| Sunday Evening: Dendritic Protein Synthesis and Synaptic Assembly |
Chair: Erin Schuman (Cal Tech)
- Bill Greenough (Univ. Illinois): "Synaptically-driven protein synthesis, brain development and synaptic plasticity"
- Ken Kosik (Brigham & Woman's Hosp.): "Translocation of a single mRNA species in living neurons: visualization by GFP linkage"
- Mary Kennedy (Cal Tech): "Synthesis of alpha-CaMKII in dendrites of hippocampal neurons"
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| Monday Morning: Dendritic Computation |
Chair: Tobias Bonhoeffer (Max Planck Institute)
- Rafael Yuste (Columbia Univ.): "Imaging the structure and function of dendritic spines"
- Axel Borst (Max Planck Institute): "Neural image processing in the cockpit of the fly"
- Nelson Spruston (Northwestern Univ.): "To spike or not to spike: factors controlling spike initiation in CA1 dendrites"
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| Monday Evening: Structural Dendritic Plasticity |
Chair: Kristen Harris (Harvard)
- Holly Cline (Cold Spring Harbor Lab): "Activity-dependent mechanisms controlling the development of visual system connections"
- Catherine Woolley (Northwestern Univ.): "Estrogen-induced structural plasticity in the hippocampus"
- Liqun Luo (Stanford U.): "Genetic analysis of dendritic development"
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| Tuesday Morning: Neuronal Assemblies and Coding I |
Chair: Larry Abbott (Volen Ctr., Brandeis Univ.)
- Gilles Laurent (Cal Tech): "Temporal encoding of olfactory signals"
- Cori Bargmann (UCSF): "Plasticity in olfactory development and olfactory behaviors in C. elegans"
- Sacha Nelson (Brandeis Univ.): "Synaptic dynamics and cortical computation"
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| Tuesday Evening: Keynote speaker |
- Rüdiger Wehner (Univ. of Zurich): "Desert ant navigation: mini-brains, mega-tasks, small solutions"
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| Tuesday Evening: Neuronal Assemblies and Coding II |
Chair: J.M. Ramirez (U. Chicago)
- Dave McCormick (Yale Univ.): "Altered states in the visual system"
- Markus Meister (Harvard): "The neural code of the retina"
- Henry Markram (Weizmann Institute): "Organizing principles for a diversity of GABAergic synapses in the neocortex"
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| Wednesday Morning: Formation and Plasticity of Functional Maps in the CNS I |
Chair: Larry Katz (Duke U. Med. Ctr.)
- Peter Mombaerts (Rockefeller U.): "Targeting olfaction"
- Jonathan Horton (UCSF): "Function and formation of ocular dominance columns: clues from strabismic monkeys"
- David Fitzpatrick (Duke U. Med. Ctr.): "Organization and development of functional maps in visual cortex"
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| Wednesday Evening: Formation and Plasticity of Functional Maps in the CNS II |
Chair: David Fitzpatrick (Duke U. Med. Ctr.)
- Rachel Wong (Washington U. Sch. Of Med.): "Regulation of synaptic connectivity by spontaneous neuronal activity"
- Dan Feldman (NINDS): "Synaptic mechanisms underlying experience-dependent receptive field plasticity in rat barrel cortex"
- Bob Muller (SUNY): "The role of NMDA-based synaptic plasticity in the formation and stability of hippocampal place cells"
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| Thursday Morning: Neurobiology of Emotions and Learning |
Chair: Michael Mauk (Univ. of TX Med. Sch.)
- Mike Fanselow (UCLA): "Multiple sites of plasticity contribute to learned fear"
- Mike Davis (Yale): "Neural mechanisms in the amygdala that produce long-term fear memories"
- Liz Phelps (Yale): ): "Human Amygdala Activity and Episodic Memory"
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| Thursday Evening: Functional Plasticity in the Human Brain |
Chair: Steve Petersen (Washington U. Sch. Med.)
- Joy Hirsch (Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.): "Functioinal plasticity for language acquisition: Evidence from
fMRI"
- Steve Petersen: "Imaging studies of memory formation"
- Roger Tootell (MGH-NMR Ctr.): "From retinotopy to recognition: fMRI studies of human visual cortex"
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