Seminar Series
The CAS Seminar Series hosts speakers from all over the world, representing many different areas of research relating to addiction medicine. These experts share their findings and methods, and exchange scientific viewpoints with faculty and students.
Seminars will be held on Mondays in Taylor Hall, Room 124 (map), from 12:30-1:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Joyce Besheer, Ph.D.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
“The Impact of Stress on the Interoceptive Effects of Alcohol and Alcohol Drinking: a New Perspective.” |
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Theodora Duka, MD, Ph.D.
University of Sussex
"Acute and Chronic Effects of Alcohol on Emotional Regulation; Top-down or Bottom-up Brain Function Changes?"
Dai Stephens, Ph.D.
University of Sussex
"Acute and Chronic Effects of Alcohol on Impulsive Behavior in Mice." |
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Thurman Lectureship Award Presentation
Ting-Kai Li, MD.
Duke University
"Alcohol and Aldehyde Metabolizing Systems: Relationship to Alcohol-Attributable Disorders ” |
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Donita Robinson, Ph.D.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Breaking the Habit – Modeling Habitual Alcohol Drinking in Rats” |
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Dennis Sparta, Ph.D.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Examining the Interface Between Stress and Reward: The Role of the BNST to VTA Neural Circuit in Alcohol Behaviors." |
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Jennifer L. Whistler, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
“Trafficking of G Protein Coupled Receptors and Responses to Drugs of Abuse.” |
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Monday, April 16, 2012
John Woodward, Ph.D.
Medical University of South Carolina
“Alcohol Actions on Medial and Orbital Frontal Cortex: Results from Electrophysiological and Behavioral Studies.” |
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Robert Lipinski, Ph.D.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Face-brain dysmorphology in fetal alcohol syndrome and cleft lip and palate: is hedgehog signaling disruption a pathogenic tie that binds? |
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Sarah Holstein, Ph.D.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Alcohol and Adolescence: Examining the Pharmacological Substrates Underlying Binge Drinking"
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Charles Chavkin, Ph.D.
University of Washington
"Ligand directed signaling reveals the therapeutic potential of kappa opioids for treating pain and addiction."
Bioinformatics 1131 |
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Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill