Event Sessions
Yishi Jin, Kit Pogliano
Opening Remarks
Session 1: Great Friends, Yishi Jin, Chair
Eve Marder: Cryptic changes to degenerate neurons and circuits elicited by climate change are revealed by repeated perturbations
Grae Davis: Stabilizing neuronal function: flies, mice and great friends!
Gina Turrigiano: The ups and downs of firing rate homeostasis
Mu-ming Poo: Nerve growth and synaptic plasticity
Intermission
Session 2: Embryonic development of the action potential, Darwin Berg, Chair
Alan Willard: Early years in the Spitzer lab (1973-1978)
Diane O’Dowd: Challenge accepted: The dawn of patching in Nick’s lab
Shawn Lockery: Neuronal development, Hodgkin-Huxley, and the human modem
Session 3: Activity dependent regulation of axon extension, Bill Kristan, Chair
Guo-Li Ming: Engineering human brain organoids for understanding human brain development and diseases
Tim Gomez: Reflections on my “blow your socks off” time working with Nick
Xavier Nicol: Control of axon pathfinding by subcellular-specific second messenger networks
Lunch
Session 4: Great Friends, Yishi Jin, Chair
Carla Shatz: Two faces of synapse pruning: development vs Alzheimer’s disease
Corey Goodman: Embryonic development of identified neurons: Nick, Corey and grasshopper embryos 1977-1979
Oliver Hobert: Worms dancing to Nick’s tunes: Neurotransmitter plasticity in C.elegans
Session 5: Transmitter switching during embryonic development, Alicia Guemez-Gamboa, Chair
Laura Borodinsky: Interplay between calcium activity, morphogens, and the environment in the differentiation of spinal cord neurons
Cory Root: Neural circuits that underlie innate motivational valence to odor
Norma Velazquez Ulloa: From Mexico to Oregon, how the Spitzer Lab shaped my career
Intermission
Session 6: Transmitter switching in the adult rodent brain, Larry Squire, Chair
Davide Dulcis: Light-induced dopamine plasticity affecting behavior
Da Meng: Neuronal activity regulates neurotransmitter switching in the adult brain following light-induced stress
Huiquan Li: Neurotransmitter plasticity underlying generalized fear: implications for treatment of PTSD
Nick Spitzer
Closing Remarks
Reception presented by UC San Diego Biological Sciences