2019 Seminars

December 16
Rachel Kember, Ph.D.
Penn department of Genetics
“Phenotypic associations of genetic liability for opioid use disorder in the Penn Medicine Biobank”

November 25
Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D.
Journal Club
"μ-Opioid Activity in Chronic TMD Pain Is Associated with COMT Polymorphism"

November 18
Lorenzo Leggio, M.D.
Chief Neuroendocrinology/Neuropsychopharm
“Traversing the Gut-Brain Axis:  Translation to Addiction Medicine”

November 11
Jonn-Kar Zubieta, M.D., Ph.D.
Stonybrook University
“Endogenous Opioids: At the interface of emotions, pain and the addictions”

October 28
Jake Dubroff, M.D., Ph.D., and Robert Doot, Ph.D.
Journal Club
"Intranasal naloxone rapidly occupies brain mu-opioid receptors in human subjects"

October 14
Philipp Koellinger, Ph.D.
School of Buisness and Economics
"Petri J. Vainio, Hannu Alho and Mika ScheininRisky Behaviors and their Links with Health" & "New Insights from Statistically Well-Powered Genetic and Neuroscientific Studies"

August 22
Christopher Rentsch, Ph.D.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
"Polypharmacy and alcohol interactions on patient outcomes”