| SATURDAY |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Address |
| Discussion Leader: Veda Tatavarty (Brandeis University) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Roger Nicoll (UCSF)
"Long-term Potentiation: peeling the onion"
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| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session I |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Presynaptic mechanisms |
| Discussion Leaders: Nicholas Oesch (NINDS) and Sarah Lindstrom (Linkoping Universtiy) |
| 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Bart Borghuis (Yale)
"Imaging information processing at retinal synapses"
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| 5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
| 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Mathieu Letellier (Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, CNRS)
"Astrocytes and L-type calcium channels regulate the contrast of presynaptic strengths across inputs in hippocampal neurons"
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| 6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
| 6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Rajit Rajappa (University of Muenster)
"Synaptophysin - a release site clearance factor?"
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| 6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
| 7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Melissa Herman (Charité Medical University, NeuroCure)
"Vesicular glutamate transporter expression level affects synaptic vesicle release probability"
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| 7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Postsynaptic mechanisms |
| Discussion Leaders: Jary Delgado (CNRS) and Graham Diering (Johns Hopkins) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Sven Loebrich (MIT)
"CPG2 mediates glutamate receptor endocytosis through PKA-dependent association with the spine cytoskeleton"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Kelsey Barcomb (University Of Colorado Denver)
"CaMKII activity and GluN2B binding in regulation of synaptic strength"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Balakrishnan Selvakumar (Johns Hopkins University)
"S-nitrosylation of AMPA receptor GluA1 regulates its phosphorylation, single channel conductance and endocytosis"
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| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Igor Rafalovich (Northwestern University)
"The role of nitric oxide signaling in striatal synaptic transmission" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Genetic regulation of synapses |
| Discussion Leader: Tabrez Siddiqui (University Of British Columbia) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Regina Dahlhaus (Friedrich Alexander University)
"The novel protein Mate provides first evidence for a role of nuclear speckles in the pathology of the Fragile X Syndrome"
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| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Vivian Poon (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School)
"Making Connections with microRNAs"
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| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 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. |
