Program

Day 1: March 9

USA - PST USA - EST Europe - CET Israel S Korea Speaker Title
9:00 12:00 18:00 19:00 2:00 (March 10) Welcome  

Session 1:
Chair: Ramen Saha, UC Merced

9:05 12:05 18:05 19:05 2:05 (March 10) Michael Greenberg,
Harvard Medical School
How nature and nurture conspire to regulate brain maturation and plasticity
9:55 12:55 18:55 19:55 2:55 (March 10) Jeremy Day,
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ghosts in the machine: Leveraging drugs of abuse to study experience-dependent transcriptional mechanisms
10:25 13:25 19:25 20:55 3:25 (March 10) Brenda Bloodgood,
UC San Diego

Functional consequences of NPAS4 expression

Session 2:
Chair: Gabriella Boulting, University of Massachusetts Medical School

11:10 14:10 20:10 21:10 4:10 (March 10) Yue Yang,
Northwestern University
Nuclear organization of brain-enriched genes in development and plasticity
11:40 14:40 20:40 21:40 4:40 (March 10) Anton Maximov,
Scripps Research
Harnessing experience-dependent transcription in a search for ultra-structural correlates of long-term memory
11:55 14:55 20:55 21:55 4:55 (March 10) Alison Barth,
Carnegie Mellon University
Activity-dependent gene expression and engrams for plasticity in sensory cortex
12:10 15:10 21:10 22:10 5:10 (March 10) Shigeki Iwase,
University of Michigan
Neuronal activity-dependent promoter selection

Day 2: March 10

USA - PST USA - EST Europe - CET Israel S Korea Speaker Title
5:00 8:00 14:00 15:00 22:00 Welcome  

Session 3:
Chair: Tal Laviv, Tel Aviv University

5:05 8:05 14:05 15:05 22:05 Tae-Kyung Kim,
POSTECH
Molecular insights into eRNA action during immediate early gene induction
5:35 8:35 14:35 15:35 22:35 Angel Barco,
Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC
Transcriptomic and epigenomic changes triggered by neuronal activation
6:05 9:05 15:05 16:05 23:05 Anne West,
Duke University
Epigenome editing of activity-regulated enhancers
6:20 9:20 15:20 16:20 23:20 Jennifer Phillips-Cremins,
University of Pennsylvania
Spatially coordinated heterochromatinization of distal unstable tandem repeats in fragile X syndrome

Session 4:
Chair: Stefano Brigidi, University of Utah School of Medicine

7:05 10:05 16:05 17:05 0:05 (March 11) Richard Tsien,
New York University

Synapse to nucleus and back again: activity-dependent feedback keeps neurons in tune

7:55 10:55 16:55 17:55 0:55 (March 11) Johannes Graeff,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Epigenetic priming of memory formation
8.25 11:25 17:25 18.25 1:25 (March 11) Yingxi Lin,
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Activity-dependent Mechanisms Underlying Postnatal Brain Development
8.40 11:40 17:40 18.40 1:40 (March 11) Ivo Spiegel,
Weizmann Institute of Science

Experience-dependent genomic regulation of sensory processing and circuit plasticity

Organizing committee

  • Ivo Spiegel
    Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Anne West
    Duke University
 

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