DNC2018 Program

Week 1

July 31 (Tue) 

09:00 - 09:35   Course Introduction

09:45 - 10:15    Opening remarks

10:30 - 12:00    Keynote Talk I: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

How fish colour their skin: A paradigm for development and evolution of adult patterns

13:30 - 16:30    Student Enlightening Talks session I

 

Aug 1 (Wed) 

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 1: Takao Hensch

          Title: TBA

13:30 - 16:30    Student Enlightening Talks session II

 

Aug 2 (Thu)

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 2: Stephan Liberes

Development and function of mammalian sensory systems: olfaction and the vagus nerve

13:30 - 16:30    Lecture 3: Mineko Kengaku

              Cell migration in the developing brain and other systems

 

Aug 3 (Fri)

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 4: Ryohei Yasuda

              Biochemical computation in single dendritic spines

13:30 - 16:30    Lecture 5: Hiroshi Kawasaki

Molecular mechanisms underlying the formation of the cerebral cortex in the mammalian brain

 

Aug 4 (Sat)

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 6: Iris Salecker

              Glia in the developing nervous system: so much more than glue

13:30 - 16:30    Lecture 7: Noriko Osumi

Paternal-aging induced epigenetic changes during spermatogenesis:

      - A neuropathological risk for neurodevelopmental disorders

 

Aug 5 (Sun)     ~ Free-day ~

 

Week 2

Aug 6 (Mon)

09:00 - 10:00   Introductory Talk: Tomoyuki Takahashi

10:10 - 12:10    Keynote Talk II: Erwin Neher

Vesicle pools and short-term synaptic plasticity

13:30 - 15:30    Lecture 8: Tomoyuki Takahashi

              Recycling reuse of synaptic vesicles

15:40 - 16:40   Panel Discussion: Dr. Neher and Dr. Takahashi

 

Aug 7 (Tue)

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 9: Yimin Zou

              Title: TBA

13:30 - 16:30    Lecture 10: Yoshihiro Yoshihara

              Olfactory Receptors, Circuits and Behaviors in Zebrafish

 

Aug 8 (Wed)

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 11: Felix Schweizer

              On Synapses.

          - History, Development and Function.

13:30 - 16:30    Lecture 12: Stephanie White

              Of Speech and Song:

                    - Molecular Microcircuits for Vocal Learning

 

Aug 9 (Thu)

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 13: Suresh Jesuthasan

             Fear in Fish

13:30 - 16:30    Lecture 14: Yasunori Hayashi

             Fluorescence microscopy and its application in neuroscience

 

Aug 10 (Fri)

09:00 - 12:00    Demo Rotation (I & II)

 

Aug 11 (Sat)

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 15: Nirao Shah

Mechanisms underlying sexual differentiation of the brain and behavior

13:30 - 16:30    Lecture 16: Hiroshi Kohsaka

              Motor circuits in Drosophila larvae

 

Aug 12 (Sun)

09:00 - 12:00    Lecture 17: Thomas Clandinin

              Dissecting visual processing pathways in Drosophila

13:30 - 16:30    Lecture 18: Hitoshi Okamoto

                                None-fishy tale of fish decision making:

                                      - What can we learn from fish about our mind?