2004

Evan Deneris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Case Western Reserve University

"Molecular genetics of serotonin-modulated behaviors"

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Sven-Eric Jordt, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California , San Francisco

"TRP channels in the pain pathway - lessons learned from pungent plants"

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Michael Gold, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Maryland , Baltimore

"Targeting pain at the primary afferent: is there any hope for a silver bullet?"

Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Danny Winder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

"Synaptic modulation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: potential roles in anxiety and addiction"

Joe Henry Steinbach, Ph.D.
Director, Anesthesiology Research Unit

"Pre-IRB Scientific Review"

Friday, October 15, 2004

East Pavillion

Jurgen Sandkuhler M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Medical University Vienna

"Synaptic plasticity in pain pathways"

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

To be held at noon in CSRB 5550

"Transition from acute to chronic pain: a neurobiological perspective"

Pain Clinical Conference

Thursday, October 21

7:00am in the Shiele Room, Barnes Hospital North

Paul Durham, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Southwest Missouri State University

"Regulation of CGRP gene expression: implication for migraine pathology and treatment"

Tuesday, November 16th

"Saliva as a diagnostic tool for studying migraine and allergic rhinosinusitis pathology and treatment"

Wednesday, November 17th

Pain Clinical Conference

7:30am Green Conference Room (3334) Barnes Jewish South

James Campbell, M.D.
Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"The role of intact nociceptors in the production of neuropathic pain"

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

4:00pm in the EPNEC Seminar Room A

Reception to follow

"The sympathetic nervous system and pain: from mechanism to bedside"

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Anesthesiology Grand Rounds

6:30am Wohl Auditorium

"Surgical approaches to pain"

Thursday, December 2, 2004

Pain Clinical Conference

7:00am in the Shiele Room, Barnes Hospital North

2005

James Eisenach, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

"Immune modulation from peri-neural clonidine"

Tuesday, March 1, 2005

"Spinal analgesia: From rats to humans"

Wednesday, March 2, 2004

Anesthesiology Grand Rounds

6:30am Wohl Auditorium

Linda Sorkin, Ph.D.
Professor
UCSD

"Nerve injury induces sensitization to TNF in DRG neurons and TNF-dependent activation of p38 in both DRG and spinal cord"

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

"Pain behavior following nerve injury is dependent on TNF and p38 MAP kinase activation"

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Pain Clinical Conference

7:30am Green Conference Room (3334) Barnes Jewish South

Gina Story, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Scripps Research Institute

"Pain and temperature sensation: cold-activated ion channel TRPA1 is a sensor of multiple noxious stimuli"

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

"On the threshold of pain? TRP channel expression and function"

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Pain Clinical Conference

7:30am Green Conference Room (3334) Barnes Jewish South

Yu-Qing Cao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford School of Medicine

"Type-specific slots for presynaptic Ca2+ channels and implication for Ca2+ channelopathy"

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

"How mutant Ca2+ channels affect synaptic transmission: a bottom-up approach to migraine"

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Pain Clinical Conference

7:30am Green Conference Room (3334) Barnes Jewish South

Xin-Zhong Dong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"Identification and characterization of nociceptive neuron-specific genes"

Aaron DiAntonio, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
Washington University School of Medicine

"Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Synaptic Size and Strength"

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

2006

Timothy Brennan, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Iowa

 "Mechanisms for incisional pain"

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

"Preemptive analgesia, plasticity and postoperative pain"

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Anesthesiology Grand Rounds

6:30am Wohl Auditorium

Eugene Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine

"Overview of GFL neurotrophic factors with an emphasis on pain"

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Gina Story, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Washington University Pain Center Basic Research Division

"TRP channels:  mechanisms of pain and temperature sensations"

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Joyce DeLeo, Ph.D.
Professor
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

"Synaptic networks in chronic pain: how glia may regulate synaptic plasticity"

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Peggy Mason, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Chicago

"Medullary raphe and the defense of homeostasis"

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Meinhart Zenk, Ph.D.
The Danforth Plant Science Center

"Mammals produce morphine: what is the function?"

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Yangang Sun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Washington University Pain Center Basic Research Division

 "Molecular and behavioral studies of the tyrosine-kinase receptor in the dorsal horn"

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Xiaochun Jin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Washington University Pain Center Basic Research Division

 "Modulation of Na+ currents by TNF-a: role in nociception"

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Srinivasa Raja, M.D.
Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"Mu opioid receptors and endogenous pain modulation"

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

"Popplies and pain - a tale of two centuries"

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Anesthesiology Grand Rounds

6:45am Wohl Auditorium

Linda Watkins, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Colorado at Boulder

"Listening" and "talking" to neurons: clinical implications of immune and glial regulation of pain

Tuesday, November 14, 2006