Lectures and Seminars

ARC logo The CARE sponsors four events that are hosted monthly on Thursdays from 1-2 pm in SPHPI 336.

1st Thursday: Emerging Techniques Journal Club – group discussion of a publication introducing an emerging technique relevant for Addiction Neuroscience research

03/06/2025 Neuroscience Journal Club: Karl Y. Bosque-Cordero, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 06, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Karl Y. Bosque-Cordero PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Brain-wide circuit-specific targeting of astrocytes"
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02/06/2025 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kumar Kotlo, DVM, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 06, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Kumar U. Kotlo DVM PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
- "G-quadruplexes, R-Loops, and Epigenetics"
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01/02/2025 No Neuroscience Journal Club Seminar - January 2nd, 2025
Date / Time
- Jan 02, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Journal Club Seminar - January 2nd, 2025"
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12/05/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Emir Malovic, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 05, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Emir Malovic PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Single Cell Proteomics on the Horizon"
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11/07/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kathryn Przybysz, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 07, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
CANCELLED
- Kathryn Przybysz PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "A single-vector intersectional AAV strategy for interrogating cellular diversity and brain function"
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09/26/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 26, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Evaluating 3D genomic architecture using Hi-C"
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09/05/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Mark Maienschein-Cline, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 05, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Mark Maienschein-Cline PhD
- Director, Research Informatics Core & Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics, CARE
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Single nucleus multiomics identifies ZEB1 and MAFB as candidate regulators of Alzheimer’s Disease-specific cis elements"
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06/06/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club - Jan Wiaderkiewicz, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 06, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 365
- Jan Wiaderkiewicz PhD
- Research Scientist
  
  Department of Physiology & Biophysics
  
  The University of Illinois at Chicago
- "In Vivo Optical Interrogation of Neuronal Responses to Genetic, Cell Type-Specific Silencing"
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05/02/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Lindsey Ramirez, PhD
Date / Time
- May 02, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Lindsey Ramirez PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "NanoPlex: A Universal Strategy for Fluorescence Microscopy Multiplexing using Nanobodies with Erasable Signals"
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04/04/2024 No Neuroscience Journal Club Seminar 4/4/2024
Date / Time
- Apr 04, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Journal Club Seminar 4/4/2024"
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03/07/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Hooriyah Rizavi
Date / Time
- Mar 07, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Hooriyah Rizavi MSc PhD
- Research Specialist- Natural Sciences
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Nanopore Native RNA sequencing of a Human Poly (A) Transcriptome"
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02/01/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Hye Yang
Date / Time
- Feb 01, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Hyerim Yang BS
- Research Technician
  
  Graduate Student, Graduate Education in Medical Sciences (GEMS) PhD Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "In vivo photopharmacology with light-activated opioid drugs"
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01/04/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kumar Kotlo, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 04, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Kumar U. Kotlo DVM PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
- "Enhancer RNA (eRNA) m6A modification and Epitranscriptome-epigenome crosstalk"
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12/07/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Emir Malovic, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 07, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Emir Malovic PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Investigating Histone Posttranslational Modifications by Mass Spectrometry"
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11/02/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Karl Bosque-Cordero
Date / Time
- Nov 02, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Karl Y. Bosque-Cordero PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "ATLAS: A rationally designed anterograde transsynaptic tracer"
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10/05/2023 No Neuroscience Journal Club - October 2023
Date / Time
- Oct 05, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Journal Club - October 2023"
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09/07/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 07, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Transcriptomics, regulatory syntax, and enhancer identification in mesoderm-induced ESCs at single-cell resolution"
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07/06/2023 No Neuroscience Journal Club - July 2023
Date / Time
- Jul 06, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Journal Club - July 2023"
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06/01/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kathryn Przybysz, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 01, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Kathryn Przybysz PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Cell type- and circuit-specific sequencing of ribosome-associated mRNA"
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05/04/2023 No Neuroscience Journal Club Meeting - 5/4/2023
Date / Time
- May 04, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
04/06/2023 No Neuroscience Journal Club Meeting - 4/6/2023
Date / Time
- Apr 06, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
03/02/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Hooriyah Rizavi, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 02, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Hooriyah Rizavi MSc PhD
- Research Specialist- Natural Sciences
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Single-base mapping of m6A by an antibody-independent method"
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02/02/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Lindsey Ramirez, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 02, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Lindsey Ramirez PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "LIQ HD (Lick Instance Quantifier Home cage Device): An open-source tool for recording undisturbed two-bottle drinking behavior in a home cage environment"
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01/05/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Hu Chen, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 05, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Hu Chen PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  The University of Illinois Chicago
- "Microglia Depletion-Induced Remodeling of Extracellular Matrix and Excitatory Synapses in the Hippocampus of Adult Mice"
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12/01/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kumar Kotlo, DVM, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 01, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Kumar U. Kotlo DVM PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
- "Craspase – A New Frontier in CRISPR Technology"
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11/03/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Ruixuan Gao, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 03, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Ruixuan Gao PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Biological Sciences & Department of Chemistry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Spatial profiling of chromatin accessibility in mouse and human tissues"
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10/06/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Emir Malovic, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 06, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Emir Malovic PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Cell-specific biotin labeling for in vivo proteomics"
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09/01/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 01, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Probing genomic architecture using chromatin conformation technologies"
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06/02/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Jackie Sanchez
Date / Time
- Jun 02, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Jackie Sanchez BS
- Graduate Student Researcher
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Multivariate concentric square field test"
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04/07/2022 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Haley Cropper
Date / Time
- Apr 07, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Haley Cropper BS
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Graduate Student, Medical Scientist Training Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of neuroinflammatory markers in psychiatric disorders"
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03/03/2022 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Kevin Boergens, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 03, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Kevin Michael Boergens PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Physics
  
  The University of Illinois Chicago
- "Connectomics: Using 3D electron microscopy to untangle innervation patterns"
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02/03/2022 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 03, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Using ‘Chromatin Velocity’ for Single-Cell Assessment of Closed Chromatin"
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12/02/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Hyerim Yang
Date / Time
- Dec 02, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Hyerim Yang BS
- Research Technician
  
  Graduate Student, Graduate Education in Medical Sciences (GEMS) PhD Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Pain induces adaptations in ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons to drive anhedonia-like behavior."
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11/04/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Haley Cropper
Date / Time
- Nov 04, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Haley Cropper BS
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Graduate Student, Medical Scientist Training Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "The emerging role of the complement system in neuropsychiatric disorders"
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10/07/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Elizaveta Mangutov
Date / Time
- Oct 07, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Elizaveta Mangutov BS
- Graduate Research Assistant/Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Long-term precision editing of neural circuits using engineered gap junction hemichannels"
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09/02/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Amy Lasek, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 02, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Amy W. Lasek PhD
- Former Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Anatomy and Cell Biology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Monoaminylation as an Epigenetic Mark"
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06/03/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Mark Maienschein-Cline, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 03, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Mark Maienschein-Cline PhD
- Director, Research Informatics Core & Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics, CARE
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Detection of differential splicing events in RNA-seq data"
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05/06/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Dennis Grayson, PhD
Date / Time
- May 06, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Dennis R. Grayson PhD
- Professor of Molecular Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "CUT&Tag to map the location of protein bound DNA without formalin cross-linking while avoiding the high sequencing costs of ChIP-seq."
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04/01/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Joel Shillinglaw, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 01, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Joel Shillinglaw PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Patch-seq: Past, Present, and Future"
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03/04/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Amynah Pradhan, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 04, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Amynah Pradhan PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Cell Specific Pharmacology"
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12/03/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Luana Martins de Carvalho, PhD, MS
Date / Time
- Dec 03, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Luana Martins de Carvalho PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Linking Single-Cell RNA-Seq with In Vivo Functional Imaging"
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11/05/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Zachariah Bertels
Date / Time
- Nov 05, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Zachariah Bertels PhD
- Research Assistant
- "Proximity Labeling in Living Cells and Organisms"
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07/02/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Eleonora Gatta, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 02, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Eleonora Gatta PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT & RUN): a new strategy for chromatin profiling"
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05/31/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: . John Peyton Bohnsack, PhD
Date / Time
- May 31, 2020
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- John Peyton Bohnsack PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "A discussion of the following paper: Brenner E, Tiwari GR, Kapoor M, Liu Y, Brock A, Mayfield RD. Single cell transcriptome profiling of the human alcohol-dependent brain. Hum Mol Genet. Mar 2020. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddaa038"
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05/12/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Joel Shillinglaw, PhD
Date / Time
- May 12, 2020
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Joel Shillinglaw PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "A discussion of the following paper: Gehrlach DA, Dolensek N, Klein AS, et al. Aversive state processing in the posterior insular cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2019;22(9):1424-1437. doi:10.1038/s41593-019-0469-1"
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04/21/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: James Auta, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 21, 2020
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- James Auta PhD PharmD MBA
- Associate Professor
- "A discussion of the following paper: Guo W, Long H, Bu Q, et al. Role of BRD4 phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens in relapse to cocaine-seeking behavior in mice. Addict Biol. July 2019. doi:10.1111/adb.12808"
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09/26/2019 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Zachariah Bertels
Date / Time
- Sep 26, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- Zachariah Bertels PhD
- Research Assistant
- "Individual Neuronal Labeling Techniques"
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05/23/2019 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: John Peyton Bohnsack
Date / Time
- May 23, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- John Peyton Bohnsack PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Techniques to detect and measure neuronal ensembles"
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03/21/2019 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Cassandre Coles and Kana Hamada
Date / Time
- Mar 21, 2019
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Cassandre Coles
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Non-invasive delivery of adeno-associated viruses to the brain"
- Kana Hamada PhD
- Neuroscience Program, Class 2020
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Non-invasive delivery of adeno-associated viruses to the brain"
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01/10/2019 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Chang You and Amynah Pradhan, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 10, 2019
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Chang You PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Lasek Lab
  
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UIC
- "RNAscope – a novel in situ hybridization platform"
- Amynah Pradhan PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "RNAscope – a novel in situ hybridization platform"
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10/18/2018 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Russell Dulman and Ryan Patwell
Date / Time
- Oct 18, 2018
- 11:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- "Mapping Single Cell Sequencing Using MAP-Seq and STAR-Seq"
- Ryan Patwell
- Graduate Research Assistant / PhD Candidate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Mapping Single Cell Sequencing Using MAP-Seq and STAR-Seq"
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08/16/2018 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Elizabeth Glover, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 16, 2018
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Elizabeth Glover PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director of the CARE Behavior Core
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "DART - Drugs Acutely Restricted by Tethering"
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05/10/2018 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Harinder Singh and Nick Senese
Date / Time
- May 10, 2018
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Harinder Singh PhD
- Post-doctorate Research Associate
  
  Department of Physiology & Biophysics, UIC
- "Nanobodies in Neuroscience"
- Nicolas Senese PhD
- Post-doctorate Research Associate
  
  Department of Physiology & Biophysics, UIC
- "Nanobodies in Neuroscience"
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02/01/2018 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Laura Moye
Date / Time
- Feb 01, 2018
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Laura Segura Moye PhD
- Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Tissue Clearing and Volume Imaging Techniques"
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11/30/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Vaibhav Konanur, MS
Date / Time
- Nov 30, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Vaibhav Konanur MS
- Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Methods in In vivo Fiber Photometry"
- View Event Info
10/05/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Peyton Bohnsack
Date / Time
- Oct 05, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- John Peyton Bohnsack PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Development and Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Engineering"
- View Event Info
08/03/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Amynah Pradhan, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 03, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Amynah Pradhan PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Integration of optogenetics with complementary methodologies in systems neuroscience"
- View Event Info
06/01/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan
Date / Time
- Jun 01, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Transciptome-wide mapping of N6-methyladenosine by m6A-seq based on immunocapturing and massively parallel sequencing"
- View Event Info
03/20/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Gina Giase
Date / Time
- Mar 20, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Gina Giase
- Visiting Research Associate
  
  Dr. Chunyu Liu's lab
- "ATAC-seq: A Method for Assaying Chromatin Accessibility Genome-Wide"
- View Event Info

2nd Thursday: Junior Scholars Seminar Series – provides trainees with the opportunity to lead a 30 min work-in-progress presentation

03/13/2025 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Himali Arora, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 13, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Himali Arora PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Subhash Pandey's Lab
- "Whole genome transcriptomic approach to delineate altering mechanisms in mPFC following neonatal alcohol exposure"
- View Event Info
02/13/2025 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Jackie Sanchez, BS
Date / Time
- Feb 13, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Jackie Sanchez BS
- Graduate Student Researcher
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Chemogenetic inactivation of the anterior insular cortex attenuates acquisition, but not expression, of ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion"
- View Event Info
01/09/2025 No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Thursday, January 9th, 2025
Date / Time
- Jan 09, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Thursday, January 9th, 2025"
- View Event Info
12/12/2024 No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar - December 12, 2024
Date / Time
- Dec 12, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar - December 12th, 2024"
- View Event Info
11/14/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Shelby Wood, BA and Katrina Wugalter, MA
Date / Time
- Nov 14, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Shelby Wood BA
- PhD Student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Program
  
  Graduate Student Affiliate, Women’s Mental Health Research Program
- "The Day-to-Day Bidirectional Association of Sleep Difficulties with Positive and Negative Affect in Postmenopausal Women"
- Katrina Wugalter MA
- Graduate Student, Behavioral Neuroscience Program
  
  Graduate Student Affiliate, Women’s Mental Health Research Program
- "Patterns of Hippocampal Functional Connectivity Supporting Verbal Memory Performance in Midlife Postmenopausal Women"
- View Event Info
10/10/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hooriyah Rizavi, PhD and Karl Bosque Cordero, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 10, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Hooriyah Rizavi MSc PhD
- Research Specialist- Natural Sciences
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Identification of long non-coding RNA expression signatures across different brain regions in subjects with alcohol use disorder"
- Karl Y. Bosque-Cordero PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Withdrawal-induced changes in Lateral Habenula excitability and Rostromedial tegmental nucleus astrocyte morphology"
- View Event Info
09/12/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hooriyah Rizavi, PhD and Hye Yang, BS
Date / Time
- Sep 12, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Hooriyah Rizavi MSc PhD
- Research Specialist- Natural Sciences
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Identification of long non-coding RNA expression signatures across different brain regions in subjects with alcohol use disorder"
- Hyerim Yang BS
- Research Technician
  
  Graduate Student, Graduate Education in Medical Sciences (GEMS) PhD Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Role of afferents to the rostromedial tegmental nucleus in symptoms of withdrawal from chronic ethanol exposure"
- View Event Info
08/08/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Francesco Matrisciano, MD, PhD and Kumar Kotlo, DVM, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 08, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Francesco Matrisciano MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
- "ATAC-seq unveils epigenomic alterations in prefrontal cortex of alcohol use disorder subjects: new insights into inflammatory/carcinogenic pathway  "
- Kumar U. Kotlo DVM PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
- "Epitranscriptomic Regulation by m6A RNA Methylation in the Amygdala During Acute Ethanol Exposure"
- View Event Info
06/13/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Jackie Sanchez, BS and Lindsey A. Ramirez, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 13, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Jackie Sanchez BS
- Graduate Student Researcher
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Effect of chemogenetic inactivation of the anterior insular cortex on ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion"
- Lindsey Ramirez PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Changes in drinking microstructure and PL mPFC calcium signal during ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion"
- View Event Info
05/09/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Guy Mensah-Nyagan, PhD and Josh Sevigny, PhD Student
Date / Time
- May 09, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Guy Mensah-Nyagan PhD
- Exceptional Class Professor
  
  Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
  
  University of Strasbourg, France
- "The Endogenous Neurosteroidogenic System: Basic Knowledge and Relevance for the Development of Neuroprotective Therapies"
- Joshua P. Sevigny BS
- Graduate Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Pre-doctoral Fellow, Alcohol Research Training Grant in Epigenetics and Pathophysiology (ARTEP)
- "Diverging Sex Differences of Environmental Enrichment on Binge Ethanol Consumption in Adolescent and Adult C57BL/6 Mice"
- View Event Info
04/11/2024 No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Muñoz Marcos David
Date / Time
- Apr 11, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Muñoz Marcos David
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Medicine
  
  Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Effects of Dietary Fiber Supplementation on Western Diet-Induced Hypothalamic Inflammation"
- View Event Info
03/14/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Emir Malovic
Date / Time
- Mar 14, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Emir Malovic PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Emerging Role of N6-Methyladenosine (M6A) Epitranscriptomic Changes in Adult Anxiety after Adolescent Alcohol Exposure"
- View Event Info
02/08/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Kathryn Przybysz
Date / Time
- Feb 08, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Kathryn Przybysz PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "RMTg-projecting infralimbic neurons are uniquely vulnerable to lasting neurophysiological adaptations following chronic ethanol exposure"
- View Event Info
01/11/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Himali Arora, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 11, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Himali Arora PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Subhash Pandey's Lab
- "Cellular and Molecular Alterations Caused by E ZIKV Protein in Human Brain Cells"
- View Event Info
12/14/2023 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Rachel Donka, MA and Sean Schrank
Date / Time
- Dec 14, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Rachel M. Donka BS
- Graduate Student, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology
  
  Pre-doctoral Fellow, Alcohol Research Training Grant in Epigenetics and Pathophysiology (ARTEP)
- "Adolescent Morphine Administration Results in Short- and Long-Term Shifts in Reward Sensitivity"
- Sean Schrank PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- "Minocycline Attenuates Binge Ethanol Consumption"
- View Event Info
11/09/2023 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Rachel Schroeder and Alex Paget-Blanc
Date / Time
- Nov 09, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Rachel Schroeder MA
- Graduate Student
  
  Behavioral Neuroscience Program
- "Endogenous Estradiol and Memory Circuitry in Postmenopausal Women"
- Alexandra Paget-Blanc BS
- Ph.D. Candidate
  
  Graduate Research Assistant
- "Exploring the Link Between Sleep Quality and Cognitive Health in Postmenopausal Women"
- View Event Info
10/12/2023 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Elizabeth Wenzel, MA and Jay Van Doorn
Date / Time
- Oct 12, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Elizabeth Wenzel MA
- PhD Student, Behavioral Neuroscience Program
  
  Graduate Student Affiliate, CLEAR Lab and Women's Mental Health Research Program
- "Neuroactive Steroid Surges and Affective Symptoms in Early Pregnancy"
- Jacob van Doorn MS
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Menstrual Stage Effects on Functional Brain Network Topology"
- View Event Info
06/08/2023 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Rachel Donka and Kathryn Przybysz, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 08, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Rachel M. Donka BS
- Graduate Student, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology
  
  Pre-doctoral Fellow, Alcohol Research Training Grant in Epigenetics and Pathophysiology (ARTEP)
- "Morphine and Reward: Effects on Neural Activity and Behavior"
- Kathryn Przybysz PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Developing a Translational Rodent Model of Individual Differences in Sensitivity to the Aversive Properties of Ethanol"
- View Event Info
05/11/2023 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hyerim Yang and Lindsey Ramirez, PhD
Date / Time
- May 11, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Hyerim Yang BS
- Research Technician
  
  Graduate Student, Graduate Education in Medical Sciences (GEMS) PhD Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Role of Afferents to the Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus in Symptoms of Withdrawal from Chronic Ethanol Exposure"
- Lindsey Ramirez PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Improved Paradigm to Measure Tolerance to the Aversive Properties of Ethanol"
- View Event Info
04/13/2023 No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar - 4/13/2023
Date / Time
- Apr 13, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
03/09/2023 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Luca Santovito, MD
Date / Time
- Mar 09, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Luca Spiro Santovito MD
- Research Scholar
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Isoallopregnanolone Is a Potential Biomarker of Aggressive Behavior"
- View Event Info
02/09/2023 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Karl Bosque-Cordero, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 09, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Karl Y. Bosque-Cordero PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "The Hyperpolarization-Activated Cation Current (Ih): An Intrinsic Regulator of Addictive Substance-Induced VTA DA Excitability"
- View Event Info
01/12/2023 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Kumar Kotlo, DVM, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 12, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Kumar U. Kotlo DVM PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
- "Acute Ethanol Rapidly Modifies Genome-Wide RNA Methylation in the Amygdala"
- View Event Info
12/08/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Gauri Kulkarni and Shikun Hou
Date / Time
- Dec 08, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Gauri Kulkarni
- Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Education in Biomedical Sciences (GEMS) Program
  
  Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, UIC
- "The accessory subunit of nAChRs modulates differential effects of nicotine and chaperone proteins"
- Shikun Hou BS
- Research Specialist
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Role of medial and orbitofrontal cortex neurons in value representation and reward prediction error signaling"
- View Event Info
11/10/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Jackie Sanchez
Date / Time
- Nov 10, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Jackie Sanchez BS
- Graduate Student Researcher
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Withdrawal from chronic ethanol exposure differentially affects decision making for delayed reinforcers and punishers"
- View Event Info
10/13/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Anabel Miguelez Fernández, PhD and Aashutosh Shetti
Date / Time
- Oct 13, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Anabel Miguelez Fernández PhD
- Research Scientist
  
  Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, UIC
- "Activity of interpeduncular neurons regulates nicotine withdrawal behavior"
- Aashutosh Shetti
- PhD Candidate
  
  Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, UIC
- "Depletion of endothelial specific Caveolin-1 induces brain insulin impairments in type 2 diabetes: Implications for Alzheimer’s disease"
- View Event Info
09/08/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hooriyah Rizavi, PhD and Emir Malovic, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 08, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Hooriyah Rizavi MSc PhD
- Research Specialist- Natural Sciences
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Shifts in ribosomal engagement of lncRNAs with ethanol administration"
- Emir Malovic PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "N’6-methyladenosine (m6A) epitranscriptomics characterization in key brain regions after adolescent alcohol exposure in preclinical model"
- View Event Info
06/09/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hyerim Yang and Valeria Torres Irizarry
Date / Time
- Jun 09, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Hyerim Yang BS
- Research Technician
  
  Graduate Student, Graduate Education in Medical Sciences (GEMS) PhD Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Activation of afferents to the RMTg during acute withdrawal from chronic ethanol exposure"
- Valeria C Torres Irizarry
- Predoctoral Fellow
  
  Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Education in Medical Sciences (GEMS) PhD Program
  
  Department of Medicine, UIC
- "Estrogen signaling in the dorsal raphe 5-hydroxytryptamine neurons regulates binge-like drinking in mice"
- View Event Info
05/12/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Paula Bazzino and Emir Malovic, PhD
Date / Time
- May 12, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Paula Bazzino
- Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Physiological State Alters Activity in Circuits Critical for Goal Directed Behavior"
- Emir Malovic PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Emerging Neuro-defensive Pathways in Key Brain Regions During Alcohol Dependence"
- View Event Info
04/14/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Elizaveta Mangutov and Ted Hsu, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 14, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 AM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Elizaveta Mangutov BS
- Graduate Research Assistant/Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of opioid-induced hyperalgesia"
- Ted Hsu PhD
- Postdoctoral Researcher
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Multi-order hypothalamic circuits recruit need-state selective mesolimbic dopamine signaling"
- View Event Info
03/10/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Julia Brooks, MA and Haley Cropper
Date / Time
- Mar 10, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Julia Brooks MA
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Clinical Neuropsychology Extern
  
  Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Affective and Neural Correlates of Nicotine and Cannabis Co-Use in Young Adulthood"
- Haley Cropper BS
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Graduate Student, Medical Scientist Training Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Glial activation in pain- and emotion-processing brain regions in a mouse model of chronic migraine"
- View Event Info
02/10/2022 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Jhoan Aguilar and Hagar Hallihan, PhD, RN
Date / Time
- Feb 10, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Jhoan Aguilar
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Graduate Student, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Development of a Model for Studying Alcohol Withdrawal Induced Hyperalgesia in Mice"
- Hagar Hallihan PhD RN
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Director, Alcohol aBSTinence And braIN (ABSTAIN) Laboratory
  
  Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, UIC
- "Negative Urgency, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, and Alcohol Risk in College Students"
- View Event Info
12/09/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Vaibhav Konanur, MS and Joel Shillinglaw, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 09, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Vaibhav Konanur MS
- Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Glucose dynamics modulate dopamine signaling: implications for food-motivated behavior"
- Joel Shillinglaw PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "The role of the anterior insular cortex in encoding the aversive properties of ethanol"
- View Event Info
11/11/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Mason Sutter and Rachel Donka
Date / Time
- Nov 11, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Mason Sutter BS
- Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Education in Medical Sciences Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Dynamic Perineuronal Net Remodeling in the Mouse Cortex After Varying Lengths of Binge-Like Drinking"
- Rachel M. Donka BS
- Graduate Student, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology
  
  Pre-doctoral Fellow, Alcohol Research Training Grant in Epigenetics and Pathophysiology (ARTEP)
- "Modulation of reward sensitivity by morphine administration and physiological state"
- View Event Info
10/14/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Samantha Hurh and You-Hong Cheng, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 14, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Samantha Hurh
- Graduate Student
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons Flexibly Encode the Taste of Sucrose with Conditioned Taste Aversion Formation and Extinction"
- You-Hong Cheng PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Alterations in Expression and DNA Methylation of BDNF Exons and Neuronal Immediate Early Genes in Prefrontal Cortex After Early Life Ethanol Exposure in Rats"
- View Event Info
09/09/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Luana Martins de Carvalho, PhD and Kumar Kotlo, DVM PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 09, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Luana Martins de Carvalho PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Chronic Alcohol Drinking and Withdrawal Increases the Expression of the Splicing Machinery in the Rat Hippocampus"
- Kumar U. Kotlo DVM PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
- "Exploring the Role of Epitranscriptome Modifiers in Chronic Alcohol Consumption"
- View Event Info
08/12/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Tara Cruise and Luana Martins de Carvalho, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 12, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Tara Cruise BA
- Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Merger of transcriptomic and ChIP-seq data in the amygdala to identify molecular target mediating alcohol dependence"
- Luana Martins de Carvalho PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Chronic Alcohol Drinking and Withdrawal Increases the Expression of the Splicing Machinery in the Rat Hippocampus"
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05/13/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Lalith Kumar Venkareddy, PhD and Aashutosh Shetti
Date / Time
- May 13, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Lalith Kumar Venkareddy PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Modulation of Dynorphin/ Kappa opioid receptor in the amygdala after adolescent and adult alcohol exposure"
- Aashutosh Shetti
- PhD Candidate
  
  Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, UIC
- "Role of Caveolin-1 in the development of Alzheimer’s disease in Type 2 Diabetes"
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04/08/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hyerim Yang and Terilyn Stephen
Date / Time
- Apr 08, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Hyerim Yang BS
- Research Technician
  
