Fall 1999
Date Speaker Institution Topic A&M Contact
15-Sep GEORGE RICAURTE Johns Hopkins The neurotoxic potential of ring-substituted amphetamines Paul Wellman
29-Sep JOEL GALLAGHER University of Texas at Galveston Non-biogenic amine mediated effects of chronic cocaine - Opportunities for novel pharmacotherapies Brian McCool
13-Oct JACK PANKSEPP Bowling Green State University Affective Neuroscience: The foundations of human and animal emotions : The case of animal laughter Paul Wellman
3-Nov FIRDAUS DHABHAR Rockefeller Good" stress "Bad" stress and in vivo immune function - Interactions between hormones, cytokines and leukocyte trafficking Jane Welsh
10-Nov ALLYN HOWLETT Pharm/Physio Sciences The Cannabinoid Receptors: Agonists, Antagonists and Signal Transduction Joe Song
17-Nov GERALD FRYE Texas A&M University Health Science Center Sensitivity of native GABA and glutamate receptors to ethanol Paul Wellman
24-Nov ALCINO SILVA UCLA Molecular and cellular approaches to unraveling elements of cognition Efthimios "Makis" Skoulakis
8-Dec JOSEPH JUSTICE Emory University Mechanisms of cocaine and amphetamine at dopamine and norepinephrine transporters Susan Schenk
Spring 2000
Date Speaker Institution Topic A&M Contact
19-Jan MIKE MAUK UT-Medical Trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to build one Jim Grau
2-Feb MICHAEL FANSELOW UCLA Fear: From function to physiology Jim Grau
25-Feb DOMINIQUE ALLERAND Columbia University Novel sites and mechanisms of estrogen action in the developing brain Rajesh Miranda
8-Mar JON LINDSTROM Univ. Pennsylvania Med. School Nicotine receptors and nicotine Doug Dohrman
5-Apr CHRISTINE ZINK Johns Hopkins University Pathogenesis of SIV encephalitis as a model for AIDS dementia Louise Abbott
25-Apr BENJAMIN RUSAK Dalhousie University Light and mammalian circadian rhythms Vincent Cassone