Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
Seminar Series
Spring 2015
Monday, Jan 12
Matthew Beattie, Ph.D., Post-Doc, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, “Role of
neuroactive steroids in ethanol actions and drinking."
Tuesday, Feb 10th
4:00 PM David Overstreet, Ph.D. “The Fawn-Hooded (FH/wjd) rat: an inbred animal
model of alcoholism with depressive-like behavior.”
February 16
Matthew Buczynski, Ph.D. – Faculty Search Candidate, Scripps Research Institute
“The Role of Endocannabinoid Signaling in Nicotine Addiction.”
Monday, Feb 23
Igor Ponomarev, Ph.D. – Faculty Search Candidate, Research Assistant Professor,
The University of Texas at Austin, “Systems Neurogenomics of Alcohol.”
Monday, Mar 2
Hao Yin, Ph.D. – Faculty Search Candidate, David H. Koch Institure for Integrative
Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Harnessing RNAi and
CRISPR technology in vivo for modeling liver diseases and developing
therapeutics.”
Monday Mar 9
Melissa Herman, Ph.D. – Faculty Search Candidate, Scripps Research Institute, “The
role of local inhibitory signaling in the effects of alcohol and drugs of abuse.”
Monday, Mar 23
Lindsay Wieczorek, Ph.D., Marcoita Gilbert, Ph.D., Post-Doc Research Associates,
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, UNC School of Medicine, “Looking at the
teratogenicity of early prenatal alcohol and cannabinoid exposure.”
Monday, Mar 30
Todd Thiele, Ph.D. – Professor & Director of Behavioral Neuroscience Program,
UNC Dept of Psychology & Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, UNC School of
Medicine, “Neuropeptide Y and corticotropin releasing factor signaling within the
extended amygdala modulate binge alcohol drinking.”
Monday, Apr 13
R. Adron Harris, Ph.D., M. June & J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular
Biology; Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research,
University of Texas at Austin, “The Genomic Signature of Alcohol
Dependence: Can It Lead to New Therapeutics?”
Monday, Apr 27
Michael F. Miles, M.D., Ph.D., Scientific Director, VCU Alcohol Research Center;
Professor, Departments of Pharmacology & Neurology and the Center for Study of
Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University. “Gene Networks and
the Neurobiology of Ethanol: A Role for Myelin in Alcoholism?”
Monday, May 4
Bowles Lectureship Award – A. Leslie Morrow, Ph.D., Professor, Depts of
Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Associate Director, Bowles Center for Alcohol
Studies, “Neuroactive Steroid Dysregulation in Ethanol Dependence and Excessive
Drinking : Therapeutic Implications.”