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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY:
9:00AM-12:00PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION I (Cliff Lodge Ballroom)
12:00-2:00PM Lunch
2:00-5:00PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION II (Cliff Lodge Ballroom)
5:00-5:30PM SfN Intermountain Chapter meeting
5:30-6:30PM Mixer, Cliff Lodge
6:30-8:00PM Dinner, Cliff Lodge
8:00-9:00PM Keynote Speaker
9:30-11:00PM Mixer, Cliff Lodge

GUEST SPEAKERS:

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Charles Zuker, Ph.D.; Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Neuroscience; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title: "From Detection to Perception in a Chemical Sense"

Speaker: Pamela Raymond, Ph.D.; Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; University of Michigan
Title: "Retinal regeneration"

Speaker: Charles Schroeder, Ph.D.; The Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Title: "Brain dynamics used in active sensing"

Speaker: Mary T. Lucero, Ph.D.; Professor, Department of Physiology; University of Utah
Title:"Gain Control in the Peripheral Olfactory System: Fact or Fiction?"

Speaker: Matt Wachowiak, Ph.D.; Associate Professor of Physiology; University of Utah
Title:"All In a Sniff: Understanding Olfaction as an Active Sense"

Speaker: Robert E. Marc, Ph.D.; Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; University of Utah
Title:"The Retinal Connectome"

Graduate student speakers:
Ryan Constantine (Baehr lab): "UNC119 is required for G protein trafficking in sensory neurons"
John Gaynes (Chien lab): "Local mRNA Translation During Axon Guidance in vivo"
Daniel Ryskamp (Krizaj lab): "Mechanosensation Regulates Retinal Physiology"

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