{"id":14559,"date":"2018-10-24T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/?p=14559"},"modified":"2022-02-11T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:38:37","slug":"november-16-2018-bu-pharmacology-biogen-symposium-innovations-in-neuroscience-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/2018\/10\/24\/november-16-2018-bu-pharmacology-biogen-symposium-innovations-in-neuroscience-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"November 16, 2018 BU Pharmacology-Biogen Symposium: Innovations in Neuroscience Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Innovations in Neuroscience Drug Discovery<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, November 16th 2018, 8:00 a.m. \u2013 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BU Pharmacology &amp; Experimental Therapeutics \u2013 Biogen Symposium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Biogen, 300 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA\u00a0 02142<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Free and open to the public.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>REGISTRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Registration has now closed.\u00a0<\/b><b> There is no <\/b><b>o<\/b><b>nsite registration.<\/b><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/ppb\/files\/2018\/10\/BU-Biogen-Symposium-booklet_20181107_230pm.pdf\">BU-Biogen Symposium booklet_20181107_230pm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/location-parking-map\/\"><strong>LOCATION\/PARKING MAP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Registration and Breakfast<\/b><\/p>\n<p>David H. Farb, Ph.D., Boston University: <i>Academia-Industry Alliances: Catalyzing Discovery Science<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anabella Villalobos, Ph.D., Biogen: <i>Biogen Opening Remarks<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Session 1: <\/b><b>Harnessing<\/b><b> Cutting-Edge Technology to Enable Drug Discovery<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Georgios Skiniotis, Ph.D., Stanford University: <i>CryoEM<\/i><i> Insights into GPCR Activation and Signaling<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anthony W. P. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Columbia University: <i>Untangling Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Patient-Based Structural Biology<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shelley J. Russek, Ph.D., Boston University: <i>JAK\/STATs and the Brain: a Pharmacological Window on the BDNF Transcriptome of Neurological Disease<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hongkui Zeng, Ph.D., Allen Institute for Brain Science: <i>Cell Type Classification and Circuit Mapping in the Brain: Mapping a Path to Discovery<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Xue Han, Ph.D., Boston University: <i>Optical Analysis of Biological Neural Networks Across Scales<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Session 2: Neuroinflammation at the Nexus of CNS Diseases<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Anirvan Ghosh, Ph.D., Biogen: <i>Introductory Remarks<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Staci Bilbo, Ph.D., MGH\/Harvard Medical School: <i>Neuroimmune Interactions in Development: Implications for Health Throughout the Lifespan<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., UMASS Medical Center: <i>Microglial Phagocytic Mechanisms Governing Brain Plasticity in Health and Disease<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Tsuneya Ikezu, M.D., Ph.D., Boston University: <i>Proteomic and Neuropathological Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles\u00a0in Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., Boston University: <i>Membrane-Less Organelles and RNA Binding Proteins as Targets\u00a0 for Therapy of Neurodegenerative Diseases\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Session 3: Pharmacology, Models and Biomarkers: Bench to Bedside <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Leonard Petrucelli, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville: <i>Therapeutic Insights into Repeat Expansion Disorders<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Wendy Qiu, M.D., Ph.D., Boston University: <i>Alzheimer\u2019s Disease: The Brain Disease or the Peripheral System-Brain Axis Disease?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Kornecook, Ph.D., Biogen: <i>Animal Models in Neuroscience Drug Discovery: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Himanshu Naik, Ph.D., Biogen: <i>Application of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modeling in\u00a0Drug Development<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Closing Remarks<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Reception<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovations in Neuroscience Drug Discovery Friday, November 16th 2018, 8:00 a.m. \u2013 6:30 p.m. BU Pharmacology &amp; Experimental Therapeutics \u2013 Biogen Symposium Biogen, 300 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA\u00a0 02142 Free and open to the public.\u00a0 REGISTRATION Registration has now closed.\u00a0 There is no onsite registration. 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