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The 12th Annual Neuroscience Research Day

March 7, 2003

 

w/ a special seminar by

 Dr. Thomas C. Südhof:

" Molecular Mechanisms Governing Neurotransmitter Release"

 

 


Schedule of Events:

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM 

Posters will be placed in front of the Lois Pope LIFE Center. Presenters will be at their posters from 2:30 PM until 4:00 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. Thomas C. Südhof from University of Texas Southwesterm Medical Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute presents:

 *** Molecular Mechanisms Governing Neurotransmitter Release***

 

5:00 PM

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

 

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Poster Session Titles: 

* Please note, titles are being updated until Neuroscience Day

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

* Bold = Presenters

Abaffy T. ,Trubey KR, Chaudhari N. Adenylyl cyclase isoforms in taste receptor cells and modulation of cAMP.

Achat C, Anderson K, Itzhak Y. Long-lasting effects of methylphenidate (Ritalin) and MDMA (Ecstasy) adolescent exposure on cocaine-induced reward and psychomotor stimulation in adulthood.

Achat C, Anderson K, Itzhak Y. MDMA neurotoxicity in mice: Sensitization of locomotor activity and reward-seeking behavior.

Baskin YK, Bramwell A, Dietrich WD, Green EJ. Adaptation Of Sensorimotor And Cognitive Tasks For Use With Mice: Effects Of Severe Controlled Cortical Impact At Varied Lesion Locations.

Bethea JR, Green EJ, Sancassani RB, Raval AP, Karmaly S, Brambilla, Hu WH, Perez- Pinzon M. Evidence for a gender specific effect of NF-KB in learning and memory.

Blits B, Gajavelli S, Hendriks W, Verhaagen J, Bunge MB, Tsoulfas P. Genetic modification of rat neural progenitor cells using lentiviral vectors.

Brambilla R, Karmally S, Bracchi-Richard V, Hu WH, Bethea JR. A transgenic approach to study the role of NF-Kappa B following spinal cord injury.

Bramlett HM, Alonso OF, Lotocki G, Dietrich WD, Keane RW. Estrogen regulation of XIAP processing following traumatic brain injury in the rat.

Chatzipanteli K, Bethea JR, Alonso OF, Dietrich WD. Hypothermia reduces the activity of NF-κB after parasagittal fluid-percussion brain injury.

Chen B, Bixby JL. PTPRO interacts with intracellular forms of the neuronal pentraxin receptor.

Collins, SL and Izenwasser, S. Serotonin depletion decreases the effects of U-69593 on cocaine-stimulated activity.

David G, Barrett EF. Mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake prevents desynchronization of quantal release and minimizes depletion during repetitive stimulation of mouse motor nerve terminals.

Desir M, Green EJ, Liebl DJ, Baskin YK, Huizinga C, Helm FM. Behavioral analysis of Ephrin and Eph receptor mutant mice

Dimitropoulou A, Bixby JL. An AGRIN/MuSK complex is a motor neuron stop signal

Eaton MJ, Duplan H , Li RY* , Zhou H*, Jozan S*, Herman JP ** Lazorthes Y.* *Laboratory of Pain and Cell Therapy, Rangueil Medical School, 133 Route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse, France, ** ICNE, UMR 6544 CNRS Marseille, France. Disimmortalizable chromaffin cells genetically modified to secrete met-enkephalin are effective for pain after formalin injection.

Furmanski O, Lee J-W, Chen S, Castellanos DA, Carrasco CD, Daniels LA, Sagen J. (Presented at Society For Neuroscience Meeting): Changes in formalin behavior and c-fos activation in two rat models of spinal cord injury.

Furmanski O, Herzberg U*, Nasirinezhad F, Chen S, Felipe I, Guenot M, Lee J-W, Sagen J. *Behavioral Biology, Neurogen Corp., Branford, CT, 06405 (American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair Conference poster): Altered Morphine Tolerance Following Intrathecal Chromaffin Cell Graft In A Rat Chronic Inflammatory Pain Model.

Gajavelli S, Huang Y, Acevedo Y, Wood P, Tsoulfas P. BMP signaling activates a neural crest differentiation program in embryonic rat CNS stem cells.

Grumbles RM, Rudinsky M, Casella GTB, Godfrey S, Thomas CK. Embryonic brainstem neurons transplanted into peripheral nerve reinnervate adult rat muscle.

Holohean, AM, Davidoff, RA, Hackman JC. Activation of 5-HT2A, 5-HT2B, and 5-HT2C receptors produces different effects on NMDA-induced depolarizations in frog motoneurons.

Hu WH, Walters WM, Karmally SA, Bethea JR. Neuronal glutamate transporter EAAT4 is expressed in the spinal cord astrocytes.

Izenwasser, S and Collins, SL. Serotonin depletion decreases the effects of U-69593 on cocaine-stimulated activity.

Johnson DMG, Riesgo MI, Pinzon A, Noga, BR. Monoaminergic innervation of locomotor activated cells in cat spinal cord.

Lee JW, Guenot M, Sagen J. Adrenal medullary transplants decrease the expression of chronic deafferentation pain produced by cervical posterior rhizotomy in the rat.

Loiseau SC, Evans-Bain BN, Prado MA, Dickerson IM. CGRP-RCP: A Novel Protein Required for G-protein coupled Receptor Signaling.

Lu Z, Xu Z, Buchser WJ. Auditory physiology of lagenar afferents in a teleost fish (The Sleeper Goby, Dormitator Latifrons).

Luebke A E, Dickerson IM. Receptor Component Protein (RCP) in Cochlear CGRP-Mediated Signal Transduction

Ma M, Liu X, Dahl G. Functional studies of two connexin 43 mutants related to deafness.

McCollum MH, Flynn DD, Liang J, Potter LT. Fluorescent m1-toxin 1.

Mnayer LO, Evans BE, Prado MA, Dickerson IM. The Role of the CGRP-Receptor Component Protein (RCP) in G Protein-Coupled Signal Transduction.

Neary JT, Kang Y. Extracellular ATP Enhances Expression of Cyclin D1 and Cyclin A Induced by Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 in Astrocytes.

Neary JT, Kang Y, Tran M, Willoughby KA, Ellis EF. Signaling from Astrocytic ATP Receptors to ERK in an in vitro Model of Traumatic Brain Injury.

Noga BR, Johnson DMG, Pinzon A, Riesgo M, Basile M, Mash DC. Changes in 5HT7 receptor distribution in cat spinal cord following chronic transection.

Ouyang J, Lysakowski A, Luebke AE. Immunohistochemical localization of alpha 9 and alpha 10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in the rodent inner ear.

Pearse DD, Chatzipanteli K, Marcillo A., Bunge MB, Dietrich WD. iNOS inhibition by pharmacological or gene therapeutic means leads to reduced blood-barrier permeability and neuronal survival after spinal cord injury (SCI).

Pearse DD, Pereira FC*, Marcillo, A, Bunge MB. *Dept. of Anatomy, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Increased cyclic nucleotide levels and inhibition of phosphodiesterases promotes regeneration, leading to improved behavioral recovery in Schwann cell-grafted animals after spinal cord contusion (SCI).

Ricard J, Salinas J, Garcia L, Lie D. Neurogenesis in the adult subventricular zone: role of ephrins and their Eph receptors.

Sick TJ
, Xu G, Perez-Pinzon, MA. Cyclosporin A - insensitive mitochondrial depolarization during in vitro ischemia and recovery in acute hippocampal slices.

Stepanek L, Stoeckli E*, Bixby JL. *Pharmacenter, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. dsRNA Knockdown of PTPRO expression in embryonic spinal cord causes aberrant motor nerve growth.

Srivastava S, Moraes CT. A mitochondrially-targeted restriction endonuclease modulates mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy. A potential therapeutic approach for mitochondrial diseases.

Suzuki T, Truettner JS, Alonso OF, Dietrich WD. Microarray analysis of cell trafficking genes after traumatic brain injury: The effects of hypothermia and hyperthermia.

Tran MD, Dietrich WD, Bramlett HM, Alonso O, Neary JT. Purinergic p2 receptor expression in rat cortex after moderate traumatic brain injury.

Truettner JS, Alonso OF, Dietrich WD, Bramlett HM. The inflammatory response after traumatic brain injury in male and female rats as assessed by cDNA arrays.

Urrea C, Frydel B., Alonso OF, Keane RW, Tsoulfas P, Dietrich WD. Regional and temporal profile of mitotically active cells throughout the traumatized brain following brain injury.

Wanner IB*, Kumar A*, Wood PM, Mirsky R*, Jessen KR.* *Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, Univ College London, London, United Kingdom. Role of glial N - Cadherin In peripheral nerve development.

Wanner IB, Grenningloh G, Wood PM, Jessen K, Bunge MB. Growth cone glia interactions during rat peripheral nerve development.

Watson B. Reteplase requires concomitant UV laser-facilitated dethrombosis to recanalize aged platelet-rich thrombus in occluded rat middle cerebral artery.

 

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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

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Dr. Thomas Südhof:

Dr. Thomas Südhof is internationally recognized for his research into the molecular mechanisms underlying the assembly and function of presynaptic nerve terminals. He has made important contributions in numerous areas, including: the molecular mechanisms of synaptic vesicle synthesis, fusion, and endocytosis; the proteins involved in synaptic plasticity; and the mechanisms of assembly of the presynaptic nerve terminal during development. In fact, his laboratory is responsible for the identification and cloning of most of the families of proteins that are required to form the presynaptic nerve terminal. Dr. Südhof’s approach combines rigorous biochemistry and biophysics with state-of-the-art molecular biology to answer fundamental questions about synaptic organization and function. His insight and hard work have resulted in the publication of over 250 peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked journals, and this remarkable level of productivity shows no signs of decreasing.

Dr. Südhof attended the Universities of Aachen and Göttingen, receiving his MD degree in 1982. After a one-year internship in internal medicine, he did postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institut in Göttingen with Victor Whittaker, followed by a second postdoc in the lab of Mike Brown and Joe Goldstein at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Südhof was appointed to the faculty at UT Southwestern in 1987, and rapidly rose to the rank of Professor of Molecular Genetics and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In addition to his research lab, Dr. Südhof is Director of the Center for Basic Neuroscience, is a past Chair of the Neuroscience Graduate Program, and sits on the editorial boards of prestigious journals including Neuron and the Journal of Biological Chemistry. He has received numerous honors and awards, most notably appointment to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
 

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

 

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


Contact Information:

For more information about Neuroscience Day 2003, contact the Neuroscience Program by :

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

or

email: neurosci@med.miami.edu

 

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