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Research Update in
Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons


Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts

October 23 - 30, 2010
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RUNN Course Speakers 2010
Reading Lists

Keynote Speaker
     Junying Yuan, "Regulation of Cell Death: From Apoptosis to Necroptosis"

  • Bruce Andersen, "Squid Lab"
  • Issam Awad, "Philosophy of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery"
  • Issam Awad, "Translational and Integrational Research: Cavernous Angioma as a Paradigm"
  • Larry Benowitz, "Rewinding the Injured CNS"
  • Edward Benzel, "Science, Clinical Practice, and the Quest of Academic Excellence"
  • Kerry Bernstein, "On the Evolution of an Electronic Species"
  • Henry Brem, "Brain Tumor Therapy"
  • Mark Burns, "Acute CNS Injury and Chronic Neurodegenerative Disease: common pathways and therapeutic targets"
  • Nino Chiocca, "Translational therapeutics for brain tumors: for the lab to the clinic
    and back."
  • Robert Dempsey, "Research and Balance in an Academic Neurosurgery Career. Getting Started, How do I Write a Grant? "
  • C. Edward Dixon "Traumatic Brain Injury: Lessons Learned from the Bench"
  • V. Reggie Edgerton, "Activity Dependent Mechanisms that Enhance Sensorimotor Function Following Spinal Cord Injury"
  • Robert Friedlander, "Mechanisms of Cell Death in Neurologic Diseases"
  • Jim Galbraith, "Squid Lab"
  • Michael Haglund, "Optical Imaging of Epileptiform Activity: From Brain Slices to the Operating Room"
  • Robert Harbaugh, " Biostatistics and Clinical Trial Design"
  • Leigh R. Hochberg, "Intracortically-based Brain-Computer Interfaces"
  • Sean Lawler, "McroRNAs – Key Players in CNS Biology and Tumorigenesis"
  • Jeff Lichtman, "Connectomics "
  • Eng H. Lo, "Neurovascular Mechanisms of Injury and Repair after Stroke"
  • Andres Lozano, "Adjusting the activity in Human Brain circuits "
  • Joseph Madsen, "Signals and Systems in the Human Brain: Water and Electricity"
  • Richard I. Morimoto, "The Stress of Misfolded Proteins in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease"
  • Edward Oldfield, "Von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Studies on Biology, Natural History, Patient Management in a Familial Tumor Suppressor Syndrome"
  • James Rutka, "Medulloblastoma - from a Difficult Past to a Promising Future"
  • W. Mark Saltzman, "Polymer Nanoparticles for Controlled and Targeted Delivery of Agents to the Brain"
  • Jerry Silver, "Functional Regeneration Beyond the Glial Scar "
  • Marc Simard, "The SUR1-regulated NCCa-ATP channel - a new player in CNS ischemia and trauma"
  • Peter Strick, "Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar 'Loops' with the Cerebral Cortex: Circuits for Movement, Cognition and Affect"
  • Leslie M. Thompson, "Epigenetics in Huntington’s Disease: Implication for Therapeutics"

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