| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in / Poster Set-up |
| 6:00 pm | Welcoming Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Neuronal Signaling in Transport and Plasticity |
| Discussion Leader: Louis Reichardt (University of California, San Francisco) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Bill Mobley (Stanford University)
Mechanisms and implications for retrograde transport of neurotrophin signals |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Kelsey Martin (University of California, Los Angeles)
Signaling between synapse and nucleus during neuronal plasticity |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Michael Fainzilber (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Integration of axonal and nuclear transport in healthy and diseased neurons |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Neurogenesis and Neuronal Motility |
| Discussion Leader: Yi Sun (University of California, Los Angeles ) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Christopher Walsh (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School)
Genes that control the shape and size of the human cerebral cortex |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Juergen Knoblich (The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology)
Growth control and tumorigenesis in Drosophila neuronal stem cells |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Rosalind Segal (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School)
TrkB endocytosis provides direction for BDNF induced migration |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 12:30 pm | Short Talk Presentations |
| Shou Serizawa (University of Tokyo)
Odorant receptor-instructed axonal fasciculation of mouse olfactory sensory neurons |
| Wei-Min Tong (International Agency for Research on Cancer)
Understanding the role of DNA repair molecule Nbs1 in microcephaly |
| Zhigang Xie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Cep120 is a novel centrosomal protein essential for neuronal nucleus-centrosome coupling |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Establishment of Neuronal Network |
| Discussion leader: Yi Rao (Northwestern University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Holly Cline (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Developmental plasticity in the visual system |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Yishi Jin (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Neural development in C. elegans |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Yuh Nung Jan (University of California, San Francisco)
Control of dendrite development |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:30 am | Synaptic Transmission I |
| Discussion Leader: Kang Shen (Stanford University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Thomas Sudhof (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Molecular biology of neurotransmitter release |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Ling-Gang Wu (National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke )
Regulation of vesicle endocytosis at a central synapse |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | Nancy Ip (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Receptor tyrosine kinase-mediated signaling at the synapse |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Special Seminar |
| Story Landis (National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke / National Institute of Health)
Science policy |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 2 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synaptic Transmission II |
| Discussion Leader: Shumin Duan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Lily Jan (University of California, San Francisco)
Potassium channels |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Atsushi Miyawaki (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
New methods of visualizing signaling with fluorescent imaging |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Morgan Sheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Molecular Basis of Neurological Diseases |
| Discussion Leader: Fen-Biao Gao (University of California, San Francisco) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Susan Ackerman (The Jackson Laboratory)
Forward genetic approaches to understanding neuro-degeneration |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Virginia Lee (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)
Modulation of alpha-synuclein fibril formation |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | John Trojanowski (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)
Therapy of tauopathies |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Marc Caron (Duke University Medical Center)
Dissecting aberrant CNS function in animal models |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Short Talk Presentation |
| Eric Huang (University of California, San Francisco)
TGFb-HIPK2 signaling pathway and survival of midbrain dopamine neurons |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 3 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Plasticity of Neurons I |
| Discussion Leader: Bai Lu (National Institutes of Health) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Josh Huang (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Construction and plasticity of GABAergic circuits in mammalian brain |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Martha Constantine-Paton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Interaction between BDNF and PSD-95 at the developing visual synapse |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Mu-ming Poo (University of California, Berkeley)
Synaptic plasticity in a developing retinotectal system |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Plasticity of Neurons II |
| Discussion Leader: Mingjie Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Roger Nicoll (University of California, San Francisco)
Glutamate receptor trafficking: role in plasticity |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Richard Huganir (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Regulation of glutamate receptor function and synaptic plasticity |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Tobias Bonhoeffer (Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology)
Local and global control of synaptic properties in hippocampal neurons: competitive maintenance and synaptic homeostasis |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Short Talk Presentations |
| Yichang Jia (Institute of Neuroscience, The Chinese Academy of Sciences)
TRPC channels promote cerebellar granular neuron survival |
| Makoto Kinoshita (Kyoto University)
Emerging roles of septin scaffolds in developing and degenerating brain |
| Jun Xia (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
A heteromeric BAR domain complex of PICK1 and ICA69 regulates AMPA receptor trafficking |
| Zhi-Qi Xiong (Institute of Neuroscience, The Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Requirement of TORC1 for late-phase long-term potentiation in the hippocampus |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Closing Banquet |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Neuronal Communications and Behavior |
| Discussion Leader: John Ngai (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Liqun Luo (Stanford University)
Genetic analysis of neuronal circuit assembly |
| Discussion |
| Barry Dickson (The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology)
Wired for sex: genetic and neural control of Drosophila sexual behavior |
| Discussion |
| Bob Horvitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Biogenic amines and neuropeptides modulate C. elegans behavior |
| Discussion |
| Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecture:
Linda Buck (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Unraveling smell |
| Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
