ISDN 2008
17th Biennial Conference of the
International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
Asilomar, CA, USA . June 1-4, 2008
Making and Breaking Neural Circuits:
Mechanisms in Normal and Disordered Development
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE - FEBRUARY 29, 2008
NEW - PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
CALL FOR PAPERS
Contributions are currently invited for presentation at ISDN 2008 - the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience.
Most papers will be presented as posters, but selected abstracts will be included as short talks within the main symposia (listed below). Abstracts should be submitted online at
www.isdn-conference.elsevier.com by February 29, 2008. Four abstracts submitted by the deadline will be selected by the program committee for their originality and topical interest for an award of US$500.00 each. SYMPOSIA
Neuronal fate and migration
Chair: Sam Pfaff, The Salk Institute, USA
Developmental disorders of cognitive circuits
Chair: Dan Geschwind, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Neuronal morphogenesis and pathfinding
Chair: Tadashi Uemura, Kyoto University, Japan
The dopaminergic neuron - from specification to treatment of Parkinson's disease
Chair: Theo Palmer, Stanford University, USA
Neural circuit development and plasticity
Chair: Takao Hensch, Harvard University, USA
Neural stem cells - during development and in the adult
Chair: Hongjun Song, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Synaptic development, maintenance and plasticity
Chair: Yishi Jin, University of California, San Diego, USA
Glial cell diversity and development
Chair: William Richardson, University College London, UK
PLENARY LECTURES
Modification of visual cortex by experience
Mark Bear, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Control of dendrite morphogenisis
Yuh-Ning Jan, University of California at San Francisco, USA
Neural stem cells - from development to repair
Freda Miller, University of Toronto, Canada
Spike-timing dependant plasticity of neural circuits - Hebb's postulate
revisited
Mu Ming Poo, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Molecular cues and structured neural activity cooperate to organize the
topographic map in developing visual cortex
Michael Stryker, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Illuminating cortical synapses and circuits
Karel Svoboda, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
LOCATION: ASILOMAR, CA, USA
The conference will take place at the Asilomar Conference Grounds situated along the shoreline of the Monterey Peninsula in Pacific Grove, California, USA.
ISDN 2008 is the 17th Biennial Meeting organized by the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience. Conference administration is provided by Elsevier, publisher of International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience.
Organizer
William C. Mobley, Stanford University, USA
Program Committee
Daniel Geschwind, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
David D. Ginty, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Lloyd Green, Columbia University, USA
Francois Guillemot, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Ryochiro Kageyama, Kyoto University, Japan
David Kaplan, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
Pat Levitt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Liqun Luo, Stanford University, USA
Freda Miller, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
Samuel Pleasure, University of California, San Francisco, USA
John Steeves, (Secretary General, ISDN), ICORD and University of British
Columbia, Canada
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