CHARLES F. STEVENS CONFERENCE

Charles F. Stevens, distinguished professor emeritus in Salk’s Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory and research scientist and advisory board member for the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego passed away last fall, leaving behind a legacy of scientific excellence in exploring and understanding the scalable architecture of the brain. His work continues to inspire and challenge other accomplished neuroscientists, many of whom will present talks commemorating Stevens during this special conference at the Salk Institute.

PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, MAY 4, 12:30 – 5:00 PM – Salk Institute, Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium

12:30 p.m.	Welcoming remarks and introduction
12:40 p.m.	Computing through a genomic bottleneck Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1:00 p.m.	Astrocytes shape the variability of synaptic strengths in the hippocampus Yukiko Goda, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
1:20 p.m.	Ghost pathways via protein S-Nitrosylation injure synapses in Alzheimer’s Disease Stuart Lipton, Scripps Research
1:40 p.m.	The five steps to giving a good talk: life lessons and science with Chuck John Bekkers, Australian National University
2:00 p.m.	Break
2:30 p.m.	Keynote: My journey with Chuck and identifying principles of brain organization Shyam Srinivasan, Salk Institute, UC San Diego, and Scripps Research
3:10 p.m.	Neurocomputing, a primer Daniel Gardner, Cornell University
3:40 p.m.	Intersectional mapping of glutamate/GABA co-transmission neurons in the brain Yongling Zhu, Northwestern University
4:10 p.m.	Chuck Stevens: Short-term plasticity, long-term impact Lynn Dobrunz, University of Alabama at Birmingham
4:40 p.m.	Neurotransmitter switching – thanks to Chuck Nicholas Spitzer, UC San Diego

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM

8:30 a.m.	Modular presynaptic architecture for decoding and storing information John Wesseling, Institute for Neurosciences, Research Council of Spain
9:00 a.m.	Boltzmann, Marx, Stevens and noise in the Yale laboratory Frederick Sigworth, Yale University
9:20 a.m.	What does a neuron do? A new model for Neuroscience and AI Dmitri Chklovskii, Simons Foundation and New York University
9:50 a.m.	Functionally distinct subdomains of dopamine in the hippocampus Edward Han, Washington University in St. Louis
10:10 a.m.	Ligand elicited conformational states of nicotinic receptor Palmer Taylor, UC San Diego
10:30 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	Channels, synapses and principles of CFS Richard Tsien, New York University
11:30 a.m.	Strategies for restoring plasticity to the adult visual system Sunil Ghandi, UC Irvine
12:00 p.m.	How blood flows in the brain: A merge of physiology and physics in the style of Chuck Stevens David Kleinfeld, UC San Diego
12:30 p.m.	Lunch and remembrances
1:20 p.m.	The intrinsic geometry of brain activity: From single neurons to whole brains Gerald Pao, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
1:50 p.m.	And the third thing is … Donald Lo, European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS)
2:10 p.m.	Chuck Stevens’ view on the role of theory in biology Tatanya Sharpee, Salk Institute
2:30 p.m.	What I learned from Chuck Stevens at the tea table Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute
2:45 p.m.	Chuck’s early years (1963-1980) William Calvin, University of Washington
3:30 p.m.	Celebration of Life Reception

In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes donations to the Charles F. Stevens Memorial Neuroscience Research Award at the Salk Institute, which was established to provide research grants to graduate students working in the field of neuroscience at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute.