8.00

Registration

8.45

Opening remarks and introduction

9.00

Visual system plasticity: Assembling the pieces of the puzzle
H. Cline, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

9.45

Wiring specificity of the Drosophila olfactory map
L. Luo, HHMI, Stanford University, USA

10.30

Break

11.00

Neural activity and ephrin-A signaling cooperate in organizing one Cartesian axis of the map of visual cortex
M. Stryker, University of California-San Francisco, USA

11.45

Cellular mechanisms for whisker map plasticity
D. Feldman, University of California-Berkeley, USA

12.30

Lunch

2.00

Presentation of “Anuradha Rao Memorial Travel Award”

2.10

The developmental genetic origins of cortical interneuron diversity
G. Fishell, Smilow  Neuroscience Program, New York University School of Medicine, USA

2.55

Mapping the matrix: The ways of neocortex
K.A.C. Martin, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH Zurich, Switzerland

3.40

Break

4.10

Grid cells and the spatial map in the entorhinal cortex
E. Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

4.55

Spatial maps and the human hippocampus
E. Maguire, Welcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK

5.40

Closing remarks

5.45

Poster session & reception