Wednesday March 16th 2005

6:30-7:30 pm Special Seminar

Kathie Olsen, Associate Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President

7:30-8:30 pm Keynote Speaker

Jerome Siegel, UCLA
“Why we sleep”

Thursday March 17th 2005

7:00-8:30 Monitoring Live Neuronal Development: Timothy Gomez, organizer

Speakers:
Timothy Gomez, University of Wisconsin
Reiko Fitzsimonds, Yale University
David Zenisek, Yale University

8:30-10:00 Advances in Adult Neurogenesis and Epilepsy: Doug Smith, Southern Illinois University, organizer

Speakers:
Lee Shapiro, UC Irvine
Charles Ribak, UC Irvine
Ronald Browning, Southern Illinois University

10:00-11:00 Major Monoamine Transporter Genes: Use of Mouse-Human Genetic Complementarily in Studying Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Dennis Murphy, NIMH, Organizer

Speakers
Klaus-Peter Lesch, University of Wuerzburg
George Uhl, Johns Hopkins University

11:00-12:30 Glutamate Receptor Trafficking in Health, Disease and Addiction: Eric Beattie, Organizer

Speakers:
Eric Beattie, California Pacific Med Center Research Inst
Marina Wolf, The Chicago Medical School
Reed Carroll, Albert Einstein

Friday March 18th 2005

7:00-8:00 Novel Actions of Estradiol Regulating Brain Function: Paul Mermelstein, University of Minnesota, Organizer

Speakers:
Paul Micevych, UCLA
Lori McMahon, University of Alabama, Birmingham

8:00-9:30 Neural Integration of Motivated Behaviors: Robert Meisel, Organizer

Speakers:
Robert Meisel, Purdue University
Brian Baldo, University of Wisconsin
Jill Schneider, Lehigh University

9:30-10:30 Innovative Transgenic Mouse Strategies in the Study of Cognitive and Psychiatric Disorders: Mark Thomas, University of Minnesota, Organizer

Speakers:
Alison Barth, Carnegie Mellon University
Geoffrey Murphy, University of Michigan

10:30-12:30 Compartmentalized Signaling in Neurons: Danny Winder, organizer

Speakers:
Danny Winder, Vanderbilt University
Mark Dell’Acqua, University of Colorado
Ed Weeber, Vanderbilt University
Roger Colbran, Vanderbilt University

8:00-8:45 pm Plenary Address

Bill Willis, University of Texas, Galveston

Saturday March 19th 2005

7:00-8:30 Experimental Stroke: Katie Woodbury-Harris, NINDS, Organizer

Speakers:
Greg Del Zoppo, Scripps Research Inst
Gary Rosenberg, University of New Mexico
Michael Chopp, Henry Ford Health Sciences Center

8:30-10:00 The Role of Endogenous Endothelin-1 in Cutaneous Pain and Hyperalgesia: Gary Strichartz, Organizer

Speakers:
Gary Strichartz, Harvard University
Gudarz Davar, Amgen Pharmaceuticals
Frank Rice, Albany Medical College

10:00-11:30 The Sensitive Side of a Sensorimotor System: Neural Auditory Responses in the Songbird: Teresa Nick, Organizer

Speakers:
Teresa Nick, University of Minnesota
Sarah Woolley, UC Berkeley
Melissa Coleman, Duke University

11:30-12:30 What Drives the Motoneurons? Dick Poppele, Organizer

Speakers:
Dick Poppele, University of Minnesota
Simon Giszter, Drexel University

Last Updated 11/15/04