Visiting Lecture Series


2006 - 2007 Lecture Series

Date Speaker Title / Topic
May 3, 2006 Dr. Rae Silver
Columbia University
Co-sponsored with Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience

Centrifugal and Centripetal Organization of the Mammalian Circadian Clock
May 23, 2006 Dr. Henry Bryant
Lilly Research Laboratories
New Directions in SERMs
May 31, 2006 Dr. Bruce A. Buchholz
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploiting Accelerator MS Sensitivity in Biomedicine: 15 Years of Micro-Dosing
October 11, 2006 Dr. Clifford B. Saper
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Co-sponsored with Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Homeostatic, Circadian, and Emotional Regulation of Sleep
October 31, 2006 Dr. Feroze Ujjainwalla
Merck Reseach Laboratories, Rahway NJ
Co-sponsored with Lectures in Life Sciences

Design, Synthesis and Biological Characterization of Human Melanocortin Subtype-4 Receptor Agonists
November 16, 2006 Dr. David E. Blask
Bassett Research Institute, New York
Co-sponsored with the Signal Transduction and Cancer training grant

Light at Night-Induced Suppression of Melatonin - A New Risk Factor for Breast Cancer