  Graduate Student, Graduate Education in Medical Sciences (GEMS) PhD Program
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Activation of afferents to the RMTg during acute withdrawal from chronic ethanol exposure"
- Terilyn Stephen
- MD/Phd Candidate
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, UIC
- "Cell Autonomous Role of Caveolin-1 in Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis"
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03/11/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Cope Feurer, PhD and Bradley Heit, MS, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 11, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Cope Feurer PhD
- Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago, 2022-2024
- "Anterior Cingulate Cortex Response During Attentional Control as a Predictor of Psychotherapy Treatment Response"
- Bradley Heit BS MS
- PhD Candidate
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
- "NMDA receptor-mediated post-hypoxic potentiation in mice lacking glutamate antiporter, system xc−"
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02/11/2021 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Joel Shillinglaw, PhD and Luana Martins de Carvalho, PhD, MS
Date / Time
- Feb 11, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Joel Shillinglaw PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Changes in Excitability and Passive Properties of Prelimbic and Infralimbic Inputs to the Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus Following Chronic Ethanol Exposure"
- Luana Martins de Carvalho PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Sex Differences in Aversion Resistant Ethanol Intake: Divergent Roles of Perineuronal Nets"
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12/10/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Vaibhav Konanur and Gauri Kulkarni
Date / Time
- Dec 10, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Vaibhav Konanur MS
- Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Modulation of food-driven phasic dopamine signaling by Glucagon-like Peptide 1"
- Gauri Kulkarni
- Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Education in Biomedical Sciences (GEMS) Program
  
  Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, UIC
- "Heterogeneous subunit interfaces confer distinct protein expression and pharmacology to neuronal nicotinic ACh receptors"
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11/12/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Elizaveta Mangutov and Jeffrey Dunn
Date / Time
- Nov 12, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Elizaveta Mangutov BS
- Graduate Research Assistant/Graduate Student
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Novel Animal Models and Treatments for Headache Disorders"
- Jeffrey Dunn
- Graduate Student
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Prenatal Stress Reduces Sociability and Dysregulates Expression of Glutamate, GABA and Neuroimmune Genes in the C57BL/6J Mouse"
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10/08/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD and Emilce Artur de la Villarmois, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 08, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Circular RNAs: The Alcohol Transcriptome Comes Round"
- Emilce Artur de la Villarmois PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, UIC
- "Cognitive Interference as a Possible Therapeutic Strategy to Prevent Expression of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal"
- View Event Info
09/10/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Meagan Auger, PhD and Samantha Hurh
Date / Time
- Sep 10, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Meagan Auger PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, UIC
- "Maturation of functional connectivity between basolateral amygdala and prefrontal cortex during adolescence"
- Samantha Hurh
- Graduate Student
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Flexible Value Encoding by Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons"
- View Event Info
06/11/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Kana Hamada and Milena Radoman
Date / Time
- Jun 11, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Kana Hamada PhD
- Neuroscience Program, Class 2020
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "The ALK-STAT3 Pathway in Binge Drinking"
- Milena Radoman MS
- Graduate Research Assistant
- "Striatal Activation to Monetary Reward is Associated with Alcohol Reward Sensitivity"
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05/28/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: John Peyton Bohnsack, PhD
Date / Time
- May 28, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- John Peyton Bohnsack PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "CRISPR/dCas9 as a platform technology to decipher the epigenome in alcohol use disorder"
- View Event Info
05/19/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hu Chen, PhD
Date / Time
- May 19, 2020
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Hu Chen PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  The University of Illinois Chicago
- "Contribution of Insular Extracellular Matrix to Compulsive Alcohol Drinking"
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05/05/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Zachariah Bertels
Date / Time
- May 05, 2020
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Zachariah Bertels PhD
- Research Assistant
- "Neuronal complexity in chronic migraine and restored through HDAC6 inhibition"
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04/14/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Eleonora Gatta, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 14, 2020
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Eleonora Gatta PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Epigenetic regulation of GABAergic neurotransmission and neurosteroid biosynthesis in alcohol use disorder"
- View Event Info
04/07/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Evan Kyzar, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 07, 2020
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Evan Kyzar MD PhD
- MD/Phd Candidate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "An epigenetic circuit regulates lasting changes in Fos expression after early-life alcohol exposure"
- View Event Info
03/12/2020 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Cassandre Coles and Natania Crane, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 12, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- Cassandre Coles
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Binge Drinking Alters the Expression of the Orthodenticle Homeobox 2 (OTX2) Transcription Factor in the Ventral Tegmental Area"
- Natania Crane PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Associate Director of the UIC Recovery Clinic
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Enhances Frontostriatal Resting State Functional Connectivity"
- View Event Info
12/09/2019 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Ted Hsu, PhD and Zachariah Bertels
Date / Time
- Dec 09, 2019
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- Ted Hsu PhD
- Postdoctoral Researcher
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "The Subfornical Organ Recruits Phasic Dopamine Signaling to Water Availability via Multi-order Pathways"
- Zachariah Bertels PhD
- Research Assistant
- "Delta and Mu Opioid Receptor Agonists and Their Impact on Chronic Migraine"
- View Event Info
11/11/2019 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Ryan Patwell and Nicolas Senese, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 11, 2019
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- Ryan Patwell
- Graduate Research Assistant / PhD Candidate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Strain Differences in an Operant Ethanol Self-administration Paradigm"
- Nicolas Senese PhD
- Post-doctorate Research Associate
  
  Department of Physiology & Biophysics, UIC
- "Antidepressants Produce Persistent Gαs Associated Signaling Changes in Lipid Rafts Following Drug Withdrawal"
- View Event Info
10/14/2019 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hanaan Bing-Canaar and Russell Dulman
Date / Time
- Oct 14, 2019
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd floor Conference
- Hanaan Bing-Canar MA
- PhD Candidate
  
  Clinical Neuropsychology Extern
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Influences of Major Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Trauma and Alcohol Cue Reactivity"
- "Harnessing the Endocannabinoid System for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment"
- View Event Info
09/09/2019 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: James Auta, PhD, PharmD, MBA and Harish Krishnan, PhD, MD
Date / Time
- Sep 09, 2019
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- James Auta PhD PharmD MBA
- Associate Professor
- "Acute Ethanol-induced Motor Impairment Differentially Regulates nNOS Expression in Rat Cerebellum and Frontal Cortex"
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Whole Genome Approaches Reveal Epigenetically Regulated Signaling Molecules in the Amygdala During Alcohol Dependence"
- View Event Info
06/10/2019 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Kana Hamada and Tara Teppen, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 10, 2019
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Auditorium
- Kana Hamada PhD
- Neuroscience Program, Class 2020
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Regulation of binge drinking by the ALK and STAT3 signaling pathway"
- Tara Teppen PhD
- Senior Research Specialist
  
  Lab Manager, Dr. Subhash Pandey's Lab
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "MicroRNA alterations underlying alcohol use: Translational studies"
- View Event Info
04/08/2019 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Cassandre Coles and Eleonora Gatta, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 08, 2019
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Cassandre Coles
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Binge Alcohol Drinking Alters the Expression of the Transcription Factor Orthodenticle Homeobox 2 (OTX2) in the Ventral Tegmental Area"
- Eleonora Gatta PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "When Alcohol Stresses your Epigenome"
- View Event Info
02/11/2019 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Eleonora Gatta, PhD and Wei-Yang (Jeremy) Chen, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 11, 2019
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr 366
- Eleonora Gatta PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "When Alcohol Stresses your Epigenome"
- Wei-Yang Chen PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Epigenetic Regulation of Neuroimmune Gene Expression During Alcohol Withdrawal"
- View Event Info
12/10/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Bertha Jane Vandegrift and Milena Radoman
Date / Time
- Dec 10, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Bertha Jane Vandegrift
- Graduate Research Assistant, Physiology and Biophysics
- "Estradiol Enhances Ethanol Sensitivity of VTA DA Neurons through a mGluR1 Dependent Mechanism in Female Mice"
- Milena Radoman MS
- Graduate Research Assistant
- "Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Unpredictable Threat in Internalizing Psychopathology and Alcohol Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
11/12/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Mira Hammoud and Hu Chen
Date / Time
- Nov 12, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Mira Hammoud MD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- "Pharmacological Enhancers of Fear Extinction Memory: Therapeutic Implications for PTSD and Anxiety Disorders"
- Hu Chen PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  The University of Illinois Chicago
- "Perineuronal Nets in the Insula Regulate Aversion-Resistant Alcohol Drinking"
- View Event Info
10/08/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hooriyah Rizavi and Zachariah Bertels
Date / Time
- Oct 08, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Hooriyah Rizavi MSc PhD
- Research Specialist- Natural Sciences
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Dysregulation of Glucocorticoid Recepror and FKBP5 in Teenage Suicide"
- Zachariah Bertels PhD
- Research Assistant
- "Development of Novel Treatments for Migraine"
- View Event Info
09/10/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Natania Crane and Chang You
Date / Time
- Sep 10, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Natania Crane PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Associate Director of the UIC Recovery Clinic
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Neural activation to monetary reward is associated with amphetamine reward sensitivity"
- Chang You PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Lasek Lab
  
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UIC
- "KCNK13 potassium channels control ethanol excitation of ventral tegmental area neurons"
- View Event Info
08/13/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Russell Dulman and Peyton Bohnsack, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 13, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- "Acute and Chronic Ethanol Exposure Facilitates Increased FMR1 Expression via Histone Modifications in the Rat Cerebellum"
- John Peyton Bohnsack PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "EZH2 is a Conserved Epigenetic Mediator of the Persevering Effects of Adolescent Alcohol Abuse in Humans and Rodents"
- View Event Info
06/11/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Valentina Locci and Laura Segura Moye
Date / Time
- Jun 11, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- "Effects of early life ethanol exposure on hippocampus and frontal cortex of male and female mice"
- View Event Info
05/14/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Kayla Chase, PhD and Elisa Hilderbrand
Date / Time
- May 14, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Kayla A. Chase PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
- "Opiates Induce Cell Type Specific Changes in Neuronal Chromatin Structure"
- Elisa Hilderbrand
- Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
- "VTA Estrogen Receptors Regulate Binge-like Drinking in Female C57BL/6J Mice."
- View Event Info
04/09/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Isaac Dripps and Jenni Melbourne
Date / Time
- Apr 09, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Isacc Dripps PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- "Differential regulation of Migraine-associated pain and negative affect by central and peripheral delta opiod receptors"
- Jennifer Melbourne MS
- PhD Candidate
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Immune alterations in psychosis: Focus on the JAK-STAT1 signaling system"
- View Event Info
03/12/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Erbo Dong, PhD and Harish Krishnan, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 12, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Erbo Dong PhD
- Research Associate Professor
- "Prenatal Stress Leads to Synaptic Remodeling and Excessive Alcohol Intake Comorbid with Anxiety-like Behaviors in Adult Offspring"
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "The Alcohol Epigenome- Using Genome-wide Approaches to Characterize Cellular Networks that Mediate Acute Ethanol’s Anxiolytic Effects"
- View Event Info
02/12/2018 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hu Chen, PhD and Peyton Bohnsack
Date / Time
- Feb 12, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Hu Chen PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  The University of Illinois Chicago
- "Alcohol-Induced Changes in Cortical Perineuronal Nets and Their Role in Alcohol Drinking"
- John Peyton Bohnsack PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "The IncRNA BDNF Antisense is an Epigenetic Regulator in Early Onset Alcohol Use Disorders"
- View Event Info
12/11/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Zach Bertels and Eleonora Gatta, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 11, 2017
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Zachariah Bertels PhD
- Research Assistant
- "Mechanisms of Migrane Chronification"
- Eleonora Gatta PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Differential genome-wide methylation in alcohol use disorder subjects: focus on the cortico-limbic glucocorticoid receptors"
- View Event Info
11/13/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Wei-Yang Chen, PhD and Tiffani Berkel
Date / Time
- Nov 13, 2017
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Wei-Yang Chen PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Genome-wide transcriptional changes in the rat hippocampus during withdrawal from chronic alcohol drinking"
- Tiffani Berkel
- MD/Phd Candidate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Emerging role of histone methyltransferase G9a in the process of alcohol tolerance"
- View Event Info
10/09/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Andrea Locci, PhD and Evan Kyzar
Date / Time
- Oct 09, 2017
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Andrea Locci PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "PPAR-alpha activation by the endocannabinoid PEA improves PTSD-like behavior by stimulation of neurosteroid biosynthesis"
- Evan Kyzar MD PhD
- MD/Phd Candidate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Adolescent alcohol exposure-induced epigenetic regulation of Arc enhancer RNA (eRNA) in the adult amygdala and anxiety susceptibility"
- View Event Info
09/11/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Chang You, PhD and Bertha Vandegrift
Date / Time
- Sep 11, 2017
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Chang You PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Lasek Lab
  
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UIC
- "Histone acetylation underlies chronic alcohol withdrawal-induced GABA hyposensitivity in the ventral tegmental area"
- Bertha Jane Vandegrift
- Graduate Research Assistant, Physiology and Biophysics
- "Estradiol increases the sensitivity of the ventral tegmental area to dopamine and ethanol"
- View Event Info
06/02/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Antonia Savarese and Joseph Lutz, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 02, 2017
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Antonia Savarese
- Doctoral Candidate
  
  Lasek Lab
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "The Lmo3 gene: a regulator of anxiety and behavioral responses to alcohol"
- Joseph Lutz PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Human Addiction
  
