Saturday |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Neural Circuits and Behavioral Analysis |
| Discussion Leader: Hao Wu (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm | Opening Remarks |
3:50 pm - 4:05 pm | William Olson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) "Region-Specific Organization of Mammalian Dorsal Spinal Cord Pain Circuits" |
4:05 pm - 4:10 pm | Discussion |
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm | Lele Cui (Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) "The Control of Action Selection by Cell-Type Specific Circuits of the Striatum in Auditory-Guided Decision Task" |
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Advancements in Understanding Brain Functions and Diseases |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Hart (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Mathieu Quesnel-Vallieres (University of Toronto, Canada) "Linking an Alternative Splicing Regulatory Network to Autism Spectrum Disorders" |
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Qiu-fen Jiang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China) "Antidepressant Reinstates the Plasticity of Vestibular-Mediated Navigation in the Adult" |
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Anita Thambirajah (Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Canada) "The Dynamic Incorporation of the Histone Variant H2A.Z During Hippocampal Maturation Is Associated with Neurodevelopment-Dependent Transcription" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Zhihui Huang (Wenzhou Medical University, China) "YAP Is a Critical Inducer of SOCS3, Preventing Reactive Astrogliosis" |
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Ya Chun Chen (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) "A Life Without Pain: New Mendelian Disorders of Human Painlessness Caused by Homozygous PRDM12 Mutation" |
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Xin Jiang (Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) "Neurodegeneration-Associated FUS Is a Key Circadian Regulator in a Novel Negative Feedback Loop" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Keynote Session: New Technologies to Study Cellular Diversity and Function in Nervous System |
| Discussion Leader: Yi Sun (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | John Ngai (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Illuminating Cellular Diversity in the Nervous System" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Xiaoying Chen (Tongji University, China) "Coupled Electrophysiological Recording and Single Cell Transcriptome Analyses Revealed Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neuronal Maturation" |
10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Koto Kikuma (University of Southern California, USA) "A Forward Genetic Screen Identifies a Link Between the Homeostatic Control of Sleep Behavior and Synaptic Plasticity" |
10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 10:55 am | Ruiming Chai (Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) "Enhanced Sensory Response of Somatostatin Interneurons During Perceptual Behavior" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Neural Lineage Specification and Plasticity |
| Discussion Leader: John Ngai (University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Hyang Mi Moon (Stanford University, USA) "GABRB3-LPS Interactions Impair Placental Function and Neocortical Development in Mice" |
1:50 pm - 1:55 pm | Discussion |
1:55 pm - 2:15 pm | Yat-Ping (Alex) Tsui (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China) "Schwann Cells Demonstrated Lineage Plasticity in Culture and Acquired Oligodendrocyte Phenotypes" |
2:15 pm - 2:20 pm | Discussion |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |