Wednesday, March 7

Keynote Address

From peppers to pain: The molecular biology nociception.

David Julius, University of California at San Francisco

Thursday, March 8

Plenary Session I

Neurotrophin-3: A tool to query, and a mechanism for sensory system development and plasticity.

organized by Mark Jacquin, Washington Univ
speakers: Mark Jacquin; Robert Rhoades, Med Coll of Ohio; Doug Wright, Univ of Kansas; Ric Lane, Med Coll of Ohio

Plenary Session II

Chemosensation and breathing.

organized by Jack Feldman, Univ of California at Los Angeles
speakers: Ralph Fregosi, Univ of Arizona; Gene Nattie, Dartmouth Univ; Gordon Mitchell, Univ Wisconsin

Plenary Address

Modeling and experiments on intersegmental coordination in the heartbeat central pattern generator.

Ron Calabrese, Emory Univ

Plenary Session III

Controlling glial cell growth in development and following injury..

organized by Eldon E. Geisert Jr., Univ of Tennessee at Memphis
speakers: Eldon E. Geisert Jr; John W. McDonald, Washington Univ; Ian Duncan, Univ of Wisconsin at Madison

Friday, March 9

Plenary Session IV

Factors affectign recovery following traumatic brain injury..

organized by Douglas C. Smith, Southern Illinois Univ
speakers: David Hovda, Univ of California at Los Angeles; Tracy McIntosh, Univ of Pennysylvania

Plenary Address

Pathogenic mechanisms of SOD1-linked familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

David Borchelt, Johns-Hopkins Univ

Plenary Session V

Neurological dysfunction from tumors.

organized by Michael Chicoin, Washington Univ
speakers: Michael Chicoine; Jerome Posner, Cornell Univ Med Coll; Eric Wong, Harvard Med School

Plenary Session VI

Encoding limb movement parameters in the cerebellum.

organized by Richard Poppele, Univ of Minnesota
speakers: Richard Poppele; Timothy Ebner, Univ of Minnesota

Plenary Address

Origins of neuroscience: The puzzling early morphological clues.

Larry Kruger, Univ of California at Los Angeles

Saturday, March 10

Plenary Session VII

Differential gene expression and functional genomics in CNS injury and disease.

organized by Douglas Anderson, Univ of Florida
speakers: Christopher Glenn, Univ of Florida; Ronald Hayes, Univ of Florida; Robert Yezierski, Univ of Miami

Plenary Session VIII

Protection and vulnerability to dopamine cell death.

organized by Suzanne Haber, Univ of Rochester
speakers: Suzanne Haber; A. Jon Stoessl, Univ of British Columbia; Jeffrey N. Joyce, Sun Health Res Inst; Greg A. Gerhardt, Univ of Kentucky

Plenary Session IX

Knocking out pain.

organized by Frank Porreca, Univ of Arizona
speakers: Frank Porecca; Patrick Mantyh, Univ of Minnesota; Robert Elde, Univ of Minnesota