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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 2012 Seminars & Events


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  Presenter:
  Title:

January 28

9:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M.; Siena Hotel

William E. Whitehead, Ph.D. and colleagues

UNC School of Medicine

UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders Annual Research Day

Click here for more information.
February 17 Preparation for Dental Research in Review Day

Cortney Winkle (Neely Lab)

 

 

Folabomi Oladosu (Neely Lab)

 

 

Shad Smith, Ph.D.

 

 

Thomas Pardue (Essick Lab)

Abstracts to be presented:

"Catechol-O-Methyltransferase and Stress-dependent Pain Sensitivity in Mast Cell Deficient Mice"

"Increased MOR-1K Expression Levels are Associated with Opioid-induced Hyperalgesia"

"Candidate Gene Association Analysis of Onset TMJD in OPPERA, a Large Population-based Cohort Study"

"Sustained Tolerance of CPAP using MAS Supported Nasal Pillows"

February 29

All Day in locations around the School of Dentistry; see schedule

Asma Khan, B.D.S., Ph.D. and CNSD colleagues

UNC School of Dentistry

Dental Research in Review Day

Click here for more information.
March 2

Emily Bartley, M.S.

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Health Psychology Intern, Duke University Medical Center

"Menstrual cycle influences on pain and nociceptive processing."

Click here for Ms. Bartley's CV

March 16

Sheng Zhong, D.D.S., M.S.

Resident
Department of Endodontics
UNC School of Dentistry

"microRNAs: Novel Players in the Regulation of Endodontic Disease"
April 13

Michael Wu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

TBD

Click here for links to Dr. Wu's CV and web page.

 

FALL 2011 Seminars & Events


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  Presenter:
  Title:
September 30

Christin Veasley

Executive Director
National Vulvodynia Association

"Advancing the Understanding of Vulvodynia as a Pain Disorder"

Click here for Ms. Veasley's bio.

Click here for Ms. Veasley's presentation.

November 2 (Wed)

1:00-2:00 P.M.; 3180 Old Dental

Jongbae J. Park, K.M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Asian Medicine & Acupuncture Research
Asst.  Professor, Dept. of Physical Med & Rehab
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Orofacial Pain Clinic Lunch and Learn

"Acupuncture for Dental Patients: Evidence Update & Exploring Potentials"

Click here for Dr. Park's bio.

November 11

David Andersson, Ph.D.

Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Disease
King's College London

"TRPA1 in Pain and Analgesia"

Click here for Dr. Andersson's CV.
November 18

Francesco Papaleo, Ph.D.

Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, The Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, IT
Clinical Brain Disorders Branch
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH

"Development of cognitive deficits relevant to schizophrenia in COMT and Dysbindin mouse mutants"

Click here for Dr. Papaleo's CV.

 

SPRING-SUMMER 2011 Seminars & Events


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  Presenter:
  Title:
February 4

Jeffrey S. Mogil, Ph.D.

E.P. Taylor Professor of Pain Research
Canada Research Chair in the Genetics of Pain (Tier I)
Dept. of Psychology and Alan Edwards Centre for Pain Research
McGill University

"The Nature and Nurture of Pain"

Click here for Dr. Mogil's bio.

February 11

 

Kevin Hellman, Ph.D.
Dept. of Neurobiology
University of Chicago

Frank Tu, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Div. of Gynecological Pain and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
NorthShore University HealthSystem, Chicago, IL

"Pain Proliferates Pain:

Evidence for Increased Mechanical Sensitivity in Visceral Pain Conditions." (Dr. Tu)

Causes and Cures in the Brainstem." (Dr. Hellman)

February 16

 

12:00-1:00 P.M.; 3180 Old Dental

12:00-1:00 P.M.; 36 Brauer Hall

 

Poster Session:

 

 

 

Dental Research in Review Day

Hong Chen, D.D.S., M.S., Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Endodontics

Greg Essick, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Prosthodontics

 

Estephan Moana, Ph.D., Research Associate, Oral Biology Program

 

Samantha Segall, Ph.D., Postdoc, CNSD

Doug Tsao, Ph.D., Postdoc, Endodontics

Presentations:

 
"Complex persistent pain conditions and TMD.” Presentation

“Oral Appliance Therapy in Dental Sleep Medicine."

Posters:

"A Multimodalities Comparison of Sensation and Affect in Fibromyalgia Patients and Healthy Controls" 

"A Previously Unidentified Haplotype of Comt1 Influences Pain Perception in Common Inbred Strains of Mice"

"Disruptive mRNA Folding Increases Translational Efficiency."

February 25

Jongbae J. Park, K.M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Asian Medicine & Acupuncture Research
Asst.  Professor, Dept. of Physical Med & Rehab
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Acupuncture for Orofacial Pain & Turning a Blind Eye to Blinding of Randomized Controlled Trials"

Click here for Dr. Park's bio.

March 11

Kati Thieme, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor, CNSD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Pain Inhibition in Fibromyalgia Patients"
April 1

C. Ervin Davis III, Ph.D.

Unit Chief of Behavioral Sciences
Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Dental Medicine
East Carolina University

 "Breathing retraining for chronic low backpain: A working proposal in response to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AT-11-003.html"
April 8

Estephan Moana, D.D.S.

Research Associate
CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

"It Still Hurts! What it means when pain persists after root canal treatment: Sensory pathways & putative mechanisms"

April 21 (Thursday)

3:00 - 4:30 P.M.

Roy C. Levitt, M.D.

Director, Translational Research and Academic Affairs
Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

 "Genetic Susceptibility to Persistent Pain: Translating From Rodents to Humans."
June 3

Dmitri Zaykin, Ph.D.

Investigator, Biostatistics Branch
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

"Determining the number of SNPs for following up large scale association studies."

Click here for a complete abstract.

June 17

464 Brauer Hall

Fernando Cervero, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.

Director, The Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain McGill University

"Pain hypersensitivity: peripheral and/or spinal?"

Click here for Dr. Cervero's bio.
July 29

Eric Bair, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

"OPPERA Study Identifies Putative Risk Factors for Dysmenorrhea."

August 26

William Maixner, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham Distinguished Professor, UNC School of Dentistry
Director, Center for Neurosensory Disorders

“Baroreceptor Influences on Pain Processing and Autonomic Function - Implications for Complex Persistent Pain Conditions”

FALL 2010 Seminars & Events


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  Presenter:
  Title:

December 10

Richard B. Lipton, M.D.

Director of the Montefiore Headache Center
Professor and Vice Chair, Neurology
Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Bronx, NY

"Chronic Migraine Lost and Found in Translation"

Click here for Dr. Lipton's bio.
November 12

Christine E. Marx, M.D., M.A.
Associate Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University Medical Center

"Neurosteroids as Novel Therapeutics and Candidate Biomarkers in Psychiatric Disorders and Pain Conditions"
November 5

Estephan Moana, D.D.S.

Research Associate
CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

"Pathophysiology of Fibromyalgia: is sleep-disordered breathing a contributing mechanism?"

November 5-6

UNC Bioinformatics Auditorium

UNC Functional GI and Motility Disorders and Invited Speakers

"Sixth Annual Research Day -
Biopsychosocial Research at UNC"

Click here for the Research Day Program.

October 29

Kate Holliday, Ph.D.

Research Associate
Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit
School of Translational Medicine
Musculoskeletal Research Group
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

"Exploring the Genetic Susceptibility of Musculoskeletal Pain"

Click here for Dr. Holliday's bio.

October 22

Rm. 030 Bondurant Hall

Bruce Naliboff, Ph.D.

Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Co-Director, UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Sciences & Women's Health (CNS/WH)
UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases
Chief, Psychophysiology Research Laboratory
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

"Using Defensive Reflexes in Human Pain Research"

October 15

Yingxian Pan, Ph.D.

Associate Attending
Department of Neurology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

"Exploring individuality of the opioid response: Regulatory and functional diversity of the mu opioid receptor gene."

Click here for Dr. Pan's CV.

October 11

12:30 - 1:30 P.M.
Rm. 124 Taylor Hall

Susanna Rosi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco

"Neuroinflammation and Gene Expression Involved in Synaptic Plasticity and Memory: Pharmacological Approaches to Restore Neuronal-Microglia Communication."

October 8

Miranda van Tilburg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Center for Functional & GI Motility Disorders
UNC School of Medicine

"Maternally inherited mtDNA sequence variants as a shared pathway for complex persistent pain conditions."

September 21

10:00 A.M.
Rm. 321 MacNider

Samantha Segall

Graduate Student, UNC Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology; CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

Thesis Defense:

“Comt1 Genotype and Expression Predicts Anxiety and Nociceptive Sensitivity in Inbred Strains of Mice”

September 10

Brian Walitt, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.R.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center Associate Director, Section of Rheumatology
Washington Hospital Center

“What is Fibromyalgia”

SUMMER 2010 Seminars & Events


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  Presenter:
  Title:

August 30

12:30-1:30 p.m.
124 Taylor Hall

Robert Anholt, Ph.D.

William Neal Reynolds Professor of Biology and Genetics Director, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology
North Carolina State University

“Genetic Architecture of Behavior”

August 20

Doug Tsao

Graduate Student, Dept. of Chemistry, UNC College of Arts and Sciences; CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

"Identifying mechanisms of COMT activity and regulation using computational chemical methods."

July 30

10:30 A.M.
2030 Bondurant Hall

Mary Beth Nebel

CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

Thesis Defense:

"Functional imaging of central mechanisms underlying human pain perception."

July 30

Vanessa Miller, MPH

CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

"The Role of Age in TMD: A Case-Control Study" - IASP poster presentation

July 23

Leigh Holcomb, PhD

Medical Science Liaison; Cephalon, Inc.

Bio - PDF

"Ready for REMs and Abuse/Addiction Screening in Chronic Pain Management Patients"

July 9

Rm. 321 MacNider

William R. Lariviere, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Research Summary; Biosketch Link

"Using Mouse Genetic Reference Populations to Study the Systems Neurogenetics of Pain, PART II: QTL Mapping and Transcript Covariance"

June 25

Shad Smith, PhD

CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

“Genetic Components of Risk for Persistent Pain in the OPPERA Study”

June 18

Samantha Segall

Graduate Student, UNC Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology; CNSD, UNC School of Dentistry

"Janus Molecules of Pain: The Dichotomous Role of Catecholamines in Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems"




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