| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Lecture |
| Wolf Almers (Vollum Inst.)
Imaging the traffic of single synaptic vesicles at a giant terminal |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Integration of synaptic potentials in dendrites |
| Chair: Donald Faber (Albert Einstein Coll. Med) |
| Greg Stuart (Australian National Univ.)
Action potential initiation and propagation in cortical pyramidal neurons |
| Julian Jack (Oxford Univ)
Synaptic excitatory efficacy in cortical pyramidal cells |
| Jackie Schiller
Multicompartmental non-linear processing of synaptic information in cortical pyramidal neurons |
| Matthew Larkum (Univ. Bern)
Two time windows for spike timing dependent calcium increases |
| Micky London (Univ. College London)
The information efficacy of a synapse in cortical pyramidal neurons |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synaptic control of neural circuits |
| Chair: Barry Connors (Brown Univ.) |
| Alex Reyes (New York Univ.)
Control of signal flow in networks |
| Bill Spain (Univ. Washington)
Rate coding of fast versus slow synaptic inputs in different classes of neocortical neurons |
| Carole Landisman (Brown Univ.)
Electrical synapses in thalamic circuitry: function and modulation |
| Rachel Wilson (Harvard Medical School)
Synaptic mechanisms of olfactory coding |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Transmitter release mechanisms |
| Chair: Meyer Jackson (Univ. Wisconsin) |
| Tim Ryan (Cornell Univ.)
Molecular determinants of endocytosis speed at synaptic terminals. |
| Manfred Lindau (Cornell Univ.)
Single vesicle studies of transmitter release |
| Noreen Reist (Colorado State Univ.)
Molecular genetic dissection of synaptotagmin function |
| Ralf Schneggenburger (MPI Membrane Biophys.,Gottingen)
Calcium regulation of transmitter release at a large CNS glutamatergic synapse |
| Felix Schweizer (UCLA)
Regulation of short-term plasticity by NCS-1 |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Modulation of transmitter release |
| Chair: Lorna Role (Columbia Univ.) |
| Wade Regehr (Harvard Med. School)
Retrograde Signaling by Endocannabinoids |
| Bob Zucker (Univ. Calif. Berkeley)
Epac and HCN channels cooperate to mediate cAMP-dependent enhancement of glutamate release |
| Lucas Pozzo-Miller (Univ. Alabama)
The role of BDNF in neurotransmitter release |
| Young-Hwan Jo (Columbia Univ.)
Short-term synaptic modulation of appetite-related synapses in the lateral hypothalamus |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synaptic plasticity |
| Chair: S. Redman (Australian National Univ.) |
| Richard Tsien (Stanford Univ.)
Chronic synaptic plasticity at hippocampal synapses: homeostatic and metaplastic aspects |
| Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis Univ.)
Homeostatic plasticity in developing cortical networks |
| Guosong Liu (MIT)
The elementary relationship between the patterns of neural activity and plasticity of synapses in neural networks |
| P Castillo (Albert Einstein Coll. Med)
Endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus |
| Clarke Raymond (Australian National Univ)
Calcium signals underlying the induction of different forms of LTP |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synaptic Plasticity in Addiction and Pain |
| Chair: Julie Kauer (Brown Univ.) |
| Clifford Woolf (Mass. General Hospital)
Bradykinin - a pain-producing synaptic modulator in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord |
| John Williams (Vollum Inst)
A dopamine mediated inhibitory postsynaptic potential in dopamine neurons |
| Jurgen Sandkuhler (Medical University of Vienna)
Synaptic plasticity in spinal neurons that mediate hyperalgesia |
| Antonello Bonci (Univ. Calif. San Francisco)
Synaptic plasticity in the mesolimbic system: implications for drug abuse |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Activity dependent synaptic development |
| Chair: Lynn Landmesser (Case Western Reserve Univ.) |
| Jeff Lichtman (Washington Univ)
Reorganization and dynamics of axon branches during synaptic competition |
| Holly Cline (Cold Spring Harbor Lab.)
Multiple mechanisms of activity-dependent circuit development in vivo |
| Karl Kandler (Univ. Pittsburg)
Developmental reorganization of inhibitory circuits in the auditory system |
| Kimberley McAllister (Univ.Calif. Davis)
Trafficking and recruitment of NMDA receptors to nascent cortical synapses |
| Graeme Davis (UCSF)
Cellular mechanisms of synapse stabilization and disassembly |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote lecture |
| Carla Shatz (Harvard Med.School)
Brain waves and immune genes in synapse remodeling and scaling |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