  Psychopharmacology Lab
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Predictors of alcohol conditioned place preference in humans"
- View Event Info
05/08/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Rosalba Satta, PhD and Laura Segura Moye
Date / Time
- May 08, 2017
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Rosalba Satta PhD
- Medical Writer
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Sex Differences and Estrous Cycle Effects in the ‘Drinking in the Dark’ Model of Binge Drinking in Mice"
- Laura Segura Moye PhD
- Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "The delta opioid receptor as an emerging therapy for mTBI-induced headaches"
- View Event Info
04/10/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Huaibo Zhang, PhD, MD and Jacklynn Fitzgerald, MA
Date / Time
- Apr 10, 2017
- 09:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Huaibo Zhang MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Histone acetylation mechanism in the amygdala: A role in chronic ethanol withdrawal-related anxiety"
- Jacklynn Fitzgerald PhD
- Assistant Professor, Marquette University
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Common and disorder-specific neural engagement during cognitive reappraisal across internalizing psychopathology"
- View Event Info
03/13/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Tara Teppen, PhD and James Auta, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 13, 2017
- 09:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Tara Teppen PhD
- Senior Research Specialist
  
  Lab Manager, Dr. Subhash Pandey's Lab
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Amygdaloid Chromatin Remodeling Mechanisms underlying Acute Alcohol and Tolerance"
- James Auta PhD PharmD MBA
- Associate Professor
- "Chronic Ethanol Exposures and One-Carbon Metabolism in Rat Cerebellum and Liver"
- View Event Info
02/13/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Mengqi Xing and Jessica Fogel, MS
Date / Time
- Feb 13, 2017
- 03:03 PM - 03:03 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Maggie Xing MS
- "Exploring the dynamic EEG connectome with manifold learning"
- Jessica Fogel PhD
- "Effects of Sex and HIV serostatus on spatial navigational learning and memory among cocaine users"
- View Event Info
01/09/2017 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hu Chen, PhD and Harish Krishnan, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 09, 2017
- 09:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Hu Chen PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  The University of Illinois Chicago
- "Midkine in the ventral tegmental area limits ethanol intake and immune gene expression in mice"
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Acute ethanol RNA-Seq reveals novel gene targets that may play a role in anxiolytic behaviors"
- View Event Info
12/12/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Valentina Locci and M. Natalia Marangoni, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 12, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Valentina Locci PhD
- Post-doctoral Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Prenatal ethanol exposure: behavior and consequences on the vulnerability to alcohol abuse in adolescent and adult male rats"
- M. Natalia Marangoni PhD
- Visiting Instructor
  
  Department of Anetsthesiology, UIC
- "Elucidating LKE's (Lanthionine Ketimine ester) mechanism of action for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis"
- View Event Info
10/10/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Martina Palmisano and Elisa Hilderbrand
Date / Time
- Oct 10, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Martina Palmisano
- PhD Candidate
  
  University of Bologna Italy
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Modulation of dynorphin system in alcohol tolerance and dependence"
- Elisa Hilderbrand
- Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
- "Estrogen receptors regulate ethanol reward in females"
- View Event Info
10/03/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hector J. Caruncho, PhD and Lisa E. Kalynchuk, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 03, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Hector J. Caruncho PhD
- Professor of Pharmacy
  
  University of Saskatchewan
- "Studies on Reelin and Depression; from Bench to Bedside to Bench"
- Lisa E. Kalynchuk PhD
- Professor of Medicine
  
  University of Saskatchewan
- "Studies on Reelin and Depression; from Bench to Bedside to Bench"
- View Event Info
09/12/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Aimee Karstens and Eleonora Gatta
Date / Time
- Sep 12, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Aimee Karstens
- Graduate Student
- "The separate and interactive associations of urban trauma and depression on brain structure"
- Eleonora Gatta PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "The long-term outcome of perinatal stress: molecular basis of emotional behavior"
- View Event Info
07/11/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Bertha Vandergrift and Katie Bessette
Date / Time
- Jul 11, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Bertha Vandergrift
- Graduate Student
  
  Department of Physiology & Biophysics, UIC
- "High estrogen states increase ethanol and dopamine effects in ventral tegmental area neurons from free-cycling and ovariectomized female mice"
- Katie Bessette MA
- UIC Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Advisor: Scott Langenecker)
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Cognitive vulnerabilities for depression and alcohol use."
- View Event Info
06/13/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Laura Segura and Nathan Wray
Date / Time
- Jun 13, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Laura Segura Moye PhD
- Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
  
  Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Characterization of a novel mouse model of post-traumatic headache."
- Nathan Wray PhD
- Medical Science Liaison (MSL), Collegium Pharmaceuticals
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "The role of astrocytes in antidepressant actions of ketamine."
- View Event Info
05/09/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Emma Childs, PhD and Greg Bristow, DPhil
Date / Time
- May 09, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Emma Childs PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Conditioned place preference in humans using virtual environments"
- Greg Bristow DPhil
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  College of Pharmacy, UIC
- "Prenatal stress produces long-term effects on RNA editing and behavior that are eliminated by clozapine"
- View Event Info
04/11/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Ritabrata Banerjee, PhD and Lisanne Jenkins, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 11, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Ritabrata Banerjee
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Role of CB1 receptor signaling in alcohol intake"
- Lisanne Jenkins PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  
  Northwestern University
- "Reduced connectivity of the cognitive control neural network at rest in individuals who begin drinking alcohol prior to age 18"
- View Event Info
03/14/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Ana Vicente-Sanchez, PhD and Antonia Savarese
Date / Time
- Mar 14, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Ana Vicente-Sanchez PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Biased agonism at the delta opioid receptor"
- Antonia Savarese
- Doctoral Candidate
  
  Lasek Lab
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Characterization of behavioral phenotypes and gene expression changes related to alcohol use disorders in mice deficient in the Lim-only protein, LMO3"
- View Event Info
01/11/2016 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Jeff Schappi and Harinder Singh, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 11, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Jeffrey Schappi
- Senior Scientist, Pax Neuroscience
- "Modified lipid raft anchoring of the G protein, Gas subsequent to chronic antidepressant treatment, is independent of monoamine transporters but requires type 6 adenylyl cyclase (AC6)."
- Harinder Singh PhD
- Post-doctorate Research Associate
  
  Department of Physiology & Biophysics, UIC
- "HDAC6 inhibition induced a-tubulin acetylation translocates Gas out of lipid-rafts: a novel mechanism for antidepressant action"
- View Event Info
12/14/2015 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Andrew Widmer, MD/PhD and Chang You, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 14, 2015
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Andrew Widmer MD PhD
- Resident, Cincinati Children’s Hospital
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Inhibitory function in the Fragile X olfactory cortex."
- Chang You PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Lasek Lab
  
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UIC
- "GABA Hyposensitivity in Dopamine Neurons of the Ventral Tegmental Area after Chronic Alcohol Exposure: an Epigenetic Regulation Mechanism"
- View Event Info
11/09/2015 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Joseph Lutz, PhD and Natania Crane, MA
Date / Time
- Nov 09, 2015
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Joseph Lutz PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Human Addiction
  
  Psychopharmacology Lab
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Identifying alcohol response phenotypes among a sample of heavy drinkers"
- Natania Crane PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Associate Director of the UIC Recovery Clinic
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Neuropsychological, Affective, and Psychosocial Correlates of Adolescent Substance Use: Preliminary Data"
- View Event Info
08/10/2015 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Elisa R. Hilderbrand and Tiffani Berkel
Date / Time
- Aug 10, 2015
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Elisa Hilderbrand
- Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Program in Neuroscience
- "Ethanol and the Female Brain: Estrogen as a regulator of Ethanol Reward and Binge Drinking Behavior"
- Tiffani Berkel
- MD/Phd Candidate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "“Potential Histone Methylation Mechanisms in Anxiety and Alcoholism"
- View Event Info
05/11/2015 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Bradley Heit and Harish Krishnan, PhD
Date / Time
- May 11, 2015
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Bradley Heit BS MS
- PhD Candidate
  
  Graduate Program in Neuroscience
- "Ex-vivo Study of Neuroprotective Effects of Physical Exercise"
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Chromatin Remodeling and Rapid Tolerance to Anxiolytic Effects of Alcohol"
- View Event Info

3rd Thursday: Addiction Affinity Group – a discussion-based forum designed to encourage dialog between clinicians and researchers (basic & clinical)

03/20/2025 Addiction Affinity Group: Dennis R. Sparta, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 20, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
CANCELED:
- Dennis R. Sparta PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Electrophysiological measurements of synaptic plasticity in substance & alcohol use disorder"
- View Event Info
02/20/2025 Addiction Affinity Group: Zhenyuan Song, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 20, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Zhenyuan Song PhD
- Professor of Nutrition
  
  Department of Kinesiology & Nutrition
  
  College of Applied Health Sciences
  
  UI Medical Center
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Nicotinamide N-Methyltransferase (NNMT): A Key Metabolic Regulator in the Pathogenesis of Alcohol-Related Liver Disease"
- View Event Info
01/16/2025 Addiction Affinity Group: Salman R. Khetani, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 16, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Salman R. Khetani PhD
- Robert Uyetani Professor
  
  Director of Graduate Studies
  
  Department of Biomedical Engineering
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Investigating Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Using Engineered Tissue Surrogates"
- View Event Info
12/19/2024 Addiction Affinity Group: Salman R. Khetani, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 19, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
CANCELLED
- Salman R. Khetani PhD
- Robert Uyetani Professor
  
  Director of Graduate Studies
  
  Department of Biomedical Engineering
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Investigating Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Using Engineered Tissue Surrogates"
- View Event Info
11/21/2024 Addiction Affinity Group: Katherine M. J. McMurray, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 21, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Katherine McMurray PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Investigating AUD, panic disorder, and PTSD co-morbidity using translational preclinical models"
- View Event Info
10/17/2024 Addiction Affinity Group: Elisabeth (Elissa) Poorman, MD, MPH
Date / Time
- Oct 17, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Elisabeth Poorman MD
- Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Addictions
  
  Assistant Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  
  Director, Addiction Consult Service at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Treating Opioid Use Disorder in the Hospital"
- View Event Info
09/19/2024 Addiction Affinity Group: Ashley D. Kendall, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 19, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Ashley Kendall PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Medicine, Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science
- "Can App-Based Meditation Reduce Substance Use and Sexual Risk among Youth in the Legal System? Pilot Implementation and Effectiveness Outcomes"
- View Event Info
08/15/2024 No Addiction Affinity Group Seminar 8/15/2024
Date / Time
- Aug 15, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Addiction Affinity Group Seminar"
- View Event Info
07/18/2024 No Addiction Affinity Group Seminar 7/18/2024
Date / Time
- Jul 18, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Addiction Affinity Group Seminar"
- View Event Info
06/20/2024 No Addiction Affinity Group Seminar 6/20/2024
Date / Time
- Jun 20, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Addiction Affinity Group Seminar"
- View Event Info
05/16/2024 Addiction Affinity Group: Humna Fayyaz, MD, MPH
Date / Time
- May 16, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Humna Fayyaz MD MPH
- Addiction Medicine Fellow, Class of 2024
- "Hospital-Based Addiction Treatment Models"
- View Event Info
04/18/2024 Addiction Affinity Group: Kyle Beuoy, MD
Date / Time
- Apr 18, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Kyle Beuoy MD
- Addiction Medicine Fellow, Class of 2024
- "Harm Reduction Strategies in Substance Use Disorders"
- View Event Info
03/21/2024 No Addiction Affinity Group Seminar 3/21/2024
Date / Time
- Mar 21, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Addiction Affinity Group Seminar"
- View Event Info
02/15/2024 Addiction Affinity Group: Catherine Fairbairn, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 15, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Catherine Fairbairn PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychology
  
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- "Understanding Drinking in Context: New Methods for Exploring Etiology and Developing Treatments in Alcohol Research"
- View Event Info
01/18/2024 Addiction Affinity Group: Matthew Gunn, MA
Date / Time
- Jan 18, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Matthew P. Gunn PhD
- Research Post-doctoral Fellow, REWARD laB
- "Resting-state functional connectivity predictors of nicotine relapse risk"
- View Event Info
12/21/2023 No Addiction Affinity Group - December 2023
Date / Time
- Dec 21, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Addiction Affinity Group - December 2023"
- View Event Info
11/16/2023 Addiction Affinity Group: Hagar Hallihan, PhD, RN
Date / Time
- Nov 16, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Hagar Hallihan PhD RN
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Director, Alcohol aBSTinence And braIN (ABSTAIN) Laboratory
  
  Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, UIC
- "DEDICATE: A Clinical Trial Investigating Integrated Behavior Change Interventions for Young Adults at Risk of Alcohol Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
10/19/2023 Addiction Affinity Group: J. Konadu Fokuo, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 19, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- J. Konadu Fokuo PhD
- Visiting Clinical Instructor
- "Better Together project: Improving Access to MOUD for west side of Chicago residents Through Community Collaboration"
- View Event Info
08/17/2023 Addiction Affinity Group: Sajoy P. Varghese, MD, FAPA
Date / Time
- Aug 17, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Sajoy P. Varghese MD FAPA
- Assistant Professor
  
  VA Northern California Health Care System
  
  Addiction Recovery Treatment Services (Telepsychiatry)
  
  Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  
  University of California, Davis
  
