Ohio Miami Valley Chapter, Society for Neuroscience

2005 Annual Report

Ohio Miami Valley Chapter, Society for Neuroscience

http://www.med.wright.edu/cbr/omv_sfn/index.html

Officers of the Chapter and their terms:

President

Robert E.W. Fyffe, Ph.D.

Wright State University

President-Elect

Phyllis Callahan, Ph.D.

Miami University

Secretary-Treasurer

Kim Seroogy, Ph.D.

University of Cincinnati

Term of service for all officers was January 15, 2005-January 13, 2006

Number of members in Chapter: 119

Number of members that voted in the election: 35

Date of next election: January 19, 2006

Dates and locations of all Chapter meetings:

Annual Neuroscience Day – May 10, 2005 – Wright State University - Dayton, Ohio

http://www.med.wright.edu/cbr/omv_sfn/2005/neuro05.html

Fall Business Meeting and Mini-Symposium - December 15, 2005 – Miami University - Oxford, Ohio

Rescheduled January 4, 2006 due to inclement weather

http://www.med.wright.edu/cbr/omv_sfn/2005/biz05.html

Chapter business included nomination of officers and planning for the 2006 Neuroscience Day. Scientific presentations includd:
Lori Isaacson (Miami University)
Neurotrophin regulation of peripheral neurons
Timothy Cope (Wright State University)
The Limits of Regeneration
Kim Seroogy (University of Cincinnati)
Neuregulins: Novel Trophic Factors for Dopaminergic Neurons

Graduate student travel award:

Kaushik Ghosal, a doctoral student at Miami University, won OMV-SfN's first Graduate Student Travel Award from the Society for Neuroscience. His major advisor at Miami is Kathy Killian, Ph.D. The award supported Kaushik's travel to the 2005 SfN annual meeting in Washington, D.C., where he presented the poster "Effects of social interaction on Fos-like immunoreactivity in cricket brain and SOG."

Chapter-sponsored lectures, including Grass Traveling Scientist Program:

2005 Grass Lecture – May 10, 2005

OMV-SfN’s 2005 Grass Traveling Scientist Award supported the visit of Pat R. Levitt, Ph.D., to the chapter’s annual scientific meeting held at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio on May 10, 2005. Dr. Levitt is Professor and Director of the Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development at Vanderbilt University. The topic of Dr. Levitt’s Grass Lecture was "Cortical Interneurons and Neurodevelopmental Disorders." This topic combined Dr. Levitt’s latest research findings about cortical interneurons within a broadly conceived overview of neurodevelopmental disorders that was meaningful to multiple disciplines (including clinical and basic sciences) represented in the audience.

The Grass Lecture was open to the Wright State University community and the general public, as well as to OMV-SfN registrants. More than 120 people attended the lecture. Among OMV-SfN registrants were 29 faculty, 24 post-doctoral fellows and other staff, and 45 students.

Dr. Levitt’s Grass Lecture was the centerpiece of OMV-SfN’s second annual Neuroscience Day, a scientific meeting which was free to current OMV-SfN members. Following the Grass Lecture, Dr. Levitt participated in a small-group session with students. Faculty attended a concurrent session featuring scientific presentations by investigators at OMV-SfN’s sponsoring institutions (Miami University, the University of Cincinnati, and Wright State University), and were joined in that session by Dr Levitt. Speakers and presentation topics were:

Phyllis Callahan, Ph.D. (Miami University)
Orphanin FQ/Nociceptin Regulation of Prolactin Secretion.

Lori Isaacson, Ph.D. (Miami University)
Neurotrophin Regulation Of Peripheral Neurons.

Jack W. Lipton, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati)
Consequences and Potential Mechanisms of Prenatal Ecstasy (MDMA) Exposure on Neurodevelopment.

David Richards, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati)
Synaptic Remodeling: Bored Spines Seek New
Challenges.

Francisco J. Alvarez, Ph.D. (Wright State University)
Spinal Cord Interneuronal Decisions: What To Do When They Grow Up?

Dragana Claflin, Ph.D. (Wright State University)
Development Of Learning And Memory: Functional Maturation Of The Hippocampus And Its Role In Eyeblink Conditioning.

Fall Meeting Mini-Symposium – January 4, 2006

Lori Isaacson (Miami University)
Neurotrophin regulation of peripheral neurons
Timothy Cope (Wright State University)
The Limits of Regeneration
Kim Seroogy (University of Cincinnati)
Neuregulins: Novel Trophic Factors for Dopaminergic Neurons

Foundations, companies and non-institutional contributors supporting chapter activities:

Olympus America Inc., Scientific Equipment Group

Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience Institute

Roster of membership

See attached Excel spreadsheet