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Dart Scholars Program in Learning and Memory Symposium

July 26, 2005
Meigs Room, Swope Center


Symposium Schedule:

3:00 PM Welcome - William T. Speck

3:15 PM Daniel Johnston, Ph.D., University of Texas - "Plasticity of intrinsic excitability in hippocampal neurons."

3:45 PM David L. Glanzman Ph.D., University of California in Los Angeles - “Development of the zebrafish into a model organism for the cellular and molecular analysis of non-associative memory”

4:15 PM William Frost, Ph.D., Chicago Medical School - “Optical recording studies of learning and memory in marine organisms”

4:45 PM Paul Forscher, Ph.D., Yale University - "Extreme plasticity: Cytoskeletal dynamics and axon growth"

5:15 PM Elaine Bearer, M.D.-Ph.D., Brown University and California Institute of Technology - "Squid axons and herpes virus: Molecular interplay between the virus, amyloid precursor protein, and anterograde transport machinery in squid axons"

5:45 PM Reception (Swope lobby)


Sponsored by a generous grant from the Dart Neuroscience Limited Partnership, Dart Scholarships bring top scientists in the field of learning and memory together to conduct research at the MBL for the summer.