Charles H. "Tom" Sawyer

1915-2006

UCLA Faculty Center

October 20, 2006

As you know our colleague and friend Charles "Tom" Sawyer passed away at the end of June. His family, colleagues, students and friends will pay tribute and memorialize Tom on October 20, 2006.  A characteristic of Tom's personality and a hallmark of his long and illustrious career was his intellectual curiosity.  Thus, to honor him we at UCLA have organized a day in which the most exciting research in neural control of ovulation will be presented, followed by a tribute from Tom's colleagues, former students and family.

After the symposium we plan to hold a memorial tribute. This will be followed by a personal memorial dinner (for those who have RSVP'd for dinner) for Tom's family and friends.

The Sawyer Memorial Symposium will be held on October 20, 2006 at 1:00 pm in the California Room, UCLA Faculty Center.

Program

1:00 pm  Welcome- Paul Micevych, Professor of Neurobiology, and the Brain Research Institute, UCLA

               Gerald Levey, Dean, UCLA School of Medicine

1:10 pm  "Elucidating the Estrogen Positive Feedback Pathway Underlying Ovulation with Transgenics"

Allan E Herbison, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

1:50 pm  "A Time and a Kiss to Remember"

Robert A. Steiner, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

2:30 pm  Coffee Break

2:50 pm  "The Daily Neural Signal for Ovulation - Fifty Years Later"

Jon Levine, Northwestern University

3:30 pm  "Non-Reproductive Actions of Estradiol on the Brain: A Potent Neuroprotective Factor"

Phyllis M. Wise, University of Washington, Seattle

 4:15 pm Light Reception

 5:00 pm Memorial Tribute

Master of Ceremonies, Roger Gorski, Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute, UCLA

                        Phil LaPolt  (former Anatomy graduate student)

                        Charlie Blake (former Sawyer graduate student)

                        Ei Terasawa (former Sawyer postdoctoral fellow)

                        Roger Gorski   (UCLA colleague)

                        Joan Sawyer Steffan (Dr. Sawyer's daughter)

6:30 pm  Dinner

               Open microphone for sharing memories