Biology

“From Behavior to Circuitry to Synaptic Approaches in Understanding Risk for Chronic Heavy Alcohol Drinking,” presented by Dr. Kathleen Grant, Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center; Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center.

Dr. Jacqueline Frair is a full professor at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY where she also serves as Director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station. Her expertise lies with charismatic mammals and her research collaborations have spanned the globe, ranging from threats to moose along their southern range limit in the eastern U.S. to the behavioral ecology of human-lion conflict in Africa.

“Sex-Dependent Molecular Processes: Adolescence and Prefrontal Cortex Maturation,” presented by Dr. Cecilia Flores, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.