Forthcoming Seminars and Lectures 

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

Neuroprotective Effects of Guanosine Against Glutamatergic Excitotoxicity
in Experimental Models of Brain Injury

Professor Diogo Onofre Souza
Departamento de Bioquimica,
PPG em Bioquimica, ICBS,
UFRGS, Brazil

12:00 p.m.
Friday, April 27, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Dean's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

Walking the Highwire from Synaptic Growth to the Axonal Injury Response

Aaron DiAntonio, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Developmental Biology,
Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, MO

12:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 26, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Dean's Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Ophthalmology

Sex-Specific and Dietary Regulation of Intrinsic Protective Lipid Circuits
 
Karsten Gronert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Solon M. and Pearl A. Braff Chair in Clinical Optometric Science
Vision Science Graduate Program School of Optometry
University of California, Berkeley, CA

12:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

 Presentation of Award to Reza Dana by Nicolas Bazan

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neurosciences and Ophthalmology

From "Bench to Bedside": Recent Discoveries in the Immunopathogenic
Mechansims of Corneal and Ocular Surface Inflammatory Disorders
 
Reza Dana, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.

Claes Dohlman Chair in Opthalmology
Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Vice Chairman, Harvard Department of Ophthalmology and
Associate Chief of Ophthalmology for Academic Programs
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Co-Director of Research, Senior Scientist &
W. Clement Stone Scholar
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Director, Cornea & Refractive Surgery
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary 

12:00 p.m.
Friday, February 3, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience

The Addicted Brain
 
Luigi Pulvirenti, M.D.
Director, Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies,
San Quirico d’Orcia, Siena, Italy and Associate Professor Pearson
Center for Alcoholism and Addictive  Research,
Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders
and The Scripps Research Institute,
La Jolla, California, USA

12:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Special Seminar in Neuroscience

Intravenous Mesenchymal Stem Cells Treatment Regulates
Hippocampal Neurogenesis Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Yuhai Zhao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Translational Injury Research
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX

12:00 p.m.
January 19, 2012

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Chancellor's Award Lecture
Cell and Animal Models for Tau Pathology and Neurodegeneration

Eva-Maria Mandelkow, M.D., Ph.D.
DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases,
Bonn, Germany

12:00 p.m.
November 11, 2011

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Chancellor's Award Lecture
Structural Principles of Tau Aggregation and Tau-Dependent Neurodegeneration
 
Dr. Eckard Mandelkow
DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases,
Bonn, Germany

4:00 p.m.
November 10, 2011

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

10th Annual Fatty Acids in Cell Signaling (FACS) Meeting
Docosahexaenoic Acid in Translational Medicine
Program

Chancellor Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Medicine
Dr. Philip C. Calder
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Inflammation: New Mechanisms Emerge

 
Dr. Philip C. Calder receiving the Chancellor Award from
Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan and Dr. Larry H. Hollier

 
Dr. Nicolas Bazan presenting the Special Lifetime Achievement Award
to Dr. Stanley Rapport 
 

 
Dr. Nicolas Bazan presenting the Special Lecture Award
to Dr. J. Thomas Brenna


Dr. Nicolas Bazan presenting the Special Lecture Award
to Dr. Charles N. Serhan
 

 
Dr. Nicolas Bazan presenting the Special Lecture Award
to Dr. Shelia Innis
 

 
Dr. Stephen Cunnane presenting his Special Award
lecture to close out the conference

6-9 November, New Orleans, LA, USA

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Dean's Award Lecturer

Amyloid Precursor Protein and Presenilins: Physiological Functions
and Pathogenic Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease

Hui Zheng, Ph.D.
Professor, Huffington Center on Aging, Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics,
Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Neuroscience,
Director, Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine

12:30 p.m.
November 3, 2011

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building
 

Special Presentation in Neuroscience 

Dr. Carlos De Lecea and Dr. Fidalgo Gonzalez
with Dr. Olga Fidalgo Gonzalez

Ferrer Group
Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan and Dr. Joseph M. Moerschbaecher present
an award to Dr. Olga Fidalgo Gonzalez of the Ferrer Group

11:00 a.m.
September 28, 2011

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building
 

Chancellor's Award Lecture

Discovery of the Mechanism that Enables the
Provision of Nutrients to Proliferating Cells

Sir Prof. Salvador Moncada, M.D., Ph.D., FMedSci, FRS
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
University College London, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT 

12:00 p.m.
June 6, 2011

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Special Seminar in Neuroscience 

Linking Spatial Disorder to Temporal Order: How Inhibitory
Neurons Influence Dynamics Within in vitro Networks 

Rhonda Dzakpasu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.

April 4, 2011
12:00 p.m.

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Special Seminar in Neuroscience

Alterations in the Cortical Connectome in the
Evolution of Alzheimer's Disease

Ronald F. Mervis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery
Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair
University of South Florida, College of Medicine, MDC 78
Tampa, Florida

March 25, 2011
10:00 a.m.

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building

Chancellor's Award Lecture 

Strategies to Reverse Neural Network Dysfunction
in Alzheimer's Disease

Lennart Mucke, M.D.
Director, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
University of California, San Francisco

March 4, 2011
12:00 p.m.

8th Floor
Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Conference Room
Lions Building 

 

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