The 48th NIPS International Symposium“Neural circuitry and plasticity underlying brain function”
Okazaki Conference Center (OCC), Okazaki, Aichi
October 31 – November 2, 2017

ProgramOctober 31 (Tue)12:15 – 13:30

Registration

13:30 – 13:40

Opening remarks
Keiji Imoto (Director General, NIPS, Japan)

13:40 – 13:45

Introduction
Yumiko Yoshimura (NIPS, Japan)
Chair: Yoshio Hata (Tottori University, Japan)

Session 1:

Activity- and experience dependent developmental mechanisms

13:45 –14:20

S1-1 Yumiko Yoshimura (NIPS, Japan)“The roles of visual experience in the maturation of neural responses in theprimary visual cortex”

14:20 –14:55

S1-2 Kenichi Ohki (the University of Tokyo, Japan)“Gap junctions in postnatal excitatory neurons regulate spine density andresponse reliability”

14:55 – 15:10

Coffee Break
Chair: Takuji Iwasato (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)

15:10 – 15:45

S1-3 Madoka Narushima (NIPS, Japan)“The metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1 mediates
experience-dependent maintenance of mature synaptic connectivity in thedorsal lateral geniculate nucleus”

15:45 –16:20

S1-4 Nobuhiko Yamamoto (Osaka University, Japan)“Activity-dependent mechanisms for thalamocortical circuit formation”

16:20 – 16:35

Coffee BreakChair: Mariko Miyata (Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan)
Session 2:

Multimodal integration and plasticity

16:35 –17:10

S2-1 Patrick Kanold (University of Maryland, USA)
"Crossmodal induced refinement of auditory cortex circuits“

17:10 –17:45

S2-2 Seung-Hee Lee (KAIST, Korea)“Neural circuits for sensory integration”

Short Talk 1:
17:45 –18:00

Chair: Rie Kimura (NIPS, Japan)
ST1-1 Tzu-Huei Kao (the University of Tokyo, Japan)“Roles of synaptic activity in climbing fiber to Purkinje cell synapse
elimination in the developing cerebellum”

18:00 –18:15

ST1-2 Mieko Morishima (NIPS, Japan)“Pyramidal cell subtype-dependent inhibitory-excitatory circuits in layer 5 of therat frontal cortex”

18:15 –18:30

ST1-3 Eriko Kuramoto (Kagoshima University, Japan)“Local connections of excitatory neurons to parvalbumin-containing
interneurons in motor-associated cortical areas of mice”

18:30 –

Dinner for invited speakers & Discussion

November 1 (Wed))

Special Lecture 1
9:00 – 10:00

Chair: Yumiko Yoshimura (NIPS, Japan)

Edward M. Callaway (Salk Institute, USA)
“Imaging the mouse visual system: parallel pathways and visual cortical areas”

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee Break
Chair: Takeshi Yagi (Osaka University, Japan)

Session 3:

Molecular mechanisms for formation and elimination of neural circuits

10:15 – 10:50

S3-1 Denis Jabaudon (University of Geneva, Switzerland )"Dynamic control of neuronal diversity in the developing neocortex"

10:50 – 11:25

S3-2 Kazuo Emoto (the University of Tokyo, Japan)“Molecular and cellular basis for neurite remodeling in Drosophila”

11:25 – 12:00

S3-3 Tomomi Shimogori (RIKEN, Japan)“Activity dependent Btbd3 protein dynamics for selective dendrite
morphogenesis in developing neurons”

12:00 – 12:20

Group photo

12:20 – 13:30

Lunch with Discussion

Special Lecture 2
13:30 – 14:30

Chair: Yumiko Yoshimura (NIPS, Japan)

Haruo Kasai (the University of Tokyo, Japan)“Dopamine actions on the dendritic spines and conditioning behaviors”

14:30 – 14:45

Coffee Break

Short Talk 2:
14:45 – 15:00

Chair: Kenji Hayashi (NIPS, Japan)
ST2-1 Shin-ichi Higashijima (NIBB, Japan)“Axially-confined in vivo single-cell labeling by primed conversion using blue andred lasers with conventional confocal microscopes”

15:00 – 15:15

ST2-2 Ichiro Aoki (Nagoya University, Japan)“BK potassium channels resist premature memory overwriting inC. elegans”

15:15 – 15:30

ST2-3 Shuntaro Izawa (Nagoya University, Japan)“MCH neurons in the hypothalamus impairs memory during sleep”

