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'A Year at the Synapse' - Returns this week...12th February!

“A Year at the Synapse” brings together synapse-­‐minded scientists to engage in discussion and informal interaction. The yearlong symposium is comprised of 10 monthly talks, preceded by food and drinks. We have invited speakers from the Cambridge synapse community, as well as external speakers from the UK and Europe. Our speakers and attendees represent many different areas of neuroscience research, and we hope that this symposium will help to foster more interaction between the different synaptic labs at Cambridge and beyond. Please see here for more details or view talk details on Talks.cam.

 

 

Confirmed Speakers:

9 October, 2012:

Leon Lagnado (Medical Research Council – Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating synaptic transmission in zebrafish

William Schafer (Medical Research Council – Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

mechanosensory signaling and behaviours in c. elegans

 

13 November, 2012:

R. Angus Silver (University College London)

multidisciplinary investigation of synaptic transmission and neural circuit

function

 

11 December, 2012:

Ingo Greger (Medical Research Council – Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

biogenesis and trafficking of glutamate-­‐gated ion channels

Ole Paulsen (Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

information encoding, storage, and retrieval in the cortex

 

8 January, 2013, 6pm in The Gurdon Institute tea room:

Martin Meyer (King’s College London)

Retinotectal formation and visual system information processing in zebrafish

12 February 2013, 6pm in The Gurdon Institute tea room:

Christine Holt (Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

axon guidance in xenopus laevis and zebrafish

Greg Jefferis (Medical Research Council – Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

olfactory perception in drosophila

 

12 March, 2013:

Juan Burrone (King’s College London)

neural circuit formation and function

 

9 April, 2013:

Josef Kittler (University College London)

cell biological mechanisms underlying neuronal excitability and synaptic plasticity

 

14 May, 2013:

Matthias Landgraf (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

development of neural circuits and emergence of coordinated function in drosophila

Jan Felix Evers (Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

establishment of precise connectivity in neural circuits in drosophila

 

11 June, 2013:

Christian Lohmann (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

synapse and network development and maturation

 

16 July, 2013:

Susan Jones (Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

function and dysfunction of neurotransmitter receptors

Sean Sweeney (University of York)

role of the endosome in regulating synaptic growth

Posted on 31/08/2012