2020 Seminars

December 14
Dr. Richard Carson
Yale University
"PET Imaging Analysis Pipeline for the Penn-Yale P.A.C.E. (PET Addiction Center of Excellence)"

November 23
Dr. Isabelle Boileau
University of Toronto
"Can molecular imaging help move forward endocannabinoid-focused treatments for psychiatric illness?"

October 5
We held our first annual PACE Day. Marco Leyton, Ph.D. of McGill University presented the Robert T. Malison Lecture: "Neuroimaging Pathways to Addiction: Holy Grails and Other Tales”
See the full day's agenda Here

September 14
Dr. Corinde Wiers
University of Pennsylvania
"Metabolic ketosis as a potential treatment for alcohol use disorders"

May 18
Thomas Graham, Ph.D., Paul Regier, Ph.D.
Journal Club
Emerging pre-clinical and clinical evidence for 5HT2A agonists in psychiatric disorders"

May 11
Maria Oquendo, M.D.
Penn University
"Imaging suicidality phenotypes with PET molecular imaging"

April 27
David Matuskey, M.D.
Yale SOM
"Human neuroimaging of the kappa opioid receptor"

April 20
Janet Reddin, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
"PET quantitation and quality control"

April 13
Kembler, Kranzler
University of Pennsylvania
"Correlating polygenic risk scores for OUD with existing carfentanil (mu occupancy) data from Dr. Zubieta"

March 30
Joel Karp, Ph.D., and Dave Mankoff, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
"PET technology at Penn: From Early Days to the New Explorer"

March 23
Dave Metzger, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
"Opioid crisis and HIV overlap"

February 24
Jake Dubroff, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
"Cyclotron Operations, radiotracer production and cyclotron tour"

February 17
Sharon Lee, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
"Cyclotron Operations, radiotracer production and cyclotron tour"

February 10
Jill Rabinowitz, Ph.D.
John Hopkins School of Public Health
“Environmental and polygenic influences on drug use and related psychopathology in admixed populations”

January 27
Bob March, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
"Current PET Neuroligands at Penn PACE"