Neuroscience Day - 2007

Friday  - November 16, 2007

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.        Poster Presentations - 2nd Floor of  BSLC
2nd Floor -- Biological Sciences Learning Center
924 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL

11:00 am	Introduction given by: James Madara, M.D., Dean & Sara and Harold Thompson Distinguished Service Professor in the Biological Sciences Division
	Moderator: Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD, Thomas Reynolds Sr. Family Professor of Neurosciences/Director, The Center for Molecular Neurobiology at The University of Chicago

Neuroscience Day Program
BSLC Lecture Hall 109

11:15  - 12:00 pm	Dr. Roger Nicoll “Synaptic plasticity and the trafficking of glutamate receptors”
12:00 - 1:15 pm	Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:00 pm	Dr. Christopher Gomez “The neuronal calcium channel:  No longer just an “open and shut case”
2:00 - 2:45 pm	Dr. Xiaoxi Zhuang “Investigating molecular and neural events in Parkinson's disease using genetic models”
2:45 - 3:00 pm	Break
3:00 - 3:45 pm	Dr. Berislov Zlokovic “The vascular nature of Alzheimer's disease”
3:45 - 4:00 pm	Awards Presentation

We would like to acknowledge and thank the Brain Research Foundation and the Brain Research Executive Committee for their joint efforts in sponsoring Neuroscience Day.