DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIPS

The goal is to bring cutting edge information and distinguished scientists to Mississippi to increase opportunities for students and faculty associated with the center to interact with renown researchers. CORE-NPN will host four nationally and internationally recognized Distinguished Lectureships each year.  These lectureships will be incorporated into the structure of existing departmental seminar series.

March 2, 2010 - Steven Childers, Ph.D., Wake Forest University, "Monitoring acute and chronic actions of drugs at G-protein-coupled receptors."

April 9, 2009  -   Peter J. Houghton, Ph.D. , St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, “The TOR Pathway in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Cancer.”    

February 17, 2009  -   Thomas F. Murray, Ph.D , Creighton University Medical Center , “ Discovery and Characterization of Neuroactive Marine Natural Products:  Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels as a Common Target”      

February 12, 2009  -  Craig A. Stockmeier, Ph.D. , University of Mississippi Medical Center , “ “COBRE Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience – Cellular and Molecular Research into the Neuroscience of Depression”      

October 7, 2008  -  Edward W. Boyer, Ph.D., M.D , University of Massachusetts Medical School “ Department of Emergency Medicine, “Fostering Translational Research” ”    

September 19, 2008  -  Lawrence J. Marnett, Ph.D , Vanderbilt Institute for Chemical Biology, “ The Chemistry and Biology of COX-2-Selective Oxygenation of Endocannabinoids ”