SATURDAY |
1:30 pm | Check-In Begins |
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm | Dendritic Processing and Plasticity |
| Discussion Leader: Johannes Letzkus (Friedrich Miescher Institute) |
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Roland Krueppel (University of Bonn)
"Dendritic integration in hippocampal dentate granule cells" |
3:00 pm - 3:05 pm | Discussion |
3:05 pm - 3:20 pm | Jason Hardie (Northwestern University)
"Synaptic depolarization is more effective than back-propagating action potentials during LTP, and is shaped by inhibition" |
3:20 pm - 3:25 pm | Discussion |
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session I |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Arborization and Development |
| Discussion Leader: Georgeann O'Brien (UCLA) |
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm | Yimiao Ou (McGill University)
"Turtle is a conserved IGSF protein in Drosophila that controls dendrite branching and self-avoidance" |
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm | Discussion |
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm | Megan Corty (Columbia University)
"Control of dendrite development by transcriptional regulation in the Drosophila PNS" |
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm | Discussion |
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm | Anna Karpova (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology)
"The synapto-nuclear messenger Jacob regulates dendrite growth and arborization" |
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm | Georgeann O'Brien (UCLA)
"A Nogo Receptor/RhoA pathway mediates peripheral axon avoidance of denervated skin after two-photon axotomy" |
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm | Discussion |
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm | Jerry Chen (MIT)
"Circuit specific remodeling of inhibitory dendritic abors during experience-dependent plasticity in the adult cortex" |
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm | Genia Kozorovitskiy (Harvard University)
"Experience-dependent development in the modulation of striatal synaptic transmission by dopamine type 1 receptor signals" |
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Dendritic Compartments and Imaging |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Mohammadi (University of Maryland) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Cian O'Donnell (University of Edinburgh)
"Dendritic spines as devices for synaptic metaplasticity" |
9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
9:20 am - 9:35 am | Michael Mohammadi (University of Maryland)
"Dendrite-specific short term memory" |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Jun Ding (Harvard University)
"Live-cell imaging of dendritic spines using supraresolution two photon laser scanning microscopy" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Johannes Letzkus (Friedrich Miescher Institute)
"In Vivo 2-Photon Imaging of Fear Memory Traces In Auditory Cortex" |
10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Group Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:40 am | Dendrite Protein Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Sharon Swanger (Emory University) |
11:00 am - 11:15 am | Linnaea Ostroff (New York University)
"Bidirectional changes in amygdala synapse size and local protein synthesis with fear or safety learning are influenced by the spine apparatus" |
11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Denise Cook (McGill University)
"Fragile X Related Protein 1 clusters at large dendritic spines in the hippocampus" |
11:35 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:15 pm | Round table discussion: "How to choose - and obtain - a postdoc" |
| Discussants: Greg Stuart, Anirvan Ghosh, Nelson Spruston, and Michael Häusser |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | GRS Evaluation |
| (Discuss request for a subsequent GRS; Fill out Evaluation Forms) |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II |
3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |