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UNC School of Dentistry
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Phone: (919) 537-3293
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Regional Center for Neurosensory Disorders
Previous Seminars & Events
All seminars are held on Fridays at 9:00 a.m., in room 527 of the Health Sciences Library, unless otherwise noted.
SPRING 2010 Seminars & Events
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Presenter: |
Title: |
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January 15 8:30-9:30am, 3rd Floor Conference Room., Thurston Arthritis Res Center |
Kati Thieme, Ph.D. Visiting Research Scholar, CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry |
Rheumatology Grand Rounds "Psychophysiology, Neuropsychology, and Patient Education in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)" |
January 22 |
Sergei Makarov, Ph.D. President and CEO, Attagene, Inc.; Adjunct Professor, UNC School of Dentistry |
"The FACTORIAL: How to Assess Activities of 50+ Gene Regulatory Pathways in a Single Well." |
January 25 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (lunch will be served) |
Ami D. Sperber, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Soroka Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
Presentation for the UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders "The prevalence and effect of gas, bloating and flatus on interpersonal relationships and quality of life in healthy students." |
January 26 4:00-6:00pm |
William Maixner, D.D.S., Ph.D. Kenan Distinguished Professor; Director, CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry |
Last Lecture Series: "The Development of a Scientific Career: The Effects of Time & Space" Reception to follow. |
January 26 4:30 - 5:30 PM |
Ami D. Sperber, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Soroka Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
GI Grand Rounds "Sleep impairment in functional GI disorders." |
February 5 |
Preetam Schramm, PhD, RPSGT Introduction by Greg Essick, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Prosthodontics, UNC School of Dentistry |
"Cardiopulmonary Coupling: An overview with Clinical Applications" "Sleep-disordered breathing, autonomic nervous system hyperactivity, and chronic persistent pain conditions (CPPCs): A causal relationship? Implications for therapy.” PDF: Sleep Medicine Letter |
February 12 Rm: Brauer 464 |
Thomas Chelimsky, M.D. Jeffrey Janata, Ph.D. |
"Static and Dynamic Measures of Autonomic Nervous System Function" |
February 19 |
Stephen A. Bernard, M.D., F.A.C.P. Co-Director, Palliative Care Program and Palliative Care Course; |
"Translational Research in Supportive Care" |
February 25 (Thu) 12:00-1:00P.M. |
Anne Sanders, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UNC School of Dentistry
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Thurston Speaker Series “Social Epidemiologic Applications in Dentistry” |
March 5 |
M. Catherine Bushnell, Ph.D. Harold Griffith Professor of Anesthesia, Professor in Dentistry and Neurology, Director, McGill Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University |
“Altered central nervous system processing in chronic pain.” |
March 12 G100 Bondurant Hall |
Karen G. Raphael, Ph.D. Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Radiology and Medicine, New York University |
"Childhood Abuse, Psychosocial Trauma, and Chronic Pain" |
March 17 12:30 – 6:30 PM UNC Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB G202) |
Symposium Chair: Dr. Jongbae J. Park Assistant Professor, UNC PM&R |
Satellite Symposium to SAR 2010 International Conference “Bridging Research and Practice in Acupuncture: International Partnership” |
March 18-21 Sheraton Hotel Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Daniel Clauw Unviersity of Michigan Dr. Josephine Briggs NCCAM/NIH Dr. Claudia M. Witt Charité University, Berlin |
Society for Acupuncture Research 2010 International Conference Translational Research in Acupuncture: Bridging Science, Practice & Community |
April 8 (Thu) 12:00-1:00P.M. |
Richard H. Gracely, Ph.D. Professor, CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry |
Thurston Speaker Series “Pain Research” |
April 9 |
Dustin Gibson Research Analyst, CNSD, School of Dentistry |
“Molecular dynamics simulation of MOR1 receptor by homology modeling” |
April 16 |
Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Ph.D. Associate Professor, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, |
"The Collaborative Cross: a mammalian platform for systems genetics." |
April 23 |
William R. Lariviere, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
"Using Mouse Genetic Reference Populations to Study the Systems Neurogenetics of Pain" |
April 30 |
Leigh Callahan, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Medicine, Orthopaedics, and Social Medicine Thurston Arthritis Research Center |
"Social Determinants and Arthritis Outcomes" |
May 28 |
Joanne Pizzino, MD, MPH, FACOEM Fibromyalgia & Fatigue Center of Raleigh |
“Fibromyalgia: A Real Condition with Real Solutions. An Evidence-Based, Integrative Algorithm for Treatment.” |
FALL 2009 Seminars & Events
September 18 Speaker: Denniz Zolnoun, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UNC School of Medicine
Title: “Vulvodynia: a myofacial pain disorder in disguise"
September 11 Speaker: Pavel Gris, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, CNSD, Dental Research, UNC
Title: “Functional characterization of the novel alternatively spliced Isoform of mu-opioid receptor ORRM"
SUMMER 2009 Seminars & Events
August 21 Speaker: Feng Ding, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Dept. Biochmistry and Biophysics, UNC
Title: "Multiscale modeling of Zn, Cu Super Oxide Dismutase folding, misfolding and aggregation"
August 14 Speaker: Richard H. Gracely, Ph.D.
Professor, Regional Center for Neurosensory Disorders, School of Dentistry, UNC
Title: "FMRI analysis of the effects of an SNRI on tenderness in fibromyalgia"
July 17 Shad Smith, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Regional Center for Neurosensory Disorders
Journal Club discussion of the following article:
Goldstein, DB.Common Genetic Variation and Human Traits. NEJM, 360, 1696-1698 (2009). (link: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/17/1696)
July 15 Speaker: Andrea Kurz, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Clinical Anesthesiology, Outcomes Research
Title: "Anesthesia and Outcomes"
***NOTE Special Event - Day, Time, & Location
Anesthesiology Grand Rounds
Wednesday, 7-8a.m., Bondurant Hall G100
July 10 NO SEMINAR
July 3 NO SEMINAR - University holiday
June 25 NO SEMINAR
June 17 NO SEMINAR
June 10 NO SEMINAR
June 1 NO SEMINAR
SPRING 2009 Seminars
May 29 Chloe Hil
UNC Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow
Title "Development of a More Sensitive Method to Measure Visceral Pain Sensitivity"
May 22 Dr. Kati Thieme
Visitng Scholar, Center for Neurosensory Disorders, University of North Carolina
Title: "Heterogeneity of PreOPPERA sample"
May 8 NO SEMINAR
May 1 NO SEMINAR
April 24 NO SEMINAR
April 17 Jeanne Taylor Hernandez, PhD, MSPH
Director of Behavioral Health, Associate Director, Pain Training Program Anesthesia Pain Division, University of North Carolina
Title: "Indicators of noncompliance with opioid pain medication in chronic pain patients, and the potential role of lifetime trauma in the need for opioids"
April 10 NO SEMINAR
April 3 Dr. Kati Thieme
Visiting Research Scholar, University of North Carolina Regional Center for Neurosensory Disorders
Title: "Pathogenetic pathways of vulnerability in chronic pain disorders"
March 27 William Stanley
Fourth Year Dental Student, University of North Carolina School of Dentistry and Center for Neurosensory Disorders
Title: "Worry in patients with chronic orofacial pain"
March 20 Dr. Roman Cregg
Academic Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia, ITU and Pain Medicine, University College London Hospital and Medical School
Title: "Molecular Mechanisms of Pain"
March 2 Dr. Peggy Mason
Professor in Dept of Neurobiology & Chair of the Committee on Neurobiology, University of Chicago, IL
Title: "From Pain Modulation to Obestiy"
***NOTE Special Day, Time, & Location
Monday, 12:00-1:00pm
Medical Biomolecular Research Building, Room G202
February 27 April Soward
Research Coordinator for TRYUMPH Research Program, University of North Carolina
Title: “Overview of the Women’s Health Study”.
