2007 Southeast Nerve Net Meeting









Twenty-third Annual



SOUTHEAST NERVE NET MEETING


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March 16-17, 2007



Florida State University



Wakulla Springs, Florida






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The Meeting


This year's meeting will be hosted by The Florida State University 
Program in Neuroscience at Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park,
Wakulla Springs, Florida.  The meeting will begin on Friday evening,
March 16, with an informal social event and will run through Saturday 
evening, concluding with our annual meeting dinner.  The current plans 
are to have an opening keynote address Friday evening, 
student and fellow slide presentations Saturday morning, a poster session 
following a picnic box lunch on the spring grounds, a river boat ride in the 
late afternoon, and our evening keynote address just before the dinner.  If 
additional time is required, another scientific session will be scheduled 
for Sunday morning.



Wakulla Springs is located just 15 miles south of downtown 
Tallahassee and approximately 30 miles north of our Atlantic coast 
and beaches.  Wakulla Springs Lodge and Conference Center offers pleasant,
spacious, affordable accommodations in the midst of a beautiful 2,900-
acre state park.  The meeting will be held in the main lodge and accompanying
facilities.  The lodge, built in 1937, is filled with period furniture, and its
elaborate construction includes marble floors, handpainted Toltec
and Aztec designs, grilled doors, and old Moorish archways.  The lodge
is located immediately adjacent to the springs.  The Indians called 
the spring "mysteries of strange water."  The spring flows from an 
underground river at a rate of over 600,000 gallons per minute.  Its
basin covers an area of four and one-half acres, reaching a maximum
depth of 185 feet in crystal-clear water.  We will have the opportunity
to take a boat tour down the river, to view the abundant wildlife and
vegetation, i.e. THE REAL FLORIDA.  



This regional meeting is designed to bring together research groups 
from the southeastern United States, not just for the presentation of 
completed work but also as a forum for the exchange of ideas and the 
presentation of work in progress for comment and discussion.  Graduate 
and post-doctoral students are particularly encouraged to submit 
abstracts for presentation at this meeting.  It has historically been the tradition 
that graduate and postdoctoral students be given first preference for oral 
presentations and that professors present their laboratories' data in the
poster format.  In recent years we have accepted abstract submissions by 
advanced undergraduate researchers for poster presentations.  This year
there will be an educational outreach opportunity for all registered
undergraduate researchers as sponsored by the National Institutes of 
Health (NIH).


Registration fee for the meeting includes a conference T-shirt and
the Saturday evening dinner.  Registration is $25 for students/fellows and 
$50 for professors/scientific staff.  All proceeds from additional
T-shirt sales will support student travel.  



 
Keynote Address


Due to the generous support of the National Institutes of Health (NIH, R13 proposal), we will 
have two keynote addresses, one each evening.  


Our keynote opening address will be presented
by  Dr. Diego Restrepo  
of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Cell and 
Developmental Biology & Neuroscience Program.  Dr. Restrepo will speak on 
"Detection of Complex Chemosignals by the Main Olfactory System." 


Our Saturday evening address will be presented
by Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller
of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Neurobiology,
McKnight Brain Research Institute & Civitan International Research Center.  Dr. Pozzo-Miller
will speak on "Rapid Actions of BDNF:  Activation of TRPC Currents and Capacitative
Ca2+ Entry."  

Selected Manuscripts by the Keynote Speakers for Undergraduate Enrichment Activity:

Diego Restrepo 1  "Olfactory fingerprints for major histocompatibility complex-
determined body odors II:  Relationship among odor maps, genetics, odor composition, and behavior"  2002.  J. Neurosci.
22(21): 9513-9521.

Diego Restrepo 2  "Olfactory neurons expressing transient receptor potential channel 
M5 (TRPM5) are involved in sensing semiochemicals"   PNAS  ONLINE January 2007.

Pozzo Miller 1  "ERK1/2 activation is necessary for BDNF to increase dendritic
spine density in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons"  2004.   Learning and Memory 11:  172-178.

Pozzo Miller 2  "BNDF enhances quantal neurotransmitter release and increases the number
of docked vesicles at the active zones of hippocampal excitatory synapses"  2001.   J. Neurosci.  21(12):  4249-4258. 




 
Registration     


Please register by FEBRUARY 22.  You may register 
(or obtain further information) by contacting (via phone, fax, or e-mail): 




By FEBRUARY 22 
Please send full Professional Address with your Notice of Registration including the $25 Student/$50 Professor Registration Fee 
to Dr. Fadool (SENN Organizer) with Check made payable to "Debra Ann Fadool".  Please put SENN Meeting in the Memo Line.
We will be using People's First Banking due to new policies enacted by the Florida Foundation.  

and send your formatted abstract to BOTH Dr. Anne B. Thistle (FSU Editorial Staff) 
and Dr. K.C. Biju (Program Organizer) so that we can facilitate the printing of 
our final program.  You will receive the final program at the meeting.




 
Accommodations     



A block of 25 rooms has been reserved for us at the Wakulla 
Springs Lodge and Conference Center.  
The cost will be $107.00 per night for up to two people and $5.00 for each 
additional occupant (maximum four per room).  These rooms will be held until  
February 23.  You may make reservations by calling the lodge directly (850-224-5950), 
or you may e-mail the lodge at wakullalodge@juno.com.  Be sure to 
mention the "Southeast Nerve Net Meeting" to obtain the quoted rates.
 



  
Meeting Dinner


The Edward Ball Restaurant (located in the Wakulla Springs Lodge and 
Conference Center, Wakulla Springs) will cater our meeting banquet.  The
meal will begin with Homemade Navy Bean Soup.  The entree will be a 
choice of Crab-Stuffed Grouper (broiled grouper topped with blue-crab
stuffing served with rice pilaf) or Roast Prime Rib of Beef (served 
with black pepper au jus and stuffed baked potato); each selection 
includes a tossed green salad, chef's choice of vegetable, rolls, 
dessert (Key-lime pie, pecan pie, blueberry sour-creme pie, or brownie),
and beverage.  Spouses, family, and friends are most welcome. 


The evening Saturday meal is free to all registrants.  
The cost for the meal for meeting guests will be $35 per person (including tax and
gratuity).  If you are interested in obtaining guest tickets, please 
submit to Debra Ann Fadool, address above, a check for the appropriate
amount, payable to "The Wakulla Springs Lodge and Conference Center." 
(Please note that the restaurant management has indicated that they 
will need a guaranteed guest count one week before the dinner, so the 
number of dinner tickets we can sell at the meeting may be limited.)




  
Presentation Guidelines


Slide presentations:  Fifteen minutes will be allocated for each slide talk.  
Speakers should plan to speak for 11-12 minutes, thus allowing 3-4 
minutes for questions and discussion.  Because this is a small meeting, 
further discussion should be possible later in the meeting.  Standard 
over-head projector, slide projector, and PowerPoint projection will
be available.  Please indicate on your abstract the type of projection 
equipment you will require.  If you wish to give a computer presentation,
please format your PowerPoint file for IBM compatible and bring it to the
meeting on CD or memory stick.  If you have any more specialized equipment 
needs, please contact our senior computer programmer/analylist, 
Alex Stuy, at astuy@bio.fsu.edu. 



Posters:  The bulk of our Saturday afternoon session will be set aside 
for the poster session.  Posters should be hung either Friday evening 
or early Saturday morning prior to the start of the meeting, so that they 
can be viewed all day.  The poster boards are similar in dimensions to 
those used at the Neuroscience Meeting.


An abstract for each presentation should be received by February 22.
Please submit it as an attachment using WordPerfect (*.wpd), Word
(*.doc), or Rich Text Formating (*.rtf).  Abstracts should be typed, 
including all authors, institution(s), and title, within a space 5" long 
x 6" wide.  FOLLOW EXACTLY THE FORMATTING STYLE 
PROVIDED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE MEETING.  
Copies of the abstracts will be included in the final program.  Send your
formatted abstract to BOTH Dr. Anne Thistle (FSU Editorial Staff) 
and Dr. K.C. Biju (Program Organizer) so that we can facilitate 
the printing of our final program.

Send registration information (only) to Dr. Fadool (see above).  



 
Travel Assistance


If you are a graduate student or beginning postdoc and wish to receive 
travel assistance to attend the meeting, please contact Dr. Fadool.




 
Acknowledgements


We would like to acknowledge the financial support from the National Institutes
of Health and the Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences, 
Department of Biological Science, and Program in Neuroscience.


We would like to acknowledge the graduate students of the FSU Program in Neuroscience
for taking the time to assist in hosting this meeting.


Biomedical Research Facility, Program In Neuroscience, The Florida State University





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