Assembly, Plasticity, Dysfunction
and Repair of Neural Circuits
Suzhou, China
October 17 - 21, 2011

Organizers:
Barry Dickson, IMP, Austria
Zhigang He, Children's Hospital, Boston, USA
Hitoshi Okamoto, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Yimin Zou, University of California, San Diego, USA

We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Assembly, Plasticity, Dysfunction and Repair of Neural Circuits which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday October 17th, and will conclude after lunch on Friday October 21st, 2011.

This conference retains the essence of the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor NY meetings series, a program now in its 76th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings in neural circuits. The invited keynotes and session speakers will be presenting cutting edge discoveries in the area of circuit development and circuit function.

We encourage participants from around the world to apply for this meeting and will select a small number of short presentations to be included in our sessions. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit http://www.csh-asia.org/stipends.html .

Major Topics:
- Neurogenesis
- Axon guidance
- Synapse formation
- Dendrite morphogenesis
- Developmental plasticity
- Circuit function
- Axon regeneration
- Developmental and degenerative disorders

For more detailed info, please visit www.csh-asia.org or write to meetings@csh-asia.org

Keynote Speakers
Cori Bargmann,The Rockefeller University
Don Cleveland,University of California, San Diego

Invited Speakers
Frank Bradke,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Lu Chen, Stanford University
Andrew Chisholm,University of California, San Diego
Thomas Clandinin, Stanford University
Gabriel Corfas,Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Barry Dickson,Institute of Molecular Pathology
Kazuo Emoto, Osaka Bioscience Institute
Florian Engert, Harvard University
Guoping Feng, MIT
Zhigang He,Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Takao Hensch,Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Hailan Hu,Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai
Alexandra Joyner,Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Masanobu Kano, Tokyo University
Ruediger Klein, Max Planck Institute Munich
Alex Kolodkin, Johns Hopkins Medical School
Stefan Leutgeb,University of California, SanDiego
Liqun Luo, Stanford University
Zach Mainen,Champalimaud Institute of Neuroscience
Hitoshi Okamoto,Riken Brain Science Institute
Jeroen Pasterkamp,University Medical Center Utrecht
Dietmar Schmucker, University of Leuven
Kristin Scott, University of California, Berkeley
Kang Shen, Stanford University
Sangram Sissodia, The University of Chicago
Hong-Jun Song, Johns Hopkins Medical School
Nicholas Spitzer,University of California, San Diego
Fan Wang, Duke University
Weimin Zhong, Yale University
Yimin Zou, University of California, San Diego