2008 - 2009 Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar Schedule

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Time: 12pm – 1pm
Location: Whitehead Conference Room 500
(unless otherwise noted below)

8/7/2008
David F. Dinges, Ph.D.
Professor and Chief
Division of Sleep and Chronobiology
Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

 “Predicting differential vulnerability to the neurobehavioral effects of sleep loss”

9/12/2008

Rolf W. Warzok, MD
Institute of Pathology
Department of Neuropathology
University of Greifswald

"The role of ABC transporters in the clearance of beta-amyloid at the blood-brain border
and in the pathogenesis of Alzheimers disease"

10/9/2008
Gary W. Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University

“Overview of the new Emory Parkinson's Disease Collaborative Environmental Research Center (PD-CERC)”

10/23/2008
Jason R. Richardson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey

 “Association of Pesticide Exposure with Neurological Disease and Dysfunction:
Evidence in Mice and Man”

11/13/2008
James Zheng, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Emory University

“Cofilin actin'g up in neural development”

12/11/2008
Jun Li, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Wayne State University

 “Molecular Mechanisms in Inherited Neuropathies”

1/8/2009
John Hepler, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Pharmacology
Emory University

“RGS14 as an integrator of unconventional G protein and MAPkinase signaling pathways important for hippocampal-based learning”

1/29/2009
Nicholas J. Maragakis, MD
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University

Title: TBA

2/12/2009

Buz Jinnah, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Neurology
Emory University

“Lesch-Nyhan Disease & The Basal Ganglia”

3/12/2009

William Dauer, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology & Pharmacology
Columbia University

Title: TBA

4/9/2009

TBA

5/14/2009

TBA