School of Medicine

Neuroscience Center of Excellence

Seminars and Lectures 2018

Dean's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

How do Microglia & Microphages Influence Stroke Outcomes?

Jun Chen, MD, PhD

Richard K. Mellon Professor and Director
Pittsburgh Institute of Brain Disorders & Recovery
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

12:00 p.m.
Friday
December 7, 2018

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

 

Seminar in Neuroscience

Targeting NLRP3 inflammasomes for TBI and AD

Dong Sun, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA

12:00 p.m.
Friday
November 9, 2018

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

Chancellor's Award Lectrure in Neuroscience


Role of Zinc in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
using Community Based Eye Banks

 

Erik van Kuijk, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Neurosciences
Medical School, University of Minnesota.
Minneapolis, MN

3:30 p.m.
Wednesday
November 7, 2018

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

 

Seminar in Neuroscience

The Association between Corneal Dendritic Cells, Corneal Nerve Morphology
Inflammatory Mediators and Neuropeptides


Lusia Holguin-Colorado, BAppSc(Optom), PhD

Postdoctoral research fellow, Anterior Eye Laboratory,
Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation,
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

11:00 p.m.
Tuesday
November 6, 2018

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

 

Dean's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

Novel Methodology for the Development of Early Diagnostics
of Parkinson's Disease


Michael V. Ugrumov, MD, PhD

Institute of Developmental Biology,
Russian Academy of Sciences
Director, Ltd. “Center of the Early Diagnostics of Neurodegenerative Disease”
Faculty of Psychology, National Research University
Higher School of Economy, Moscow, Russia

12:00 p.m.
Friday
November 2, 2018

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

 

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Dr. Bazan with Dr. Urgumov and Dr. Farris


Seminar in Neuroscience

Can We Use Nuclic Acids to Prevent
Toxic Protein Aggregation?

Scott Horowitz, PhD

Director, Institute of Innate Immunity, University of Bonn, Germany
Cooperation Unit Leader, Innate Immunity in Neurodegeneration, DZNE Bonn, Germany
Adjunct Professor, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

 

Wednesday, August 8, 2018
3:30 p.m.

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

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Eric Knott, Scott Horowitz, Nicolas and Haydee Bazan and William Gordon
 

Dean's Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Medicine

NLRP3 inflammasome activation in atherosclerosis and
Alzheimer's disease: challenges and opportunities

Eicke Latz, MD PhD

Director, Institute of Innate Immunity, University of Bonn, Germany

Cooperation Unit Leader, Innate Immunity in Neurodegeneration, DZNE Bonn, Germany
Adjunct Professor, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

 

Wednesday, August 8, 2018
3:30 p.m.

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

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Dr. Latz with Dr. Nelson and Dr. Bazan upon presentation of award.


Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Medicine

12 Lipoxygenase, 12 (S)-HETE and
12-HETER receptor axis: then, now and tomorrow


Kenneth V. Honn, PhD

Distinguished Professor, Departments of Pathology,
Oncology and Chemistry & Director, Bioactive Lipids Research Program,
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2:00 p.m.
Monday
April 23, 2018

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

 


Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Medicine

The p53 Family:
How does p73 cause neuronal defects?


Gerry Melino, MD, PhD, Dr Sci hc

Programme Leader, Medical Research Council (MRC),Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Head of “Theme 2” on Genes-Environment interactions following toxic insults
Director of the Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery and
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Italy

12:00 p.m.
Friday
April 20, 2018

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  

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Dr. Nicolas Bazan presenting the award to Dr. Melino with Dr. Moerschbaecher

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience
 

The Happy Ending of Inflammation:
The Role of Polyunsaturated Lipid Mediators


Nicoas A. Petasis, PhD

Harold E. & Lillian M. Moulton Chair in Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology
Department of Chemistry, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
School of Pharmacy, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

3:30 p.m.
Tuesday
March 13, 2018

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence Conference Room
more info: zdavis@lsuhsc.edu  
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Dr. Nicolas Bazan presenting the award to Dr. Petasis
 


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