Conference Description
ATTENTION: The GRC bus picks up and drops off at the Florence Airport (FLR) only. GRC no longer has bus service to / from the Pisa Airport.
The Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology will bring together neuroscientists from academia and industry to discuss the latest breakthroughs in the study of the nervous system. As the tradition of this GRC, the conference will focus on molecular and cellular approaches to study nervous system development, neuronal circuit formation and function, and neurological diseases. The conference will also feature recent technological innovations for studying these scientific questions. Scientific sessions will cover recent discoveries on the development of the nervous system, synaptic function, neural circuits underlying cognitive functions, and molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurological diseases including neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. Again, as the tradition of this GRC, a major goal of this conference is to bring leading neuroscientists from Asia, North America, Europe and the rest of the world to communicate exciting science and to foster new collaborations through formal scientific sessions as well as during informal interactions. To promote the next generation of neuroscientists, short talks will be selected from abstracts submitted by students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty members. This GRC will be preceded by a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, which will feature a keynote speaker and be open only to students and postdoctoral fellows. The GRS will serve as a forum for trainees to broaden their peer network and will complement the GRC in bringing together scientists from around the world to discuss and identify new directions in molecular and cellular neurobiology.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by January 27, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Synapses from Molecules to Brain Functions
Discussion Leaders
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John Ngai (National Institutes of Health, United States)
Speakers
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Thomas Sudhof (Stanford University, United States)
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Jonas Ries (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany)
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Shujia Zhu (Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China)
Development of the Nervous System
Discussion Leaders
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Johannes Hell (University of California, Davis, United States)
Speakers
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Hongjun Song (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
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Song-Hai Shi (Tsinghua University, China)
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Oscar Marin (King's College London, United Kingdom)
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Juergen Knoblich (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austria)
Synapse and Synaptic Functions
Discussion Leaders
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Peter Scheiffele (Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland)
Speakers
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Yasunori Hayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
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Daniel Choquet (CNRS, France)
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Pascal Kaeser (Harvard Medical School, United States)
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Graeme Davis (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
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Pietro De Camilli (Yale University, United States)
Interactions between Nervous and Other Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Xiang Yu (Peking University, China)
Speakers
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Junying Yuan (Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China)
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Tony Wyss-Coray (Stanford University School of Medicine, United States)
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Francisco Quintana (Harvard Medical School, United States)
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Christoph Thaiss (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Sensory Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Alexander Chesler (National Institutes of Health, United States)
Speakers
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Qiufu Ma (Westlake University, China, China)
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Tian Xue (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
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Ardem Patapoutian (Scripps Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States)
Disease Models and Mechanisms
Discussion Leaders
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Eric Huang (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
Speakers
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Guoping Feng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
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Aaron Gitler (Stanford University, United States)
Inhibitory Synapse and E/ibalance
Discussion Leaders
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Shiva Tyagarajan (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Speakers
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Wei Lu (NINDS, NIH, United States)
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Richard Tsien (New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States)
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Scott Soderling (Duke University, United States)
Neural Circuits and Behavior
Discussion Leaders
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Jun Ding (Stanford University, United States)
Speakers
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Hailan Hu (Zhejiang University, China)
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Christian Lüscher (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
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Bo Li (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States)
Keynote Session: Circuitry Functions with Enabling Technologies
Discussion Leaders
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Guo-li Ming (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Speakers
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Liqun Luo (Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Stanford University, United States)
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Yulong Li (Peking University, China)
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
Organizers
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Yi Zuo (University of California, Santa Cruz, United States)