Spinal cord formation, function, and beyond

March 11, 2025 - March 14, 2025

Spinal cord formation, function, and beyond

Registration

  • 2024-11-01 - Begin Accepting Applications
  • 2024-12-15 - Application Deadline
  • 2024-12-20 - Notification of Application Results
  • 2025-03-10 - Participants arrive in Okinawa
  • 2025-03-15 - Participants depart Okinawa
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About the Workshop

 This workshop explores how the spinal cord links sensation to action. Within this remarkable part of the nervous system, incoming sensory information is processed and filtered, and precise patterns of muscle activity are coordinated. The circuits that do this enable the full spectrum of behavior, from reacting to a painful insult to executing the complex movements necessary to play a musical instrument.

Talks will cover how the spinal cord forms, how sensory information flowing through neurons in the dorsal spinal cord shapes immediate motor responses and complex behaviors requiring supraspinal processing, and how ventral motor circuits orchestrate the activity of hundreds of muscles. The workshop will explore these systems through both developmental and functional lenses, examining how molecular organization during development establishes the adult neural architecture that enables sensorimotor integration. Injury or disease can cause debilitating sensory and movement deficits as diverse as the motor and sensory circuits they disrupt. Understanding the spinal cord promises therapeutic interventions to repair or reorganize damaged sensorimotor circuits. This workshop brings together world-class researchers to present cutting-edge findings on the spinal cord in health, injury, and recovery.

Participation fee: 100,000 JPY

Registration includes:
•    Participation in sessions
•    Accommodation is included. Participants will be hosted in shared double rooms at the Seaside Hotel or equivalent accommodations.
•    Coffee breaks
•    Meals during session days
•    Local sightseeing tours

Program

TBA

No events scheduled.

Speakers

  • Andrew Fink (Northwestern)
  • Andrew Miri (Northwestern)
  • Artur Kania (IRCM)
  • Carl Schoonover (Allen Institute)
  • Claude Desplan (NYU)
  • Dario Bonanomi (San Raffaele Scientific Institute) 
  • Eiman Azim (Salk)
  • Francisco Alvarez (Emory)
  • George Mentis (Columbia)
  • Hynek Wichterle (Columbia) 
  • Ivo Lieberam (College of London) 
  • James Briscoe (The Francis Crick Institute)
  • Jay Bikoff (St. Jude)
  • Jeremy Dasen (NYU)
  • Johan Ericson (Karolinska Institute)
  • Joriene De Nooij (Columbia)
  • Jun-An Chen (Academia Sinica)
  • Kazuhiko Seki (National Institute of Neuroscience)
  • Laskaro Zagoraiou (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens)
  • Lora Sweeney(Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
  • Martyn Goulding (Salk)
  • Marysia Placzek (Bateson Centre Wellcome Trust)
  • Niccolò Zampieri (Max Delbrück Center)
  • Ole Kiehn (University of Copenhagen)
  • Qiufu Ma (Westlake University)
  • Rob Brownstone (University College London)
  • Roberto Leiras(University of Copenhagen)
  • Sam Pfaff (Salk)
  • Samantha Butler (UCLA)
  • Sten Grillner (Karolinska Institute)
  • Takashi Sato (University of South Carolina)
  • Turgay Akay (Dalhousie)
  • Timothy Machado(University of Pennsylvania)
  • Ying Zhang (Dalhousie)
  • Yi-Ping Hsueh (Academia Sinica)
  • Yukiko Goto (University of Tokyo)
  • Yutaka Yoshida (OIST and BNI/Weill Cornell)
  • Zhigang He (Harvard)

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