February 16 Dr. Anna-Kari Hajati
Specialist in Orthodontics, Karolinska Institute
Title: “Early signs of bone tissue resorption in the TMJ of patients with recent diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis”
***NOTE different day, same time and location
February 13 Dr. Trudy Mackay
William Neal Reynolds and Distinguished University Professor of Genetics,
North Carolina Sate University
Title: “Systems genetics of complex traits in Drosophila”
***NOTE time, & location
12PM, 2204 Medical Biomolecular Research Building, University of North Carolina
January 23 Dr. Inna Tchivileva
Research Associate, University of North Carolina Regional Center for Neurosensory Disorders
Title: Signaling pathways mediating beta 3 adrenoreceptor-induced production of IL-6 in adipocytes
January 16 Dr. Estephan Moana
Graduate Student, University of North Carolina Regional Center for Neurosensory Disorders
Title: Atypical Odontalgia: An intra-oral presentation of trigeminal neuropathic pain
FALL 2008 Seminars
December 19 Bryan Roth
Professor and Director, NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program
Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina
Title: Selective drugs and evolved receptors to modulate neuronal pathways
December 12 Vince Setola
Research Assistant Professor, NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program
Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina
Title: The NIHM PDSP: An Invaluable Resource for Pharmacology Research
December 5 Jane Leserman
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Title: Trauma and Chronic Pain: Prevalence, Links and Mechanisms
November 21 Line Loken
Graduate Student, Institution of Neuroscience & Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Title: Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans
November 14 Dr. Francis McGlone
Professor, Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
Title: Simultaneous acquisition of EEG and fMRI employing novel noise cancelling technology: Basic neuroscience and clinical applications
November 7 Dr. Kenneth Byrd
Associate Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
Title: fMRI analyses of human orofacial clench and grind movements
October 24 Samantha Segall
Graduate student in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina
Title: COMT activity in mice and its relevance to pain sensitivity
October 10 Douglas Tsao
Graduate Student, University of North Carolina Regional Center for Neurosensory Disorders
Title: A literature review of structural aspects and molecular mechanisms of FMRP activity
SUMMER 2008 Seminars
September 9 Dr. Joe Hammang
Director, Science Policy & Public Affairs, Pfizer Global Research & Development
Title: The Value of Medicines, Emerging Trends in Drug Discovery and Development and the Impact on Healthcare and Healthcare Reform
***NOTE Special Day, Time, & Location
Tuesday, 12:00-1:00pm
MacNider Building, Conference Room #321
(Lunch will be provided)
Please RSVP to Ken Jolly at 919-219-9966 by September 5
September 5 Dr. James Fricton
Department of Orofacial Pain, University of Minnesota
Title: Research advances that will impact orofacial pain practice
August 8 Dr. Alan G. Finkel
Director of Headache Clinic, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Title: Migraine
*** Please note change of location: 150 Old Dental Building
August 1 Dr. Gary Asher
Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina
Title: Here, eat this root: complementary and alternative medicine approaches for pain
July 4 University Holiday
no seminar
June 30 Dr. Ilya Mazo
President of Ariadne Genomics, Rockville, MD
Title: Pathway analysis to understand disease mechanisms
June 27 Dr. Israel Liberzon
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Title: PTSD: In search for elusive endophenotype
June 20 Dr. Barbara Reed
Department of Family Practice, University of Michigan Medical School
Title: Vulvodynia: now you see it .... now you don't
June 13 Douglas Tsao
Title: Understanding pain sensitivity: tertiary structure prediction of COMT mRNA haplotypes
June 6 Dr. Inna Tchivileva
Title: Effect of propranolol on TMJ treatment: Preliminary findings
Events
August 17-22, 2008 -- 12th World Congress on Pain, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
May 8-10, 2008 -- 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, Tampa, FL
April 26, 2008 -- Support the Thurston Arthritis Research Center team in the 2008 Arthritis Foundation Arthritis Walk!
February 20, 2008 -- Dental Research in Review Day, UNC School of Dentistry
SPRING 2008 seminars
May 30 Dr. Duncan Lascelles
N.C. State University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Title: Clinical pain research in animals: diseases or models?
