Seminar: Transdisciplinary Research Paradigms in Neurodegenerative Disease

This seminar will focus on Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. It will be given by Richard Myers, PhD, director, BUSM Genome Science Institute. This seminar is part of BU's New Transformative Training Program in Addiction Science (TTPAS), which prepares doctoral students to apply diverse approaches to addiction research using tools from bench science, medicine. population studies, statistics and computational biology. TTPAS directors and faculty will introduce this exciting new program and discuss its potential to advance a behavioral and biochemical focus in addictions research and practice. Free and open to all faculty, students, and staff at BU and the VA. A reception with refreshments immediately follows the seminar.

When 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Location Keefer Auditorium, BU School of Medicine