Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Program

Program


11:30 AM Speaker and Chair Lunch
(Trustees’ Room)

12:30 PM Opening Remarks
(Auditorium)

12:45 PM Session I: Neuroscience
Chair: Chris Kintner
Tal Burstyn-Cohen: PROS1 as a TAM ligand: looking at the nervous system
Holly Ingraham: How the brain sculpts facets of female physiology
Klaus Nave: Myelin aging and Alzheimer’s disease
Moses Chao: A neuroscientist with many hats
Crossword Greg Lemke
Chair: Michael Reber

02:00 PM Chair: Michael Reber

02:15 PM Session II: Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
Chair: David Julius
Tony Hunter: It took you five years to start working on RTKs after arriving at Salk in 1985 – the rest is history
Rudiger Klein: Regulation of cerebral cortex folding by inter-cellular communication
Anna Zagorska: How can we stop dysfunctional signaling in chronic fibrotic diseases – RTKs and beyond
Yossi Schlessinger: Mechanisms of neuronal pathway co-opted to drive multiple human cancers

03:15 PM BREAK

03:45 PM Session III: Immunology
Chair: Jin Woo Kim
Dan Littman: Bridging the immune and nervous systems with Greg, after CD4 and P0
Youtong Huang: How do microglia engage TAM signaling in neurodegenerative diseases?
Trevor Kilpatrick: Exploring mechanisms by which the innate immune system influences central demyelinating disease
Carla Rothlin: M3 Memories: MERTK, Macrophages and Malbec

04:45 PM Session IV: Lemkoid Tributes

05:00 PM Session V: Future
Chair: Haeyoung Kong Tang
Katy McDonald
Jennifer Luce

05:20 PM Closing Remarks
Jerry Joyce
Greg Lemke

05:45 PM Cocktail Reception
(Lower West Courtyard)

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