International Graduate School of Neuroscience

Molecular Mechanisms Of Synaptic Processing, Function And Dysfunction

Thursday, April 26, 2012 - Friday, April 27, 2012

• Wei Xu
• Stanford School of Medicine, USA
• From the two modes of synaptic transmission to neuronal coding schemes

• Christian Rosenmund
• Neurocure, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Vesicular glutamate transporters as regulators of neurotransmitter release efficacy

• Nikolaj Klöcker
• Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
• Molecular complexity of native AMPA receptors

• Villu Maricq
• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
• Postsynaptic signaling: What are the molecules and how do they get there?

• Michael Frotscher
• University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
• Structural plasticity of hippocampal mossy fiber synapses

• Alexander Dityatev
• Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy
• The extracellular matrix and synaptic functions

• Mark Henkemeyer
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
• Eph-Ephrin bidirectional signaling in synapse development and function

• Michisuke Yuzaki
• School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinjuku-ku, Japan
• Cbln1 and its family proteins – unique functional and morphological regulators of synapses

• David Genoux
• École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Protein phosphatase PP1 and intra-spaced stimulations are key elements in controlling the direction of synaptic plasticity

• Christian Lüscher
• University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Drug-evoked synaptic plasticity: from molecular mechanism to behavioral correlates

• Qiang Chang
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Epigenetic control in neural development and disease

• Michael S. Levine
• University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• From genes to circuits in Huntington's Disease: every neuron needs good connections

• Christopher W. Cowan
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
• Transcriptional regulation of synapse elimination: implications for Drug Addiction, Fragile X Syndrome and Autism

• Danielle Posthuma
• Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, NL
• Biologically informed genome-wide association analysis uncovers role of synaptic gene-sets in schizophrenia and intelligence

• Rami Abou Jamra
• Institute of Human Genetics, Erlangen, Germany
• Deep sequencing strategies to elucidate the genetics of autosomal recessive intellectual disability