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