Biomedical Science Research Building, Kahn Auditorium, 109 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48109    

Symposium schedule

8:45 Welcome
Alan Saltiel, PhD
Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute

9:00 Keynote Introduction
Mary Sue Coleman, PhD
President of the University of Michigan

Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Science Lecture
9:10 “Can Simple Cells Help Solve Complex Neurodegenerative Diseases?”
Susan Lindquist, PhD
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Member, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

10:10 to 10:30 break

10:30 “Axon Regeneration: Insights from C. elegans”
Yishi Jin, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

11:15 “Cell Recognition and the Assembly of Neural Circuits in Drosophila”
Larry Zipursky, PhD
Professor of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

12:00 to 1:00 break

1:15 “From Peppers to Pit Vipers: Probing Molecular Mechanisms of Thermosensation and Pain”
David Julius, PhD
Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

2:00 “TrkB and P13Kinase: Modeling Neurogenesis, Mood and Autism in Mice”
Luis F. Parada, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2:45 to 3:10 break

3:15 “Defining the Path to Neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s Disease”
Ted M. Dawson, MD, PhD
Director, Institute for Cell Engineering, Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

4:00 “Mechanisms and Treatment of Synaptic, Network and Cognitive Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease”
Lennart Mucke, MD
Director, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

4:50 Closing Remarks
Alan Saltiel, PhD
Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute

This event is free and open to the public 

About the LSI Annual Symposium

The LSI Annual Symposium invites leading scientists from different disciplines to converge around a single topic.

Past symposia

2011    Autophagy in Health and Disease
2010    Macromolecular Complexes in Cell Biology
2009    Evolutionary Biology: 150 Years After The Origin
2008    Focus on Chemical Biology
2007    Frontiers in Stem Cell Biology
2006    Molecular Insights into Metabolic Disease
2005    Cancer Insights: Molecules to Medicine
2004    Exploring the Complexity of Life
2003    Genetic Insights into Biology and Disease
2002    The Structural Biology of Cell Signaling
 

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