Wednesday March 15th

6:00-7:00pm  Opening Reception

7:00-7:30pm  Opening Remarks: Robert Yezierski

7:30-8:30pm  Keynote Address

Pain Mechanisms: From Molecules to Circuits
Allan Basbaum, USCF

Thursday March 16th

7:00-8:30am  Plenary Session I

Modulation of Synaptic Transmission: Presynapatic Mechanisms

Organizer:
Stephen M. Smith, OHSU
Speakers:
Michael Andresen, OHSU
Kamran Khodakhah, Albert Einstein
Stephen M. Smith, OHSU

8:30-10:00am Plenary Session II

Adaptive response to dopaminergic signaling: molecular and biochemical changes in cellular and behavioral models.

Organizer:           
Val J. Watts, Purdue Univ.
Speakers:            
Val J. Watts, Purdue Univ.
Ronald P. Hammer, Jr., Tufts Univ.
Colleen McClung, UT Southwestern

10:30-11:30am Plenary Session III

Drugs of abuse engage and modify synaptic plasticity in neural circuits for reward and learning

Organizer:           
Mark Thomas, Univ. Minnesota
Speakers:           
Mark Thomas, Univ. Minnesota
Danny Winder, Vanderbilt Univ.
Pablo Castillo, Albert Einstein

11:30-12:30pm Plenary Session IV

Large-scale mutagenesis and expression programs to determine gene function in the nervous system: Focus on development

Organizer:           
Dan Goldowitz, Univ. Tenn. Med Center
Speakers:            
Dan Goldowitz, Univ. Tenn. Med Center
Dennis Rice, Lexicon Genetics

7:30-9:00pm Business Meeting

Friday March 17th

7:00-8:30am  Plenary Session V

Kelch-related proteins and their function in the nervous system.

Organizer:           
Erika Piedras-Renteria, Loyola Univ.
Speakers:            
Michael Koob, Univ. Minnesota
Shalom Avraham, Harvard Univ.
Fernanda Laezza, Washington Univ.

8:30-10:00am  Plenary Session VI

Seeing Brains of Living Animals

Organizer:           
Thomas Woolsey, Washington Univ.
Speakers:            
Sara A. Berens, Univ. Florida
Joseph P. Culver, Washington Univ.
Douglas J. Fox, Barrow Neurological Institute

10:30-11:30am  Poster Session

10:30-11:30am   Plenary Session VII

Pediatric Stroke

Organizer:           
Katherine Woodbury-Harris, NIH
Speakers:           
Donna Ferriero, UCSF
Laura Ment; Yale University

11:30-12:30pm  Plenary Session VIII

Molecular mechanisms, function and therapeutical implications of receptor-receptor interactions among heptaspanning membrane receptors

Organizer:        
Kjell  Fuxe, Karolinska Institutet
Speakers:            
Kjell  Fuxe, Karolinska Institutet
Luigi Agnati, Univ. Modena Italy

6:00-8:00pm   Banquet Dinner

8:00-9:00pm   Special Plenary Address

Alan Peters, Boston Univ.

Saturday March 18th

7:00-8:30am  Plenary Session IX

The Intrinsic Response of the Retina to Injury

Organizer:           
Eldon Geisert, Univ. Tenn. Med Center
Speakers:            
Peter Hitchcock, Univ. Michigan
Andy Fischer, Ohio St. Univ.
Eldon Geisert, Univ. Tenn. Med Center

8:30-10:00am  Plenary Session X

Technological Advances in Neuroimaging Translate into Deeper Understanding of Brain Structure and Function

Organizer:        
Randy L. Gollub, Harvard Univ.
Speakers:            
Christine Fennema-Notestine, UCSD
Jessica Turner, UC Irvine
Jyl Boline, UCLA

10:00-10:30am   Break

10:30-12:30pm  Plenary Session XI

Handedness: A sinister contribution to neurological function and disease?

Organizers:        
Jonathan Horsford, NIH
Gabrielle Leblanc, NIH
Katrina Gwinn-Hardy, NIH

Speakers:           
Chris McManus, Univ. College London
Clyde Francks, Oxford
William Hopkins, Yerkes Primate Center
Theresa A. Jones, Univ. Texas, Austin

12:30pm   Official End of Conference

Last Updated 10/25/05