral Pallidal Neurons in Reward Processing

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Hosted by Dr. Michael Bruchas and Dr. Larry Zweifel

Dr. Tianyi Mao

Associate Professor
Vollum Institute Scientist
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University

3/3/22

10:30AM

via zoom

Understanding Functional Architecture and Neuromodulation of Brain circuitry using Connectomic and Novel Imaging Approaches

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First Year Pharmacology Graduate Students

2/8/22

1:30PM

via Zoom

Rotation Talks

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Hosted by Dr. Michael Bruchas and Dr. Larry Zweifel

Dr. Mazen Kheirbek

Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Weill Institute for Neurosciences
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

2/24/22

10:30AM

via zoom

Representing rewarding and emotionally relevant stimuli in hippocampal circuits

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Laura Sheard Lecture

Dr. Sonya Neal

Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego

2/17/22

10:30AM

via zoom

The role of rhomboid proteins in protecting the membrane proteome

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Dr. Matthew Hill

Associate Professor
Cell Biology and Anatomy
Hotchkiss Brain Institute
University of Calgary

2/3/22

10:30AM

via zoom

Cannabinoids, Stress and the Amygdala

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Hosted by Dr. David Shechner

Professor Matthias W. Hentze MD, FAA, ML

Director, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

1/20/22

10:30AM

via zoom

A new continent of the RNA World

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Hosted by Dr. Yasemin Sancak

Dr. Heidi McBride

Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Cell Biology
Professor, McGill University
Montreal Neurological Institute

1/13/22

10:30AM

via zoom

New insights into mitochondrial vesicle formation and links to disease