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Pathways to Excellence Seminars - 2023

Pathways to Excellence Seminar Presentations

For information about this seminar series, please contact Dr. Feng Tao (ftao81@tamu.edu).

Schedules and speakers for the 2023 presentations will be posted on this page as the information becomes available.

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December 6, 2023
Richard Ohrbach, DDS, PhD
Professor, Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences
Director, Center for TMD and Facial Pain Research
School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo
Temporomandibular Disorders: Risk Determinants and Modifiable Determinants as Treatment Targets of a Complex Disease

November 8, 2023
Jin Meng, PhD
Curator-in-Charge of Fossil Mammals, Division of Paleontology
Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School
American Museum of Natural History
The Evolutionary Tale of the Jaw Joints for Eating and Hearing During the Evolution of Mammals

October 11, 2023
Qian Cong, PhD
Instructor of Developmental Biology
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Harvard University
Mechanistic and Therapeutic Studies of Initiation and Expansion of Heterotopic Ossification

September 6, 2023
Rajesh Khanna, PhD, MSc
Director, NYU Pain Research Center
Professor, Department of Molecular Pathobiology, NYU College of Dentistry
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Investigator, Neuroscience Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Dialing Down Neuropathic Pain With Antagonists of Nav1.7 Channels

February 22, 2023
Sonia Guillen, PhD
Director of Centro Mallqui, Instituto de Bioarqueología
Professor, Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza
Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences 
Mummies and Crania to Reconstruct the History of Peru

March 22, 2023
Jeffrey Ebersole, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Associate Dean for Research
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Diagnostic Saliva Panel for Identification of Features of Periodontal Disease: Perio/Reveal™

April 19, 2023
Jun-Ming Zhang, MD, MSc
Professor & Vice Chair for Research
Endowed Chair of Anesthesia Research and Education
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Neuropathic Spontaneous Pain Triggered by Piezo2-Mediated Vasculature-Neuron Interactions in the Dorsal Root Ganglion