4th Annual Skirball Institute Symposium
on
Synaptic Plasticity
May 10, 2002
New York University Medical Center, Farkas Auditorium
Organizers: Steve Burden, Moses Chao, Scott Clark , Dan Littman , Alex Schier
10:00 AM Activity-dependent Retuning of CNS Synapses Richard Tsien - Stanford University  
10:45 AM Genetic Analysis of Synapse Formation
Cornelia Bargmann - University of California, San Francisco
 
11:30 AM Brain Plasticity: Underlying Learning Deficits and Their Rehabilitation
Michael Merzenich - University of California, San Francisco
 
12:30 PM LUNCH  
2:00 PM Brain Waves and Immune Genes in Brain Wiring
Carla Shatz - Harvard University
 
2:45 PM A Role for Synaptic Integration in Dopamineric and Cholinergic Transmissions in Basal Ganglia Function
Shigetada Nakanishi - Kyoto University
Ochoa Lecturer
 
3:30 PM Coffee Break  
4:00 PM
Songbirds: A Model System for the Study of Learning and Basal Ganglia Function
Allison Doupe - University of California, San Francisco
 
4:45 PM The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses
Eric Kandel - Columbia University
 
6:30 PM DINNER for Speakers, P.I.'S and Guests  


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