Satellite workshop of the Japan Neuroscience Meeting : Okazaki 2006

July 24th - 26th, 2006 Okazaki Conference Center, Large conference room

PROGRAM   (oral presentation)

 

Monday, July 24 12:50 -   Opening Remarks   Yumiko Yoshimura

Afternoon session I   13:00 – 14:20
Physiological network connectivity in hippocampal microcircuitry   Gábor Tamás chair

S1  13:00 – 13:40    Yuji Ikegaya (Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Spontaneous activity and ongoing plasticity of CA3 recurrent networks

S2  13:40 – 14:20    Adi Cymerblit and Yitzhak Schiller （Technion, Israel）
Network dynamics during the development and maintenance of seizures in pilocarpine and picrotoxin treated rats

14:20 −14:45   Coffee break at Medium conference room

Afternoon session II   14:45 – 16:05
Anatomical network connectivity in hippocampal microcircuitry   Ichiro Fujita chair

S3  14:45 – 15:25    Ryuichi Shigemoto (NIPS, Okazaki)
Asymmetrical organization of glutamate receptors in left and right hippocampal synapses

S4  15:25 – 16:05    Shozo Jinno, Thomas Klausberger, Laszlo F. Marton, Yannis Dalezios, Pablo Fuentealba, Wai Yee Suen, Eric A. Bushong, Darrell Henze, György Buzsáki and Peter Somogyi
(Oxford Univ., UK: Hungarian University of Transylvania, Hungary: University of Crete, Greece: Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics. Greece: The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Novel long range GABAergic projections in the hippocampal formation and beyond

16:05 −16:30   Coffee break at Medium conference room

Afternoon session III   16:30 – 18:20
Network connectivity in cortical microcircuitry   Takao K Hensch chair

S5  16:30 – 17:40    Gábor Tamás, János Szabadics, Szabolcs Oláh, Gergely Komlósi, Pál Barzó, Gábor Molnár  (Univ. of Seged, Hungary)
Single spike triggered event sequences in networks of the human cerebral cortex in vitro

S6  17:40 – 18:20   Yasuo Kawaguchi　（NIPS, Okazaki）
Layer V pyramidal cell diversity and their synaptic connections

Evening   18:40 − 21:15
Welcome Party for invited speakers (Shokuin kaikan 2F Large meeting room in Myodaiji campus)

 

Tuesday, July 25

Morning session I   8:45 – 10:35
Plasticity in the visual cortex   Yukio Komatsu chair

S7  8:45 – 9:25    Yumiko Yoshimura (Nagoya Univ., Nagoya)
Functional roles of T-type Ca²⁺ channels in visual cortical plasticity

S8  9:25– 10:35    Takao K Hensch (RIKEN-BSI, Wako)
GABA circuit control of critical period plasticity in visual cortex

10:35 −11:00   Coffee break at Medium conference room

Morning session II   11:00 – 12:20
Microcircuitry in vivo   Kathleen Rockland chair

S9  11:00 – 11:40    Victoria M Puig, Mika Ushimaru, Yoshiyuki Kubota, Akiya Watakabe, Tetsuo Yamamori, Yuchio Yanagawa, Yasuo Kawaguchi (NIPS & NIBB, Okazaki, Gunma Univ., MIT, USA)
Cortico-striatal, cortico-raphe and fast-spiking cell activity in the rat frontal cortex during cortical oscillations in vivo: modulation by serotonin

S10  11:40 – 12:20    Ichiro Fujita (Osaka Univ., Osaka)
Functional and Anatomical Architecture of the Inferior Temporal Cortex

12:20 −13:20   Lunch at Medium conference room

Afternoon session I   13:20 – 15:50
Microcircuitry of inhibitory neurons   Sacha B Nelson chair

S11  13:20 – 14:30    Edward Callaway, Takuma Mori, Xiangmin Xu, Ian Wickersham, and David Lyon
(Salk Inst, USA)
Unraveling cell type and fine-scale specificity of cortical connections.

S12  14:30 – 15:10    Yukio Komatsu (Nagoya Univ., Nagoya)
A new form of inhibitory synaptic actions between nearby pyramidal neurons in visual cortex

S13  15:10 – 15:50    Fumitaka Kimura (Osaka Univ., Osaka)
Cholinergic control of cortical network and thalamocortical transmission

Get together photo 　15:50 – 16:10　outside of entrance（at entrance hall in case of rain）

Afternoon session II   16:10 – 18:00
Poster session  Small conference room on 2F
Coffee service at foyer of Small conference room on 2F

Evening   18:00 – 20:45
Banquet   Medium conference room

 

Wednesday, July 26

Morning session I   8:45 – 10:25
Anatomical aspects of cortical microcircuitry   Takeshi Kaneko chair

S14  8:45 – 9:45    Kathleen Rockland (RIKEN-BSI, Wako)
Cortical projection neurons: phenotypes and input maps

S15  9:45 – 10:25　  Takaichi Fukuda (Kyushu Univ,, Fukuoka)
Dendritic network of cortical interneurons linked by gap junctions

10:25 −10:50   Coffee break at Medium conference room

Morning session II   10:50 – 12:00
Synaptic integration along dendrite　　Yitzhak Schiller chair

S16  10:50 – 12:00    Jackie Schiller （Technion, israel）
Synaptic integration and plasticity within non-linear dendritic subunits

12:00 −13:00   Lunch at Medium conference room

Afternoon session   13:00 − 14:50
New aspects in cortical microcircuitry analysis　　Edward M Callaway chair

S17  13:00 − 13:40    Yoshiyuki Kubota, Fuyuki Karube, Yasuo Kawaguchi (NIPS, Okazaki)
Dendritic dimensions of cortical GABAergic nonpyramidal cells

S18  13:40 – 14:50    Sacha B Nelson (Brandeis Univ., USA)
Physiological Genomics of Cortical Circuits in Health and Disease

14:50 – 15:00   Closing Remarks   Yoshiyuki Kubota