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Neuroscience Graduate Students Symposium
The Houston Methodist Neurological Institute invites you to the Neuroscience Graduate Students Symposium. This event features Houston Methodist frontier neuroscientists and their cutting edge research. It is a one-day conference with a keynote speech and presentations on various topics of neuroscientific advancement.
Keynote Speaker:
Dwight Edward Bergles, Ph.D.
Director, Multiphoton Imaging and Electrophysiology Core, The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience.
Professor of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Target Audience
This is a symposium targeting neuroscience graduate students in various institutions in Houston area.
Rice, TAMU, UH, UT Houston, etc.
Agenda - Neuroscience Graduate Symposium.pdf
7:30 am - 8:00 am | BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION/CHECK-IN |
8:00 am - 8:10 am | Opening Remarks And Introduction Of Keynote Speaker: Dr. Li |
8:10 am - 9:00 am | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bergles. Title: Glial Involvement In Neuronal Signaling. |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Dr. Li - Therapeutic Targets For Dysmyelination |
9:30 am - 10:00 am | Dr. Appel. Title: Suppressing Neuroinflammation In Neurodegenerative Diseases. |
10:00 am -10:30 am | Dr. Horner - Glial Plasticity Induced By Cortical And Spinal Electrical Stimulation |
10:30 am - 10:45 am BREAK | |
10:45 am -11:15 am | Dr. Rostomily - Membrane Excitability And Glioblastoma |
11:15 am -11:45 am | Dr. Toledo - Biomarkers In Neurodegeneration |
11:45 am- 12:15 pm | Dr. Hegde - Neurodegenerative Mechanisms In Brain Hemorrhage |
12:15 pm -1:15 pm LUNCH | |
Afternoon | |
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Dr. Britz - Translational Neural Recovery Of Brain Injury |
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm | Dr. Yun. Title: Neuroinflammation In Cancer And Alzheimer’s Disease. |
2:15 pm - 2:40 pm | Dr. Faridar. Title: Targeting Adaptive Immune System In Alzheimer's Disease. |
2:40 pm - 3:05 pm | Dr. Krencik - Neural Organoids In Translational Therapies |
3:05 pm - 3:15 pm BREAK | |
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Dr. Weng - Epigenetics And RNA Modification In Plasticity |
3:40 pm - 4:05 pm | Dr. Chung - Rare To Common Diseases: Neurodegeneration In Fruit Flies |
4:05 pm - 4:30 pm | Dr. Villapol - Microbiome In Brain Injury |
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm | Dr. Sayenko - Neuromodulation And Spinal Stimulation |
4:55 pm - 5:00 pm | Adjournment And Closing Remarks By Dr. Horner |
Location:
Houston Methodist Research Institute
John F. Bookout Auditorium R2-306
6670 Bertner Avenue
Houston, TX 77030, United States
Houston Methodist Way Finder Map
Direction from nearest parking garages:
From Garage 1:
- Take parking garage elevator to 3rd floor.
- Exit and turn left and enter doors into the hospital on the right.
- Take stairs down to ground level, walk straight past the Information Desk. This is the Crain Garden. Continue straight toward the Weiss Chapel, turn right and continue past the Gift Shop.
- Turn right before the Dunn Tower Elevator bank and then a quick left (Starbucks will be on the right). Proceed down this hall toward the Market Café.
- Turn Right, then a quick left to leave Dunn Tower and enter into the Research Institute.
- Continue straight toward exit doors.
- Turn right at the RI Information Desk. Proceed up the staircase and the John F. Bookout Auditorium will be on the right side.
- Elevators to the second floor are also available, pass the staircase and proceed to end. Elevators will be on the right.
From Garage 7:
- Take parking garage elevator to ground floor, exit and turn left to outer walkway.
- Turn left and proceed to glass double doors on left, enter Walter Tower.
- Proceed straight down hallway past the Fondren/Alkek elevators, then past the Dunn elevator bank.
- Take a left (Starbucks will be on the right) and follow the directions from above to the Research Institute.
Internal Speakers:
Stanley Appel (Motor Neuron Disease, ALS)
Alireza Faridar- Cognitive Neurology, Alzheimer’s Disease)
Tetsuo Ashizawa- Cerebellar Degeneration, Ataxia)
Kyuson Yun- Neuro-Oncology, Cancer Stem Cells)
Jun Li - Peripheral Nerve Disease and Myelin Biology
Bo Hu- Mechanism Of Demyelination
Yi-Lan Weng – Epigenetics And RNA Modification In Plasticity
Robert Krencik – Neural Organoids In Translational Therapies
Dimitry Sayenko – Neuromodulation And Spinal Stimulation
Sonia Villapol – Microbiome In Brain Injury
Robert Rostomily – Membrane Excitability And Glioblastoma
Gavin Britz – Translational Neural Recovery Of Brain Injury
Murali Hegde – Neurodegenerative Mechanisms In Brain Hemorrhage
Phil Horner – Therapeutic Neural Plasticity And Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury