9/20/07: Announcing the 8th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium October 4th, 2007

The UNC Neuroscience Center will host their 8th Annual Symposium at the Carolina Club on Thursday, October 4th beginning at 9am.


The following are this years speakers and their talks:

9:00-9:55am
Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University,
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Title: "Imaging Cortical Microcircuits and Dendritic Spines: the Cortex as a Linear Integrator"

9:55-10:50am
Erin Schuman, PhD
Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology,
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Title: "Protein Synthesis at the Synapse"

10:50-11:10 coffee break

11:10-12:05pm
William Newsome, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford,
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Title: "Reward, Value and Choice: Toward a Neurobiology of Decision Making"

12:05-1:00pm
Lennart Mucke, MD
Director and Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute for Neurological Disease,
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, UC San Fransisco

Title: "Alzheimer's Disease: A Network Dysfunction Perspective"

1:00-2:00
Buffet luncheon with the speakers catered by the Carolina Club

*Please RSVP to megan_murphy@med.unc.edu for the luncheon*