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CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Pharmacology,
Physiology & Neuroscience
USC School of Medicine
6439 Garners Ferry Road
VA Building 1, Third Floor
Columbia, SC 29208
(For packages, use 29209)
Phone: 803-216-3500
Fax: 803-216-3538
Office of the Dean:
803-216-3300
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Department News
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Britt Wilson receives the 2012 O’Neill Barrett Teaching Excellence Award
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Norman “Tad” Pedigo is inducted into the SC Beta Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Honor Medical Society. Read story here
- PPN does it again: Congratulations to Britt Wilson as the M1 teacher of the year and
Larry Reagan as M2 teacher of the year.
- Congratulations to PPN graduate student Denise Grosenbaugh (mentor: David Mott) on receiving 2nd place in the Health and Life Sciences oral competition at the recent USC Graduate Student Day!
- Augustine named visiting professor at University of Michigan
- Jim Fadel and Lawrence Reagan named “Vice-Chairs” of PPN
- Michelle (“Michy”) Kelly joins PPN faculty as Assistant Professor of Neurogenomics, Epigenetics and Aging.
- Terika Smith invited into the prestigious Golden Key International Honor Society
- PPN welcomes new Magellan Scholars David Shipp & Nate Johnston
- Sarah Sweitzer moves to new position in Pharmacy at Presbyterian College, but continues part-time in PPN!
- Norma Frizzell, Assistant Professor, joins PPN faculty
- John Baynes, a Carolina Distinguished Professor, joins PPN
- Heather Eidson, Research Assistant Professor in PPN, starts as Clinical Coordinator for the Masters in Nurse Anesthesia primary training site in Greenville.
- Kevin LeBlanc receives USC SOM’s Distinguished Masters Alumni Award
- Debra Krotish, Assistant Director for SeniorSMART, appointed as a Research Assistant Professor in PPN.
- Sarah Sweitzer receives subcontract award with Johns Hopkins University.
- Steve Wilson receives new subcontract award Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Shayna Wrighten defends her thesis entitled “Insulin modulates synaptic transmission and AMPA receptor trafficking via insulin receptor signaling molecules in region CA1 of the juvenile and mature hippocampus” with Larry Reagan & David Mott, plus lands a teaching position at Francis Marion.
- Larry Reagan and Claudia Grillo receive grant support from the Institute de Recherches Internationales Servier
- Emily Stanley defends her thesis entitled “Age-related alterations in orexin modulation of septo-hippocampal neurotransmission” in Jim Fadel’s lab AND receives the Dean Barnhart Award. Emily is now doing a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt
- David Mott is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
- Larry Reagan receives USC prestigious Educational Foundation Research Award for Health Sciences
- Jim Augustine is 2011 M1 Teacher of the Year Award
- Britt Wilson receives O’Neill Barrett Teaching Excellence Award at the SOM
- Tad Pedigo is nominated for the 2011 M2 Teacher of the Year award
- PPN Undergraduates win at Discovery Day 2011: Matthew Fisher (Janet Fisher’s lab), Mikhail Alexeev (Janet Fisher’s lab) and Katherine McClellan (David Mott’s Lab)
- PPN welcomes 3 new Magellan Scholars: Elisabeth Oliver, Chandler Paige, Mikhail Alexeev
- Larry Reagan and colleagues receive additional grant support from the Institute de Recherches Internationales Servier
- Ryan Butler, postdoctoral fellow with Marlene Wilson, receives a NARSAD Young Investigator Award
- Sarah Sweitzer receives new contract from Nektar Therapeutics
- Sloka S. Iyengar defended her thesis on “Differential Regulation of Synaptic Plasticity In Epilepsy” with David Mott and is now doing a postdoctoral fellowship in NYC.
- Masters in Nurse Anesthesia program receives 10 year accreditation and expands to a new Primary Training site in Greenville, SC.
- Matt Fisher working with Janet Fisher receives a Magellan Scholarship
- Archived Department News
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MEETING NOTICE
Department hosts SYNAPSE for undergraduate researchers across the Southeast on Friday & Saturday, March 30-31, 2012
Details
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FEATURED ARTICLE
Distinct Functional Roles of Subunits within the Heteromeric Kainate Receptor
By Janet L. Fisher and David D. Mott published in Journal of Neuroscience. Article sheds new light on how receptors for excitatory neurotransmission are regulated More...
MISSION
The department provides expert instruction and conducts innovative research in neuroscience, physiology and pharmacology. Department faculty members teach students of medicine, nurse anesthesia and biomedical science in the classroom and the laboratory. Research activities focus on the roles of specific molecules in cellular function and their importance to organismal physiology and behavior.
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