The M.R. Bauer Foundation
Scientific Retreat 2008 &
Volen National Center for
Complex Systems Annual Retreat 2008
The 2008 Volen National Center for Complex Systems Scientific Retreat was held on campus at the Shapiro Auditorium, the Volen Center Building, and the Kugler Lounge. This two day event celebrated the careers of two recently retired distinguished faculty members, Drs. Jeffrey Hall and Kalpana White, and the groundbreaking contributions they made to the fields of neurogenetics and behavioral genetics. This retreat featured fourteen distinct talks given by former trainees of the Hall, White, and Rosbash laboratories at Brandeis. The event was a total success with excellent speakers, informative posters by postdocs and graduate students after the first day of talks, and a lunch and social hour capping the second day of talks.
“A Neurogenetics Celebration to Honor Drs. Kalpana White and Jeffrey Hall”
Thursday, June 19, 2008
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”
Friday, June 20, 2008
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, Irvine
“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