SUMMER 2008 Seminars
All seminars are held on Fridays at 9:00 a.m., in room 527 of the Health Sciences Library, unless otherwise noted.
November 21 Line Loken
November 7 Dr. Kenneth Byrd
Associate Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
Title: fMRI analyses of human orofacial clench and grind movements
September 9 Dr. Joe Hammang
Director, Science Policy & Public Affairs, Pfizer Global Research & Development
Title: The Value of Medicines, Emerging Trends in Drug Discovery and Development and the Impact on Healthcare and Healthcare Reform
***NOTE Special Day, Time, & Location
Tuesday, 12:00-1:00pm
MacNider Building, Conference Room #321
(Lunch will be provided)
Please RSVP to Ken Jolly at 919-219-9966 by September 5
September 5 Dr. James Fricton
Department of Orofacial Pain, University of Minnesota
Title: Research advances that will impact orofacial pain practice
August 8 Dr. Alan G. Finkel
Director of Headache Clinic, University of North Carolina
Title: Migraine
*** Please note change of location: 150 Old Dental Building
August 1 Dr. Gary Asher
Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina
Title: Here, eat this root: complementary and alternative medicine approaches for pain
July 4 University Holiday
no seminar
June 30 Dr. Ilya Mazo
President of Ariadne Genomics, Rockville, MD
Title: Pathway analysis to understand disease mechanisms
June 27 Dr. Israel Liberzon
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Title: PTSD: In search for elusive endophenotype
June 20 Dr. Barbara Reed
Department of Family Practice, University of Michigan Medical School
Title: Vulvodynia: now you see it .... now you don't
June 13 Douglas Tsao
Title: Understanding pain sensitivity: tertiary structure prediction of COMT mRNA haplotypes
June 6 Dr. Inna Tchivileva
Title: Effect of propranolol on TMJ treatment: Preliminary findings
Events
August 17-22, 2008 -- 12th World Congress on Pain, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
May 8-10, 2008 -- 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, Tampa, FL
April 26, 2008 -- Support the Thurston Arthritis Research Center team in the 2008 Arthritis Foundation Arthritis Walk!
February 20, 2008 -- Dental Research in Review Day, UNC School of Dentistry
spring 2008 seminars
May 30 Dr. Duncan Lascelles
N.C. State University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Title: Clinical pain research in animals: diseases or models?
May 23 no seminar
May 12 Dr. Peter Svensson
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Title: Experimental orofacial pain--possibilities and limitations
May 9 no seminar
May 2 Dr. Denis Gris
Title: Caterpillars in neuroinflammation
April 22 Dr. Kati Theime
University of Heidelberg, Germany, Dept. of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience
Title: Psychophysiological responses in chronic pain patients
April 18 no seminar
April 11 Dr. William Maixner
Title: OPPERA--Past, present and future
April 4 Dr. Maria V. Popescu
Department of Hearing and Speech,
Vanderbilt University
Title: Compensatory mechanisms induced by unilateral sensory deprivation
March 28 no seminar
March 21 University Holiday
**no seminar**
March 14 ** 9:30 am ** Dr. Lan Ding
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Title: Clone splice variants of regulator of G protein signaling 4 in human and mice brain, and Rgs4, calcium channel and synaptic transmission
March 7 Dr. Kenneth Hargreaves
Professor and Chair, Department of Endodontics UTHSC
Title: A TRP through the Trigeminal System
February 29 Dr. Mark Hollins
Title: Does hypervigilance involve perceptual amplification?
February 22 Mary Beth Nebel
Title: Modulation of tactile responsiveness in somatosensory cortex by noxious heat: an fMRI investigation
February 15 Dr. Sam McLean
Title: Pilot data results regarding genetic and non-genetic predictors of pain and psychological sequelae after minor MVC
February 8 Dr. Pat Flood
Journal Club: Current treatments in Parkinson's Disease
2007 Seminars
Dr. Andrew Shaw, Duke University: "Pain after thoracic surgery: opportunities to do better" 09/14/2007
Li Qian: "Anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects of opioids: beyond conventional opioid receptors" 08/31/2007
Dr. Luda Diatchenko: "Genetic Architecture of Human Pain Perception: Genotypic Pain Chip” 08/24/2007
Dr. Frank Keefe, Duke University: "Emotional expression and pain: new findings and new directions” 08/17/2007
Jason R. Goldsmith: "Polysome Profiling of COMT Haplotypes” 08/03/2007
Matt Conrad: “Nitric Oxide and COMT Dependent Pain” 07/20/2007
Dr. Derrick Nehrenberg: “Mice selectively bred for high aggression reproduce common features of emotion dysregulation” 07/13/2007
Dr. Inna Tchivileva: "COMT and pain: déjà vu all over again" 07/06/2007
Dr. Asma Khan: "TNFa and Pain: Translation from Basic Science to Clinic" 06/29/2007
Dr. Sergei Romanov: "High-Content Reverse Transcriptomics Analysis of Mammalian Cells - Quantitative assessment of multiple transcription regulatory pathways with a novel high-capacity transcription reporter system" 6/1/2007
Dr. Richard Gracely: "Pain - Measurement and Mechanisms" 5/25/07
Dr. Pavel Gris: "Strategies for functional characterization of 11 and 13 exons on human mu-opioid receptor" 05/18/07
Dr. Anahit Mehrabyan: "Small Fiber Neuropathy in Diabetes" 05/11/2007
Dr. Shamil Sunyaev: "Effect of genomic mutations on fitness, function, and phenotype " 04/25/2007
Dr. Bob Cogill, Wake Forest University : "Spatial and intensity discrimination of pain and its dynamic modulation" 04/27/2007
Dr. Gary Slade: "Orofacial pain in the Australian population" 3/30/07
Dr. Gabriel Weinreb: "Taking Advantage of Disadvantage: Causal Mapping (CMAP) as a New Systems Biology Tool" 3/23/07
Dr. Eric Bair: "Methods to Predict Patient Survival Based on DNA Microarray Data" 2/16/07
Dr. Chris Vinyard: "Pattern and Function in the Evolution of Jaw-Muscle Activity Patterns in Primates" (Research info here) 2/9/2007