| Sunday AM: |
Transmitter Release Mechanisms |
Discussion Leader: Richard Tsien, Stanford University
- Meyer Jackson - University of Wisconsin
Regulation of release from posterior pituitary nerve terminals
- Jurgen Klingauf - Max-Planck-Institute, Goettingen
Synaptic vesicle mobilization and its regulation
- Venkatesh Murthy - Harvard
Visualizing presynaptic function using green and red fluorescent proteins
- Dieter Bruns - Max-Planck-Institute, Goettingen
Quantal release in serotonin
| Sunday PM: |
Vesicle recycling in retinal synapses |
Discussion Leader: David Copenhagen - UCSF
- Henrique von Gersdorff - Vollum Institute
Glutamate release and fast exo-endocytosis in a ribbon type synapse
- Leon Lagnado - MRC, Cambridge
Exocytosis at a ribbon synapse
- Eric Schwartz - University of Chicago
Continuous vesicle cycling at ribbon synapses
| Monday AM: |
Synaptic function in the Cerebellum |
Discussion Leader: George Augustine - Duke University
- Tom Otis - UCLA
Control of glutamate receptor activation by glutamate transporters at parallel fiber synapses
- David Linden - Johns Hopkins
An expression mechanism of long-term synaptic depression in the cerebellar Purkinje cell
- Beth Finch - Duke University
Postsynaptic calcium signaling by IP3 and cerebellar LTD
- Arthur Konnerth - Technisches University, Munich
Synaptic signaling in dendritic spines
| Monday PM: |
Synaptic drive for network Oscillations |
Discussion Leader: John Huguenard - Stanford
- Marla Feller - NIH
The role of synaptic transmission in generating rhythmic activity in developing neural circuits.
- Gilles Laurent - Caltech
Temporal formatting of odor codes in the early olfactory system.
- Gyorgi Buzsaki - Rutgers University
Functional significance of hippocampal oscillations.
| Tuesday AM: |
Synaptic Plasticity I |
Discussion Leader: John Lisman - Brandeis
- Roberto Malinow - Cold Spring Harbor Labs
AMPA-receptor trafficking during plasticity
- Richard Tsien - Stanford University
Presynaptic LTP mechanisms
- Barry Connors - Brown University
Dynamics of chemical and electrical synapses in neocortex
- Daniel McGehee - University of Chicago
Nicotinic receptors and LTP in reward areas
| Tuesday PM: |
Synaptic Plasticity II |
Discussion Leader: Daniel Johnston - Baylor College
- Jeff Magee - LSU
Dendritic integration of widespread synaptic activity.
- Gina Turrigiano - Brandeis University
Control of synapse number and strength in developing cortical networks
- John Lisman - Brandeis University
New information about CaM-Kinase suggests how the PSD could function
as a bistable memory storage device
| Wednesday AM: |
Giant vertebrate synapses |
Discussion Leader: Larry Trussell - OHSU
- Ian Forsythe - University of Leicester
Regulation of calcium current in MNTB
- Ling-Gang Wu - Washington University
Presynaptic calcium transients in calyces
- Ralf Schneggenburger - Max-Planck-Institute, Goettingen
Presynaptic Calcium uncaging at a fast central synapse: new insights for transmitter release and its short-term modulation
- Peter Sargent - UCSF
Diversity and functional role of pre/postsynaptic AChR in ciliary ganglion calyx.
| Wednesday PM: |
Keynote lecture |
- Charles Stevens, Salk Institute
- Reception to follow
| Thursday AM: |
Postsynaptic calcium signaling |
Discussion Leader: Robert Zucker - University of California
- Rafael Yuste - Columbia University
Calcium compartmentalization in dendritic spines
- Bernardo Sabatini - Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Counting synaptic channels
- William Ross - NY Medical College, Valhalla
mGluR and spike associated calcium changes in pyramidal neurons
Lunch to follow this session and then departure
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