EVENTS
2008-05-20, 11:30am-1:30pm
Lunch for Hungry Minds - Free Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Brian Strom, M.D., M.P.H
George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medicine, and Pharmacology,Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Director, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs, University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine, Senior Advisor to the Provost for Global Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: The Role of Epidemiology in Studying the Effects of Marketed Products
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Time: 12noon Complimentary lunch begins at 11:30am
Place: Fuller Conference Room
Science Center
3701 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA
www.sciencecenter.org
RSVP: Dr. Nicholas A. Kefalides, by Monday, May 19, 2008
Tel: 215-966-6102 Email: kefalide@mail.med.upenn.edu
or www.sciencecenter.org/new events.asp
Summary
This talk will provide an overview of the field of pharmacoepidemiology, which has been in the news so much of late, regarding the unexpected side effects of newly marketed drugs. Dr. Strom will provide a historical perspective of where the field has come from, including many examples; talk about the current status of the field; describe some of its newest developments; and then provide some speculations as to where it might be going in the future.
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2008-06-11, 4:30pm-6:00pm
SmartTalk Lecture
WHAT: The Importance of Body Odors - From Neurons
to behavior and Back by Monell Scientist Johan N. Lundstrom, PhD.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 11 at 4:30pm
WHERE: Monell Center, 3500 Market Street Reception follows in the Klein Gallery
RSVP: stein@monell.org
ABSTRACT: The human sense of smell has long been considered a residual sensory system with little to no impact on our behavior. However, the notion of humans as visual creatures, commonly held by scientists and laymen alike, has been negated by recent advances in olfactory research. We now know that olfactory stimuli can modulate a wide range of emotions and behaviors, including, among many others, attention, kin recognition, and even mate selection. In other words, our olfactory sense still plays an important role in everyday life. In this talk, I will review recent advances that are changing our understanding of how odors affect human behavior and how these effects manifest in the brain. Specifically, I will focus on chemical signals hidden in body odors. These chemosignals, which communicate ecologically important information such as the emotional state and genetic makeup of their human source, receive preferential processing by the human brain, much like similar visual stimuli. Our brain is so sensitive to chemosignals from body odors that it can detect even minute genetic differences, which in turn guide our behavior. How the brain acts as a genetic detector and the relevance of these chemosignals in everyday life will be discussed.
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