Joint Japan – Australia – New Zealand symposium

Building a Functional Brain
Owen Glenn Building, The University of Auckland, New ZealandSaturday 29 January 2011

Proposed Program
Further information can be found atwww.sallyjayconferences.com.au/ans2011/satellite.html

7.55amQueries can be directed to:Mirelle Powell m.powell@auckland.ac.nz
Alison van Niekerk a.vanniekerk@uq.edu.au

Welcoming remarks

Session 1: Neurogenesis (Chairs: Perry Bartlett and Richard Faull)
8.00am – 8.25am“Activating and regulating precursors in the adult brain”

8.25am – 8.50am“Molecular mechanisms of neurogenesis, a key event in development
and maintenance of the brain”

Professor Perry Bartlett, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Noriko Osumi, Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate
School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

8.50am – 9.15am“Self-renewal and differentiation of neural progenitor cells in the developingmouse brain”
Professor Fumio Matsuzaki, RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

9.15am – 9.40am“Understanding neural cell function through targeted cell ablation in the CNS”

9.40am – 10.10am

Morning tea

10.10am – 10.35am“The role of Notch signaling in proliferation and differentiation of neuralstem cells”

Dr Toby Merson, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor Ryoichiro Kageyama, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

10.35am – 11.00am“Ndfip1 control of cell cycle during neurogenesis”

Dr Jason Howitt, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Australia

With grateful thanks to our sponsors:

11.00am – 11.25am“Compensatory striatal adult neurogenesis alters the temporal profile
of proneural transcription factors Dlx2 and Pax6 in SVZ-derived neural precursor cells”
A/Prof Bronwen Connor, University of Auckland, New Zealand11.25am – 11.50am“Neural stem cells: their involvement in adult neurogenesis and CNS-repair”

11.50am – 12.45pm

Lunch

Professor Hideyuki Okano, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan

Session 2: Axonal growth and development (Chairs: Jo Montgomery and Linda Richards)
12.45pm – 1.10pm“You are what your mother eats: Effects of maternal diet on fetal
hypothalamic circuitry development”
Dr Christine Jasoni, University of Otago, New Zealand

1.10pm – 1.35pm

Activity-dependent axon branching in cortical circuits”

Professor Nobuhiko Yamamoto, Osaka University, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Japan

1.35pm – 2.00pm“Mechanisms regulating commissure formation in the brain”

2.00pm – 2.25pm“Postsynaptic regulators of synaptic plasticity”

2.25pm – 2.50pm“Molecules and mechanisms behind the aetiology of multiple sclerosis”

2.50pm – 3.25pm

Afternoon tea

Professor Linda Richards, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Johanna Montgomery, University of Auckland, New ZealandProfessor Trevor Kilpatrick, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Australia

Session 3: Synaptic plasticity (Chairs: Seong-Seng Tan and Cliff Abraham)
3.25pm – 3.50pm“Formation of precerebellar nuclei in the hindbrain”

3.50pm – 4.15pm“Excitatory actions of GABA in the basal amygdala”

4.15pm – 4.40pm“Neocortical neuron types and local connectivity”

4.40pm – 5.05pm“Testing the metaplasticity predictions of the BCM model of synaptic change”

5.05pm – 5.30pm“Stopping at the lights: Visual-induced pauses in striatal cholinergicinterneurons”

Professor Fujio Murakami, Osaka University, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Japan

Professor Pankaj Sah, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Yasuo Kawaguchi, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan

Professor Cliff Abraham, University of Otago, New Zealand

Dr John Reynolds, University of Otago, New Zealand

5.30pmClosing remarks

With grateful thanks to our sponsors: