When:
Monday, September 9, 2019
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: Ward Building, 5-230, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Lexi Nash
312.503.4892
Group: Department of Pharmacology Seminars
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Daniele Piomelli, Ph.D., MD (h.c)
Director, UCI Center for the Study of Cannabis
Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences
Distinguished Professor of Anatomy, Neurobiology and Biological Chemistry
University of California - Irvine
Abstract:
The endocannabinoids are lipid-derived messengers that serve pervasive regulatory functions in synaptic activity and plasticity in the CNS. The lecture will review the structure and function of the endocannabinoid synapse and its roles in retrograde synaptic signaling.