  Minneapolis VA Medical Center, VISN 23, Clinical Resource Hub
- "A Rare Case of Serotonin Syndrome With Buprenorphine & Other Serotonergic Medications"
- View Event Info
07/20/2023 No Addiction Affinity Group - July 2023
Date / Time
- Jul 20, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Addiction Affinity Group - July 2023"
- View Event Info
06/15/2023 No Addiction Affinity Group - June 2023
Date / Time
- Jun 15, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Addiction Affinity Group - June 2023"
- View Event Info
05/18/2023 Addiction Affinity Group: Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, PhD
Date / Time
- May 18, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Tory Eisenlohr-Moul PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
  
  Associate Director of Translational Research in Women’s Mental Health
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine
- "Ovarian steroid regulation of alcohol intake across the menstrual cycle"
- View Event Info
04/20/2023 Addiction Affinity Group: Elisabeth Poorman, MD
Date / Time
- Apr 20, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Elisabeth Poorman MD
- Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Addictions
  
  Assistant Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  
  Director, Addiction Consult Service at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Alcohol Use Disorder: Update in Outpatient Treatment"
- View Event Info
03/16/2023 Addiction Affinity Group: Graziano Pinna, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 16, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Graziano Pinna PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine
- "PPAR-⍺: An anti-inflammatory target with emerging role in alcohol addiction and emotional behavior regulation"
- View Event Info
02/16/2023 Addiction Affinity Group: Katie Washington Cole, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 16, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Katie Washington Cole MD PhD
- Addiction Psychiatry Fellow, Class of 2023
- "Case Presentation: Oral naltrexone for mild kratom use disorder"
- View Event Info
01/19/2023 Addiction Affinity Group: From 1/19/2022 to 4/20/2023
Date / Time
- Jan 19, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
RESCHEDULED
- Elisabeth Poorman MD
- Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Addictions
  
  Assistant Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  
  Director, Addiction Consult Service at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Alcohol Use Disorder: Update in Outpatient Treatment"
- View Event Info
12/15/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 15, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Niranjan S. Karnik MD PhD
- Professor of Psychiatry & Director, Institute for Juvenile Research
  
  Co-Director of Institute for Research on Addictions
  
  Interim Director of AI.Health4All Center for Health Equity using ML/AI
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Using Data Science and Machine Learning to Address Substance Use in the Hospital Setting"
- View Event Info
11/17/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: Natania Crane, PhD and Elizabeth Glover, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 17, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Natania Crane PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Associate Director of the UIC Recovery Clinic
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "From concepts to treatment …"
- Elizabeth Glover PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director of the CARE Behavior Core
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "From concepts to treatment …"
- View Event Info
10/20/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: Natania Crane, PhD, Christopher Holden, MD and Elizabeth Glover, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 20, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
Room #
- 366
CANCELLED
- Natania Crane PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Associate Director of the UIC Recovery Clinic
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "From concepts to treatment …."
- Christopher Holden MD
- Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  
  Director of Addiction Psychiatry
  
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry – University of Illinois College of Medicine
  
  UI Health
- "From concepts to treatment …."
- Elizabeth Glover PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director of the CARE Behavior Core
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "From concepts to treatment …."
- View Event Info
09/15/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: Kathleen Rospenda, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 15, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Kathleen M. Rospenda PhD
- Professor of Psychology
  
  UIC Department of Psychiatry
- "Psychosocial research on stress & alcohol use: the project for research on work & well-being"
- View Event Info
05/19/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: Pingwen Xu, PhD
Date / Time
- May 19, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Pingwen Xu PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Medicine
  
  Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Neurobiology of homeostatic vs hedonic feeding"
- View Event Info
04/21/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: Samantha Chirunomula, MD
Date / Time
- Apr 21, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Samantha Chirunomula MD
- Physician, Mile Square Federally Qualified Health Center
  
  Addiction Medicine Fellow, Class of 2022
- "The Realms of Addiction Medicine: An Individual's Path to Recovery"
- View Event Info
03/17/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: Amy Lasek, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 17, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Amy W. Lasek PhD
- Former Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Anatomy and Cell Biology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Approaches to discovering mechanisms underlying sex differences in addiction"
- View Event Info
02/17/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: Ciro Ramos-Estebanez, MD, PhD, MBA, FNCS
Date / Time
- Feb 17, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Ciro Ramos-Estebanez MD PhD MBA FNCS
- Neurocritical Care Division Chief
  
  Associate Professor in Neurology & Neurosurgery
  
  Departments of Neurology & Rehabilitation and Neurosurgery
  
  Director of Clinical & Imaging Research Outcomes Lab
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "ESSTim: A Novel Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation technique for Opiate Use Disorder: Phase I HEAL Initiative study"
- View Event Info
01/20/2022 Addiction Affinity Group: A Perspective from Recovery - Devin P. Effinger
Date / Time
- Jan 20, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Devin P. Effinger
- Graduate Research Associate, Herman Lab
  
  Department of Pharmacology
  
  Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
  
  University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- "A Perspective from Recovery"
- View Event Info
11/18/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: Tran H. Tran, PharmD, BCPS
Date / Time
- Nov 18, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Tran H. Tran PharmD BCPS
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Pharmacy Practice
  
  Midwestern University, Chicago College of Pharmacy
- "Opioid Overdose Training"
- View Event Info
10/21/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: Julie Bobitt, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 21, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Julie Bobitt PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Examining the intersection between cannabis and opioid use among older adults in Illinois"
- View Event Info
09/16/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: Emma Childs, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 16, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Emma Childs PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "The vital contribution of basic science research in humans to addiction neuroscience"
- View Event Info
08/19/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: Andrew Riley, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 19, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Andrew Riley PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Natural products as leads in addiction drug discovery"
- View Event Info
06/17/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: Sarah Messmer, MD
Date / Time
- Jun 17, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Sarah Messmer MD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Clinical Medicine & Pediatrics
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Integrating healthcare & medication-assisted recovery into a harm reduction program"
- View Event Info
05/20/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: James A Swartz, PhD
Date / Time
- May 20, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- James A. Swartz PhD
- Professor
  
  Jane Addams College of Social Work
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Overview of ongoing studies to address the state opioid epidemic & assess the effects of the IL Cannabis Tax Act"
- View Event Info
04/15/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: Zaijie (Jim) Wang, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 15, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Zaijie (Jim) Wang PhD
- Professor of Pharmocology and Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutical Sciences
  
  College of Pharmacy
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "What’s pain got to do with addiction?  A look through CaMKII and let-7"
- View Event Info
03/18/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: A Perspective from Recovery
Date / Time
- Mar 18, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Jane ************************
- Public Relations
  
  Narcotics Anonymous World Services
- "A Perspective from Recovery"
- View Event Info
02/18/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: Stephen B. Brown, MSW, LCSW
Date / Time
- Feb 18, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Stephen B. Brown MSW LCSW
- Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine
  
  Department of Emergency Medicine
  
  University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System
- "A cross-sector care continuum approach for patients with Opioid Use Disorders: Observations from the Westside Opioid Task Force"
- View Event Info
01/21/2021 Addiction Affinity Group: Christian Peters, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 21, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Christian Peters PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Microcircuitry within the midbrain tegmentum regulating nicotine dependence and withdrawal"
- View Event Info
12/17/2020 Addiction Affinity Group: Robin J. Mermelstein, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 17, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Robin Mermelstein PhD
- Distinguished Professor of Psychology
  
  Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy (IHRP)
  
  Co-Director, UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS)
  
  Clinical Professor of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Switching from Combustible Cigarettes to E-Cigarettes: What We Need to Know and Strategies Moving Forward"
- View Event Info
11/19/2020 Addiction Affinity Group: Elizabeth Glover, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 19, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Elizabeth Glover PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director of the CARE Behavior Core
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Using animal models to investigate neurobiological markers underlying motivation to drink"
- View Event Info
10/15/2020 Addiction Affinity Group: Jonathan Henry, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 15, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Jonathan Henry MD PhD
- Medical Director, Addictions Treatment Program
  
  Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
  
  Chicago, IL
- "A patient with alcohol use disorder who refuses treatment"
- View Event Info
04/16/2019 Addiction Affinity Group: Erin C. Berenz, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 16, 2019
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- Conference 3rd floor
- Erin C. Berenz PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Trauma and Alcohol Cue Reactivity Among Young Adult Survivors of Assault"
- View Event Info
02/19/2019 Addiction Affinity Group: Margaret Wardle, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 19, 2019
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd flr Conference
- Margaret Wardle PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director, Addiction Research and Treatment Laboratory
  
  Department of Psychology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Targeting Anhedonia in Cocaine Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
11/20/2018 Addiction Affinity Group: Jamie D Roitman, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 20, 2018
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Jamie D. Roitman PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychology
- "Lasting effects of adolescent substance use on prefrontal-dependent behavior and signaling"
- View Event Info
09/18/2018 Addiction Affinity Group: Kuei Y. Tseng, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 18, 2018
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Kuei Y. Tseng MD PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago, College of Medicine
- "Developmental disruption of prefrontal maturation by social defeat stress during adolescence"
- View Event Info
07/17/2018 Addiction Affinity Group: Elizabeth Glover, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 17, 2018
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Elizabeth Glover PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director of the CARE Behavior Core
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "The role of cortical inputs to the RMTg in aversive signaling and its implications for alcohol use disorders"
- View Event Info
04/17/2018 Addiction Affinity Group: Mitch Roitman, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 17, 2018
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Mitch Roitman PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychology, UIC
- "Mesolimbic encoding of afffective stimuli: tuning by physiological state and its proxies"
- View Event Info
02/20/2018 Addiction Affinity Group Discussion With Kathleen M. Rospenda, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 20, 2018
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Kathleen M. Rospenda PhD
- Professor of Psychology
  
  UIC Department of Psychiatry
- "The role of psychological factors and methods in addictions research"
- View Event Info
11/21/2017 Addiction Affinity Group Discussion With Emma Childs, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 21, 2017
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Emma Childs PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Translational models of addiction"
- View Event Info
09/19/2017 Addiction Affinity Group: Ajna Hamidovic, PharmD MS
Date / Time
- Sep 19, 2017
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Ajna Hamidovic PharmD MS
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacy
  
  Department of Pharmacy Practice, UIC
- "Intranasal Insulin for Smoking Cessation"
- View Event Info
08/15/2017 Addiction Affinity Group: Christopher Holden, MD
Date / Time
- Aug 15, 2017
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Christopher Holden MD
- Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  
  Director of Addiction Psychiatry
  
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry – University of Illinois College of Medicine
  
  UI Health
- "Methamphetamine-Associated Psychosis"
- View Event Info
06/20/2017 Addiction Affinity Group: Emma Childs, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 20, 2017
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Emma Childs PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Low-dose THC can relieve stress; more does just the opposite"
- View Event Info
05/16/2017 Addiction Affinity Group: Mariann Piano, RN, PhD, FAAN
Date / Time
- May 16, 2017
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Mariann Piano RN PhD FAAN
- Professor of Nursing
  
  Department Head of Biobehavioral Health Science UIC
- "Binge Drinking in Young Adults"
- View Event Info
04/18/2017 Addiction Affinity Group: Lauren Pace, DO
Date / Time
- Apr 18, 2017
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Lauren Pace DO
- UIC Addiction Psychiatry Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Synthetic Cannabinoids: An Overview"
- View Event Info
03/21/2017 Addiction Affinity Group: K. Luan Phan, MD
Date / Time
- Mar 21, 2017
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- K. Luan Phan MD
- Chair and Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
  
  The Ohio State University
  
  Columbus, OH
- "Shared Pathophysiology of Addiction and Post-traumatic Stress"
- View Event Info
02/21/2017 Addiction Affinity Group: Christopher Holden
Date / Time
- Feb 21, 2017
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Christopher Holden MD
- Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  
  Director of Addiction Psychiatry
  
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry – University of Illinois College of Medicine
  
  UI Health
- "The Prescription Opioid Epidemic"
- View Event Info
11/15/2016 Addiction Affinity Group: Sajoy Varghese, MD
Date / Time
- Nov 15, 2016
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Sajoy P. Varghese MD FAPA
- Assistant Professor
  
  VA Northern California Health Care System
  
  Addiction Recovery Treatment Services (Telepsychiatry)
  
  Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  
  University of California, Davis
  
  Minneapolis VA Medical Center, VISN 23, Clinical Resource Hub
- "Loperamide Abuse: Atypical Opioid Use Disorder Treated with Buprenorphine/ Naloxone"
- View Event Info
09/20/2016 Addiction Affinity Group: Scott Langenecker, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 20, 2016
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Scott A. Langenecker PhD
- Professor of Psychiatry
  
  University of Utah
- "Depression and childhood trauma as risk factors for substance abuse"
- View Event Info
07/19/2016 Addiction Affinity Group: Stephanie Gorka, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 19, 2016
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Stephanie Gorka PhD
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Associate Director, UIC Recovery Clinic
- "Brain-Behavior Reactivity to Threat and Risk for Alcohol Abuse in Young Adults"
- View Event Info
06/21/2016 Addiction Affinity Group: Kalyan Rao, MD
Date / Time
- Jun 21, 2016
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Kalyan Rao MD
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- "Childhood Adversity and Addictions"
- View Event Info
04/19/2016 Addiction Affinity Group: Emma Childs, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 19, 2016
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Emma Childs PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Biomarkers in Substance Use Disorders"
- View Event Info
02/16/2016 Addiction Affinity Group: Mark Brodie, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 16, 2016
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Mark Brodie PhD
- Professor
  
  Department of Physiology & Biophysics
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  Director: Master of Science in Medical Physiology Program
- "The light side of addiction"
- View Event Info
01/19/2016 Addiction Affinity Group: Subhash Pandey, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 19, 2016
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Subhash C. Pandey PhD
- Joseph A. Flaherty MD, Endowed Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Director, Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics
  
  Professor of Biochemistry in Psychiatry
  
  Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
  
  Director, Neuroscience Alcoholism Research
  
  Senior VA Career Research Scientist
  
  Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago
- "Conceptual framework of the Dark Side of Addiction"
- View Event Info
12/15/2015 Addiction Affinity Group: Amy Lasek, PhD
Date / Time
- Dec 15, 2015
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Amy W. Lasek PhD
- Former Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Anatomy and Cell Biology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "New and emerging therapies for drug and alcohol addiction"
- View Event Info
11/17/2015 Addiction Affinity Group: Christopher Holden, MD
Date / Time
- Nov 17, 2015
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Christopher Holden MD
- Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  
  Director of Addiction Psychiatry
  
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry – University of Illinois College of Medicine
  
  UI Health
- "Current pharmacotherapies for drug addiction: Clinical picture."
- View Event Info
09/22/2015 Addiction Affinity Group: Joseph Lutz, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 22, 2015
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Joseph Lutz PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Human Addiction
  
  Psychopharmacology Lab
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Pharmacotherapies for alcohol addiction: Mechanisms of action"
- View Event Info
08/18/2015 Addiction Affinity Group: Christopher Holden, MD
Date / Time
- Aug 18, 2015
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- "Current pharmacotherapies for alcoholism"
- View Event Info

4th Thursday: Neuroscience Seminar Series – talk by invited leader in the field of neuroscience

03/27/2025 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Christopher W. Cowan, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 27, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Christopher W. Cowan PhD
- Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience
  
  Smart State Endowed Chair in Brain Imaging
  
  Director, Charleston Opioid Center on Addiction (COCA)
  
  Director, COBRE in Neurodevelopment and its Disorders (CNDD)
  
  Co-Director, MUSC Neuroscience and Brain Health Institute (NBHI)
  
  Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
- "Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of drug-cue associations and drug-seeking in preclinical models of substance use disorder"
- View Event Info
02/27/2025 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Debomoy K. Lahiri, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 27, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Debomoy K. Lahiri PhD
- University Distinguished Professor
  
  Departments of Psychiatry, and Medical & Molecular Genetics
  
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  
  Indiana Alzheimer Disease Research Center
  
  Stark Neuroscience Research Institute
  
  Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- "Brain-specific miRNA as treatment candidates. Small is big!"
- View Event Info
01/23/2025 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Monsheel Sodhi, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 23, 2025
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Monsheel Sodhi PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Dept. Molecular Pharmacology and Neuroscience
  
  Loyola University Chicago
  
  Maywood, Illinois
- "RNA Editing, Stress, and Sex Differences: Impact on Cognitive and Social Function"
- View Event Info
12/26/2024 No Neuroscience Seminar - December 26, 2024
Date / Time
- Dec 26, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Seminar - December 26, 2024"
- View Event Info
11/28/2024 No Neuroscience Seminar - November 28, 2024
Date / Time
- Nov 28, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Seminar - November 28, 2024"
- View Event Info
10/24/2024 Neuroscience Seminar Series: James M. Otis, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 24, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- James M. Otis PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Neuroscience
  
  Medical University of South Carolina
- "Novel approaches for unraveling the neuronal circuits underlying addiction"
- View Event Info
10/03/2024 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Sourav Banerjee, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 03, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Sourav Banerjee PhD
- Professor
  
  National Brain Research Center
  
  Manesar 122052, INDIA
- "Long non-coding RNA-mediated regulatory mechanism of memory"
- View Event Info
08/29/2024 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Carlos F. Valenzuela, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 29, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
CANCELED
- Carlos F. Valenzuela MD PhD
- Regents’ Professor
  
  Department of Neurosciences
  
  New Mexico Alcohol Research Center
  
  University of New Mexico School of Medicine
- "Exploring Alcohol’s Developmental Impact on Memory: Effects Beyond the Hippocampus"
- View Event Info
08/01/2024 Neuroscience Seminar Series: James M. Otis, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 01, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
CANCELED
- James M. Otis PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Neuroscience
  
  Medical University of South Carolina
- "Novel approaches for unraveling the neuronal circuits underlying addiction"
- View Event Info
06/27/2024 No Neuroscience Seminar 6/27/2024
Date / Time
- Jun 27, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Seminar"
- View Event Info
05/30/2024 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Elizabeth Glover, PhD
Date / Time
- May 30, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Neuropsychiatric Institute(NPI)
- 912 S. Wood St.
- Department of Psychiatry (MC 913)
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Elizabeth Glover PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director of the CARE Behavior Core
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Disrupted Cortical Regulation of Aversive Signaling after Chronic Ethanol Exposure"
- View Event Info
04/25/2024 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 25, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Catherine Marcinkiewcz PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Pharmacology
  
  University of Iowa
- "The Complex Role of Serotonin Neurocircuitry in Alcohol Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
03/28/2024 No Neuroscience Seminar 3/28/2024
Date / Time
- Mar 28, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Seminar 3/28/2024"
- View Event Info
02/22/2024 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Elizaveta Benevolenskaya, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 22, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Elizaveta Benevolenskaya PhD
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
  
  Director, Cancer Genomics Shared Resource
  
  University of Illinois Cancer Center
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Unique Transcriptional Responses in Cell Populations Form the Basis for Better Understanding Drug Sensitivity and Tolerance"
- View Event Info
01/25/2024 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Emma Childs, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 25, 2024
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Emma Childs PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Influences of Natural v/s Synthetic Ovarian Hormones on Alcohol Effects and Self-administration"
- View Event Info
12/28/2023 No Neuroscience Seminar: December 28, 2023
Date / Time
- Dec 28, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
11/23/2023 No Neuroscience Seminar: November 23, 2023
Date / Time
- Nov 23, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Seminar: November 23, 2023"
- View Event Info
10/26/2023 Neuroscience Seminar Seminar: Ali Keshavarzian, MD
Date / Time
- Oct 26, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Ali Keshavarzian MD
- Director, Rush Center for Integrated Microbiome & Chronobiology Research
  
  Rush University Medical Center
- "Role of Gut-Microbiota Dysbiosis and Gut Leak in Alcohol-Induced Organ Damage"
- View Event Info
09/28/2023 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Reesha R. Patel, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 28, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Reesha R. Patel PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  
  Feinberg School of Medicine
  
  Northwestern University
  
  Chicago, IL
- "Amygdala-Cortical Determinants of Alcohol Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
07/27/2023 No Neuroscience Seminar: July 27, 2023
Date / Time
- Jul 27, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Seminar: July 27, 2023"
- View Event Info
06/22/2023 No Neuroscience Seminar: June 22, 2023
Date / Time
- Jun 22, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- No Location(NONE)
- "No Neuroscience Seminar: June 22, 2023"
- View Event Info
05/25/2023 Neuroscience Seminar: Sachin Patel, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- May 25, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- Auditorium, Room 109
- Sachin Patel MD PhD
- Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  
  Lizzie Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  
  Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry)
  
  Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
- "Endocannabinoid Signaling and Therapeutics: Translational Implications for Stress and Alcohol-Related Disorders"
- View Event Info
05/05/2023 Special Seminar: Katherine McMurray, PhD
Date / Time
- May 05, 2023
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Katherine McMurray PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Neuroimmune Mechanisms and Neurocircuitry Underlying Co-morbid Panic, PTSD or Alcohol Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
04/11/2023 Special Seminar: Nobu Suto, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 11, 2023
- 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Nobu Nobu PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Neuroscience
  
  The Scripps Research Institute
  
  La Jolla, CA
- "Discovering ‘druggable’ targets against addiction"
- View Event Info
04/03/2023 Special Seminar: Summer Thompson, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 03, 2023
- 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Summer Thompson PhD
- Associate Research Scientist
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  Yale School of Medicine
  
  New Haven, CT
- "Reward, the environment, and the gut"
- View Event Info
03/29/2023 Special Seminar: Nicholas Timme, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 29, 2023
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Nicholas Timme PhD
- Assistant Research Professor
  
  Department of Psychology
  
  Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
  
  Indianapolis, IN
- "Examining the neural mechanisms underlying aversion-resistant alcohol consumption in rodent and computational models"
- View Event Info
02/23/2023 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Ming Xu, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 23, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Ming Xu PhD
- Professor
  
  Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care
  
  The University of Chicago
- "Novel mechanisms and therapies for substance use disorder"
- View Event Info
01/26/2023 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dennis R. Sparta, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 26, 2023
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Dennis R. Sparta PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Probing extended amygdala circuits in alcohol use disorder"
- View Event Info
09/22/2022 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Subhash C. Pandey, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 22, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
Room #
- 366
- Subhash C. Pandey PhD
- Joseph A. Flaherty MD, Endowed Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Director, Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics
  
  Professor of Biochemistry in Psychiatry
  
  Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
  
  Director, Neuroscience Alcoholism Research
  
  Senior VA Career Research Scientist
  
  Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago
- "Epigenomic editing: Unraveling chromatin function in alcohol use disorder"
- View Event Info
08/04/2022 Special Seminar: Ke Xu, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 04, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366
- Ke Xu MD PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  Yale School of Medicine
  
  Connecticut Veteran Affairs Healthcare System
  
  New Haven, CT
- "Translational Epigenetics in Psychiatry: Biomarker Development for Substance Misuse and Outcome Prediction"
- View Event Info
05/26/2022 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Kimberly Nixon, PhD
Date / Time
- May 26, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Kimberly Nixon PhD
- Director, T32-Neurochemical & Behavioral Correlates of EtOH Effects
  
  Professor and James T. Doluisio Centennial Fellow
  
  College of Pharmacy
  
  Division of Pharmacology & Toxicology
  
  The University of Texas at Austin
  
  Austin, TX
- "Gliosis in models of alcoholism: Roles in neuro degeneration regeneration?"
- View Event Info
05/05/2022 Special Neuroscience Seminar: Bhagyalakshmi Shankarappa
Date / Time
- May 05, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Bhagyalakshmi Shankarappa
- PhD Candidate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  St John's Medical College Hospital (SJMCH)
  
  Collaboration with Molecular Genetics lab
  
  National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS)
  
  Bangalore, India
- "Genetics and Epigenetics of Alcohol Liver Cirrhosis"
- View Event Info
04/28/2022 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Ke Xu, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 28, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Ke Xu MD PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  Yale School of Medicine
  
  Connecticut Veteran Affairs Healthcare System
  
  New Haven, CT
- "Epigenetic Biomarkers in Addiction and Beyond: Translation to the Clinic"
- View Event Info
03/24/2022 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Daryl L. Davies, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 24, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Daryl L. Davies PhD
- Professor
  
  Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
  
  Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy
  
  Associate Director, USC Institute of Addiction Science
  
  Director, Management of Drug Development Master’s Program
  
  School of Pharmacy
  
  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- "A Tale of Two Epidemics: COVID-19 and Alcohol Use Disorders  "
- View Event Info
02/24/2022 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 24, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Gabor Egervari MD PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow
  
  Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
  
  Perelman School of Medicine
  
  University of Pennsylvania
- "Metabolic-epigenetic interactions during pre- and postnatal alcohol exposure"
- View Event Info
01/27/2022 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Ruixuan Gao, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 27, 2022
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Ruixuan Gao PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Biological Sciences & Department of Chemistry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Development and Application of Expansion Microscopy for Spatial Omics"
- View Event Info
10/28/2021 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Scott Swartzwelder, PhD
Date / Time
- Begin Date:Oct 28, 2021 01:00 PM
- End Date:Oct 19, 2021 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Scott Swartzwelder PhD
- Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  
  Duke University School of Medicine
  
  Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
  
  Duke University
  
  Durham, NC
- "Adolescent Alcohol and the Hippocampus:  A Walk Down Memory Lane"
- View Event Info
09/23/2021 Special Neuroscience Seminar: Thaddeus Barney
Date / Time
- Sep 23, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Thaddeus Barney
- PhD Candidate
  
  Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Program
  
  Binghamton University - SUNY
  
  Binghamton, NY
- "IL-6 enhances while IL-1Β inhibits adult but not adolescent GABA signaling in basolateral amygdala pyramidal neurons"
- View Event Info
08/26/2021 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Joyce Besheer, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 26, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Joyce Besheer PhD
- Professor
  
  Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  
  Chapel Hill, NC
- "Stress and alcohol drinking: behavioral and molecular influences"
- View Event Info
07/30/2021 Special Neuroscience Seminar: Peter Hamor, MS
Date / Time
- Jul 30, 2021
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Peter Hamor MS
- PhD Candidate
  
  Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Program
  
  Department of Psychology
  
  University of Florida
  
  Gainesville, FL
- "Investigating neural circuits and molecular substrates of incubated cocaine craving and related cognitive deficits: focus on mGlu5 receptors"
- View Event Info
07/22/2021 Special Neuroscience Seminar: Emir Malovic
Date / Time
- Jul 22, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Emir Malovic PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Emerging Roles of N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) in Neurotoxicology"
- View Event Info
07/16/2021 Special Neuroscience Seminar: Kathryn Przybysz, MS
Date / Time
- Jul 16, 2021
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Kathryn Przybysz PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Examining the etiology of anxiety-like behavior"
- View Event Info
05/27/2021 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Patricia Molina, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- May 27, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Patricia Molina MD PhD
- Richard Ashman, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Physiology
  
