Speakers and symposia

Symposia

Single cell OMIC approaches to study cell lineage and system organization
Chair: Dr Song-Hai Shi,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Aaron McKenna, Dartmouth School of Medicine, Hannover, USA
• Michael Ratz, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• Bing Ren, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Song-Hai Shi, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• Chris Walsh, Harvard University, Boston, USA

Development and function of astrocytes
Chair: Dr Shubha Tole, Tata Institute for Fundamental Science, Mumbai, India

• Karine Loulier, Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
• Shubha Tole, Tata Institute for Fundamental Science, Mumbai, India
• Don van Meyel, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Development of the cerebellum and cerebellar tumours
Co-Chairs: Dr. Dan Goldowitz, University of British Columbia, Canada  and Dr. Michael Piper, University of Queensland, Australia

• Kathleen Millen, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• Paul Northcott, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
• Michael Taylor, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Adult neurogenesis
Chair: Dr. Freda Miller, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada

• Fiona Doetsch, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland
• Yukiko Gotoh, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Ana Martin-Villalba, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
• Armen Saghatelyan, Cervo Brain Research Centre, Quebec, Canada
• Alejandro Schinder, Leloir Institute Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 Autism spectrum disorders
Chair: Dr. Dalila Pinto, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

• Gaia Novarino, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
• Dalila Pinto, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
• Jonathan Sebat, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Sagiv Shifman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Kristiina Tammimies, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Evolution and cortical expansion of the human brain
Chair: Dr. Fumio Matsuzaki, RIKEN, Japan

• Silvia Budday, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Wieland B. Huttner, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
• Fumio Matsuzaki, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
• Zoltan Molnar, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Epigenetics and chromatin remodeling in neural coding
Co-Chairs: Dr. Yukiko Gotoh, The University of Tokyo, Japan and Ana Pombo, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

• Nathalie Bérubé, Western University, London, Canada         
• Nada Jabado, McGill University, Canada
• Ana Pombo, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Zhaolan Zhou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Primary cilia in normal and pathological conditions
Chair: Dr. Jeong Ho Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

• Eva S Anton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Sarah C. Goetz, Duke University, USA
• Soochul Park, Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea
• Jeremy Reiter, University of California, San Francisco, USA
• Nathalie Spassky, IBENS, Paris, France

Non-coding elements and human brain development
Chair: Dr. Flora Vaccarino, Yale School of Medicine, USA

• Chung Chau Hon, Riken, Yokohama, Japan
• Flora Vaccarino, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Axel Visel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
• Anne West, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA

Post-translational control of neurogenesis
Chair: Deborah Kurrasch, University of Calgary; Carol Schuurmans, University of Toronto, Canada

• Ryoichiro Kageyama, Riken Center for Brain Science, Japan
• Deborah Kurrasch, University of Calgary
• Debra Silver, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Durham, USA
• Guang Yang, University of Calgary, Canada