Nicolas Blobel, Biomedical fellow, Smogorzewska Laboratory

9:00 a.m.: Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University and Margaret Livingstone, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Welcoming Remarks

9:25 a.m.: Carla Shatz, Ph.D., Stanford University, Saving the Synapse: What the Visual System Can Teach Us about Alzheimer’s Disease

10:05 a.m.: Takao Hensch, Ph.D., Harvard University, Unlocking Critical Periods

11:15 a.m.: Margaret Livingstone, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Bonding

11:55 a.m.: Doris Tsao, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Representing the Visual World

12:35 p.m.: Pieter Roelfsema, M.D., Ph.D., Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The Role of the Primary Visual Cortex in Conscious Perception

2:30 p.m.: Edvard Moser, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Grid Cells – Geometry in Space and Time

3:10 p.m.: Liqun Luo, Ph.D., Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rewiring of an Olfactory Circuit

3:50 p.m.: Charles Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Concluding Remarks

4:35 p.m.: Richard Axel, M.D., Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Charles Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Bill Newsome, Ph.D., Stanford University, and Torsten Wiesel, M.D., The Rockefeller University, Round Table Discussion

Juan Manuel García-Arcos, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Geneva

Capucine van Rechem, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of pathology, Stanford University

Mia Levine, Ph.D., associate professor and associate chair, biology, University of Pennsylvania

Leonid A. Mirny, Ph.D., Richard J. Cohen (1976) Professor in Medicine and Biomedical Physics, and Physics, MIT; associate member, Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT

Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D., Purnell W. Choppin Professor and head, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Anna Churchland, Ph.D., professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Mitchell, Ph.D., associate professor, department of bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Tanja Mittag, Ph.D., member, department of structural biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Kathryn Eckartt, graduate fellow, Rock Laboratory

Ryan Dhindsa, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, department of pathology and immunology, Baylor College of Medicine

Ellis L. Reinherz, M.D., professor of medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

James Chen, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of biology, Johns Hopkins University

Ann Kennedy, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Elly Tanaka, Ph.D., scientific director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Junyue Cao, Ph.D., Fisher Center Foundation Assistant Professor and head, Laboratory of Single-Cell Genomics and Population Dynamics, The Rockefeller University

Joel W. Blanchard, Ph.D., assistant professor, departments of neuroscience, cell, developmental, and regenerative biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

James Lee, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University

Giancarlo La Camera, Ph.D., associate professor, Stony Brook University

Danette Daniels, Ph.D., vice president, protein degradation platform, Foghorn Therapeutics

Alex Pollen, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco