| 07:30 |
Conference Registration |
| 09:00 |
Opening Remarks |
| 09:10 |
Frank Gertler
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
• Cytoskeletal regulation of growth
cone motility |
| 09:40 |
Chris Henderson
Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille,
IBDM - INSERM
• Control of motor neuron cell death
in development and disease |
| 10:10 |
Gary Banker
Center for Occupational and Environmental
Toxicology, Oregon Health and Science University
• Membrane trafficking and neuronal
polarity |
| 10:40 |
Refreshments |
| 11:00 |
Larry Goldstein
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department
of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine
• Linking molecular motors to signaling
and neurodegenerative disease |
| 11:30 |
Cori Bargmann
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department
of Anatomy, The University of California, San Francisco
• Cellular guideposts and molecular
cues for synaptic specificity |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 |
Yuh Nung Jan
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Departments
of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of California, San
Francisco
• Control of dendrite formation |
| 1:30 |
Tobias Meyer
Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford
University
• Postsynaptic signal transduction
mediated by CAMKII |
| 2:00 |
Karel Svoboda
Center for Learning and Memory, Cold Spring
Habor Laboratory
• Calcium signaling in dendritic spines |
| 2:30 |
Refreshments |
| 2:50 |
Erin Schuman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division
of Biology, California Institute of Technology
• Local protein synthesis and degradation
during synaptic plasticity |
| 3:20 |
Charles Stevens
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk
Institute Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
• Mechanisms of neurotransmitter release |
| 3:50 |
Closing Remarks |
| 4:00-6:00 |
Poster session and reception |
