Neuro Research Day, SUNY Upstate Department of Neurosurgery

Neuro Research Day
Friday, March 24, 2006
2231 Weiskotten Hall
Department of Neurosurgery
SUNY Upstate Medical University

8:00am Breakfast Buffet
8:25am Welcome, Opening Remarks - Daniel Ts'o
8:30am Chad Hartley (Anesthesiology Lab) - Erythropoietin Produces an Acute Metabolic Neuroprotective Effect in Experimentally Induced Neurotrauma
8:50am Don Blaskiewicz (Calancie Lab) - The Cauda Equina Project
9:10am Blair Calancie - Rehabilitation after chronic, incomplete spinal cord injury: A randomized trial to improve walking.
9:30am Aneela Darbar (Hodge Lab) - Effects of Amphetamine and Dilantin on ARC- protein regulation following Kainic Acid Cortical Injury
9:50am Charles Hodge - A human cortical plasticity study
10:10am Joongnam Yang (Tso Lab) - Neural resources associated with visual and auditory judgments in human observers
10:30am Brad Motter (VA/Neuroscience) - Target detection during visual search
10:50am Break
11:00am Guest Speaker: Robert Stickgold, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School - Sleep, Dreams, and Memory: A Neurocognitive Approach
12:00pm+ Lunch Buffet (in the IHP Atrium)
1:15pm Eric Olson (Neuroscience) - Does the nascent apical dendrite position the migrating neocortical neuron?
1:35pm Sandra Mooney (Neuroscience) - A second period of neuronogenesis in the thalamus.
1:55pm Greg Canute - Differential responses of GBM sub-populations to EGFR inhibitors
2:15pm Break
2:30pm Satish Krishnamurthy - Aneurysm size and chances of rupture.
2:50pm Amar Swarnkar (Radiology) - Focal Perfusion Abnormalities on Cerebral Angiography Detected after Intraarterial Papavarine Infusion for Treatment of Symptomatic Vasospasm
3:10pm Robert Barlow (Ophthalmology) - Metabolic modulation of visual sensitivity
3:30pm 2006 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: Nelson Oyesiku, Neurosurgery and Biotechnology, The Emory Clinic - Pituitary Tumors - The Surgical and Biological Challenge
4:30pm Concluding Remarks

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Previous year's schedule (2005)

8:00am	Breakfast Buffet
8:25am	Welcome, Opening Remarks - Daniel Ts'o
8:30am	Chad Hartley (Anesthesiology Lab) - Erythropoietin Produces an Acute Metabolic Neuroprotective Effect in Experimentally Induced Neurotrauma
8:50am	Don Blaskiewicz (Calancie Lab) - The Cauda Equina Project
9:10am	Blair Calancie - Rehabilitation after chronic, incomplete spinal cord injury: A randomized trial to improve walking.
9:30am	Aneela Darbar (Hodge Lab) - Effects of Amphetamine and Dilantin on ARC- protein regulation following Kainic Acid Cortical Injury
9:50am	Charles Hodge - A human cortical plasticity study
10:10am	Joongnam Yang (Tso Lab) - Neural resources associated with visual and auditory judgments in human observers
10:30am	Brad Motter (VA/Neuroscience) - Target detection during visual search
10:50am	Break
11:00am	Guest Speaker: Robert Stickgold, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School - Sleep, Dreams, and Memory: A Neurocognitive Approach
12:00pm+	Lunch Buffet (in the IHP Atrium)
1:15pm	Eric Olson (Neuroscience) - Does the nascent apical dendrite position the migrating neocortical neuron?
1:35pm	Sandra Mooney (Neuroscience) - A second period of neuronogenesis in the thalamus.
1:55pm	Greg Canute - Differential responses of GBM sub-populations to EGFR inhibitors
2:15pm	Break
2:30pm	Satish Krishnamurthy - Aneurysm size and chances of rupture.
2:50pm	Amar Swarnkar (Radiology) - Focal Perfusion Abnormalities on Cerebral Angiography Detected after Intraarterial Papavarine Infusion for Treatment of Symptomatic Vasospasm
3:10pm	Robert Barlow (Ophthalmology) - Metabolic modulation of visual sensitivity
3:30pm	2006 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: Nelson Oyesiku, Neurosurgery and Biotechnology, The Emory Clinic - Pituitary Tumors - The Surgical and Biological Challenge
4:30pm	Concluding Remarks