Genetic Manipulation of Neuronal Activity
In recent years, a number of genetic reagents have been developed for the exogenous control of neural circuit activity. Naturally evolved light-gated ion channels and pumps, mutagenized temperature-sensitive synaptic transmission components, rationally designed photo-switches, and "orthogonal" drug—receptor pairs are only a few of the novel technologies unveiled. This meeting will bring together leaders in the field to highlight recent progress in tool development and applications.
Organizers
Ehud Isacoff, University of California, Berkley
Loren Looger, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Julie Simpson, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
David Anderson, HHMI/California Institute of Technology
Ernst Bamberg, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Edward Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University
Paul Garrity, Brandeis University
Peter Hegemann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Stefan Herlitze, Case Western Reserve University
Toshi Kitomoto, University of Iowa
Richard Kramer, University of California, Berkley
Henry Lester, California Institute of Technology
Anselm Levskaya, University of California San Francisco
Susana Lima, Gulbenkian Institute for Science
John Lin, University of California, San Diego
Gero Miesenboeck, University of Oxford
Georg Nagel, University of Wuerzburg
Michael Nitabach, Yale School of Medicine
Leopoldo Petreanu, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Bryan Roth, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Medical School
Kristin Scott, University of California, Berkeley
Oleg Sineshchekov, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Scott Sternson, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Karel Svoboda, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Dirk Trauner, University of California, Berkley
Roger Tsien, HHMI/University of California, San Diego
Benjamin White, National Institutes of Health
Andrew Woolley, University of Toronto
Peer Wulff, University of Aberdeen
Bing Zhang, University of Oklahoma
