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The 11th Annual Neuroscience Research Day

March 1, 2002

w/ a special seminar by

 Dr. Ron McKay:

"From Stem Cells To Synapses In The Central Nervous System"

 

 


Scheduled Events:

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM 

Posters will be presented in front of the Lois Pope LIFE Center. Presenters will be present from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM.  In the event of rain, the posters will be held inside the Lois Pope LIFE Center. For a complete listing of poster titles, click here.

 

4:00 PM 

Special seminar in Retter Auditorium of the Bascom Palmer Institute.  Keynote Speaker, Dr. Ron McKay from the NIH/NINDS presents:

 *** From Stem Cells To Synapses In The Central Nervous System ***

 

5:00 PM

Reception following the seminar at the Lois Pope LIFE Center in the 2nd Floor Balcony.


Poster Session Titles: 

 * To download a printable PDF file of this list, please click here 

* Bold = Presenters

 

Belayev, A., Saul, I., Belayev, L., Liu Y., Ginsberg, M.D., Zhao, W., Valdes, M.A., Fernandez, G., Busto, R. Global Cerebral Ischemia in Rats:  The Influence of Environmental Enrichment

 

Postdoctoral -

Bethea, J.R., Brambilla, R., Karmally, S., Bramwell, A., Green, E.J., Hu, W-H.     A Transgenic Approach to Study the Role of NF-Kappa B in CNS Injury and Inflammation.

 

Postdoctoral -

Blaschuk, K.L., Wood, P.W. *Integrin Regulatioin of Human Schwann Cell Behavior in vitro*.

 

Postdoctoral -

Castellanos, D. Neural Stem Cell Transplants into Gray and White Matter Regions Following Fluid-Percussion Injury in Rats.

 

Postdoctoral -

Collins, S.L., Izenwasser, S.  Cocaine Differentially Alters Behavior and Neurochemistry in Adolescent vs. Adult Rats.

 

Postdoctoral -

Collins, S.L., Isenwasser, S. The Effects of Kappa-Opioid Receptor Agonists on Cocaine-Related Neurochemistry.

 

Student -

Danton, G, Prado, R., Watson, B.D., Dietrich, W.D. Alterations in eNOS Dependent Dilation Following Thromboembolic Stroke in Rats

 

Dickerson, I.M., Luebke, A.E.   Role of CGRP-Receptor Component Protein (RCP) in CGRP-Mediated Signal Transduction.

 

Evans, D., Vincent Bird, V., Aballa, T.,  Lynne, C., Brackett, N. Chronic Prostatis Is Not Commonly Seen In Men With Spinal Cord Injury.

 

Hackman, J.C., Li, W., Holohean, A.M. Davidoff, R.A. The Action of Alphaxalone and Etomidate on Primary Afferent Terminals in the Frog Spinal Cord.

 

Hackman, J.C., Li, W., Holohean, A.M. Davidoff, R.A. NMDA Receptor Blockage by Mg2+ is Released by mGluR  Group and 5-HT2 Agonists but not by Membrane Depolarization Induced by AMPA or K+ in the Motoneuron of the Isolated Frog Spinal Cord

 

Hausmann, O.N., Hu, W.-H., Keren-Raifman, T., Witherow, S.D., Wang, Q., Levay, K., Frydel, B., Slepak, V.Z., Bethea, J.R.    Spinal Cord Injury Induces Expression of RGS7 in Microglia / Macrophages in Rats.

 

Student -

Holder, S., Maruyama, Y.,  Feldman, L.A.,  Chaudhari, N., Roper, S.D.          Expressing Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor in HEK Cells.

 

Holt, J.R.,  Amalfitano, A., Luebke, A.E. In Vivo and In Vitro Expression of Transgenes in Mammalian Hair Cells Infected with [E1-], and [E1-, E2b-] Adenoviral Vectors.

 

Hu, B-G., Sick, T.     Deposition of NSF After Brain Ischemia.

 

Postdoctoral -

Hu, W.-H., Hausman O.N., Walters, W.M., Bethea, J.R.  Identification and Characterization of a Novel Nogo-Interacting Mitocondrial Protein (NIMP)

 

Itzhak, Y., Martin, J., Anderson, K.L.Cocaine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference in Mice: Induction, Extinction and .

 

Graduate Student -

Kimbell, L., Ohno, K., Rotundo, R.L., Engel, A. Transplanting Mutant Human Collagenic Tailed Acetylcholinestarase onto the Frog Neuromuscular Junction:  Evidence for an Attachment Defect in a Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome.

 

Student -

Kirkinezos, I.G., Oca-Cossio, J., Arias, L.J., Perez-Pinzon, M., Bradley, W.G., Moraes, C.T. Cytochrome c Oxidase Defect in G93A-SOD1 Transgenic Mice.

 

Kuluz, J.L., Prado, R., He, D., Zhao, W., Dietrich, W.D., Watson, B.D.  A New Model of Ischemic Stroke in Infant Piglets

 

Postgraduate -

Lee, J. W. Transplantation of Embryonic Precursor Cells Into Excitotoxically Lesioned Adult Spinal Cord:  In Vivo survival and Differentiation in Quisqualic Acid-Treated Spinal Cord

  

Lu, J., Xu, Z.  Neural Mechanisms of Directional Hearing in Fish

 

Luebke, A.E., MacKenzie, H.A. Lonsbury-Martin, B.L., Martin, G.K.  Relationship between a multi-frequency efferent sum measure and susceptibility to sound over-exposure

 

Postgraduate -

Moon, L.D.F., Bunge, M.B. Does Treatment with Chondroitinase ABC Promote Regeneration of CNS Axons Beyond a Graft of Schwann Cells Placed in Completely Transected Adult Rat Thoracic Spinal Cord? 

