Event Schedule

Contemplative Commons, University of Virginia

Tuesday, May 21st

12:00pm - Event opens to guest arrival

1:00-4:00pm - Neurodevelopment Session

  • Crystal Rogers, PhD - University of California, Davis - Conserved & divergent mechanisms regulating neural tube and neural crest formation

  • Rosa Uribe, PhD - Rice University - How the brain in the gut is constructed using zebrafish as a model

  • Tsai-Yi Lu, PhD - University of Virginia - Neuronal regulation of oligodendrocyte precursor cell self-renewal

  • Barry Condron, PhD - University of Virginia - Development of social behavior

  • Adré du Plessis, MBChB - Children’s National Hospital

4:15pm - Edward P. Owens Keynote Lecture

  • Walter Koroshetz, MD - Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke - NINDS & the Golden Age of Neuroscience

Wednesday, May 22nd

8:00am - Event opens to guest arrival

9:00-11:30am - Pain & Addiction Session

  • Wendy Lynch, PhD - University of Virginia - Preclinical Studies of Opioid Use Disorder: Sex Differences and Intersections with Pain

  • Scott Edwards, PhD - Louisiana State University - Intersection of Pain and Alcohol Use Disorder Risk

  • Patrick Finan, PhD - University of Virginia - The Intersection of Sleep, Pain, and Reward: Pathways to Addiction Vulnerability

  • Chad Brummett, MD - University of Michigan - Opioids in Acute Care; Challenges & Opportunities

11:30am-1:00pm - Lunch Break

  • Neuroscience Trainee Career Lunch breakout session

1:00-3:30pm - Brain Aging Session

  • Shane Liddelow, PhD - New York University - How do we discover and define the function of lowly abundant reactive astrocyte substates?

  • Sarah Flowers, PhD - University of Virginia - APOE structure, function and impact on Alzheimer’s disease and its treatment

  • Morgan Barense, PhD - University of Toronto - Enhancing real-world event memory in older adults

  • Halima Amjad, MD, PhD, MPH - Johns Hopkins University - “A flying blind assignment”: Dementia Diagnosis and Care

3:30-5:00pm - Poster Session & Reception

Thursday, May 23rd

8:00am - Event opens to guest arrival

9:00-10:00am - Keynote Address

  • Lori Isom, PhD - Chair of Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan - Discovering Mechanisms of Dravet Syndrome with SUDEP

10:15am - 1:00pm - Epilepsy Session

  • Esther Krook-Magnuson, PhD - University of Minnesota - How much do we really know about seizure networks? Cerebellum in the spotlight

  • Juliet Knowles, MD, PhD - Stanford University - Maladaptive Myelination Promotes Generalized Epilepsy Progression

  • Gary Yellen, PhD - Harvard University - Mechanisms of metabolic seizure resistance

  • Manoj Patel, PhD - University of Virginia - Pathogenesis of SCN8A epilepsy; is gene editing the cure? 

1:00-2:00pm - Lunch Break

2:00-4:30pm - Neuroimmunology Session

  • Gloria Choi, PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Neuroimmune interactions shaping social behavior

  • Greg Lemke, PhD - Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Microglial TAM receptors in Development and Disease

  • Richard Daneman, PhD - University of California San Diego - Regulation of the blood-brain barrier in health and disease

  • Alban Gaultier, PhD - University of Virginia - Looking for CLUes about myelin pathology in AD

4:30-5:00pm - Closing Remarks