2014

Overview

  • Duration: June 29 – July 16, 2014
  • Venue: OIST Campus
  • Organizing Institution: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
  • Language: All lectures will be given in English.
  • Poster: Download PDF version

Important Dates:

  • Begin Accepting Applications: January 7, 2014
  • Application Deadline: March 7, 2014
  • Notification of Application Results: March 30, 2014
  • Participants arrive in Okinawa: June 28 & 29, 2014
  • Participants depart Okinawa: July 16, 2013

Application

  • Deadline: March 7, 2014
  • To apply to participate in the workshop, please go to the Application Page.
  • The course is targeted mainly to Ph.D. students and junior postdocs.
  • OIST will provide a financial support to cover the costs of registration, meals, and accommodation for all selected participants.  Travel scholarships are also offered to aid applicants who do not have any other funding sources to cover their flight costs.  However, the number is very limited and we strongly encourage the students to seek their own funding for travel to/from Okinawa. For more information, please go to Travel and Accommodation page.

Organizers

  • David Van Vactor (Harvard Medical School Van Vactor Lab/OIST Formation and Regulation of Neuronal Connectivity Unit)
  • Gordon Arbuthnott (OIST Brain Mechanism for Behavior Unit)
  • Ichiro Masai (OIST Developmental Neurobiology Unit)
  • Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama (OIST Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit)

Confirmed Speakers

  • Andrew D. Chisholm (University of California, San Diego)
  • Jon Clarke (King's College London)
  • Keshav Dani (OIST)
  • Ron Davis (SCRIPPS Florida)
  • Anne Hart (Brown Research )
  • Yasunori Hayashi (RIKEN BSI)
  • Takao Hensch (Harvard University)
  • Tatsushi Igaki (Kyoto University)
  • Yishi Jin (University of California, San Diego)
  • Hiroshi Kawasaki (Kanazawa University)
  • Mineko Kengaku (Kyoto University)
  • Atsushi Miyawaki (RIKEN BSI)
  • Sacha Nelson (Brandeis University)
  • Thomas Reh (University of Washington)
  • Lee Rubin (Harvard University)
  • Aravinthan Samuel (Harvard University)
  • Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis University)
  • Masashi Yanagisawa (University of Tsukuba)
  • Yoshihiro Yoshihara (RIKEN BSI)
  • Hiroshi Kohsaka ( U. Tokyo)

DNC2014 Program

All participants are to arrive by the afternoon of Sunday, June 29th.

Sunday, June 29
  6:30 - 8:00 PM          Reception for Faculty and Students & Course Introduction

Monday, June 30
  9:00 - 12:00PM         Lecture 1: A Brief History of Developmental Biology  / David Van Vactor
                                    Lecture 2: Invertebrate Embryology & Neurogenesis / David Van Vactor
 12:00 -  1:30 PM        Lunch 
  1:30 -  4:30 PM         Lecture 3: Neural plate patterning and retinal development / Ichiro Masai
  4:30 -  7:00 PM         ( Evening Study/ Discussion/ Recreation)
  7:00 -  8:30 PM         Dinner
  8:30 PM                    Informal interacion time with lecturers

Tuesday, July 1                                      
  9:00 - 12:00 PM        Lecture 4:  Cellular and molecular aspects of neurogenesis in the vertebrate embryo CNS / Jon Clarke
  2:00 -  1:30 PM         Lunch
  1:30 -   4:30 PM        Lecture 5: Neuronal cell death and cell competition / Tatsushi Igaki
  4:30 -   7:00 PM        (Evening Study / Discussion / Recreation) 
  7:00 -   8:30 PM        Dinner
  8:30PM                     Informal interaction time with lecturers
          

Wednesday, July 2                         
  9:00 - 12:00 PM        Lecture 6: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Critical Period / Takao Hensch
 12:00 -   1:30 PM       Lunch / Tour of OIST and Teaching lab area
  1:30 -   4:30 PM        Lecture 7: Development of Brain-specific Connections in Culture / Gordon Arbuthnott
  4:30 -   7:00 PM        (Evening Study / Discussion / Recreation)
  7:00 -   8:30 PM        Dinner
  8:30 PM                    Informal interaction time with lecturers

Thursday, July 3                                       
  9:00 - 12:00 PM        Lecture 8: Axon Targeting, Synaptogenesis & Neuronal Cytoskeleton / David Van Vactor
 12:00 -   1:30 PM       Lunch
  1:30 -   4:30 PM        Lecture 9: Dendritic Development, Remodeling & Stability / Mineko Kengaku
  4:30 -   7:00 PM        (Evening Study / Discussion / Recreation)
  7:00 -   8:30 PM        Dinner
  8:30 PM                    Informal interaction time with lecturers

Friday, July 4                            
  9:00 -  12:00 PM       Lecture 10: Neurodenegeneration and Invertebrate Disease Models / Anne Hart
 12:00 -  1:30 PM        Tour of OIST and Teaching Lab with lunch
  1:30 -   7:00 PM        Excursion to Okinawa Aquarium
  7:00 -  10:00 PM       Cookout and Course Party I

