Celebrating Julie
  May 23,2005
NM Masur Auditorium
Symposium Program

8:25-8:30 a.m.

Welcome
Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director and Acting Scientific Director, National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Morning Session Chair Juan M. Saavedra, M.D., Chief, Section on Pharmacology, NIMH

8:30-8:45 a.m.

Science with Julie, Pre- and Post-Nobel
Irwin J. Kopiu, M.D., Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke

8:45-9:30 a.m.

Mechanisms of Neural Life and Death
Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., Professor and Director, Department of
Neurosciences; Johns Hopkins University

9:30-1O:OO a.m.

Pharmacogenomics: Polymorphisms and Function
Richard M. Weinshilboum, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology and
Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

lO:OO-IO:30 a.m.


10:30- 1l:OO a.m.

Coffee Break

Endocannabinoids and Obesity - Is it Just the Munchies?
George Kuuos, M.D., Ph.D., Scientific Director, National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

11:00-l 1:25 a.m.

Slow Transmission and Homeostasis at the Adrenomedullary Synapse
Lee E. Eiden, Ph.D., Section on Molecular Neuroscience, NIMH

11:25- 11:40 a.m.

A Brief Overview of the Pineal: Julie's Shmoo
Martin Zatz, M.D., Ph.D., Chief
Section on Biochemical Pharmacology, NIMH

I 1:40- 12:00 noon   The Magic Kingdom

Michael J. Brownstein, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory of Genetics, NIMH

12:00-12:25 p.m.

Axelrod Video Tribute

Introduced by Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director, NIMH

The Axelrod Legacy and the NIH Research Mission
Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Director, National Institutes of Health


12:25-l :30 p.m.    Lunch Break

1:30-1:35 p.m.    Afternoon Greeting
         Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director, NIMH

Afternoon Session Chair Martin Zatz, M.D., Chief, Section on Biochemical Pharmacology,
NIMH

1:35-2:05 p.m.

2:05-2:20 p.m.

2:20-2:45 p.m.

2:45-3:15 p.m.

3: 15-3:45 p.m.

3:45-4: 15 p.m.

4: 15-5:00 p.m.

5:00-5:05 p.m.

Molecular Aspects of Catecholamine Metabolism, Uptake and Receptor
Signaling in the Brain
Marc G. Caron, Ph.D., Investigator and James B. Duke Professor, HHMI
Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center

A Chemist's Apprenticeship at the NIH
John W. Daly, Ph.D., Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Protease Pathways for Peptides in Neurotransmission and
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Vivian Hook, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology,
University of California at San Diego

Coffee Break

NMDA Receptor Hypofunction and the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia
Joseph T. Coyle, M.D., Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and
Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School

The Anandamide Transporter - the Missing Link in
Endocannabinoid Neurotransmission
Christian Felder, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Neuroscience,
Eli Lilly and Company

Signal Transduction in the Brain
Paul Greengard, Ph.D., Vincent Astor Professor, Laboratory of Cellular
and Molecular Neuroscience, Rockefeller University

Closing Remarks
Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director, NIMH