2023 Symposium Program and Schedule

The 16th Annual SoCal Symposium on Glial-Neuronal Interactions in Health and Disease

In-Person • Friday, February 10, 2023
Highlander Union Building Room 302, UC Riverside

Schedule subject to change

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9:00 — 10:00 a.m.	Registration, badge pick-up, and poster set-up General Info: Registration is free (but required) for attendees from non-profit organizations and includes full symposium program and poster viewings. Registration is $175 for those from for-profit organizations.
10:15 a.m.	Symposium Opens Welcome and Introduction to the Center for Glial-Neuronal Interactions Monica J. Carson, Ph.D.,S. Sue Johnson Presidential Endowed Chair and Professor and Chair of Biomedical Sciences Director of Center for Glial-Neuronal Interactions, University of California, Riverside
10:15 — 11:15 a.m.	2023 CGNI Keynote Lecture Anna Molofsky, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Glial Biologist UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences – School of Medicine, University of San Francisco, California Presentation title: "Immune mechanisms of neural circuit remodeling"
11:15 a.m. — 1:20 p.m.	Lunch and In-Person Poster Session Posters are only in-person. No remote viewing options will be offered.
1:20 p.m. — 1:30 p.m.	Afternoon Session I Moderator Khaleel A. Razak, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director, Graduate Neuroscience Program
1:30 p.m. — 2:10 p.m.	Afternoon Session I Presentation I Georgia Hodes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech Presentation title: TBA
2:10 p.m. — 2:50 p.m.	Presentation II Martin Riccomagno, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Riverside Presentation title: TBA
2:50 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.	Presentation III Thomas Lane, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior Institute for Immunology, University of California, Irvine Presentation title: TBA
3:30 p.m. — 3:50 p.m.	Afternoon break and Poster Session
3:50 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Afternoon Session II Moderator Viji Santhakumar, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology
4:00 p.m. — 4:40 p.m.	Afternoon Session II Presentation IV Amanda Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland Presentation title: At the Nexus: "What Can We Learn from HIV about Neuro-Glial Interactions"
4:40 p.m. — 5:20 p.m.	The Glenn Hatton Lecture Nathan Smith, Ph.D., Director of Basic Neuroscience Research and Principal Investigator, Center for Neuroscience, Children’s National Health System and George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Presentation title: TBA
5:20 p.m. — 5:40 p.m.	Award Presentations
5:40 p.m. — 6:00 p.m.	Closing remarks and thank yous!