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Neurogenomics:
Building a Better Brain
Sunday May 20th -Wednesday, May 23rd, 2001
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Honorary
Chair: Floyd E. Bloom, M.D., The Scripps Research Institute
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Monday, May 21, 2001
| Morning
Session |
| 7:30-8:30
AM |
Breakfast
( Wyatt
Center Lobby)
Posters available for viewing in the Wyatt Center Atrium
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| 8:30
AM - 12:00 PM |
Session
I. Genes and Brain Development
Chair:
Story C. Landis, Ph.D., NIH/NINDS
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| Presentations: |
| 8:30
- 8:50 AM |
Identification
and characterization of genes involved in brain development
Thomas
Curran, Ph.D., St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital |
| 9:05
- 9:25 AM |
Developmental
interactions required for synapse formation Story C. Landis,
Ph.D., NIH/NINDS |
| 9:40-
10:10 AM |
Break
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| 10:10-10:30AM |
Activity-dependent
regulation of connectivity & gene expression in visual system
development
Carla
J. Shatz, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School |
| 10:45-11:05
AM
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Gene
expression as an approach to sleep physiology and neuropsychiatric
disorders
J.
Gregor Sutcliffe, Ph.D.,
The
Scripps Research Institute |
| Short
Talks/Late-Breaking Discoveries: |
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functional genomics strategy for identification and characterization
of target genes involved in neurodegeneration Lillian
W. Chiang, Ph.D., Millennium Pharmaceuticals |
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functional genomics of pontocerebellar development
Elva
D. Diaz, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
| Noon |
Conference
Photo(meet
photographer in the Wyatt Center Lobby)
Lunch (Wyatt
Center Lobby - eat in the Rotunda, lobby or outside)
Posters
available for viewing in the Wyatt Center Atrium |
| Afternoon
Session |
| 2:00
- 5:00 PM |
Session
II. Genes and Plasticity |
| Chair:
Ford F. Ebner, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University |
| Presentations: |
| 2:00
- 2:20 PM |
Molecular
mechanisms of presynaptic plasticity
Thomas C. Sudhof, M.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2:35
- 2:55 PM |
A
search for transcripts regulated during memory formation in
Drosophila
Tim Tully, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| 3:10
- 3:30 PM |
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neural ensemble analysis of hippocampal memory formation
Matthew A. Wilson, Ph.D., MIT |
| 3:45
- 4:05 PM |
Break |
| 4:05
- 4:25 PM |
Molecular
biology of the neuronal dendrite: RNA transport, local translation
and proteome analysis
Jim Eberwine, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania |
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Talks/Late-Breaking Discoveries: |
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Cellular
and genomic analyses of immediate-early transcription factors
in Drosophila melanogaster
Paul
D. Etter, Ph.D., University of Arizona
Charles
A. Hoeffer, Ph.D., University of Arizona |
| 5:45
- 6:00 PM |
Meet
in the Wyatt Center Lobby for group walk to Divinity School |
| 6:00
- 6:30 PM |
Hospitality
in the Divinity School Courtyard |
| 6:30
- 8:00 PM |
Dinner
(Divinity
School) |
| 8:00
- 9:30 PM |
Live
Entertainment
Scientists
as musicians, and more!
(Divinity
School) |
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9:30 PM |
Close
of Evening Events |
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