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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
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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 11thComplex 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 4thNeurogastronomy: 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 28thAnimal 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 21stMechanisms 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 7thRelating 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 28thStress, 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 21stTranslating 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 14thIron 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 7thThe 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 31stCalcium-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 17thDerived 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 16thBehavioral 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 18thAlcohol 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 21stChronic 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
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