| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Welcome/Introductory Comments
GRC Staff & Drs. Cline & Pfaff |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FROM STEM CELLS TO BRAIN PLASTICITY |
| Discussion Leader: Holly Cline (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Arnold R. Kriegstein (UCSF School of Medicine)
"The role of neural stem and progenitor cells in cortical development" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Elly Nedivi (Picower Center for Learning and Memory)
"CPG15 in developmental and adult plasticity" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Beth Stevens (Stanford University School of Medicine)
"How are CNS synapses eliminated?" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BRAIN PATTERNING AND CELL FATE |
| Discussion Leader: Lisa Goodrich (Harvard Medical School) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Heinrich Reichert (University of Basel)
"Patterning the embryonic brain: evolutionary insights from insects" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | William A. Harris (University of Cambridge)
"Time-lapse studies of retinal ganglion cell development" |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Christopher Walsh (Harvard Medical School)
"Mechanisms of genes that control the shape and size of the human cerebral cortex" |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 12:10 am | Gordon James Fishell (Skirball Institute)
"The developmental and genetic origins of cortical interneuron diversity" |
| 12:10 am - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TARGET SELECTION |
| Discussion Leader: Louis Reichardt (University of California San Francisco) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | David Feldheim (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"A combination of ephrin-As and neural activity specify topographic maps" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Kang Shen (Stanford University)
"A Wnt/Fz signaling pathway inhibits synapse formation in C. elegans tail" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Anirvan Ghosh (University of California, San Diego)
"The emergence of synaptic specificity" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 am | SYNAPTOGENESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Kelsey Martin (University of Californis, Los Angeles) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Peter Scheiffele (Columbia University Medical Center)
"Transcriptional program associated with axon-target interactions in the developing cerebellum" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Erik Ullian (University of California, San Francisco)
"Developmental regulation of synapse number and function" |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Chinfei Chen (Harvard Medical School)
"New insights into remodeling at the retinogeniculate synapse" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Short Talks by Chair & Co-Chair |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Short Talks by Chair & Co-Chair |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SIGNALING IN NEURONS |
| Discussion Leader: Piali Sengupta (Brandeis University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | David Ginty (John Hopkins University School of Medicine)
"Growth and survival signals controlling PNS development" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Kelsey Martin (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Signaling between synapse and nucleus in neurons" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Akira Chiba (University of Illinois)
"Bioprobes reveal the signal integration that initiates dendrites" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CONTROL OF NEURONAL STRUCTURE |
| Discussion Leader: Chinfei Chen (Harvard Medical School) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Louis F. Reichardt (University of San Francisco, Mission Bay)
"Studies on cadherin and catenin functions in CNS development" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Linda Van Aelst (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Regulators of Rho GTPases in neuronal development" |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Franck Polleux (University of North Carolina)
"Critical role of LKB1/Par4 in the specification of cortical neuron polarity" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Frances Lefcort (Montana State University)
"Imaging neural crest cell migration and formation of the avian periperal nervous system" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | DEVELOPMENT OF CIRCUITS |
| Discussion Leader: Franck Polleux (University of North Carolina) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Cori Bargmann (The Rockefeller University)
"Networks of neurons: cooperation and comparison in the development of an olfactory circuit" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Herwig Baier (University of California, San Francisco)
"Assembly of zebrafish visual circuits" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Stephen Smith (Stanford University School of Medicine)
"Filopodia as agents of neural circuit construction" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MORE DEVELOPMENT OF CIRCUITS |
| Discussion Leader: Akira Chiba (University of Illinois) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Liqun Luo (Stanford University)
"Genetic analysis of neural circuit assembly" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Josh Huang (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Activity-dependent development of GABAergic inhibitory circuits: role of GAD67 and GABA" |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Silvia Arber (University of Basel)
"Genetic specification of sensory-motor connectivity in the developing spinal cord" |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
| 11:10 am - 11:40 pm | Lynn Landmesser (Case Western Reserve University)
"Patterned spontaneous activity and motor axon pathfinding" |
| 11:40 am - 11:50 pm | Discussion |
| 11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Lisa Goodrich (Harvard Medical School)
"Dissecting the assembly and function of auditory circuits" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | GENES -> BEHAVIOR |
| Discussion Leader: Sam Pfaff (The Salk Institute) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Piali Sengupta (Brandeis University)
"Thermotactic behavioral plasticity in C. elegans" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Tim Tully (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Genetic analysis of learning, the behavior" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Greg S. Suh (California Institute of Technology)
"Molecular genetic analysis of neural circuit underlying innate behavior in Drosophila" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
