34th Annual Meeting
of the
American Society for Neurochemistry

May 3-7, 2003
The Hyatt Newporter
Newport Beach, California

Scientific Program

Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

Saturday, May 3, 2003

6:30 - 6:00
Registration

8:00-5:00
Pre-meeting Workshop: "Stem Cell Biology & Technology: Implications for Neural Repair"
Organizers: Jean deVellis and Hydeyuki Okano

6:30-8:30
Opening Reception

Sunday, May 4, 2003

8:00 - 8:15
Opening Remarks
Robert Yu, President, American Society for Neurochemistry
Jean de Vellis, Chairman, Host Committee

8:15 - 9:15
Basic Neurochemsitry Lecture
Introduction by Robert Yu
Joshua Sanes title TBA

9:15 - 9:45
Coffee Break

9:45 - 11:45
Symposium 1: Neurochemistry of Cognition
Organizer: J. David Sweatt
J. David Sweatt
Alcino Silva
Daniel Storm
Kim Huber

9:45 - 11:45
Colloquium 1: Multiple Functions of myelin proteins in the immune and nervous systems
Organizer: A. T. Campagnoni
Tony Campagnoni
George Harauz
Rhonda Voskuhl
Vijay Kuchroo

9:45 - 11:45
Workshop 1: Regenerative responses of neural stem cells to injury and disease
Organizer: Steve Levison
Aliya U. Zaidi
Steve Levison
Francis Szele
John R. Fike

11:45 - 1:15
Lunch on your own

11:45 - 1:15
Posters

1:15 - 3:15
Symposium 2: The role of neuronal plasticity in neurodegenerative diseases
Organizer: J Busciglio
Mark Mattson
Carl Cotman
Eliezer Masliah
Jorge Busciglio

1:15 - 3:15
Colloquium 2: Microglial Responses to Injury & Strategies for Managing Them
Organizer: Joan P. Schwartz
Monica Carson
Ian Duncan
Serge Przedborski
Robert Friedlander

1:15 - 3:15
Workshop 2: Volume-Dependent Anion Channels & Channel-Mediated Amino Acid Release - New Players in Brain Communication and Brain Pathology
Organizer: Harold K. Kimelberg
Herminia Pasantes-Morales
Alexander A. Mongin
Nicolas Hussy
John W. Phillis

3:15 - 3:45
Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:45
Symposium 3: Transcriptional Controls Directing Neural Differentiation
Organizers: Lynn Hudson and Robin Miskimins
Joerg Leheste
Paul Gardner
Regina Armstrong
Alex Gow

3:45 - 5:45
Colloquium 3: Astrocyte-neural cell interactions
Organizer: Ian Simpson
David Spray
Phillip Haydon
Ursula Sonnewald
Jeff Rosenstein

3:45 - 5:45
Colloquium 4: Estrogen and Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Protective Role?
Organizer: Darrell W. Brann
Phyllis M. Wise
Darrell W. Brann
Mary Sano
Catherine S. Woolley

5:45 - 7:15
Posters

6:00 - 8:00
Public Outreach Forum
Parkinson's Disease
Organizer: Minnetta Gardinier

Monday, May 5, 2003

8:00 - 9:00
Plenary Lecture
Carla Schatz title TBA

9:00 - 9:15
Presentation of the Marian W. Kies Memorial Award
by Karen Chandross

9:15 - 9:45
Coffee Break

9:45 - 11:45
Symposium 4 Jordi Folch-Pi Memorial Symposium:
Dynamic Phospholipid Signaling In Life and Death
Organizer: Sandra Hewett, 2002 Jordi Folch-Pi Memorial Award Recipient
Nicolas G. Bazan
Sandra Hewett
Bradley Alger
David Greenberg

9:45 - 11:45
Colloquium 5: Myelin-Axolemmal Bidirectional Signaling
Organizer: Steve Pfeiffer and Matt Rasband
Alyson Fournier
Cecilia Marta
Carmen Melendez-Vasquez
Haesun Kim

9:45 - 11:45
Colloquium 6: Gene Transfer to the Nervous System: from Basic Mechanisms to Novel Therapeutics
Organizer: Diana Jerusalisky
David Shine
Pedro Lowenstein
Fernando Pitossi
Osvaldo Uchitel

11:45 - 1:15
Lunch on your own

11:45 - 1:15
Posters

1:15 - 3:15
Symposium 5: Astrocyte signaling in brain inflammation
Organizer: Etty Benveniste
Celia Brosnan
Joel Pachter
Etty Benveniste
Iain Campbell

1:15 - 3:15
Colloquium 7: Genomic Approaches to CNS Injury
Organizer: Julie Ellison
Julie Ellison
Carrolee Barlow
Frank R Sharp
Tracy K. McIntosh

1:15 - 3:15
Oral presentations
Chair: Cara Lynne Schengrund

3:15 - 3:45
Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:45
Colloquium 8: Significance of Mitochondrial Heterogeneity in Neuronal-Glial Interactions
Organizers: Arne Schousboe and Roger Butterworth
Carmen Manella
Mary McKenna
Helle Waagepetersen
Gary Fiskum

3:45 - 5:45
Colloquium 9: To gli or not to gli: what makes an oligodendrocyte?
Organizers: Karen Chandross and John Kessler
John Kessler
Jim Goldman
Steve Goldman
Tim Vartanian

3:45 - 5:45
Workshop 3: Recent Advances in Non-Invasive Imaging Techniques for Rodent Research
Organizer: Jeffrey M. Redwine
Jeffrey M. Redwine
Russell E. Jacobs
Simon R. Cherry
James P. Basilion

5:45 - 7:15
Poster Session

7:15 - 8:30
Annual Business Meeting

Tuesday, May 6, 2003

8:00 - 10:00
Symposium 6: FGFs in the Developing Nervous System
Organizers: Terri Wood and Rashmi Bansal
Manny DiCicco-Bloom
Susan McConnell
David Ornitz
Elizabeth Grove

8:00 - 10:00
Colloquium 10: Opioid Peptides: Normal & Pathologic Signaling Mechanisms In Neurons & Glia
Organizers: Pamela E. Knapp & Kurt F. Hauser
Carmine Coscia
Georgy Bakalkin
Kurt Hauser
Pamela Knapp

8:00 - 10:00
Workshop 4: Dietary management of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases
Organizer: Thomas N. Seyfried
Thomas N. Seyfried
Marc Yudkoff
Richard L. Veech
Mark Mattson
Purna Mukherjee

10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30
Symposium 9: Marian W. Kies Memorial Symposium
Zinc in Neurodegeneration
Organizer: Kirk E. Dineley, 2002 Marian Kies Memorial Award Recipient
Elias Aizenman
Kirk Dineley
Jae-Young Koh
John Wiess

10:30 - 12:30
Colloquium 11: CNS inflammation and microglial activation: Can they be beneficial for the CNS?
Organizer: Monica J. Carson
G. Miller Jonakait
Kathyrn J. Jones
Phillip G. Popovich
Wolfgang J. Streit

10:30 - 12:30
Colloquium 12: Hedgehog, BMP and Notch Signaling in Oligodendrocyte Specification
Organizer: James A. Waschek and Vincent Lelievre
Robert H Miller
Monique Dubois-Dalcq
David Rowitch
Gord Fishell

12:30 - 2:00
Lunch on your own

12:30 - 2:00
Posters

2:00 - 4:00
Symposium 8: Signaling Complexes in the Nervous System
Organizer: Heather S. Duffy
Richard Weinberg
Alex Gow
David Spray
Mario Delmar

2:00 - 4:00
Colloquium 13: Complement in the brain: New & exciting insights in an old arena of immunology
Organizer: Jessy Alexander & Tony Wyss-Coray
Tony Wyss-Coray
Andrea Tenner
Scott Barnum
Giulio Maria Pasinetti

2:00 - 4:00
Oral presentations
Chair: Minnetta Gardinier

4:00 - 4:30
Coffee Break

4:30 - 6:30
Symposium 9: MMPs in the Nervous System: Functions in Physiology, Pathology and Recovery
Organizer: V. Wee Yong
Zena Werb
Sarah McFarlane
Eng H. Lo
V. Wee Yong

4:30 - 6:30
Colloquium 14: Integrin signaling in the nervous system: involvement with tetraspan & related proteins
Organizer: Wendy Macklin
Jeff Bronstein
Senitiroh Hakomori
Wendy Macklin
David Weinstein

4:30 - 6:30
Symposium 10: Neural differentiation
Organizers: Randall D. McKinnon
Chris Q. Doe
Mark Henkemeyer
Sam Pfaff
John B. Thomas

6:30 - 8:00
Posters

8:00 - 10:00
Student/Postdoc Dinner

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

8:00 - 10:00
Symposium 11: Synapse formation and resculpturing
Organizer: Richard Olsen
Heinrich Betz
Kimberley McAllister
Istvan Mody
Roger Nicoll

8:00 - 10:00
Colloquium 15:Integrins as targets for therapeutic intervention in Multiple Sclerosis
Organizer: Jean Merrill
Stefan Brocke
Stephen Miller
Ted Yednock
David Miller

8:00 - 10:00
Workshop 5: Proteolipid protein (PLP): mutations in the gene lead to complex phenotypes affecting myelin and axons
Organizer: Ian D. Duncan
Ian D. Duncan
Odile Boespflug-Tanguy
Julia M. Edgar
Robert P. Skoff

10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30
Symposium 12: Cell death signaling mechanisms in chronic and acute trauma
Organizer: Regino Perez-Polo
Stephen Rossner
Olivera Nesic
John Bethea
Ian Hendry

10:30 - 12:30
Colloquium 16: Gene profiling in disease
Organizer: Elizabeth Thomas
Jean Loring
Frank Middleton
Elizabeth Thomas
John Kelsoe

10:30 - 12:30
Oral presentations
Chair: Oscar Bizzozero

12:30 - 2:00
Lunch on your own

2:00 - 3:00
Plenary Lecture
Fred Gage title TBA
Presentation of Jordi Folch-Pi Memorial Award by Regina Armstrong 3:00 - 3:15

3:15 - 3:45
Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:45
Symposium 13: Stem cell biology and their potential for CNS repair
Organizer: Scott Whittemore
Derek van der Kooy
Mahendra Rao
Harley Kornblum
Scott Whittemore

7:00 -10:00
Final Banquet