VCAPP Seminar Series 2008
Note: Click on link next to speaker name for biographical information
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.
Fall 2008 Coordinator: Dr. Catherine Ulibarri (please watch for
updates/changes to be announced as they are finalized).
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FALL
2008:
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. Jaak Panksepp
Endowed Chair, Department of VCAPP/Animal Well-Being,
Washington State University
Title: The Playful Brain Awash in 'Luderons': The Modern Search for
Cerebral Fountains of Youth
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Ruth Newberry
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Virginia Morell
Science Writer
Note:
Virginia Morell is a contributing correspondent for Science, a
regular contributor and member of the Expeditions Council at National
Geographic, and a regular contributor to Smithsonian.
She has written for the New York Times Magazine,
Discover, and Natural History magazines.
In addition to her many articles, she has written two books:
Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's
Beginnings (Simon & Schuster 1995; this was a New York Times
Notable Book of the Year), and Blue Nile (National Geographic,
2001), about an expedition she joined that traveled the length of the Blue
Nile from the source in Ethiopia to the Sudan border (this was a San
Francisco Chronicle Best Travel Book).
She also co-authored with Richard Leakey Wildlife Wars (St.
Martins, 2001), about Leakey's efforts to stop the elephant poaching in
Africa (this was a Washington Post Best Book of Year).
Ms. Morell is currently working on a new book about animal mind and
cognition (an expansion of the her article "Minds of Their Own" that
appeared in the March 2008 National Geographic).
Seminar Title: Science and Story-Telling: The Art of the Factual
Narrative
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Jaak Panksepp
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. James Ha
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle
Title: The Social Behavior of Highly Cognitive Animals:
Examples from Crows, Monkeys, and Orca Whales
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr.
Ruth Newberry
Date:
Thursday, October 30, 2008 (awaiting confirmation)
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Jaak Panksepp
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
Time:
4:10 pm
Place: Wegner Hall G-1
Speaker: Dr. Brendan Walker
Department of Psychology, Washington State University
Title: The role of kappa-opioid/dynorphin systems in
alcohol abuse
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr.
Jaak Panksepp
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Ruth
Newberry
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
Presentation: Student Poster Event
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Sandra Brabb
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner Hall G-1
Speaker: Dr. Garet Lahvis
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Title: Measures of mouse social motivation can reveal
mechanisms of psychosocial disorders...perhaps even autism
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Jaak Panksepp
(WATCH FOR MORE INFORMATION/UPDATES)
COMPLETED FALL 2008
Date:
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Mario Liotti,
MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, Canada
Title: Human Neuroimaging of Normal and Abnormal Subjective
Feelings
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Jaak Panksepp
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker: Dr. Danny
Winder
Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics; Director Vanderbilt Murine
Behavioral Core, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Title: Modulation of Glutamatergic Transmission in the
Extended Amygdala by Drugs of Abuse and Stress
Sponsor: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program/Department of
VCAPP
Host: Dr. Yan Dong
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker:
Dr. Rebecca Craft
Dept. Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Washington State
University
Title: Sexual Differentiation of Pain and Opioid Analgesia
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr.
Cathy Ulibarri
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
Time: 4:10 pm
Place: Wegner G-1
Speaker:
Daniel M. Weary,
D.Phil.
Professor of Agroecology and NSERC Industrial Research
Chair in Animal Welfare, Program in Animal Welfare
The Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Canada
Title:
Assessment of Pain and Distress in Animals
Sponsor: Department of VCAPP
Host: Dr. Ruth
Newberry
