Conference Description
The 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology will bring together neuroscientists from academia and industry to discuss the latest breakthroughs in the study of the nervous system. Recent technological innovations, including optogenetics, genome editing, tissue clearing, super resolution microscopy, and single cell sequencing have empowered the study of the brain at an unprecedented level of detail. Scientific sessions will highlight recent discoveries on the development of the nervous system, synaptic function, neural circuits underlying behavior, brain imaging and connectomics, and molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurological diseases, including neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. A major goal of this international conference will be to foster interactions among scientists at all levels and from different backgrounds in order to stimulate new collaborations and directions of neuroscience research. Discussion will be encouraged both in the scientific sessions as well as during time set aside for more informal interactions. To promote the next generation of neuroscientists, short talks will be selected from abstracts submitted by students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members. The GRC will also feature a Power Hour, an informal session for all attendees to discuss challenges women face in science and to support the professional growth of women by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring. Finally, this GRC will be preceded by a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, which will feature a keynote speaker and be open only to students and postdoctoral fellows. The GRS will serve as a forum for trainees to broaden their peer network and will complement the GRC in bringing together scientists from around the world to discuss and identify new directions in molecular and cellular neurobiology.
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 24, 2022. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Mechanisms of Neurological Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Katja Brose (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, USA)
Speakers
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Carla Shatz (Stanford University, USA)
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Viviana Gradinaru (California Institute of Technology, USA)
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Hailan Hu (Zhejiang University, China)
Development of the Nervous System
Discussion Leaders
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Kang Shen (Stanford University, USA)
Speakers
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Shen-Ju Chou (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
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Daniel Colón-Ramos (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)
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Gordon Fishell (Harvard Medical School, USA)
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Xuecai Ge (University of California, Merced, USA)
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Yukiko Gotoh (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Carina Hanashima (Waseda University, Japan)
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Melissa Rolls (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
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Hongyan Wang (Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore)
Synapses and Synaptic Function
Discussion Leaders
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Xiang Yu (Peking University, China)
Speakers
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Lu Chen (Stanford University, USA)
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Camin Dean (European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Germany)
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Peter Scheiffele (Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland)
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Thomas Sudhof (Stanford University, USA)
Neural Circuits and Behavior
Discussion Leaders
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Shernaz Bamji (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Speakers
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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Anna Beyeler (Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM UMR1215, France)
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Yang Dan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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Steven Flavell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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Nirao Shah (Stanford University, USA)
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Juan Song (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
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Yi Zuo (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Brain Imaging and Connectomics
Discussion Leaders
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Yimin Zou (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Speakers
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Na Ji (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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Tianyi Mao (Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
Genetics and Epigenetics of the Nervous System
Discussion Leaders
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Louis Reichardt (Simons Foundation, USA)
Speakers
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Nancy Bonini (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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Dan Geschwind (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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Nancy Ip (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China)
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Bianca Marlin (Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, USA)
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Coleen Murphy (Princeton University, USA)
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Theodore Price (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
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Jie Shen (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Sensory Systems
Discussion Leaders
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John Ngai (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Speakers
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Alexander Chesler (National Institutes of Health, USA)
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Sandeep Robert Datta (Harvard Medical School, USA)
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Craig Montell (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
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Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
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Fengwei Yu (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore)
Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration and Regeneration
Discussion Leaders
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Leonard Petrucelli (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, USA)
Speakers
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Frank Bradke (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany)
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Jun Ding (Stanford University, USA)
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Eric Huang (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
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Martin Kampmann (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
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Claire Le Pichon (National Institutes of Health, USA)
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James Shorter (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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Michael Ward (National Institutes of Health, USA)
Advanced Technologies for Neuroscience Research
Discussion Leaders
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Yi Sun (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Speakers
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Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA)
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Feng Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