  Director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence
  
  LSU Health Sciences Center
  
  New Orleans, LA
- "Translational Approach to Biomedical Comorbidities Associated with Risky Alcohol Use"
- View Event Info
04/22/2021 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Rajani Maiya, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 22, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Rajani Maiya PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Physiology
  
  LSU Health Sciences Center
  
  New Orleans, LA
- "Transcriptional Regulation of Motivated Behaviors by LMO4"
- View Event Info
03/25/2021 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Rita Cervera-Juanes, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 25, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Rita Cervera-Juanes PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Division of Genetics, Oregon National Primate Research Center
  
  Oregon Health and Science University
  
  Beaverton, Oregon
- "A cross-species approach to understand the role of the epigenome in alcohol misuse"
- View Event Info
02/26/2021 UIC Alcohol Research Center - 5th Annual Retreat
Date / Time
- Feb 26, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Barbara J. Mason PhD
- Pearson Family Professor
  
  Director, Pearson Center on Alcoholism and Addiction Research
  
  Department of Molecular Medicine
  
  Scripps Research, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, TRC-5
  
  La Jolla, CA 92037
- "Current Status and Innovative Strategies for Medications to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
01/28/2021 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Lorenzo Leggio, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 28, 2021
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Lorenzo Leggio MD PhD
- Senior Investigator (Clinical), NIDA and NIAAA
  
  Deputy Scientific Director, NIDA
  
  Chief, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, NIDA
  
  Chief, Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, NIDA and NIAAA
  
  Associate Director for Clinical Research, Medication Development Program, NIDA
  
  Senior Medical Advisor to the Director, NIAAA
  
  National Institutes of Health
- "Gut-Brain Axis and Neuroendocrinology: Translation to Addiction Medicine"
- View Event Info
10/22/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Mahesh Thakkar, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 22, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Mahesh Thakkar PhD
- Professor and Director of Research
  
  Department of Neurology
  
  University of Missouri-School of Medicine
  
  Columbia, MO
- "Alcohol Disrupts Sleep Homeostasis"
- View Event Info
09/24/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Terrence Deak, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 24, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Terrence Deak PhD
- Professor, Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Program
  
  Director, Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center
  
  Director, Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience
  
  Binghamton University - SUNY Binghamton, NY
- "Age matters:  Brain development under the influence of alcohol"
- View Event Info
08/27/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Thomas Kash, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 27, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Thomas Kash PhD
- John R. Andrews Distinguished Professor
  
  Vice Chair for Faculty Development
  
  Department of Pharmacology
  
  Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
  
  School of Medicine
  
  University of North Carolina
  
  Chapel Hill, NC
- "Probing the Role of Neuromodulatory Systems in Disease"
- View Event Info
07/23/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Sulie L. Chang, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 23, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Sulie L. Chang PhD
- Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
  
  President, Society on Neuroimmune Pharmacology
  
  Director, Institute of Neuroimmune Pharmacology
  
  Seton Hall University
  
  South Orange, NJ
- "Alcohol-modulated neuroinflammation leads to behavioral disorders"
- View Event Info
06/25/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Pingwen Xu, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 25, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Pingwen Xu PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Medicine
  
  Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Central Effects of Estrogens on Energy Homeostasis"
- View Event Info
05/26/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Chang You, PhD
Date / Time
- May 26, 2020
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Chang You PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Lasek Lab
  
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UIC
- "KCNK 13 potassium channels: a novel target for ethanol excitation in the ventral tegmental area"
- View Event Info
05/21/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Harish Krishnan MD, PhD
Date / Time
- May 21, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 AM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Harish Krishnan MD PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Acute ethanol and the epigenome"
- View Event Info
05/14/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Elizabeth Glover, PhD
Date / Time
- May 14, 2020
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Elizabeth Glover PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director of the CARE Behavior Core
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Neural circuits that encode aversion and their involvement in AUD"
- View Event Info
05/07/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Erbo Dong, PhD
Date / Time
- May 07, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Erbo Dong PhD
- Research Associate Professor
- "Prenatal stress-driven deficiency of BC1 RNA induces cortical synaptic dysfunction underlying alcoholism and anxiety phenotypes in adulthood"
- View Event Info
04/28/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Luana Martins de Carvalho, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 28, 2020
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Luana Martins de Carvalho PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Increased Transcription of TSPO, HDAC2 and HDAC6 in the Amygdala of Males with Alcohol Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
04/23/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 23, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Tory Eisenlohr-Moul PhD
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
  
  Associate Director of Translational Research in Women’s Mental Health
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine
- "Steroid mechanisms of changing affective symptoms and suicide across the menstrual cycle"
- View Event Info
04/16/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Graziano Pinna, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 16, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Graziano Pinna PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine
- "Molecular aspects of allopregnanolone’s pleitropic effects"
- View Event Info
04/09/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Amynah Pradhan, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 09, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Amynah Pradhan PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Interactions Between Opioid Receptors and PACAP - Implications for Headache Disorders"
- View Event Info
04/02/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Amy Lasek, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 02, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- Online - via Zoom()
- -
- - - -
- Amy W. Lasek PhD
- Former Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Anatomy and Cell Biology
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Activation of hippocampal STAT3 signaling in multiple models of alcohol use disorder"
- View Event Info
02/27/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Mark Brodie, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 27, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- Mark Brodie PhD
- Professor
  
  Department of Physiology & Biophysics
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  Director: Master of Science in Medical Physiology Program
- "Hyposensitivity of ventral tegmental area neurons to GABA during ethanol withdrawal: Identification of new molecular modulators from RNA-seq"
- View Event Info
01/23/2020 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Kalipada Pahan, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 23, 2020
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd floor Conference
- Kalipada Pahan PhD
- Floyd A. Davis, M.D., Endowed Chair in Neurology
  
  Professor of Neurological Sciences, Biochemistry and Pharmacology
  
  Rush University Medical Center
  
  Research Career Scientist
  
  Department of Veterans Affairs
  
  Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
- "Selective Inhibition of TLR2 by TIDM Peptide Reduces CNS Proteinopathy"
- View Event Info
11/13/2019 Special Presentation: William Giardino, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 13, 2019
- 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (Conference)
- William Giardino PhD
- Instructor
  
  Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  
  Stanford University School of Medicine
- "Extended Amygdala Neuropeptide Circuits Driving Alcohol Addiction and Arousal"
- View Event Info
10/24/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Donita Robinson, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 24, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- Donita Robinson PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
  
  UNC College of Medicine
  
  Chapel Hill, NC
- "Persistent effects of adolescent binge alcohol on behavioral flexibility in adulthood"
- View Event Info
10/03/2019 Special Neuroscience Seminar: Adam Kirry
Date / Time
- Oct 03, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd floor Conference
- Adam Kirry
- Doctoral Candidate
  
  Department of Biomedical Sciences
  
  Marquette University
  
  Milwaukee, WI
- "The prefrontal cortex in associative fear memory formation: contribution of sex and circuit"
- View Event Info
08/22/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Patrick J. Mulholland, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 22, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Floor Conference
- Patrick J. Mulholland PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  Department of Neuroscience
  
  Medical University of South Carolina
  
  Charleston, SC
- "Excessive Alcohol Drinking and Intrinsic Excitability: A Focus on KCa2 Channels"
- View Event Info
07/25/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Ream Al-Hasani, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 25, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd floor conference
- Ream Al-Hasani PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Center for Clinical Pharmacology and Washington University School of Medicine
  
  St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- "Kappa Opioids: Addiction, Sensation and Detection"
- View Event Info
05/29/2019 CARE 4th Annual Retreat
Date / Time
- May 29, 2019
- 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Location
- College of Medicine Research Building(COMRB)
- 909 S. Wolcott Avenue
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- Moss Auditorium
- Dipak K. Sarkar PhD
- Board of Governors Professor, Director, Endocrinology Program
  
  Distinguished Professor, Department of Animal Sciences
  
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Environmental & Biological Sciences
- "Keynote Presentation: Alcohol Epigenetic Marks on Neuroimmune Cells Regulating Stress and Anxiety Behaviors"
- View Event Info
05/13/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Denis Avey, PhD
Date / Time
- May 13, 2019
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd floor Conference
- Denis Avey PhD
- Postdoctoral Candidate
  
  Washington University School of Medicine
- "The Opioid Crisis: Might Myelin Matter?"
- View Event Info
04/25/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Richard M. Van Rijin, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 25, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Richard M. Van Rijin PhD
- Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
  
  Purdue University, College of Pharmacy
  
  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
  
  Indiana University School of Medicine
- "Better Living Through Biased Signaling"
- View Event Info
04/17/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Sujan Chandra Das
Date / Time
- Apr 17, 2019
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Sujan Chandra Das
- Post-doctoral Candidate Pradhan Lab
  
  University of Utah
- "Role of Glutamate Transporters in Alcohol Dependence"
- View Event Info
03/28/2019 Neuroscience Seminar: Candice Contet, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 28, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Candice Contet PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  The Scripps Research Institute
  
  Department of Neuroscience
- "Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms of Excessive Alcohol Drinking"
- View Event Info
03/22/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Luana Martins de Carvalho
Date / Time
- Mar 22, 2019
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Luana Martins de Carvalho PhD MS
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Effect of high-fat diet withdrawal on alcohol preference and transcription patterns of Dopaminergic and GABAergic receptors"
- View Event Info
03/11/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Sadie Nenning, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 11, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Sadie Nenning PhD
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Neuroscience PhD Program
  
  University of Georgia
- "The Role of NFkB and cytokines in Alcohol-Related Responses and Social Stress"
- View Event Info
01/24/2019 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Susan E. Bergeson, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 24, 2019
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Susan E. Bergeson PhD
- Director of Biotechnology
  
  Associate Dean, GSBS
  
  Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
  
  Co-Editor of Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
  
  Texas Tech University of Health Science Center
  
  Lubbock, TX
- "Medication development for Alcohol Use Disorder"
- View Event Info
11/29/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Todd E. Thiele, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 29, 2018
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Todd E. Thiele PhD
- Professor & Director of Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience Program
  
  Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
  
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- "Neuropeptide Y Signaling in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Modulates Binge-Like Ethanol Intake via a Circuit that Provides Top-Down Regulation of the Extended Amygdala"
- View Event Info
10/25/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Ream Al-Hasani, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 25, 2018
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
Cancelled
- Ream Al-Hasani PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Center for Clinical Pharmacology and Washington University School of Medicine
  
  St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- "Kappa Opioids: Addiction, Sensation and Detection"
- View Event Info
10/02/2018 Special Neuroscience Seminar: Joel Shillinglaw
Date / Time
- Oct 02, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- "Synaptic effects of ethanol on the agranular insular cortex"
- View Event Info
09/27/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Anna M. Lee, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 27, 2018
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Anna M. Lee PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Pharmacology
  
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- "Smoking and Drinking: Shared and separate roles for nicotinic receptors in co-addiction"
- View Event Info
08/23/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Jeff Weiner, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 23, 2018
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Jeff Weiner PhD
- Professor & Director
  
  Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Research Center
  
  Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
  
  Winston-Salem, NC 27157
- "Probing the Neural Circuits of Vulnerability to Alcoholism and Comorbid Anxiety/ Stressor Disorders"
- View Event Info
05/24/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Marisa Roberto, PhD
Date / Time
- May 24, 2018
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Marisa Roberto PhD
- Professor & Scientific Director
  
  Alcohol Research Center
  
  Dept. of Neuroscience
  
  The Scripps Research Institute
  
  La Jolla, CA 92037
- "Neuroadaptations Induced by Alcohol Dependence"
- View Event Info
05/03/2018 CARE 3rd Annual Retreat
Date / Time
- May 03, 2018
- 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- Auditorium Rm 109
- Judson Chandler PhD
- Professor, Departments of Neuroscience & Psychiatry
  
  Charleston Alcohol Research Center
  
  Medical University of South Carolina
  
  Charleston, SC 29425
- "Keynote Presentation: Prefrontal Cortical Dysfunction in a Rodent Model of Adolescent Alcohol Exposure"
- View Event Info
04/16/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Pankaj Seth, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 16, 2018
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Pankaj Seth PhD
- Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
  
  National Brain Research Centre (NBRC)
  
  Manesar, Haryana India
- "Friends turn Foe during HIV Neuropathogensis"
- View Event Info
03/22/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Gregg Homanics, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 22, 2018
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Gregg Homanics PhD
- Professor of Anesthesiology
  
  Biomedical Science
  
  Department of Anesthesiology
  
  University of Pittsburgh
- "Gins of the fathers: Intergenerational Epigenetic Effects of Alcohol"
- View Event Info
02/23/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Mashkoor Choudhry, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 23, 2018
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Mashkoor Choudhry PhD
- Professor of Surgery, Microbiology & Immunology
  
  Director, Alcohol Research Program
  
  Stritch School of Medicine
  
  Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division
- "Alcohol and Post-Burn Intestinal Immunity"
- View Event Info
01/25/2018 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Alessandro Guidotti, MD
Date / Time
- Jan 25, 2018
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 3rd Flr Conference
- Alessandro Guidotti MD
- Scientific Director, Psychiatric Institute
  
  Distinguished Professor
- "Implication of epigenetic mechanisms in the allostatic load of brain-stress system in AUD patients"
- View Event Info
10/26/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Alexandre Lussier, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 26, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Alexandre Lussier PhD
- Post Doctoral Fellow Candidate
  
