Neuro Research Day, SUNY Upstate Department of Neurosurgery

Neuro Research Day
Friday, March 19, 2010
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 David Padalino (Post/Tumor Lab) - Dual EGFR Her1/Her2 small molecule inhibitors in the treatment of GBM
8:50am Amanda Magee (Post Lab) - Cancer therapy viruses that target Hypoxia Inducible Factor
9:10am Yan Michael Li (Tumor Lab) - Ligand-targeted cytotoxin therapy for metastatic brain cancer
9:30am Break
9:45am Mark Zarella (Tso Lab) - Optical imaging reveals figural enhancement effects in macaque visual cortex.
10:05am Yanli Zhang-James, Psychiatry/Neuroscience&Physiology - The contribution of endosome dysfunction to ADHD.
10:25am Sam MacKenzie, (Calancie Lab) - Repairing lacerated ventral roots in the rat cauda equina: Injury model and combinatorial strategies for the future
10:45am Break
11:00am Eric Frank, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, Tufts University - Anatomical and functional regeneration of sensory axons in the adult mammalian spinal cord
12:00pm Lunch Buffet (in the Setnor Atrium)
1:00pm Satish Krishnamurthy, Neurosurgery - Macromolecular transport in the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus
1:20pm Miriam Donohue (Calancie Lab) - Complications of pedicle screw neuromonitoring
1:40pm Paul Massa, Neurology - Regulation of macrophage-mediated demyelination by SHP-1
2:00pm Break
2:15pm Donna Osterhout, Cell and Developmental Biology - Strategies to promote remyelination after spinal cord injury
2:35pm Justin Siebert (Stelzner Lab) - Intrinsic response of thoracic propriospinal neurons to axotomy
2:55pm Blair Calancie, Neurosurgery - Nerves needing nerves: plasticity and altered reflexes after spinal cord injury.
3:15pm Break
3:30pm 2010 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: John W. McDonald III, MD, PhD, Director, Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Repairing the damaged CNS: From stem cells to activity-based restoration therapy
4:30pm Concluding Remarks

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8:00am	Breakfast Buffet
8:25am	Welcome, Opening Remarks - Daniel Ts'o
8:30am	David Padalino (Post/Tumor Lab) - Dual EGFR Her1/Her2 small molecule inhibitors in the treatment of GBM
8:50am	Amanda Magee (Post Lab) - Cancer therapy viruses that target Hypoxia Inducible Factor
9:10am	Yan Michael Li (Tumor Lab) - Ligand-targeted cytotoxin therapy for metastatic brain cancer
9:30am	Break
9:45am	Mark Zarella (Tso Lab) - Optical imaging reveals figural enhancement effects in macaque visual cortex.
10:05am	Yanli Zhang-James, Psychiatry/Neuroscience&Physiology - The contribution of endosome dysfunction to ADHD.
10:25am	Sam MacKenzie, (Calancie Lab) - Repairing lacerated ventral roots in the rat cauda equina: Injury model and combinatorial strategies for the future
10:45am	Break
11:00am	Eric Frank, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, Tufts University - *Anatomical and functional regeneration of sensory axons in the adult mammalian spinal cord*
12:00pm	Lunch Buffet (in the Setnor Atrium)
1:00pm	Satish Krishnamurthy, Neurosurgery - Macromolecular transport in the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus
1:20pm	Miriam Donohue (Calancie Lab) - Complications of pedicle screw neuromonitoring
1:40pm	Paul Massa, Neurology - Regulation of macrophage-mediated demyelination by SHP-1
2:00pm	Break
2:15pm	Donna Osterhout, Cell and Developmental Biology - Strategies to promote remyelination after spinal cord injury
2:35pm	Justin Siebert (Stelzner Lab) - Intrinsic response of thoracic propriospinal neurons to axotomy
2:55pm	Blair Calancie, Neurosurgery - Nerves needing nerves: plasticity and altered reflexes after spinal cord injury.
3:15pm	Break
3:30pm	2010 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: John W. McDonald III, MD, PhD, Director, Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - *Repairing the damaged CNS: From stem cells to activity-based restoration therapy*
4:30pm	Concluding Remarks