PROGRAM
Pre-Meeting - July 8th
Welcome Reception 6pm-8pm
Ryan Atrium, Robert Lurie Medical Research Center
Day 1 - July 9th: Philippe Ascher Day
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Simpson-Querrey Auditorium
Conference Opening 8:00am
Geoff Swanson and Anis Contractor
Session 1: Ascher memorial session 8:15am—9:45am
8:15—8:40 — Linda Nowak | Cornell University
8:45—9:10 — Jon Johnson | University of Pittsburgh
9:15—9:40 — Gabriela Popescu | University at Buffalo
Session 2: iGluR biogenesis and signaling 9:50am—11:30am
Chair: Ingo Greger
9:50—10:10 — Yael Stern-Bach | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10:15—10:35 — Bernd Fakler | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
10:40—11:00 —Stephanie Gantz | University of Iowa
11:05—11:25 — Villu Maricq | University of Utah
Break 11:25am—11:35am
Special Panel: CureGRIN/GRIN2B representatives 11:35am—12:25pm
11:30—11:35 — Steve Traynelis | Emory University
11:40—11:55 — Liz Marfia-Ash | GRIN2B Foundation
12:00—12:15 — Keith McArthur | CureGRIN Foundation
Group photo, lunch and posters 12.20pm—1:45 pm
Sponsor presentations 1:45pm—2:10pm
1:45—1:50 — RWD
1:55—2:00 — Scientifica
2:05—2:10 — ePatch
Session 3: iGluRs and Disease 2:15pm—3:50pm
Chair: Mike Salter
2:15—2:35 — Rick Huganir | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2:40—3:00 — Lonnie Wollmuth | SUNY Stony Brook
3:05—3:25 — Sharon Swanger | Virginia Tech
3:30—3:45 — Toshihiro Nomura | Northwestern University
Break 3:50pm—4:00pm
Session 4: Function of iGluRs 4:00pm—5:35pm
Chair: Susumu Tomita
4:00—4:15 — Kasper Hansen | University of Montana
4:20—4:40 — Kishore Narasimhan | Creighton University
4:45—5:05 — Jesper Sjöström | McGill University
5:10—5:30 — Steve DeVries | Northwestern University
6:30pm – 9:30pm Dinner at Woodwind
259 E. Erie St., 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611
END OF DAY 1
Day 2 - July 10th: Chuck Stevens Day
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Simpson-Querrey Auditorium
Session 1: Stevens memorial session 8:30am —10:15 am
8:30—8:55 — Lynn Dobrunz | University of Alabama Birmingham
9:00—9:20 — Kim McAllister | University of California, Davis
9:25—9:45 — Sam Young | University of Iowa
9:50—10:10 — Yongling Zhu | Northwestern University
Break 10:15am—10:25am
Session 2: Structure of iGluRs 10:25am—12:00pm
Chair: Lonnie Wollmuth
10:25—10:45 — Vasanthi Jayamaran | University of Texas Houston
10:50—11:05 — Shanti Gangwar | Columbia University
11:10—11:30 — Teru Nakagawa | Vanderbilt University
11:35—11:55 — Ingo Greger | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Lunch and Posters 12:00pm—1:30 pm
Session 3: Synaptic Structure and function 1:30pm—3:10pm
Chair: Katherine Roche
1:30—1:50 — Matt Dalva | Tulane University
1:55—2:15 — Jeff Savas | Northwestern University
2:20—2:40 — Susumu Tomita | Yale University School of Medicine
2:45—3.05 — Jacques Wadiche | University of Alabama Birmingham
Break 3:10pm—3:20pm
Session 4: Synapses and Disease 3:20pm—4:15pm
Chair: Kim McAllister
3:20—3:40 — Pushpa Kumari | Northwestern University
3:45—4:00 — Gavin Rumbaugh | University of Florida Scripps Biomedical Research
4:05—4:25 — Peter Penzes | Northwestern University
4:30—4:50 — David Stellwagen | McGill University
Conference closing 5pm
Geoff Swanson and Anis Contractor