Past Events 2012

Special Seminar in Neuroscience
Sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Society for Neuroscience

Cell Death, Autophagy and Lysosomes in Brain Cells:
Roles of Zinc and Metallothionein-3

Jae Y. Koh, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Neurology,
University of Ulsan, College of Medicine
Seoul, Korea

4:00 p.m., Thursday
October 18, 2012

Clinical Sciences Research Building (CSRB) Room 563
533 Bolivar Street, New Orleans, LA

 

Special Seminar in Neuroscience

Dynamics and Plasticity in Neuronal Networks

Dr. Guoqiang Bi  

Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurobiology
University of Science and Technology of China

12:00 p.m., Thursday
October 11, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

 

Special Seminar in Neuroscience

Translational Pharmacokinetics Approach to Estimate
Clinically Efficacious Doses of CNS Active Agents
 

Dr. Robert E. Stratford, Jr.

Assistant Professor
Division of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy, Xavier University
New Orleans, LA

date to be rescheduled

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

 
Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan and Dr. Michael Ugrumov and
Dr. Joseph M. Moerschbaecher presenting Dr. Ugrumov with his award

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

Mechanisms of the Brain Plasticity Under Degeneration of Dopaminergic
Neurons With Focus on Dopamine Synthesis by Non-Dopaminergic Neurons

Dr. Michael Ugrumov

Counselor of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Head of Laboratories,
Institute of Developmental Biology and Institute of Normal Physiology
Moscow, Russia

12:00 p.m.
Friday September 7, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

 
Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan and Dr. Julio-Alvarez Builla and
Dr. Joseph M. Moerschbaecher upon presenting Dr. Builla with his award

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

Drugs Are Molecules

Juilo Alvarez-Builla

Professor
Department of Organic Chemistry
University of Alcalá
28871 Alcala de Henares
Madrid, Spain

12:00 p.m.
Monday June 18, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

 

Presentation of Award to Prof. Guiseppe Nistico' by Dr. Larry Hollier
and by Dr. Nicolas Bazan

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

From Alkmeon to Rita Levi-Montalcini, The Evolution of Neuroscience

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Professor Giuseppe Nistico'

General Director,
European Brain Research Institute
Rita Levi Montalcini Foundation

4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

Neuroprotective Effects of Guanosine Against Glutamatergic Excitotoxicity
in Experimental Models of Brain Injury

Professor Diogo Onofre Souza

Departamento de Bioquimica,
PPG em Bioquimica, ICBS,
UFRGS, Brazil

12:00 p.m.
Friday, April 27, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Dean's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

Walking the Highwire from Synaptic Growth to the Axonal Injury Response

Aaron DiAntonio, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Developmental Biology,
Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, MO

12:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 26, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Dean's Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Ophthalmology

Sex-Specific and Dietary Regulation of Intrinsic Protective Lipid Circuits

Karsten Gronert, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Solon M. and Pearl A. Braff Chair in Clinical Optometric Science
Vision Science Graduate Program School of Optometry
University of California, Berkeley, CA

12:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

 Presentation of Award to Reza Dana by Nicolas Bazan

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neurosciences and Ophthalmology

From "Bench to Bedside": Recent Discoveries in the Immunopathogenic
Mechansims of Corneal and Ocular Surface Inflammatory Disorders

Reza Dana, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.

Claes Dohlman Chair in Opthalmology
Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Vice Chairman, Harvard Department of Ophthalmology and
Associate Chief of Ophthalmology for Academic Programs
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Co-Director of Research, Senior Scientist &
W. Clement Stone Scholar
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Director, Cornea & Refractive Surgery
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary 

12:00 p.m.
Friday, February 3, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

The Addicted Brain

Luigi Pulvirenti, M.D.

Director, Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies,
San Quirico d'Orcia, Siena, Italy and Associate Professor Pearson
Center for Alcoholism and Addictive  Research,
Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders
and The Scripps Research Institute,
La Jolla, California, USA

12:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Special Seminar in Neuroscience

Intravenous Mesenchymal Stem Cells Treatment Regulates
Hippocampal Neurogenesis Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Yuhai Zhao, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Translational Injury Research
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX

12:00 p.m.
January 19, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

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