Opening Remarks
Michael Gottesman, DDIR, OD, NIH
Robert S. Balaban, NHLBI, NIH
Alan Peterkofsky, NHLBI, NIH

An Overview of Dr. Nirenberg’s Contributions to the Neurosciences
Alessandra Rovescalli, NHLBI, NIH

Closing the Circle: From Tumors to Neurons to Tumors
Lloyd Greene, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

How Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Generate Electrical Signals in the Brain
William Catterall, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Molecular Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tumors of the Nervous System and Mood Disorders
Xandra Breakefield, Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroscience Center, Charlestown, MA

Coffee Break

Using Evolutionary Divergence to Identify Functionally-related Neural Cis-regulatory Enhancers
Ward Odenwald, Senior Scientist, NINDS, NIH

Epigenetic Control of Behavior
Moshe Szyf, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Genetic Approaches to Schizophrenia
Edward Scolnick, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, MIT, Boston MA

Closing Remarks
Samuel Barondes, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA

Memorial Service Honoring the Career of Dr. Marshall Nirenberg
Lipsett Amphitheater

Informal reception at the Cloister will follow