Life & Death in the Brain

Morning Session

• Greetings
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• Opening Remarks
   
• Steps Toward a Molecular Biology of Memory
• Eric Kandel, M.D.   Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
   
• Experimental models of Alzheimer's disease
  Karen Hsiao-Ashe, M.D., Ph.D.   University of Minnesota Medical School   
   
• Mechanisms to encourage spinal axon regeneration in vivo
  Marie Filbin, Ph.D. Hunter College, CUNY

Afternoon Session

• Behaviorally-Driven Neuron Survival
• Erich D. Jarvis, Ph.D.   Duke University Medical Center
   
• Molecular Control of fate determination in neural stem cells
  David Anderson, Ph.D.   California Institute of Technology
   
• Neuron-specific cell death pathways: potential roles in development and disease
  Christopher Henderson, Ph.D   INSERM - Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille
   
• Neurotrophins: Jekyll and Hyde Growth Factors
  Barbara Hempstead, M.D., Ph.D.  Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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Poster Session: 12:30PM & 5:30PM
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