On Wednesday, March 9,  Anilkumar Pillai, Ph.D., of Augusta University’s Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, will be presenting a seminar titled, “Chronic Stress, Complement System and Neurobehavior.” It will take place at 11 a.m. in the ARB R5-265.

On Wednesday, March 11,  Shinichi Someya, Ph.D., of UF’s  Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, will be presenting a seminar titled, “Sex Differences in Inner Ear Aging: Role of Estrogen in GST Detoxification of 4-HNE.” It will take place at 11 a.m. in the ARB R5-265.

On Wednesday, April 15,  P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University, will be presenting a seminar titled, “Allosteric Modulators of GPCRs as a Novel Approach for Treatment of Schizophrenia.” It will take place at 11 a.m. in the ARB R5-265.

On Wednesday, Feb. 26, Mark S. Moehle, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow of Vanderbilt University, will be presenting a seminar titled, “M4 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Regulation of the Basal Ganglia.” It will take place at 4 p.m. in the McKnight Brain Institute (MBI) DeWeese Auditorium.

On  Monday, Feb. 24,  David Gate, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow of  Stanford University, will be presenting a seminar titled, “Clonally Expanded CD8 T Cells Patrol the Cerebrospinal Fluid in Alzheimer’s Disease.” It will take place at 4 p.m. in the McKnight Brain Institute (MBI) DeWeese Auditorium.

On Wednesday, Feb. 19,  Diana L. Williams, Ph.D., of FSU’s Department of Psychology, will be presenting a seminar titled, “Neural Integration of Satiety and Food Reward.” It will take place at 11 a.m. in the ARB R5-265.

On Wednesday, Jan. 17, Laura M. Bohn, Ph.D., of the Scripps Research Institute, will be presenting a seminar titled, “Optimizing Opioid Receptor Signaling to Improve Pain Therapeutics.” It will take place at 11 a.m. in the Communicore Building (Room C1-7).

On Wednesday, Jan. 22, Yan Liu, Ph.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine, will be presenting a seminar titled, “Understanding and Targeting Pre-leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukemia Stem Cells.” It will take place at 11 a.m. in R5-265.

This fall semester, our department was extremely proud to host three defenses: David Fireman,Dimitri Koutzoumis, Joe Flores-Toro. We are so proud of all our graduating students! Check out more about their defenses below.

On Wednesday, Oct. 16, Emily R. Liman, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California will be presenting a seminar titled, “Sensing Sour: The Otop1 Proton Channel from Function to Structure.” It will take place at 11 a.m. in R5-265. This seminar is co-sponsored by the UF Center for Smell and…