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Lectures at ASPET's Centennial Meeting in San Diego
April 6-7, 2008

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• Sunday, April 6, 9:00-11:30 AM, Convention Center Room 2
     The G-Whizards Of GPCR/G-Protein Signaling
     Chair: Lee E. Limbird

          Ÿ How the seed was sown:  The interdependent evolution of the  GPCR/G protein signaling
                     field - LE Limbird (Meharry Med. Col.)
          Ÿ Seven transmembrane receptors - RJ Lefkowitz (Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.)
          Ÿ Receptor-catalyzed activation of heterotrimeric G proteins - HE Hamm (Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr.)
          Ÿ Where are we? - AG Gilman (Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Sch.)
 
• Sunday, April 6, 9:00-11:30 AM, Convention Center Room 3
     Julius Axelrod Symposium: Celebrating A Pioneer Pharmacologist And Hid Legacy: Creating New Drugs By Revealing Mechanisms Of Drug Action In Fundamental Biological Processes
     Chair: Lee E. Eiden
•           Ÿ A brief history of ASPET's Julius Axelrod Award and introduction of R. D. Blakely, recipient of the 2008 Julius
                        Axelrod Award - DR Sibley (NINDS, NIH and Chair, ASPET Julius Axelrod Award Committee).
•           Ÿ Julie Axelrod:  A legacy of fundamental research for drug discovery - LE Eiden (NIMH, NIH)
            Ÿ Methylation pharmacogenomis:  Neurotransmitters to drug response - RM Weinshilboum (Mayo Clin. Col. of Med.)
            Ÿ   Neurotransmitter transportres:  New views of form and function - SG Amara (Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med.)
            Ÿ Biochemical and behavioral actions of monoamines in genetic animal models - MG Caron (Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.)
• Sunday, April 6, 2:30-5:00 PM, Convention Center Room 2
     Chance Favors The Prepared Mind: A Nobel Perspective
     Chair: Jeffrey S. Fedan
•           Ÿ When you come to a fork in the road, take it - AG Gilman (Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.)
            Ÿ The road to Stockholm - a Nobel mission - LJ Ignarro (UCLA Sch. of Med.)
           
• Monday, April 7, 8:00 – 8:50 AM, Convention Center, Room 2
     Ray Fuller Lecture: Broad Spectrum Antidepressants: Variations On A Monoamine Theme
     Lecturer: Phil Skolnick, DOV Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Monday, April 7, 9:00 – 11:30 AM, Convention Center, Room 2
     Ray Fuller Symposium: Antidepressants For The New Millennium: Circumventing The Monoamine Synapse
     Chair: Phil Skolnick
            Ÿ The role of the NMDA receptor signaling cascade in antidepressant activity - IA Pau (Univ. of MIssissippi Med. Ctr.)
            Ÿ AMPA receptor potentiation:  A core antidepressant pathway? - JM Witkin (Eli Lilly and Co.)
            Ÿ Potentiation of synaptic AMPA/NMDA mediated throughput in the development of novel therapeutics for
                         mood disorders - C Zarate (NIMH, NIH)
            Ÿ Neurotrophic and neurogenic actions of antidepressants - H Schmidt (Yale Univ. Sch. of Med.)