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Sept. 13, 2006
1:30 – 4:15 PM		Three 45-min lab tours begin every hour on the half hour
Sept. 14
All talks will be held in the McNamara Alumni Center - A.I. Johnson Room (http://www.alumnicenter.umn.edu/)
8:15 AM		Tim Ebner, Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota Introductions
8:20		President Robert Bruininks, University of Minnesota
8:30		Paul Letourneau, University of Minnesota “Axonal Growth and Guidance"
9:30		James Hudspeth, Rockefeller University “Making an Effort to Listen: Mechanical Amplification by Myosin Molecules and Ion Channels in Hair Cells of the Inner Ear"
10:30		Coffee
10:45		David Anderson, California Institute of Technology “Molecular Genetic Analysis of Neural Circuits for Innate Behaviors in Flies and Mice”
11:45		Eve Marder, Brandeis University “Variability, Compensation, and Homeostasis in Neuronal Networks"
12:45 PM		Lunch
2:00		Apostolos Georgopoulos, University of Minnesota “ Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Cognitive Processes”
3:00		Masakazu Konishi, California Institute of Technology “From Instinct to Brain"
4:00 - 6:00 PM		Poster Session in McNamara Alumni Center – Memorial Hall
Sept. 15
8:30 AM		William Newsome, Stanford University “Perception, Decisions and Reward: Toward a Biological Understanding of Decision-Making”
9:30		Wolfram Schultz, Cambridge University “Reward, Predictions, Learning and Uncertainty”
10:30		Coffee
10:45		Eric Nestler, University of Texas, Southwestern “Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Addiction”
11:45		Robert Malenka, Stanford University “The Role of Synaptic Plasticity in Addiction”
12:45 PM		Lunch
2:00		Karen Hsiao Ashe, University of Minnesota “Molecular Mechanisms of Memory Loss in Alzheimer Mouse Models”
3:00		Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Recovery of Lost Memories in a Mouse Model of Severe Neurodegeneration”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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