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June
24
Mon
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Clinical Advances in the Management of
SCI and TBI
Session
Chair:
James Geddes, PhD
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8:30
- 9:30
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Andrew Blight,
PhD
Acorda Therapeutics
Seeking
Approval: The Challenge of Getting
Therapies for SCI to the Clinic
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9:30
-10:00
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James Abbas,
PhD & David Randall, PhD
University of Kentucky
Cardiovascular
Adaptations after Spinal Cord
Injury
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10:00
-10:30
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Break
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10:30-11:30
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Edward Hall,
PhD
Pfizer Global
Research and Development
Pharmacological
Treatment of Acute CNS Injury:
What have we accomplished clinically
and where do we go from here?
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11:30–12:00
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James
Pauly, PhD
University of Kentucky
Chronic
Nicotine Treatment Facilitates
Cognitive Recovery in a Rat
Model of Traumatic Brain Injury
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12:00–
1:30
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Lunch
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Development
and Plasticity of Spinal Circuits
Session
Chairs:
James
Abbas, PhD and Ranu Jung, PhD
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1:30–
2:30
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C. J. Heckman,
PhD
Northwestern
University
Role of
Cellular Properties in Generating
Spasticity after Injury
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2:30-2:50
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Jiango
Cheng, MD, PhD
University of Louisville
Differential
Distribution of Interneurons
in the Neural Networks for Locomotion
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2:50-3:10
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Ranu
Jung, PhD
University of Kentucky
Locomotor
Training in a Rodent Model of
Incomplete SCI
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3:10-3:30
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Break
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3:30-4:30
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Anne
Bekoff, PhD
University of Colorado at Boulder
Development
of Pattern Generation in Chicks:
Role of Intrinsic and Environmental
Factors
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4:30-5:00
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David Magnuson,
PhD
University of Louisville
SCI: CPG,
BBB, VLF, MEP, PNG, & TGN
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JUNE
25
TUES
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Traumatic
Brain Injury
Session
Chair:
Stephen Scheff, Ph.D.
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8:30–9:30
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Bruce
Lyeth, PhD
University of California at Davis
The Severity
of Traumatic Brain Injury May
be Related to the Fate of Astrocytes
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9:30-10:00
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Girish Kotwal,
PhD
University of Louisville
Role of
Complement in Brain and Spinal
Cord Injury
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10:00-10:30
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Break
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10:30-11:30
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Larry
Jenkins, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Developmental
Protein Synthesis after Pediatric
TBI
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11:30– 12:00
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Stephen
Scheff, PhD
University of Kentucky
Cellular
Homeostasis Following TBI
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12:00–1:30
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Lunch
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GENE
EXPRESSION AND GENE THERAPY
Session
Chair: George Smith, PhD
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1:30–2:30
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Stephen
Strittmatter, MD, PhD
Yale
University
Nogo Receptor
and Axonal Regeneration in Spinal
Cord Injury
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2:30-3:00
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Scott
Whittemore, PhD
University of Louisville
Lineage
Restriction of Stem Cells Engrafted
into the Injured Spinal Cord
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3:00-3:30
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Break
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3:30-4:30
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Marie
Filbin, PhD
Hunter
College
Encouraging
CNS Regeneration by Changing
the Intrinsic Growth
State of the Neuron
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4:30-5:00
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Timothy
McClintock, PhD
University of Kentucky
SCIgenes,
the Database of Spinal Cord
Injury-Related Genes
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5:30-10:00
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Picnic
buffet and Lexington Legends
Baseball game
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JUNE
26
wed
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CASPASES AND CALPAINS IN
BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD INJURY
Session
Chair: Joe Springer, Ph.D.
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8:30–9:15
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Susan
Knoblach, PhD
Georgetown University
Caspases,
Cell Death and Apoptosis after
Head injury
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9:15-10:00
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Joe Springer,
PhD
University of Kentucky
Glutamate-Mediated
Apoptosis in Spinal Cord Injury
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10:00–10:30
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Break
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10:30-11:15
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Kathyrn
Saatman, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Calpains
in Head Injury: Current Experimental
Evidence
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11:15–12:00
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James Geddes,
PhD
University of Kentucky
Calpain
Activation and Inhibition Following
Spinal Cord Injury
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