2008 Symposium Schedule
Location: The Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB)UCLA Medical School
Parking:
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Alcino Silva, Ph.D., Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, UCLA
Chair: Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UCLA
9:05 Reversing Age-Dependent Memory Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic Mice: Frank LaFerla, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UCI
9:35 Synaptic Receptor Trafficking in Health and Disease: Robert Malinow, Ph.D., Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
10:05 Neurosteroids and Neurogenesis: Learning and Memory Therapeutics for Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Roberta Brinton, Ph.D., Department Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Science, School of Pharmacy, USC
10:35 Coffee Break
Chair: Paul Patterson, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
11:00 Catecholamine Mechanisms in Cognitive Control: David Jentsch, Ph.D., Departments of Psychology, and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
11:30 Sex and Hemisphere Influences on the Neurobiology of Emotional Memory: Larry Cahill, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UCI
12:00 Genetic Silencing of Amygdala Microcircuits Underlying Fear Conditioning in Mice: David Anderson, Ph.D., Roger Sperry Professor of Biology and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
12:30 Lunch Break
Chair: Alcino Silva, Ph.D., Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, UCLA
2:00 AMPA Receptor Reverse Signaling and Syn: Anirvan Ghosh, Ph.D., Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
2:30 Immune Molecules in Synaptic Plasticity and Learning and Memory: Lisa Boulanger, Ph.D., Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
3:00 The Cytoskeletal Bases of Memory Consolidation: Gary Lynch, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UCI
3:30 Coffee Break
Chair: David Glanzman, Ph.D., Departments of Physiological Science, and Neurobiology, UCLA
4:00 Ca2+-Activated TRP Channels as Targets of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling in Neurons: Emily Liman, Department of Biological Sciences, USC
4:30 Synaptic Circuitry Underlying Functional Development of Auditory Cortex: Li Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, USC
5:00 A Role for Cortical Area MT in Memory for Motion: James Bisley, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, UCLA
5:30 Reception--Gonda Building First Floor Conference Room, 1357
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