Organized by students of the Millennium Institute
“Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso”
December 13th, 2017
Valparaíso, Chile

MEETING PROGRAM
(Naval Museum Auditorium)

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Registration.
09:30 – 09:40 Opening: Dr. Ramón Latorre

Talk Session 1: New Young Members Presentations
09:45 – 10:05 Chiayu Chiu. ILLUMINATING GABAERGIC SYNAPSES TO UNDERSTAND FUNCTION.
10:05 – 10:25 José Antonio Gárate. NANOFLUIDICS: FROM CARBON NANOTUBES TO GAP-JUNCTION CHANNELS.
10:25 – 10:45 Helmuth Sánchez. OTOTOXICITY STUDIES USING MOUSE COCHLEA PREPARATIONS.

Coffee Break (10:50 – 11:20)

Talk Session 2: Research Lines Presentations
11:25 – 11:45 Line 1: Emerson Carmona. PROPERTIES OF THE VOLTAGE-GATED PROTON CHANNEL GATING CURRENTS.
11:45 – 12:05 Line 2: Constanza Maldifassi. REGULATION OF PANNEXIN-1 CHANNEL FUNCTION BY THE α7 nAChR.
12:05 – 12:25 Line 3: Mauricio Caneo. DIAPAUSE FORMATION REGENERATES DAMAGED AXONS.
12:25 – 12:45 Line 4: Rubén Herzog. DISSECTING COLLECTIVE NEURAL ACTIVITY: A SIMPLE TOOL FOR NEURAL ASSEMBLIES DETECTION.
12:45 – 13:05 Line 5: Alejandro Bernardin. ON THE INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION IN THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES ACROSS HUMAN POPULATION: A RULE-BASED MODEL APPROACH

Lunch and Dessert (13:10 – 14:10)
(Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso)

Talk Session 3: Invited Speaker Presentation and Open Discussion
(Naval Museum Auditorium)

14:15 – 14:45 Vania Figueroa. GENDER EQUITY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, A PATH TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
14:45 – 15:30 Open discussion.

Poster Session / Cocktail (15:35 – 18:00)
(Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso)

(1) PARTICIPATION OF PURINERGIC SIGNALING IN THE INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM INCREMENT IN SYNDROMIC DEAFNESS. Abbott, A. C. and Martínez, A.
(2) STRATEGIES FOR IDENTIFYING NEUROPROTECTIVE MOLECULES IN THE BACTERIAL DIET OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS. Urrutia, A., Realini, O., Caris, J. C.,
García-Angulo, V., Caneo, M., and Calixto, A.
(3) SEROTONIN REGULATES THE EXPRESSION OF OREXIN THROUGH ITS 5-HT1A RECEPTOR BY REGULATING THE ACTIVITY OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXA2, IN PRIMARY CULTURE OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS. Reyes, C., Cossio, M., Ibarra, R., Arriagada, G., and Moya, P.
(4) IMPACT OF R465W DYNAMIN-2 MUTATION ON DIMER AND HELIX STRUCTURE. Hinostroza, F., Maraboli, V., Canaan, J., Araya-Durán, I., González-Nilo, D., and Cárdenas, A. M.
(5) SEPSIS INDUCES EARLY MUSCULAR ATROPHY ASSOCIATED WITH EXPRESSION OF CONNEXIN-BASED HEMICHANNELS. Saavedra, F., Balboa, E., Vargas, A., Ramirez, V., Escamilla, R., Sáez, J. C., and Rogueira, T.
(6) SYNCHRONY OF NEURAL OSCILLATIONS IN THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM OF RAINBOW TROUT (ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS). Olivares, J., Orio, P., Canales-Johnson, A., Váldes, J. and Schmachtenberg, O.
(7) CHARACTERIZATION OF THE VOLTAGE-GATED PROTON CHANNEL CURRENTS ON MYELOID-DERIVED SUPPRESSOR CELLS. Alvear-Arias, J. J., Peña-Pichicoi, A., Carmona, E., Villar, J., García, R., Fernández, M., Picuntureo, M., Álvarez, O., Latorre, R., and González, C.
(8) IS CHAOS MAKING A DIFFERENCE? SYNCHRONIZATION TRANSITIONS IN CHAOTIC AND NONCHAOTIC NEURONAL NETWORKS. Xu, K., Maidana, J. P., Castro, S., and Orio, P.
(9) INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE DURING COPPER-INDUCED DAMAGE IN THE OLFACTORY SENSORY SYSTEM: NEUTROPHIL RESIDENCE AND MIGRATION. Palominos, M. F. and Whitlock, K. E.
(10) CHARACTERIZATION OF MELANOPSIN-DRIVEN PUPILLARY RESPONSES IN OCTODON DEGUS, A NATURAL ANIMAL MODEL FOR AGING AND NEURODEGENERATION. Palanca-Castan, N., Neira, D., and Palacios, A. G.
(11) ASSESSMENT OF RETINAL FUNCTION IN SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER (SERT) KNOCKOUT MICE. Quiroz, C. A., Alcaino, A., Vielma, A. H., Olivares, F. A., Cadiz, B., Guajardo, F. G., Ibaceta, C., Sotomayor-Zárate, R., Schmachtenberg, O., Palacios, A. G., Moya, P. R. and Chavez, A.
(12) CHARACTERIZATION OF TANYCYTES IN HYPOTHALAMUS OF ADULT ZEBRAFISH. Ceriani, R., Brown, D. and Whitlock, K. E.
(13) SYNAPSE-SPECIFIC MODULATION OF EXCITATORY SYNAPTIC STRENGTH BY TRPV1 CHANNEL IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS. Estay, S. F., Lara, I., Reyes, C., Moya, P. R., and Chávez, A.
(14) EFFECTS OF THE MICROBIOME ON DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER SLEEP. Silva, V., González, C. and Ewer, J.
(15) PANNEXIN 1 CHANNEL CLOSURE BY A PKA- DEPENDENT PATHWAY. López, X., Escamilla, R. and Sáez, J. C.
(16) ALTERATIONS IN CIRCADIAN AND NEURAL FUNCTIONS IN A DROSOPHILA MODEL OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER. Palacios-Muñoz, A., Moreira, D., Passos-Bueno, M. and Ewer, J.
(17) POPULATION OMITTED STIMULI RESPONSES ON RETINAL GANGLION CELLS. Araya, J., Herzog, R., Escobar, M. J., and Palacios, A. G.