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Cell Biology of the Neuron

Gordon Research Conference

June 14 - 19, 1998
Chairs Susan G. Amara and Reinhard Jahn
Vice Chair Thomas Fj Martin

Conference Program

Sunday, June 14, 1998
  • Buses arrive, registration and dinner
Evening: Physiology of neurotransmitter release
  • Session Chair: Thomas Südhof
  • Wolfhard Almers - Transport and exocytosis of single vesicles in neurotransmitter cells
  • Thomas F. J. Martin - Late stages in dense core vesicle cytosis
  • Charles F. Stevens - The readily releasable pool = the docked vesicle pool
Monday, June 15
Morning: Exocytosis
  • Session Chair: Pietro De Camilli
  • Axel Brünger - Structural aspects of synaptic vesicle fusion
  • Thomas C. Südhof - TBA
  • Reinhard Jahn - Exocytosis in a cell-free system
  • Richard H. Scheller - Mechanisms of vesicle targeting
  • Josep Rizo - Short talk: Synaptotagmin, Ca2+ and syntaxin: an electronic switch in neurotransmitter release
  • Sandra Bajjalieh - Short talk: Interaction of the synaptic vesicle proteins SV2 and synaptotagnin is regulated by calcium and phosphorylation
Afternoon: Posters
Evening: Endocytosis
  • Session Chair: Thomas Martin
  • Pietro De Camilli - Molecular mechanisms in synaptic vesicle cytosis
  • Wieland B. Huttner - TBA
  • Venkatesh Murthy - Short talk: Optically measured quanta at central synapses
  • Regis B. Kelly - Two pathways of synaptic vesicle biogenesis
Tuesday June 16
Morning: Receptors, Channels and transporters
  • Session Chair: Charles Stephens
  • Shigetada Nakanishi - Golgi cell function in the cerebrellar network
  • David Clapham - G protein-gated K channels
  • Lorna Role - Modulation of synaptic transmission by presynaptic nicotine-gated ion channels
  • Robert Edwards - Neurotransmitter transport into secretory vesicles and the presynaptic regulation of quantal size
  • Susan Amara - Glutamate transporters: diversity of form and function
Afternoon: Posters
Evening: Synaptic and developmental plasticity
  • Session Chair: Robert Edwards
  • Kristen Harris - Structure of dendritic spines during development and plasticity in the hippocampus
  • Erin Schuman - Cadherins and synaptic plasticity
  • Mu-Ming Poo - From growth cone guidance to retinotectal projections
  • David Sulzer - Short talk: Presynaptic mechanisms that modulate quantal size
Wednesday June 17
Morning: Molecular dynamics in axons and dendrites
  • Session Chair: Kristen Harris
  • Nobutaka Hirokawa - Organelle transport in axons and dendrites: molecular cell biology of kinesin superfamily proteins, KIFs
  • Ben Barres - Control of oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination by the Notch pathway
  • Peter Baas - Targeting of microtubules to axons and dendrites
  • Eckhard Mandelkow - Short talk: Tau protein and neurofibrillary pathology in Alzheimer's disease
  • Mary Kennedy - Short talk: p135 SynGAP: a potential link betweem the MDNA receptor and the MAP kinase pathway
Afternoon: Posters
Evening: Business meeting and party
Thursday June 18
Morning: Protein clustering and anchoring domains in signal transduction
  • Session Chair: Ben Barres
  • Ann Marie Craig - Receptor targeting in hippocampus neurons
  • Richard Huganir - Molecular mechanisms in the regulation of neurotransmitter receptor function
  • Craig Garner - Mechanisms regulating the distribution and assembly of SAP97 family members at synaptic junctions
  • Morgan Sheng - PDZ-based protein complexes at excitatory synapses
  • John Scott - Coordination of cAMP signaling events through AKAPs
Afternoon: Sensory systems
  • Session Chair: Mary Kennedy
  • Cornelia Bargmann - Natural variation in olfactory behavior
  • Robert Margolskee - Biochemical and transgenic studies of taste transduction

Contributors

The organizers gratefully acknowledge generous support from:

Wyeth-Ayerst Research
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Merck & Co., Inc.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Pfizer, Inc.
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
Synthelabo Recherche
NINDS
NIDA
National Science Foundation
NIA
NIMH

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