Opening Remarks

Reception

Session 1 — Motor Systems

• “The Construction of Spinal Motor Circuits”
• Chair: Thomas Jessell (Columbia University Medical Center, USA)

• “Unifying Principles that Govern the Development and Later Function of Motor Systems in the Spinal Cord and Hindbrain”
• Joseph Fetcho (Cornell University, USA)

• “Cerebellar Interneurons: A New Superimposed System for Controlling Learning”
• Chris de Zeeuw (Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands)

• “Recent Advances in the Neurobiology of Locomotion”
• Keir Pearson (University of Alberta, Canada)

Session 2 — Sensory Systems

• “Dissecting a Circuit for Sensory Behavior”
• Chair: Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller University, USA)

• “What Songbirds Can Teach Us about Circuits and Signals”
• Alison Doupe (University of California — San Francisco, USA)

• “The Genetics of Olfactory Perception”
• Leslie Vosshall (Rockefeller University, USA)

• “Neuronal Correlates of Subjective Sensory Experience”
• Ranulfo Romo (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)

Dinner

Session 3 — Affective Behaviors

• “Molecular Genetic Analysis of Neural Circuits Underlying Emotional Behaviors”
• Chair: David Anderson (California Institute of Technology, USA)

• “Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding”
• Larry Young (Emory University, USA)

• “From Flies to Mice: Molecular Genetics of Drug Addiction”
• Ulrike Heberlein (University of California — San Francisco, USA)

• “The Human Amygdala’s Contribution to Emotion and Social Behavior”
• Ralph Adolphs (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Session 4 — Human Disease

• “Deciphering the Neuronal Origins of Rett Syndrome”
• Chair: Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)

• “Ion Channel Complexity in Epileptic Brain”
• Jeff Noebels (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)

• “High-speed Optical Interrogation of Living Neural Circuitry: Development and Application to Psychiatric Diseases”
• Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University, USA)

• “Neural Circuits for Genetic Risk for Psychiatric Disorders”
• Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (The National Institute of Mental Health, USA)

• “A Prion–like Mechanism in the Maintenance of Memory Storage”
• Eric Kandel (Columbia University, USA)

• Gala Dinner & Special Lecture:
• “Perspectives and Life as a Neuroscientist”
• Jean-Pierre Changeux (Collège de France; Pasteur Institute, France)

Session 5 — Learning and Memory

• “Functional Integration of New Neurons into the Hippocampal Circuitry”
• Chair: Fred H. Gage (Salk Institute, USA)

• “Roles of Individual Hippocampal Circuits in Episodic Memory”
• Susumu Tonegawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

• “Grid Cells and Spatial Representations in the Entorhinal-hippocampal Circuit”
• Edvard Moser (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

• “Brain Nicotinic Receptors and Cognitive Functions”
• Jean-Pierre Changeux (Collège de France; Pasteur Institute, France)