2007 Southeast Nerve Net

Meeting Schedule

16–18 March 2007

Wakulla Springs, Florida

 

Friday, 16 March

 

6:00–7:30 p.m.:   Preregistration (Edward Ball Main Lodge) and informal reception (Edward Ball Executive Conference Room)

7:30–7:45 p.m.:   Opening Remarks (Pavilion Conference Room), Dr. Debra Ann Fadool, SENN Organizer

7:45–7:55 p.m.:   Introductory Remarks, Mr. Thomas Mast, FSU Student, Program in Neuroscience

8:00–9:00 p.m.:   Keynote Address:  Dr. Diego Restrepo

                             Detection of complex chemosignals by the main olfactory system (abstract)

                             (Diego Restrepo1, Weihong Lin,2 Wilder Doucette,1 Robert Margolskee,3 Gerald Donnert,4 and Stefan W. Hell4

                                      1Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045; 2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250; 3Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029; 4Department of Biophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 37070, Göttingen, Germany)

 

Saturday, 17 March

 

7:30–8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast (Pavilion Conference Room)

 

8:00–8:45 a.m.:   Registration, Edward Ball Main Lodge

 

8:45–9:00 a.m.:   Opening Remarks (Pavilion Conference Room), Dr. Robert Contreras, Director, FSU Program in Neuroscence

 

Slide Session 1.  Sensory Neurobiology.  Dr. Ann Morris, Moderator

 

·        9:00 a.m.:  S. H. Jezzini,1 Y. V. Bobkov,1 M. A. Reidenbach,2 and B. W. Ache1
1Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Center for Smell and Taste, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32610;  2Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley CA 94720
Possible functional role of rhythmically bursting olfactory receptor neurons (abstract)

·        9:15 a.m.:  R. A. Davenport and T. A. Houpt
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Time- and taste-dependent enhancement of conditioned taste aversion learning by d-cycloserine (abstract)

·        9:30 a.m.:  J. M. Vaughn, K. S. Curtis, and R. J. Contreras
Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Brief and prolonged dietary sodium deprivation reduce chorda tympani nerve responses to NaCl (abstract)

·        9:45 a.m.:  S. M. Crousillac, P. N. Ojiaku, and E. L. Gleason
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70820
Sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling in retinal amacrine cells (abstract)

·        10:00 a.m.:  K. Alvarez-Delfin., A. C. Morris, and J. M. Fadool
Program in Neuroscience and Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4340
Characterization of a zebrafish locus that regulates rod and ultraviolet cone photoreceptor cell fates during retinal development (abstract)

·        10:15 a.m.:  W. Orisme and W. Clay Smith
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Florida, Box 100284, Gainesville, FL 32610
The signal transduction cascade for arrestin translocation (abstract)

10:30–11:00 a.m.: Coffee/Tea Break

 

Slide Session 2.  Neural Plasticity, Development, Repair, Neurotransmission, and Motor Control.  Dr. James M. Fadool, Moderator

 

·        11:00 a.m.:  J. A. Thompson and F. Johnson
Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Recovery of song bout structure following HVC microlesion requires auditory feedback (abstract)

·        11:15 a.m.:  Rikki C. Somers, Nadine M. Tassabehji, Cathy W. Levenson
Program in Neuroscience and Department of Food, Nutrition and Exercise Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  32306
The tumor suppressor p53 regulates downstream gene expression to control cellular proliferation and apoptosis in zinc-deficient human neuronal precursor cells (abstract)

·        11:30 a.m.:  NiCole A. Finch,1 Paul J. Linser,2 and Judith D. Ochrietor1
1Department of Biology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224; 2The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd., St. Augustine, FL 32080
The C-terminal region of the Basigin transmembrane domain interacts with MCT1 (abstract)

·        11:45 a.m.:  K. Tornieri and V. Rehder
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
Nitric oxide released from a physiological source affects the motility of neuronal growth cones (abstract)in vitro

·        12:00 a.m.:  S. L. Carlson
Department of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149
D-Aspartate as a neurotransmitter in Aplysia californica (abstract)

·        12:15 a.m.:  A. G. Vidal-Gadea and J. H. Belanger
Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Adaptations for sideways and forwards walking in decapod crustaceans (abstract)

12:30–1:30 p.m.:    Lunch hour
(box lunches provided free of charge by Wakulla Springs Lodge to all registrants; picnic outdoors by the springs)

