Association for the
Study of Neurons
and Brain Diseases
14th International Conference of Neurons and Brain Diseases
Queenstown, New Zealand – November 20-22, 2019
November 19
Checking in the hotel
Free time for dinner (ask if you need recommendation)
November 20
Each speaker 15 min talk plus 5 min questions
8:45-9:00

Registration

9:00-11:00

Section 1: Synaptic Plasticity
Chair: Kaoru Inokuchi
Preservation of overall synaptic drive during synaptic plasticity
Rational engineering of XCaMPs, a next-generation Ca2+ indication
TBD
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and brain disorders
Synaptic Engram
The role of adenomatous polypsis coli-stimulated GEF 1 (Asef)1 in SynapticPlasticity

Cliff Abraham
Haruhiko Bito
Graham Collingridge
Zhengping JiaBong-Kiun Kaang
Hyong Kyu Kim

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-1:30

Pejmun Haghighi
Jianguo Gu

Section 2: Pain and emotion I
Chairs: Guang Yang
Neuropeptide-mediated gating of anxiety circuits
Mapping cortical connectivity during sensory behavior
Dopaminergic deficits in neuropathic cingulate cortex
In vivo imaging of pain-related changes of neuronal activity in the peripheraland central nervous system
TBD
Ion Channel Mechanisms of Rapid Conduction of Myelinated Nerves

1:30-2:30

Lunch break

Vadim Bolshakov
Ruth Empson
Philippe Séguéla
Guang Yang

2:30-4:30
Giannina Descalzi
Shinghua Ding
Yong-Seok Lee
Yi RenVanda Lennon
Junfang Wu

4:30-5:00

Section: Glia cells and functions
Chair: Long-Jun Wu
Lactate from astrocytes fuels learning-induced mRNA translation
GDNF in neuronal protection and brain recovery
Glia dysfunction and learning disability in RASopathy
The consequences of engulfment and processing of myelin debris by phagocytesin neural injury
Impact of Autoimmune Gliopathies on Neuronal Function
Rik of Dementia/Depression and Associated Inflammatory Mechanisms in Spinal
Cord InjuryCoffee break

500-6:20

Section: Brain Disease I
Chair: Mike Salter
Stephen Ferguson
mGluRs in Neurodegenerative disease
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa
Transcriptomic immaturity inducible by neural hyperexcitation is shared bymultiple neuropsychiatric disorders
Johanna Montgomery Synaptic dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Lu Yang Wang
Pathogenesis and Rescue of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
6:30-8:30

Wine reception and poster competition

Trainee posters:
1. Indranil Basak
2. Juliette Cheyne
3. Farida Emran
4. Mohamed Fasil Ibraham
5. Xuhui Li
6. Honghong Li
7. Renhao Liu
8. Jasmine Lock
9. Jingshan Lu
10. Zhuang Miao
11. Wun Chey Sin
12. Yukti Vyas
13. Zhaoxiang Zhou
Professor posters:
1. Kurt Haas: Comprehensive imaging of experience-driven structural and functional plasticity inthe developing brain
2. Brian Chen: A Drug Screening Platform to Increase Protein Expression Levels for NeurologicalDisorders
3. Kyungmin Lee: Role of Epac2 in inflammatory pain
4. Bai Chuang Shyu: Spontaneous high-current spikes in thalamocingulate pathways signaling painstates
5. Min Zhuo: Cortical plasticity in chronic pain and anxiety

November 21
9:00-11:00

Gerald Zamponi
Uhtaek Oh

Section 3: Pain and emotion IIChair: Yong-Seok Lee
A septo-hippocampal cholinergic neuraxis in pain
TBD
Establishing Drosophila as a model to study the roles of medicinal cannabinoids
in ageing, neurodegeneration and neuronal pruning
A brain circuit for neuropathic pain
The role of Tentonin 3 in Mediating the Baroreceptor reflex

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-1:30

Section: Brain Disease II
Chair: Lu yang Wang
Arginine metabolism and neurodegenerative disease
Neuronal atrophy in the hippocampus of Apswe/PS1dE9 mouse model ofAlzheimer's disease after overexpression of I1PP2A
Autophagic death of neural stem cells mediates chronic stress-induced declineof adult hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive deficits
Blood plasma microRNA as biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease progression
Ca2+ dependent regulation of Cav2-1 channel and Ataxia
Effects of Gabapentinoids on Suppressing Fatal Seizure Events in a ModelSUDEP

Sanjay Khanna
Mike Salter
Fengwei Yu

Ping Liu
Lucia Schweitzer
Seong-Woon Yu
Joanna Williams
Tuck Wah Soong
Terrance Snutch

1:30
Afternoon free activityLunch

November 22
9:00-11:00
Jin-Hee Han
Kaoru Inokuchi
Satoshi Kida
Xuehan Zhang
Yu Zhou
Jing Zhai

Section: Memory
Chair: Stephen Ferguson
Manipulation of fear memory allocation
Orchestrated ensemble activities constitute a hippocampal memory engram
Roles of hippocampus regulation of fear memory
Noradrenergic modulation of thalamofrontal neuron excitability andthalamofrontal connectivity contributes to cognition
Ghrelin/GHS-R signaling in memory storage and memory linking
Deletion of IQ-Domain RNA editing in CaV1.3 channel enhances spacial learningand memory

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-1:30
Simon Hippenmeyer
Stephanie Hughes

Xia Zhang
Cheng-Ting Chien

Section: Neuronal signaling Chair: Hongyan Wang
Principles of Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression
Approaches to understanding and correcting lysosome dysfunction inneurodegenerative disease
TMC1 and TMC2 proteins: pore-forming subunits of mechanosensitive ionchannels in hearing transduction
Top-down wake circuitry
Nrg/L1CAM alternative splicing isoforms in dendrite-epidermis interaction.

1:30-2:30

Lunch break

2:30-4:30

Section: Neuronal development, injury and circuits
Chair: Zhengping Jia
Control of synaptic function and color vision by IgSF9 family proteins
A neuronal molecular switch to regulate quiesent neural stem cells
Regulating neural stem cell homeostais
Detecting early brain changes in Parkinson'sBrain metabolism in the pathophysiology of obesity
Neuronal activity controls microglial dynamics via norepinephrine signaling inawake mice

Zhiqiang Yan

Yong RaoNan-Jie Xu
Hongyan Wang
Maurice Curtis
Eun-Kyoung Kim
Long-Jun Wu

4:30-5:00

Coffee Break

5:00-5:30

Overview of AND meetings, and future directions (Min)15th AND meeting (2020) Russia
Mol Brain (Tsuyoshi Miyakawa)Mol Pain (Min Zhuo)
Hello Bio (Graham Collingridge)
Poster awards (Satoshi Kida)
Investigator awards (Kaang, Zhuo and Kida)`

7:00-…

Banquet Dinner