| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote lectures |
| Discussion Leader: Morgan Sheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Susumu Tonegawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Clustered plasticity model for long term memory engrams" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Robert Malenka (Stanford University, USA)
"Mechanisms of long-term depression in the hippocampus: an update" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | High resolution studies of glutamate receptors and excitatory synapses |
| Discussion leader: Gary Westbrook (Vollum Institute, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Daniel Choquet (CNRS-University of Bordeaux, France)
"Single molecule imaging of AMPA and NMDA receptor surface trafficking" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Haruo Kasai (NIPS, Okazaki, Japan)
"Spine geometries and functions" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Neali Armstrong (Columbia University, USA)
"Structure and function of glutamate receptors" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Kristen Harris (Medical College of Georgia, USA)
"Spine proliferation early and sustained synapse enlargement later during LTP" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Scott Thompson (University of Maryland, USA)
"Long-term potentiation of single spine glutamate responses" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | AMPA receptor trafficking - advances and controversies |
| Discussion Leader: Rob Malenka (Stanford University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Rick Huganir (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Regulation of AMPA receptor function and synaptic plasticity" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Roberto Malinow (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
"AMPA receptor trafficking plasticity and learning" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | David S. Bredt (University of California, San Francisco; Eli Lilly, USA)
"Stargazin is an AMPA receptor auxiliary subunit" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Edward Ziff (New York University, USA)
"Protein Interactions and the Trafficking of AMPA Receptors" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synaptic plasticity mechanisms |
| Discussion leader: Dan Madison (Stanford University, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Roger Nicoll (University of California San Francisco, USA)
"Stargazin, PSD-95, and the control of synaptic AMPA receptors" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis University, USA)
"Hebb and Homeostasis in Developing Visual Cortex" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Yu Tian Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Roles of NMDA receptor subunits in synaptic plasticity" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | John Isaac (National Institutes of Health, USA)
"Rapid, activity-dependent regulation of GluR2 in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Julie A. Kauer (Brown University, USA)
"Long-term depression at synapses on hippocampal interneurons" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Guosong Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Reversal of Age-Dependent Memory Decline by Tuning of Background Ca++ Flux" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Genetic approaches to excitatory synapse function in mammals |
| Discussion Leader: Rick Huganir (Johns Hopkins University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Mike Ehlers (Duke University, USA)
"Directing Secretory Cargo for Neuronal Plasticity" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Steve Heinemann (Salk Institute, USA)
"Kainate Receptors and Mental Disease" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Peter Seeburg (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany)
"Life without AMPA receptors" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Joe Z. Tsien (Boston University, USA)
"The Organizing Principle of hippocampal Real-time Encoding" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Experience-dependent plasticity in vivo |
| Discussion leader: Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis University, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Mark Bear (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Trafficking of glutamate receptors as a basis for visual cortical plasticity" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Kurt Haas (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Glutamatergic transmission is required for dendritic arbor growth in vivo" |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Alaa El Din El-Husseini (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Regulation of AMPA receptor trafficking by myosin Vb" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Pierre Paoletti (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
"Properties of triheteromeric NMDA receptors" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Dan Madison (Stanford University, USA)
"Synaptic state regulation of AMPAR and NMDAR trafficking during synaptic plasticity" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Dan Feldman (University of California San Diego, USA)
"Plasticity and spike timing in somatosensory cortex" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Genetic approaches to excitatory amino acid receptors in model organisms |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Heinemann (Salk Institute, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Josh Kaplan (Harvard Med School / MGH, USA)
"Mechanisms regulating glutamate receptor trafficking in C. elegans" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Stephan J. Sigrist (European Neuroscience Institute, Goettingen, Germany)
"Glutamate receptor dynamics organize synapse formation at the Drosophila NMJ" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Villu Maricq (University of Utah, USA)
"Analysis of Glutamate Receptor Function: The Roles of Stargazin and SOL-1" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Development and turnover of excitatory synapses |
| Discussion leader: Villu Maricq (University of Utah, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Eunjoon Kim (KAIST, South Korea)
"Regulation of postsynaptic development by novel cell adhesion molecules" |
| 9:15 am - 9:30 am | Katherine Roche (NIH, USA)
"Phosphorylation regulation of metabotropic glutamate receptors" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Kimberley McAllister (University of California Davis, USA)
"Stop and Go to the Synapse: Regulating synaptic vesicle precursor trafficking during synaptogenesis" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Monica di Luca (University of Milano, Italy)
"Role of MAGUK-NMDA receptor interactions in organizing NMDA receptor complex at the postsynaptic density" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Gary Westbrook (Vollum Institute, USA)
"Lateral excitation in olfactory bulb glomeruli" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Jeremy Henley (University of Bristol, UK)
"Traffic controls for AMPA receptors" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Glutamate receptor modulation |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Choquet (CNRS-University of Bordeaux, France) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Juan Lerma (Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante, Spain)
"PKC-dependent autoregulation of kainate receptors" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Christoph Mulle (CNRS, Bordeaux, France)
"Kainate receptors: localization, regulation and function at the mossy fiber synapse" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Suzanne Zukin (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
"Protein kinase A regulates NMDA receptor calcium permeability" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Laurent Fagni (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
"Regulation of metobotropic glutamate receptor function by interacting proteins" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
