Student Workshops
| Health Disparities Scholars Program Workshops |
| Apr 30th |
Studying & Preparing for the GRE
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Apr 16th |
Graduate School Application and Admissions Process
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Apr 2nd |
Professionalism
Presenter: Ms. Claudia Guajardo, Student Education Coordinator |
| Mar 19th |
Skills & a Texas Graduate School Overview
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Mar 5th |
Planning & Networking (I met you once…. Now what?)
Presenter: Ms. Claudia Guajardo, Student Education Coordinator |
| Feb 19th |
Presenting (oral and poster) at Conferences & Conference Etiquette
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Oct 23rd |
How Do I: Read (and Understand) a Scientific Journal Article
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Feb 5th |
Conflict MGMT (How to play nice with others and make them play nice with you) & Personality Profiling
Presenters:
Ms. Claudia Guajardo, Student Education Coordinator,
Mrs. Heidy Moreno, Student Education Coordinator, and
Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Jan 29th |
Resume/CV writing
Presenters:
Ms. Claudia Guajardo, Student Education Coordinator and
Mrs. Heidy Moreno, Student Education Coordinator |
| *Jan 14-21st |
How Do I: Use Endnote to Make Writing and Referencing Easier
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| *Dec 4-21st |
How Do I: Use Endnote to Make Writing and Referencing Easier
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Nov 20th |
How Do I: Organize and Write a Scientific Thesis or Paper
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Nov 6th |
How Do I: to Present a Scientific Journal Article (or my own work)
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Oct 23rd |
How Do I: Read (and Understand) a Scientific Journal Article
Presenter: Dr. Kari Brewer Savannah, Director |
| Oct 9th |
Study and Writing Skills
Presenter: Mrs. Heidy Moreno, Student Education Coordinator |
| Sep 25th |
HDSP Binders and Lab Notebook Content and Responsibility
Presenter: Mrs. Heidy Moreno, Student Education Coordinator |
(Go to Top)
Seminar Series
| Translational Research Seminar Series |
| Mar 22nd |
Neuroscience
Presenter: Carlos Cepeda
Room SPH N1.130 at 11:00 a.m. |
| Mar 8th |
Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance
Presenter: Sara Reyna
Room SPH N1.130 at 11:00 a.m. |
| Feb 22nd |
Estrogens: Critical Regulators of Energy Homeostasis from Anorexia to ObeZity
Presenter: Deborah Clegg
Room SPH N1.130 at 11:00 a.m. |
| Dec 7th |
Diabetes Research and Protocols
Presenter: Sara Reyna
Room RAHCN 1.130 at 11:00 a.m. |
| Neurobiology Seminar Webcast |
| Apr 25th |
TBA
Presenter: Daniel Ansari, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Developmental
Cognitive Neuroscience
Brain and Mind Institute
The University of Western Ontario
Host: Dr. Nicole Wicha
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Apr 18th |
Development of Motor Circuitry
Presenter: Samuel L. Pfaff, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Gene Expression Laboratory
Benjamin H. Lewis Chair in Neuroscience
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Host: Dr. Gary Gaufo
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Apr 11th | Complex Regulation of Inhibition in Thalamocortical Circuits
UTSA Neurosciences Institute Distinguished Lecture
Presenter: Charles L. Cox, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Dr. Joseph Beatty
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Apr 4th | Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor. Toward a Comprehensive Model for Systems Biology
UTSA Neurosciences Institute Distinguished Lecture
Presenter: Gordon M. Shepherd, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Host: Soomin Song
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Mar 28th | Animal Models for Dissecting the Actions of SSRI Class Antidepressants
Presenter: Brent J. Thompson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
Host: Dr. Brian Derrick
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Mar 21st | Mechanisms for Duet Singing in Wrens
Presenter: Eric S. Fortune, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Host: Dr. Todd Troyer
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Mar 7th | Relating Neural and Mental Representations using fMRI
Presenter: Russell A. Poldrack, Ph.D.
Director, Imaging Research Center
Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology
University of Texas at Austin
Host: Dr. Nicole Wicha
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Feb 28th | Stress, Drugs and Synaptic Plasticity in the VTA
Presenter: Julie A. Kauer, Ph.D.
Professor, Brown University
Host: DeNard Simmons
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Feb 21st | Translating Time 2.0: Modeling Transformations of Neural Development in 16 Mammalian Species
Presenter: Barbara Finlay, Ph.D.
W.R. Kenan Professor of Psychology
Cornell University
Host: Dr. Nicole Wicha
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Feb 14th | Iron Regulatory Proteins and Neurodegenerative Disease and Therapeutics
Presenter: Jack Rogers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Host: Dr. George Perry
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Feb 7th | The Balancing Act: Modulation of Neural Hyperexcitability in Epilepsy
Presenter: Jokubas Ziburkus, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Houston
Host: Dr. Todd Troyer
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Jan 31st | Calcium-Dependent Spike Afterhyperpolarizations in Oxytocin Neurons: Targets of Neuroendocrine State Plasticity
UTSA Neurosciences Institute Distinguished Lecture
Presenter: William E. Armstrong, Ph.D.
Director, Neuroscience Institute
Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Host: Dr. Charles Wilson
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Jan 17th | Derived Neurons: Tools for Studying Neurological Diseases
Presenter: Vu Cao Dang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
iPierian Incorporated
Host: Dr. Carlos Paladini
UBLB 2.206, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Addiction Web Seminar from UTHSCSA |
| May 16th | Behavioral and neural differences in children and adults at risk for developing substance use disorders.
Presenter: Ashley Acheson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Neurobehavioral Research
Department of Psychiatry
Research Imaging Center
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
UBLB 2.206, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM |
| Apr 18th | Alcohol effects on sexual risk behavior: Experimental approaches
Presenter: Tina Zawacki
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at San Antonio
UBLB 2.206, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM |
| Mar 21st | Chronic pain management: Understanding patterns of care and outcomes of narcotic utilization
Presenter: Barbara J Turner MD, MSED
Director, REACH Center
Professor of Medicine, UTHSCSA
Adjunct Professor, UTSPH
Director, Health Outcomes Research, UHS
UBLB 2.206, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM |
(Go to Top)
Faculty Workshops
Coming soon.
(Go to Top)
Events
Coming soon.
(Go to Top)
|