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Research Update in
Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons


Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts

October 20 - 27, 2007
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RUNN Course Speakers 2007
Reading Lists

Keynote Speaker
Michael Apuzzo, MD
Mankind 2007: The Scope of Modern Science

  • Issam Awad, "Translational and Integrational Research: Cerebrovascular Malformations as a Disease Model"
  • Larry Benowitz, "Axonal Guidance and Regerneration"
  • Edward Benzel, "Science, Clinical Practice, and the Quest of Academic Excellence"
  • Kerry Bernstein, "On the Evolution of an Electronic Species"
  • Richard Born, "Modularity and Integration in the Primate Visual Cortex"
  • Henry Brem , "Brain Tumor Therapy"
  • Nino Chiocca, "Translational therapeutics for brain tumors: for the lab to the clinic and back."
  • Sander Connolly Jr., "Neuroinflammation/Adhesion Molecules"
  • Patricia A. D'Amore, "Angiogenesis and Neoplasia"
  • Robert Dempsey, "Putting Scientific Thought Together: What a Reviewer looks for in a Grant Manuscript"
  • V. Reggie Edgerton, "Activity Dependent Mechanisms that Enhance Sensorimotor Function Following Spinal Cord Injury"
  • Robert Friedlander, "Mechanisms of Cell Death in Neurologic Diseases"
  • Murat Gunel, "Signaling Pathways and Neural Cell Fate"
  • Michael Haglund, "Optical Imaging of Epileptiform Activity: From Brain Slices to the Operating Room"
  • Leigh R. Hochberg, "Intracortically-based Brain-Computer Interfaces"
  • Jeffery Macklis, "Building or Repairing a Brain is Complex; Assembly Instructions Required: Neural Precursors, "Stem Cells", and Molecular Development of Corticospinal Motor Neuron Circuitry"
  • Joseph Madsen, "Neuroengineering: Pulses and Waves"
  • Scott Pomeroy, "Genomics and Proteomics in Clinical Neuroscience"
  • Dale Purves, "Perception as Probability: New Ideas about Cortical Function"
  • Thomas Reese, "History of the Marine Biological Laboratory"
  • James Rutka, "Medulloblastoma - from a Difficult Past to a Promising Future"
  • James E. Schwob, "Neural Regeneration and the Olfactory System"
  • Jerry Silver, "Glial Barriers and Scarring"
  • Marc Simard, "The SUR1-regulated NCCa-ATP channel - a new player in CNS ischemia"
  • David Sinclair, "Genes and Small Molecules that Extend Lifespan"
  • Dennis Spencer, "The Contribution of Human Investigation to Epilepsy Research"
  • Beverly C. Walters, "An Introduction to Evidence Based Neurosurgery"

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