15:30 – 15:45

ST2-4 Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)“Changes in appetitive associative strength and reward value modulate theIntrinsic excitability of nucleus accumbens neuronal ensembles”

15:45 – 18:00

Flash talk, Poster Session18:00 – 20:00

Party for all participantsNovember 2 (Thu)Chair: Junichi Nabekura (NIPS, Japan)
Session 4:

Learning and memory

9:00 –9:35

S4-1 Wenbiao Gan (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
“Dendritic branches are independent units for memory storage andgeneralization”

9:35 –10:10

S4-2 Masanori Murayama (RIKEN, Japan)“Top-down cortical circuit for perception and memory consolidation in mice”

10:10 –10:45

S4-3 Takaki Komiyama (UCSD, USA)
“Imaging neural ensembles during learning”

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee Break
Chair: Hiromu Yawo (Tohoku University, Japan)

Session 5:

Subcellular mechanisms for information processing

11:00 –11:35

S5-1 Hiroshi Kuba (Nagoya University, Japan)“Tonotopic differentiation of dendritic computation in sound localization circuit”

11:35 –12:10

S5-2 Yoshiyuki Kubota (NIPS, Japan)“The Diversity of Cortical Inhibitory Synapses”

12:10 – 12:15

Closing remarks
Yumiko Yoshimura (NIPS, Japan)

Poster Presentations
P1, ST1-1
Roles of synaptic activity in climbing fiber to Purkinje cell synapse elimination in the developing
cerebellum
Tzu-Huei Kao, Kyouko Matsuyama, Naofumi Uesaka & Masanobu Kano
P2, ST1-2
Pyramidal cell subtype-dependent inhibitory-excitatory circuits in layer 5 of the rat frontal cortex.
Mieko Morishima & Yasuo Kawaguchi
P3, ST1-3
Local connections of excitatory neurons to parvalbumin-containing interneurons inmotor-associated cortical areas of mice
Eriko Kuramoto, Hiroyuki Hioki, Yasuhiro R Tanaka, Haruki Iwai, Atsushi Yamanaka, Tetsuya Goto& Takeshi Kaneko
P4, ST2-1
Shin-ichi Higashijima, Atsushi Taniguchi, Yukiko Kimura & Shigenori Nonaka
Axially-confined in vivo single-cell labeling by primed conversion using blue and red lasers withconventional confocal microscopes
P5, ST2-2
BK potassium channels resist premature memory overwriting in C. elegans
Ichiro Aoki, Michihiro Tateyama, Takushi Shimomura, Kunio Ihara, Yoshihiro Kubo & Ikue Mori
P6, ST2-3
MCH neurons in the hypothalamus impairs memory during sleep
Shuntaro Izawa, Ryo Inoue, Srikanta Chowdhury, Yasutaka Mukai & Akihiro Yamanaka
P7, ST2-4
Changes in appetitive associative strength and reward value
modulate the Intrinsic excitability of nucleus accumbens neuronal ensembles
Joe Ziminski, Meike Sieburg, Sabine Hessler, Gabriella Margetts-Smith, Hans S Crombag &Eisuke Koya

P8
Development of the photoactivatable depalmitoylating enzyme to manipulate PSD-95
palmitoylation states
Takashi Kanadome, Norihiko Yokoi, Yuko Fukata & Masaki Fukata
P9
Down-regulation of Calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase (CASK) disrupts
excitatory-inhibitory balance of synapses by down-regulation of GluN2B.
Takuma Mori, Enas Ahmed Fathalla Kasem, Xueshan Cao, Xue Li, Taiga Kurihara, Takeshi
Uemura, Toru Yanagawa & Katsuhiko Tabuchi
P10
Patterned neuronal activity increases BDNF promoter activity in upper layer neurons of thedeveloping cortex
Yumi Miyasaka & Nobuhiko Yamamoto
P11
DNA polymerase β is required for active DNA demethylation in postnatal development of corticalneurons
Akiko Uyeda, Noriyuki Sugo, Kohei Onishi, Teruyoshi Hirayama, Takeshi Yagi & NobuhikoYamamoto
P12
Long-term in vivo imaging of neonates reveals a dynamic mechanism of dendritic refinement ofcortical neuronShingo Nakazawa, Hidenobu Mizuno & Takuji Iwasato
P13
Three transgenic reporter rat strains for connectomics and optogenetics studies of the brain.
Hiroyuki Igarashi, Keiko Ikeda, Hiroshi Onimaru, Ryosuke Kaneko, Kyo Koizumi, Kaoru Beppu,
Kayo nishizawa, Ko Matsui, Kazuto Kobayashi, Yuchio Yanagawa, Shin-Ichi Muramatsu, Toru
Ishizuka, Hiromu Yawo
P14
Cross-modal reorganization of the whisker-barrel conditioning–optogenetic analysis
Kenta Abe & Hiromu Yawo

