Genetic Manipulation of Neuronal Activity IV
This is the fourth installment of the "Genetic Manipulation of Neuronal Activity" conference at Janelia. Presentations will highlight recent advances in the development of new genetic reagents for the exogenous control of neural circuit activity, including naturally evolved light-gated ion channels and pumps, mutagenized temperature-sensitive synaptic transmission components, rationally designed photo-switches, magnetoreceptors and "orthogonal" drug/receptor pairs, among others. We are bringing together leaders in the field to review progress in the design and use of current tools and, more importantly, to discuss the development of novel tools and their potential applications.
Registration for this meeting is closed.
Organizers
Peter Hegemann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Loren Looger, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Michael Nitabach, Yale School of Medicine
Chandra Tucker, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Invited Participants
Polina Anikeeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Don Arnold, University of Southern California
Edward Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jessica Cardin, Yale University School of Medicine
Bianxiao Cui, Stanford University
Karl Deisseroth, HHMI/Stanford University
Jeffrey Friedman, HHMI/Rockefeller University
Alexander Gottschalk, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology
Jorg Grandl, Duke University
Ali Guler, University of Virginia
Ute Hochgeschwender, Central Michigan University
Ines Ibañez-Tallon, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Ehud Isacoff, University of California, Berkeley
Harald Janovjak, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Alex Jones, University of Manchester
Eric Jörgensen, HHMI/University of Utah
Alla Karpova, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Richard Kramer, University of California, Berkley
Bai Lu, Tsinghua University School of Medicine
Anna Moroni, Università degli Studi di Milano
Kate O'Connor-Giles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Arnd Pralle, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Bryan Roth, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Medical School
Julie Simpson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Tadross, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Dirk Trauner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Chandra Tucker, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Alipasha Vaziri, Rockefeller University and Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Vladislav Verkhusha, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Andrew Woolley, University of Toronto
Can Xie, Peking University
Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Sheng-Jia Zhang, Tsinghua University Center for Life Sciences
Yun Zhang, Harvard University
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