Dissertation Defense
"Role of Homocysteine in the Pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease"
Javier Pacheco-Quinto
Monday, January 28, 2008 2:00 pm
8th Floor Conference Room
2020 Gravier St. New Orleans, LA
Chancellor's Award Lecture
"The Arachidonic Acid Cascade: Novel Therapeutic Applications"
Bengt Samuelsson, MD, PhD
- Dean, Medical Faculty, Karolinska Institutet (1978-1983)
- President, Karolinska Institutet, (1983-1995)
- Member Nobel Committee, Physiology or Medicine (1984-1989, Chairman 1987-1989)
- Member Nobel Assembly, Physiology or Medicine (1972-1999, Chairman 1990)
- Chairman, Board of Directors, Nobel Foundation (1993-2005)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1982
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:00 pm
8th Floor Conference Room
2020 Gravier St. New Orleans, LA
Faculty Candidate
Jason Luther, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, Biology Department
Waltham, MA
Presenting
"Neurotrophin Regulation of Functional Neuronal Properties Setting the Tone for the Sympathetic Nervous System"
Friday February 22, 2008 4:00pm,
8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
Faculty Candidate
Mikhail Golovko, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of North Dakota
Presenting
"a-Synuclein is Critical for the Maintenance of Brain Lipid Metabolism"
Tuesday February 26, 2008 4:00pm,
8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
Faculty Candidate
XiaoChing Li, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Animal Behavior, The Rockefeller University
Presenting
“Neuronal Replacement and Vocal Learning in Songbirds”
Thursday February 28, 2008 11:30am, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street New Orleans
Faculty Candidate
Minghao Jin, V.M.D., Ph.D.
Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Presenting
“The Role of Retinoid Cycle in Vision and Retinal Degeneration”
Thursday March 6, 2008 4:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street New Orleans
Faculty Candidate
Isaac Onyango, DVM, Ph.D.
Center for the Study of Neurodegenerative Disease
Presenting
“Mitochondria and Alzheimer's Disease”
Wednesday March 12, 2008 4:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street New Orleans
Faculty Candidate
Huichen Wang, Ph.D.
Center for Neurovirology, Department of Neuroscience School of Medicine
Presenting
“DNA Double-Strand Break Repair and Neurogenesis”
Wednesday March 19, 2008 12:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street New Orleans
Faculty Candidate
Wensheng Lin, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago
Presenting
“Endoplasmic reticulum stress modulates the response of
oligodendrocytes to interferon-gamma”
Tuesday April 15, 2008 4:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street New Orleans
Faculty Candidate
Fernanda Laezza, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Developmental Biology,
Washington University in St. Loius
Presenting
“Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factors are Novel Regulators
of Neuronal Excitability”
Monday April 19, 2008 12:00pm, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street New Orleans
Chancellor's Award Lecture
"Organization of Neuronal cAMP and Calcium Signaling by Scaffolding Proteins"
Mark L. Dell'Acqua, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Denver
May 8, 2008 12:00 pm, 8th Floor Conference Room
2020 Gravier St. New Orleans, LA
20th Annual Neuroscience Retreat
Saturday, May 10th from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Keynote and Chancellor’s Award Lecturer
Dr. Susumu Tonegawa
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1987
Director, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory,
The RIKEN-MIT Center for Neuroscience, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presenting
“Roles of the Individual Hippocampal Circuits in Episodic and Spatial Memory”
Keynote lecture at 9:00 AM, 8th Floor Neuroscience Center
Conference Room, LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street
Faculty Candidate
Youming Lu, Ph.D.
Biomedical Science Center
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences
College of Medicine, University of Central Florida
Presenting
Cell Death Signals in Glutamate Receptor Degeneration
Monday May 26, 2008 11:30am,
8th Floor Neuroscience Center Conference Room,
LSU Lion’s Building, 2020 Gravier Street, New Orleans
Chancellor's Award Lecture
Garret A. FitzGerald, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
McNeil Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Director, Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics
University of Pennsylvania
Monday September 8, 2008, 12:00 pm, LSU Lions Bldg., 2020 Gravier Street,
8th floor conference room
Title: TBA
Chancellor’s Award Lecture
Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D.
President, ISNN
President, The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health
Washington, DC
Date & Title: TBA
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