Developmental neurobiology

Section 1: Neural Induction, Pattern Formation, and Cell Specification Gary Schoenwolf: Neurulation Claudio Stern: Neural induction in chicks Lewis Wolpert: Morphogens: history Henk Roelink: Sonic Hedgehog and neural patterning James Brisco: Floor Plate patterning of ventral cell types: Ventral Patterning Richard Twyman: Wnt pathway and neural patterning Ethan Bier: Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling in the neuroectoderm Gregg Duester: Retinoic Acid Signaling and neural patterning Robb Krumlauf: Hox gene expression Jeremy Dasen: Anterior-posterior spinal cord patterning of the motor pool Michael Brand: Neural patterning: Midbrain-hindbrain boundary Cliff Ragsdale: Midbrain Patterning Luis Puelles: Forebrain Development: Prosomere Model Steve Wilson: Forebrain: early development Edwin Monuki: Forebrain Development: Holoprosencephaly Dennis O'Leary: Neural Patterning: Arealization of the Cortex Masarharu Noda: Neural patterning: eye fields Ajay Chitnis: Notch pathway: Lateral inhibition Gerry Weinmaster: Notch signal transduction: Molecular and cellular mechanisms Jane Johnson: Helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins: proneural Ryoichiro Kageyama: Helix-loop-helix proteins (bHLH):Hes family Larysa H. Pevny: Sox gene expression Sam Pfaff: Transcriptional networks and the spinal cord Richard Twyman: Transcriptional Silencing Sam Pfaff: Motor neuron specification in vertebrates Anthony Wynshaw-Boris: Lissencephaly Carrolee Barlow: Anatomy of the Mammalian Brain Gene Yeo: Terminal differentiation: REST Stefan Thor: Drosophila Apterous Neurons:from Stem Cell to Unique Neuron Arthur Butt: Macroglial lineages Arnon Rosenthal: Dopaminergic Differentiation Anne Calof: Olfactory neuron patterning and specification Bill Richardson: Oligodendrocyte Specification Matthew W Kelley: Hair cell differentiation Brian A. Link: Retinal Development: An Overview Michel Cayouette: Retinal Development: Cell Type Specification Tom Reh: Neural stem cells: ocular H.M. Young: Neural

Crest Rhona Mirsky: Schwann cell development R. Doug Fields: Schwann Cells and Axon Relationship Klaus-Armin Nave: Neural crest cell diversification and specification: ErbB role Michael Wegner: Neural crest diversification and specification:Transcriptional Control of Schwann cell differentiation Heinz Arnheiter: Neural crest cell diversification and specification: melanocytes Donald Newgreen: Autonomic nervous system development Peter G Smith: Autonomic Neuroplasticity:Development Michael Gershon: Enteric nervous system development Stephan Marc: Breedlove Sexual differentiation of the brain Richard B Simerly: Sexual Differentiation of the Central Nervous System Section 2: Axon Guidance and Synaptogenesis Dennis O'Leary: Chemoaffinity Hypothesis: Development of Topographic Axonal Projections Christine Holt: Topographic Maps: Molecular Mechanisms Geoffrey J Goodhill: Axonal Pathfinding Kang Shen: Axon guidance: Guidance cues and guidepost cells Andreas Faissner: Axon Guidance by Glia John H Martin: Corticospinal Development Fan Wang: Axon Guidance: Building Pathways with Molecular Cues in Vertebrate Sensory Systems Jonathan Raper: Growth Cones R.A. Rachel: Optic Nerve, Optic Chiasm and Optic Tracts Marla B Feller: Activity in visual development Martha Constantine-Paton: NMDA receptors and development Sansar Sharma: Optic Tectum: Development and plasticity Holly Cline: Dendrite Development, Synapse Formation and Elimination John B Thomas: Axon guidance: Morphogens as chemoattractants and chemorepellants Frederic Charron: Axonal pathfinding: guidance activities of sonic hedghog Marc Tessier-Lavigne: Axonal pathfinding: Netrins Darwin Paul C Letourneau: Axonal pathfinding: Extracellular matrix role Eunjoon Kim: Postsynaptic Development, neuronal (molecular scaffolds) Carlo Sala: Postsynaptic specialization assembly Noam Ziv: Presynaptic Development & Active Zones Ege T. Kavalali: Presynaptic development: functional and morphological organization Haig S Keshishian

Presynaptic development: functional and morphological organization Haig S Keshishian: Development of Drosophila neuromuscular junctions Clarke R. Slater: Neuromuscular junction (NMJ): mammalian development Michael J Werle: Neuromuscular junction (NMJ): postsynaptic basal lamina Hans R Brenner: Neuromuscular junction: neuronal regulation of gene transcription at the vertebrate Richard R. Ribchester: Neuromuscular junction: Synapse Elimination Chien-Ping Ko: Schwann cells and plasticity of the neuromuscular junction Nicola Allen: Glia and Synapse Formation: An Overview Yesekiel Ben-Ari: GABA-A receptors: developmental roles Section 3: Neurogenesis, Neurotrophism, and Regeneration Gordon Fishell: Cerebral cortex: symmetric vs. asymmetric cell division Anna Philpott: Differentiation:the cell cycle instead Ronald W Oppenheim: Programmed Cell Death Robert O Heuckeroth: Apoptosis: Autonomic nervous system Peter G.H. Clarke: Autophagy and neuronal death Mark H Tuszynski: Neurotrophins: physiology and pharmaco

Presynaptic development: functional and morphological organization Haig S Keshishian: Development of Drosophila neuromuscular junctions Clarke R. Slater: Neuromuscular junction (NMJ): mammalian development Michael J Werle: Neuromuscular junction (NMJ): postsynaptic basal lamina Hans R Brenner: Neuromuscular junction: neuronal regulation of gene transcription at the vertebrate Richard R. Ribchester: Neuromuscular junction: Synapse Elimination Chien-Ping Ko: Schwann cells and plasticity of the neuromuscular junction Nicola Allen: Glia and Synapse Formation: An Overview Yesekiel Ben-Ari: GABA-A receptors: developmental roles Section 3: Neurogenesis, Neurotrophism, and Regeneration Gordon Fishell: Cerebral cortex: symmetric vs -- asymmetric cell division Anna Philpott: Differentiation:the cell cycle instead Ronald W Oppenheim: Programmed Cell Death Robert O Heuckeroth: Apoptosis: Autonomic nervous system Peter G.H. Clarke: Autophagy and neuronal death Mark H Tuszynski: Neurotrophins: physiology and pharmacology M. Jill Saffrey: Enteric nervous system: neurotrophic factors Bernhard Reuss: Glial growth factors Fred H Gage: Neural stem cells: adult neurogenesis Gerd Kempermann: Neurogene…