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.
10:00 — 10:05 a.m.	Symposium Opens Welcome Address Rodolfo Torres, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
10:05 — 10:15 a.m.	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 the Center for Glial-Neuronal Interactions, University of California, Riverside
10:15 — 11:15 a.m.	2023 CGNI Keynote Lecture Anna Victoria Molofsky, M.D., Ph.D., Samuel Barondes Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Weill Institute of Neurosciences, University of California at San Francisco Presentation title: "Immune mechanisms of neural circuit remodeling" VISIT ANNA VICTORIA MOLOFSKY'S LAB PROFILE
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 Moderator, Session I Khaleel A. Razak, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director, Graduate Neuroscience Program VISIT KHALEEL RAZAK'S FACULTY PROFILE
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: "Microglia activation by stress: Sex matters" VISIT GEORGIA HODES FACULTY PROFILE
2:10 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.	Presentation II Abdullah Muhammad Madany, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis Health Presentation title: "Gut microbiome modulation of neurodevelopmental disorders" VISIT ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD MADANY LAB PROFILE
2:50 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.	Presentation III Martin Riccomagno, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Riverside Presentation title: "An adhesion signaling module essential for the establishment of the cortical scaffold" VISIT MARTIN RICCOMAGNO'S FACULTY PROFILE
3:30 p.m. — 3:50 p.m.	Afternoon break and Poster Session
3:50 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Afternoon Moderator, Session II Viji Santhakumar, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology VISIT VIJI SANTHAKUMAR'S FACULTY PROFILE
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" VISIT AMANDA BROWN'S FACULTY PROFILE
4:40 p.m. — 5:20 p.m.	The Glenn Hatton Lecture Thomas Lane, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior Institute for Immunology, University of California, Irvine Presentation title: "Evaluating the role of microglia in host defense and repair in a model of viral-induced neurologic disease" VISIT THOMAS LANE'S FACULTY PROFILE
5:20 p.m. — 5:40 p.m.	Award Presentations
5:40 p.m. — 6:00 p.m.	Closing remarks and thank you's!