HHMI Scientific Meeting
Neurobiology: From Cells to Systems
 
December 6-9, 2009

Janelia Farm Research Campus
19700 Helix Drive
Ashburn, Virginia 20147
Phone: (571) 209-4000

AGENDA

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Sunday, December 6, 2009

2:00 p.m.	Desk opens at Reception for check-in and registration
6:30 p.m.	Social, in the Lobby
7:00 p.m.	Dinner, in the Dining Room
8:30 p.m.	Pub open until 10:00 P.M.

 

Monday, December 7, 2009  

  

7:30 a.m.	Breakfast buffet, in the Dining Room
	Morning Scientific Session I: Dr. Victor Anggono, Presiding
8:30 a.m.	Dr. Alex L. Kolodkin – Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Establishment of Neuronal Connectivity
8:55 a.m.	Dr. Samuel L. Pfaff – Genetic Screen in Mice to Identify Motor Axon Guidance Molecules
9:20 a.m.	Dr. Thomas M. Jessell – Cholinergic Modulation of Mammalian Motor Behavior
9:45 a.m.	Dr. Chris Q. Doe – Developmental Origin of Neural Circuits in Drosophila
10:10 a.m.	Break, in the Lobby
	Morning Scientific Session II:  Dr. Stephanie Albin, Presiding
10:45 a.m.	Dr. Carla J. Shatz – Releasing the Brake on Ocular Dominance Plasticity
11:10 a.m.	Dr. Michael M. Rosbash – Circadian Neuron-Specific Gene Expression in Drosophila
11:35 a.m.	Dr. Gerald M. Rubin – A Framework for Drosophila Neurogenetics and Neuroanatomy
12:00 p.m.	Dr. James W. Truman – A Lineage-Based Approach for Studying the Development of Neural Circuits in Drosophila
12:25 p.m.	Lunch, in the Dining Room and break
1:30 p.m.	Tour of the Janelia Farm Landscape Building (meet at the Main Reception Desk)
2:30 p.m.	Poster Session (see attached addendum) – Synapse Room.  Refreshments available.
	Afternoon Scientific Session:  Dr. John Reppas, Presiding
3:30 p.m.	Dr. David J. Anderson – Genetic Dissection of Emotion Circuits in the Brain
3:55 p.m.	Dr. Elizabeth C. Engle – Human Mendelian Disorders of Axon Guidance
4:20 p.m.	Dr. Richard Axel – Representations of Odor in the Piriform Cortex
4:45 p.m.	Break, in the Lobby
5:10 p.m.	Dr. Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson – New Roles for Glycosylation in the Nervous System
5:35 p.m.	Dr. Susan L. Ackerman – Spliceosomal RNA Dysfunction and Neurodegeneration
6:00 p.m.	Dr. Constance L. Cepko – New Strategies to Promote Photoreceptor Survival
6:25 p.m.	Social, in the Lobby
7:00 p.m.	Dinner, in the Dining Room
8:00 p.m.	Dr. Michael Gazzaniga – Neuroscience and the Law
9:00 p.m.	Pub open until 10:00 p.m.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009  

7:30 a.m.	Breakfast buffet, in the Dining Room
	Morning Scientific Session: Dr. Jason Coleman, Presiding
8:30 a.m.	Dr. Eric R. Kandel – The Ubiquitin Ligase Neuralized Activates the Prion Like Protein CPEB-3 and Enhances Long Term Memory in the Mouse
8:55 a.m.	Dr. Sascha du Lac – Stability and Plasticity in the Sense of Balance
9:20 a.m.	Dr. Erich D. Jarvis – Of Mice, Birds, and Men: The Mouse Ultrasonic Song System has Features in Common with Vocal Learners
9:45 a.m.	Dr. Anthony Leonardo – Dynamics of Prey Capture in the Dragonfly
10:30 a.m.	ADJOURN -       Checkout – Vans leave for airports -       Refreshments and Box lunches will be available
	Addendum - Poster Presentations
	Dr. Victor Anggono (Huganir Lab) – PACSIN1, A Novel PICK1 Interacting Protein and Regulator of AMPAR Trafficking
	Dr. Lisa Beutler (Palmiter Lab) – NMDA Receptors on D1R-Expressing Neurons Are Required for Amphetamine Sensitization
	Dr. Jian Cao (Scott Lab) – Serotonergic Neurons Mediate Insulin Secretion and Body Growth
	Dr. William J. Chappell – Miniaturization Techniques for Implantable Wireless Sensors
	Dr. Chun-Chun Chen (Jarvis Lab) – Avian Brain Chimeras between Vocal-Learning and Non-Vocal-Learning Species
	Dr. Pohhui Chia (Shen Lab) – A Role for NAB-1/Neurabin in Presynaptic Assembly
	Dr. Anne Churchland (Shadlen Lab) – The Weighting Game: Microstimulation in Extrastriate Cortex Reveals How Different Neurons Influence Impending Decisions
	Dr. Jason Coleman (Bear Lab) – Dynamic Remodeling of Thalamocortical Axon Structure in Primary Visual Cortex Following Brief Monocular Deprivation
	Dr. Miguel Concha – Morphogenesis of a Brain Nucleus Resembles Peripheral Sensory Organ Formation in Zebrafish
	Dr. Eizaburo Doi (Simoncelli Lab) – Testing the Efficiency of Visual Information Coding in a Complete Population of Retinal Ganglion Cells
	Dr. A. Belén Elgoyhen – Targeting α9α10 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors to Prevent Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
	Dr. Jeffrey Erlich (Brody Lab) – Short-Term Spatial Memory in the Rat Frontal Orienting Field
	Mr. Mike Goard (Dan Lab) – Basal Forebrain Activation Enhances Cortical Coding of Visual Scenes
	Dr. Christopher Gregg (Dulac Lab) – A Maternal-Paternal Gene Expression Axis Uncovered in the Embryonic and Adult Mouse Brain
	Dr. Elissa Hallem (Sternberg Lab) – Odor Coding and Host Seeking in Parasitic Nematodes
	Dr. Pedro P. Irazoqui – System Integration of Micrometer-Scale Intra-Ocular Implants
	Dr. Yichang Jia (Ackerman Lab) – A Deletion in One of the U2 Small Nuclear RNA Genes Causes Neurodegeneration
	Dr. Jaewon Ko (Südhof Lab) – Identification of LRRTM2 as a Novel Neurexin-Ligand
	Ms. Fenna Krienen (Buckner Lab) – Segregated Fronto-Cerebellar Circuits Revealed by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity
	Dr. Brigitte LeBoeuf (Garcia Lab) – CaMKII and BK Channels Attenuate Seizures during Caloric Restriction
	Dr. Qiang Liu (Jorgensen Lab) – Synaptic Depression and Recovery at the C. elegans Neuromuscular Junction
	Dr. Todd MacFarlan (Pfaff Lab) – LSD1 Establishes a Repressive Histone Code at Rapidly Evolving X-Linked Genes in Early Development
	Ms. Lauren McElvain (du Lac Lab) – Bidirectional, Non-Hebbian Plasticity of a Sensory Synapse
	Dr. Patrick McGrath (Bargmann Lab) – Evolution of C. elegans Behavior under Different Laboratory Conditions
	Dr. Leeanne McGurk (Bonini Lab) – Identifying Genes that Lead to Ataxia in Fruit Flies
	Dr. Conor McMeniman (Vosshall Lab) – Genetic Dissection of Carbon Dioxide and Thermo-Reception in the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti
	Dr. Jerome Menet (Rosbash Lab) – Dynamic PER Repression Mechanisms in the Drosophila Circadian Clock: From On-To-Off-DNA
	Dr. Marta Morey (Zipursky Lab) – Dueling of Targeting Programs in R7 and R8 Drosophila Photoreceptors
	Dr. Nicolas Paquin (Horvitz Lab) – C44B9.1, A Novel Conserved Regulator of C. elegans Behavior, Acts Through G Protein Signaling and Likely Regulates Synaptic Vesicle Release
	Dr. Elias Pavlopoulos (Kandel Lab) – Non-Proteolytic Ubiquitination by Neuralized-1-Activates CPEB3: A Novel Role of the Ubiquitin System in Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Storage.
	Dr. Claudio Punzo (Cepko Lab) – Gluconoegenesis in Cones: A Strategy to Prolong Vision in Retinitis Pigmentosa
	Dr. Marcelo Rubinstein – Impaired Body Growth and MUPs-Mediated Territorial Behaviors in Mice Lacking Neural D2Rs
	Dr. Alejandro Schinder – Functional Recruitment of Developing Neurons in the Adult Hippocampal Network
	Dr. Alexander Sobolevsky (Gouaux Lab) – Crystal Structure of an Ionotropic Glutamate Receptor
	Ms. Gulsen Surmeli (Jessell Lab) – Genetic Determinants of Motor Neuron Input – Output Specificity
	Dr. Gábor Támas – Regulation of Cortical Microcircuits by Unitary GABAergic Volume
	Dr. Hiroshi Tsuda (Bellen Lab) – Dysfunction of VAP Contributes to the Pathology of Familial and Sporadic ALS
	Mr. Liming Wang (Anderson Lab) – Identification of an Aggression-Promoting Pheromone and its Receptor Neurons in Drosophila
	Dr. Zhiping Wang (Jin Lab) – A Conserved SWIM Domain Protein Regulates Axon Guidance in C. elegans
	Dr. Jin Yang (Lisberger Lab) – Responses of MT Neurons to Dot Textures with Different Amounts of Directional Noise
	Dr. Xianjun Zhu (John Lab) – The Role of a Murine Phospholipid Translocase in Neurodegeneration

updated: 12/4/09