Seminar Series
The CAS Seminar Series hosts speakers from all over the world, representing many different areas of research relating to addiction medicine. These experts share their findings and methods, and exhange scientific viewpoints with faculty and students.
Seminars will be held on Mondays in Taylor Hall, Room 124 (map), from 12:30-1:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Monday, August 25
Joyce Besheer , Ph.D.
UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies and Department of Psychiatry
“Neurobehavioral Pharmacology of the Reinforcing and Subjective Properties of Alcohol.”
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Monday, September 8
Adolf Pfefferbaum , M.D.
Neuroscience Program, SRI International,
“In Vivo MRI and MRS in Alcoholism: From Rat to Man."
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Bowles Award Presentation
Monday, September 22
Linda Spear, Ph.D.
Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Psychology
"Adolescence: Neurobehavioral Characteristics, Differential Alcohol Sensitivities and Intake.” |
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Monday, October 6
Patrizia Porcu, Ph.D.
UNC Department of Psychiatry and Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
“Neurosteroid Modulation by the HPA Axis Predicts Alcohol Drinking in Cynomolgus Monkeys.”
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Monday, October 27
Hank Kranzler, M.D.
Associate Director, Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
"Pharmacogenetics: Etiology and Treatment of Alcohol Dependence."
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Monday, November 3
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.
Director, Yale Stress Center, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
"How Does Stress Promote Addictive Behaviors?"
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Monday, November 10
Jian Zou, Ph.D.
Research Associate, UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
“Modulation of Cytokine Synthesis and P2X7 Receptor by Ethanol in Organotypic Brain Slice Cultures: Implication for Neurodegenration and Cell Proliferation.” |
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Monday, December 1
Brain McCool, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
“Fearful Alterations of Amygdala GABA and Glutamate Signaling During Chronic Ethanol Exposure and Withdrawal."
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Monday, December 15
Darin Knapp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, UNC Department of Psychiatry and Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
“Anxiety-Like Behavior in Withdrawal Is Modified by Repeated Exposures to Chronic Ethanol, Stress, or Cytokines: Implications for Understanding Dependence."
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Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill