2008 Gill Award Symposium and Ceremony

Please join us for the 2008 Gill Symposium, May 21 at the Indiana Memorial Union on the campus of Indiana University-Bloomington. The Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science at Indiana University-Bloomington is pleased to announce the 2008 Gill Award Symposium and Ceremony to be held starting at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 21, 2008 in the Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union. The annual Gill symposium is held to honor two scientists whose research has had profound impact on shaping the field and enhancing public understanding of neuroscience.

The 2008 Young Investigator Award will be presented to Karel Svoboda (Group Leader, Janelia Farms Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute). Following the award presentation by Robert de Ruyter, Dr. Svoboda will give the keynote lecture "Imaging Synapses and Neural Circuits."

This year's 2008 Gill Award recipient is Robert Sapolsky (John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University). Following the award presentation by Linda C. Gill, Dr. Sapolsky will give the keynote lecture "Stress, Neuron Death, and Strategies for Saving the Endangered Neuron."

Along with these above speakers, there will be welcoming remarks given by College of Arts and Sciences Dean Bennett Bertenthal.

Symposium speakers include:
- Tai Min (Indiana University Department of Biology) "To Study the Genotype-Phenotype Relationships in Down Syndrome Using Drosophila."
- Cara Wellman (Indiana University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences) "Sweating the Small Stuff: Stress Effects in Prefrontal Cortex."
- Xiao-Ming Xu (Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine) "Neuroprotective and Regenerative Strategies for the Repair of Spinal Cord Injury."

The day will start with a continental breakfast for all attendees at 8:00 a.m. in the Georgian Room of the IMU. There will be a graduate student poster session in the Solarium from 12:30-2:25 p.m. You and your students are invited to present posters and enjoy the sandwich buffet lunch that will be provided in the Alumni Hall. Please register your poster through this link:
http://www.indiana.edu/~gillctr/posterform.html

The symposium will culminate with the award presentation and lecture at 3:30 p.m. A reception immediately follows the ceremony in the Solarium of the Indiana Memorial Union. A complete schedule is available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~gillctr/2008symp.shtml

Looking forward to seeing you on May 21st!

Misty Theodore
The Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Indiana University
1101 E. 10th Street, Room 345
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 856-1930
Fax: (812) 856-7187
Email: mtheodor@indiana.edu
The Gill Center - http://www.indiana.edu/~gillctr/index.shtml
Program in Neuroscience - http://www.indiana.edu/~neurosci/