February 2008 Meeting
MEETING CANCELLED due to winter weather.
The three hundred and seventy-fourth meeting of the Section will be held on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. The meeting, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will be preceded by a dinner.Meeting: at 7:30 p.m. we will have brief section announcements followed by the lecture in room G09 of the Heim Building on the campus of Lycoming College. The guest speaker is Dr. Anne Milasincic Andrews from the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. She will deliver a talk entitled "In vivo approaches to investigating serotonin neurochemistry: From micro to nanoscales".
Dinner: 5:30 pm at the President's Blue Room on the campus of Lycoming College. The entrée will be Chicken Francaise or Broccoli Scampi (a vegetarian entree) and will be $12.00. Please email reservations to Jeremy Ramsey (ramsey@lycoming.edu) by 8 February 2008.
Directions: see below
Dr. Anne M. Andrews grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in the sciences, especially chemistry, in middle school. She attended The Pennsylvania State University and graduated with a B.S. in Science in August 1985. The following year, Dr. Andrews attended the George Washington University, Sino-Soviet Institute for graduate courses in Russian Area Studies. When she realized how much she missed studying the sciences, she transferred to The American University in 1987 and received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in May 1993. Dr. Andrews' thesis was titled, "The Neurotoxic Effects of 1-Methyl-4-(2'-aminophenyl)-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (2'-NH2-MPTP) on Brain Serotonin & Norepinephrine in Mice". From 1990-1993, Dr. Andrews was a U.S. Department of Education Fellow and from 1989-1993, she also held an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship in the Section on Clinical Neuropharmacology, Laboratory of Clinical Science at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Andrews continued at NIMH for a Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1993-1997. In June of 1998, Dr. Andrews joined the faculty at the Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Chemistry and in 2005, she moved to the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences and where she is currently Associate Professor of Molecular Toxicology. She is also affiliated with the Penn State Neuroscience Institute and the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences Molecular Toxicology Program.
Directions to the College: From I-80, take U. S. Route 15 North. Travel approximately 15 miles to Williamsport. Continue over the Market Street Bridge (stay in left lane) and follow the signs for the Business District. Go to the third traffic signal and turn right onto Little League Boulevard. Go 1 block east and turn left at the stop sign onto Mulberry Street. At the next traffic signal, turn right onto Washington Boulevard. The entrance to the Heim Building parking lot will be the first right. We will provide campus maps for those needing direction to the dinner location. You can also take a look at an online campus map.
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