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2012 Spring Seminar Series

Tuesday - 4:00 p.m. - Room 5-201

 

February 14

PETER WINSAUER, Ph.D.

Cannabinoid abuse and its interaction with ovarian hormones during

 

Professor

adolescence

 

Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics

 

 

LSU Health Sciences Center

 

 

New Orleans, LA

 

 

 

 

February 21

DAVID McGEE, Ph.D.

 

 

Associate Professor

Cholesterol-mediated adaptation of Helicobacter pylori  to stress

 

Department of Microbiology & Immunology

 

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

March 6

LEWIS B. KINTER, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., Fellow A.T.S.

Graduate Student Distinguished Lecturer

 

Senior Director, Regulatory Toxicology

Urinary Biomarkers & Drug-Induced Kidney Injury (DIKI): Status &

 

Head, Toxicological Operations, Safety Assessment (U.S.)

Opportunities

 

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

 

 

Wilmington, PA

 

 

 

 

March 20

JING CHEN, Ph.D.

Signaling and targeting of cancer metabolism

 

Associate Professor

 

 

Associate Director for Basic Research, Division of Hematology

 

 

Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology

 

 

Emory University School of Medicine

 

 

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory

 

 

Atlanta, GA

 

 

 

 

March 22

MICHELLE CARROLL-TURPIN

Dissertation Proposal Defense

Thursday

Graduate Student

Evaluating the role of TGF-beta and CXCR4 Signaling in Breast Cancer

9:00 A.M.

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

Progression & it’s Potential as a Therapeutic Target

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

March 22

NANJOO SUH, Ph.D.

Novel mechanisms of action of Gemini vitamin D analogs in the inhibition

Thursday

Associate Professor

of breast cancer progression and invasion

4:00 P.M.

Department of Chemical Biology

 

 

Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy  

 

 

Rutgers University

 

 

Piscataway, NJ

 

 

 

 

March 27

CHRIS SCHMOUTZ

Dissertation Defense

9:00 A.M.

Graduate Student

The intersection of metyrapone, inhibitory neurosteriods and cocaine

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

addiction

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

March 29

TANYA CHOTIBUT

Dissertation Proposal Defense

Thursday

Graduate Student

Transporter Plasticity in Parkinson’s Disease: Implications for the

1:00 P.M.

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

Treatment of L-Dopa Induced Dyskinesia

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

March 30

PAUL ROSENBERG, M.D., Ph.D.

The clearance of glutamate at synapses

FRIDAY

Associate Professor

 

 

Department of Neurology

 

 

Harvard Medical School

 

 

Children’s Hospital Boston

 

 

Boston, MA

 

 

 

 

April 3

GREG BUTCHER, Ph.D.

Mitogen and stress-activated protein kinase 1 (MSK1), a regulator of the

 

Neuroscience Program Coordinator

mammalian circadian clock

 

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

 

 

Centenary College of Louisiana

 

 

Shreveport, LA

 

 

 

 

April 10

GREG LANDRY

Data Discussion

Graduate Student

Cytotoxic Mechanisms of Diglycolic Acid and a Comparison of

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

Metabolite Sensitivity in Human vs. Rat Proximal Tubule Cells In Vitro

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

April 17  

DELIRA ROBBINS

Dissertation Defense

9:00 A.M.

Graduate Student

Modulation of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD): Effects on

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

pro-inflammatory and p53 signaling

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

April 24

SCOTT PRUETT

 Dissertation Defense

9:00 A.M.

Graduate Student

Impacting movement initiation by targeting dopamine in the substantia nigra

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

 

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 1

JENNIFER ARNOLD

Seminars Based on Upcoming Posters

 

Graduate Student

 

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

 

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

 

KENDRA BONNETT

 

 

Graduate Student

 

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

 

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

 

ALLYSON SPENCE

 

 

Graduate Student

 

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

 

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

May 7

RICHARD DE LA GARZA, II, Ph.D.

Polypharmacotherapeutic  Approaches to Treating Stimulant Addiction

MONDAY

Associate Professor

 

 

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

 

 

Department of Neuroscience

 

 

Baylor College of Medicine

 

 

Houston, TX

 

 

 

 

May 8

ELYSE CORNETT

Dissertation Proposal Defense

9:00 A.M.

Graduate Student

96 Hour Methamphetamine Self-Administration- A Model of Human

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

Methamphetamine Abuse?

 

LSU Health Shreveport

 

 

 

 

May 15

COURTNEY KELLAR

Data Discussion

 

Graduate Student

Effects of the combination of metyrapone and oxazepam on cocaine-induced

 

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience

conditioned place preference

 

 

May 22

ANA PAJOR, Ph.D.

Sodium-dependent succinate and citrate transporters from the SLC13 family

 

Professor

 

Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

 

University of California San Diego

 

La Jolla, CA

 

 

 

 

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