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Dr. Steven Gabbe
The 2002 Earl W. Sutherland Jr. Symposium will be held Wednesday, May 1. Presented by the Pharmacology department and the Center for Molecular Neuroscience, the symposium will begin at 1:30 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.
The topic of the symposium is “Presynaptic Mechanisms Supporting Neural Plasticity.”
Featured speakers include Craig C. Garner, Ph.D., professor of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Wolfhard Almers, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University; George J. Augustine, Ph.D., G.B. Geller Professor of Neurobiology, Duke Medical Center; Joshua M. Kaplan, Ph.D., professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; and Steven A. Siegelbaum, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior of Columbia University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.