FRIDAY |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | DENDRITES: MOLECULES, STRUCTURE, AND FUNCTION |
| Discussion Leader: Jason Hardie (Northwestern University) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Neil Schwartz (Montreal Neurological Institute)
"Roles of calcineurin in dendritic developmental refinement" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Lucy Palmer (John Curtin School of Medical Research)
"Imaging voltage signaling in dendritic spines" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Jason Castro (University of Pittsburgh)
"Local calcium spikes evoke transmitter release in mitral cell dendritic tufts" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SATURDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DENDRITIC PHYSIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Johannes Letzkus (John Curtin School of Medical Research) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Tiago Branco (University College London)
"Local dendritic activity sets release probability at hippocampal synapses" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Meron Gurkiewicz (Bar-Ilan University)
"Modeling and estimation of somatic and dendritic voltage-gated ion channels kinetics using an evolutionary optimization algorithm" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Bardia Behabadi (University of Southern California)
"Asymmetric nonlinear interactions influence synaptic integration in pyramidal neuron basal dendrites" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Conrad Liang (University of Maryland)
"Characteristics of slow EPSP summation in distal CA1 dendrites" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Jenny Davie (University College London)
"The role of dendritic Ca spikes in the generation of the complex spike in Purkinje cells" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Tom Baden (Cambridge University)
"Neurite-specific calcium dynamic underlying sound processing in an identified auditory interneurone" |
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 | DENDRITIC STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Wendy Huang (UC San Francisco) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Josien Levenga (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
"The role of Fragile X mental retardation protein in dendritic mRNA transport and translation" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Jose Fernandez (Rutgers University)
"Structural characterization of the zinc binding domain in the cytosolic PSD-95 interactor (cypin): Relation of zinc binding in the guanine deamination and dendrite branching" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Ye Zhang (UC San Francisco)
"The role of the secretory pathway in the morphogenesis of dendrites and axons" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Georgeann O'Brien (UCLA)
"Peripheral sensory neuron regeneration following two-photon axotomy in live zebrafish" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DENDRITES AND PLASTICITY |
| Discussion Leader: Martha Bagnall (Salk Institute) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Denise Cook (UC Davis)
"Activity-dependent changes in the expression and subcellular localization of dendritic Kv4 channels and their associated subunits in the mammalian brain" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Albert Gidon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Spike-timing-dependent plasticity in dendrites" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Stefan Remy (Northwestern University)
"Long-term potentiation induced by single bursts at hippocampal synapses requires dendritic spikes" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Ede Rancz (University College London)
"Dendritic spikes control synaptic plasticity and gain in cerebellar Purkinje cells" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Edmund Talley (NINDS, NIH)
"What you need to know about NIH funding" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Student/post doc Vice Chair(s) to work with GRC Chair, serving as mentor; Fill out Evaluation Forms) |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | All participants in the Gordon Research Seminar are expected to attend the main meeting, which begins with Dinner |