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?