 

1:30–4:30 p.m.: Poster Presentations, Edward Ball Terrace

 

·        Richard B. Dewell
Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Augmentation at neuromuscular junctions in crustacean walking legs occurs over behaviorally constrained burst frequencies (abstract)

·        K. Tucker, J. M. Overton, and D. A. Fadool
Program in Neuroscience and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  32306
Kv1.3, a possible pharmaceutical target for obesity? (abstract)

·        T. G. Mast and D. A. Fadool
Program in Neuroscience and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  32306
Directing expression of TRPC2 to the plasma membrane in cell culture (abstract)

·        Vilma Carson, NiCole Finch, Judith D. Ochrietor
Department of Biology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224
Characterization of the Basigin-MCT1 complex in vertebrate retina (abstract)

·        Stephen J. Lunz,1 NiCole Finch,2 and Judith D. Ochrietor2
1Department of Chemistry and Physics and 2Department of Biology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224
Characterization of the Basigin-CyPA complex in retina (abstract)

·        Sunitha Rangaraju, Irina Madorsky, Jocelyn Go, and Lucia Notterpek
Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
Inhibitors of Hsp90 modulate the formation of peripheral myelin protein 22 aggregates (abstract)

·        K. E. Epley, R. Price, J. M. Urban, and F. Ono
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd., St. Augustine, FL 32080
Expression of exogenous AChR subunits in receptor-null fish clarifies the role of AChR phosphorylation (abstract)

·        J. L. Lillvis,1 A. B. Kohn,2 L. L. Moroz,2 and P. S. Katz1
1Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303; 2Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd., St. Augustine, FL 32080
Neuropeptide expression patterns in the gastropod mollusc Tritonia diomedea (abstract)

·        Tamera L. Scholz, Ann C. Morris, and James M. Fadool
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Zebrafish rod progenitor cells are specified while still in the cell cycle (abstract)

·        A. Millet and J. M. Fadool
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  32306
Examining the role of Notch in retinal progenitor cell proliferation (abstract)

·        Billy Hiller, Alex Csizinszky, Anna deCarvalho, Ann C. Morris, and James M. Fadool
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Identification of hereditary and congenital lens defects in zebrafish (abstract)

·        E. F. Padgett,1 D. Singh,1 J. H. Hoffman,1 S. J. Godbey,1 K. C. Biju,1 and D. A. Fadool1,2
1Department of Biological Science, 2Programs in Neuroscience and Molecular Biophysics, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Prolonged odorant environment sculpts neural circuits in the olfactory bulb (abstract)

·        J. Tabak, N. Toporikova, A. E. Iglesias-Gonzales, M. E. Freeman, and R, Bertram
Program in Neuroscience and Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  32306
The role of fast potassium currents in shaping the activity of pituitary cells (abstract)

·        T. G. Smolinski,1 C. Soto-Trevińo,2 P. Rabbah,3 F. Nadim,2,3 and A. A. Prinz1
1Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322; 2Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102; 3Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102
Systematic computational exploration of the parameter space of the multi-compartment model of the lobster pyloric pacemaker kernel suggests that the kernel can achieve functional activity under various parameters configurations (abstract)

·        Jan Vargas and Astrid A. Prinz
Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
Does reliable neurotoxin action require that neuronal network parameters be tightly regulated? (abstract)

·        Karthik Bodhinathan, Ashok Kumar, and Thomas Foster
Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
Age differences in the threshold, but not in the magnitude, of synaptic depression (abstract)

·        A. Sakurai and P. S. Katz
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
Interactions between heterosynaptic and homosynaptic plasticity of the Tritonia swim CPG synapses (abstract)

·        D. R. Marks, K. Tucker, and D. A. Fadool
Program in Neuroscience and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  32306
Kv1.3 current suppression by tyrosine kinases may result from channel subunit multimerization (abstract)

·        M. P. Black,1 K. J. Ressler,2 R. L. Earley,3 and W. Wilczynski1
1Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303; 2Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329; 3Department of Biology, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740
Dominant/subordinate relationships and brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in the adult green anole (Anolis carolinensis)(abstract)

·        K. Welshhans and V. Rehder
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
Nitric oxide regulates growth cone morphology via ryanodine receptor-mediated intracellular calcium release (abstract)

