| 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 | Glia-Neuron Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Jeff Stogsdill (Duke University Medical Center, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 3:50 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 3:50 pm - 4:05 pm | Megan Corty (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
"Genetic Analysis of Axon Ensheathment" |
| 4:05 pm - 4:10 pm | Discussion |
| 4:10 pm - 4:25 pm | Bing Wu (Stanford University, USA)
"Ensheathing Glia Maintain Olfactory Neuron Targeting Specificity Through FGF Signaling Dependent Wrapping of Olfactory Glomeruli" |
| 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 | Regulation of Neurogenesis / Keynote Session: The Development and Organization of Light Touch Circuits |
| Discussion Leaders: Elena Abarinov (Columbia University, USA) and Jan Lui (Stanford University / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:35 pm - 7:50 pm | Rebecca Andersen (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Pnky in the Brain: The lncRNA Pnky Regulates V-SVZ Neurogenesis and Neural Stem Cell Maintenance In Vivo" |
| 7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Beverly Piggott (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Ion Channel Disruption Affects Drosophila Stem Cell and Brain Tumor Development" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Brian Rash (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)
"Bidirectional Radial Ca2+ Activity Regulates Neurogenesis and Migration During Early Cortical Column Formation" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 8:40 pm - 9:25 pm | David Ginty (Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Harvard Medical School, USA)
"The Development and Organization of Light Touch Circuits" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Generation of Cellular Diversity and Target Specificity in the CNS |
| Discussion Leaders: Shovan Naskar (Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy) and Vibhu Sahni (Harvard University, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:05 am - 9:20 am | Jay Bikoff (Columbia University, USA)
"Spinal Inhibitory Interneuron Diversity and Position Delineate Variant Motor Microcircuits" |
| 9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:40 am | Lynette Lim (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"Different Classes of Interneurons Take Distinct Migratory Routes to the Cortex" |
| 9:40 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Naresh Hanchate (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
"Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Receptor Transformations During Olfactory Neurogenesis" |
| 10:00 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am - 10:20 am | Titas Sengupta (Yale University, USA)
"The Development of Synaptic Connections in a C. elegans Neural Circuit" |
| 10:20 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
| 10:25 am - 10:40 am | Bulent Ataman (Harvard Medial School, USA)
"Evolutionary Repurposing of an Activity-Regulated Factor in Primate Neocortex" |
| 10:40 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | General 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 | Interplay of Neural Development and Disease |
| Discussion Leaders: Ryan Kast (University of Southern California, USA) and Himanshu Sharma (Stony Brook University, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Daniel Pederick (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
"Mosaic Expression of Pcdh19 Causes Segregation of Pcdh19-Wild Type and Pcdh19-Null Neurons in the Developing Mouse Cortex Leading to an Epileptic Phenotype" |
| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
| 1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Giordano Lippi (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"MicroRNA-101 Constrains the Development of Neural Networks to Balance Excitation" |
| 2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Gabrielle Rushing (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Neural Stem Cell Positional Identity Corresponds to Differential mTOR Activity in Subdomains of the Ventricular-Subventricular Zone" |
| 2:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
