Bioethics Calendar Of Event
Event Title: Eric Kandel and Neuroscience at Columbia University

Date: 11/20/2009   Time: 8:45 am to 5:30 pm

Place: Columbia University Medical Center P&S Alumni Auditorium 650 West 168th Street

Speaker: Christina Alberini, Ph.D.; David Anderson, Ph.D.; Richard Axel, M.D.; Cornelia Bargmann, Ph.D.; Thomas J. Carew, Ph.D.; Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D.; Thomas Jessel, Ph.D.; Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.; Kelsey C. Martin, M.D., Ph.D.; Bert Sakmann, M.D.; Daniel Salzman, M.D., Ph.D.; Kausik Si, Ph.D.; Steven Siegelbaum, Ph.D. and Larry R. Squire, Ph.D.

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Contact Information: Your registration is requested. For further information regarding this event, please contact Natalie Ross by sending email to nr2344@columbia.edu or by calling 212-304-7216.

Description:
Introduction
8:45 – 9:15 am

8:45 – 8:50 Steven A. Siegelbaum, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Neuroscience
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Columbia University

8:50 – 8:55 Lee Goldman, M.D.
Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences
and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine

8:55 – 9:05 Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D.
John E. Borne Professor of Medical and Surgical Research (in Neuroscience and Pharmacology)
and Dean Emeritus of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine Columbia University

9:05 – 9:15 John Koester, Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Neurosciences (in Psychiatry)
Columbia University

Session 1: Eric's former students and post-docs
9:15 – 11:40 am
Jack Byrne, Session Chair

9:15 – 9:40 “Memory Formation in Aplysia: The Central Role of ERK”
Thomas J. Carew, Ph.D.
Donald Bren Professor and Chair
Neurobiology and Behavior
School of Biological Sciences
University of California, Irvine

9:40 – 10:05 “mRNA Localization and Regulated Translation at the Synapse during Neuronal Plasticity”

Kelsey Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Biological Chemistry
University of California, Los Angeles

10:05 – 10:30 “The Molecular Mechanism of Persistence of Memory”

Kausik Si, Ph.D.
Assistant Investigator
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Break
10:30 – 10:50 am

10:50 – 11:15 “Genetic Control of Memory Circuits”
Mark Mayford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Scripps Research Institute

11:15 – 11:40 “The Fragility of Long-Term Memory”

Christina Alberini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Structural and Chemical Biology, and Psychiatry Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Lunch
11:40am – 12:40pm

Eric's friends in Neuroscience outside Columbia
1:15 – 3:00 pm
Roger Nicoll, Session Chair

12:45 – 1:10 “Sluggish Recollections”

Larry R. Squire, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology
University of California, San Diego

1:10 – 1:35 “Neural Circuit Analysis of Emotional Behavior in Flies and Mice”

David Anderson, Ph.D.
Roger W. Sperry Professor of Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology

1:35 – 2:00 “Fifty Years of Solitude: Deconstucting a Neural Circuit for Social Behavior”

Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.
Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Head of Lab
The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2:00 – 2:25 “Molecular Memories and Protein Conformation Cascades”

Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.
Member
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2:25 – 2:50 “Intracellular Recording in the CNS: Kandel and Spencer and Beyond”

Bert Sakmann, M.D.
Professor and Director Emeritus
Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology

Break
2:50 – 3:05 pm

Eric's friends in Neuroscience at Columbia
3:15 – 4:30 pm

Mickey Goldberg, Session Chair

3:05 - 3:30 "Full Character'd with Lasting Memory: A Spinal Perspective on Kandelian Science”

Thomas Jessell, Ph.D.
Claire Tow Professor, Neuroscience, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

3:30 - 3:55 “The Neural Dynamics of Learning about Good and Bad”

C. Daniel Salzman, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Columbia University

3:55 - 4:20 “A Quarter Century Channeling Memory”

Steven A. Siegelbaum, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Neuroscience
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Columbia University

4:20 - 4:45 Richard Axel, M.D.
University Professor
Columbia University

Final Remarks
4:45 – 5:00 pm Eric Kandel, M.D.

Reception
5:00 - 5:30 pm