Past ISDN Meeting 2008 Asilomar, CA, USA
1-4 June 2008, 17th Biennial Meeting of ISDN in Asilomar, California, USA
Making and breaking neural circuits: Mechanisms in normal and disordered neural development
Organizing Committee:
Chair: William Mobeley (USA)
Daniel Geschwind (USA)
David Ginty (USA)
Lloyd Green (USA)
Francois Guillemot (UK)
Ryochiro Kageyama (Japan)
David Kaplan (Canada)
Pat Levitt (USA)
Liqun Luo (USA)
Freda Miller (Canada)
Samuel Pleasure (USA)
John Steeves (Canada)
Conference Themes:
- Neuronal fate and migration
- Neuronal morphogenesis and path-finding
- Synaptic development, maintenance and plasticity
- Neural circuit development and plasticity
- Glial cell diversity and development
- Neural stem cells – during development and in the adult
- The dopaminergic neuron – from specification to treatment of Parkinson’s disease
- Developmental disorders of cognitive circuits: lessons from autism, Rett syndrome and Down syndrome