·        Natalia Dmitrieva and Guohua Zhang
Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Aging-related neuronal and urothelial changes in the rat urinary bladder (abstract)

·        eMalick G. Njie, David R. Borchelt, and Wolfgang J. Streit
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd., St. Augustine, FL 32080
Functional characterization of microglial amyloid degradation
capacity in aged and Alzheimer's disease models (abstract)

 

·        J. Hou, R. Jain, R. Parmer, Y. Cheng, , R. Telford, P. Bose, and F. J. Thompson
Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl 32610
Acute therapeutic intervention blocks development of SCI spasticity (abstract)

·        P. Bose,1,2 R. Telford,2 P. Nguyen,2 R. Jain,2 S. William,2 R. Parmer,2 D. K. Anderson,1,2 P. J. Reier,2 and F. J. Thompson2
1North Florida/South Georgia VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida 32608; 2Department of Neuroscience,  McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida and College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610
Effects of locomotor training on spinal cord injury (SCI) lesion (abstract)

·        Tiffanie Holloway and Frank Johnson
Program in Neuroscience, Department of of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  32306
IEG expression in the juvenile songbird brain shows little relationship to singing (abstract)

·        J. Kolasa, S. Bierbower, M. Adami, and R. L. Cooper
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0225
Physiological acclamation in crayfish among environment alterations and social interactions (abstract)

2:30–3:00 p.m.:    Undergraduate Enrichment Activity with Keynote Speakers (Edward Ball Main Lodge)

 

3:30–4:30 p.m.:    Wakulla Springs River Boat Tour (provided by Wakulla Springs Lodge to all interested registrants)
$4.50 adults, $2.50 children. Be ready to board boat with purchased tickets 10 minutes before departure.

 

5:00–5:15 p.m.:    Introductory Remarks (Pavilion Conference Room), Ms. Kristal Tucker, graduate student, FSU Program in Neuroscience

 

5:15–6:15 p.m.:    Keynote Address:  Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller
Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-2182
Rapid actions of BDNF activation of TRPC currents and capacitative Ca2+ (abstract)

 

6:30 p.m.:              Banquet, Edward Ball Terrace, Wakulla Springs Lodge

 

6:30–9:00 p.m.:    Beverage Service on Terrace

 

Slide Session 3.  Synaptic Physiology and Neurobehavior.  Dr. Rick Hyson, Moderator

 

·        8:00 p.m.:  Jason Hill1,2 and Rodney K. Murphey2
1Molecular & Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002; 2Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431
The Drosophila giant fiber system as a model for synaptic competition (abstract)

·        8:15 p.m.:  Ashok Kumar and Thomas C. Foster
Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist, DHPG, induced protein synthesis dependent longer lasting synaptic depression during senescence (abstract)

·        8:30 p.m.:  D. R. Marks and D. A. Fadool
Program in Neuroscience and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  32306
Post Synaptic density neuromodulation of (abstract)Shaker channel current

·        8:45 p.m.:  H. L. Rossi, C. J. Vierck, R. M. Caudle, and J. K. Neubert
Departments of Orthodontics and Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
Characterization of behavioral response to cold and hot facial stimulation in an operant assay (abstract)

·        9:00 p.m.:  A. Stack, H. Wang, D. Dietz, C. Bauer, J. Sorenson, M. Kabbaj
Program in Neuroscience and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Effects of acute treatments with estradiol on anxiety in female rats:  role of individual differences (abstract)

·        9:15 p.m.:  C. A. Marcinkiewcz,1,2 M. M. Prado,1 S. L. Constance,1 S. K. Isaac,1 M. S. Gold,1,2 and A. W. Bruijnzeel1,2
1Department of Psychiatry and 2Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
CRF pathways in the extended amygdala regulate brain reward function during nicotine withdrawal (abstract)

9:00 p.m.:  Evening Gathering (Edward Ball Main Lodge)

 

 

Sunday, 18 March

 

8:30 a.m. to Noonish:    Eco-field trips to St. Marks Wildlife Preserve (birding, hiking), Bald Point State Forest (birding, fishing), and Alligator Point (swimming, beaching).  Guides available; inquire of D. Fadool laboratory.

 

                                       Meet at the Edward Ball Main Lodge, hotel reception desk.  Continental breakfast and box lunches will be provided.

 

Directions to restaurants and recreational venues are given at the end of the program booklet. 

 

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