Agenda

Meeting Overview
Thursday, March 25, 2010
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
Lincoln Park Campus

8:00-10:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast – 1st floor hallway

8:00-9:00 Poster and vendor Display setup – Room 120 A/B

Presidential Symposium – SAC 154
9:00-10:45 “Traumatic Brain Injury”
Chaired by Evan B. Stubbs, Jr. Ph.D.
Co-Chaired by Dorothy Kozlowski, Ph.D.

“Imaging in TBI: The Search for a Central Mechanism of Injury”
Deborah M. Little, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology, The University of Illinois Medical Center

“Traumatic Brain Injury, molecular mechanisms of brain injury and repair, activity-dependent neural plasticity”
Romona Hicks, Ph.D., Program Director, Repair and Plasticity, NIH/NINDS

“TBD”
Dr. Mayumi L Prins, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Residence, Director BIRC Education Program, Department of Neurosurgery, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Keynote Speaker – SAC 154
11:00-12:00 “ Connectomics in the Developing Nervous System”
Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Lunch 1st floor hallway – Room 120 A/B
12:00-2:00 Lunch and Poster. Viewing/Judging
Undergraduate Competition; Organized by Dr. Dorothy Kozlowski
Postdoctoral Competition; Organized by Dr. David Rademacher

Graduate Student Symposium – Room 314 A/B
2:00-3:30 Graduate Student Talks
Chaired by Dean Hartley, Ph.D.

Coffee Break 1st floor hallway – Room 120 A/B
3:30-4:15 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

Symposium 1 – Room 314 A.
4:15-5:45 “Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
Chaired by Anna Lysakowski, Ph.D.
Co-Chaired by Miriam Domowicz, Ph.D.

“Regulation of the fragile X mental retardation protein”
Stephanie Ceman, Ph.D., Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana.

“Lissencephaly – Damaged Radial Glial Cell Function”
Yuanyi Feng, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurology and Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.

“Cortical circuitopathies in neurodevelopmental disorders”
Gordon Shepherd, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.

Symposia 2 – Room 314 B
4:15-5:45 “To Stall or go the Distance: Insight into the Transport Disarray of Dementia”
Chaired by Patrizia LoPresti, Ph.D.
Co-Chaired by Beth Stutzmann, Ph.D.

“Microtubule-dependent cargo transport: model systems for analysis of transport disarray”
Vladimir I. Gelfand, Ph.D., Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

“Mechanisms underlying axonal transport defects in adult onset neurodegenerative diseases”
Gerardo Morfini, Ph.D., Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago.

“Microtubule dynamics, kinesin activity, and the TUBB3 syndromes”
Dr. Mohan Gupta, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago.

6:00-7:00 Business Meeting and Reception – Room 120 A/B
Reception to honor Dr. Lichtman
Announcement of prize winners and election results.