10th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium

The 10th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium will be held on Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 8:50am until 1:00pm.  The event will be held at the Carolina Club on UNC Campus.

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The speakers and agenda for this year's event is as follows:

8:15am - 8:45am          Breakfast Reception 
8:50am - 9:00am          Welcome

9:00am - 9:50am          David Ginty, PhD
                                     HHMI Investigator; Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins
                                     "Growth and Survival Signals Controlling Development of the Peripheral Nervous System"
 

9:55am - 10:45am        Pasko Rakic, MD, PhD
                                     Professor and Chair of Neurobiology; Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience; Director, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
                                     Yale University
                                     "Making a Map of the Mind: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Migration" 

10:50am - 11:05am      Break

11:10am - 12:00pm      Luis Parada, PhD
                                     Distinguished Chair and Professor of Developmental Biology; Distinguished Chair of Neuroscience
                                     UT Southwestern
                                     "TrkB & P13Kinase Modeling Neurogenesis, Mood & Autism in Mice"

12:05pm - 12:55pm      Nancy Kanwisher, PhD
                                     Investigator, McGovern Institute; Professor of Neuroscience, MIT
                                     "Functionally Specific Regions in the Human Brain: Evidence from fMRI"

1:00pm - 2:15pm          Buffet Luncheon

**There will be a buffet luncheon following the presentations from 1:00pm-2:15pm. Please be sure to RSVP to megan_murphy@med.unc.edu or call 919-843-8536 if you plan on attending this event.