| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Welcoming Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Assembly of the Nervous System I |
| Discussion Leader: Yi Rao, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis |
| Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Barry Dickson, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
"Axon Guidance at the Drosophila Midline" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Yishi Jin, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Molecular mechanism of presynaptic terminal assembly" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Tobias Bonhoffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
"Morphological correlates of synaptic plasticity" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Assembly of the Nervous System II |
| Discussion Leader: Yi Rao, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Yi Rao, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
"Polarized signaling in neurons" |
| 9:40 am - 10:05 am | Jim Clemens, University of California, Los Angeles
"Target specificity in the Drosophila brain" |
| 10:05 am - 10:45 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 12:15 pm | 6 short talk presentations selected from abstracts |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sensory systems I |
| Discussion Leader: John Ngai, University of California, Berkeley |
| Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | John Ngai, University of California, Berkeley
"Molecular determinants of ligand selectivity in a vertebrate odorant receptor" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | David Julius, University of California, San Francisco
"From peppers to peppermint: the molecular biology of thermosensation" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Charles Zuker, University of California, San Diego
"The biology of mammalian taste" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:30 am | Sensory Systems II |
| Discussion Leader: John Ngai, University of California, Berkeley |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Cori Bargmann, University of California, San Francisco
"Assembly of a functional neural circuit" |
| 9:40 am - 10:20 am | Larry Katz, Duke University Medical School
"Encoding social signals in mammalian chemosensory systems" |
| 10:20 am - 11:05 am | 3 short talks selected from abstracts |
| 11:05 am - 11:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Special Systems Neurobiology Seminar |
| Bill Newsome, Stanford University School of Medicine
"The neural representation of 'subjective value' in the primate cerebral cortex" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 2 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Neuronal Communications I |
| Discussion Leader: Jian Yang, Columbia University |
| Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Jian Yang, Columbia University
"Structural mechanism of calcium channel regulation" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Morgan Sheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Molecular mechanisms of the dynamic synapse" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Lin Mei, University of Alabama
"Musk signaling in the formation of neuromuscular junction" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Neuronal Communication II |
| Discussion Leader: Jian Yang, Columbia University |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Nancy Ip, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
"Postsynaptic signaling of new players at the neuromuscular synapse" |
| 9:40 am - 10:20 am | Rosalind Segal, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"Spatial view of growth factor signaling" |
| 10:20 am - 11:00 am | Nobutaka Hirokawa, Tokyo University
"Mechanisms of Intracellular Transport in Neurons: Molecular motors KIFs and Neuronal Functions" |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 am - 12:00 pm | Louis Reichardt, University of California, San Francisco
"The role of catenins in synapse formation and function" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | 2 short talk presentations selected from abstracts |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 3 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Neural Plasticity I |
| Discussion Leader: Lin Mei, University of Alabama |
| Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Mu-ming Poo, University of California, Berkeley
"Neuronal plasticity in dendritic integration and intrinsic excitability" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Michael Greenberg, Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
"Signal transduction pathways that regulate excitatory synapse formation and function" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Richard Tsien, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Novel aspects of pre- and postsynaptic modulation" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Neural Plasticity II |
| Discussion Leader: Lin Mei, University of Alabama |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Martha Constantine-Paton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Transient Changes in NMDA and Non-NMDA Glutamate Receptors as Visual Synapses Refine" |
| 9:40 am - 10:20 am | Takao K. Hensch, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
"Molecular mechanisms of critical period plasticity in visual cortex" |
| 10:20 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:25 am | Bai Lu, National Institute of Child Health
"Neurotrophins and activity-dependent synaptic plasticity" |
| 11:25 am - 12:25 pm | 4 short talks selected from the abstracts |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 2:50 pm - 4:50 pm | Neurobiology of Diseases |
| Discussion Leader: Li-Huei Tsai, Harvard Medical School |
| 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm | Harry Orr, University of Minnesota
"SCA1: A polyglutamine disease from gene to pathogenesis" |
| 3:30 pm - 4:10 pm | Ulrike Heberlein, University of California, San Francisco
"Molecular and neural bases of drug-induced behaviors in Drosophila" |
| 4:10 pm - 4:50 pm | Zhigang He, Children's Hospital, Boston
"Inhibitory mechanisms in axon regeneration" |
| 4:50 pm - 5:20 pm | Coffee Break |
| 5:20 pm - 6:20 pm | Special Seminar (Alexander M. Cruichshank Lecture) |
| Bob Horvitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Genetic Control of Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans" |
| 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Closing Banquet |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
