Neurofax Calendar - Neuroscience Research Center - The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston November 2008
Seminars and Lectures

Wednesday, 5

Psychiatry Grand Rounds – BCM
Christopher F. Flynn, M.D., Regional Medical Officer, Psychiatry, United States Department of State, American Embassy Accra
"Endurance and Hope in Deployment Psychiatry"
10:30 a.m., DeBakey Building-Room M112

Psychiatry Lecture Series – UTMSH
Jorge de la Torre, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, BCM
“Deconstructing Love: Dilemmas and Possibilities”
11:00 a.m., MSI Auditorium

Topics in Neurobiology of Disease: Neurovascular Disorders – UTMSH
Raymond Grill, Ph.D., Department of Neurosurgery, UTMSH
“Blood-Spinal Cord-Barrier Dysfunction in Acute and Chronic Spinal Cord Injury”
12 Noon, MSB 7.037

Thursday, 6

Neurosurgery Grand Rounds – UTMSH
Shibani Pati, M.D., Ph.D., Asst Prof in the Center for Translational Injury Research, Dept of Surgery, UTMSH
Modulation of the “Neurovascular” Unit After Traumatic Brain Injury Using Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs)
7:30 a.m., MSB G100
Rescheduled to 11/20

Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar Series – UTMSH
Paul Pfaffinger, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, BCM
"Regulation of A-Current Gating and Expression"
3:00 p.m., MSB 2.135

Friday, 7

Neuroscience Seminar Series – BCM
Hans Michael Dosch, M.D., Ph.D., Departments of Immunology and Pediatrics, University of Toronto
“Neuronal Controls in Diabetes Pathoetiology”
11:00 a.m., Alkek Building N315

Neurology Grand Rounds – UTMSH
Mya Schiess, M.D., Department of Neurology, UTMSH
“Spasticity Management Update: Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Therapy and Case Presentation”
12 Noon, MSB 2.135

ITES – Networks Seminar – UH
Brent Doiron, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
"Relating  Correlation and Firing Rate in Pairs of Spiking Neurons"
1:00 p.m., SEC 102

Saturday, 8

The 6th Annual GCC Conference – Rice University
"Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience"
The deadline for registration and poster abstract submission is November 3.
For program, info and registration please visit http://cohesion.rice.edu/centersandinst/gcc/neuro_about.cfm?doc_id=12691

Wednesday, 12

Psychiatry Grand Rounds – BCM
Aanand Naik, M.D., Department of Medicine, BCM
"Endurance and Hope in Deployment Psychiatry"
10:30 a.m., DeBakey Building-Room M112

Topics in Neurobiology of Disease: Neurovascular Disorders – UTMSH
Sean Savitz, M.D., Department of Neurology, UTMSH
“The Role of the Vascular Unit in Stem Cell Function”
12 Noon, MSB 7.037

Ernst Knobil Distinguished Lecture – UTMSH
Nobel Laureate, Phillip Sharp, Ph.D., Cancer Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Gene Regulation by RNA"
4:00 p.m., MSB 3.001

 

Friday, 14

Neurology Grand Rounds – UTMSH
Oscar Benavente, M.D., Department of Neurology, UTHSC-SA
“Prevention of Lacunar Strokes”
12 Noon, MSB 2.135

BCM/UT-Houston PM&R Alliance Grand Rounds – UTMSH
Enrique Ginzburg, MD, FACS, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Elena Napolitano, M.D., New Jersey-University Hospital
"Current Status of Thromboembolic Disease in Rehabilitation Patients"
12 Noon, MSB B.605

Neurology Grand Rounds – Methodist Neurological Institute
Robert H. Brown, Jr., M.D., D.Phil., Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
"Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: From Mutation to Mechanism in Medicine"
12 Noon, Blue Bird Auditorium (NB137), Neurosensory/Jones Tower, The Methodist Hospital

Wednesday, 19

Psychiatry Lecture Series – UTMSH
John M. Oldham, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina
“Title to be announced”
11:00 a.m., MSI Auditorium

Thursday, 20

Neurosurgery Grand Rounds – UTMSH
John B. Holcomb, M.D., Director, Center for Translational Injury Research
"Minimizing Iatrogenic Resuscitation Injury"
7:00 a.m., MSB 3.001

Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar Series – UTMSH
Mary Ellen Lane, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University
"Title to be announced "
3:00 p.m., MSB 2.135  Cancelled

Friday, 21

The 20th Annual William S. Fields Lecture – UTMSH
Walter G. Bradley, DM, FRCP, Department of Neurology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
“Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of ALS”
12 Noon, MSB 2.135
For more information call:Gage Van Horn, M.D. (713) 500-7119 or Annie rose (713) 500-7051

Neurology Grand Rounds – Methodist Neurological Institute
Loren A. Rolak, M.D., Director, Marshfield Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of Wisconsin
"What Every Neurologist Needs to Know About Multiple Sclerosis"
12 Noon, Blue Bird Auditorium (NB137), Neurosensory/Jones Tower, The Methodist Hospital

Wednesday, 26

Psychiatry Lecture Series – UTMSH
Pedro Ruiz, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, UTMSH
“Title to be announced”
11:00 a.m., MSI Auditorium

 

 

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