Calendar of Events Mobile Version

9:35 a.m.: Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Welcoming Remarks

9:45 a.m.: Clay Armstrong, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Sodium and Potassium Permeability and the Impulse in the Footsteps of Hodgkin and Huxley

10:20 a.m.: Eric Gouaux, Ph.D., Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors: Principles of Architecture and Mechanism

11:15 a.m.: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D., Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Uncovering the Organelle Interactome: Dynamic Imaging of Organelles at High Spatial-Temporal Resolution

11:50 a.m.: Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D., Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Illuminating Neurobiology at the Nanoscale and Systems Scale Using Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution Imaging

1:30 p.m.: Fritjof Helmchen, Ph.D., University of Zurich, Mesoscale Brain Dynamics During Tactile Discrimination Behavior

2:05 p.m.: Krishna Shenoy, Ph.D., Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brain-Machine Interfaces: From Basic Science and Engineering to Clinical Trials

2:40 p.m.: Karel Svoboda, Ph.D., Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Neural Circuits Underlying Motor Planning

3:35 p.m.; Wade Regehr, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity

4:10 p.m.: Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, AFH: Structure Function Correlations in Excitation Contraction Coupling and their Sequel

4:45 p.m.: Malcolm Irving, Ph.D., King’s College London, Muscle Contraction: Sliding Filaments, Cross-Bridges and Regulation

5:20 p.m.: Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Closing Remarks

Amy S. Gladfelter, Ph.D., associate professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Fabian Kiessling, M.D., chair of experimental molecular imaging, University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany