UCLA INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESEARCH CENTER
ANNUAL RETREAT
October 3, 2009
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Saturday, October 3
8:30 AM Registration
9:00-10:30 AM Fragile X
Session Chair: Yi Sun, PhD (Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences)
Imaging the origin of dendrite spine abnormalities in Fragile X mice
Speaker: Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD, PhD (Neurobiology)
Epigenetic regulation of the FRM1 gene in cell reprogramming and differentiation
Speaker: Guoping Fan, PhD (Human Genetics)
Behavioral and morphological analysis of cytoplasmic FMRP-interacting protein 1 (Cyfip1), an autism candidate gene
Speaker: Donna Werling, Graduate Student (Daniel Geschwind Lab)
10:30-11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Noon Regeneration and Repair
Session Chair: Harley Kornblum, MD, PhD (Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Pediatrics)
Neural repair and recovery after stroke: A careful reassessment of biological dogmas
Speaker: S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD (Neurology)
Traumatic brain injury: Metabolism and the developing brain
Speaker: Mayumi Prins, PhD (Neurosurgery)
Diet and exercise not just for pleasure; they can change our brain
Speaker: Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, PhD (Neurosurgery and Physiological Science)
12:30-1:50 PM Lunch
2:00-2:30 PM “Overview of Colorado IDDRC”
Speaker: Karl Pfenninger, MD (Director, Pediatrics/ Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Denver Medical Center)
2:30-4:00 PM Pediatric Imaging and Cognition
Session Chair: Susan Bookheimer, PhD (Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences)
Neural representation of language and social cognition
Speaker: Mirella Dapretto, PhD (Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences)
Multimodal brain imaging in development and the impact of prenatal exposure to drugs of abuse
Speaker: Elizabeth Sowell, PhD (Neurology)
Intervening with very young children with autism
Speaker: Connie Kasari, PhD (Education and Information Sciences)
4:00-6:30 PM Poster Session:
Awards for Posters: Jean de Vellis
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres served