Session: Empowering Your Brain: Examining the Neural Information Super-Highway of Ion Channels and Brain Development (2011 SACNAS National Conference)

Friday, October 28, 2011: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Room A1 (San Jose Convention Center)

Chair:

Michelle Jones London, PhD, Program Director, Office of Training, Career Development, and Workforce Diversity, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH

Description: Come explore the brain - session provides a glimpse into the world of neuronal circuitry, ion channels, and brain development as it relates to neurological disorders. Role model speakers will share the latest cutting-edge research on the brain.

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

Using Human Genetics to Understand Brain Development and Neurological Disease
Tracy Dixon Salazar, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , University of California, San Diego

8:55 AM

Molecular Mechanisms that Orchestrate Circuit Formation in the C. Elegans Brain
Daniel Colón-Ramos, PhD , Assistant Professor , Yale University, School of Medicine

9:15 AM

Regulation of the Gating Mechanisms in Potassium Channels by RNA Editing
Miguel Holmgren, PhD , Senior Investigator , Molecular Neurophysiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

9:35 AM

Gating of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Latest Insights into Ligand Binding and Function
Jerrel Yakel, PhD , Senior Investigator , Ion Channel Physiology Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

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