May 23 no seminar
May 12 Dr. Peter Svensson
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Title: Experimental orofacial pain--possibilities and limitations
May 9 no seminar
May 2 Dr. Denis Gris
Title: Caterpillars in neuroinflammation
April 22 Dr. Kati Theime
University of Heidelberg, Germany, Dept. of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience
Title: Psychophysiological responses in chronic pain patients
April 18 no seminar
April 11 Dr. William Maixner
Title: OPPERA--Past, present and future
April 4 Dr. Maria V. Popescu
Department of Hearing and Speech, Vanderbilt University
Title: Compensatory mechanisms induced by unilateral sensory deprivation
March 28 no seminar
March 21 University Holiday
**no seminar**
March 14 ** 9:30 am ** Dr. Lan Ding
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Title: Clone splice variants of regulator of G protein signaling 4 in human and mice brain, and Rgs4, calcium channel and synaptic transmission
March 7 Dr. Kenneth Hargreaves
Professor and Chair, Department of Endodontics UTHSC
Title: A TRP through the Trigeminal System
February 29 Dr. Mark Hollins
Title: Does hypervigilance involve perceptual amplification?
February 22 Mary Beth Nebel
Title: Modulation of tactile responsiveness in somatosensory cortex by noxious heat: an fMRI investigation
February 15 Dr. Sam McLean
Title: Pilot data results regarding genetic and non-genetic predictors of pain and psychological sequelae after minor MVC
February 8 Dr. Pat Flood
Journal Club: Current treatments in Parkinson's Disease
2007 Seminars
Dr. Andrew Shaw, Duke University: "Pain after thoracic surgery: opportunities to do better" 09/14/2007
Li Qian: "Anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects of opioids: beyond conventional opioid receptors" 08/31/2007
Dr. Luda Diatchenko: "Genetic Architecture of Human Pain Perception: Genotypic Pain Chip” 08/24/2007
Dr. Frank Keefe, Duke University: "Emotional expression and pain: new findings and new directions” 08/17/2007
Jason R. Goldsmith: "Polysome Profiling of COMT Haplotypes” 08/03/2007
Matt Conrad: “Nitric Oxide and COMT Dependent Pain” 07/20/2007
Dr. Derrick Nehrenberg: “Mice selectively bred for high aggression reproduce common features of emotion dysregulation” 07/13/2007
Dr. Inna Tchivileva: "COMT and pain: déjà vu all over again" 07/06/2007
Dr. Asma Khan: "TNFa and Pain: Translation from Basic Science to Clinic" 06/29/2007
Dr. Sergei Romanov: "High-Content Reverse Transcriptomics Analysis of Mammalian Cells - Quantitative assessment of multiple transcription regulatory pathways with a novel high-capacity transcription reporter system" 6/1/2007
Dr. Richard Gracely: "Pain - Measurement and Mechanisms" 5/25/07
Dr. Pavel Gris: "Strategies for functional characterization of 11 and 13 exons on human mu-opioid receptor" 05/18/07
Dr. Anahit Mehrabyan: "Small Fiber Neuropathy in Diabetes" 05/11/2007
Dr. Shamil Sunyaev: "Effect of genomic mutations on fitness, function, and phenotype " 04/25/2007
Dr. Bob Cogill, Wake Forest University : "Spatial and intensity discrimination of pain and its dynamic modulation" 04/27/2007
Dr. Gary Slade: "Orofacial pain in the Australian population" 3/30/07
Dr. Gabriel Weinreb: "Taking Advantage of Disadvantage: Causal Mapping (CMAP) as a New Systems Biology Tool" 3/23/07
Dr. Eric Bair: "Methods to Predict Patient Survival Based on DNA Microarray Data" 2/16/07
Dr. Chris Vinyard: "Pattern and Function in the Evolution of Jaw-Muscle Activity Patterns in Primates" (Research info here) 2/9/2007
Last Modified: 04/18/2012