External Event - 16th to 20th Jul 2020
Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2020
Organizers:
Nicola Allen, Salk Institute
David Lyons, University of Edinburgh, UK
We are pleased to announce the eighth summer conference on Glia in Health & Disease, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, and will conclude with lunch on Monday, July 20, 2020.
The proposed meeting will assemble the leaders in the field, together with junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, to discuss new, cutting-edge developments in the study of all aspects of glial biology in health and disease.
Sessions & Co-Chairs:
Glial Development & Plasticity
Shai Shaham, Rockefeller University
Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan
Glial-Neuron Interactions in Glial Maturation
Sergiu Pasca, Stanford University
Benjamin Deneen, Baylor College of Medicine
Glial Regulation of Neuronal Function
Vassilis Pachnis, Medical Research Council, London, United Kingdom
Christian Klämbt, University of Muenster, Germany
Glial Responses in Injury, Disease, and Repair
Elly Hol, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Alison Lloyd, University College London, United Kingdom
Glial-Vasculature Interactions
Brian MacVicar, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jessica Filosa, Augusta University
Myelination in Neuronal Circuit Development and Plasticity
Kelly Monk, Vollum Institute
Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Glial-Glial Interactions
Dorothy Schafer, University of Massachusetts
Anna Molofsky, University of California, San Francisco
Glial Control of Circuits & Behavior
Misha Ahrens, Janelia Research Campus
Dwight Bergles, Johns Hopkins University
Panel Discussion: Careers in Glial Biology
Nicola Allen, Salk Institute
Patrizia Casaccia, The City University of New York
Harald Sontheimer, Virginia Tech
Hui-Hsin Tsai, Biogen
Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
The format of the meeting will include eight oral sessions and two poster sessions. Each oral session will include invited speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts. For this reason, abstracts from accomplished junior and senior investigators are warmly invited.
Of particular note for trainees, the keynote session will be composed of exclusively trainee (graduate student and postdoc) talks in order to highlight the many important advances made by trainees to our field. This session also serves to honor the memory and contributions of Dr. Ben Barres, who advanced the field not only with his seminal discoveries but also by his tireless and selfless mentoring of and advocacy for junior scientists.
As usual at Cold Spring Harbor meetings, abstracts of both poster and platform sessions will be published in an abstract book. The abstracts should focus on new and unpublished data. The organizers will select abstracts for oral or poster presentations. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site (below) as soon as decisions have been made. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs.
