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David Zenisek, Ph.D., associate professor, department of cellular and molecular physiology, Yale University School of Medicine

Alexander Hoffmann, Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Diego

Ramon Parsons, M.D., Ph.D., Avon Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Medicine, leader, breast cancer program, Insitute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University

Marshall Miller, biomedical fellow, The Rockefeller University

Kenneth Lohmann, Ph.D., Charles Postelle Distinguished Professor, department of biology, University of North Carolina

9:15-9:35 a.m. Robert Burke, NIH/NINDS (retired), Birdsey Renshaw's Pivotal Contributions to the Analysis of Spinal Cord Circuitry

9:40-10:10 a.m. Martyn Goulding, Salk Institute, Renshaw Cells: Inhibition and the Control of Movement: New Genetic Approaches to Probe Old Questions

10:15-10:45 a.m. Silvia Arber, University of Basel, Organizational Principles of Antagonistic Premoter Circuits

11:20-11:50 a.m. William Schafer, University of Cambridge, Extracting Principles of Neural Circuits Function from Worms

11:55 a.m.-12:25 p.m. Gero Miesenboeck, University of Oxford, Optogenetics: Reading and Changing the Mind

1:35-2:05 p.m. David Ferster, Northwestern University, Dissecting the Microcircuitry of Visual Cortex

2:10-2:40 p.m. Jeffry Isaacson, University of California, San Diego, Central Circuits Underlying Olfaction

2:45-3:15 p.m. Robert Wurtz, NIH/NEI, Monitoring Movement to Modulate Vision: Dissecting Neuronal Circuits from Brain Stem to Cerebral Cortex

3:50-4:20 p.m. Paola Arlotta, Harvard University, Development of Corticospinal Neurons and Building of Local Microcircuitry in the Neocortex

4:25-4:55 p.m. Angus Silver, University College London, Golgi Cells: Disentangling Electrical and Chemical Synaptic Signalling

Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., director, Children's Research Institute, Wolf-Pack Chair in Neuroscience, Center for Neuroscience Research (CNR), George Washington University

Xiaochen Wang, Ph.D., associate investigator, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

Kent E. Vrana, Ph.D., Elliot S. Vesell Professor and chair, department of pharmacology, College of Medicine Distinguished Educator, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Jeremy Gunawardena, Ph.D., associate professor, Harvard University

Thomas Marlovits, Ph.D., group leader, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Samuel Hess, Ph.D., associate professor, department of physics and astronomy, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine

Richard Youle, Ph.D., senior investigator, National Institute of Health

Jean-Baptiste Michel, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Harvard University; visiting faculty, Google

Wayne Hendrickson, Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Columbia University

Gioacchino Natoli, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology

Stuart Sealfon, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Robert Weinberg, Ph.D., Daniel K Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research; Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EMT, Cancer Stem Cells and Malignant Progression

Ilya Shmulevich, Ph.D., professor, Institute for Systems Biology

Barbara Meyer, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of genetics, genomics and development, University of California, Berkeley

Craig Blackstone, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator, neurogenetics branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, director, NIH MD-Ph.D. Partnership Training Program, National Institutes of Health

Harmit Malik, Ph.D., member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Roger Hanlon, Ph.D., senior scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory

Rita E. Serda, Ph.D., co-chair, assistant member, scientist, department of nanomedicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

Ryan Hibbs, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University.

Alexej Abyzov, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, Yale University

Marina Caskey, M.D., assistant professor of clinical investigation, The Rockefeller University

Sarah Schlesinger, M.D., associate professor of clinical investigation, The Rockefeller University