9:00 am Registration | Welcome Breakfast – Integrative Learning Center (2nd Floor)

10:00 am Opening Remarks – Integrative Learning Center S240

10:20 am Paul Katz, Georgia State University

Neurons, neurotransmitters and behavior: Same, same but different, yet still the same.

 

11:10 am Staci Bilbo, Duke University

Microglial colonization of the developing brain: Implications for long-term neural

and behavioral outcomes.

 

12:00 pm Lunch – Marriott Room, Campus Center (11th floor)

 

1:00 pm Career Development Workshops – Integrative Learning Center (various rooms)

 

2:00 pm Tracy Bale, University of Pennsylvania

Maternal stress impacts on the microbiome and neurodevelopment: How the bugs got into your gut.

 

2:50 pm Colin Saldanha, American University

Specificity in secreted signalling: The precision of steroid delivery in the songbird brain.

 

3:40 pm Break

 

4:00 pm Harold Zakon, University of Texas, Austin

Deja vu all over again: Convergent evolution in electric fish.

 

5:00 pm Poster Session and Drinks – Marriott Room, Campus Center, 11th floor

 

6:00 pm Closing Remarks and Banquet Dinner