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Subject: 	FIRST ANNUAL GW INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM, 
WEDNESDAY APRIL 27, 2011
Date: 	Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:02:10 -0400
From: 	Anthony Lamantia <[log in to unmask]>



Dear Colleague:

It's my great pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to attend the 
first annual Neuroscience Symposium, sponsored by GW Institute for 
Neuroscience. This year's symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 27 
from 9AM through 5PM in the Continental Ballroom of the GW Marvin 
Center, 800 21st Street, N.W., Washington, DC. The Marvin Center is 
easily reached by Metro, via the blue or orange line to the Foggy Bottom 
station. We will send additional information on registration for the 
event later this month; however, I wanted to make you aware of the 
symposium so that you can alert your colleagues and plan to attend.

This year's symposium will focus on The Developing Brain and Cancer. Our 
speakers will include Dr. Michael Dyer, Member and Principle 
Investigator, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis TN, who will talk 
about his ongoing work on retinoblastoma in animal models and 
therapeutic development for clinical treatment, and Dr. Scott Pomeroy, 
Bronson Crothers Professor and of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and 
Neurologist-in-Chief, Children's Hospital Boston, who will talk about 
his work on cellular mechanisms and treatment approaches to 
medulloblastoma. In addition, Dr. Sally Moody, Professor of Anatomy and 
Regenerative Biology, GWUMC, will talk about her work on mechanisms of 
retinal stem cell specification, and Dr. Vittorio Gallo, Wolf-Pack 
Professor and Director, Center for Neuroscience Research, Children's 
National Medical Center/Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology, GWUMC, 
will talk about his work on CNS stem cells. The symposium will include 
four shorter talks by GW graduate students and post-doctoral fellows 
that address broadly issues of The Developing Brain and Cancer. We will 
end with a brief panel discussion sponsored jointly by The GW Institute 
for Neuroscience and The GW Cancer Institute.

We hope that you, your faculty colleagues, post-doctoral fellows, 
students and staff will be able to join us for this exciting day of 
neuroscience. The faculty of the GW Institute for Neuroscience  
(http://www.gwumc.edu/neuroscience) would like for this event to help 
build a greater sense of community and facilitate increased research 
interactions between GW Investigators and our colleagues at sister 
institutions throughout the great Washington DC area. We will contact 
you soon with information on registration as well as the full schedule 
for the day long symposium on April 27. If you have any questions about 
this event, or the GW Institute for Neuroscience and its programs, 
please feel free to write or call me.

I look forward to seeing you at this year's GW Institute for 
Neuroscience Symposium on April 27, 2011 at the Marvin Center at the GW 
Foggy Bottom Campus.

Sincerely,
Anthony LaMantia



Anthony-S. LaMantia, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Director, GW Institute for Neuroscience
The George Washington University School of Medicine