NEURONS AND DISEASE SPEAKERS

Biology of prion disease
Adriano Aguzzi, Institute of Neuropathology, Zurich, Switzerland 

Drosophila as a model for human neurodegenerative disease
Nancy Bonini, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

ALS: Neurodegeneration propagated by non-neuronal cells and therapeutic strategies
Jeffrey Rothstein, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Neuroligins, autism, and neural circuit diseases: A molecular view
Thomas Südhof, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

Rescuing synaptic failure in Alzheimer's disease
Dennis Selkoe, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, USA

Synaptic plasticity and Fragile X Syndrome
Mark Bear, Picower Institute, MIT, Cambridge, USA 

DISC1: from gene to function
David Porteous, University of Edinburgh, UK

Molecular characterization of episodic neurological disease
Louis Ptacek, University of California, San Francisco, USA

The neurobiology of addiction
Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, USA

A systems-based approach to study inherited ataxias
Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA