Using In vivo Physiology to Understand Neural Circuits in Genetic Systems
April 20 - 23, 2008

Recent technical innovations have made identified neurons accessible to in vivo electrophysiology and imaging in Drosophila, zebrafish and C. elegans. In addition, ongoing miniaturization is allowing the mouse to be used in place of the rat in many studies. This meeting will bring together scientists who use physiology and genetic tools in these organisms to understand neural circuit function. The focus of the meeting will be on the design and interpretation of experiments rather than on technique development.

• ORGANIZERS:

  Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Farm Research Campus /HHMI
  
  Dmitry Rinberg, Janelia Farm Research Campus /HHMI
  
  Rachel Wilson, Harvard University

• TO ATTEND:

  Applications are no longer being accepted for the Spring 2008 Conference Program.

• INVITED PARTICIPANTS:

  Richard Axel
  Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
  Columbia University/HHMI

  Cori Bargmann
  Laboratory of Neural Circuits & Behavior
  Rockefeller University/HHMI

  Alexander Borst
  Systems & Computational Neurobiology
  Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried

  Gyorgi Buzsaki
  Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience
  Rutgers University, Newark

  Thomas R. Clandinin
  Department of Neurobiology
  Stanford University

  Yang Dan
  Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
  University of California, Berkeley

  Michael Dickinson
  Dickinson Lab
  California Institute of Technology/JFRC

  Michale Fee
  Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Rainer Friedrich
  Department of Neurobiology
  Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

  Miriam B. Goodman
  Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
  Stanford University

  Vivek Jayaraman
  Janelia Farm Research Campus
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  Gilles J. Laurent
  Department of Biology
  California Institute of Technology

  Shawn Lockery
  Department of Biology
  University of Oregon

  Eve Marder
  Department of Biology
  Brandeis University

  Markus Meister
  Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Harvard University

  Dmitry Rinberg
  Janelia Farm Research Campus
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  Aravi Samuel
  Department of Physics
  Harvard University

  William R. Schafer
  Cell Biology Division
  MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

  Karel Svoboda
  Janelia Farm Research Campus
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  Glenn Turner
  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

  Matt Wachowiak
  Department of Biomedical Engineering
  Boston University

  Rachel Wilson
  Department of Neurobiology
  Harvard Medical School

  Charles Zuker
  Division of Biological Sciences
  University of California San Diego/HHMI

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