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Excitatory Synapses and Brain Function (GRS)

Gordon-Merck Research Seminar

June 8 - 9, 2013
Chair Veda Kumar Tatavarty
Les Diablerets Conference Center
Eurotel Victoria
Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr), Switzerland
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Excitatory Synapses & Brain Function is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

This meeting will focus on the latest findings in the areas of genesis, development, molecular architecture, signaling and plasticity of excitatory synapses. In conjunction with the opportunity to present their latest research, the meeting will also provide a career building forum for post-doc and graduate students involving interaction with eminent senior scientists.

Related Meeting

This GRC will be held in conjunction with the "Excitatory Synapses and Brain Function" Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRS in addition to an application for the GRC. Refer to the associated GRS program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmArrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pmKeynote Address
Discussion Leader: Veda Tatavarty (Brandeis University)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmRoger Nicoll (UCSF)
"Long-term Potentiation: peeling the onion"
3:45 pm - 4:00 pmDiscussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session I
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmPresynaptic mechanisms
Discussion Leaders: Nicholas Oesch (NINDS) and Sarah Lindstrom (Linkoping Universtiy)
5:30 pm - 5:50 pmBart Borghuis (Yale)
"Imaging information processing at retinal synapses"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pmDiscussion
6:00 pm - 6:20 pmMathieu Letellier (Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, CNRS)
"Astrocytes and L-type calcium channels regulate the contrast of presynaptic strengths across inputs in hippocampal neurons"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pmDiscussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pmRajit Rajappa (University of Muenster)
"Synaptophysin - a release site clearance factor?"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pmDiscussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pmMelissa Herman (Charité Medical University, NeuroCure)
"Vesicular glutamate transporter expression level affects synaptic vesicle release probability"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pmDiscussion
8:00 pmDinner
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amPostsynaptic mechanisms
Discussion Leaders: Jary Delgado (CNRS) and Graham Diering (Johns Hopkins)
9:00 am - 9:20 amSven Loebrich (MIT)
"CPG2 mediates glutamate receptor endocytosis through PKA-dependent association with the spine cytoskeleton"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amKelsey Barcomb (University Of Colorado Denver)
"CaMKII activity and GluN2B binding in regulation of synaptic strength"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:20 amBalakrishnan Selvakumar (Johns Hopkins University)
"S-nitrosylation of AMPA receptor GluA1 regulates its phosphorylation, single channel conductance and endocytosis"
10:20 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 am - 10:50 amIgor Rafalovich (Northwestern University)
"The role of nitric oxide signaling in striatal synaptic transmission"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmGenetic regulation of synapses
Discussion Leader: Tabrez Siddiqui (University Of British Columbia)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pmRegina 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"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pmDiscussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pmVivian Poon (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School)
"Making Connections with microRNAs"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pmDiscussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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