Shanghai Symposium of Neurosci

Third Shanghai Symposium of Neurosciences
June 4, 2004, Lecture Hall of SIBS Building, 320, Yue Yang Road

Morning Session (Chair : Mu-ming Poo)

09:00—09:50Dr. Morgan Sheng
Menicon Professor of Neuroscience,MIT, USA
Title: "Molecular mechanisms of synapse development and plasticity."

09:50—10:40Dr. Tomas Hoekfelt
Professor of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Title: “NPY-a multifunctional peptide”

10:40—11:00break

11:00—11:50Dr. Corey Goodman
Professor, U.C. Berkeley & CEO, Renovis, Inc., USA.
Title: “From initial concept to initial public offering and beyond: the making and morphing of a neuroscience biotechnology company”

11:50—12:30Dr. Sandra Aamodt
Editor, Nature Neuroscience, USA
Title: “How to write a scientific paper: an editor’s view”

Afternoon Session (Chair : Chien-ping Wu)

13:30—14:20Dr. Tobias Bonhoeffer
Director, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Title: “Competing for memory: new functional & molecular aspects of synaptic plasticity”

14:20—15:10Dr. Martha Constantine-Paton
Professor of Biology,MIT, USA
Title: “Parameters Controlling LTP In the Developing Visual Pathway”

15:10—15:30break

15:30—16:20Dr. Mu-ming Poo
Director, Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai
Professor & Head
Division of Neurobiology, U.C. Berkeley
Title: “Spread of synaptic potentiation/depression in neural circuits”

16:20—17:30Plenary Lecture
Dr. Robert Horvitz
Professor of Biology,MIT, (Nobel Laureate), USA
Title: “The Genetic Control of Programmed Cell Death in Caenorhabditis elegans."

都是牛人，可是我在北京，太远了，去不了，可惜。的确，正如别人所说，上海是中国最有可能出科学大师的地方，佩服佩服