January 9, 2003
John Neumaier, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatry, University of Washington
"Making sense out of serotonin with mediated gene transfer"

February 13, 2003
Evan Riddle, Ph.D., Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Utah
"Psychostimulants and regulation of monoamine transporters"

February 20, 2003
Kaitlin Browman, Ph.D., Abbot Laboratories
"Effect of histamine H3 receptor blockade on animal models of cognition and attention"

March 28, 2003
Victoria Turek, Ph.D., Psychology, UC Santa Barbara
"Fever: Behavioral thermoregulation, leptin, and alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone"

April 22, 2003
Susan Barron, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Kentucky
"Medications development: Can it work for alcohol?"

April 24, 2003
John Littleton, Ph.D., Pharmacology, University fo Kentucky
"Alcohol dependence in hippocampal slice cultures: Window on withdrawal"

May 8, 2003
Andrew Heath, Ph.D., Missouri Alcohol Research Center
"Interplay of genes and environment in alcoholism"

May 15, 2003
Randy Nelson, Ph.D., Psychology & Neuroscience, Ohio State University
"Using gene knockout mice to study aggression: A cautionary tale"

June 16, 2003
Rachel Bartholomew, Reproductive Physiology, Cornell University
"Bovine VASA characterization of a prospective germ cell marker in cattle"

September 23, 2003
David Salat, Ph.D., Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MIT/Harvard Medical School
"Patterns of selective regional vulnerability in the aging brain"

November 19, 2003
Tamas Kozicz, M.D., Ph.D., Roudboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
"A novel stress responsive neuronal circuit. The functional neuroanatomy of urocortin in the Edinger-Westphal nucleus"