  University of British Columbia, BC Children’s Hospital
  
  Research Institute, Life Science Institute
  
  Vancouver, CA
- "Epigenetic signatures of prenatal alcohol exposure"
- View Event Info
09/21/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Frederick W. Wolf, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 21, 2017
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Frederick W. Wolf PhD
- Assistant Professor, Molecular Cell Biology
  
  University of California, Merced, CA
- "Molecules and cells controlling alcohol behavioral plasticity in Drosophila"
- View Event Info
08/08/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Elizabeth Glover, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 08, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Elizabeth Glover PhD
- Assistant Professor
  
  Director of the CARE Behavior Core
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "The neurocircuitry of aversion and its role in addiction"
- View Event Info
07/31/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Jacob Peedicayil, MD
Date / Time
- Jul 31, 2017
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Jacob Peedicayil MD
- Professor
  
  Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology
  
  Christian Medical College
  
  Vellore, India
- "The role of epigenetics in psychiatric disorders"
- View Event Info
07/24/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Anushree Karkhanis, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 24, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Anushree Karkhanis PhD
- Instructor
  
  Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
  
  Wake Forest School of Medicine
- "Unraveling the Neural Substrates of Addiction Vulnerability"
- View Event Info
05/24/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Howard C. Becker, PhD
Date / Time
- May 24, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Howard C. Becker PhD
- Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  
  Department of Neuroscience
  
  Medical Universiry of South Carolina
- "Stress and Alcohol Interactions:  Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutics"
- View Event Info
04/27/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: J. Peyton Bohnsack
Date / Time
- Apr 27, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- John Peyton Bohnsack PhD
- Post Doctoral Research Associate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Epigenetic control of GABAA-receptor expression by ethanol"
- View Event Info
04/24/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Han-Ting Zhang, MD, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 24, 2017
- 09:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Han-Ting Zhang MD PhD
- Associate Professor
  
  West Virginia University Health Sciences Center
  
  Departments of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry and Physiology & Pharmacology
- "Phosphodiesterases: A novel class of targets for treatment of alcoholism"
- View Event Info
03/23/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Subhash C. Pandey, PhD
Date / Time
- Mar 23, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Subhash C. Pandey PhD
- Joseph A. Flaherty MD, Endowed Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Director, Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics
  
  Professor of Biochemistry in Psychiatry
  
  Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
  
  Director, Neuroscience Alcoholism Research
  
  Senior VA Career Research Scientist
  
  Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago
- "Can Epigenomic Research Lead to Novel Therapies for Alcohol Use Disorders?"
- View Event Info
02/23/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Rajesh Miranda, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 23, 2017
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Rajesh Miranda PhD
- Professor
  
  Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine
  
  Departments of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics
- "MicroRNAs: Biomarkers and mediators of fetal alcohol effects"
- View Event Info
01/26/2017 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Nigel Atkinson, PhD
Date / Time
- Begin Date:Jan 26, 2017 01:00 PM
- End Date:Nov 20, 2017 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Nigel Atkinson PhD
- Professor of Neuroscience
  
  Department of Neuroscience
  
  The Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research
  
  The University of Texas at Austin
- "Regulation of gene expression underlying ethanol tolerance"
- View Event Info
11/17/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Sean Farris, PhD
Date / Time
- Nov 17, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Sean Farris PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  The University of Texas at Austin
  
  Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research
- "Integrative Neurogenomics for Alcohol Use Disorders"
- View Event Info
10/18/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Jacqueline Barker, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 18, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Jacqueline Barker PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow
  
  Department of Neurosciences
  
  Medical University of South Carolina
- "Arbitration between actions and habits by the prefrontal cortex"
- View Event Info
09/22/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Frederic Woodward Hopf, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 22, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Frederic Woodward Hopf PhD
- Associate Adjunct Professor
  
  Department of Neurology
  
  University of California, San Francisco
- "Neurocircuitry of a bad decision: to drink or not to drink"
- View Event Info
08/25/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Rajita Sinha, PhD
Date / Time
- Aug 25, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Rajita Sinha PhD
- Foundations Fund Chair in Psychiatry
  
  Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center
  
  Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
- "Understanding alcohol craving and relapse to improve treatment outcome and recovery"
- View Event Info
07/28/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: A. Leslie Morrow, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 28, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- A. Leslie Morrow PhD
- John Andrews Distinguished Professor
  
  Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology
  
  Associate Director, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
  
  University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
- "Ethanol regulation of GABA-A receptors involves epigenetic mechanisms"
- View Event Info
07/15/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Cindy Ehlers, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 15, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Cindy Ehlers PhD
- Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
  
  Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
  
  The Scripps Research Institute
- "Adolescent alcohol use causes and consequences"
- View Event Info
06/20/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Gurcharan Kaur, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 20, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Gurcharan Kaur PhD
- Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences
  
  Prof-in-Charge, Placement Department
  
  Department of Biotechnology Guru Nanak Dev University, India
- "Molecular insights in the multifunctional neuroprotective activities from Indian medicinal plants"
- View Event Info
05/26/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dorit Ron, PhD
Date / Time
- May 26, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Dorit Ron PhD
- Professor of Neurology & Director of Alcohol Research Center
  
  University of California, San Francisco
- "Striatal signaling and alcohol abuse disorders"
- View Event Info
04/28/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: K. Luan Phan, MD
Date / Time
- Apr 28, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- K. Luan Phan MD
- Chair and Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
  
  The Ohio State University
  
  Columbus, OH
- "Imaging Stress in Humans"
- View Event Info
02/15/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Ketan Marballi, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 15, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Ketan Marballi PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow
  
  Waggoner Center for Alcohol Addiction Research
  
  University of Texas at Austin
- "Translational studies in psychiatric and addiction disorders"
- View Event Info
02/08/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Rosalba Satta, PhD
Date / Time
- Feb 08, 2016
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Rosalba Satta PhD
- Medical Writer
  
  T32 in the Neuroscience of Mental Health Graduate
- "Activation of estrogen receptor (ER) b in the nucleus accumbens enhances cocaine conditioned place preference"
- View Event Info
01/28/2016 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Michael A. Collins, PhD
Date / Time
- Jan 28, 2016
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Michael A. Collins PhD
- Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  
  Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
- "Alcohol and brain neurodamage: key roles for PARP and PLA2"
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10/22/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Kylee Veazey, PhD
Date / Time
- Begin Date:Oct 22, 2015 01:00 PM
- End Date:Oct 28, 2015 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Kylee Veazey PhD
- Graduate Research Assistant
  
  Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
  
  Reproductive Sciences Lab Texas A&M University
- "An epigenetic basis to the etiology of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders"
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10/12/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Stephanie Forkel, PhD
Date / Time
- Oct 12, 2015
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Stephanie Forkel PhD
- Postdoctoral Researcher Clinical Neuroimaging
  
  President of Clinical Neuroanatomy Society
  
  Department Neuroimaging King’s College London
- "Towards a new connectional anatomy of language"
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09/28/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: George F. Koob, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 28, 2015
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- UIC College of Medicine(COM)
- 1853 W. Polk (MC 785)
- Chicago IL 60612-7332
Room #
- Moss Auditorium 1020
- George F. Koob PhD
- Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  
  National Institutes of Health
- "How does science inform diagnosis, prevention, treatment of alcoholism: New Priorities at NIAAA"
- View Event Info
09/28/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Hu Chen, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 28, 2015
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Hu Chen PhD
- Research Assistant Professor
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  The University of Illinois Chicago
- "Repeated Binge Drinking Increases Perineuronal Nets in the Insular Cortex"
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09/27/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Alessandro Guidotti, PhD
Date / Time
- Sep 27, 2015
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Alessandro Guidotti MD
- Scientific Director, Psychiatric Institute
  
  Distinguished Professor
- "Early life stress and brain epigenetic imprinting"
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07/06/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dadasaheb M. Kokare, PhD
Date / Time
- Jul 06, 2015
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Dadasaheb M. Kokare PhD
- Visiting Research Scholar
  
  Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics (CARE)
  
  Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- "Role of Alpha-MSH-MC 4 Receptor Systems in Alcoholism"
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06/08/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Fulton T. Crews, PhD
Date / Time
- Jun 08, 2015
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Fulton T. Crews PhD
- John Andrews Distinguished Professor
  
  Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry
  
  Director, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies School of Medicine
  
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- "Neuroimmune signaling through HMGB1-TLR Receptors Contributes to Alcoholic Neuropathology"
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04/27/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Subhash C. Pandey, PhD
Date / Time
- Apr 27, 2015
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Subhash C. Pandey PhD
- Joseph A. Flaherty MD, Endowed Professor of Psychiatry
  
  Director, Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics
  
  Professor of Biochemistry in Psychiatry
  
  Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
  
  Director, Neuroscience Alcoholism Research
  
  Senior VA Career Research Scientist
  
  Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago
- "An Overview of Current and Future Research of UIC Alcohol Research Center"
- View Event Info
04/13/2015 Neuroscience Seminar Series: Evan Kyzar
Date / Time
- Apr 13, 2015
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location
- School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute(SPHPI)
- 1601 W. Taylor St.
- SPHPI MC 912
- Chicago IL 60612
Room #
- 366 (3rd Floor)
- Evan Kyzar MD PhD
- MD/Phd Candidate
  
  Department of Psychiatry
  
  University of Illinois Chicago
- "Histone Methylation Mechanisms during Adolescent Binge Ethanol Exposure"
- View Event Info

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1st Thursday: Emerging Techniques Journal Club – group discussion of a publication introducing an emerging technique relevant for Addiction Neuroscience research

03/06/2025 Neuroscience Journal Club: Karl Y. Bosque-Cordero, PhD

02/06/2025 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kumar Kotlo, DVM, PhD

01/02/2025 No Neuroscience Journal Club Seminar - January 2nd, 2025

12/05/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Emir Malovic, PhD

11/07/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kathryn Przybysz, PhD

09/26/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD

09/05/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Mark Maienschein-Cline, PhD

06/06/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club - Jan Wiaderkiewicz, PhD

05/02/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Lindsey Ramirez, PhD

04/04/2024 No Neuroscience Journal Club Seminar 4/4/2024

03/07/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Hooriyah Rizavi

02/01/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Hye Yang

01/04/2024 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kumar Kotlo, PhD

12/07/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Emir Malovic, PhD

11/02/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Karl Bosque-Cordero

10/05/2023 No Neuroscience Journal Club - October 2023

09/07/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD

07/06/2023 No Neuroscience Journal Club - July 2023

06/01/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kathryn Przybysz, PhD

05/04/2023 No Neuroscience Journal Club Meeting - 5/4/2023

04/06/2023 No Neuroscience Journal Club Meeting - 4/6/2023

03/02/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Hooriyah Rizavi, PhD

02/02/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Lindsey Ramirez, PhD

01/05/2023 Neuroscience Journal Club: Hu Chen, PhD

12/01/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Kumar Kotlo, DVM, PhD

11/03/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Ruixuan Gao, PhD

10/06/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Emir Malovic, PhD

09/01/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD

06/02/2022 Neuroscience Journal Club: Jackie Sanchez

04/07/2022 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Haley Cropper

03/03/2022 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Kevin Boergens, PhD

02/03/2022 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan, MD, PhD

12/02/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Hyerim Yang

11/04/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Haley Cropper

10/07/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Elizaveta Mangutov

09/02/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Amy Lasek, PhD

06/03/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Mark Maienschein-Cline, PhD

05/06/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Dennis Grayson, PhD

04/01/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Joel Shillinglaw, PhD

03/04/2021 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Amynah Pradhan, PhD

12/03/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Luana Martins de Carvalho, PhD, MS

11/05/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Zachariah Bertels

07/02/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Eleonora Gatta, PhD

05/31/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: . John Peyton Bohnsack, PhD

05/12/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Joel Shillinglaw, PhD

04/21/2020 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: James Auta, PhD

09/26/2019 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Zachariah Bertels

05/23/2019 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: John Peyton Bohnsack

03/21/2019 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Cassandre Coles and Kana Hamada

01/10/2019 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Chang You and Amynah Pradhan, PhD

10/18/2018 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Russell Dulman and Ryan Patwell

08/16/2018 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Elizabeth Glover, PhD

05/10/2018 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Harinder Singh and Nick Senese

02/01/2018 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Laura Moye

11/30/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Vaibhav Konanur, MS

10/05/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Peyton Bohnsack

08/03/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Amynah Pradhan, PhD

06/01/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Harish Krishnan

03/20/2017 Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience Journal Club: Gina Giase

2nd Thursday: Junior Scholars Seminar Series – provides trainees with the opportunity to lead a 30 min work-in-progress presentation

03/13/2025 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Himali Arora, PhD

02/13/2025 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Jackie Sanchez, BS

01/09/2025 No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Thursday, January 9th, 2025

12/12/2024 No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar - December 12, 2024

11/14/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Shelby Wood, BA and Katrina Wugalter, MA

10/10/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hooriyah Rizavi, PhD and Karl Bosque Cordero, PhD

09/12/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Hooriyah Rizavi, PhD and Hye Yang, BS

08/08/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Francesco Matrisciano, MD, PhD and Kumar Kotlo, DVM, PhD

06/13/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Jackie Sanchez, BS and Lindsey A. Ramirez, PhD

05/09/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Guy Mensah-Nyagan, PhD and Josh Sevigny, PhD Student

04/11/2024 No Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Muñoz Marcos David

03/14/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Emir Malovic

02/08/2024 Junior Scholars in Neuroscience Seminar: Kathryn Przybysz