Lipid mediators of inflammation and pain Dr. Chris Ramsden Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH) The seminar will be on August 15th, 12:00- 01:00 PM in room R101, CVM main building. Dr. Ramsden served as Medical Investigator in the Section on Nutritional Neurosciences as a Lieutenant Commander in the Commissioned Corps of…

MBS Seminar Series “Glucocorticoids and Sensory Neuron Plasticity” Jessica K Lerch, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair The Ohio State University The seminar will be on Tuesday, August 22 at 12:15 in RB101 (Research Building). My current project investigates the role of stress in the development of nerve-injury…

Coulter Seminar Series Presents Rehabilitation Engineering Jesse Dean, Ph.D. Associate Professor Division of Physical Therapy Medical University of South Carolina The seminar will be on Friday, August 25 at 12:00 in 321 MacNider Hall UNC-CH. Video conference available:  4142 EBIII, NC State & ECU Jesse Dean is an Associate Professor in the Division of Physical…

"Mechanisms of opioid reward and analgesia" W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Distinguished Seminar Howard Fields, MD, Ph.D Professor Neurology Center for Integrative Neuroscience University of California, San Francisco The seminar will be on September 14th, 3:30pm @ 3503 Thomas Hall.

"Genomic insights into developmental origins of schizophrenia" W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Distinguished Seminar Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D. Lieber Institute for Brain Development & the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University The seminar will be on September 18th, 1:30pm @ 3503 Thomas Hall. The Daniel Weinberger Laboratory focuses on the…

"Transduction of Mechanical Stimuli by Piezo Ion Channels" MBS Seminar Series Speaker Dr. John Grandl Department of Neurobiology Duke University School of Medicine Grandl Lab Website The seminar will be on September 26th, RB 101 from 12:15- 01:15 PM. In 2010, two proteins, Piezo1 and Piezo2, were identified as the long-sought molecular carriers of an…

W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Distinguished Seminar Catherine Woolley, Ph.D William Deering Professor Northwestern University The seminar will be on October 26th. More details to come.

W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology Distinguished Seminar Fan Wang, Ph.D., PI Associate Professor of Neurobiology Associate Professor in Cell Biology Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Duke University The seminar will be on November 2nd. More details to come.

"Brain-wide spatiotemporal dynamics encode depression vulnerability " MBS Seminar Series Speaker Dr. Kaf Dzirasa Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Duke University Dzirasa Lab Website The seminar will be on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM. Oscillations in brain-wide electrical potentials reflect emergent network-level signals that mediate behavior. Cracking the code…

"Protein aggregation in aging and neurodegeneration" MBS Seminar Series Speaker Dr. Todd Cohen Department of Neurology UNC-Chapel Hill Cohen Lab Website The seminar will be on January 9th, 2018. Room and time TBA. We seek to define the molecular mechanisms that underlie a broad spectrum of multisystem proteinopathies that includes myopathies (sporadic inclusion body myositis,…

"Spatiotemporal regulation of cancer, stem and neuronal cells in the gut" MBS Seminar Series Speaker Xiling Shen, PhD Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Duke University Shen Lab Website The seminar will be on March 7 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm. RB101, CVM, NC State University. Tissue progression and disease development is a dynamic process that…