| | AGENDA
Preliminary Agenda
DAY 1: April 15, 2004
| 7:30 AM |
Continental Breakfast/Registration
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| 8:30AM |
Welcome and Overview, NIH
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Session 1
Early Events: Crest Specification and Migration
Chair: Judith Eisen, PhD, University of Oregon
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| 8:40AM |
Judith Eisen, PhD, University of Oregon
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| 9:15AM |
Carol Erickson, PhD, University of California,
Davis
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| 9:50AM |
Gurkirpal S. Sohal, PhD, Medical College of Georgia
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| 10:25AM |
Speaker to be Determined
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| 11:00AM |
Break
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Session 2
Neural Targeting to or Within Organs
Chair: Michael D. Gershon, MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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| 11:20PM |
E. Michelle Southard-Smith, PhD, Vanderbilt University
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| 11:55PM |
Speaker to be Determined
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| 12:30PM |
Lunch
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| 2:15PM |
Heather Young, PhD, University of Melbourne
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| 2:50PM |
Miles Epstein, PhD, University of Wisconsin Medical
School
Visualization of Enteric Crest Cell Migration in situ with Time
Lapse
Fluorescence Microscopy
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| 3:25PM |
Three short talks chosen from abstracts
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| 4:10PM |
Break
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| 4:30PM |
Keynote Address
Michael D. Gershon, MD,
Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons
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| 5:30PM |
Poster Session and Reception
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DAY 2: April 16, 2004
| 7:00AM |
Continental Breakfast |
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Session 3
Neuron Differentiation/Survival
Chair: Janet Keast, BSc, PhD, University of South Wales
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| 8:00AM |
Tim Cowen, BSc, PhD, University College
London
Mechanisms Which Enhance and Inhibit Survival of Adult and Ageing
Neurons
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| 8:35AM |
Janet Keast, BSc, PhD, University
of New South Wales
Neurturin and GDNF: Their Role in the Development and Maintenance
of Pelvic Autonomic Ganglia
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| 9:10AM |
Robert O. Heuckeroth, MD, PhD, Washington
University, St. Louis
Neurotrophic Factors and Beyond: Defining Molecular Mechanisms of
Enteric Nervous System Development
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| 9:45AM |
Break
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Session 4
Neural Injury/Autonomic Plasticity
Chair: Margaret A. Vizzard, PhD,
University of Vermont College of
Medicine
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| 10:00AM |
Margaret A. Vizzard, PhD, University
of Vermont College of
Medicine
Neurochemical Plasticity in Micturition Pathways with
Bladder Dysfunction
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| 10:35AM |
William C. de Groat, PhD, University
of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine
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| 11:10 AM |
Lori A. Birder, PhD, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Effects of Injury/Inflammation on Urothelial Sensor and Transducer
Properties
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| 11:45AM |
Naoki Yoshimura, MD, PhD, University
of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine
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| 12:20PM |
Lunch
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| 1:30PM |
Keynote Address
Sean J. Morrison, PhD, University of
Michigan
Medical Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Gut Neural Crest Stem Cells and Hirschsprung Disease
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| 2:30PM |
Break
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| 3:00PM |
Initiative Planning
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