SCHEDULE & PROGRAM

Schedule
August 8-9, 2016


Speakers and titles (alphabetical order)

Shen-Ju Chou (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Lhx2 provides cortical layer 4 neurons competency to respond to thalamocortical inputs

Mike Crair (Yale Univ, USA)
The Development of Spontaneous Activity in Neonatal Mice

Wenbiao Gan (New York Univ, USA)
Experience-dependent dendritic spine plasticity in the mouse cortex

Takuji Iwasato (Natl Inst Genet, Japan)
In vivo imaging of neural circuit refinement in barrel cortex layer 4 in neonates

Hiroshi Kawasaki (Kanazawa Univ, Japan)
Genetic and environmental regulation of neonatal cortical development

Kazunori Nakajima (Keio Univ, Japan)
Cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic mechanisms that control the specification of neuronal layer identity during neocortical development

Makoto Sato (Osaka Univ, Japan)
Development of a subset of long-range connections in the cortex, with special reference to a new method to label neurons sparsely

Tomomi Shimogori (Riken BSI, Japan)
Rho activity of BTBD3-PlexinA4 complex for selective dendrite removal

Yoshiaki Tagawa (Kyoto Univ, Japan)
Activity-dependent circuit construction in neonatal mouse cerebral cortex

Nobuhiko Yamamoto (Osaka Univ, Japan)
Positive and negative regulators for activity-dependent circuit formation

Yumiko Yoshimura (Natl Inst Physiol Sci, Japan)
Experience-dependent development of fine-scale networks and feature-selective synchronization in the visual cortex

Jiayi Zhang (Inst Brain Sci, China)
Visual circuits and functions in 'cortexless' mice