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Welcome to the 41St Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference on Brain Research Welcome to the 41st annual meeting of the Winter Conference on Brain Research I extend a special welcome to all of you who are new to the meeting. I believe that you will find this to be one of the most diverse, high-quality, and content-heavy meetings in neuroscience that many of you will attend. Besides having the chance to hear neuroscientists from around the world present their work at formal sessions, this meeting offers the unique opportunity to socialize and ski with these same scientists in an informal setting. Those of you who are WCBR habitués know that the success of the meeting depends upon your individual contributions to each session, even if you are not a panel or workshop speaker or a poster presenter. Our biggest strength is the scientific interaction that occurs at these formal sessions, as well as the personal interactions that take place after the sessions have ended. For this reason, I urge you to welcome newcomers (blue badges) and Travel Fellows (badges with purple dots) into your discussions, and social and ski groups as often as possible to make sure that this will be the first of their many future WCBR meetings. The week begins on Saturday night with the opening reception. The opening breakfast on Sunday will feature our keynote speaker, Dr. Samuel Weiss. A previous WCBR attendee known to many of you, Sam is also a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy/Phar- macology & Therapeutics, and a member of the Genes and Development Research Group Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. In addition to being a co-discoverer of the metabotropic glutamate receptor, he and his collaborators have made many seminal contributions to our under- standing of how stem cells function in the brain. Sam’s talk is entitled, “The Hope and Hype of Neural Stem Cells: What Does the Future Hold?” Other special events during the rest of the week will include: 1) the School Outreach program, which will be run by Karen Greif with help from Frank Welsh. It includes ~12 WCBR participants who bring neuroscience to students in three local schools; 2) a Town Meeting for locals and hotel guests at Snowbird and Alta lodges, which is orga- nized by Kristin Anstrom-Kelly with a talk by Jon Cohen entitled, “The Vulcanization of the Human Brain: Brain Imaging Studies of “Cognition-Emotion” Interactions in Decision Making”; 3) the Smitty Stevens Memorial (NASTAR) Ski Race organized by Dale Pelligrino and Tom Swanson and the Mountain Lunch will be held on Wednesday afternoon; 4) the Business Meeting will also be held on Wednesday at January 26–February 1, 2008 • Snowbird, Utah 1 6:30 pm, immediately following the afternoon sessions. Please attend to elect new board members and to provide your thoughts on the program, overall organization, and future meeting sites. Because board members play a vital role in the governance of WCBR, we ask all of you to consider nominating yourself (or a “friend”) for open positions in the categories of cell/molecular, clinical or systems/behavioral neurosciences; 5) the Annual Banquet finishes the week on Friday night with live music, awards, and some wild and crazy neuroscientist dancers. I want to remind you that this is an all-volunteer organization. We have an especially dedicated group of officers, board of directors, and committee chairs. Tom Swanson has done a wonderful job as Facilities chair working with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conference planners to make this a successful meeting. Program Chair Patricio O’Donnell and his committee have worked hard to increase the number of high-quality scientific proposals. The result is an excep- tionally broad and interesting program this year. Jacqueline McGinty is now in her second year as Treasurer and has made sure we have remained in excellent fiscal health. We also all owe a considerable debt to the members of the Board of Directors for their valuable insights and continued input to the governance of this year’s meeting. Steve Levison, Exhibits Chair, is our liaison with the exhibitors who provide important financial support for the meeting. This year, he is being helped by Paul Dore-Duffy. Our exhibitors sponsor the afternoon breaks, and I urge you to visit their booths at these breaks. Gretchen Snyder and George Wilcox have taken over the Travel Fellow program this year and have worked hard to raise funds to underwrite these fellowships. They and their committee have chosen 14 pre- and postdoc- toral students and junior faculty as Travel Fellows and have recruited an equal number of volunteers from our ranks to serve as mentors. On a related point, I note with sadness the passing this year of our long- time friend, scientific colleague, and WCBR attendee, Ann Kelley. She will be sorely missed by all who knew her. Because of her importance to WCBR and its attendees, we have named one of the travel fellowships in her honor. Finally, Kim Topp will take over as our new Conference Chair at the final banquet. She is an extremely capable and experienced leader, and I feel very comfortable leaving the conference in her able hands. In conclusion, I hope that you will all enjoy the meeting, your colleagues, and the snow. Barry Levin Conference Chair 2 41st Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research Contents General Information. 