Editor’s note: This is the 22nd in a series of weekly PRF seminars designed to help keep the pain research community connected during the COVID-19 pandemic and to provide all members of our community with virtual educational opportunities. The seminar series is supported by the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, US.
On October 21, 2020, the IASP Pain Research Forum hosted an Ask Me Anything seminar with Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Robert Sorge, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, US, moderated the seminar.
A recording of this webinar will soon be freely available to IASP members at the IASP Pain Education Resource Center (PERC).
About this event:
Here is your chance to ask Jeff Mogil ANYTHING you want!
Maybe you’d like to ask Jeff about sex differences in pain, social effects on pain behaviors, pain measurement in animals, or pain genetics. Perhaps you have follow-up questions on his recent Nature Reviews Neuroscience study showing a persistence of sex bias in preclinical pain research. Jeff is also the director of the North American Pain School (NAPS), so you may be curious about what it was like to form this unique educational and networking experience for trainees. On the lighter side, any and all questions about Jeff’s whitewater rafting skills are truly in play, as are inquiries into why he is so fond of the Bloody Caesar. From the serious to the, let’s say, not-so-serious, any question is fair game! Join us on October 21 for what promises to be a stimulating and enlightening event – and a lot of fun, too! More details about Jeff are below.
About Jeff
Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, is the E. P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies and the Canada Research Chair in the Genetics of Pain at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has made seminal contributions to the field of pain genetics and has written many reviews on the subject. He is the editor of The Genetics of Pain (IASP Press, 2004). Dr. Mogil also studies sex differences in pain and analgesia, and is known for developing pain testing methods in the laboratory mouse. He is also director of the North American Pain School (NAPS). He was the neurobiology section editor for the journal PAIN and was chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the 2010 13th World Congress on Pain. Dr. Mogil is a recipient of the Patrick D. Wall Young Investigator Award from IASP, and in 2013 he won the Frederick W.L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award from the American Pain Society.
About the moderator
Robert Sorge, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alabama and the director of the PAIN Collective at UAB. Robert received his PhD at Concordia University investigating heroin and cocaine addiction under Dr. Jane Stewart. He then completed his first postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University establishing a new model of nicotine self-administration in rats before joining Dr. Jeff Mogil at McGill University for his final postdoctoral fellowship. It was in Mogil’s lab that he published a number of high-impact papers uncovering sex differences in the use of immune cells and receptors to mediate pain in mice. At this time, he also demonstrated that male scent caused a stress response in mice that alters pain expression. His lab at UAB is primarily focused on the impact of diet on immune cells and recovery from injury in rodents and human patients. Robert also serves at the co-chair for the Sex, Gender and Pain Special Interest Group in IASP and is a supporter of examining sex/gender differences at all levels of science.
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We thank the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, US, for its support of the PRF seminar series.