Saturday, July 5                           
  8:30 -    9:30              Breakfast
 10:00 -   1:00 PM       Lab Rotations:
                                     A) C. elegans Behavior and Disease Models: Hart [Zeiss]
                                     B) Drosophila NMJ: Van Vactor [Olympus & Nikon]
                                     C) Retinal DiI/DiO Injection in Zebrafish: Masai
                                     D) Confocal & Super-resolution Microscope training          
  1:00 -   3:00 PM        Bento Lunch with Student Talks (7)
  3:00 -   6:00 PM        2nd Lab Rotations: as above 
  6:00 -   7:00 PM        Dinner
  7:00 -   8:30 PM        Student Talks (5)

 Sunday, July 6                           
  8:00 -    9:00              Breakfast
  9:00 -  12:00 PM       3rd Lab Rotations: as above
 12:00 -   1:00 PM       Bento Lunch with Student Talks (3)
  1:00  -   4:00 PM       4th Lab Rotations
 Clean up & sign up for weekday afteroon lab sessons
 Free Afternoon / Evening (No dinner served)          

Monday, July 7                                   
 10:30 -  11:30 AM     Lecture 11: Lighting up the brain - with femtosecond pulses / Keshav Dani
 12:00 -   1:30 PM       Lunch
  1:30 -    4:30 PM       Lecture 12: Neuronal Mechanisms of Critical Periods / Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama
  4:30 -    7:00 PM       (Evening Study / Discussino / Recreation)
  7:00 -    8:30 PM       Dinner
  8:30PM                     Informal interaction time with lecturers

Tuesday, July 8                                      
  9:00 -  11:00             Lecture 13: Molecular genetics of synapse formation, maintenance and function / Yishi Jin
 11:00 - 12:00 PM       Lecture 14: Axon regeneration and cytoskeletal dynamics / Andrew Chisholm
 12:00 -  1:30 PM        Lunch
  1:30 -    4:30 PM       Lecture 15: Learning and Memory Mechanisms in Drosophila / Ron Davis
  4:30 -   7:00 PM        Evening Study/Discussion/Recreation
  7:00 -   8:30 PM        Dinner
  8:30 PM                    Informal interaction time with lecturers        

Wednesday, July 9                              
  9:00 -  12:00 PM       Lecture 16: Self-tuning neurons and neural circuit stability / Gina Turrigiano
 12:00 -    1:30 PM       Lunch
  1:30 -    4:30 PM       Lecture 17: Physiological Genomics of Neocortical Development / Sacha Nelson
  4:30 -    7:00 PM       Evening Study / Discussion / Recreation
  7:00 -    8:30 PM       Dinner
  8:30 PM                    Informal interaction time with lecturers                 

Thursday, July 10                         
  9:00 - 12:00 PM        Lecture 18: Solving the Mystery of Sleep / Masashi Yanagisawa
12:00 -   1:30 PM        Lunch
  1:30 -   4:30 PM        Lecture 19: Olfaction  / Yoshihiro Yoshihara
  4:30 -   7:00 PM        (Evening Study / Discussion / Recreation)
  7:00 -   8:30 PM        Dinner
  8:30 PM                    Informal interaction time with lecturers

Friday, July 11                                         
  9:00 - 12:00 PM        Lecture 20: Cruising inside Xs / Atsushi Miyawaki
 12:00 -   1:30 PM        Lunch
  1:30 -   4:30 PM        Lecture 21: Solving circuits for behavior in worms and flies / Aravi Samuel
  4:30 -   7:00 PM        (Evening Study / Discussion / Recreation)
  7:00 -   8:30 PM        Dinner
  8:30 PM                    Informal interaction time with lecturers

Saturday, July 12                          
  8:00 -    9:00              Breakfast
  9:00 -  12:00 PM       Lab Rotations
                                     A) Electrophysiology Rotatio: Arbuthnott & Yazaki-Sugiyama
                                     B) Drosophila Embryo Histology & Dissection: Van Vactor
                                     C) Optogenetics in Drosophila: Hiroshi Kohsaka
                                     D) Zebrafish Dynamic Imaging: Masai [Zeiss Confocal]        
12:00 -   1:00 PM        Lunch with Student Talks
  1:00 -   7:00 PM        Lab Rotations
  7:00 -   8:00 PM        Dinner
  8:00 -   9:30 PM        Student Talks

Sunday, July 13             
  8:00 -    9:00              Breakfast
  9:00 -  12:00 PM       Lab Rotations (as above)
12:00 -    1:00 PM       Lunch with Lecture 22: Optogenetic dissection of Drosphila larva locomotion/ Hiroshi Kohsaka
                                     Free Afternoon / Evening (No dinner served)

Monday, July 14                                  
  9:00 - 12:00 PM       Lecture 23: Spatio-temporal regulatory mechanisms underlying formation of the mammalian brain / Hiroshi Kawasaki
 12:00 -   1:30 PM      Lunch
  1:30 -   4:30 PM       Lecture 24: Neural Regeneration: the view of the eye / Thomas Reh
  4:30 -   7:00 PM        (Evening Study / Discussino / Recreation)
  7:00 -   8:30 PM       Dinner
  8:30 PM                    Informal interaction time with lecturers

Tuesday, July 15                                 
  9:00 - 12:00 PM        Lecture 25: Molecular mechanisms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity / Yasunori Hayashi
 12:00 -   1:30 PM        Lunch
  1:30 -   4:30 PM        Lecture 26: Using Stem Cells to Study Neurodegenerative Disease / Lee Rubin
  4:30 -   6:30 PM        Preparation for Departure
  6:30 -   7:30 PM        Cocktails
  7:30 -   9:30 PM        Final Course Banquet

Wednesday, July 16         Departure

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