Recent Developments in Neurobiology

Symposium organized by Rich Satterlie

Schedule of speakers (Note: Each speaker in the “piggy-back” pair will speak for approximately twenty-five minutes, with a ten minute common question-and-answer session at the end)

8:00 – 9:00 Jim Belanger (Louisiana State University) “Strategies versus tactics in motor control” AND Jennifer Schreiner (Louisiana State University) “Comparative approaches to understanding load adaptation in crustacean locomotion”

9:00 – 10:00 Marco Santello (Arizona State University) “Control of the hand: Coordination of multiple variables in the kinematic, kinetic and EMG domain” AND Sara Winges (Arizona State University) “Control of whole hand grasping: A role for motor unit synchronization”

10:00 – 10:20 Coffee Break

10:20 – 11:20 Evanna Gleason (Louisiana State University) “Signaling and modulation in retinal amacrine cells” AND Brian Hoffpauir (Louisiana State University) “Nitric oxide modulates GABAergic signaling in retinal amacrine cells”

11:20 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Paul Moore (Bowling Green State University) “The smell of success: The role of intrinsic and extrinsic chemical signals in the development of social behavior in crayfish. I” AND Dan Bergman (Bowling Green State University) “The smell of success: The role of intrinsic and extrinsic chemical signals in the development of social behavior in crayfish. II”

2:00 – 3:00 Jeff Tasker (Tulane University) “Synaptic plasticity of hypothalamic neuroendocrine cells” AND Shi Di (Tulane University) “Novel steroid modulation of hypothalamic neuroendocrine cells”

3:00 Coffee Break and End of Symposium

Symposium Participants (Listed as speaker pairs, head of lab first)

Jim Belanger
Department of Biology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
jimb@lsu.edu


Jennifer Schreiner
Department of Biology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803






Evanna Gleason
Department of Biology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
egleaso@lsu.edu


Brian Hoffpauir
Department of Biology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803




Paul Moore
Department of Biological Sciences
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
pmoore@bgnet.bgsu.edu


Dan Bergman
Department of Biological Sciences
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403






Marco Santello
Department of Kinesiology
P.O. Box 870701
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0701
marco.santello@asu.edu


Sara Winges
Department of Kinesiology
P.O. Box 870701
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0701






Jeff Tasker
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
2000 Percival Stern Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
tasker@tulane.edu


Shi Di
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
2000 Percival Stern Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118