Friday, April 7

5:30 Cocktails and Dinner at the Swope Center

8:00 Plenary Session, Whitman Auditorium:

Saturday, April 8 Talks

Session I: Pyloric Rhythms

8:45 AM Weaver, Adam L. and Scott L. Hooper. Ohio University Neurobiology Program. Within the Normal Pyloric Frequency Range in Panulirus, Removal of LP & VD neuron Input Has Very Little Effect on Pyloric Activity.

9:00 AM Zhang, Ying, Jason N. MacLean, and Ronald M. Harris-Warrick. Cornell University. The overexpression of a shal K+ channel gene in lobster pyloric neurons.

9:15 AM MacLean, Jason N., Ying Zhang, and Ronald M. Harris-Warrick. Cornell University. Overexpression of A-type K+ channels slightly modifies pyloric neuronal rhythmic activity.

9:30 AM Withers, Michelle, Leslie Griffith, and Eve Marder. Brandeis University. The role of CaMKII activity in the pyloric network of the lobster, Panulirus interruptus.

9:45 AM Thoroughman, Kurt, Cristina Soto-Trevino, Eve Marder, and Larry Abbott. Brandeis University. Adaptation of synaptic conductance via calcium concentration in half-center model neuron oscillators.

10:00 AM Thirumalai, Vatsala and Eve Marder. Brandeis University. Does the Commissural Pyloric Oscillator exist in Homarus americanus?

Coffee Break 10:15-10:45 AM

Session II: Network Modulation

10:45 AM Stein, Wolfgang, Debbie Wood, and Mike P. Nusbaum. University of Pennsylvania Dept Neuroscience. Convergence and divergence of cotransmitter actions.

11:00 AM Wood, Debbie and Mike Nusbaum. University of Pennsylvania. State dependent coordination of rhythmic neural circuits.

11:15 AM Beenhakker, Mark, Shari Hertzberg, and Mike Nusbaum. University of Pennsylvania. Modulation of network activity by a newly identified sensory pathway.

11:30 AM Bender, Kevin J., Jim H. Belanger, and Barry A. Trimmer. Department of Biology, Tufts University. Watching Your Step: Locomotor Compensation Due to Sensory Input in Manduca sexta.

11:45 AM Zayas, Ricardo M., Sanjive Qazi, and Barry A. Trimmer Department of Biology, Tufts University. Acetylcholine activates nitric oxide production in the CNS of Manduca sexta.

Lunch 12:00-2:00 PM

Session III: Genes and Behavior

2:00 PM Vermehren, Anke, Sanjive Qazi, and Barry A Trimmer. Tufts University. Using RNA interference to study the subunit composition of nicotinic receptors in Manduca sexta.

2:15 PM Vilim, F.S., J.H. Park, N.C. Dembrow, V. Alexeeva, J. Jing, and K.R. Weiss. Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Identification of the Aplysia allatotropin related peptide precursor from neuron B67 using cDNA amplification and representational difference analysis.

2:30 PM Newcomb, James M. and Winsor H. Watson, III. University of New Hampshire. Just Say NO: The putative inhibitory role of nitric oxide in the swimming behavior of the nudibranch Melibe leonina.

2:45 PM Eliasz, Kim H. and Henning Schneider. William Paterson University of New Jersey. Fighting Behavior in Zebrafish, Danio rerio.

3:00 PM Doecks, Free N. and Henning Schneider. William Paterson University of New Jersey. Modulation of Locomotion in Larval Zebrafish, Danio rerio.

Coffee Break 3:15-3:45

Session IV: Behavioral and Neural Plasticity

3:45 PM Coleman, Melissa J. and Eric T. Vu. Barrow Neurological Institute. Song impairment and subsequent recovery after unilateral lesion of a thalamic nucleus in zebra finch.

4:00 PM Blitz, Dawn M. and Jan-Marino Ramirez. University of Chicago. Long term facilitation of respiratory activity following anoxia in vitro.

4:15 PM Nadim, Farzan and Yair Manor. NJIT/Rutgers University. 2 depressions are better than 1.

Cocktails and Dinner 6:00 PM

Poster Session and Party 8:00 PM

Sunday, April 9 Talks

Session V: Neuromodulation

9:30 AM Gutovitz, Scott B, John Birmingham, and Eve Marder. Brandeis University. The pre- and postsynaptic effects of GABA on a gastric mill muscle of the lobster Homarus americanus.

9:45 AM Hamilton, Jonna L., Claire R. Edwards, and Mary Kate Worden. Dept Neuroscience, University of Virginia. Modulation of neuromuscular function in the lobster by temperature and serotonin.

10:00 AM Issa, Fadi, Jens Herberholz, and Donald Edwards. Georgia State University. Hands off electrophysiology: Different roles of giant and non-giant neurons during tail flipping in crayfish.

Coffee Break 10:15-10:30 AM

10:30 AM Edwards, Donald, Terri Teshiba, Ashkan Shamsian, Bharam Yashar, Shih-Rung Yeh, and Franklin B. Krasne. Georgia State University. Qualitative Differences in Serotonergic Modulation of Crayfish Giant Neurons as a Function of Exposure Parameters.

10:45 AM Sullivan, Jeremy, Jeanne Benton, and Barbara Beltz. Wellesley College. Serotonin depletion in vivo inhibits the branching of olfactory projection neurons in the lobster deutocerebrum.

11:00 AM Siwicki, Kathleen and Sean McBride. Swarthmore College. Mushroom body ablation impairs memory in courtship conditioning in Drosophila

Saturday Evening Poster Presentation Session

Christie, Andy, John Quinlan, and Mikey Nusbaum. U Penn School of Medicine. Identification of the histaminergic pathways to the crab STG.

Church, Paul J., Tuula Karhunen, Ferdinand. S. Vilim, Vera Alexeeva, and Klaudiusz Weiss. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Long-term facilitation of peptide release from an identified Aplysia motor neuron.

Cromarty, Stuart, R. Heinrich, and E. Kravitz. Harvard Medical School. Physiological properties of lobster serotonin neurosecretory neurons.

Dircksen, Heinrich, D. Boecking, D. Soyez, A. Basu, E. Chang, B. Beltz, and E. Kravitz. University of Bonn. Unusal crustacean hyperglycemic hormone-like peptides in lobster peripheral neurosecretory systems.

Doernberg, Sarah, S. Cromarty, B. Beltz, and E. Kravitz. Harvard Medical School. Agonistic behavior in lobsters depleted of serotonin by 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine.

Ganter, Geoff, M Bradley, L Ostroff, S Cromarty, and E Kravitz. Harvard Medical School. Fighting Lobsters: Molt and Experience-related Changes in Patterns of Gene Expression.

Herberholz, Jens, Fadi Issa, and Donald H. Edwards. Georgia State University. Fighting in juvenile crayfish: Tail flipping behavior is different in dominant and subordinate animals.

Jing, Jian, P.T. Morgan, I. Hurwitz, E.C. Cropper, and K.R. Weiss. Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Dept Physiology. Differential roles of buccal elements of the feeding central pattern generator in switching CBI-2-induced motor programs in Aplysia.

Jurkuvenas, Audra, J.J.B. Smith, and I. Orchard. University of Toronto. Serotonin immunoreactivity in the CNS of blood-fed and artificial diet-fed Rhodnius prolixus.

Keating, Christopher and Ian Orchard. University of Toronto, Dept Zoology. The effect of neurotransmitters on the salivary gland of the locust.

Kwok, Rodney and Ian Orchard. University of Toronto. Characterisation of a putative peptide receptor in the CNS of Locusta migratoria: a radioligand approach.

Mahadevan, Anand, Patsy Dickinson, and Jane Hauptman. Bowdoin College. Effect of RPCH on facilitation at the IVN-GM synapse in the spiny lobster Panulirus interruptus.

McDearmid, Jonathon, V. Brezina, J. Jing, and K. Weiss. Mt. Sinai Medical School. Modulation of ion currents in Aplysia sensory neurons by AMRP peptides.

Mercier, A.J., M. Sammahin, M. O'mara, and A.Wrong. Dept. of Biol. Sci., Brock Univ., St. Catharines, ON. Pharmacological properties of glutamate receptors associated with crayfish hindgut.

Morley, Eric J. and Gregory A. Lnenicka. SUNY at Albany. Chronic Lead Exposure Blocks the Fine Tuning of Synapses in Drosophila.

OGrady, Daniel F. and Winsor H. Watson III. University of New Hampshire. The use of a treadmill to study the influence of locomotion on the heart and ventilation rates of lobsters.

Panksepp, Jules and Robert Huber. J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind & Behavior & Dept Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University. Neuromodulators and aggressive behavior: chronic manipulations of crayfish CNS serotonin.

Park, Ji-Hu, Ferdinand. S. Vilim, Elizabeth Cropper, and Klaudiusz R. Weiss. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Multitarget motor neuron and its intrinsic modulator.

Paton, Joseph J., Jim H. Belanger, and Barry A. Trimmer. Tufts University. Cholinergic Induced Fictive Crawling: The Initiation and Coordination of Patterned Nerve Activity in Manduca.

Qazi, Sanjive and Trimmer, B.A. Tufts University. Studying information processing of complex and noisy transmitter signals by multistate ion-gated channels.

Robert, D., Moira van Staaden, and Heiner Roemer. J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind & Behavior, Bowling Green State University. Sound-induced vibrations in the atympanate bladder grasshopper Bullacris membracioides.

Schreiber, Suzanne M.C. and Winsor H. Watson III. University of New Hampshire. Cardioregulatory nerves are not the source of temperature-induced heart rate modulation in the American lobster (Homarus americanus).

Schuldt, Adam, Amy Johnson, and Patsy Dickinson. Bowdoin College. Effects of Temperature on contractions of GM1 muscle from the Stomatogastric system of Cancer irroratus.

Song, Cha-Kyong, Jens Herberholz, and Donald H. Edwards. Georgia State University. The Effect of Social Experience on Tactile Responses in Crayfish Procambarus clarkii.

Tuttle, Sarah and Robert Huber. J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind & Behavior and Dept Biological Sciences Bowling Green State University. The neuropeptide Proctolin alters agonistic behavior in crayfish, Orconectes rusticus.

Vilim, FS, Y Furukawa, Y. Fujisawa, K. Nakamaru, H. Wakayama, K. Nakabayashi, L. Li, E Romanova, J.V. Sweedler, T. Ellis, N.C. Dembrow, A. Romero, E.C. Cropper, F. Morishita, O. Matsushima, H. Minakata, and K.R. Weiss. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. The enterins: A novel family of neuropeptides isolated from the gut and CNS of Aplysia.

Yue, Zhaoxia and Robert Huber. Bowling Green State University. Social status and CNS amine levels in crayfish, Orconectes rusticus.

Presenting Authors

Undergraduate	Graduate Student	Postdoc	Faculty	Res. Assoc.
J.Panksepp	Z.Yue	S.Qazi	A.J.Mercier	J.L.Hamilton
S.Tuttle	C-K.Song	S.Cromarty	M.van Staaden
A.Mahadevan	E.J.Morley	G.Ganter	K.Siwicki
A.Schuldt	R.Kwok	J.Herberholz	H.Dircksen
J.J.Paton	A.Jurkuvenas	J-H.Park	S.Doernberg
K.J.Bender	S.M.C.Schreiber	J.McDearmid	P.J.Church
K.H.Eliasz	D.F.O'Grady	J.Jing	F.S.Vilim
F.N.Doecks	J.M.Newcomb	C.Keating	D.Edwards
S.B.Gutovitz	V.Thirumalai	D.M.Blitz	A.Christie
	Y.Zhang	J.M.Maclean
	A.Vermehren	J.Sullivan
	A.L.Weaver	K.Thoroughman
	M.Beenhakker	M.Withers
	F.Isaa	D.Wood
	R.Zayas	M.J.Coleman
		W.Stein