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SALK-IPSEN SYMPOSIUM on BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY:
Sensory Systems: Smell, Taste, Touch, Hearing and Vision
January 13-15, 2010
| Wednesday, January 13 | ||
| 12:00 pm | Registration opens | |
| 3:45 pm | Opening Remarks (William Brody & Inder Verma) | |
| 4:00 pm | The Sydney Brenner Nobel Lecture: Martin Chalfie (open to all, no registration needed) Introduction by Sreekanth Chalasani |
C. elegans Mechanosensation: From Sluggish Worms to Transduction Complexes |
| 5:00 pm | Reception | |
| 7:00 – 10:00 pm | Session 1 – Pain & Touch (Mechanotransduction I) Chair: David Julius (UCSF) |
From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway |
| 7:40 pm | Ching Kung (University of Wisconsin) | The molecular basis of mechanosensations |
| 8:15 pm | Jorg Grandl (short talk) | The Thermosensor TRPV1 Requires the Pore Domain to Amplify its Temperaturesensitivity |
| 8:30 pm | BREAK | |
| 8:45 pm | Stephen Waxman (Yale) | Friend or Foe: Sodium Channels and Pain |
| 9:25 pm | Marta Ceko (short talk) | Anatomical and Functional Brain Networks in a Female Lacking Large Myelinated Afferents |
| 9: 40 pm | M. Catherine Bushnell (McGill University) | Altered central nervous system processing in chronic pain |
Thursday, January 14 |
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| 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am | Session 2 – Hearing (Mechanotransduction II) Chair: David Corey (Harvard) |
Micromechanics of transduction in hair cells |
| 9:40 am | Stefan Heller (Stanford) | Making hair cells |
| 10:20 am | Alice Witney (short talk) | From Simple to Complex Auditory Behaviour: Kinematics of Phonotactic Steering in the Cricket |
| 10:35 am | BREAK | |
| 10:50 am | Andrew King (Oxford) | Learning to Localize Sound |
| 11:30 am | James M. Jeanne (short talk) | Learning and Reward Increase Populationcoding Efficacy in the Auditory Forebrain |
| Cynthia F. Moss (University of Maryland) | Active listening in a complex acoustic scene |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch and Poster Session | |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner | |
| 7:00 pm | Session 3 – Olfaction (Chemical Sensors I) Chair: Linda Buck (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) |
Olfactory Mechanisms in Mammals |
| 7:40 pm | Richard Axel (Columbia) | Representations of Odor in the Piriform Cortex |
| 8:15 pm | C. Ron Yu (short talk) | Functional Organization of the Mammalian Olfactory Glomeruli |
| 8:30 pm | BREAK | |
| 8:45 pm | Leslie Vosshall (Rockefeller) | Blood Lust: The Control of Mosquito Host- Seeking Behavior |
| 9:25 pm | Hugh Robertson (short talk) | How Do Moth Pheromone Receptors Evolve? |
| 9:40 pm | Hitoshi Sakano (University of Tokyo) | Neural Map Formation in the Mouse Olfactory System |
Friday, January 15 |
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| 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am | Session 4 – Taste (Chemical Sensors II) Chair: Charles Zuker (Columbia) |
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| 9:40 am | Kristin Scott (UC Berkeley) | Taste recognition in Drosophila |
| 10:15 am | BREAK | |
| 10:30 am | Claire Murphy (short talk) | Central Processing of Gustatory Stimuli of Different Qualities: Differential fMRI Activation in Brain Regions of Interest |
| 10:45 am | Session 5- Vision Chair: Tom Albright (Salk Institute) |
Sensory adaptation to environmental change |
| 11:25 am | Markus Meister (Harvard) |
Neural computations in the retina |
| 12:15 pm | Satchidananda Panda (short talk) | Melanopsin and Melanopsin Expressing RGCs Constitute a Novel Sensory System in Mammals |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch/Poster session | |
| 2:00 pm | Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck) | Electrical Microstimulation and fMRI |
| 2:40 pm | Leslie Ungerleider (NIMH) | The functional architecture of face processing in the primate brain |
| 3:20 pm | Hugh Robertson (short talk) | Why does Daphnia have 46 opsins? |
| 3:35 pm | BREAK | |
| 3:50 pm | Constance Cepko (Harvard) | Strategies to prevent photoreceptor degeneration |
| 4:30 pm | Jean Bennett (University of Pennsylvania) | Effect of age on restoration of vision in congenital blindness |
| 5:30 – 6:30 pm |
Reception | |
| 7:00pm | Gala Dinner | Lecture by Chuck Stevens |