
Rachel Mary Berquist, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota Duluth / Biology Department
Project Title: RESPONSE DYNAMICS OF SACCULAR AFFERENT FIBERS IN FREE-SWIMMING TOADFISH, OPSANUS TAU

Manuel Estrada, Ph.D.
Yale University / School of Medicine
Laboratory of Molecular Hermeneutics / Dept. of Pharmacology
Project Title: EFFECTS OF STEROID HORMONES ON INTRACELLULAR Ca2+ SIGNALING IN A NEURONAL CELL LINE

Michael A. Farries
University of Washington Med. Ctr.
Depts. Biology and Otolaryngology
Project Title: LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY IN NUCLEUS RA OF THE ZEBRA FINCH: A POSSIBLE SUBSTRATE FOR SONG LEARNING

Robert Crooks Froemke
University of California
Project Title: THE CELLULAR MECHANISMS AND SYNAPTIC ORGANIZATION OF NEOCORTICAL RECEPTIVE FIELDS

Eric Briant Gonzales
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Dept. of Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Project Title: KINETIC DETERMINANTS OF THE SECOND TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN 7´ POSITION IN THE GLYCINE α1 RECEPTOR

Emma Heart, Ph.D.
Evans Biomedical Research Center
Project Title: NAD(P)H OSCILLATIONS IN PANCREATIC ISLET CELLS AND THEIR MODULATION BY METABOLIC AND ELECTRIC STIMULI

Leib Litman
Brooklyn College / The City University of New York
Project Title: IN SEARCH FOR A MODEL ORGANISM FOR COMPLEX FORMS OF IMPLICIT LEARNING: EXPLORING CRYPSIS AND THE SERIAL REACTION TIME TASK IN CUTTLEFISH

Mark H. Shalinsky, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College / Dept. of Physiology
Project Title: AN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE LUNG RHYTHM IN THE BULLFROG, RANA CATESBEIANA, AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PRECURSOR TO GASPING IN MAMMALS

James Jiayuan Tong, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics
Project Title: MITOCHONDDRIA DYNAMICS IN SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY AND LEARNING

Yumiko Umino, Ph.D.
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Center for Vision Research
Project Title: PROCESSING OF VISUAL INFORMATION OF LIMULUS BRAIN

Tamily A. Weissman
Columbia University
Center for Neurobiology & Behavior
Department of Neurology
Project Title: THE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PATHWAY MEETS NEURAL DEVELOPMENT: DOES PRESENILIN PROCESS THE REELIN RECEPTOR AND REGULATE NEURONAL MIGRATION?

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Susan R. Barry, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Mount Holyoke College
Dept. of Biological Sciences

PROGRAM ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Daphne Soares, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
Neurosciences / Biology Department
2004 FORBES LECTURER
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D.
Sr. Vice President, Research Drug Discovery
Genentech, Inc.