| NB Retreat April 4, 2009 | |
| MORNING | |
| 8:00 | Bus picks-up passengers at UCLA by MRL/Lot 9 |
| (Please see attached map for location) | |
| 8:15 | Bus leaves UCLA |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Breakfast at Rancho Calamigos |
| Speaker Session 1 | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Student Speaker Natalia Mattan, deVellis lab |
| “The Effect of Aspartoacylase Deficiency on Postnatal | |
| Oligodendrocyte Development” | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Faculty Speaker Dr. Michael Sofroniew. |
| "Dissecting astrocyte roles in neural injury and repair" | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Student Speaker Amy Christensen, Micevych lab |
| "Female Sexual Receptivity is Modulated by an ERα-mGluR1 | |
| Interaction in the ARH" | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Faculty Speaker Dr. Reggie Edgerton |
| “Why we don't need a brain to walk” | |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Student Speaker Audrey Chen, Krantz lab |
| “Genetic Dissections of Complex Behaviors in Drosophila | |
| Mutants of Vesicular Monoamine Transporter (VMAT)” | |
| AFTERNOON | |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:30 | Softball/Break Time |
| 2:45 – 3:45 | Keynote Speaker Dr. Susan Amara |
| “Neurotransmitter transporters: A dance of domains and | |
| substrates” | |
| 3:45 – 4:00 | Coffee Break |
Speaker Session II
4:00 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:00
5:00 – 6:00
6:00 – 8:00
Student Speaker Tiago Carvalho, Buonomano lab
“Differential Effects of Excitatory and Inhibitory Plasticity on Synaptically Driven Neuronal Input-Output Functions”
Faculty Speaker Dr. Felix Schweizer
“Exocytosis in vestibular hair cells”
Poster Session with hors d’oeuvres Dinner and Entertainment
Bus Pick-up and Drop off Map
