SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Lecture |
| Discussion Leader: Erin Schuman (MPI-Frankfurt) |
7:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Josh Sanes (Harvard) "Three Stories about Retinal Dendrites" |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Dendrite Development |
| Discussion Leader: Rachel Wong (University of Washington) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Anirvan Ghosh (UCSD) "Mechanisms of Synapse Specificity" |
9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
9:35 am - 10:00 am | Deanna Benson (Mt. Sinai Medical Center) "Testing the capacity for local protein synthesis during dendrite development" |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:05 am | Yishi Jin (UCSD) "Dendritic Extrasynaptic Signaling Regulates C. elegans Motor Circuit" |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:40 am | Kim McAllister (UC Davis) "Synaptic activity and immune molecules interact to regulate synapse formation and dendrite growth in cortical neurons" |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Short-talk: TBA |
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dendrite Development II |
| Discussion Leader: Yishi Jin (UCSD) |
7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Kim Tolias (Baylor) "A novel Rac GTPase Regulatory Complex controlling Synaptic and Dendritic Development" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Azad Bonni (Harvard) "Regulation of Dendrite Morphogenesis by Ubiquitin Signaling" |
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Holli Cline (Scripps San Diego) "The Dynamic Connectome" |
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Neuronal Polarity |
| Discussion Leader: Antonella Riccio (MRC-London) |
9:05 am - 9:30 am | Don Arnold (USC) "An Actin/Myosin-based Model of Polarized Targeting" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Short talk: TBA |
9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Bettina Winckler (Univ. of Virginia) "Somatodendritic Endosomes at the Crossroads of Membrane Traffic" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11;30 am | Franck Polleux (Scripps-San Diego) "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neuronal Polarization in vivo" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:55 am | Short talk: TBA |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Short talk: TBA |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Connectivity |
| Discussion Leader: Kristen Harris (UT Austin) |
7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Winfried Denk (MPI Heidelberg) "Dendro-dendritic wiring in the direction selective circuit of the retina" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Rafa Yuste (Columbia) "Dendritic spines and linear networks" |
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Zoltan Nusser (Hungary) "Unique subcellular compartment-specific distribution patterns of voltage-gated ion channel subtypes" |
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Dendritic Integration I |
| Discussion Leader: Nelson Spruston (Northwestern) |
9:05 am - 9:30 am | Jeff Magee (JFRC) "Input comparison in the distal dendrites of pyramidal neurons" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Short talk: TBA |
9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Jeff Isaacson (UCSD) "Dendritic inhibition in Olfactory Cortex" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Michael Hausser (UCL) "Dendritic Computation" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:05 pm | Greg Stuart (ANU) "Electrical Properties of Dendritic Spines" |
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 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 |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dendritic Integration II |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Hausser (UCL) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Peter Jonas (IST Vienna) "The Active Dendrites of CA3 Pyramidal Neurons" |
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm | Nace Golding (UT Austin) "Shaping of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Inputs by Kv1 Potassium Channels" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Arthur Konnerth (Munich) "Synaptic Activation of Dendrites and Spines in Sensory Cortex Neurons in vivo" |
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Dendritic Spines |
| Discussion Leader: Zoltan Nusser (Hungary) |
9:05 am - 9:30 am | Kristen Harris (UT Austin) "Structural Substrates of Synaptic Scaling Among Dendritic Spines during LTP" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:05 am | Karen Zito (UC Davis) "Regulation of Dendritic Spine Growth and Stability" |
10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Bernardo Sabatini (Harvard Medical School) "Mechanisms of activity-dependent spineogenesis and synaptogenesis in developing cortex" |
11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:35 am | Morgan Sheng (Genentech) "Life and Death of Synapses" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Short talk: TBA |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short talk: TBA |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Local Processing and Plasticity |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Siegelbaum (Columbia) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Antonella Riccio (MRC-UCL) "Epigenetic regulation of gene expression in developing neurons" |
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm | Short talk: TBA |
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:50 pm | Sam Wang (Princeton) "Synaptic Learning Rules: from Molecules to Behavior (and back)" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Lily Jan (UCSF) "Synaptic regulation of K+ Channel Local Processing" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |