| SUNDAY |
| Dan Johnston, Baylor College of Medicine
Chair's opening remarks. |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Lecture 1 |
| Eve Marder, Brandeis University
"Modulation of Neuronal Networks: the Interaction of Mechanisms
for Stability and Flexibility" |
| MONDAY |
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| 8:45 AM | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synaptic Circuits |
| Discussion Leader: Chris McBain, NIH |
| Rosa Cossart, Columbia University
"A Kinetic Signature for Hippocampal Interneurons" |
| David McCormick, Yale University
"Dynamics of Local Cortical Networks" |
| Alex Thomson, UCL, UK
"Presynaptic Frequency Filtering at Cortical Synapses" |
| Matt Wilson, MIT
"Hippocampal Plasticity, Memory, and Sleep" |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synaptic Transmission in the Retina |
| Sam Wu, Baylor College of Medicine
"Miniature Postsynaptic Currents in Glutamatergic Synapses" |
| David Copenhagen, UCSF
"Synaptic Transmission in Inner Retina: Development, Plasticity and Depletion" |
| Data Blitz |
| Steve Redman, Leader |
| 5 min talks and/or 1 min previews of posters |
| TUESDAY |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synaptic Mechanisms I |
| Discussion Leader: Bob Zucker, UC Berkeley |
| Ed Chapman, Universitiy of Wisconsin
"Molecular Events During the Final Milliseconds of Exocytosis" |
| Tom Sudhof, UT Dallas
"Mechanism of Synaptotagmin Function in Neurotransmitter Release" |
| Helmut Koester, Baylor College of Medicine
"Presynaptic Calcium Signals in Synaptically Connected Pairs of Neocortical Neurons" |
| Yuan Liu, NINDS
"Funding opportunities at NIH" |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synaptic Mechanisms II |
| Discussion Leader: Larry Trussell, Oregon Health Sciences University |
| Peter Jonas, University of Freiburg, Germany
"Ionic Channels Regulating Transmitter Release in Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Boutons" |
| Henry Lester, Caltech
"Counting GABA Transporters in GAT1-GFP Knock-In Mice" |
| Kristen Harris, Boston University
"How Spine Structure Changes with LTP" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synaptic Plasticity |
| Discussion Leader: Don Faber, Albert Einstein Coll. Med. |
| Mary Kennedy, Caltech
"Kinetic Analyses of Biochemical Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity" |
| Joe Tsien, Princeton University
"Temporal Analysis of Molecular Dynamics of Memory Process by Conditional Protein Knockout" |
| Vahri Beaumont, LMB, Cambridge, UK
"Activity-Dependent and cAMP-Induced Synaptic Plasticity in Crayfish: The Role of Ih Channels" |
| Mu-Ming Poo, UC Berkeley
"Shaping the Developing Circuits by Electrical Activity" |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Computational and Translational Research |
| Discussion Leader: Rob Malenka, Stanford University |
| Larry Abbott, Brandeis University
"Functional Implications of Spike-Timing Dependent Synaptic Plasticity" |
| Julie Kauer, Brown University
"Synaptic Plasticity in the Dopaminergic Reward Pathway" |
| Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine
"Dynamic Modulation of Dopamine Delivery in Freely Moving Animals: A Computational Account" |
| THURSDAY |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Spinal Cord and Pain |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Redman, Australia National University |
| Amy MacDermott, Columbia University
"Breaking the Connection Between Nociceptors and the Dorsal Horn: The Role of Glutamate Receptors." |
| Robert W. Gereau, Baylor College of Medicine
"ERK Modulation of A-Type K+ Channels by mGluRs in Dorsal Horn
Neurons Associated with Inflammatory Pain" |
| Michael Salter, University of Toronto
"Molecular Signaling Pathways for Spinal Synaptic Plasticity" |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Lecture 2 |
| Erwin Neher, Goettingen, Germany
"Synaptic Transmission at the Calyx of Held: More simple and more complicated than anticipated" |
| FRIDAY |
| departure |
