Below is the program schedule for the 2007 meeting. You may also download the program schedule.
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Wednesday March 14th

7:30-8:30pm  Keynote Address

Claes Wahlestedt, Scripps Research Institute, Florida
“The Functional RNA World”

Thursday March 15th

7:30-9:00am  Session I: Death, Birth and Regeneration of Vertebrate Photoreceptors

Organizer: Peter Hitchcock, University of Michigan
Participants:
Peter Hitchcock, University of Michigan
Orson L. Moritz, University of British Columbia
Anand Swaroop, University of Michigan

9:00-10:00am  Session II: Regeneration of Nerves to the CNS

Organizer: Frank Porreca, University of Arizona
Participants:
Frank Porreca, University of Arizona
Allan Basbaum, UCSF

10:00-10:30am  Break/Poster Session

11:30-12:00pm  Session III: Stress and Strain Sensitize the Brain

Organizer: Ron Hammer, University of Arizona
Participants:
Huda Akil, University of Michigan
Klaus Miczek, Tufts University
Ella Nikulina, Tufts University School of Medicine

Friday March 16th

7:30-9:00am  Session IV: Cerebellar Development and Disease

Organizer: Harry Orr, University of Minnesota
Participants:
Dan Goldowitz, University of Tennessee, Memphis
Joseph Gleeson, UCSD
Harry Orr, University of Minnesota

9:00-10:00am  Session V: Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier

Organizer: Katherine Woodbury-Harris, NINDS
Participants:
Quentin Smith, Texas Tech University
William Pardridge, UCLA

10:00-11:00am  Poster Session

11:00-12:30pm  Session IV: Imaging Neuronal Function and Mapping Network Activity in Cortex

Organizer: LiLian Yuan, University of Minnesota
Participants:
Mark Yeckel, Yale University
Helmut Koester, University of Texas, Austin
Guoping Feng, Duke University

8:00-8:45pm  Plenary Address

Robert F. Miller, University of Minnesota
Title: TBA

Saturday March 17th

7:30-9:00am  Session VII: Intracellular FGFs: a Novel Family of Proteins Regulating Neuronal Excitability

Organizer: David Ornitz, Washington University
Participants:
Fernanda Laezza, Washington University
Mitchell Goldfarb, Hunter College
Sulayman Dib-Hajj, Yale University

9:00-10:30am  Session VIII: From Plate to Pill: the Science Behind the Process of Developing Drugs for the Treatment of Pain

Organizer: Jeffrey D. Kennedy, Wyeth Research
Participants:
Adam Gilbert, Wyeth Research
Garth Whiteside, Wyeth Research
Hong Wan, Wyeth Research

10:30-12:00pm  Session IX: Corticolimbic Modulation of Hypothalamic Substrates: Insights from Studies on Ingestive Behavior

Organizer: Brian A. Baldo, University of Wisconsin
Participants:
Brian A. Baldo, University of Wisconsin
Gorica D. Petrovich, Johns Hopkins University
Alan G. Watts, USC

Last Updated 01/30/07