| Poster I   Anatomical and Physiological Analysis of Local Circuits in Neocortex | 
							
								| P1 | Quantification of excitatory and inhibitory synapses onto parvalbumin- and calretinin-positive GABAergic neurons in the rat cerebral cortex. | 
							
								|  | Akio Sekigawa, Yoshiyuki Kubota, Yasuo Kawaguchi | 
							
								|  | Div. Cerebral Circuitry, NIPS, Okazaki,  Dept. Physiol. Sci. Grad. Univ. Advanced Studies, Okazaki | 
							
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								| P2 | Cortical interneuron organization analysis by in vivo Venus labeling of GABAergic cells in BAC transgenic rats | 
							
								|  | Yasuharu Hirai1,2, Masakazu Uematsu2,3, Satoe Ebihara2, Kuniya Abe4, Sachiko Yosida3, Megumi Kato2, Masumi Hirabayashi2, Yuchio Yanagawa5,6 and Yasuo Kawaguchi1,2 | 
							
								|  | 1Grad. Univ. Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan, 2NIPS, Okazaki, Japan, 3Toyohashi Univ. Tech., Toyohashi, Japan, 4RIKEN, Tsukuba, Japan, 5Gunma Univ., Gunma, Japan, 6SORST | 
							
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								| P3 | Regional, cell type, and layer-specific differences in cholinergic inhibition of neocortical neurons | 
							
								|  | Allan T. Gulledge1,2, Susannah Park2, Greg J. Stuart2 & Yasuo Kawaguchi1, | 
							
								|  | 1 Division of Cerebral Circuitry, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan | 
							
								|  | 2 Divison of Neuroscience, JCSMR, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia | 
							
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								| P4 | Laminar sources of synaptic input to layer 1 neurons in rat visual cortex | 
							
								|  | Takuma Mori, Edward M. Callaway | 
							
								|  | Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, Salk Inst., La Jolla, CA, USA | 
							
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								| P5 | Fluorescence activated cell sorting and expression-profiling of parvalbumin-positive GABAergic neocortical interneurons from mouse barrel cortex. | 
							
								|  | Ethan M. Goldberg, Hyo-Young Jeong, and Bernardo Rudy. | 
							
								|  | NYU School of Medicine, Department of Physiology & Neuroscience, New York, U.S.A. | 
							
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								| P6 | How is g frequency rhythmic firing of neocortical regular spiking neurons shaped by recurrent inputs? | 
							
								|  | Kenji Morita1, Rita Kalra2, Kazuyuki Aihara3, and Hugh P. C. Robinson2 | 
							
								|  | 1 RIKEN Brain Science Institute,  2 Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge | 
							
								|  | 3 Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, and ERATO, JST | 
							
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								| P7 | Multisite recordings on the signal propagation pattern in local circuit of the visual cortex | 
							
								|  | Makoto Osanai, Yusuke Takeno, Ryousuke Hasui, Tetsuya Yagi | 
							
								|  | Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University | 
							
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								| P8 | Synaptic connection patterns between pyramidal cell subtypes in layer V of rat frontal cortex | 
							
								|  | Mieko Morishima, Yasuo Kawaguchi | 
							
								|  | Division of Cerebral Circuitry, National Institute for Physiological Sciences | 
							
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								| P9 | Target-dependent diversity of intrinsic membrane properties in rat frontal Layer 5 pyramidal cells | 
							
								|  | Takeshi Otsuka, Mieko Morishima, and Yasuo Kawaguchi | 
							
								|  | Div. Cerebral Circuitry & Structure, NIPS, Okazaki | 
							
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								| P10 | A distinctive layer 5 pyramidal neuron in monkey association cortex, morphologically identified by EGFP – adenovirus infection | 
							
								|  | Marie Wintzer, Kathleen S. Rockland | 
							
								|  | Lab for Cortical Organization and Systematics, RIKEN BSI, Wako, Japan | 
							
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								| P11 | Classification of layer 6 neurons by in situ hybridization | 
							
								|  | Akiya Watakabe1, Noritaka Ichinohe2, Sonoko Ohsawa1, Tsutomu Hashikawa3, | 
							
								|  | Kathleen S. Rockland2, and Tetsuo Yamamori1 | 
							
								|  | 1Div of Brain Biol., National Institute for Basic Biology, 2Lab for Cortical Organization and Systematics, RIKEN BSI, | 
							
								|  | 3Lab for Neural Architecture, RIKEN BSI | 
							
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								| Poster II   Physiological Analysis in vivo | 
							
								| P12 | Burst spikes encode multiple quantities in a time-compressive manner | 
							
								|  | Toshiyuki Ishii1,2, Tomonori Manabe1 and Toshihiko Hosoya1 | 
							
								|  | 1RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2Toho University | 
							
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								| P13 | Direction selectivity and arrangement of neurons in single barrel columns in the rat somatosensory cortex examined with in vivo two-photon calcium imaging | 
							
								|  | 1Koji Ikezoe, 2Yoshiya Mori, 3, 4Kazuo Kitamura, 2, 4Hiroshi Tamura, 2, 4Ichiro Fujita | 
							
								|  | 1Grad. Sch. Engineering Science, 2Grad. Sch. Frontier Biosciences, | 
							
								|  | 3Grad. Sch. Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan,  4CREST, JST, Saitama, Japan | 
							
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								| P14 | Spatiotemporal dynamics of surround suppression in cat V1: spatial-frequency dependency | 
							
								|  | Ayako Ishikawa, Satoshi Shimegi, Hiroyuki Kida, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hiromichi Sato | 
							
								|  | Grad. Sch. Front. Biosci. & Grad. Sch. Med., Osaka Univ., Japan | 
							
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								| P15 | Spatiotemporal dynamics of surround suppression in cat V1: stimulus-size and orientation-contrast | 
							
								|  | Satoshi Shimegi, Hiroyuki Kida, Ayako Ishikawa, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hiromichi Sato | 
							
								|  | Grad. Sch. Med., & Grad. Sch. Front. Biosci., Osaka Univ., Japan | 
							
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								| P16 | Clustering of color-selective cells in macaque area V4: analysis with multiple single-unit recordings | 
							
								|  | Yasuyo Kotake, Hiroshi Morimoto, Hiroshi Tamura, Ichiro Fujita | 
							
								|  | Grad. Sch. Frontier Biosciences,  Grad. Sch. Engineering Science, Osaka Univ., CREST, JST, Japan | 
							
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								| P17 | Inter-spike interval statistics and visual stimulus discrimination capability of neurons in the monkey inferior temporal cortex | 
							
								|  | Shunta Tate, Hiroshi Tamura, Ichiro Fujita | 
							
								|  | Lab Cognitive Neurosci., Grad Sch Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan | 
							
								|  | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan | 
							
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								| Poster III   Development and Plasticity in Neocortex | 
							
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								| P18 | Postnatal changes in the colocalization of VGluT1 and VGluT2 immunoreactivities at single axon terminals of the mouse neocortex | 
							
								|  | Kouichi Nakamura1,2, Akiya Watakabe3, Hiroyuki Hioki1, Fumino Fujiyama1, Yasuyo Tanaka1, Tetsuo Yamamori3, Takeshi Kaneko1,2 | 
							
								|  | 1Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University | 
							
								|  | 2CREST, JST, 3Division of Brain Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology | 
							
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								| P19 | Activity-dependent development of interhemispheric connections in mouse visual cortex | 
							
								|  | Hidenobu Mizuno, Tomoo Hirano, Yoshiaki Tagawa | 
							
								|  | Dept. Biophys., Kyoto Univ. Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto, Japan; CREST, JST, Kawaguchi, Japan | 
							
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								| P20 | Transient layer-specific zinc-positive neurons in the developing rat somatosensory cortical system | 
							
								|  | Noritaka Ichinohe, Daniel Potapov, Kathleen S Rockland | 
							
								|  | Laboratory for Cortical Organization and Systematics, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako, Japan | 
							
