Sunday Evening |
Keynote Lectures |
- Morgan Sheng (Harvard University)
PDZ-based signaling complexes at excitatory synapses
- Richard Huganir (Johns Hopkins University)
Molecular mechanisms in the regulation of glutamate receptor function
Monday Morning Session 1. |
Ultrastructure & Organization of EAA Receptors |
Discussion Leader: David Bredt (UCSF)
- Ole Ottersen (University of Oslo)
Mode of organization of ionotropic glutamate receptors
- J. Eric Gouaux (Columbia University)
Biochemical and crystallographic studies of ionotropic glutamate receptors
- Robert Wenthold (National Institutes of Health)
Organization and targeting of ionotropic glutamate receptors in neurons
- Ann Marie Craig (University of Illinois)
Synapse assembly and glutamate receptor targeting in hippocampal Neurons
Monday Evening Session 2. |
Synaptic Targeting/Organization of EAA Receptors |
Discussion Leader: Richard Huganir (Johns Hopkins University)
- Ed Ziff (New York Univ)
AMPA receptor protein interactions and receptor trafficking and anchorage synapses
- David Bredt (University of California - San Francisco)
Nitric oxide and erection of the synapse
- Paul Worley (Johns Hopkins University)
Immediate early genes and the excitatory synapse
Tuesday Morning Session 3. |
Genetic Approaches to EAA Functions |
Discussion Leader: Morgan Sheng (Harvard University)
- Peter Seeburg (Max Planck Institute)
Gene targeting of AMPA receptors in mice
- Susumu Tonegawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Roles of NMDA receptors in the CA1 area of hippocampus in synaptic plasticity, place cells and memory
- Steve Heinemann (Salk Institute)
Kainate receptor deficient mice
- Seth Grant (University Edinburgh)
Postsynaptic Density 95 mutant mice and NMDA receptor signal transduction
Tuesday Evening Session 4. |
Physiology of EAAs and EAA Receptors |
Discussion Leader: Mark Mayer (National Institutes of Health)
- Hannah Monyer (University of Heidelberg)
Characterization and alteration of glutamate receptors in selective cell populations
- Juan Lerma (Institute Cajal CSIC)
Kainate receptors: new functions, new mechanisms
- Gary Westbrook (Vollum Institute)
Regulation of gating and expression of NMDA receptors
Wednesday Morning Session 5. |
EAAs and Synaptic Plasticity |
Discussion Leader: Mark Bear (Brown University)
- Roger Nicoll (University of California - Cal SanFrancisco)
Silent synapses and synaptic plasticity
- David Linden (Johns Hopkins University)
The expression mechanisms for cerebellar long-term depression: narrowing the field
- Thomas Sudhof (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Molecular mechanisms of presynaptic plasticity: The role of protein phosphorylation
- Jeremy Henley (University of Bristol)
Functional implications of the GluR2-NSF interaction in neurons
Wednesday Evening Session 6. |
Selected Short Talks from Abstracts |
- John Roder (Univ of Toronto)
The functional role of GluR2 in excitotoxicity, cerebral ischemia and a kindling model of epilepsy
- Andres Buonanno (NICHD, NIH)
NMDA Receptor subunit composition is regulated by presynaptic inputs: the role of neuregulin and activity
- Yi-Ping Hseuh (Harvard Univ)
Interaction between CASK/LIN-2 and transcription factor T-Brain-1: nuclear translocation and transcription regulation by a cell junction MAGUK protein
- Katalin Toft (NICHD, NIH)
Differential mechanisms of synaptic transmission at two types of AMPA receptors on hippocampal interneurons
- Dean Madden (Max Planck Inst.)
Quaternary structure of the ionotropic glutamate receptor B
- Elizabeth Quinlan (Brown Univ)
Bidirectional regulation of NMDA receptor subunit composition in the rat visual cortex by sensory experience
Thursday Morning Session 7. |
Transporters/Excitotoxicity |
Discussion Leader: James McNamara (Duke University)
- Susan Amara (Vollum Institute)
The ins and outs of glutamate transporters
- Craig Jahr (Vollum Institute)
Synaptic activation of AMPA receptors in non-neuronal cells
- Mandy Jackson (Johns Hopkins University)
Novel interacting/regulatory proteins for neuronal glutamate transporters
- Dennis Choi (Washington University)
Excitotoxicity in brain ischemia, a moving target
Thursday Evening Session 8. |
EAAs and Excitotoxicity/Pathophysiology |
Discussion Leader: Dennis Choi (Washington University)
- R. Suzanne Zukin (Albert Einstein University)
Molecular mechanism underlying neuronal cell death in ischemia
- James McNamara (Duke University)
Glutamate receptor autoantibodies and Rasmussen's encephalitis
- Roger Simon (University of Pittsburgh)
Glutamate and prepiriform cortex: distant effects modulating neuronal injury in ischemia and epilepsy
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