Andrew Kesner, PhD

Preclinical modeling of spontaneous Δ-9-THC withdrawal symptoms in mice: sleep, dopamine, and behavioral maladaptations

April 10th, 1:00PM MST

Dr. Kesner is the Chief of the Unit on Motivation and Arousal at National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The mission of his lab is to use systems neuroscience approaches to understand how brain systems controlling motivated behaviors and sleep/arousal processes interact to drive maladaptive behaviors. He earned both his B.A. in Behavioral Biology and Ph.D. in Biology from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kesner moved to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. David Lovinger’s Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience prior to starting his independent lab as an NIH Independent Research Scholar in Fall of 2021.

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Dan Ovadya, CEO

New Methods for Induction of Male Flowers and Scalable Feminized Seed Production in Cannabis Sativa

Dan Ovadya is the Co-founder and CEO of FloraGen LLC, an AgTech company based in Davis, California. Dan has
over 30 years of experience in crop optimization, precision horticulture and seed production systems in controlled
environments. His career in Ag-Biotech centered on developing […]

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Marguerite Bolt, MS

Sep 17, 2025 11:00 AM MST

Bugs on Buds Pest Management in Cannabis

Marguerite Bolt is the Hemp Extension Specialist in the Department of Agronomy. Marguerite received her M.S. in Entomology from Purdue University, and her B.S. in Entomology from Michigan State University. She has aided in the development of pest management resources for hemp growers in […]

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Mark T. Hamann, PhD.

September 11, 2025 01:00 PM MST

Potential Application of the Cannabinoids as Antivirals

Dr. Mark T. Hamann is the Charles and Carol Cooper/SmartState Endowed Chair of Drug Discovery at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), serving in the Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine. He holds affiliate appointments with the University of Maryland’s Institute of Marine and […]

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Todd P. Michael, Ph.D.

20 August 2025, 11 AM MST

The Cannabis pangenome

Todd Michael, Ph.D. is a Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Chief Science Officer at the San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG). His research group focuses on leveraging advanced sequencing technologies and informatics to […]

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Kent E. Vrana, PhD, FAAAS, FASPET

14 August, 2025 1 PM MST

Minor Cannabinoids for Pain and Emerging Concerns with Unregulated Cannabinoids

https://youtu.be/bdRiQXXwOzQ

Dr. Kent Vrana is the Elliot S. Vesell Professor of Pharmacology (Chair Emeritus) in the Department of Molecular and Precision Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine. He has a BS from the University of Iowa and a PhD from […]

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