P15
Distant area-targeting axonal branches of layer 2/3 neurons develop more rapidly than locallytargeting branches in mouse neocortex
Yuichiro Oka, Yuka Lin, Sheena Y.X. Tiong, Miyuki Doi, Tatsuya Sasaki, Tokuichi Iguchi & Makoto
Sato
P16
Targeting enveloped viruses to multiple, distinct populations for neural circuit analysis.
Toshiaki Suzuki & Fumitaka Osakada
P17
Balanced inhibition controls the output of neurons tuned to low-frequency sound at avian cochlear
nucleusMohammed AL-Yaari，Rei Yamada & Hiroshi Kuba
P18
Parvalbumin-positive interneurons regulate neuronal ensembles in visual cortexMasakazu Agetsuma, Jordan P. Hamm, Kentaro Tao, Shigeyoshi Fujisawa & Rafael Yuste
P19
Functional analysis of layer 5 microcolumns in mouse primary visual cortex
Taisuke Yoneda, Hisato Maruoka, Seiichiro Sakai, Nao Nakagawa & Toshihiko Hosoya
P20
Connexin-43 in postnatal excitatory neurons regulate spine density and reliable response
Kenji Hayashi & Kenichi Ohki
P21
Multiscale Calcium imaging in visual cortex of marmoset monkeys
Takayuki Hashimoto, Masato Uemura, Teppei Matsui, Tomonari Murakami & Kenichi Ohki
P22Visual experience is required for establishing feature-selective synchronization in the upper but
not lower layer in primary visual cortex
Ayako W Ishikawa, Yukio Komatsu & Yumiko Yoshimura

P23
Influence of the postnatal experience on the cortical neural connections predetermined by thegene-regulation during the embryonic stage.
Etsuko Tarusawa, Makoto Sanbo, Masumi Hirabayashi, Takeshi Yagi & Yumiko Yoshimura
P24
Developmental role of endocannabinoids for binocular correspondence in mouse visual cortex
Katsuro Kameyama, Taisuke Yoneda, Takahiro Gotou, Keiko Terata, Kenji Sakimura, Masanobu
Kano & Yoshio Hata
P25
Revealing a ventral stream extending to temporal cortex in mice
Nana Nishio, Hiroaki Tsukano, Atsushi Aiba, Manabu Abe, Meiko Kawamura, Kenji Sakimura,
Junichi Nakai & Katsuei Shibuki
P26
Corticocortical projection-dependent subcircuits in layer 2/3 of rat frontal cortex
Yoshifumi Ueta & Yasuo Kawaguchi
P27
Conserved properties of dendrites in pyramidal cell
Alsayed A. Mohamed, Noboru Yamaguchi, Sayuri Hatada, Hiroko Kita, Joachim Lübke,Yasuo Kawaguchi & Yoshiyuki Kubota
P28
Direct corticomotoneuronal connections are transiently formed in a juvenile subprimate mammal:
phylogenic implication
Naoyuki Murabe, Takuma Mori, Satoshi Fukuda, Noriko Isoo, Takae Ohno, Hiroaki Mizukami,
Keiya Ozawa, Yumiko Yoshimura & Masaki Sakurai
P29
Cortical astrocytes prime the induction of spine plasticity and mirror image pain
Kei Eto, Tatsuya Ishikawa & Junichi Nabekura

P30
Downregulation of KCC2 accelerates motor functional recovery after axonal injury
Takuya Toda & Junichi Nabekura
P31
Melanin-concentrating hormone neurons negatively regulates hippocampal pyramidal cells andmemory
Srikanta Chowdhury, Shuntaro Izawa & Akihiro Yamanaka
P32Olfactory neural circuits involved in physiological changes
Kunio Kondoh, Zhonghua Lu, Xiaolan Ye, David P. Olson, Bradford B. Lowell & Linda B. Buck
P33
Tuning properties of goldfish olfactory receptor neurons to food odors and sex pheromones
Koji Sato & Peter W. Sorensen