University of Utah Electrophysiology Meeting

9:00

Arrive, coffee/tea/juice and bagels

9:10

Mary Lucero, Welcome

9:15

Yingbin Fu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Photopigment in Image-forming Vision

9:30

Alonso Moreno, DSc, Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering
Heterotypic connexin channels: slennahc nixennoc cipytoreteH
Permeance, Conductance and Gating

9:45

Ning Tian, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Synaptic Activity Regulates Retinal Synaptic Circuitry

10:00

Sharif Taha, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Gating Feeding and Foraging Through the Nucleus Accumbens

10:15

Break, coffee/tea/juice and snacks

10:30

Karen Wilcox, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Increased Coupling and Altered Glutamate Transport Currents in Astrocytes Following Kainic-acid-induced Status Epilepticus

10:45

Chuck Dorval, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Deep Brain Stimulation Minimizes Neuronal Disorder in Animal Models of Parkinsonism

11:00

John White, PhD, USTAR Professor of Bioengineering, Executive Director of the Brain Institute
Cellular Mechanisms underlying Synchronous Activity in the
Hippocampal Formation

11:15

Kyle E. Thomson, Graduate Research Assistant to Bradley Greger, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
A Cellular Basis for High-frequency Discharges Associated with Inter-ictal Spikes in Human Neocortex

11:30

5' survey re: future interactions, followed by group photo, social time and lunch