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Organizing comittee
Monica DiLuca, Milan; Michela Matteoli, Milan; and Christophe Mulle, Bordeaux (co-chairs).
Nils Brose, Göttingen; Michal Kreutz, Magdeburg; August Smit, Amsterdam.

   
 

Wednesday August 28th

8.00-8.45:       Registration
8.45- 9.00:      Welcome remarks
9.00 -10.30:  Symposium: Molecular architecture of synapses (Chair August Smit)

Jean-Philippe Pin (Montpellier) - Sensing mGlu receptor activation and modulation
Jean-Louis Bessereau (Lyon) - Extracellular scaffolds: an alternative perspective for post-synaptic organization
Vladan Lucic (Martinsried) - Imaging neuronal synapses at molecular resolution by cryo-electron tomography

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12.30: Symposium: Molecular architecture of synapses (Chair August Smit)

Radu Aricescu (Oxford) - Mind the gap: trans-synaptic protein networks to learn and remember
Stephen Smith (Stanford) - From brain maps to brain mechanisms: synapse molecular diversity

Short talks
Fekrje Selimi (Paris) - Two afferents, one target: what are the molecular pathways controlling their specific connectivity?
Lydia Danglot (Paris) - Role of the vesicular SNARE TI-VAMP in post-synaptic receptors distribution and traficking at hippocampal synapses.

12.30-13.30:   Lunch

13.30-15.00: Posters session #1

15.00-16.30: Symposium:  Presynaptic mechanisms and neurotransmitter release (chair: Michela Matteoli)
Timothy Ryan (New York) - Interplay of Ca and K channels in controlling presynaptic waveforms, calcium influx and exocytosis
Matthjis Verhage (Amsterdam) - Docking, priming and fusion of dense core vesicles in mammalian CNS neurons

Short talks
Elisabetta Menna (Milan) - The role of the actin capping protein Eps8 in synapse formation and function
Mario Carta (Bordeaux) - Membrane lipids tune synaptic transmission by direct modulation of potassium channels
16.30-16.45: short break

16.45-17.45: Symposium:  Presynaptic mechanisms and neurotransmitter release
Mike Cousin (Edinburgh) - Control of synaptobrevin retrieval by synaptophysin in health and disease
Zoltan Nusser (Budapest) - Quantitative molecular differences in presynaptic active zones

Thursday August 29th

9.00 -10.30:  Symposium: Synaptic plasticity and networks (chair: Christophe Mulle)

Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (London) - Probing synaptic mechanisms of grid cell formation
Thomas Oertner (Hamburg) - Form follows function: reverse engineering of spine synapses

Short talks
Zafar Bashir (Bristol) - NMDA Receptor-mediated metaplasticity at schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses.
Kathalin Toth (Quebec) - Distinct pool of vesicles contributing to asynchronous release are generated via bulk endocytosis

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12.30: Symposium: Synaptic plasticity and networks (chair: Christophe Mulle)
Laure Rondi-Reig (Paris) - Interaction between cerebellum and hippocampus in sequence learning: anatomo-functional studies in human and mice
Christian Lüscher (Geneva) - Drug-evoked synaptic plasticity: from molecular mechanism to behavioural correlates and back

Short talks
Jakob Von Engelhardt (Heidelberg) - CKAMP44 and TARP-γ8 modulate gating and promote surface expression of AMPA receptors in dentate gyrus granule cells
Helmut Kessels (Amsterdam) - NMDA Receptor dependent long-term synaptic depression is independent of ion flow through NMDA receptors

12.30-13.30:   Lunch

13.30-15.00: Posters session #2

15.00-16.00: Symposium: Synaptic plasticity and networks (chair: Christophe Mulle)
Jeff Magee (Ashburn) - The high spine neck resistance in CA1 pyramids increases nonlinear input interactions
Seth Grant (Edinburgh) - Deconstructing synapse complexity

16.00:             Free time
20.00:              Gala dinner for everyone at the restaurant "H 36", 1 rue de la Gironde, Bordeaux
                        (Tram line B, stop "Bassins à flot")














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Friday August 30th

9.00 -10.30:  Symposium: Trafficking and synaptogenesis (chair: Monica Di Luca)

Nathalie Sans (Bordeaux) - Regulation of glutamate receptor trafficking by scaffolding proteins of the planar cell polarity signaling pathway
Peter Scheiffele (Basel) - Deconvolving molecular diversity of synaptic adhesion molecules

Short talks
Thomas Biederer (Yale) - Activity-driven changes in the synaptogenic potential of neurons modulate memory processing
Fabrizio Gardoni (Milan) - A novel partner for GluN2A-containing NMDA receptors, RNF10: a synapse-to-nucleus signal

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12.30: Symposium: Trafficking and synaptogenesis (chair: Monica Di Luca)

Eric Wanker (Berlin) - First interactome maps for synaptic proteins
Nicola Allen (San Diego) - Astrocyte regulation of neuronal glutamate receptors
Arnivan Gosh (Basel) - title missing

12.30-12.45:   Concluding remarks and prospects for the ESM 2015
12.45-14.00: Farewell buffet lunch

 
 


10 talks will be selected from the abstracts.

deadline for abstracts, june 30th, 2013

Sponsored by European Networks: SyMBaD, Eurospin, Synsys, Nplast,
Local support: Bordeaux Neuroscience, Labex Brain, Conseil Régional d'Aquitaine