Wednesday, March 14

6:00pm-8:30pm: Opening Reception: Appetizers and margaritas

Congresswoman Gabby Giffords has been invited and may attend

7:30pm: My stifling academic job sucks and I want out. How do I start a biotech company?

Douglas Lappi, Advanced Targeting Systems, Inc.

Thursday, March 15

7:00am-8:00am: Breakfast

8:00am-9:30am: Parkinson’s disease: Circuits, protective cells and genes

Organizer: Scott J. Sherman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

9:30am-10:00am: Rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg): You were expecting what?

Daniel S. Zahm, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO

10:00am-11:30am: Exercise and dance as medicine: Exercise and dance offer safe, feasible, fun therapy with long-term neuroplastic benefits for patients with Parkinson's disease

Organizer: Carol Winkelman, Program Developer and Coordinator, Dance Coach: Parkinson Dance and Exercise Program, Seymour Senior Center, Chapel Hill, NC

11:30am-12:30pm: The Human Side of Peer Review.

Philip Wiethorn, NIH

12:30pm: Lunch and Afternoon free

7:00pm: Dinner and Cash Bar

7:30pm-8:30pm: Keynote Speaker: Ozzie Steward, University of California, Irvine

California Dreaming: evolving visions of stem cell-related therapies

Friday, March 16

7:00am-8:00am: Breakfast

8:00am-9:30am: Neuroprotection in the retina

Organizer: Eldon Geisert, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Erythropoietin gene therapy protects retinal ganglion cells in two mouse models of Glaucoma.

Tonia Rex, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Genetic networks activated by the neuroprotective hormone progesterone.

Eldon Geisert, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

9:30am-11:00pm: The role of the periphery in central neuropathic pain

Organizer: Kori Brewer, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Targeted dorsal horn injury induces a central to peripheral pathology that is associated with the development of neuropathic pain.

Kori Brewer, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Primary afferent sprouting after dorsal horn injury correlates with sensory abnormalities and changes in glycogen synthase kinase-3β activity.

Sonja Bareiss, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

11:15am-Noon: Business Meeting: SBC’s future

Noon: Lunch and Afternoon free

7:00pm: Dinner and Cash Bar

7:30pm-8:30pm: Keynote Speaker: Douglas Stuart, University of Arizona

The history of electrophysiology: Standing on the shoulders of giants, Part 2

Saturday, March 17

7:00am-8:00am: Breakfast

8:00am-9:30am: The aging hippocampus

Organizers: Lee Shapiro, Texas A&M Health Science Center, and Dan McCloskey, City University of New York

9:30am-11:00am: Brain changes in tinnitus

Organizers : Josef Rauschecker, Georgetown University, Washington, DC and Richard Salvi, Center for Hearing & Deafness, University at Buffalo, NY

11:00am-11:30am: Neural stem cells and angiogenesis in ischemic brain.

Rui Lan Zhang, Neurology and Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; Oakland University, Rochester, MI

11:30am-Noon: MicroRNAs and neurogenesis after stroke.

Zheng Gang Zhang, Neurology and Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Noon: Lunch

Last Updated 02/01/12