The 2008 M.R. Bauer Foundation
Colloquium Series, Distinguished Lecturer Series and Scientific Retreat

Introduction

The M.R. Bauer Colloquium Series

Peter Schiller, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"How the Brain Moves Your Eyes About"

Pamela Reinagel, PhD
University of California, San Diego
"Thalamic Coding: How the Brain Gets News to the World"

Leslie B. Vosshall, PhD
The Rockefeller University
"A Glimpse into the Olfactory Universe of Insects and Humans"

Kenneth Lohmann, PhD
University of North Carolina
"Beyone the Five Senses: the Maps, Compasses, and Sensory Biology
of Sea Turtle Navigation"

Gene Robinson, PhD
University of Illinois
"Eat, Drink, and Be(e) Merry: Feeding-Related Molecular Pathways
and Division of Labor in Honey Bees"

Don Cleveland, PhD
University of California, San Diego
"From Charcot to Lou Gehrig: Mechanism and Treatment of ALS"

The M.R. Bauer Distinguished Lecturer Series Summaries

Daniel Choquet, PhD
CNRS-Université de Bourdeaux, France
"New Functions for AMPAR Mobility in Fast Synaptic Transmissions"

Ralph Greenspan
The Neurosciences Institute
"From Sleep to Consciousness in Drosophila: The Sublime to the Ridiculous"

The M.R. Bauer Foundation Scientific Retreat &
Volen National Center for Complex Systems Annual Retreat

"A Neurogenetics Celebration to Honor Drs. Kalpana White and Jeffrey Hall"

Introduction & Agenda

Paul Hardin, PhD
Texas A&M University
"A brief history of clocks outside the brain"

Joel Levine, PhD
University of Toronto at Mississauga
“Homage à un Clochard; (P. P. Dickey’ Redux)”

Jae H. Park, PhD
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
“Neuropeptides in Drosophila”

Kathleen Siwicki, PhD
Swarthmore College
“Pheromones and Memory of Unsuccessful Courtship”

Keynote Speaker
Liqun Luo, PhD
Stanford University/HHMI
“Probing Neural Circuits with Genetic Mosaics"

Ralph Greenspan, PhD
The Neurosciences Institute
"This is Your Life: Jeffrey Hall: The Early Years"

Vivian Budnik, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
"Wnts of Change"

Larry Zwiebel, PhD
Vanderbilt University
"Exploring Mosquito Olfaction to Examine and (Perhaps) Modulate
Critical behaviors of Disease Vector Insects"

Tony James, PhD
University of California, Irivine
"Engineering Pathogen Resistance in Vector Mosquitoes"

Ana Regina Campos, PhD
McMaster University
"Chicken Soup for the Fly Pusher's Soul"

Bentley Fane, PhD
University of Arizona
Structure, Function, and Evolution of Viral Scaffolding Proteins
in a Two-Scaffolding Protein System"

Josh Huang, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
"Genetic Dissection of GABA Inhibitory Circuitry in Mice:

Sandhya P. Koushika, PhD
National Centre for Biological Sciences
"Regulation of Mitochondrial Transport in C. elegans Neurons"

Bambos Kyriacou, PhD
University of Leicester
"From Brandeis to Infinity and Beyond"

 

 

 

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