NIDA Center Meetings

Upcoming Seminars
Wednesday, February 13, 2008	Richard Palmiter Professor, Department of Biochemistry University of Washington Science in Medicine: Transgenic Legacy 12:00-1:00 PM A-420, HSB
Tuesday, March 11, 2008	Michela Marinelli Associate Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology Rosalind Franklin University Stress, drugs, and dopamine cells: Interactions that promote addiction liability 2:30-3:30 PM T-639 HSB
Wednesday, April 23, 2008	Mark E. Bouton, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Assistant Director, Graduate Neuroscience Program University of Vermont Context and Memory Processes in Extinction: Some Implications for Understanding Relapse 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Physics-Astronomy Building A-114
Friday, April 25, 2008	David Sulzer, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry Columbia University New Optical and Electrochemical Methods for Measuring Dopamine Neurotransmission 11:00AM CHDD Auditorium
Monday, May 5, 2008	Marina Picciotto, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and signaling pathways involved in addiction and learning 3:30-5:15PM K-069 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 14, 2008	NIDA T32 Trainees: Ben Land, Aaron Miller, Andy Hart, Derek Dirocco, Van Redila, Ph.D., Amy Furay, Ph.D. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, February 11, 2008	Larry Zweifel, Valerie Wall and Jonathan Fadok (Palmiter lab) Learning deficits of dopamine D1 receptor knockout mice Background reading: Li S, Cullen WK, Anwyl R, Rowan MJ. (2003) Dopamine-dependent facilitation of LTP induction in hippocampal CA1 by exposure to spatial novelty. Nat Neurosci. 6(5):526-31. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, March 10, 2008	Nephi Stella Lafourcade M, Elezgarai I, Mato S, Bakiri Y, Grandes P, Manzoni OJ. (2007) Molecular components and functions of the endocannabinoid system in mouse prefrontal cortex. PLoS ONE. 2(1):e709. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, April 14, 2008	Paul Phillips Redish AD. (2004) Addiction as a computational process gone awry. Science. 306(5703):1944-7. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, May 12, 2008	John Neumaier George F. Koob and Michel Le Moal (2008) Addiction and the Brain Antireward System. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2008. 59:29-53. Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, June 2, 2008	Karl Kaiyala Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, September 15, 2008	Charles Chavkin Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, November 3, 2008	Richard Palmiter Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, December 15, 2008	Nephi Stella Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, January 5, 2009	Paul Phillips Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, February 23, 2009	NIDA T32 Trainees Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, March 23, 2009	Nigel Bamford Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, April 27, 2009	Valerie Olson Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, May 11, 2009	Ilene Bernstein Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM
Monday, June 8, 2009	John Neumaier Room 303 SCC 11:30-1PM

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

Upcoming Seminars

Monthly Research Progress Meetings

Upcoming Meetings