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Cell Biology of the Neuron (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

The Dynamic Neuron: Trafficking, Development, and Synaptic Plasticity

June 23 - 24, 2018
Chairs Rebecca L. Cox and Robyn L. McAdam
Waterville Valley
56 Packard's Road
Waterville Valley, NH, United States
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Cell Biology of the Neuron is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to share their knowledge and experience. This meeting features a keynote lecture by engaging speaker Shawn Ferguson, a leader in the field of lysosome function in healthy and disease states. The meeting concludes with a mentorship component that includes a question and answer session with an editor from a top neuroscience journal.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Cell Biology of the Neuron" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Lysosome Function, Dysfunction and Neurodegenerative Disease
Discussion Leader: Andrea Stavoe (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Shawn Ferguson (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)
"Lysosome Function, Dysfunction and Neurodegenerative Disease"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Building a Dynamic Neuron: Transport, Translation and Motility
Discussion Leader: Colleen Gillon (University of Toronto, Canada)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Dominique Lessard (University of Vermont, USA)
"Novel Regulation of Kinesin-3 Motility During Axonal Transport by Tau"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Lakshmi Sundararajan (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Netrin/UNC-6 Triggers Actin Assembly and Non-Muscle Myosin II Activity to Drive Dendrite Retraction in a Self-Avoidance Response"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Yu-Ting Mao (Thomas Jefferson University, USA)
"Filopodia Conduct Target Selection in Cortical Neurons Using Differences in Signal Kinetics of a Single Kinase"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Nicol Birsa (UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, United Kingdom)
"ALS-Associated FUS Mutant Impairs Protein Translation in Spinal Motor Neurons"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Minding the Gap: Exploring the Uniqueness of Synapses
Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Davenport (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Grant Kusick (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA)
"Exocytosis Frozen in Time: Synchronous, Asynchronous and Multivesicular Release"
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:35 am
Vincent Huson (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Overcoming the Barrier: Energetic Contributions of Synaptotagmin-1 to Synaptic Vesicle Fusion"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Andrea Cuentas-Condori (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Bulk Endocytosis Removes Presynaptic Terminals in Remodeling GABA Neurons"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Paul Donlin-Asp (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)
"Localization and Dynamics of Translation at the Synapse"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Mandi Schmidt (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Death-Associated Protein Kinase 1 Promotes Extrasynaptic GluN2B Phosphorylation and Striatal Spine Loss in Huntington Disease"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Insider Tips on Publishing in High Impact Journals
Discussion Leader: Erika Holzbaur (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Moran Furman (Trends in Neurosciences, Cell Press, USA)
"Q&A with an Editor from Trends in Neurosciences"
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes

Contributors

National Institutes of Health - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
MeiraGTx
AstraZeneca

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders And Stroke of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R13NS106927. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Health.

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