Genetic Manipulation of Neuronal Activity
November 2 - 5, 2008

In recent years, a number of genetic reagents have been developed for the exogenous control of neural circuit activity. Naturally evolved light-gated ion channels and pumps, mutagenized temperature-sensitive synaptic transmission components, rationally designed photo-switches, and "orthogonal" drug—receptor pairs are only a few of the novel technologies unveiled. This meeting will bring together leaders in the field to highlight recent progress in tool development and applications.

• ORGANIZERS:

  Ehud Isacoff, University of California, Berkley
  
  Loren Looger, Janelia Farm Research Campus/ HHMI
  
  Julie Simpson, Janelia Farm Research Campus/ HHMI
  
  Karel Svoboda, Janelia Farm Research Campus/ HHMI

• INVITED PARTICIPANTS:

  David Anderson HHMI/ California Institute of Technology George Augustine Duke University Ernst Bamberg Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics Edward Boyden Massachusetts Institute of Technology Karl Deisseroth Stanford University Paul Garrity Brandeis University Peter Hegemann Humboldt-Universität Berlin Stefan Herlitze Case Western Reserve University Alla Karpova JFRC/ HHMI Toshi Kitamoto University of Iowa Rich Kramer University of California, Berkley Henry Lester California Institute of Technology Anselm Levskaya University of California, San Francisco Susana Lima Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory John Lin University of California, San Diego

  Gero Miesenboeck Yale University Georg Nagel University of Wuerzburg Mike Nitabach Yale University Leopoldo Petreanu JFRC/ HHMI Bryan Roth University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kristin Scott University of California, Berkeley John Spudich University of California, Berkeley Scott Sternson JFRC/ HHMI Dirk Trauner University of California, Berkley Roger Tsien HHMI/ University of California, San Diego Ben White National Institutes of Health Andrew Woolley University of Toronto Peer Wulff University of Aberdeen Bing Zhang University of Oklahoma Feng Zhang Stanford University

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