September 13–15, 2002
Oglebay Resort and Conference Center
Wheeling, West Virginia
Allan C. Collins, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology and Psychology, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado
“Booze, Butts, and Genes”
Valina L. Dawson, PhD
Director, Neurobiology of Disease Program; Professor and Vice Chair, Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, Physiology and Cell and Molecular Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Unraveling the Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Cell Death and Survival”
David L. Ferster, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University
“Assembly of Receptive Fields in Cat Visual Cortex”
Rafael Malach, PhD
Senior Scientist, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
“The Function and Topography of Human Object Areas”
Louis F. Reichardt, PhD
Professor of Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics; Director, Neuroscience Program and Program in Biological Sciences, University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Insights into Brain Development and Function from Studies of Neurotrophin Signaling”