Schedule for the NIH-wide Pain Interest Group Seminar Series

Pain Interest Group Fall 2008- Spring 2009
All meetings are on the second Tuesday of each month.
Location: Building 49, Room 1A51
Time: 3:30 PM

October 14, 2008. (co-sponsor with NIMH)
Gerard Ahern, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Title of seminar: “General Anesthetics and TRP Channels

No meeting in November: Society for Neuroscience Meeting is in Washington, DC, November 15-18.

December 9, 2008 (co-sponsor with NINR)
Patrick Dougherty, PhD
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Title of seminar: "Mechanisms of Chemotherapy-Induced Pain"

December 16, 2008
Ed McCleskey, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute
Chevy Chase, MD
Title of seminar: “Sensing the pain of a heart attack”
Summary: This seminar will be about ischemic muscle pain (which includes angina, intermittent claudication, sickle cell anemia, and middle distance racing). The data suggest that it is noticed by sensory neurons because of the coincident appearance of lactic acid and ATP in the extracellular medium.

January, 13, 2009 (co-sponsor with NINR)
Judith Paice, PhD, RN
Director, Cancer Pain Program
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Northwestern University; Feinberg School of Medicine
and President, American Pain Society
Title of Seminar: "Chemotherapy-Induced Painful Peripheral Neuropathy"

February 10, 2009
Mark Zylka, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology
University of North Carolina, Neuroscience Center
Chapel Hill, NC
Title of seminar: "Biochemical modulation of nociceptive circuits"

March 10, 2009
Michael J. Iadarola, PhD
Chief, Neurobiology and Pain Therapeutics Section
Laboratory of Sensory Biology
NIDCR, NIH
Title of seminar: “Status of TRPV1 Analgesic Pharmacology”

April 14, 2009
William Maixner, DDS, PhD
Professor
Director, Center for Neurosensory Disorders
University of North Carolina, School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Title of Seminar: “Genetics of Human Pain Sensitivity”

April 22, 2009
Michael W. Salter, MD PhD FRSC
Canada Research Chair in Neuroplasticity and Pain (Tier I)
Senior Scientist and Head, Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health
Hospital for Sick Children and Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto
Director, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain
Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5G 1X8
Title of Seminar “Neuronal and Glial Signalling in Pain Neuroplasticity”

May 12, 2009
Juli Valtschanoff, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of North Carolina, School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Title of Seminar: "A role for the vanilloid receptor TRPV1 in arthritis"

The Pain Interest Group (PIG) will adjourn for the summer and resume in the fall.