Sunday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
1. Neurotrophins and synaptic plasticity
Chair: Larry Katz (Duke)
- Tobias Bonhoeffer (MPI): "Neurotrophins and activity-dependent plasticity"
- Erin Schuman (Cal Tech): "Neurotrophins and hippocampal synaptic plasticity"
- Bai Lu (NIH): "BDNF potentiates synaptic responses to tetanic stimulation and LTP in the hippocampus"
INFORMAL SOCIAL HOURS AFTER THE SESSION
Monday, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
2. Neural plasticity in drug addiction
Chair: Susan Amara (Vollum Inst.)
- Marc Caron (Duke): "Probing the physiological actions of dopamine in mice lacking the dopamine transporter"
- David Self (Yale): "Intracellular neuroadaptations to chronic drug exposure: role in drug self-administration and relapse of drug-seeking behavior"
- Steve Hyman (NIMH): "Molecular mechanisms of dopamine and glutamate-induced striatal plasticity"
POSTER SESSION I BEGINS
MONDAY AFTERNOON: OUTING TO LAKE SUNAPEE
Monday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
3. Common principles of learning in different vertebrate motor systems
Chair: Steve Lisberger (UCSF)
- Michael Mauk (UT, Houston): "Using eyelid conditioning to study cerebellar mechanisms of motor learning"
- Jennifer Raymond (UCSF): "Neural signals that guide motor learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex"
- Keir Pearson (U. Alberta): "Plasticity in reflex pathways controlling stepping"
Tuesday, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
4. Plasticity at the single cell level: Insights from cell culture
Chair: Darwin Berg (UCSD)
- Dick Tsien (Stanford): "Signalling from synapse to nucleus:Implications for hippocampal synaptic plasticity"
- David Linden (Johns Hopkins): "Glial synaptic currents and their long-term potentiation in cerebellar culture"
- Mu-ming Poo (UCSD): "Propagation of activity-dependent synaptic modification in neural networks"
Tuesday, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Formal Presentations from Poster Session I
Tuesday, 7:30 pm
5. Keynote Speaker
- Joshua Sanes (Wash. U., St. Louis): "Genetic analysis of synapse formation in mice"
Wednesday, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
6. In vivo learning
Chair: Jim McNamara (Duke)
- Dan Margoliash (U. Chicago): "Birdsong learning: functional organization and neural codes"
- Mark Mayford (UCSD):" Genetic control of learning and memory from the cellular to the systems level"
- Patricia Goldman-Rakic (Yale): "In vivo methods for studying memory in the nonhuman primate"
POSTER SESSION II BEGINS
Wednesday, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- Formal Presentations for Poster Session II
Wednesday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
7. CREB: a possible molecular switch in long-term memory
Chair: Tom Carew (Yale)
- Michael Greenberg (Harvard): "The role of Immediate Early Genes in adaptive neuronal responses"
- Jerry Yin (CSH): "Role of CREB in long-term memory formation"
- Dusan Bartsch (Columbia): "Transcriptional control of long-term facilitation in Aplysia neurons"
Thursday, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
8. Repulsive factors in axon growth
Chair: Susan Hockfield (Yale)
- Alex Kolodkin (Johns Hopkins): "Semaphorin function in neuronal growth cone guidance"
- Uwe Drescher (MPI): "Retinotectal projections: In vivo and in vitro experiments"
- John Flanagan (Harvard): "Eph ligands and receptors as positional labels in neural map development"
POSTER SESSION II CONTINUES
Thursday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
9. Circuit plasticity
Chair: Anne Bekoff (U. Colorado)
- J. M. Ramirez (U. Chicago): "Modulatory processes and network interactions in the respiratory system of mammals"
- Pierre Meyrand (Univ. Bordeaux): "Ontogeny of neural networks : From a single embryonic network to multiple functional adult networks"
- Don Edwards (Georgia State): "Neuronal adaptations to changes in social dominance status of crayfish"
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