Seminars and Lectures
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Tuesday, 2
IMM Seminar Series
Mark B. McClellan, MD, Ph.D., Director, Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform, The Brookings Institution
“FDA’s Big Reform Year: Implications for Public Health and Biomedical Research”
11:00 a.m., Sarofim Research Building, Beth Robertson Auditorium
The Neurobiology of Disease: Neurodegenerative Diseases – UTMSH
Nitin Tandon, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, UTMSH
“Degeneration, Regeneration and Epilepsy”
12:15 p.m., MSB 7.037
Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar Series – UTMSH
Roberto Malinow, M.D., Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Receptor Trafficking in Synaptic Function and Dysfunction"
3:00 p.m., MSB 3.001 [ROOM CHANGE!]
Wednesday, 3
Psychiatry Grand Rounds – BCM
Richard B. Pesikoff, M.D., Menninger Department of Psychiatry, BCM and Ernest A. Kendrick, M.D., Private Practice, Houston, TX
"The Meaning of the Word "Know""
10:30 a.m., DeBakey Building-Room M112
Psychology Research and Services Center (PRSC) Clinical Forums – UH
Lynn Rehm, Ph.D., ABPP, Department of Psychology, UH
"The EPPP: What Students Should Know About Licensure"
1:15 p.m., Conference Room at the PRSC in the CRS Building, 4505 Cullen Blvd. Entrance #8.
If you plan to attend a forum and are not in our program, please RSVP by emailing prsc@uh.edu.
Friday, 5
Meeting of the Pavlovian Society of North America - sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin
Please visit http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/PavSocConference.html for additional information.
Abstracts due by July 15, 2007
111 Cesar Chavez at Congress, Austin Texas 78701
Neuroscience Seminar Series – BCM
Molly Cummings, Ph.D., Section of Integrative Biology, UT-Austin
“Mechanisms Influencing Female Mate Choice: from the Periphery to the CNS”
11:00 a.m., Alkek Building N315
Neurology Grand Rounds – UTMSH
James Grotta, M.D., Department of Neurology, UTMSH
12 noon, MSB 2.135
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Alliance Grand Rounds – BCM/UTMSCH
Dr. Ian J. Baguley, Department of Rehab Medicine, University of Sydney
"Dysautonomia following Acquired Brain Injury"
12 Noon, UT Medical School Building, 6431 Fannin, Room B.605
Saturday, 6
14th Annual Houston Neuropsychological Society Symposium and Student Poster Competition
Stephen M. Rao, Ph.D., ABPP-Cn, Director of the Schey Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Cleveland Clinic.
"The Role of fRMI in the Preclinical Detection of Neurodegenerative Disorders"
Please visit www.houstonneuropsych.org for additional information
8:00 a.m., Main Auditorium (4th floor), Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Blvd.
Meeting of the Pavlovian Society of North America - sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin
Please visit http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/PavSocConference.html for additional information.
Abstracts due by July 15, 2007
111 Cesar Chavez at Congress, Austin Texas 78701
Monday, 8
Biochemistry Seminar – UTMSH
Hamad Jafar-Nejad, M.D., Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Institute of Molecular Medicine UTHSCH
“Fine-tuning the Notch Signaling Pathway via Protein O-glucosylation”
12 Noon, MSB 2.135
Tuesday, 9
Fourth Annual Cultural Humility in Medicine Blue Book Series – UTMSH
Sally Holmes, M.D., Spinal Cord Injury Service, Houston VA Medical Center and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, BCM
"Treating Physically Disabled Patients in a Culturally Competent Manner"
12 Noon, MSB 2.006
The Neurobiology of Disease: Neurodegenerative Diseases – UTMSH
Tanvir K. Bell, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, UTMSH
“Neurological Complications of HIV”
12:15 p.m., MSB 7.037
Wednesday, 10
Psychiatry Grand Rounds – BCM
Lucy J. Puryear, M.D., Menninger Department of Psychiatry, BCM and Ernest A. Kendrick, M.D., Private Practice, Houston, TX
"The Reproductive Patient: Challenges and Opportunities"
10:30 a.m., DeBakey Building-Room M112
Psychiatry Lecture Series - UTMSH
Sergi Ferre, M.D., Ph.D., NIDA, Intramural Research Program, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services
“An Update on the Mechanisms of Action of the Psychostimulant Effects of Caffeine”
11:00 a.m., MSI Auditorium
Thursday, 11
NRC Distinguished Lecture in the Neurosciences – UTMSH
John Mazziotta, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurology, University of California at Los Angeles
“An Atlas of the Human Brain: Basic Science & Clinical Applications”
4:00 p.m., MSB 3.001
Optometry Seminar – UH
Takehiko Saito, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology, SUNY Upstate Medical University
"Physiological, Cellular and Molecular Analyses of Newt Retinal Regeneration"
5:15 p.m., UH Optometry, 505 J Davis Armistead Bldg Room 2321
Friday, 12
Neuroscience Seminar Series – BCM
Rachel Wilson, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
"Olfactory Processing in the Drosophila Brain"
11:00 a.m., Alkek Building N315
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Alliance William A. Spencer, MD Lectureship – BCM/UTMSCH
James K. Richardson, M.D., Associate Professor, Dept of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Michigan Health System
"The Sheep, the Sheepdog and the Incredible Shrinking Foot: Understanding Neuropathic Gait"
11:30 a.m., UT Medical School Building, 6431 Fannin, Room 3.001
Center for Addiction Research and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar – UTMB
F. Ivy Carroll, Ph.D., Center for Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, RTI International, Research Triangle Park
“Development of Selective Kappa Opioid Receptor Antagonists”
12 Noon, 1.200 Conference Room, UTMB Pharmacology Building
Network Cluster Seminar – UH
John H. Byrne, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, UTMSH
"Learning-Induced Dynamic Reconfiguration of Central Pattern Generating Network in Aplysia"
1 p.m., SEC 102 at the University of Houston
Directions and further information at http://www.math.uh.edu/networks/
Tuesday, 16
TMC Epilepsy Research Forum
Jokubas Ziburkus, Ph.D., Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston
"Dynamics of in Vitro Seizures: Inhibition, Excitation, and Gap Junctions"
12 Noon, Feigin Center 1st Floor Conference Room, Texas Children's Hospital
Lunch Provided
The Neurobiology of Disease: Neurodegenerative Diseases – UTMSH
Gage Van Horn, M.D., Department of Neurology, UTMSH
“Dementia Overview, Syndromes and Evaluation”
12:15 p.m., MSB 7.037
Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar Series – UTMSH
Jessica Logan, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Rice
"Title to be announced"
3:00 p.m., MSB 2.103
Wednesday, 17
Psychiatry Grand Rounds – BCM
Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
"Shame, Empathy and Resilience"
10:30 a.m., DeBakey Building-Room M112
Psychology Research and Services Center (PRSC) Clinical Forums – UH
Robert Sarmiento, Ph.D., Cyber Psychologist, Houston
"SMART Recovery, an REBT-Based Approach to Substance Use Problems"
1:15 p.m., Conference Room at the PRSC in the CRS Building, 4505 Cullen Blvd. Entrance #8.
If you plan to attend a forum and are not in our program, please RSVP by emailing prsc@uh.edu.
Ernst Knobil Distinguished Lecture Series – UTMSH
Alfred Goldberg, M.D., Harvard University, Boston, MA
“Functions of the Proteasome: From Protein Degradation and Antigen Presentation to Cancer Therapy”
4:00 p.m., MSB 3.001
Thursday, 18
Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Research Seminar – MDACC
Jin Mo Chung, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UTMB-Galveston
"The Role of ROS in Neuropathic Pain"
12:15 p.m., Conference Room B8.4390
Friday, 19
Neuroscience Seminar Series – BCM
Francisco Bezanilla, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago
"Sensing Voltage in Membrane Proteins"
11:00 a.m., Alkek Building N315
Monday, 22
Department of Integrative Biology & Pharmacology – UTMSH
Zhizhong Z. Pan, Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, MDACC
"Opioid Receptor Trafficking"
4 p.m, MSB Room 2.135
Reception to follow in Room 5.036
Tuesday, 23
The Neurobiology of Disease: Neurodegenerative Diseases – UTMSH
Stanley Appel, M.D., Department of Neurology, Methodist Hospital
“ALS and SMA: A Motor Neuron Syndrome”
12:15 p.m., MSB 7.037
Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar Series – UTMSH
Deborah Otteson, Ph.D., College of Optometry, UH
"Molecular Control of Topographic Mapping in Visual System Development"
3:00 p.m., MSB 2.103
Wednesday, 24
Psychiatry Grand Rounds – BCM
David Eagleman, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, BCM
"How Brains See the World: Time, Space and the Senses"
10:30 a.m., DeBakey Building-Room M112
Psychiatry Lecture Series - UTMSH
Katherine Mcqueen, M.D., B.S., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UTMSH
“Screening and Brief Intervention: Research to Reality”
11:00 a.m., MSI Auditorium
Friday, 26
Neuroscience Seminar Series – BCM
Warren H. Meck, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke University
“Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing”
11:00 a.m., Alkek Building N315
Tuesday, 30
The Neurobiology of Disease: Neurodegenerative Diseases – UTMSH
Joshua Breier, Ph.D., Center for Clinical Neurosciences, UTHSCH
“Alzheimer’s Diseases”
12:15 p.m., MSB 7.037
Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar Series – UTMSH
Tatiana Schnur, Ph.D., Department of Psychology , Rice
"When Lexical Selection Gets Tough, the LIFG Gets Going: An fMRI-Lesion Study of Interference During Word Production"
3:00 p.m., MSB 2.103
Wednesday, 31
Psychiatry Grand Rounds – BCM
Lauren Marangell, M.D., Menninger Department of Psychiatry, BCM
"Changing Paradigms in the Conceptualization and Treatment of Mood Disorders"
10:30 a.m., DeBakey Building-Room M112
Psychiatry Clinical Case Presentation - UTMSH
Presenter: Kimberly Kjome, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UTMSH
Discussant: Anne Dougherty, Internal Medicine/Cardiology, UTMSH
“SARC: Case Conference-Methadone and QT Prolongation: A Case Presentation”
11:00 a.m., MSI Auditorium
Psychology Research and Services Center (PRSC) Clinical Forums – UH
William Myerson, Ph.D., Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
"Utility of the Psychodynamic Perspective in Today's Empirically-Based Clinical Practice"
1:15 p.m., Conference Room at the PRSC in the CRS Building, 4505 Cullen Blvd. Entrance #8.
If you plan to attend a forum and are not in our program, please RSVP by emailing prsc@uh.edu.
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