NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES AND THE BRAIN
Conte Center @ UCI 7th Annual Symposium


Tuesday, February 25, 2020 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
The Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617
TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
8:00 - 8:45 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:20 AM Welcome Pramod Khargonekar | Vice Chancellor Research
Michael Stamos | Dean, UCI School of Medicine
9:20 - 9:25 AM Opening Remarks Tallie Z. Baram | Distinguished Professor, Director, Conte Center@UCI
9:30 - 10:30 AM Innate Immune Regulation of Neural Circuit Development and Learning Anna V. Molofsky | Associate Professor, Psychiatry UCSF School of Medicine
10:30 - 10:40 AM Break
10:45 - 11:10 AM Viral-genetic Tracing of the Midbrain Dopamine System Kevin T. Beier | Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, UCI
11:15 - 11:40 AM Towards Ubiquitous Physiological Monitoring Michelle Khine | Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UCI
11:45 - 12:10 PM Chemical and Transcriptomic Approaches for Understanding Cell-specific Regulation if Gene Expression in the Brain Robert Spitale | Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCI
12:15 - 1:15 PM Lunch
1:15 - 2:40 PM Poster Session & Poster Tours Poster Tour Leaders:
V. Risbrough : Viral-genetic circuit, epigenomics
L. Glynn : Human Studies
M. Yassa : Novel cross species imaging
2:45 - 2:55 PM Break
3:00 - 4:00 PM Opportunities and Challenges in Mental Health Research Joshua Gordon | Director, National Institute of Mental Health
4:00 - 5:00 PM Reception