11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Gonda 1st Floor Conference Room, 1357
Roles of PtdIns(3,5)P2 and PtdIns5P: Lipids with Links to
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Lois Weisman, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Research Professor in the Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
(Human Genetics Seminar)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, C-128 RNRC
Pharmacogenetics of AChEI in AD therapy: An Overview
Sophie Sokolow, Center for the Advancement of Geronotological Nursing Sciences, and School of Nursing, UCLA
(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum [ADRF])
TUESDAY, May 7, 2013
8:30 am - 1:30 pm, Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) Auditorium
Neural -Immune Interactions in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Innate and Adaptive Neuroprotective and Regenerative Mechanisms
Scientific Program
8:30am Introduction, James A. Waschek, Ph.D. (UCLA)
8:40am Berislav Zlokovic, M.D., Ph.D. University of Southern California
Blood-Brain Barrier and Neurodegeneration
9:30am Dennis Bourdette, M.D. University of Oregon
Mitochondria Permeability Transition Pore Activation and Axonal Deneration: Implication for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
10:20am Coffee Break, Posters
10:40am Stanley Appel, M.D. Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas
T Cells Step up to the Plate in Lou Gehrig's Disease
11:30am Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D. University of Virginia
Immune System - Guardian of the Brain: Implications for Neurodegenerative and Neurodevelopmental Diseases
12:20pm Poster Session (NRB Foyer)
1:30pm Adjourn
(Cosponsored by the CTSI, Brain Research Institute, and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, UCLA)
11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183 Semel Institute (formerly NPI)
Striking Accord: An Educational Model Based on Attachment and Narrative
Gene Beresin, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and McLean Hospital; Director MGH Center for Mental Health and Media; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
(The Greenblatt Memorial Lecture -Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
The Integrative Center for Learning & Memory Distinguished Lecture
Synapses in Health and Disease
Roberto Malinow, Department of Neurosciences and Section on Neurobiology, University of California,
San Diego
(Joint Seminars in Neuroscience)
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2013
9:00 am – 10:00 am, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Self-Control Adaptive Choice and Dopamine in Stimulant Abuse
Edythe London, Director, Center for Addictive Behaviors; The Thomas and Katherine Pike Professor of Addication Studies; Professor in Residence, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology; Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA
(Neurology Grand Rounds)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Do the Genetic Mutations that Underlie Neurodegenerative Diseases also Cause Sleep and Circadian Disruption?
Dawn Loh, Laboratory of Christopher Colwell, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
(Center for the Study of Parkinson’s Disease Colloquium)
THURSDAY, May 9, 2013
9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
7th Annual Neural Microcircuits Training Program Symposium
Dynamics of Neural Microcircuits
9:00am Introduction: Jack Feldman (UCLA)
9:10am Hollis Cline (UCSD)
A New Rule for Topographic Map Formation
10:00am Z. Josh Huang (CSHL)
Genetic Dissection of Cortical GABAergic Circuits: Chandeliers Light up the Path
10:30am Coffee Break
10:45am Michael DeWeese (Berkeley)
Neural Correlates of Target Selection in Rat Prefrontal Cortex and Primary Auditory Cortex in a Purely Auditory Selective Attention Task
11:15am Lindsay Halladay (UCLA Graduate Student & Training Grant Fellow – Blair Lab)
Regulation of Defensive Response Strategies by Neural Circuits in Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Periaqueductal Gray
12:00pm Lunch & Poster Session
2:00pm Christoph Schreiner (UCSF)
Shaping of Cortical Receptive Fields by Inhibition
2:30pm Jose Carmena (Berkeley)
Neural Adaptations to a Brain-Machine Interface
3:00pm Coffee Break
3:30pm Thomas Rogerson (UCLA Graduate Student & Training Grant Fellow – Silva Lab)
Utilizing Memory Allocation Mechanisms to Trap and Activate Emotional Memories
4:00pm Ed Callaway (Salk Institute)
Imaging Macro- and Micro-Functional Architecture in the Visual Cortex
(Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute at UCLA)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Transcriptional Networks in Neurological Disease
Daniel Geschwind, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair, Professor Neurology, Psychiatry and Human Genetics, UCLA
(Neurogenetics Affinity Group & Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics Seminar)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 159/173 Boyer Hall
Profiling Natural Small Molecules for Biological Discovery
Alan Saghatelian, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
(Molecular Biology Institute Thursday Seminar)
FRIDAY, May 10, 2013
9:00 am –10:00am, Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183 Semel Institute (formerly NPI)
Computational Behavioral Science: Developing Innovative Technology to Enhance Research and Practice in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Matthew Goodwin, Northeastern University, Boston
(The UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment {CART}Autism Affinity Group Lecture)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Functional Genomic Studies of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Giovanni Coppola, Departments of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Neurology, UCLA
(Training Program in Neural Repair Seminar)
MONDAY, May 13, 2013
11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
No Human Genetics Seminar.
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, C-128 RNRC
ClinicoPathololgic Conference
Harry Vinters, Chief, Neuropathology, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UCLA
(Alzheimer’s Disease Research Forum [ADRF])
TUESDAY, May 14, 2013
11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183 Semel Institute (formerly NPI)
No Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Grand Rounds- SOBP Meeting Week)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Assessing Neuroscience at Nature
Noah Gray, Nature Senior Editor, Biology, New York
(Special Lecture Sponsored by the Integrative Center for Learning & Memory)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
The 21st Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
Multimodality MRI-based Brain Network Analysis: Applications to Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
Jesse Brown, Laboratory of Dr. Susan Bookheimer, Interdepartmental Ph.D Program for Neuroscience,
University of California, Los Angeles
(Joint Seminars in Neuroscience)
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2013
9:00 am – 10:00 am, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Delivering Value-Based Neurosurgical Care in a Tertiary Academic Center
Nancy McLaughlin, Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
(Neurology Grand Rounds)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Where Amyloid, Tau, and apoE Intersect: Synaptic Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease
Karen Gylys, School of Nursing, UCLA
(Center for the Study of Parkinson’s Disease Colloquium)
THURSDAY, May 16, 2013
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, (Note Special Time) Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Lighting up the Dark Matter of the Human Genome: Unravelling the Roles of Noncoding DNA in Disease and Development
Marcel Dinger, Group Leader, Head of Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research; Conjoint Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
(Neurogenetics Affinity Group & Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics Seminar)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 159/173 Boyer Hall
Hedgehog Signaling at Primary Cilia
Rajat Rohatgi, Departments of Oncology and Biochemistry, Stanford School of Medicine
(Molecular Biology Institute Thursday Seminar)
FRIDAY, May 17, 2013
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room, 1357
Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory Maintenance in Aplysia
David Glanzman, Departments of Integrative Biology & Physiology, and Neurobiology, UCLA
(Training Program in Neural Repair Seminar)
Support the BRI!