The CAS Seminar Series
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The CAS Seminar Series hosts speakers from all over the world, representing many different areas of research relating to addiction medicine. These experts share their findings and methods, and exchange scientific viewpoints with faculty and students.

Fall 2004
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Doodipala Reddy, M.Pharm., Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, North Carolina State University. Click for more info about Dr. Reddy.

Seminar Title: Progesterone Regulation of GABA-A Receptor Function

Monday, September 13

Joyce Besheer, Ph.D., Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies.

Seminar Title: Brain Mechanisms of Ethanol Discrimination

Ian Hines, Ph.D., Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies (Wheeler Lab)

Seminar Title: Hepatic Progenitor Cell Response to Inflammation and Fibrosis: Relevance to Alcoholic Liver Disease

Synthia H. Mellon, Ph.D., Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.

Seminar Title: Neurosteroids in Health and Disease

Richard Morrisett, Ph.D., Pharmacology and Toxicology Division, University of Texas at Austin. Click here for more info about Dr. Morrisett.

Seminar Title: Dopamine, DARPP and DTs: Synaptic Changes in Ethanol Dependence and Withdrawal

Markus Heilig, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Psychiatry, Neurotec, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden.

Seminar Title: Novel Molecular Targets for Pharmacological Treatment of Alcohol Dependence - Directions from Functional Genomics

Friedbert Weiss, Ph.D, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine . Click here for more info about Dr. Weiss.

Seminar Title: Vulnerability to Relapse in Alcohol Addiction: Environmental and Neurobiological Factors

David Brenner, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University. Click here for more info about Dr. Brenner.

Seminar Title: Alcohol, Hepatitis C, and Fibrosis

Rahul Khisti, Ph.D., Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. Click here for more info about Dr. Khisti.

Seminar Title: Neuroactive Steroids and Ethanol Interactions

Joyce Harp, M.D., Department of Nutrition, UNC School of Medicine. Click here for more info about Dr. Harp.

Seminar Title: Jak-STAT Signaling Pathways in Adipose Tissue: Role in Obesity and Insulin Resistance