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South East Nerve Net Meeting 2009

Meeting schedule

Friday, March 27, 2009

6:00 – 7:00 pm  Happy Hour/Registration/Poster set up
6:45 – 6:55 pm Opening remarks, Dr. Judith Ochrietor, local organizing committee chair
6:55 – 7:00 pm Introductory remarks, Mr. John Howard, UNF undergraduate student
7:00 – 8:00 pm  Osprey Lecture,Dr. Dirk Bucher: Maintaining the temporal patterns of neural activity

Saturday, March 28, 2009

8:30 – 9:30 am Breakfast/Registration/Poster set up
9:30 – 10:45 am Oral presentation session I – Dr. Cathy Paterson, moderator
9:30 am K. Tucker, J. M. Overton, P. Jean-Baptist and D. A. Fadool: Diet-induced obesity resistance in a Kv1.3-null background results from an increased basal metabolic rate and is inhibited by olfactory bulbectomy
9:45 am C. Katti, J. S. Dalal, A. C. Dosé, B. Burnside and B.-A. Battelle: The unique distribution of Myosin3B and Myosin3A in the Mouse Retina
10:00 am B. Yaqubi and J. D. Ochrietor: Biochemical analysis of Cyclophilin A in the monocarboxylate shuttle system of the mammalian retina
10:15 am M. A. Cavallin, K. Powell, K. C. Biju, and D. A. Fadool: Sculpting of odorant receptor-identified sensory neurons by odor enrichment/deprivation, aging, and diet
10:30 am M. Zahra and J.D. Ochrietor: CyPA: the missing link for translocation of monocarboxylate shuttle system components in mammalian retina
10:45 – 11:00 am
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 am Oral presentation session II – Dr. Beth Stotz-Potter, moderator
11:00 am  A. Gaukhman, C. Brand, V. Serna, C. Janus: Anxiety and social behaviour in the rTg4510 mouse model of neurodegeneration
11:15 am J. D. Mitzelfelt,  J. P. DuPree,  D. Seo,  C. S. Carter,  D. Morgan: Age differences in the effects of chronic fentanyl administration on physiology and behavior in rats
11:30 am T. Claiborne: Decreased Levels of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D in HIV-Associated Nephropathy and Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 pm

Poster presentations

A.W. Ballo and D. Bucher: Complex Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Dopamine Affect the Temporal Fidelity of Spike Conduction in a Motor Axon

W. Barnett, M. Anquez, T. Harris, G. Cymbalyuk: Modeling modulatory effects of Ih and INaP on bursting of a leech heart interneuron

M. Borgen, K. Rowland, K. Dawson-Scully, R. Murphey: Anoxia tolerance in the Drosophila giant fiber system

K. W. Crosby, A. T. N. Tebbenkamp, and D. R. Borchelt: Characterizing N-terminal cleavage and aggregation of huntingtin
Z.  S. Davey, V. Rangachari, B. Healy, B. D. Moore, L. Sonoda, B. Cusack, G. M. Maharvi, A. H. Fauq, T. L. Rosenberry: Rationally designed dehydroalanine (∆Ala)-containing peptides inhibit amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide aggregation

J. De Castro and J. D. Ochrietor: Colocalization of Basigin and MCT1 expression in the mouse brain

K. E. Epley, J. M. Urban, T. Ikenaga and F. Ono: A modified acetylcholine receptor δ-subunit enables a null mutant to survive beyond sexual maturation

D. Glaze and J. D. Ochrietor: Investigation of the protein-protein interaction between Basigin and MCT1 within the C-terminus of the MCT1 molecule obtained from vertebrate retina

J. Howard and J. D. Ochrietor: Investigation of a lactate shuttle complex in neural tissues

T. Malaschenko, A. Shilnikov and G. Cymbalyuk: The propensity to bi-stability of the leech heart interneuron model

W. T. McLamb and M. S. Grace: Transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels in snake pit organs

F. H. Sieling, C. C. Canavier, A. A. Prinz: Inclusion of noise in iterated firing time maps based on the phase response curve

K. D. Williams, M. Boules, B. Dugger, and E. Richelson: Neurotensin receptor 2 null mice are predisposed to obesity

J. Wojcik and A. Shilnikov: Poincaré mapping reduction for elliptic models bursting neurons
3:30 – 4:30 pm  Oral presentation session III – Dr. Peter Lovell, moderator
3:30 pm C. A. Gunaratne, A. Sakurai, E. Hill and P. S. Katz: Two forms of synaptic plasticity at a single synapse differ in calcium dynamics
3:45 pm K. Rowland and R. Murphey: A balancing act for Highwire at a fly central synapse
4:00 pm T. Li and A. Chiba: Synapse by force
4:15 pm  J. J. Hill and R. K. Murphey: Target recognition and competitive synaptogenesis in the Drosophila giant fiber system
4:30 – 4:55 pm 
Coffee Break
4:55 – 5:00 pm  Introductory remarks: Ms. Danielle Glaze, UNF undergraduate student
5:00 – 6:00 pm Keynote Lecture, Dr. Vance Lemmon: Functional Genomics: Phenotypic screening of large gene sets to identify genes that regulate axon growth and branching
6:00 – 8:00 pm Awards dinner
 

The SENN Conference series is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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