Fall 1999 Seminar Series

The Texas A&M Faculty of Neuroscience sponsor a seminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held Wednesdays at 4:00pm in room 025 of the Biological Sciences Building West. Speakers for the Fall 1999 semester are listed below with the host's name (if available) in parentheses.

• September 15 --
  GEORGE RICAURTE, Johns Hopkins School of(Paul Wellman, 845-2557): "The neurotoxic potential of ring-substituted amphetamines"
• September 29 --
  JOEL GALLAGHER, Neurophysiology, University of Texas at Galveston (Brian McCool, 845-5628 ): "Non-biogenic amine mediated effects of chronic cocaine - Opportunities for novel pharmacotherapies"
• October 13 -- ** seminar will begin at 3:00pm **
  JACK PANKSEPP, Bowling Green State University (Paul Wellman, 845-2557): "Affective Neuroscience: The foundations of human and animal emotions : The case of animal laughter"
• November 3 --
  FIRDAUS DHABHAR, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller (Jane Welsh, 862-4974): "Good" stress "Bad" stress and in vivo immune function - Interactions between hormones, cytokines and leukocyte trafficking"
• November 10 --
  ALLYN HOWLETT, Pharm/Physio Sciences, St. Louis (Joe Song, 845-2860): "The Cannabinoid Receptors: Agonists, Antagonists and Signal Transduction"
• November 17 --
  GERALD FRYE, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center(Paul Wellman, 845-2557): "Sensitivity of native GABA and glutamate receptors to ethanol"
• November 24 --
  ALCINO SILVA, Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, UCLA (Efthimios "Makis" Skoulakis, 862-6524): "Molecular and cellular approaches to unraveling elements of cognition"
• December 8 --
  JOSEPH JUSTICE, Department of Chemistry, Emory University (Susan Schenk, 845-9504): "Mechanisms of cocaine and amphetamine at dopamine and norepinephrine transporters"

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