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Monday, January 5th<\/p>\n

MacNider 321<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Brooke Bender, Ph.D., <\/strong>Postdoctoral Fellow (Besheer Lab), Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, UNC School of Medicine<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Stress reactivity predicts impulsive choice\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Dina Abu Rabe, Ph.D., <\/strong>Postdoctoral Fellow (Parnell Lab), Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, UNC School of Medicine<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>The deletion of the pro-apoptotic Bax\u00a0gene modulates alcohol-induced apoptosis\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Monday. February 2nd<\/p>\n

MacNider 321<\/p>\n

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Jenna McHenry, Ph.D., <\/strong>Assistant Professor, Depts. of Psychology\/Neuroscience and Neurobiology, Duke University<\/p>\n

\u201cMaintaining Social Homeostasis: Individual Differences and Group-Level Regulation\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Monday, March 9th<\/p>\n

MacNider 321<\/td>\n

Janice Hwang, M.D., MHS, <\/strong>Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor in Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Fueling the Brain: How can tools to study human cerebral energetics be applied to alcohol studies?\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Monday, March 23rd<\/p>\n

MacNider 321<\/td>\n

Scott Parnell, Ph.D., <\/strong>Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

\u201cDetermining the Genetic Contributions to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Associated Mechanisms\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Monday, April 13th<\/p>\n

MacNider 321<\/td>\n

Justin Strickland, Ph.D., <\/strong>Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Translational Behavioral Economics in<\/em>\u00a0Substance Use Disorder\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Monday, April 20th<\/p>\n

MacNider 321<\/td>\n

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Stacey Daughters, Ph.D., <\/strong>Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

“Making Recovery Worth the Effort”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Monday, April 27th<\/p>\n

MacNider 321<\/p>\n

*Bowles Award*<\/td>\n

Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., Ph.D., <\/strong>Senior Investigator, Clinical Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism<\/p>\n

\u201cMind the Gut: GLP-1 and Translational Advances in Addiction Treatment\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Monday, June 1st<\/p>\n

MacNider 321<\/td>\n

Todd Cohen, Ph.D., <\/strong>Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

\u201cAlzheimer\u2019s models, disease mechanisms, and new therapeutic approaches\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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