SCHEDULE & PROGRAM

Topics
Cellular differentiation
Cell migration
Circuit formation



Schedule
October 8-10, 2009

Tentative program:

October 7 (Wed) 19:00 - Get together party
October 8 (Thu) 10:00 - 12:30 Talk
. Lunch
14:00 - 18:30 Talk
Dinner
October 9 (Fri) 08:30 - 12:30 Talk
. Lunch
13:30 - 17:00 Excursion
17:00 - 19:00 Poster
19:00 - Banquet
October 10 (Sat) 08:30-13:00 Talk
. .Lunch


Organizer
Fujio Murakami (Osaka, Japan)
Zoltan Molnar (Oxford, UK)
Nobuhiko Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan)



Speakers and tentative program (alphabetical order)

Gord Fishell (NY, USA)
Examination of how the intrinsic identity of cortical interneurons is influence by activity during development

Andre Goffinet (Brussels, Belgium)
Planar polarity-like mechanisms and brain development

Mikio Hoshino (Tokyo, Japan)
Molecular machinery to specify neuron subtypes in the dorsal hindbrain

Yasuo Kawaguchi (Okazaki, Japan)
Local connectivity of cortical projection neurons depends on their extracortical targets

Ryoichiro Kageyama (Kyoto, Japan)
The role of Notch signaling in proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells

Oscar Marin (Alicante, Spain)
Cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling the migration of cortical interneurons

Jeffrey Macklis (Boston, USA)
Molecular Development and Repair of Corticospinal Motor Neuron (and other Neocortical Projection Neuron) Circuitry

Takaki Miyata (Nagoya, Japan)
Cortical plate and Purkinje plate: how do they form?

Zoltan Molnar (Oxford, UK)
THE EARLIEST CORTICAL CIRCUITS

Fujio Murakami (Osaka, Japan)
Mechanisms of nucleogenesis in the hindbrain


Kazunori Nakajima (Tokyo, Japan)
Dynamic behavior of the multipolar migrating neurons in the developing cortex

Hitoshi Okamoto (Wako, Japan)
Roles of Mosaic eyes/Crumbs complex in coordination of proliferation with the apico-basal polarity of the neuroepithelial cells

Noriko Osumi (Sendai, Japan)
Fatty acid signals in neurogenesis

John Parnavelas (London, UK)
Slit/Robo signalling in cortical interneuron sorting and migration

Frank Polleux (NC, USA)
Functional importance of proteins regulating membrane deformation and endocytosis in neuronal migration and morphogenesis 

Linda Richards (Brisbane, Australia)
Mechanisms regulating commissure formation in the brain

Seong-Seng Tan (Melbourne, Australia)
Protein ubiquitination by Ndfip1 in cortical development and adult cortical function

Pierre Vanderhaeghen (Brussels, Belgium)
Intrinsic mechanisms of specification of cortical neurons from pluripotent
stem cells 

Nobuhiko Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan)
Mechanisms of medially orineted cortical axon growth