| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Welcome and Keynote Address |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Anuradha Rao Memorial Lecture: Josh Sanes (Harvard University)
"Genetic studies of synapse formation in mice" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cell Migration, Axonal Patterning and Plasticity |
| Discussion leader: Mike Kessels (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Stephen Strittmatter (Yale University)
"Axonal Plasticity in the adult CNS in response to experience and injury" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | James Jontes (University of Ohio)
"Cadherins and protocadherins in synapse formation and stabilization" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 10:45 am - 11:05 am | Linda Van Aelst (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories)
"Regulators of Rho GTPases in neuronal development" |
| 11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
| 11:15 am - 11:25 am | Short Talk: Valeria Cavalli (University of California, San Diego)
"Sunday driver mediates axonal transport of a new class of vesicle: EM and mass spectrometry characterization" |
| 11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Short Talk: Mitchell Kundel (Yale University)
"mRNA translation in growth cones: evidence for CPEB1-mediated ß-catenin synthesis" |
| 11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 11:55 am | Short Talk: Judy Liu (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
"Doublecortin in neuronal migration and axon outgrowth" |
| 11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Dendritic Growth and Morphogenesis |
| Discussion leader: Matthew Dalva (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Mike Ehlers (Duke University)
"Directing secretory trafficking for dendrite growth and morphogenesis" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Barbara Calabrese (Scripps Institute)
“Dendritic Spine Plasticity: A Role for MARCKS and PKC” |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Presynaptic Membrane Traffic I |
| Discussion leader: Gilbert Di Paolo (Columbia University) |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Pietro De Camilli (Yale University)
"Dynamin and synaptic vesicle endocytosis" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Tim Ryan (Weill Medical College of Cornell University)
"Coupling exocytosis and endocytosis at nerve terminals" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Presynaptic Membrane Traffic II |
| Discussion leader: Phillip Robinson (Children's Medical Research Institute - Sydney) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Erwin Neher (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry)
"Does recovery from short-term depression reflect vesicle docking and priming?" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Janet Richmond (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"Perturbation analyses of the presynaptic proteins tomosyn, UNC-13 and Rim suggest roles in vesicle localization and maturation" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Ed Chapman (University of Wisconsin)
"Fusion pores and synaptic plasticity" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Postsynaptic Receptor Dynamics I |
| Discussion leader: Stephen Nurrish (MRC LMCB) |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Rick Huganir (Johns Hopkins University)
"Regulation of glutamate receptor function and synaptic plasticity" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Josh Kaplan (Harvard University)
"Mechanisms regulating synaptic transmission in C. elegans" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synapse Organization and Assembly I |
| Discussion Leader: Erik Jorgensen (University of Utah) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Yishi Jin (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Presynaptic active zone assembly in C.elegans" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Vivian Budnik (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
"Wingless signaling during synapse differentiation" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Noam Ziv (Technion Institute)
"Deconstructive and Reconstructive Processes at Individual Synapses: Exchange, Redistribution and Replenishment of Cytomatrix Molecules" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Short Talk: Josep Rizo (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
"New insights into the Mechanisms of SNARE and Synaptotagmin Action in Neurotransmitter Release" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synapse Scaling and Plasticity |
| Discussion Leader: Joanna Montgomery (University of Auckland) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis University)
"Homeostatic plasticity: mechanism and function" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Bai Lu (NIH)
"Activity-dependent control of BDNF processing and secretion" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Graeme Davis (University of California, San Francisco)
"Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Homeostatic Modulation of Presynaptic Release" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synapse Organization and Assembly II |
| Discussion Leader: Maria Morabito (University of Massachusetts Medical School) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Anirvan Ghosh (University of California, San Diego)
"The emergence of synaptic specificty" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Anne Marie Craig (University of British Columbia)
"Promotion of postsynaptic assembly by neurexins" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Short Talk: Bonnie Firestein (Rutgers University)
"Regulation of dendrite branching by PSD-95" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Short Talk: Matthew Kayser (University of Pennsylvania)
"Intra-cellular and trans-syanptic regulation of glutamatergic synaptogenesis by EphB receptors" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Postsynaptic Receptor Dynamics II |
| Discussion leader: Chris Rongo (Rutgers University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Antoine Triller (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
"Single molecule imaging of receptor traffic" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Elly Nedivi (MIT)
"CPG2: A synapse-specific protein that regulates glutamate receptor endocytosis" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 12:30 pm | Signaling Mechanisms Underlying Network Activity |
| Discussion leader: Reed Carroll (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Dan Johnston (University of Texas at Austin)
"Plasticity of dendritic excitability" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Richard Tsien (Stanford University)
"Approaching thorny questions in neuronal cell biology with new techniques" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Short Talk: Timothy Mahoney (Washington University School of Medicine)
"Regulation of synaptic transmission by Rab3 and Rab27" |
| 11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 11:55 am | Short Talk: Grace Zhai (Baylor College of Medicine)
"Drosophila NMNAT maintains neuronal integrity and its overexpression protects from activity- and Ataxin-1-induced neurodegeneration" |
| 11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV |
| 6:00 pm | Banquet |
| 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Special Lecture |
| 8:00 pm - 8:50 pm | Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller University)
"Unconventional signaling in sensory behaviors" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm | Social Event |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