5 Special Events. .10 Preamble to the Program. .12 Saturday, January 26. .12 Sunday, January 27 . 12 Monday, January 28 . .14 Tuesday, January 29 . .16 Wednesday, January 30 . 18 Thursday, January 31 . 19 Friday, February 1 . .21 Poster Session 1 . .23 Poster Session 2. .25 Poster Session 3. .27 Session Abstracts. 30 Poster Abstracts. 101 Participants. 162 Don’t forget to visit the exhibits January 26–February 1, 2008 • Snowbird, Utah 3 4 41st Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research General Information Headquarters is the Cliff Lodge Conference Center. All scientific activi- ties will be held there. WCBR Information Desk and Message Center are in the Registration area, Cliff Lodge, Level B. The desk hours are as follows: Morning Afternoon Saturday 1/26 8:00–10:00 am 3:30–9:00 pm Sunday 1/27 6:30–10:00 am 3:30–7:00 pm Monday 1/28–Thursday 1/31 7:00–9:45 am 3:30–7:00 pm Friday 2/1 7:00–9:45 am The telephone number for messages is 217-714-9479. Registration packets containing a conference badge, registration receipt, tickets for breakfasts, mountain lunch and closing banquet, and program book should be picked up at the WCBR Information Desk. Attendance at this conference is strictly limited to preregistered parti- cipants. On-site registration is not available. Posters will be available for viewing in three different sessions during the week in Ballroom 2 & 3: Poster Session 1, Sunday–Monday, Poster Session 2, Monday–Tuesday, and Poster Session 3, Tuesday–Thursday. Poster presenters will be by their posters for discussion from 3:30 to 4:30 pm according to the schedule listed on pages 23–28. Presenters may put up their posters after 8:30 pm on the day their session starts. Presenters should take down their posters by 8:30 pm on the final day of their session. Please see Poster Sessions section in program for titles and names of presenters. Exhibits and Lounge are in Ballroom 2 & 3. Coffee is available there from 9:30–10:30 am, Monday through Friday. Refreshments are provided 3:30–4:30 pm, Sunday through Thursday. Exhibits close after 10:30 am on Friday. Friday’s afternoon break will be in the Ballroom Lobby. Breakfast is served to all registrants on Sunday, 7:30–8:30 am, in the Ballroom, and on Monday through Friday, 6:00–10:00 am, at the Aerie Restaurant (Cliff Lodge Level 10) or The Forklift (Snowbird Center Level 3). The tickets in your registration packet are required for admis- sion. January 26–February 1, 2008 • Snowbird, Utah 5 Ski Lift Tickets will be available from the WCBR Information Desk. Daily tickets can be purchased or prepaid tickets can be picked up during desk hours. Banquet table sign up sheets will be posted next to the Registration area, Monday–Friday. Attendees will have the opportunity to reserve a table at the Friday banquet. This will make it easier for you and your friends to sit together at the banquet without rushing to hold a table when the doors open. If you have any questions, inquire at the Registra- tion area. Board of Directors 2008 Fellowship Kristin Anstrom-Kelly Awardees Constance Atwell Karen L. Bales, Ann Kelley Paula Dore-Duffy Memorial Travel Fellow Tim Greenamyre Clare L. Beasley Joseph LaManna Roger J. Thompson Iris Lindberg Peter T. Morgan Hugh McIntyre David J. Rademacher David Sibley Joshua A. Gordon Ralph Siegel Thomas Pattij Gretchen Snyder Dwight Dickinson George Wilcox Elizabeth Tunbridge Anne K. Bertelsen Conference Chairs Jamie Peters Barry Levin, Chair Joshua L. Roffman Kim Topp, Chair-Elect Christopher M. Olsen Pierre-Gilles Henry Exhibits Fellowship Committee Steve Levison Gretchen L. Snyder, Co-Chair Facilities Committee George Wilcox, Co-Chair Tom Swanson, Chair Jill B. Becker Carrie John Karen Gale Christa Patterson Karen Greif Eric S. Nisenbaum 6 41st Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research Fellowship Mentors N. Eric Naftchi Susan Andersen Akiko Nishiyama Katherine Burdick Patricio O’Donnell Michael Crair Kent Shellenberger Mark Cunningham Gretchen Snyder Janet Finlay Kimberly Topp Mark Geyer George Wilcox Suzanne Haber Silver Sponsors ($50–$99) Wendy Macklin Connie Atwell Peter Magill Charles Billington Athina Markou Roberta Brinton John Mendelson Sharon Eastwood Gretchen Snyder Helene Emsellem George Wilcox Peter Fox Jill Becker Richard Gracely Ron Gregg Fellowship Sponsors Henry Holcomb We thank the individuals and Elizabeth Jonas organizations that have gene- Richard Keefe rously supported the Travel Catherine Kotz Fellowship program.
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