Frontiers in Synaptic Functions

The First Memorial Conference for Itzchak Parnas

ORGANIZERS:

Idan Segev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Micha Spira, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In this three-day conference, an international team of leading scientists, led by three Nobel prize laureates, will discuss recent developments in synaptic function at the molecular, cellular and neuronal-network levels.

Topics to be addressed:

– The short- and long-term cellular and molecular processes that are altered when synapses undergo activity-dependent modification and some pathological processes

– Recent breakthroughs in understanding signal transduction at the synapse, with a particular focus on G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs)

– The synapse in the context of network activity

SPEAKERS:

Uri Ashery, Tel Aviv University
Daphne Atlas, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yair Ben Chaim, The Open University of Israel
Daniel Gitler, Ben-Gurion University
Heidi Hamm, Vanderbilt University
Ehud Isacoff, UC Berkeley
Brian Koblika, Stanford University
Arthur Konnerth, TUM
Henry Lester, Caltech
Martyn Mahaut-Smith, University of Leicester
Erwin Neher, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
John Nicholls, SISSA
Hanna Parnas, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bert Sakmann, Max Planck Insitute of Neurobiology
Idan Segev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Inna Slutsky, Tel Aviv University
Haim Sompolinsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yosef Yarom, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Noam Ziv, Technion
Robert Zucker, UC Berkeley