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John F. Anderson Memorial Lectures in Medicine
9:30 – 10:00 am
Poster set up, coffee and muffins offered
10:00 – 10:05 am
Opening remarks – Jonathan Kipnis
10:05 – 10:15 am
Welcome – Dr. Richard Shannon
Keynote lecture
(Norris and Chuang, Chairs)
10:15 – 11:15 am
Jordan Lobby
Howard Weiner – Center for Neurologic Diseases,
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
-All sessions will be held in Jordan Hall, Room 1-5
Session I
11:20 – 11:40 am
Sarah Kucenas - Biology, UVA
“Using zebra fish to unravel a gliogenic component to Duchenne Muscular
Dystrophy”
11:40 – 12:00 pm
Jeff Dupree – Anatomy and Neurobiology, VCU
“Identification and Repair of Axonal Pathology in Demyelinating Disease”
Session II
(Kipnis, Chair)
12:00 – 12:30 pm
Lunch
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Session III
Nancy Desmond - NIMH, Director of Research Training Program and
Program Officer
“NIH News and Funding Opportunities: A View from the NIMH”
Catered lunch with poster viewing and judging
Jordan Lobby
(Lee and Filiano, Chairs)
2:00 – 2:15 pm
Sachin Gadani – Neuroscience, UVA
“The immune response to CNS injury is orchestrated by oligodendrocyte
derived interleukin-33”
2:15 – 2:30 pm
Tom Taetzsch – Neuroscience Program, VCU
“Redox Regulation of NF-kB p50 and M1 Polarization in Microglia”
2:30 – 2:45 pm
Phil Gonzalez – Microbiology, UVA
“OPC homeostasis as the basis of gliomagenesis: implications for
unorthodox therapeutic interventions”
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Patrick Zou – Neuroscience Program, VCU
“Glutamate receptors and calcium signaling through CaMKIIβ mediate
effects of HIV-1 Tat on the viability and phenotype of oligodendroglia”
Break
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Session IV
3:30 – 3:50 pm
Coffee break and poster viewing
Jordan Lobby
(Fuss and Purow, Chairs)
Unsong Oh – Neurology, VCU
“Liver X receptor-dependent inhibition of
Microglial nitric oxide synthase 2”
3:50 – 4:10 pm
Alban Gaultier – Neuroscience, UVA
“Function of LRP1 in astrocytes”
4:10 – 4:25 pm
Natalie Wheeler – Neuroscience Program, VCU
“Early stages of oligodendrocyte differentiation are regulated by the
autotaxin-lysophosphatidic acid axis”
4:25 – 4:40 pm
Noel Derecki – Neuroscience, UVA
“Microglia—the dynamic immune facilitators of the central nervous
system”
4:40 – 5:00 pm
Tajie Harris – Neuroscience, UVA
“Imaging the glial response to CNS infection”
Reception
5:00 – 7:00 pm
(Lee and Kipnis, Chairs)
Reception and announcement for best
poster and speaker
JHCC Atrium