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 exhange 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 14
Hugh Criswell, Ph.D.
UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies and Departments of Psychiatry and Anesthesiology
"How Can Alcohol Act Like a Benzodiazepine Without
Acting on Benzodiazepine Sensitive Receptors?"
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Monday, February 4
Charlotte Boettiger, Ph.D.
UNC Behavioral Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychology
“Using Cognitive Neuroscience Methods
to Interrogate the Neurobiology of Addiction.” |
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Monday, February 18
Ray Anton, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Director, Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs and the Clinical Neurobiology Lab, Medical University of South Carolina
"Update on the Pharmacotherapy of Alcoholism: From Neuroscience to Clinical Trials." |
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Monday, March 3
Feng Zhou, Ph.D.
Departments of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Indiana University School of Medicine
“Alteration of Gene Expression in Fetal Development Upon Alcohol Exposure."
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Monday, March 17
Kirk Wilhelmsen, M.D., Ph.D.
UNC Department of Genetics and Neurology
"Genetics of Behavior."
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Monday, March 31
Sheryl Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
"Reversal of Neurosteroid Effects at a GABA-A Receptor Triggers Anxiety at Puberty in Female Mice."
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Monday, April 14
Joey Johns, Ph.D.
UNC Department of Psychiatry and Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
“A Rodent Model of the Effects of Gestational Alcohol and Nicotine Treatment on Maternal/Offspring Behavior and Oxytocin System Changes.” |
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Monday, April 21
Deborah Finn, Ph.D.
Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University
“Endogenous GABAergic Neurosteroid Tone Alters Measures of Ethanol Reinforcement.” |
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Monday, May 12
Shao-Yu Chen, Ph.D.
UNC Department of Cell and Developmental Biology & Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
“Reactive Oxygen Species Signaling in Ethanol-induced Apoptosis and Birth Defects.”
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Thursday, May 29
Antonello Bonci, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurology and Professor and Chair in Addiction Research, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center"Synaptic Plasticity in the Mesolimbic System: Implications for Substance Abuse."
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Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill