Neuro Research Day, SUNY Upstate Department of Neurosurgery

Neuro Research Day
Friday, March 13, 2009
2231 Weiskotten Hall
sponsored by
Department of Neurosurgery
SUNY Upstate Medical University

8:00am Breakfast Buffet
8:25am Welcome, Opening Remarks - Daniel Ts'o
8:30am Brian Howell, Neuroscience & Physiology - Modifiers of the Reelin-Dab1 pathway
8:50am Daniel Tso, Neurosurgery - Whither the hypercolumn?
9:10am Jesse Schallek (Tso Lab) - Exploring hemodynamic contributions to intrinic optical signals in the retina
9:30am Break
9:45am Sandra Mooney, Neuroscience & Physiology - Behavioral effects of acute exposure to ethanol: an autism-like phenotype?
10:05am Steve Glatt, Psychiatry - The link between dopamine D2 receptors and schizophrenia: Narrowing the search for a causal genetic variant
10:25am Wendy Kates, Psychiatry - Neuroanatomic alterations in monozygotic twins discordant for autism
10:45am Break
11:00am David Amaral, PhD, Beneto Foundation Chair and Research Director of The M.I.N.D. Institute, UC Davis - Neurobiological and neuroimmune strategies to understanding autism
12:00pm Lunch Buffet (in the Setnor Atrium)
1:10pm Eric Deshaies, Neurosurgery - Endovascular large animal stroke model for testing neuroprotectants
1:30pm Blair Calancie, Neurosurgery - Repair of cauda equina injury in a rat model: ventral root identification
1:50pm Dana Mihaila (Calancie Lab) - Is corticospinal tract organization different in idiopathic scoliosis?
2:10pm Break
2:20pm Mohamed Abdulhamid (Moquin Lab) - Can the use of copper in complex spine surgery with metal instrumentation and fusion result in a reduced risk of postoperative infections? Stage one: Efficacy of copper against the growth of escherichia coli in vitro
2:40pm David Padalino (Post/Tumor Lab) - Protein expression in recurrent glioblastoma multiforme: possible new therapeutic targets
3:00pm Tiffani Cherry (Post Lab) - Augmented dual oncolytic and immunogene delivery adenoviruses for brain tumor therapy
3:20pm Break
3:30pm 2009 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD Chair, Neurosurgery Ohio State University Medical Center - Translational therapies for gliomas
4:30pm Concluding Remarks

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Previous year's schedule (2008)

8:00am	Breakfast Buffet
8:25am	Welcome, Opening Remarks - Daniel Ts'o
8:30am	Brian Howell, Neuroscience & Physiology - Modifiers of the Reelin-Dab1 pathway
8:50am	Daniel Tso, Neurosurgery - Whither the hypercolumn?
9:10am	Jesse Schallek (Tso Lab) - Exploring hemodynamic contributions to intrinic optical signals in the retina
9:30am	Break
9:45am	Sandra Mooney, Neuroscience & Physiology - Behavioral effects of acute exposure to ethanol: an autism-like phenotype?
10:05am	Steve Glatt, Psychiatry - The link between dopamine D2 receptors and schizophrenia: Narrowing the search for a causal genetic variant
10:25am	Wendy Kates, Psychiatry - Neuroanatomic alterations in monozygotic twins discordant for autism
10:45am	Break
11:00am	David Amaral, PhD, Beneto Foundation Chair and Research Director of The M.I.N.D. Institute, UC Davis - Neurobiological and neuroimmune strategies to understanding autism
12:00pm	Lunch Buffet (in the Setnor Atrium)
1:10pm	Eric Deshaies, Neurosurgery - Endovascular large animal stroke model for testing neuroprotectants
1:30pm	Blair Calancie, Neurosurgery - Repair of cauda equina injury in a rat model: ventral root identification
1:50pm	Dana Mihaila (Calancie Lab) - Is corticospinal tract organization different in idiopathic scoliosis?
2:10pm	Break
2:20pm	Mohamed Abdulhamid (Moquin Lab) - Can the use of copper in complex spine surgery with metal instrumentation and fusion result in a reduced risk of postoperative infections? Stage one: Efficacy of copper against the growth of escherichia coli in vitro
2:40pm	David Padalino (Post/Tumor Lab) - Protein expression in recurrent glioblastoma multiforme: possible new therapeutic targets
3:00pm	Tiffani Cherry (Post Lab) - Augmented dual oncolytic and immunogene delivery adenoviruses for brain tumor therapy
3:20pm	Break
3:30pm	2009 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD Chair, Neurosurgery Ohio State University Medical Center - Translational therapies for gliomas
4:30pm	Concluding Remarks