Tentative Schedule for Fall 2017:
| Monday, August 28th |
Amanda Elton, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Trainee, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “COMT Val158Met polymorphism exerts sex-dependent effects on fMRI measures of brain function.” Lara Hwa, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Trainee, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Intermittent alcohol drinking alters stress-coping: a role for BNST dynorphin.” |
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| Monday, September 11th | Scott Moore, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. “Ethanol/neuropeptide interactions in the central amygdala nucleus.” |
| Monday, October 2nd | Leon Coleman, M.D., Ph.D., Research Associate, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Novel mechanisms of ethanol pathology: HMGB1 as an immune chaperone.” |
| Monday, October 9th | *Bowles Award* Scott Swartzwelder, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. “Alcohol, Adolescence, and Adulthood: There and Back Again” |
| Monday, October 23rd | Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology, National Institute of Health. “TBD” |
| Monday, November 6th | Darin Knapp, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “TBD” |
| Friday, November 17th | Alessandro Gozzi, Ph.D., Group Leader, Italian Institute of Technology. “TBD” |
| Monday, December 11th | Igor Spigelman, Ph.D., Professor, Brain Research Institute, Dentistry Member, University of California. “TBD” |