NIDA Center Meetings

Upcoming Seminars
Wednesday, February 11, 2009	Nephi Stella, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry University of Washington Improving Clinical Cannabinoids 12-1PM Hogness Auditorium, HSB
Tuesday, February 24, 2009	Paul Vezina, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience The University of Chicago Behavioral Sensitization by Amphetamine: A Role for Enhanced Dopamine and Glutamate Signaling 9:30 - 10:30 AM Seattle Children's Research Institute
Wednesday, April 8, 2009	Susan Ferguson, Ph.D. Children's Research Institute Novel viral vector strategies for unraveling the neural circuitry of addiction 2 PM Building 1, Soundgarden
Monday, April 13, 2009	Mark Wightman, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Voltammetric Measurements of Rapid Chemical Signaling in the Brain by Dopamine 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 261 Bagley Hall
Monday, May 4, 2009	Wolfram Schultz, Ph.D. Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Neuroscience Departments of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge Neurophysiology of reward and risk 3:30PM T-733 HSB

Monthly Research Progress Meetings

The Center's activities for its previous years are archived below. The schedule for the '06-07 academic year is listed under "Upcoming Meetings". In addition to monthly research progress meetings, UW seminars held this past year in this research area are listed. Financial support for some of these seminars was provided by the P01 and T32 associated with the center, and trainees and mentors are encouraged to attend.

The Research Progress meeting combines a journal club, a research seminar and a steering committee meeting. Trainees supported by the T32 grant and individual NIDA-NRSA awards are expected to attend.

Research Progress Meeting format: As this is a diverse group, the format for the Research Progress meetings is to have the speaker start by briefly (15-25 min) presenting a research paper that would serve as an introduction or background to the presentation. The paper is distributed ahead of time, and the audience reads it before the meeting. Then the presenter describes his/her objectives, approaches, progress, and future plans for the remainder of the 90 min. These are intended as learning sessions, so frequent interruptions for questions are encouraged. Thus far, we have maintained an informal and interactive tone.

Lunch is served.

Upcoming Meetings
Monday, January 5, 2009	Paul Phillips Daw ND, Niv Y, Dayan P. (2005) Uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control. Nat Neurosci. 8(12):1704-11. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, February 23, 2009	NIDA T32 Trainees: Jonathan Ehrich, Andrew Hart, Eric Horne, Jones Parker, and Abbie Schindler Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, March 23, 2009	Nigel Bamford Modulation of somatodendritic glutamate release in the ventral and dorsal striatum Background reading: Brady AM, O'Donnell P. (2004) Dopaminergic modulation of prefrontal cortical input to nucleus accumbens neurons in vivo. J Neurosci. 24(5):1040-9 Harvey J, Lacey MG. (1997) A postsynaptic interaction between dopamine D1 and NMDA receptors promotes presynaptic inhibition in the rat nucleus accumbens via adenosine release. J Neurosci 17(14):5271-80. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, April 27, 2009	Valerie Olson Differential response to stress in an animal model of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, May 11, 2009	Nick Nazrallah (Bernstein lab) Chambers RA, Taylor JR, Potenza MN. (2003) Developmental neurocircuitry of motivation in adolescence: a critical period of addiction vulnerability. Am J Psychiatry. 160(6):1041-52. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, June 8, 2009	Susan Ferguson (Neumaier lab) Pei Y, Rogan SC, Yan F, Roth BL. (2008) Engineered GPCRs as tools to modulate signal transduction. Physiology (Bethesda). 23:313-21. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, September 28, 2009	Charles Chavkin Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, November 9, 2009	Sheri Mizumori Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, November 30, 2009	Jeansok Kim Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, December 21, 2009	TBA Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, January 11, 2010	John Neumaier Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, February 8, 2010	Richard Palmiter Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, March 15, 2010	Nephi Stella Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, April 12, 2010	Nigel Bamford Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, May 10, 2010	Paul Phillips Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, June 7, 2010	Valerie Olson Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM

Past 2002 Meetings
Past 2003 Meetings
Past 2004 Meetings
Past 2005 Meetings
Past 2006 Meetings
Past 2007 Meetings
Past 2008 Meetings

Upcoming Seminars

Monthly Research Progress Meetings

Upcoming Meetings