 

Neary, J.T., Kang, Y., Willoughby, K.A., Ellis, E.F. Traumatic Injury Activates the ERK / MAPK Signaling Pathway in Cultured Astrocytes:  Role of Extracellular ATP. 

 

Postgraduate -

Niu, X., Magleby, K.L. Relationship Between the Number of Effective Calcium Bowls and the Activation of BK Channels.

 

Noga, B., Pinzon, A., Mesigil, R.P., Dentall, I.D. Basal Levels of Monoamines in the Rat Lumbar Spinal Cord:  Spatial Mapping and the Effect of Spinal Cord Injury. 

 

Oudega, M., Timmers, L., Meijs, M.F.L., Pearse, D.D., Bunge, M.B., Joosten, E.A.J. Effects of Basic Fibroblasts Growth Factor on Neuronal Survival, Angiogenesis, and Axonal Regeneration in Schwann Cell Grafts Placed in the Completely Transected Adult Rat Spinal Cord.

 

Postgraduate -

Pearse, D.D., Pereira, F.C., Bunge, M.B. Injection of N-Acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine (MDP) improves histological and behavioral outcome after contusive spinal cord injury.  

 

Postgraduate -

Pearse, D.D., Francisco, F.C., Chatzipanteli, K., Dietrich, W.D., Bunge, M.B. The Use of Antisense-Mediated Inhibition to Delineate the Role of Inflammatory Agents in the Pathophysiology of Spinal Cord Injury

 

Student -

Pinzon, A., Prince, J., Garcia, N., Noga, B. Three-Dimensional Study of Spinal Cord Transected Myelinated Axons With the Use of Scanning Electron Microscopy in a Mammalian Model.

 

Student -

Qian, X., Nimigean C.M., Magleby, K.L.    Structural Features of the S9-S10 Tail Domain, but not the CA2+-Bowl Sensitivity of BKChannels.

 

Student -

Qu, Y., Dahl, G.         Size Dependent Exclusion of Sugar Molecules by the Voltage Gate of Gap Junction Channels.

 Student -

 

Qu, Y., Dahl G.          Size Dependent Exclusion of Sugar Molecules by the Voltage Gate of GAP Junction Channels.

 

Rossi, S.G., Rotundo, R.L. Intracellular Assembly on the Synaptic Basal Lamina Components Perlecan and Acetylcholinestarase

 

Student - 

Schumm, M.A., Castellanos, D.A., Sagen J. Cell-Cell Contact is Required for Trophic Effects of Chromaffin Cells on Rat Neural Progenitor Cells.

 

Thomas, C.K., Grumbles, R.M., Rudinsky, M., Sesodia, S., Gomez, A., Bennett, H.J., Wood, P.Adult Rat Muscle Reinnervation by Embryonic Ventral Spinal Cord Cells.

  

Turner, G.J., Martinez, L.C. Subdomains in the 6th and 7th Helices Regulate Receptor Activation.

 

Valeyev, A.Y., Hackman, J,C., Wood, P.M., Holohean, A.M., Davidoff, R.A. Low Concentrations of Alphaxalone Inhibit GABA-Evoved C1- Currents on Human Embryonic Dorsal Root Ganglion Cells

 

Postgraduate - 

Wanner, I.B., Blaschuk, O.W., Gour, B., Wood. P.M.  N-Cadherin Contributes to Schwann Cell Association With Axons.

 

Watson, B.D.,  Prado, R.,  Veloso, A. Late-Stage Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF) Restoration And Reperfusion Injury In Reversible Photothrombotic Stroke.

  



Location:

Poster Session : 11:00am-4:00pm

University of Miami School of Medicine, Lois Pope Life Center, outside mall

 

Special Seminar: 4:00pm~5:00pm

 University of Miami School of Medicine, Bascom Palmer Institute, Retter Auditorium

 

Reception: ~5:00pm

University of Miami School of Medicine, Lois Pope Life Center, 2nd Floor Balcony


Dr. Ronald McKay:

Dr. McKay received a B.Sc. in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Edinburgh, where he studied under the tutelage of Edwin Southern examining DNA organization and chromosome structure. He received postdoctoral training at University of Oxford working with Walter Bodner examining restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLPs). In 1978 he became a senior staff investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory concentrating on two areas: the interaction of SV40 T-antigen with the specific binding site at the viral origin of replication and the molecular organization of the nervous system. Joining the MIT faculty in 1984, Dr. McKay continued to examine different aspects of neuronal organization in the nervous system. In 1993 he came to NINDS as chief of the Laboratory of Molecular biology. His laboratory is studying stem cell differentiation.

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Photo of Ronald D.G. McKay, Ph.D., Senior Investigator

 

For more information about Dr. McKay  and his research, click here.


Contact Information:

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phone: 1-800-952-5386 (outside Miami, FL) or 305-243-3368 (Miami, FL)

or

email: neurosci@med.miami.edu

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