COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY & CELLULAR BIOPHYSICS
SPRING RETREAT 2005

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2005
ALFRED LERNER HALL
 
9:00 am – 10:30 am Continental Breakfast
Poster Viewing Session
Auditorium Lobby
10:30 am – 12:45 pm Session I
Dr. Samuel Silverstein (Chair)
John C. Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Roone Arledge Auditorium
10:30 – 10:45 am Tracie Devries-Seimon (representing Tabas Lab)
Cholesterol-Induced Macrophage Apoptosis Requires Two Hits: p38-Mediated CHOP Induction and Scavenger Receptor-A Engagement
10:50 – 11:05 am Andreas Jehle (representing Tall Lab)
ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter A7 (ABCA7) is Required for Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Cells
11:10 – 11:25 am Ai Yamamoto (representing Rothman Lab)
Autophagy Underlies the Clearance of Polyglutamine Aggregates in Huntington’s Disease
11:30 – 11:45 am Jens Husemann (representing Silverstein Lab)
Heparan Sulphate Proteoglycans in the Development and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
11:50 am – 12:05 pm Tom Fralich (representing Silverstein Lab)
Effects of Different Isoforms of Human Apolipoprotein Fibrillar Beta-Amyloid Protein Binding to and Displacement from Heparan Sulphate Proteoglycans
12:10 – 12:25 pm Stephan Lehnart (representing Marks Lab)
Phosphodiesterase Associated with the Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor Ca2+ Release Channel Protects from Heart Failure
12:30 – 12:45 pm Xander Wehrens (representing Marks Lab)
Cardiac Ryanodine Receptors - A Novel Therapeutic Target for Heart Failure

12:50 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

Poster Viewing Session

Auditorium Lobby
2:00 – 3:00 pm Keynote Address
Dr. Richard Tsien
D. Smith Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
(Stanford University)
“Calcium Signaling and the Adaptability of CNS Synapses”
Roone Arledge Auditorium
3:00 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
Poster Viewing Session
Auditorium Lobby
4:00 – 6:00 pm Session II
Dr. Amy MacDermott (Chair)
Professor, Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Roone Arledge Auditorium
4:00 – 4:15 pm Sadna Budhu (representing Silverstein Lab)
The Concentration of Antigen-Specific CD8+ Cytotoxic Lymphocytes Determines their Efficiency in Killing B16 Mouse Melanoma Cells in Fibrin/Collagen Cells
4:20 – 4:35 pm Brian McCabe (representing McCabe Lab)
Retrograde BMP Signaling Integrates Synaptic Structural Plasticity with Neuronal Activity
4:40 – 4:55 pm Ben Chih (representing Scheiffele Lab)
Function of Neuroligins in Neuronal Synapse Formation
5:00 – 5:15 pm Sara Wilson (representing Dodd Lab)
Linking Transcriptional Identity to Pathfinding Decisions in Spinal Sensory Relay Neurons
5:20 – 5:35 pm Carole Torsney (representing MacDermott Lab)
Disinhibition Reveals Spinal Cord Pathways Underlying Chronic Pain
5:40 – 5:55 pm Larry Abbott (representing Abbott Lab)
Context-Dependent Representations in Neural Networks
6:00 pm Closing Remarks Continental Breakfast
Poster Viewing Session
Auditorium Lobby
6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Session I
Dr. Samuel Silverstein (Chair)
John C. Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Roone Arledge Auditorium