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								| P21 | Layer and area specific gene expression profiling in developing rat cerebral cortex | 
							
								|  | Toshio Miyashita, Marie Wintzer, *Tomokazu Konishi, Noritaka Ichinohe, Kathleen S. Rockland | 
							
								|  | Lab. for Cortical Organization and Systematics, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN. | 
							
								|  | * Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University | 
							
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								| P22 | Truncated TrkB-T1 regulates the morphology of neocortical layer I astrocytes in adult rat brain slices | 
							
								|  | Koji Ohira,1,2 Nobuo Funatsu,1 Koichi J Homma,3 Yoshinori Sahara,1 Motoharu Hayashi,4 and Shun Nakamura1,2 | 
							
								|  | 1Department of Biochemistry and Cellular Biology, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan. | 
							
								|  | 2Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan. | 
							
								|  | 3Department of Molecular Pathology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Kanagawa, Japan. | 
							
								|  | 4Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Aichi, Japan. | 
							
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								| P23 | Dynamic role of inhibitory circuits in visual cortical plasticity. | 
							
								|  | Y. Yazaki-Sugiyama, K. Siu*, T. Fukai*, T. K. Hensch; | 
							
								|  | Lab for Neuronal Circuit Development, *Neural Circuit Theory, RIKEN BSI, Wako, JAPAN | 
							
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								| Poste IV   New Techniques in Cortical Microcircuitry Analysis | 
							
								| P24 | Efficient Gene Transduction in Neurons with Lentivirus by Improved Neuron-Specific Promoters | 
							
								|  | Hiroyuki Hioki1,, Hiroshi Kameda1, Hisashi Nakamura1, Taro Okunomiya1, Kohei Ohira1, Kouichi Nakamura1, 2, Masako Kuroda1, Takahiro Furuta1, Takeshi Kaneko1, 2 | 
							
								|  | 1Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan | 
							
								|  | 2 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (CREST), Kawaguchi, Japan | 
							
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								| P25 | Development of dendrite-targeting signals using lentivirus vectors with neuron-specific promoter | 
							
								|  | Hiroshi Kameda1, Hiroyuki Hioki1, Takahiro Furuta1, Koji Ohira1, Wakoto Matsuda1, Kouichi Nakamura1, 2, Takeshi Kaneko1, 2 | 
							
								|  | 1Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2CREST, JST | 
							
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								| P26 | Golgi-like Visualization of cortical neurons by virus vectors. | 
							
								|  | Ryohei Tomioka and Kathleen S. Rockland | 
							
								|  | Lab for Cortical Organization and Systematics, RIKEN BSI | 
							
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								| P27 | A Novel Genetic Method for Reversibly Inactivating Mammalian Neurons In Vivo | 
							
								|  | Yoshiaki Yamaguchi1, Elaine M. Tan1,3, Gregory D. Horwitz2, Thomas D. Albright2 and Edward M. Callaway1 | 
							
								|  | 1 Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, 2Vision Center Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA, 3Neurosciences Graduate Program, UCSD, La Jolla, USA | 
							
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								| Poster V   Physiological Analysis in Hippocampus | 
							
								| P28 | The effects of body temperature on hippocampal neural activity: control of membrane potential through TRPV4 activation | 
							
								|  | Koji Shibasaki1,2, Makoto Suzuki3, Atsuko Mizuno3, Makoto Tominaga1,2 | 
							
								|  | 1Section of Cell Signaling, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, 2Department of Physiological Sciences, The Graduated University for Advanced Studies, 3Department of Pharmacology, Jichi Medical University | 
							
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								| Poster VI   Anatomical Analysis in Basal Ganglia | 
							
								| P29 | Difference in Organization of Corticostriatal and Thalamostriatal Synapses between Patch and Matrix Compartments of Rat Neostriatum. | 
							
								|  | Fumino Fujiyama1, Tomo Unzai1, Kouichi Nakamura1,3, Sakashi Nomura2, and Takeshi Kaneko1,3 | 
							
								|  | 1Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 2Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN and 3CREST, JST. | 
							
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								| P30 | Axonal arborization of midbrain dopaminergic neurons: single-cell study | 
							
								|  | Wakoto Matsuda1, Takahiro Furuta1, Koichi Nakamura1,2, Takeshi Kaneko1,2 | 
							
								|  | 1 Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University 2 CREST | 
							
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								| P31 | Single cell tracing of thalamostriatal projection neurons with reference to patch and matrix compartments of rat striatum | 
							
								|  | Tomo Unzai1, Fumino Fujiyama1, Takeshi Kaneko1, 2 | 
							
								|  | 1Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2CREST, Japan |