Neuroscience Research Day

Itinerary last updated 11/24/2008

Friday, November 21st 2008

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
University Conference Center

6:30pm
H'ours Douevres
7:30pm
Buffet Dinner
8:30pm
Dessert & Coffee
8:30pm
Faculty Dinner with Guest Speaker
"The Old and New Neuroscience of Treating Parkinson's Disease"
Dr. Richard Mailman, Penn State University, Department of Pharmacology

For reservations for the faculty dinner, please contact Tina Keller at 717-531-4449 or ckeller4@hmc.psu.edu by November 8, 2008.

Saturday, November 22nd 2008

8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
University Conference Center

Printable "Call for Abstracts" flyer [PDF, 1.4M]
Printable flyer [MSWord, 107K]
Printable agenda (Updated 11/13) [MSWord, 108K]
8:00
Registration
8:30 - 9:00
Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:05
Welcome and opening remarks
9:05 - 9:10
State of the Central PA Chapter for SFN
Dr. Colin Barnstable, President
9:10 - 9:15
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
Dr. Bernhard Luscher, Co-Director Penn State Neuroscience Institute
9:15 - 9:40
Faculty 'Data Blitz' Session I
Neuroscience: Basic Processes

Single slide / 5 min presentation by faculty from PSU Hershey, PSU University Park, and local colleges and universities. The talks are intended to cover a broad range of neuroscience research from genes to behavior to bedside.
9:15
"Multimodal Imaging of the Developing Visual Brain"
Rick Gibnore, AB, MS, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Penn State University
9:20
"Iron Transport Across The Blood Brain Barrier"
Ian Simpson, PhD, Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State University
9:25
"Synaptic Transmission in Habenula"
Uhnoh Kim, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Penn State University
9:30
"Emotional Stress Alters Synaptic Transmission in a Cerebellar Neuronal Network"
Siqiong June Liu, Assistant Professor of Biology, Penn State University
9:35
"The Baroreflex Blood Pressure Regulation"
Xiourai Tang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State University
9:40
"Kalman Meets Neuron -- The Emerging Intersection of Control Theory and Neuroscience"
Steve Schiff, MD, PhD, Director of Penn State Center for Neural Engineering
9:45 - 9:53
Discussion on 'Data Blitz' Session I
Neuroscience: Basic Processes
9:55 - 10:28
Faculty 'Data Blitz' Session II
Behavior, its regulation and dysregulation
9:55
"How Humans Exploit Redundancy to Control Step Variability: The Structure and Performance of Neuromotor Control in Human Walking"
Joseph Cusumano, PhD, Professor of Engineering Science & Mechanics, Penn State University
10:00
"Control of Zugunruhe by Biological Clocks"
Paul A. Bartell, Assistant Professor of Poultry Sciences, Penn State University, University Park Campus
10:05
"Alcohol & Ecstasy: Dangerous Mix?"
Byron Jones, PhD, Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State University
10:10
"Using Brain Imaging to Study Cognitive Control in Addiction"
Steve Wilson, PhD, Department of Psychology, Penn State University
10:15
"Competing Motivations in the Development and Treatment of Addiction"
Sue Grigson, Ph.D., Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine
10:20 - 10:28
Discussion 'Data Blitz' Session II
Behavior, its regulation and dysregulation
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 - 10:58
Faculty 'Data Blitz' Session III
Neurodegeneration / Neuroprotection
10:45
"Upregulation of HIF-1α and nNOS in patients with RLS"
Stephanie Patton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State University
10:50
"Regulation of Neuronal Survival & Death by Cell Cycle Molecules"
David Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State University
10:55
"How Does a Stem Cell Turn Into a Neuron?"
Colin Barnstable, D. Phil., Chair of the Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State University
11:00
"The Eye to the Rescue of the Brain - Lessons in Neuroimmunology"
Thyagarajan Subramanian, MD, Professor of Neurology, Penn State University
11:00 - 11:08
Discussion 'Data Blitz' Session III
Neurodegeneration / Neuroprotection
11:15 - 11:25
Time for Undergraduate and Graduate Students to move to break out session
11:25 - 12:00
Faculty 'Data Blitz' Session IV
Cognition in Health and Disease
11:25
"The Young Calculating Brain: Developmental Plasticity Measured by fMRI"
Paul Eslinger, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Penn State University
11:30
"Arousal, Glutamate, and Memory Formation"
Teresa Barber, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Dickinson College
11:35
"The Role of the Frontal and Medial Temporal Lobes as Measured by Neuropsychological Testing to Examine Different Types of Source Memory in Aging and Parkinson's Disease"
Shaun P. Cook, Millersville University
11:40
"Cognitive Evidence for Cross-Activation in Grapheme Color Synaesthesia"
Joel Bish, PhD, Ursinus College
11:45
"Inductive Reasoning in Parkinson's Disease: Declines in Abstract Thinking"
Amanda Price, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Elizabethtown College
11:50 - 12:00
Discussion 'Data Blitz' Session IV
Cognition in Health and Disease
11:15 - 11:45
Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) in Neuroscience at PSU
Overview by the Director(s) of the Graduate Program, Dr. Rob Milner and Dr. Robert Sainburg to give the undergraduate students an idea of what they need to do to be prepared to enter a graduate program in neuroscience, what students do when they arrive, and where the students go once they have completed their degree.
11:45 - 12:00
'Grad and Gab'
Undergraduate students are matched with graduate students in neuroscience to discuss graduate school in a neuroscience program.
12:00 - 2:00
Lunch and Poster Session
Posters to be arranged (color-coded dots in the top right hand corner depicting which group undergraduate, graduate, post doc, faculty) for evaluation purposes.
2:10 - 3:10
Keynote Speaker
"A Role for GABAergic Transmission in Anxiety, Mood Disorder and Antidepressant Drug Action"
Bernhard Luscher, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Psychiatry, Penn State University, University Park Campus
3:15 - 3:45
Awards Ceremony
Prizes for best undergraduate student/ graduate student / postdoc presentations

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