Conference Description
ATTENTION: The GRC bus picks up and drops off at the Florence Airport (FLR) only. GRC no longer has bus service to / from the Pisa Airport.
The Synaptic Transmission GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The 2024 Synaptic Transmission Gordon Research Conference will bring together international leaders and rising stars in the fields of synapse development and structure/function, learning-related activity dependent and homeostatic synaptic plasticity, and the synaptic origins of disease. This conference will create a diverse and dynamic forum to communicate, contemplate and advance our understanding of the most pressing and fascinating current topics in synapse biology. Among these topics: How is synapse diversity established and sustained? How does synapse nanoscale organization relate to synapse type-specific function? How do we reconcile learning-related and homeostatic plasticity mechanisms? What is the synaptic pathophysiology associated with neurological and psychiatric disease, and how might these pathophysiologies be corrected?
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by March 16, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Activity, Transcription, Translation and Synapse Modification
Discussion Leaders
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Matthijs Verhage (Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, The Netherlands)
Speakers
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Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)
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Cagla Eroglu (Duke University Medical Center, United States)
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André Fenton (New York University, United States)
Synapse Architecture Across Scales
Discussion Leaders
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Noa Lipstein (Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany)
Speakers
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Shigeki Watanabe (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
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Ana Luisa Carvalho (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
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Eric Hosy (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
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Katrin Willig (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany)
Synapse Plasticity Across Scales #1
Discussion Leaders
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Laurent Groc (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Bordeaux, France)
Speakers
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Martin Mueller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
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Pawel Burkhardt (Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen, Norway)
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Michisuke Yuzaki (Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)
Synapse Development Across Scales #1
Discussion Leaders
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Cagla Eroglu (Duke University Medical Center, United States)
Speakers
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Elly Nedivi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
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Isabel Perez-Otaño (Institute of Neurosciences , Spain)
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Nathalie Rouach (College de France, France)
Mechanisms of Plasticity
Discussion Leaders
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Pablo Castillo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States)
Speakers
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Richard Huganir (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States)
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Julijana Gjorgjieva (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
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Katharine Smith (University of Colorado Denver, United States)
Synapse Structure Function Across Scales #1
Discussion Leaders
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David DiGregorio (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
Speakers
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Alison Barth (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
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Zayd Khaliq (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, United States)
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Marta Zlatic (The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
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K. Ulrich Bayer (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States)
Synapse Plasticity Across Scales #2
Discussion Leaders
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Elly Nedivi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
Speakers
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Tingting Wang (Georgetown University, United States)
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David DiGregorio (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
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Thomas Oertner (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Synapse Development Across Scales #2
Discussion Leaders
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Katharine Smith (University of Colorado Denver, United States)
Speakers
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Yasunori Hayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
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Peri Kurshan (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States)
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Shu-Hsien Sheu (Janelia Research Campus of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States)
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Pierre Paoletti (Ecole Normale Superieure / CNRS / INSERM, France)
Synapse Development Across Scales #3
Discussion Leaders
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Thomas Oertner (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Speakers
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Seth Grant (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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Yvette Fisher (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
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Pablo Castillo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States)
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Mark Dell'Acqua (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
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Tingting Wang (Georgetown University, United States)
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David DiGregorio (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
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Nathalie Rouach (College de France, France)
