Neural Circuit Development and Function Meeting Agenda
Date: August 24th, 2013. Saturday
Time: 9:00am
Venue: The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave. , New York, NY 10065
9:00 - 9:05 Welcome: Kang Shen and Yimin Zou
9:05 - 9:20 Introduction: Cori Bargmann and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
9:20 - 9:40 Lisa Goodrich: Wiring the ear for the sense of hearing
9:40 - 10:00 Gage Crump: Tightly Orchestrated Epithelial Transitions Drive Pharyngeal Pouch Formation
10:00 - 10:20 Carrie Adler: Genetic regulation of organ regeneration
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break 1
11:00 - 11:20 Hwai-Jong Cheng: Regulation of UNC-5 Receptor Trafficking by SUMOylation in Axon Repulsion
11:20 - 11:40 Alain Chedotal: Development, evolution and function of brain commissures
11:40 - 12:00 Noelle Dwyer: The vertebrate-specific Kinesin6, Kif20B, is required for cytokinesis of polarized cortical stem cells and normal cerebral cortex size
12:00 - 12:20 Fan Wang: The connectivity of touch afferent circuit
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:20 Noelle L'Etoile: Endogenous siRNA and olfactory adaptation
2:20 - 2:40 Villu Maricq: The road to memory: the importance of motoring on
2:40 - 3:00 Manuel Zimmer: Brainwide Ca2+ imaging of neural activity in Caenorhabditis elegans
3:00 - 3:20 Tim Kennedy: A New Role for DCC Regulating Synaptic Plasticity in the Adult Brain
3:20 - 4:00 Coffee break 2
4:00 - 4:20 Franke Bradke: Epothilone B induces axon regeneration after spinal cord injury
4:20 - 4:40 Kuan Hong Wang: Phasic activation of dopaminergic neurons promotes mesofrontal circuit modification in adolescence
4:40 - 5:00 Zemer Gitai: Feel the (tiny) force: mechanical regulation of bacterial pathogenesis
5:00 - 5:20 Hang Lu: Microplumbing for Neuroscience
5:20 - 6:30 Break
6:30 - 10:00 Dinner at the Faculty club at the Rockefeller University