Constructing Neural Circuits
This meeting focused on various aspects of circuit assembly including axon guidance, lamina targeting specificity, synapse formation, dendritogenesis, reaction to injury and signaling (including RNA and cytoskeletal regulation in neurites) and activity-dependent processes. This was a small meeting with some additional speakers and about an equal number of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The small size and high quality encouraged lively discussion.
Organizers
Tom Jessell, HHMI/Columbia University
Carla Shatz, Stanford University
Larry Zipursky, HHMI/ University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Participants
Silvia Arber, Biozentrum, University of Basel and FMI
Ben Barres, Stanford School of Medicine
Greg Bashaw, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Darnell, HHMI/Rockefeller University
David Feldheim, University of California, Santa Cruz
Daniel Feldman, University of California, Berkeley
Marla Feller, University of California, Berkeley
John Flanagan, Harvard Medical School
Marc Freeman, HHMI/University of Massachusetts Medical School
David Ginty, HHMI/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael Greenberg, Harvard Medical School
Wes Grueber, Columbia University
Christine Holt, University of Cambridge
Mark Hubener, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
Andrew Huberman, University of California, San Diego
Yuh-Nung Jan, HHMI/University of California, San Francisco
Yishi Jin, HHMI/University of California, San Diego
Alex Kolodkin, HHMI/Johns Hopkins University
Liqun Luo, HHMI/Stanford University
Carol Mason, Columbia University
Samuel Pfaff, HHMI/Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Hitoshi Sakano, University of Tokyo
Iris Salecker, National Institute for Medical Research
Joshua Sanes, Harvard University
Kang Shen, HHMI/Stanford School of Medicine