| 9/6/98 evening, 8:00 pm | Neural Patterning |
Discussion Leader: Tom Curran
- Ethan Bier, Univ. California, San Diego - Selective inhibition of BMP signaling during Drosophila neurogenesis and adult development
- Scott Fraser, Caltech, Pasadena - Cell signals and morphogenetic movements collaborate to pattern the zebrafish nervous system
- Yi Rao, Wash U, St. Louis - Patterning the vertebrate eyes
| 9/7/98 morning, 8:30 am | Cell Fate Determination and Differentiation |
Discussion Leader: Scott Fraser
- Marianne Bronner-Fraser, Caltech, Pasadena - Formation and lineage decisions of the cranial neural crest
- William Chia, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore - Asymmetric cell divisions and the resolution of alternative sibling cell fates in the Drosophila CNS
- Mu-Ming Poo, Univ. California, San Diego - Cellular mechanisms of neuronal growth cone guidance
- Short Talks:
- John Ngai, UB Berkeley - Molecular biology of the vertebrate olfactory system
- Seong-Seng Tan, University of Melbourne, Australia - Development of the cerebral neocortex: cell migration and cell phenotypes
| 9/7/98 evening, 8:00 pm | Cell Death and Neural Degeneration |
Discussion Leader: Yves Barde
- Tom Curran, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis - Reelin and disabled: Genes that cooperate in the regulation of brain development
- Dennis Choi, Wash U, St. Louis - Intervening to protect the CNS after ischemic insults
- Fred Gage, Salk Institute, La Jolla - Regulation of adult neurogenesis from stem cells derived from the adult nervous system
| 9/8/98 morning, 8:30 am | Trophic Factors |
Discussion Leader: Fred Gage
- Louis Reichardt, Univ. California, San Francisco - Pending
- Nancy Ip, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. Technology, Hong Kong - Molecular signaling in neuronal development
- Yves Barde, Max-Planck Institute, Germany - Control of neuronal fate by neurotrophins
- Ira Black, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway - Trophic regulation of synaptic plasticity
| 9/8/98 evening, 8:00 pm | Synapse Development |
Discussion Leader: Rick Huganir
- Story Landis, NIH, Bethesda - Cell cell interactions are required for synapse formation
- Jeff Lichtman, Wash U, St. Louis - Synaptic competition at the neuromuscular junction
- Martha Constantine-Paton, Yale - Developmental controls on the regulation of glutamate receptor current
- Short Talks:
- Wen Biao Gan & Y. Oomura - Leptin in food intake, learning and memory
| 9/9/98 morning, 8:30 am | Synaptic Plasticity |
Discussion Leader: Martha Constantine-Paton
- Bai Lu, NIH, Bethesda - Role of BDNF in hippocampal synaptic plasticity
- Rick Huganir, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore - Molecular mechanisms in the regulation of excitatory synaptic transmission
- Robert Malenka, Univ. California, San Francisco - Silent synapses and synaptic plasticity
- Mriganka Sur, MIT, Cambridge - Plasticity induced by visual activity in rewired cortex
| 9/9/98 evening, 8:00 pm | Short Talks |
Discussion Leader: Story Landis
- Maria Fischer, Friedrich Miescher-Institute, Basel, Switzerland - Rapid Actin-Based Plasticity in Dendritic Spines
- Xiaoqing Qiu, West China Medical Univ., China - Pending
- Masami Takahashi, Mitsubishi Kasei Institute, Japan - Multiple mechanisms of C1 protein-mediated regulation of neurotransmitter release
- Danilo Tagle, NHGRI, NIH - Progressive neurological phenotype and selective neuronal loss in full length cDNA transgenic mouse model for Huntington's Disease
- Shigang He, Shanghai Brain Research Institute - Retinal Direction Selectivity after Targeted Laser Ablation of Starburst Amacrine Cells
- Nikolaus Sucher, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong - NR3A: a novel NMDA receptor subunit
- Shuqian Jing, Amgen, CA - GRFα-1 is essential in vivo for GDNF/Ret-Mediated signaling during embryogenesis
| 9/10/98 morning, 8:30 am | Signal Transduction in the nervous system |
Discussion Leader: Morgan Sheng
- Lin Mei, Univ. Virginia, Charlottesville - Signaling pathways leading to synapse-specific transcription at the neuromuscular junction
- Ji-Sheng Han, Beijing Medical Univ., Beijing, China - The interaction between opioids and anti-opioids at receptor at signal transduction levels
- Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Tokyo Univ., Tokyo, Japan - Dynamics of signaling molecules in developing brain
- Yi-Zhang Chen, The Second Medical Univ., Shanghai, China - Signal transduction pathway of rapid action of glucocorticoid in PC12 cells
| 9/10/98 afternoon | Neurotransmitter Receptors and Ion Channels |
Discussion Leader: Robert Malenka
- Morgan Sheng, Harvard Univ., Boston - Molecular architecture of the postsynaptic specialization
- S. Nakanishi, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan - Glutamate receptors in brain function
- Rick Aldrich, Stanford Univ., Stanford - Conformational changes involved in ion channel gating.
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