| SUNDAY |
| 14:00 - 18:00 | Arrival and Registration |
| Posters Set-up |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Welcoming Dinner |
| Evening | Trophic Factors & Cell Death |
| Discussion Leader:
Nancy Y. Ip, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong |
| 19:30 - 20:15 | David Kaplan, Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada
"Signal Transduction Pathways Regulating Neuronal Growth and Survival" |
| 20:15 - 21:00 | Nicos A. Nicola, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
"SOCS proteins as physiological regulators of cytokine action" |
| 21:00 - 21:45 | Junying Yuan, Harvard Medical School, Boston
"Regulation of Neuronal Cell Death" |
| MONDAY |
| Morning | Trophic Factors & Cell Death |
| Discussion Leader:
Nancy Y. Ip, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Martin Raff, University College London, UK
"Extracellular Control of Cell Growth" |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Moses V. Chao, New York University School of Medicine, New York
"Mechanisms of Neurotrophin Receptor Signaling" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Group Photo Taking |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Morning | Special Lecture |
| Discussion Leader:
Mu-Ming Poo, University of California, Berkeley |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Special Lecture by 2000 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Dr. Paul Greengard, Rockefeller University, New York
"The Neurobiology of Slow Synaptic Transmission" |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Free Time |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| Evening | Axon Guidance & Neuron Migration |
| Discussion Leader:
Liqun Luo, Stanford University, USA |
| 19:30 - 20:15 | Corey S. Goodman, University of California, Berkeley; and Renovis Inc.
"Genetic identification of a retrograde signal and pathway that controls synaptic growth" |
| 20:15 - 21:00 | Mu-Ming Poo, University of California, Berkeley
"Transduction Mechanisms Underlying Growth Cone Guidance by Diffusible Factors" |
| 21:00 - 21:45 | Yuh-Nung Jan, University of California, San Francisco
"Genesis of neuronal diversity: the control of dendritic arborization" |
| TUESDAY |
| Morning | Synaptic Transmission & Ion Channels |
| Discussion Leader: Lin Mei, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Richard L. Huganir, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland
"Regulation of AMPA Receptor Function and Synaptic Plasticity" |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Stephen F. Heinemann, The Salk Institute, San Diego
"The Mechanism of Synaptic Plasticity" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Morgan H. Sheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
"Molecular Dynamics of the Postsynaptic Specialization" |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Bai Lu, NICHD, NIH
"Acute and long-term regulation of synaptic transmission and plasticity by neurotrophins" |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Free Time |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| Evening | Axon Guidance & Neuron Migration |
| Discussion Leader: Liqun Luo, Stanford University, USA |
| 19:30 - 20:15 | Mary E. Hatten, The Rockefeller University, New York
"Molecular Basis of Cerebellar Development" |
| 20:15 - 21:00 | Thomas Curran, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis
"Role of Reelin Pathway in Brain Development" |
| 21:00 - 21:45 |
Yi Rao, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
"Temporal and Spatial Control of Neuronal Migration" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| Morning | Neural Development |
| Discussion Leader: Xi He, Harvard Medical School, Boston |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Gerald D. Fischbach, Columbia University, New York
"Neuregulin actions in the developing nervous system" |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Louis F. Reichardt, University of California, San Francisco
"Tyrosine Kinase Signaling and Cortical Development" |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Ruediger Klein, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
"Ephrin-Eph Signaling during Development and at the Synapse" |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Dennis D.M. O'Leary, Salk Institute, La Jolla
"Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mechanisms Regulating Area Identities of the Mammalian Neocortex" |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Shorts Talks |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Free Time |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| Evening | Neural Plasticity and Behavior |
| Discussion Leader:
Louis F. Reichardt, University of San Francisco, California |
| 19:30 - 20:15 | Masao Ito, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
"Signal transduction underlying cerebellar long-term depression" |
| 20:15 - 21:00 | H. Robert Horvitz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge
"Experience-dependent Modulation of C. Elegans Locomotion by Serotonin" |
| 21:00 - 21:45 | Takao K. Hensch, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
"Inhibitory circuit control of critical period plasticity in developing visual cortex" |
| THURSDAY |
| Morning | Neural Plasticity and Behavior |
| Discussion Leader:
Louis F. Reichardt, University of San Francisco, California |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Germany
"Morphological Correlates of Synaptic Plasticity" |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Martha Constantine-Paton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
"Changes at Glutamate Synapses Triggered By the Onset of Vision" |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Neurobiology of Disease |
| Discussion Leader: Bai Lu, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Bethesda |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Li-Huei Tsai, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston
"Regulation of APP metabolism by cytoplasmic phosphorylation" |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Virginia M.Y. Lee, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
"Pathobiology of Synucleinopathies" |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 18:00 | Free Time |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| Short Talk Session |
| Discussion Leader: John J. Ngai, University of California, Berkeley |
| Jeffrey L. Goldberg, Stanford University, Stanford
Retinal maturation triggers retinal ganglion cells to switch from an axonal to a dendritic growth mode |
| Zhuan Zhou, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai
Cross talk between M type and N type Ach receptors in neurons and endocrine cells |
| Shumin Duan, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai
Long term synaptic plasticity in neurons depends on astrocytederived factors |
| Elva Diaz, University of California, Berkeley
Programs of gene expression in the developing nervous system |
| Jian Ding, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis
Dsyregulation of circadlan rhythm by HIV protein tat |
| Gregory Jefferis, Stanford University, Stanford
Wiring specificity in the olfactory system of Drosophila |
| Ditsa Levanon, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Runx3 transcriptionally regulates development and survival of DRG proprioceptive neurons |
| Qiufu Ma, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Formation of brainstem relay sensory nuclei |
| Harish C. Pant, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Bethesda
Regulation of synaptic activity by neuronal cyclin dependent kinase 5 |
| Sun Yi, University of California at Los Angeles
Neurogenic BHLH factors promote cortical ceff migration by inhibiting the expression of RhoA small GTPases |
| Joe Yip, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh
Ectopic expression of reelin affects positioning of sympathetic preganglionic neurons in the spinal cord |
| Jianhua Zhang, University Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati
C-fos regulates neuronal excitability and survival |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| Conference closed. Depart after breakfast. |
