Below is the final program schedule for the 2011 meeting. Click here to view the program schedule including abstracts.
Wednesday, March 16
5:30pm-8:30pm: Opening Reception
• 5:30pm-6:30 pm: Appetizers and Complimentary Margaritas, Beer, Wine
• 6:30pm-7:30pm: "A Tribute to Chuck Ribak"
Lee A. Shapiro, Steven Danzer, Dan McCloskey
• 7:30pm-8:30pm: "Activity-induced dendritic processing: structural and functional consequences."
David Wells, PhD;
Participants:
Christine Gall, PhD "BDNF, integrins, and cytoskeletal remodeling."
Mark Yeckel, PhD "Rogue waves? What are intraneuronal Ca2+ waves and what are they good for?"
Thursday, March 17
6:30am-7:00am: BREAKFAST
7:00am-8:30am: "Pathophysiology of Migraine Headache"
Frank Porreca, Ph.D., Chair
Colin Willis, Ph.D., University of New England
Ian Meng, Ph.D., University of New England
Todd Vanderah, Ph.D., University of Arizona
8:30am -9:30am: "Biomarkers in CNS Injury"
Ron Hayes "Use of Biomarkers in Diagnostics"
Ross Bullock "Clinical Use of Biomarkers"
9:30am-11:00am: "STROKE: From Restoration to Rehabilitation"
Michael Chopp
Steven C. Cramer, MD
11:00am-12:00pm: "Intracerebral Hemorrhage: The Problematic Role of Cerebral Edema"
Guohua Xi, M.D. "Brain Edema following Experimental ICH"
William Powers "Clinical Evidence of Edema in ICH"
12:00pm-12:30pm: "Clinical Pathophysiology of Migraine"
David Dodick
12:30pm: LUNCH and Afternoon free
5:00pm-6:30 pm: "A Cross-Species Consensus on the Neurobiology of Normal Aging: From Single Unit Activity to Behavioral Output"
Chair: Carol A. Barnes
Speakers:
Lesley Schimanski , "Do old rats learn new places? Reduced activity of aged hippocampal place cells during spatial encoding."
Sara Burke, "Rat and monkeys show age-associated deficits in perirhinal cortical-dependent pattern separation."
Nathan Insel, "Age-related changes in neural oscillations in rat frontal cortex."
Doug Rosene, "White matter changes as a common denominator for neuronal dysfunction and cognitive aging in the Rhesus monkey."
6:30 pm-7:00pm: "Discoveries and Clinical Applications Emerging From New Approaches to Measure the Functional Architecture of the Human Brain"
Randy L. Buckner, Ph.D.
DINNER: Cash Bar
7:30pm-8:00pm : Keynote Speaker
Lynn Nadel, "Deciphering the Hippocampus: A Personal Perspective"
Friday, March 18
6:30am-7:00am BREAKFAST
7:00am-8:30am: "Visualization of inflammation within the central nervous system"
Organizer:
Gregory Wu, MD, PhD
Emma Wilson, PhD
Aaron Johnson, PhD
8:30am-10:00am: "Are anesthetics neuroprotective or neurotoxic?"
Huafeng Wei, MD, PhD "Neuroprotection and neurotoxicity of anesthetics: a double edge sword"
Zhiyi Zuo, MD, PhD, "Anesthetic preconditioning- and postconditioning-induced neuroprotection"
Stephanie J. Murphy, VMD, PhD, "Sex and age may alter anesthetic preconditioning neuroprotection"
10:00am-11:30am: "Epidemiology of Stroke and Vascular Disease"
George Howard "The Mystery of Geographical Variation"
Clinton Wright "Cognitive Function after Stroke"
11:30am-12:30pm: "Epilepsy: Basic to Clinical"
Organizer: David Labiner
Hemant S Kudrimoti
Robert S Sloviter
12:30pm: LUNCH and Afternoon free
5:00pm-6:30pm : "Parkinsons Disease"
Michael G. Kaplitt, MD, PhD, "Advances in Clinical Gene Therapy for Parkinson's Disease"
Raj Ratan, MD, PhD,"Novel, iron dependent molecular targets of neuroprotection in Parkinson's disease"
David Eidelberg, MD,"Metabolic Brain Networks in Parkinson's Disease"
6:30pm-7:00 pm: "The History of Electrophysiology: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"
Douglas Stuart, PhD
DINNER: Cash Bar
7:30pm-8:30pm: Evening Keynote speaker "Addressing the key CNS drug discovery and development challenges: a great opportunity for Academia and Pharma to work together"
Philippe Walker
Vice-President, iMED Science Unit
CNSP Montréal
Saturday, March 19
7:00am-8:00am: BREAKFAST
8:00am-9:00am: "Zipping to pain relief: The role of PKMz in pain chronification"
Theodore Price PhD, University of Arizona School of Medicine "Spinal PKMz maintains latent nociceptive sensitization"
Frank Porreca PhD, University of Arizona School of Medicine "PKMz maintains aversiveness of chronic neuropathic pain"
9:00am-10:30am: "RNA regulation in the nervous system"
Dr. Fen-Biao Gao , "MicroRNA Functions in Neuronal Development and Disease"
Dr. Jeffrey Twiss, "Local protein synthesis in axon growth and regeneration"
Dr. Stephanie Ceman, "Unraveling translation regulation by the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein FMRP"
Daniela C Zarnescu, PhD (Chair), "Fragile X Protein Controls Neural Stem Cell Proliferation in the Drosophila Brain"
10:30am-11:30pm: "Brain Tumor: Preclinical and clinical studies of the effects of vascular targeting agents on the blood-brain barrier and brain tumor vasculature"
Leslie L. Muldoon, PhD, Basic Studies
Edward A. Neuwelt, MD, Clinical Targeting
11:30am-12:30pm: Modulation of the Blood-Brain Barrier by Pathophysiological Stressors
Paula Dore-Duffy
Patrick Ronaldson
Richard Milner, "A Role for Fibronectin in Cerebral Angiogenesis"
Gregory Bix
LUNCH
Posters will be viewed in the vendor exhibit area. Afternoons are available for information interaction and the many attractions in Tucson.
Poster Presentations:
Celebrating the Three-Century Anniversary of Systematic Ablation of the Brain in Experimental Animals by Pourfour du Petit
Authors; Lawrence Kruger, Dept. of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles CA 90095 and Larry W. Swanson, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, CA 90089
Neu2000 Exerts Potent Anti-Oxidant Effects on Rat Spinal Cord Mitochondria in situ and in vitro.
Authors: Visavadiya, NP, McEwen, ML, Pandya, JD, Sullivan, PG, Gwag, BJ, and Springer, JE
Aberrant integration of postnatally generated granule cells is sufficient to cause epilepsy
Raymund YK Pun, Katherine D Holland, David A Richards, Juli D Uhl, Christian Faulkner, Hulian Yin, Stefanie L Bronson, Brian L Murphy, and Steve C Danzer
Last Updated 3/14/11