Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Anecdotes and Advice on a Career in Glial Research
Discussion Leaders: Lasse Dissing-Olesen (Boston Children's Hospital, USA) and Sarah Ackerman (University of Oregon, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Dorothy Schafer (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA), Grant Gordon (University of Calgary, Canada) and Ye Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Anecdotes and Advice on a Career in Glial Research"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Glial Cell Dysfunction and Disease
Discussion Leader: Grant Gordon (University of Calgary, Canada)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Amy Gleichman (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Reactive Astrocyte Heterogeneity: Structural and Functional Differences Within and Between Brain Regions Post-Stroke"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Ukpong Eyo (Rutgers University, USA)
"Insights into Microglial-Neuronal Physical Interactions Following Experimental Seizures"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Ravi Rungta (INSERM U1128 / Universite Paris Descartes, France)
"Optical Control of Cerebral Blood Flow in Naïve (ChR2 Negative) Mice"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Louis-Philippe Bernier (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Microglia Rapidly Adopt a Filopodia-Rich Phenotype During Hypoxia by Sensing Tissue Acidosis"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Daniel Wilton (Boston Children's Hospital, USA)
"Microglia Mediate Early Loss of Specific Synaptic Connections in Huntington's Disease"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Glial Cell Development and Heterogeneity
Discussion Leader: Ye Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Christopher Bohlen (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
"Serum-Free Microglial Cultures Reveal Diverse Requirements for Survival, Phagocytosis, and Specification"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Blanca Diaz Castro (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Assessing Astrocyte Diversity in Neural Circuits: Proteomics and Transcriptomics"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Vilaiwan Fernandes (New York University, USA)
"Glia Induce Neuronal Differentiation in the Lamina of the Drosophila Visual System"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Laura Fontenas (University of Virginia, USA)
"Exploring Glial Interactions Across the Motor Exit Point During Nervous System Development"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Breanne Harty (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
"Fbxw7 Cell-Autonomously Regulates Schwann Cell Development and Myelination via mTOR-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 11:00 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Glial Cell Function in Homeostasis
Discussion Leader: Dorothy Schafer (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Thomas Papouin (Tufts University School of Medicine, USA)
"Cholinergic Transmission Tunes the Astrocyte-Dependent Gating of NMDA Receptors to Wakefulness"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm
Discussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm
Wendy Wang (Rockefeller University, USA)
"The Ig-Like and Fibronectin Domain-Containing Protein IGDB-2 and Ion Channel LGC-34 Promote Amphid Channel Morphogenesis in C. elegans "
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm
Discussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Amit Agarwal (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Astrocyte Microdomain Ca2+ Transients Arise from Transient Opening of the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
