| Sunday Evening June 11 | Neurotrophins and Development |
Welcome: Mike Greenberg
Hans Thoenen, Chair, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology
- Bill Snider, University of North Carolina
Neurotrophins and sensory neuron development
- Louis Reichardt, University of California, San Francisco
Contrasting roles for neurotriophins in the CNS and PNS
- Patrick Ernfors, Karolinska Institute
NT4 function during nervous system development
- Rudiger Klein, European Molecular Biology Lab, Heidelberg
Distinct requirements of TrkB and TrkC signaling innervation of sensory neurons
| Monday Morning June 11 | Stem Cells and Neurotrophic Factors |
Story Landis, Chair, National Institutes of Health, NINDS
- Martin Raff, University College of London
Cell growth control in dividing Schwann cells
- Chuck Stiles, Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Regulation of gene expression in cortical progenitor cells.
- Sean Morrison, University of Michigan Medical School.
Neurotrophin regulation of neural crest stem cells in peripheral nervous system development.
- Chaya Kalcheim, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School.
Molecular control of the onset of neural crest migration.
- Yi Sun, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Molecular mechanisms that regulate the differentiaton of neural stem cells.
| Monday Afternoon: June 11 | Poster Session |
| Monday Evening: June 11 | Regulation of Neuronal Shape, Pathfinding, and Synapse Formation by Extracellular Factors |
Ron Oppenheim, Chair. Wake Forest University School of Medicine
- Carol Mason, Columbia University College of Medicine
Factors regulating cerebellar cell development
- Josh Sanes, Washington University School of Medicine
Intercellular and intracellular organizers of synapse formation.
- Susan Cohen-Cory, University of California, Los Angeles
BDNF Modulates the Development of Neuronal Connectivity In Vivo: from Dendrites and Axons to Synapses
- Kerry Tucker, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology
The role of neurotrophins in nerve elongation in the forelimb
| Tuesday Morning - June 12 | Neurotrophic Factors and Survival |
Lloyd Greene, Chair, Columbia University College of P&S
- Freda Miller, Montreal Neurological Institute
The Jnk-p53 pathway in sympathetic neuron apoptosis
- Luis Parada, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Trk receptor signaling and regulation
- Junying Yuan , Harvard Medical School
Caspases in pathological neuronal cell death
- Chris Henderson, INSERM U
Novel death and survival pathways in motoneurons
- Michael Sendtner, University of Wurzburg
Role of Raf kinases in motoneuron survival
| Tuesday Evening --June 12 | Trophic Factors and Synaptic Transmission |
Carol Mason, Chair
- Jeff Lichtman, Washington University School of Medicine.
Synapse elimination and maintenance signals at the neuromuscular junction.
- Rita Balice-Gordon, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Multidirectional Trk mediated signaling at neuromuscular synapses.
- Takao Hensch, Brain Science Institute, Hirosawa, Japan.
Critical period mechanisms for visual cortical plasticity.
| Wednesday Morning -- June 13 | Neurotrophic Factor Signaling |
David Kaplan, Chair. Montreal Neurological Institute
- David Ginty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
NGF signaling in developing sympathetic neurons.
- Roz Segal, Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Retrograde signaling by neurotrophins: The challenge of distance.
- Phil Barker, McGill University.
New twists in p75NTR signaling.
- Georg Dechant, Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology
p75 signal transduction
- Roger Davis, University of Massachusetts, Worcester.
Signal transduction by stress-activated MAP kinases.
| Wednesday Afternoon -June 13 | Poster Session |
| Wednesday Evening ---June 13 | Trophic Factors, Injury, Disease, and Repair |
Richard Zigmond, Chair, Case Western Reserve University
- Ben Barres, Stanford University School of Medicine
Extrinsic and intrinsic control of CNS axon growth
- Ron McKay, National Institues of Health, NINDS
Repairing brains with stem cells
- Antonino Cattaneo, International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Spatio-temporal progression of neurodegeneration in anti Nerve Growth Factor transgenic mice
- Li-Huei Tsai, Harvard Medical School.
Neuronal phosphorylation in brain development and degeneration.
| Thursday Morning---June 14 | Other Trophic Factors and Neurodevelopment |
Moses Chao, Chair, New York University Medical School
- Gabriel Corfas, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
erbB receptor signaling plays a key role in the neuron-glia interactions that regulate sexual female development.
- Peter Scheiffele, University of California, San Francisco.
Induction of Presynaptic differentiation by neuroligins.
- Barbara Hempstead
Identification of a novel, high affinity ligand for p75
- Stephen Strittmatter, Yale University.
Mechanisms of axon repulsion by nogo and semaphorins.
- Carlos Ibanez, Karolinska Institute.
Trophic signaling by GDNF and its receptors.
| Thursday Evening -June 14 | Banquet and Keynote |
- Stanley J. Korsmeyer, M.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Integrating the cell death pathway
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