Neuroscience Cluster Annual Retreat

2009 Program of Events

Schedule of Events

Time Event
9:00 AM Check-in and continental breakfast
9:45 AM Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc. - Astrocytes alive!
10:30 AM Vikranth Rao - Neural Basis of Perceptual Learning: Improved Bayesian Inference During Sensory Representation
11:00 AM Bradley Weslake, Ph.D. - Explanation in Neuroscience and Folk Psychology
11:45 AM Doty Award for Excellence in Neuroscience Dissertation Research
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Lizabeth Romanski, Ph.D. - Convergence of Faces and Voices in the Frontal Lobe
1:45 PM Sarah Bliss Matousek - IL-1 Mediated Activation of Innate Immunity Underlies Plaque Clearance in Alzheimer's Disease
2:15 PM John Bartlett Poster Session and dessert buffet
3:45 PM Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D. - Genomic investigations of human higher cognition and transcriptome organization
5:00 PM Poster awards & reception

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Thanks to everyone who helped make the 2009 Neuroscience Retreat a great success. Over 200 faculty, postdocs and students from across the University took part.