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Subject: REMINDER: Killam Lecture - TODAY
*****REMINDER*****
Killam Lecture
Speaker: Esther Shohami, MD, PhD
Department of Pharmacology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Title: Endocannabinoids: Their Role in Neuroprotection after Traumatic
Brain Injury
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - TODAY
Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre
Time: 4:00 pm
Host: Eva Andermann, MD, PhD
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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to attend the Killam Seminar to be
presented on Wednesday May 6th at 4 PM in the de Grandpre Conference
Centre by Dr. Esther Shohami entitled:
Endocannabinoids: Their role in neuroprotection after traumatic brain
injury.
Dr. Shohami obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in chemistry and her PhD in
physiology (biophysics)at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then
did a two-year postdoctoratal training at McGill with Dr. Adi Eisenberg
in the Department of Chemistry between 1973 and 1975. She has been on
staff at the Hebrew University since 1976, and is currently Full
Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, and the incumbent of the
Dr. Leon and Dr. Mina Deutsch Chair in Psychopharmacology. She is also
the Dean of Students at the Hebrew University.
Dr. Shohami's research has focused on the pharmacological aspects of
hypoxia and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in rodents. She has carried out
important work on the regulation of prostaglandin synthesis; cerebral
edema following closed head injury; the role of reactive oxygen species
in the pathogenesis of TBI; and neuroprotective effects of various
substances on TBI.
A few of her recent publications are, as follows:
Beni SM et al. CuZn-SOD deficiency, rather than overexpression , is
associated with enhanced recovery and attenuated activation of NF-kappaB
after brain trauma in mice. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 26:478-490, 2006.
Panikashvili D et al. The endocannabinoid 2-AG protects the blood brain
barrier after closed head injury and inhibits expression of
proinflammatory cytokines. Neurobiology of Disease, 22:257-264, 2006.
Mechoulam R and Shohami E. Endocannabinoids and traumatic brain injury.
Molecular Neurobiology, 36:68-74, 2007.
Shein NA et al. Differential neuroprotective properties of endogenous
and exogenous erythropoietin in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury.
J Neurotrauma. 25:112-123, 2008.
Beauchamp K et al. Pharmacology of traumatic brain injury - where is the
"golden bullet"? Mol Med 14:731-740, 2008.
Shohami E and Kohen R. The role of reactive oxygen species in the
pathogenesis of traumatic brain injury. In: Free Radicals in Neurology.
Ed. Gadoth N. Springer, in press, 2009.
This seminar should be of interest to basic scientists, neurologists,
neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists, and epileptologists.
Looking forward to see you at the seminar,
Eva Andermann MDCM, PhD., FCCMG
Director, Neurogenetics Unit
Montreal Neurological Hospital & Institute;
Professor, Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery and
Human Genetics,
McGill University
3801 University St., Room 127
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4
Canada
Tel: 514-398-8529
Dear Colleagues,
Dr. Shohami would be pleased to meet with any researchers and clinicians
who would be interested in discussing mutual research interests. She
would be be available from
9:00am -12:00pm on Thursday morning May 7th. Please mark the time at
which you would like to meet with her:
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
Best Regards,
Eva Andermann MDCM, PhD., FCCMG
Director, Neurogenetics Unit
Montreal Neurological Hospital & Institute;
Professor, Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery and
Human Genetics,
McGill University
3801 University St., Room 127
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4
Canada
Tel: 514-398-8529
Fax: 514-398-1276
Eva.Andermann at mcgill.ca