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General Information
Joan Dandona
dandona@lifesci.ucsb.edu
805 893-4621

 

Attendance RSVP &
Parking passes:
Laura Susin
susin@lifesci.ucsb.edu
805 893-5506

 

Technical Assistance &
Equipment Support:
Maura Jess
jess@lifesci.ucsb.edu
805 893-4721

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Neuroscience Research Symposium 2006

Friday, May 12th at the Cliff House
8:30am - 3:30pm
 (Map to Cliff House pdf)

 

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Keynote Speaker
11:15am
Matt Tirrell
Dean, College of Engineering
"Peptide Material Science"
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Symposium Schedule
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8:30 – 9:00 BREAKFAST

 

Session I

  
9:00 – 9:15
 WELCOME
Stu Feinstein and Ken Kosik
Co-Directors, Neuroscience Research Institute
9:15 – 9:35 Analysis of Cnidarian Genomes Rreveals a New Class of Metazoan Opsin
David Plachetzki and Todd Oakley
9:35 – 9:55 A Method for Probing the Driving Forces of Development
Nareg Djabrayan
9:55 – 10:15 Homer:  A Molecular Trigger for Alcoholism
Karen Szumlinski and Kevin D. Lominac

 

10:15 – 10:35

 

BREAK

 

Session II

  
10:35 – 10:55

The mTOR Pathway is Regulated by Polycystin-1, and its Inhibition Reverses Renal Cystogenesis in Polycystic Kidney Disease
Jonathan M. Shillingford, Noel S. Murcia, Claire H. Larson, Seng Hui Low, Ryan Hedgepeth, Nicole Brown, Chris A. Flask, Andrew C. Novick, David A.Goldfarb, Albrecht Kramer-Zucker, Gerd Walz, Klaus B. Piontek, Gregory G.Germino and Thomas Weimbs
10:55 – 11:15 Sulforaphane from Cruciferous Vegetables Blocks Mitosis and Inhibits Cancer Cell Proliferation by Suppressing Microtubule Dynamics
Olga Azarenko, Tanya Okouneva, Steven Jackson*, KeithSingletary*, Mary Ann Jordan and Leslie Wilson
*University of Illinois, Urbana,IL
11:15 – 12:15 Keynote Address: 
Peptide Materials Science
Matt Tirrell
Dean, UCSB College of Engineering

 

12:15 – 1:15

 

LUNCH

 

Session III

  
1:15 – 1:35

Membrane Trafficking and Histone Methylation
Zhuojin Xu, Qiang Gong, Michael Weide, Christopher Huntsman, and Zach Ma

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Membrane Trafficking, AGS3, and Drug Addiction
Qiang Gong, Zhuojin Xu, Christopher Huntsman, Michael Weide, Carol Vandenberg, Karen Szumlinski and Zach Ma
1:35 – 1:55 Trafficking of Potassium Channels in Neurons and Muscle
Chris Banna, Melanie Williams, Lisa Conti and Carol Vandenberg
1:55 – 2:15 Structure and Function of Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter
Stan Parsons, Ana Ojeda, Dawn Bravo, Ananda Chandrasekaran, and Natasha Kolmakova
2:15 – 2:35 BioImage-Informatics and Retinal Cell Biology: Developing an Effective Collaboration Between Cell Biology and Information Technology Research
S. K. Fisher, J. Byun, D. Fedorov, N. Vu, B. Sumengen, K. A. Linberg, M. R. Verardo, G. P. Lewis and B. S. Manjunath
2:35 – 2:55 BioImage-Informatics, Information Technology and Dynamic Sub-Cellular Structures: Focus on Microtubules
Austin Peck, Les Wilson, Tapas Manna, Peter Markiewicz, Alphan Altinok, Arnab Bhattacharya, Motaz El-Saban, Allem Siddiqi, Wes Smith, Ambuj Singh, Sanjoy Banerjee, Ken Rose, S. Jammalamadaka, B.S. Manjunath and Stu Feinstein
2:55 – 3:15 Stem Cells in Ocular Cell Biology
Sherry Hikita, Dennis Clegg, Christy Curletti, Linc Johnson, Ken Kosik, Irina Klimanskaya, Robert Lanza, and Mike West

 

3:15

 

DISCUSSION / REFRESHMENTS