MCCS-Asia 2019 in Seoul
Data: September 19 (Thursday) – 20 (Friday)
Venue: Mok-Am Hall, Bldg #500, Seoul National University (SNU)

September 19
8:30 Opening- Satoshi Kida (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Session 1 (8:40 – 10:20)
Chair: Bong-Kiun Kaang (SNU, Korea)
Alcino Silva (UCLA, USA)
Mechanisms underlying the role of post-natal immune activation in psychiatric disorders
Kaoru Inokuchi (University of Toyama, Japan)
Organization of memory engram
Denise Cai (Mount Sinai, USA)The dynamic memory ensemble: changes across time and experience
Jin-Hee Han (KAIST, Korea)
Manipulation of fear memory allocation
Yong-Seok Lee (SNU, Korea)
Distinct cerebellar output networks modulating different emotional valences

Break (10:20-10:40)
Session 2 (10:40 – 12:20)
Chair: Hee-Sup Shin (IBS, Korea)
Eric Klann (NYU, USA)
Cell-type Specific Translation in Distinct Centrolateral Amygdala Interneurons is Required for
Emotional Memories
Haruhiko Bito (University of Tokyo, Japan)
TBA
Suk-Ho Lee (SNU, Korea)
Mossy fiber-dependent heterosynpatic regulation of perforant inputs in hippocampal CA3
pyramidal cells, and its computational perspectivesGuoqiang Bi (USTC, China)
High-throughput brain mapping with VISoR
Timothy Bredy (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia)
RNA modifications in learning and memory

Session 3 (13:30 – 15:10)
Chair: Satoshi Kida (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ted Abel (University of Iowa, USA)
Male-specific deficits in reward learning in mouse models for neurodevelopmental disorders
Mauro Costa-Mattioli (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)TBA
Kimiko Shimizu (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Mechanism of circadian regulation of hippocampus-dependent memory in mice
Anatol Kreitzer (UCSF, USA)
Striatum and motivation: a role for the indirect pathway in invigoration
Alain Chedotal (INSERM, France)
Function and evolution of commissural circuits

September 20
Session 4 (9:00 – 10:20)
Chair: Weidong Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Seung-Hee Lee (KAIST, Korea)
Neural circuits for vision-guided action
Noriko Osumi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Hypomethylated DNA of the sperm genome: a possible risk for neurodevelopmental diseases
Ja Wook Koo (KBRI, Korea)
Critical Role of Dopamine Signaling in Accumbal Cholinergic Interneurons for Compulsive
Cocaine Seeking
Hyoung Kim (SNU, Korea)
Long-term memory representation in the primate thalamus: A thalamic circuit for the faster
habitual action?
Break (10:20-10:40)

Session 5 (10:40 – 12:20)
Chair: Min Zhuo (University of Toronto, Canada)
Anna Beyeler (University of Bordeaux, France)
Valence and anxiety signals in neural populations of the amygdala and insula
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa (Fujita Health University, Japan)
Short- and long-term de-maturation and its molecular mechanism
Thomas McHugh (RIKEN, Japan)
A Hypothalamic Circuit for Novelty Processing
Angel Barco (University Miguel Hernández, Spain)
Immediate and deferred epigenomic signature of neuronal activation in hippocampal circuits
Hye Young Lee (UT Health Science San Antonio, USA)
Nonviral CRISPR-mediated gene editing in the mouse model of fragile X syndrome

Session 6 (13:30 – 15:10)
Chair: Yasunori Hayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Paul Frankland (Sickkids hospital, Canada)
Perineuronal nets regulate the emergence of memory specificity in development
Mazen Kheirbek (UCSF; USA)
Encoding of emotionally relevant cues in ventral hippocampal circuits
Sang Jeong Kim (SNU, Korea)
Graded sensory coding in the cerebellar climbing fiber
Michael Z Lin (Stanford, USA)
Revealing activity-dependent synaptic protein expression in Fragile X syndrome using
TimeSTAMP
Pojeong Park (SNU, Korea)
Calcium-Permeable AMPA Receptors Mediate the Increased Unitary Conductance during LTP
in the Hippocampus

Special Guests
Min Cho (Editor-in-Chief, Neuroscience Next)
Sarah Geisler (Scientific Editor, Cell)
Jerome Staal (Editor, Nature Communications)

Organizing Committee
Satoshi Kida, Bong-Kiun Kaang, Yong-Seok Lee, Jin-Hee Han
Organized by KSBNS synapse section, Seoul National University Interdisciplinary Program inNeuroscience, MCCS-Asia
Supported by Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation

Venue: Mok-Am Hall, Bldg #500, Seoul National University (SNU)SNU Hoam Faculty house