Neuro Research Day, SUNY Upstate Department of Neurosurgery

Neuro Research Day
Friday, March 16, 2007
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 Don Blaskiewicz (Calancie Lab) - Cauda Equina Injury Model - A foundation for repair
8:50am Blair Calancie - Alarm criteria for motor evoked potentials: What's wrong with the 'presence-or-absence' approach?
9:10am Charles Hodge - Motor Cortex Stimulation Improves Stroke Outcome
9:30am Jim Holsapple - Constructing a 3D Model of Primary Visual Cortex
9:50am Break
10:00am Brad Motter (VA/Neuroscience) - The Scale of Visual Space from the Viewpoint of Extrastriate Cortex
10:20am Mark Zarella (Tso Lab) - Contextual effects in primate visual areas 1 and 2 are feature-specific
10:40am Joongnam Yang (Tso Lab) - The influence of a visual task on fMRI activation patterns in the visual cortex
11:00am Marc Howard (Psychology, Syracuse University) - Coding of spatial and temporal context in ensembles of hippocampal neurons during judgments of temporal order.
11:20am Break
11:30am 2007 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: Paul Glimcher, Center for Neural Science, NYU - The Neural Basis of Decision Making
12:30pm Lunch Buffet (in the IHP Atrium)
1:30pm Peter Kim (Middleton Lab) - Molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's Disease and its Surgical Treatment
1:50pm Jennifer Jennings (Vallano Lab) - Ca2+ and CaM kinases mediate survival and development in granule neurons
2:10pm Rick Matthews (Neuroscience) - Tumor-Specific Extracellular Matrix Expression Modulates Brain Tumor Invasion
2:30pm Break
2:50pm Hetal Bhanushali (Canute Lab) - Differential Responses of GBM to anti-EGFR therapy
3:10pm Dawn Post - Targeted cancer-gene therapy using a HIF-dependent oncolytic adenovirus armed with interleukin-4
3:30am Break
3:45pm Walter Hall, Incoming Chair, Neurosurgery - Current and Emerging Strategies for Brain Tumor Management
4:45pm Concluding Remarks

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Previous year's schedule (2006)

8:00am	Breakfast Buffet
8:25am	Welcome, Opening Remarks - Daniel Ts'o
8:30am	Don Blaskiewicz (Calancie Lab) - Cauda Equina Injury Model - A foundation for repair
8:50am	Blair Calancie - Alarm criteria for motor evoked potentials: What's wrong with the 'presence-or-absence' approach?
9:10am	Charles Hodge - Motor Cortex Stimulation Improves Stroke Outcome
9:30am	Jim Holsapple - Constructing a 3D Model of Primary Visual Cortex
9:50am	Break
10:00am	Brad Motter (VA/Neuroscience) - The Scale of Visual Space from the Viewpoint of Extrastriate Cortex
10:20am	Mark Zarella (Tso Lab) - Contextual effects in primate visual areas 1 and 2 are feature-specific
10:40am	Joongnam Yang (Tso Lab) - The influence of a visual task on fMRI activation patterns in the visual cortex
11:00am	Marc Howard (Psychology, Syracuse University) - Coding of spatial and temporal context in ensembles of hippocampal neurons during judgments of temporal order.
11:20am	Break
11:30am	2007 Jacobsen Lecturer in Neuroscience: Paul Glimcher, Center for Neural Science, NYU - The Neural Basis of Decision Making
12:30pm	Lunch Buffet (in the IHP Atrium)
1:30pm	Peter Kim (Middleton Lab) - Molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's Disease and its Surgical Treatment
1:50pm	Jennifer Jennings (Vallano Lab) - Ca2+ and CaM kinases mediate survival and development in granule neurons
2:10pm	Rick Matthews (Neuroscience) - Tumor-Specific Extracellular Matrix Expression Modulates Brain Tumor Invasion
2:30pm	Break
2:50pm	Hetal Bhanushali (Canute Lab) - Differential Responses of GBM to anti-EGFR therapy
3:10pm	Dawn Post - Targeted cancer-gene therapy using a HIF-dependent oncolytic adenovirus armed with interleukin-4
3:30am	Break
3:45pm	Walter Hall, Incoming Chair, Neurosurgery - Current and Emerging Strategies for Brain Tumor Management
4:45pm	Concluding Remarks