| Thursday, June 4 |
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5:00 – 7:00 PM |
RECEPTION
Alice Campbell Alumni Center
601 South Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL |
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| Friday, June 5 |
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9:00 AM – 5:15 PM |
SYMPOSIUM
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Auditorium
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Session 1
Chair: Neal Cohen (University of Illinois) |
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| 9:00 – 9:20 AM |
Welcoming Remarks
Linda Katehi, Provost (University of Illinois)
Tamer Başar, Interim Director, Beckman Institute (University
of Illinois) |
| 9:20 – 10:00 AM |
Keynote Address
Oswald Steward (University of California, Irvine)
“Targeting mRNA to synaptic sites on dendrites” |
| 10:00 – 10:20 AM | Brenda Anderson (Stony Brook University)
“Neuronal and behavioral effects of exercise and stress” |
| 10:20 – 10:40 AM | Timothy DeVoogd (Cornell University)
“Add brain plasticity to a stock of glial scaffolding,
stir for several million years, and see if it sings” |
| 10:45 – 11:15 AM | BREAK |
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Session 2
Chair: Ivan Jeanne Weiler (University of Illinois) |
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| 11:20 – 11:40 AM | Ivan Jeanne Weiler (University of Illinois)
"Descartins, the Memory Molecules" |
| 11:40 – 12:10 PM |
Keynote Address
James Eberwine (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Molecular Biology of Dendrites and the Wonder of
Scientific Discovery - the Greenough Approach" |
| 12:10 – 12:40 PM | University of Illinois Campus Representatives
Dave Irwin, Department of Psychology
Gene Robinson, Director, Neuroscience Program
Dale van Harlingen, Center for Advanced Study |
| 12:45 – 1:45 PM | LUNCH |
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Session 3
Chair: Roberto Galvez (Northwestern University) |
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| 1:45 – 2:15 PM |
Keynote Address
John Disterhoft (Northwestern University)
“Neural Plasticity in Associative Learning” |
| 2:15 – 2:35 PM | Jeffrey Kleim (University of Florida)
“Modeling craniomotor and limb motor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease" |
| 2:35 – 2:55 PM | Theresa Jones (University of Texas, Austin)
"Experience-dependent neural plasticity after stroke" |
| 2:55 – 3:15 PM | Anna Klintsova (University of Delaware)
"Every Mile A Memory, or Scenes from the Greenough Plasticity Field" |
| 3:20 – 3:50 PM | BREAK |
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Session 4
Chair: Janice Juraska (University of Illinois) |
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| 3:50 – 4:10 PM | Fred Volkmar (Yale University)
Understanding the social brain in autism” |
| 4:10 – 4:30 PM | Chris Wallace/Ginger Withers (Whitman College)
"Approaching the onset of plasticity as "social cell biology"” and
“Defining stages of the developing dendritic arbor" |
| 4:30 – 5:10 PM | Short Presentations by current Greenough lab members (University of Illinois) |
| 5:15 PM | CONFERENCE CLOSES |
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Friday, June 5
6:30 – 9:00 PM | BANQUET |
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| | Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Atrium |
| | Remarks by: | Richard Herman, Chancellor (University of Illinois) |
| | Neal Cohen (University of Illinois) |
| | Jeffrey Kleim (University of Florida) |
| | Marie Banich (University of Colorado, Boulder) |
| | Kara Federmeier (University of Illinois) |
| | Scott Irwin (University of California, San Diego) |
| | Jim McGaugh (University of California, Irvine) |
| | Elizabeth Berry-Kravis (Rush University Hospital, Chicago) |
| | Sue Carter-Porges (UIC) |
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