Event Dates (Pacific Time):
Friday, November 11, 2022 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PMVenue Space:
Tata Hall – Fred Kavli Auditorium
KIBM held a Festschrift for Dr. Nick Spitzer to celebrate his long career with KIBM on Friday, November 11, 2022.
Please note: November 11, 2022 is a University holiday and Veteran’s Day. The Festschrift for Nick Spitzer will be presented live, in person, at UCSD. There is no zoom/virtual component to the event. Please access the third floor of Tata Hall via pedestrian ramp from Ridge Walk.
Lunch will be provided. There will be no hosted event parking. Self parking is available at UCSD. 11/11 is a university holiday and parking is free on campus in non-reserved spaces. KIBM is not liable for any parking costs or parking tickets.
Please have your digital ticket ready to check-in at the event. Please do not print out your Eventbrite paper ticket. In an effort to be eco-conscious, KIBM will not be collecting paper tickets. Check-in begins at 8:30am.
Event Sessions
Yishi Jin, Kit Pogliano
Opening Remarks
Session 1: Great Friends, Yishi Jin, Chair
Eve Marder: Cryptic changes to degenerate neurons and circuits elicited by climate change are revealed by repeated perturbations
Grae Davis: Stabilizing neuronal function: flies, mice and great friends!
Gina Turrigiano: The ups and downs of firing rate homeostasis
Mu-ming Poo: Nerve growth and synaptic plasticity
Intermission
Session 2: Embryonic development of the action potential, Darwin Berg, Chair
Alan Willard: Early years in the Spitzer lab (1973-1978)
Diane O’Dowd: Challenge accepted: The dawn of patching in Nick’s lab
Shawn Lockery: Neuronal development, Hodgkin-Huxley, and the human modem
Session 3: Activity dependent regulation of axon extension, Bill Kristan, Chair
Guo-Li Ming: Engineering human brain organoids for understanding human brain development and diseases
Tim Gomez: Reflections on my “blow your socks off” time working with Nick
Xavier Nicol: Control of axon pathfinding by subcellular-specific second messenger networks
Lunch
Session 4: Great Friends, Yishi Jin, Chair
Carla Shatz: Two faces of synapse pruning: development vs Alzheimer’s disease
Corey Goodman: Embryonic development of identified neurons: Nick, Corey and grasshopper embryos 1977-1979
Oliver Hobert: Worms dancing to Nick’s tunes: Neurotransmitter plasticity in C.elegans
Session 5: Transmitter switching during embryonic development, Alicia Guemez-Gamboa, Chair
Laura Borodinsky: Interplay between calcium activity, morphogens, and the environment in the differentiation of spinal cord neurons
Cory Root: Neural circuits that underlie innate motivational valence to odor
Norma Velazquez Ulloa: From Mexico to Oregon, how the Spitzer Lab shaped my career
Intermission
Session 6: Transmitter switching in the adult rodent brain, Larry Squire, Chair
Davide Dulcis: Light-induced dopamine plasticity affecting behavior
Da Meng: Neuronal activity regulates neurotransmitter switching in the adult brain following light-induced stress
Huiquan Li: Neurotransmitter plasticity underlying generalized fear: implications for treatment of PTSD
Nick Spitzer
Closing Remarks
Reception presented by UC San Diego Biological Sciences