Calendar of Events Mobile Version

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

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

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

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