| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Keynote Lecture I |
| Introductory Remarks: Istvan Mody (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA) |
| Peter Somogyi (Oxford University, UK)
Addressing and Timing of GABA Release in the Hippocampus |
| 8:30 pm | Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Anatomy and Physiology of Interneurons I |
| Discussion Leader: Chris McBain (NICHD-LCSN, Bethesda, USA) |
| John Rubenstein (UCSF, San Francisco, USA)
Development of Inhibitory Neurons |
| Tamás Freund (Inst of Exp Medicine, Hungarian Acad Sci, Budapest, Hungary)
Endocannabinoids control GABAergic inhibition in the cerebral cortex |
| Zoltán Nusser (Inst. of Exp. Medicine, Hungarian Acad Sci, Budapest, Hungary)
Interneuron Subtype-specific Regulation of Transmitter Release |
| Alain Marty (Universite Paris, Paris, France)
Synaptic Integration in Cerebellar Interneurons |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Structure and Function of GABA Receptors I |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Macdonald (Vanderbilt U, Nashville, USA) |
| Cynthia Czajkowski (U Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
GABAA Receptors: Structural Mechanisms Involved In Ligand Binding, Channel Activation and BZD Modulation |
| Richard Olsen (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)
Ethanol and GABA Receptor Structure |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Data Blitz |
| Chair: Chris McBain (NICHD-LCSN, Bethesda, USA) |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Structure and Function of GABA Receptors II |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Whiting (Merck Sharp & Dohme, Harlow, UK) |
| Neil Harrison (Cornell U, USA)
GABAA Receptors as Targets of Anesthetics |
| Stephen Moss (U Penn, Philadelphia, USA)
GABA Receptor Trafficking |
| David Weiss (U Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
Structural Determinants of GABA Receptor Modulation |
| Werner Sieghart (U of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
GABAA Receptor Structure and Pharmacology |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission I |
| Discussion Leader: Alex Thomson (London University, London, UK) |
| Massimo Scanziani (UCSD, San Diego, USA)
Dynamics of Elementary Inhibitory Circuits |
| Matt Jones (U Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Inhibition and Neural Coding |
| Peter Jonas (U Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
Inhibitory Cell-to-Cell Communication |
| Mark Farrant (UCL, London, UK)
Tonic and Phasic Inhibition in the Cerebellum |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission II |
| Discussion Leader: Ivan Soltesz (UCI, Irvine, USA) |
| Mu-Ming Poo (UCB, Berkeley, CA)
Activity-dependent Plasticity of Developing GABAergic Synapses |
| Bryndis Birnir (U Lund, Lund, Sweden)
Extrasynaptic GABA Channels |
| Dimitri Kullman (UCL, London, UK)
Hebbian LTP of Disynaptic Inhibition |
| Jean-Claude Lacaille (U de Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
mGluR1 Signaling in Interneuronal Synaptic Plasticity |
| Kai Kaila (U Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
Regulation of Intracellular Cl: Development and Pathology |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Free Time |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Business Meeting |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Inhibition, Networks and Plasticity |
| Discussion Leader: György Buzsáki (Rutgers U, Newark, USA) |
| Carolyn Houser (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)
Interneuron Plasticity |
| Robert Pearce (U Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Generation of Slow Inhibitory Events |
| Kevin Staley (CHSU, Denver, USA)
When is GABA Inhibitory? |
| Yu-Tian Wang (UBC, Vancouver, Canada)
Molecular Mechanisms Responsible for GABAA Receptor Insertion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Pathology of Inhibition |
| Discussion Leader: Stefano Vicini (Georgetown U, Washington D.C., USA) |
| Sheryl Smith (SUNY, Brooklyn, USA)
Neurosteroid Withdrawal Effects on GABAA Receptor Function |
| Douglas Coulter (U Penn, Philadelphia, USA)
Patholigical Alterations in Inhibition |
| Steven Petrou (U Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia)
Mouse Models of Human GABAA Receptor Mutations |
| Hanns Möhler (U Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland)
The Specificity of Anxiolytics |
| Yves DeKoninck (Laval University, Quebec, Canada)
Plasticity of Inhibition in Chronic Pain |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Keynote Lecture II |
| Hannah Monyer (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Molecular Biological Tools for Inhibition |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
