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Workshop 6: Neuroscience Issues in Early Development: Schedule

Schedule
Monday, April 27
9:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:30-9:45am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky, Ken Miller and Fred Wolf
9:45-10:30am Greg Lemke: Epha receptors and topographic wiring of the eye to the brain
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Jianhua Cang: Functional Development of Retinotopic Maps
11:45-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:30pm David Willshaw: Modelling and measuring maps of retinocollicular connections
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:45pm Alexei Koulakov: Toward the standard model of neural development
4:00-6:00pm Reception in the MBI Lounge
6:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, April 28
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:45am Andrew Huberman: Assembly of tiled retinal mosaic maps
9:45-10:30am Jennifer Rodger: Role of visual enrichment in the development of topography in ephrin-A-/- mice
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Dan Butts: Retinal waves and synaptic plasticity in a "natural" context
11:45-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:30pm Matthias Hennig: Spontaneous Activity in the Developing Retina: Signal from Noise
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:45pm Ilana Witten: A Hebbian learning rule mediates asymmetric plasicity in aligning sensory repesentations
4:45pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, April 29
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:45am Richard Nowakowski: Positional Information from Cell Cycle Timing: The Navigation Hypothesis
9:45-10:30am Siegrid Loewel: The dynamic architecture of the cortex during development and after lesions
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Dmitry Tsigankov: TBA
11:45-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:30pm Josh Trachlenberg: An alternative view of binocular plasticity
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:45pm Megumi Kaneko: Molecular Mechanisms of Experience-dependent Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex
4:45pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, April 30
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:45am Ken Miller: Modeling of ocular dominance plasticity: across developmental stages and molecular elements I
9:45-10:30am Taro Toyoizumi: Modeling of ocular dominance plasticity: across developmental stages and molecular elements II
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Patrick Kanold: Early circuits that regulate cortical development and plasticity
11:45-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:30pm Justin Crowley
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:45pm Leonard White: Vision and Cortical Map Development
3:45-4:30pm David Fitzpatrick: Experience with moving visual stimuli drives the early development of cortical direction selectivity
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00pm Cash bar opens at Fairfield Inn
7:00pm Banquet Dinner at Fairfield Inn
Friday, May 1
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:00-9:45am Mark Huebener: Early development of orientation maps in ferret visual cortex
9:45-10:30am Fred Wolf
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45am Matthias Kaschube
11:45-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:30pm Nick Swindale: Cortical Maps as Content-Addressable Memories
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:45pm Mitya Chklovskii: Maximization of the Connectivity Repertoire: A Statistical Principle behind the Shapes of Dendritic Arbors
4:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI