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and/or email address (if available). Seminar information will be posted as
it is finalized. Please check back for information on future seminar
speakers, dates, times and topics.
Spring 2008 Coordinator: Dr. Barb Sorg (please watch for updates/changes)
Watch for Fall 2008 seminars to be announced as they are finalized.
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COMPLETED 2008:
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. Gabor Mate,
M.D.
Physician, author and noted public speaker
Title: The addiction process and the addiction-prone personality:
A biopsychosocial perspective
Sponsor: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program/Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Jaak Panksepp, VCAPP
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. Charlie Chavkin, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology/Director Center for Drug Addiction Research
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Title: How does stress increase the risk of drug addiction?
Sponsor: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program/Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Ray Quock, Pharmacology
Date: Thursday, February 14, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Hans P.A. Van Dongen,
Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Washington State University, Spokane Campus
Title: Use-dependence in performance
impairment during sleep deprivation and in recovery sleep
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP/Sleep Group
Host: Dr. Jim Krueger, VCAPP
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. Catherine Hagan
Senior Fellow in the Department of Comparative Medicine
School of Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle
Title: How to measure brain serotonin uptake and why
Sponsor: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program/Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Barbara Sorg, VCAPP/Drug and Alcohol Program
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. Hannah V. Carey
Title: Physiology's role in clinical and basic science education
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Warwick Bayly, Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. Martin J. Sadowski, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine
Title: Targeting pathological protein conformation in Alzheimer's and
prion diseases
Sponsor: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program/Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Krzysztof Czaja, VCAPP
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. Tung Fong
Affiliation: Merck Research Laboratories
Department of Metabolic Disorders
Somerset, NJ
Title: Discovery of novel anti-obesity agents
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP and CIB
Host: Dr. Barbara Sorg, VCAPP/Drug and Alcohol Program
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008, Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Student speakers: Rim Riley/Adie Wilson/Will Clegern
Washington State University
Titles: TBA
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner 201
Speaker: Mark Bouton
Professor/Assistant Director Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate Program
University of Vermont
Title: TBA
Sponsor:
Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Barbara Sorg, VCAPP, Drug and Alcohol Program
