Neuro Research Day, SUNY Upstate Department of Neurosurgery

Neuro Research Day

Friday, March 21, 2008
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 Jesse Schallek (Tso Lab) - Stimulus-evoked blood flow dynamics contribute to intrinsic signals of the retina
8:50am Lydia Lormand (Hodge Lab) - A behavioral model to assess functional recovery following cortical lesions in rat barrel cortex
9:10am Frank Middleton, Neuroscience - Alpha catenin haploinsufficiency and synaptic connectivity: the spines have it
9:30am Break
9:45am Eric Schepis (Calancie Lab) - Time-course and mechanisms of autonomic dysreflexia in humans after spinal cord injury
10:05am Miriam Donohue (Calancie Lab) - Comparison of multi-pulse and single-pulse stimuli in intraoperative neuromonitoring of thoracic pedicle screws
10:25am Igor Yusupov (Moquin Lab) - Ceramics and Spine Surgery
10:45am Break
11:00am Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD, Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Investigator in Neuroscience, Brown University - Neural Interfaces for Restoration of Communication and Mobility
12:00pm Lunch Buffet (in the Setnor Atrium)
1:10pm Steve Youngentob, Neuroscience - Fetal Ethanol Experience and Chemosensory Plasticity: Its Contribution to Adolescent Alcohol Abuse
1:30pm Jeremy Shefner, Neurology - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Pathophysiology and Clinical Trial Update
1:50pm Jennifer Jennings (Vallano Lab) - Calcium dependent regulation of neuronal development and regeneration
2:10pm Break
2:20pm Peter Kim (Middleton Lab) - Characterization of gene expression, DNA copy number and methylation status in paired initial and recurrent high grade gliomas using high throughput microarray analysis
2:40pm Dawn Post - Dual oncolytic and immunogene delivery adenoviruses for brain tumor therapy
3:00pm Greg Canute - Retrospective glioblastoma treatment outcomes at University Hospital
3:20pm Break
3:30pm 2008 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: Edward A. Neuwelt, MD, Oregon Health & Science University - Mechanisms of Disease: The Blood-Brain Barrier
4:30pm Concluding Remarks

 

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Previous year's schedule (2007)