Steve A. Goldman, professor and chair of the Department of Neurology and co-director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester, will present “Progenitor Cell-Based Strategies for Treating Diseases of the CNS” on Wednesday, March 3 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.

James Guest, associate professor of neurological surgery at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “Principles of Casualty Management Under Austere Conditions” on Thursday, March 4 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org.

Joshua Johnstone, neuroscience program graduate student at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “Inhibition of NADPH Oxidase Activation in Oligodendrocytes: A Novel Therapeutic Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury” on Wednesday, February 10 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108.

Eva Widerström-Noga, research associate professor and health scientist at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “Pain after SCI: Mechanistic, Diagnostic, and Translational Research Aspects” on Thursday, February 4 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108.

Gordon Fishell, professor and director of the Smilow Neuroscience Program at New York University Medical School, will present “Making Up Your Mind: The Origins and Integration of Cortical Interneurons Into Brain Circuitry” on Wednesday, February 3 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.

Jerry Silver, professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University, will present “Functional Regeneration Beyond the Glial Scar” on Wednesday, January 27 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.

The Miller School of Medicine, in collaboration with The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will host a special lecture by Robert S. Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on Wednesday, January 13 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Langer will present “Biomaterials and Biotechnology: From the Discovery of Angiogenesis Inhibitors to the Development of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems and the Foundation of Tissue Engineering.” For more information, please visit www.themiamiproject.org/Lectures or call 305-243-7108.

Rachel E. Cowan, postdoctoral associate for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “Self Reported Exercise Barriers in Persons with SCI: Exercisers Versus Non-Exercisers” on Thursday, January 7 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108.

John R. Bethea, associate professor at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “Immunotherapy for Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE): Implications of Multiple Sclerosis and SCI Therapies” on Wednesday, December 9 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, please call 305-243-7108.

Stefan Herlitze, associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University, will present “Control of Ion Channel Modulation, Synaptic Plasticity and Neuronal Circuits by Light” on Friday, December 4 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.

(This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. Eds. 11/18/09).

Amanpreet Singh, assistant scientist for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, will present “Perfluorocarbons and Hyperbaric Oxygen: Increasing Oxygen Delivery Improves SCI Outcome in the Rat” on Thursday, December 3, from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org