9:00 a.m.:
Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D., Frederick P. Rose Professor and head, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, Welcoming Remarks
9:15 a.m.:
Evan Eichler, Ph.D., University of Washington; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Genome Structural Variation, Disease and the Evolution of the Human Genome
9:55 a.m.:
Michael Greenberg, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Control Brain Development and Function
11:05 a.m.:
Susan Ackerman, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; UC San Diego School of Medicine; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Transfer RNAs as Genetic Modifiers of Neurological Dysfunction
11:45 a.m.:
Catherine Dulac, Ph.D., Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular and Neural Architecture of Social Homeostasis
12:25 p.m.:
Lily Jan, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, From Chromosome Walk to Endogenous Channel Structure
2:20 p.m.:
Erin Schuman, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, The Central Dogma De-centralized: Protein Synthesis at Synapses
3:00 p.m.:
Michael Wigler, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Gender Influences Autism Incidence
4:10 p.m.:
Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Nucleotides in Neurons: How Somatic Mutations Record a Neuron’s Life History
4:50 p.m.:
Steven Siegelbaum, Columbia University, Closing Remarks