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Technological advances in the last decade strongly suggest that bringing the fields of Cell Biology and Evolutionary Biology together into an integrated field of Evolutionary Cell Biology (ECB) will dramatically increase our understanding of cell biological structures, functions, and processes, while also providing deep insights into the mechanisms of evolutionary change. This meeting brings together experts in evolutionary biology, cell biology, and a range of other disciplines to address 1) the application of evolutionary perspectives and methodology to aid in elucidating the structure, function and mechanisms of cellular processes, and 2) the study of cell biological diversity to gain insight into the mechanisms of evolution and the history of life on earth.
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Frances Brodsky, University of California, San Francisco
Nicole King, HHMI/University of California, Berkeley
Harmit Malik, HHMI/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Dyche Mullins, HHMI/University of California, San Francisco
Invited Participants
Ginger Armbrust, University of Washington
Monica Bettencourt-Dias, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia
Joel Dacks, University of Alberta
Scott Dawson, University of California, Davis
Damien Devos, Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Allan Drummond, University of Chicago
Michael Eisen, HHMI/University of California, Berkeley
Nels Elde, University of Utah
Mark Field, University of Dundee
Holly Goodson, University of Notre Dame
Rebecca Heald, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Lynch, Indiana University Bloomington
Wallace Marshall, University of California, San Francisco
Andrew Murray, Harvard University
Daniel Needleman, Harvard University
James Nelson, Stanford University
José Pereira Leal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia
Joseph Pogliano, University of California, San Diego
Natasha Raikhel, University of California, Riverside
Margaret Robinson, University of Cambridge
David Roos, University of Pennsylvania
Shelley Sazer, Baylor College of Medicine
Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School
Mukund Thattai, National Centre for Biological Sciences
Joseph Thornton, University of Chicago
Aaron Turkewitz, University of Chicago
Ajit Varki, University of California, San Diego
This meeting is a follow-up to the first one held at Janelia in 2008, and the second in Berlin in 2012. Force-gated ion channels, activated by direct mechanical force, have been found to be involved in both mechanosensation (hearing, touch, proprioception) and osmosensation. Many questions still remain as to the molecular identities of the proteins that form these channels, the nature of the accessory proteins that help convey energy to the channels, channel interaction with plasma membrane lipids, and the molecular events by which force leads to channel opening. This small workshop brings together experts from around the world working in various model systems to address these questions, with the goal of better understanding the gating mechanism and identifying channel linking proteins and enabling lipids. Building on the current momentum in the field, we look forward to vigorous discussions and presentations on recent progress, including newly identified channels and their structural and functional properties.
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David Corey, HHMI/Harvard Medical School
Miriam Goodman, Stanford University
Invited Participants
Martin Chalfie, Columbia University
Alexander Dunn, Stanford University
David Ginty, HHMI/Harvard Medical School
Martin Göpfert, University of Göttingen
Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis
Jeffrey Holt, Boston Children's Hospital
A. James Hudspeth, HHMI/The Rockefeller University
Yuh-Nung Jan, HHMI/University of California, San Francisco
Ching Kung, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Gary Lewin, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Ellen Lumpkin, Columbia University
Rod MacKinnon, HHMI/The Rockefeller University
Ulrich Mueller, Scripps Research Institute
Ardem Patapoutian, HHMI/Scripps Research Institute
Anthony Ricci, Stanford University School of Medicine
Marcos Sotomayor, Ohio State University
Sergei Sukharev, University of Maryland
Dan Tracey, Duke University
Valeria Vasquez, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Viola Vogel, ETH Zurich
The neural circuits underlying motivation have been an important question in neuroscience for over 100 years. Multiple approaches have been applied to study motivation, focusing on circuits for both natural and learned behaviors. This conference brings together researchers with diverse perspectives on this topic. We will discuss different approaches and outlooks on motivation in order to better understand the circuits underlying behavioral intent and intensity.
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Robert Malenka, Stanford University School of Medicine
Scott Sternson, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
David Anderson, HHMI/California Institute of Technology
Kent Berridge, University of Michigan
Antonello Bonci, National Institutes of Health
Jeremiah Cohen, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rui Costa, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
Karl Deisseroth, HHMI/Stanford University
Gul Dolen, Johns Hopkins University
Joshua Dudman, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Howard Fields, University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey Friedman, Rockefeller University
Ann Graybiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ulrike Heberlein, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Lora Heisler, University of Aberdeen
Okihide Hikosaka, National Institutes of Health
Tamas Horvath, Yale University
Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins University
Julie Kauer, Brown University
Paul Kenny, Scripps Research Institute - Florida
Anatol Kreitzer, University of California, San Francisco
Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva
Andreas Lüthi, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Richard Palmiter, HHMI/University of Washington
Bernardo Sabatini, HHMI/Harvard University
Wolfram Schultz, University of Cambridge
Kristin Scott, HHMI/University of California, Berkeley
Nirao Shah, University of California, San Francisco
Ron Stoop, Universite de Lausanne
Garret Stuber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kay Tye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Naoshige Uchida, Harvard University
Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford
Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley
Topics for this next conference will include (but are not limited to) computational mechanisms, color vision, development, motion vision, navigation, and attention, predominantly in insects. Within each topic, talks will investigate the function of the insect visual system at a computational, neural and behavioral level, with a focus on the relationship between structure and function. We will also bring in a number of talks providing historical and comparative perspectives. The meeting will bring together leading scientists working in these areas to provide an open forum for vigorous discussion of novel approaches and recent results, providing insights into visual system function.
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Tom Clandinin, Stanford University
Karin Nordström, Uppsala University
Michael Reiser, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Invited speakers include Marla Feller (University of California, Berkeley), J. Anthony Movshon (NYU/Center for Neural Science), Botond Roska (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research).
All meeting participants will be selected from the submitted abstracts.
Thalamus and cortex form a closely interacting functional unit. Continuous information transfer between thalamus and cortex underlies sensory, motor and cognitive function. Thalamus also controls the interactions of cortex with the cerebellum and basal ganglia. The flow of information through thalamus is adjusted to meet behavioral needs. Despite these facts, cortex and thalamus have mostly been studied in isolation and in behaviorally impoverished situations. This meeting will bring together researchers working on corticothalamic interactions at the level of synapses and circuits during behavior. We hope to arrive at a set of testable hypotheses about thalamic function, and perhaps even a hint of a unified view.
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László Acsády, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary
Jesse Goldberg, Cornell University
Karel Svoboda, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
Jose-Manuel Alonso, SUNY College of Optometry
Michael Beierlein, University of Texas Medical School
Gyorgy Buzsaki, New York University
Vivien Casagrande, Vanderbilt University
Barry Connors, Brown University
Vincenzo Crunelli, Cardiff School of Biosciences
Martin Deschênes, Centre de Recherche Universite Laval Robert-Giffard
Diego Gutnisky, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Michael Halassa, NYU Neuroscience Institute
Adam Hantman, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Judith Hirsch, University of Southern California
John Huguenard, Stanford University
Dieter Jaeger, Emory University
Sabine Kastner, Princeton University
Minoru Kimura, Tamagawa University
David Kleinfeld, University of California, San Diego
Rodolfo Llinas, NYU Langone Medical Center
Andres Lozano, University of Toronto
Anita Luthi, University of Lausanne
David McCormick, Yale School of Medicine
Cristopher Niell, University of Oregon
Louise Parr-Brownlie, University of Otago
Jeanne Paz, University of California, San Francisco
Rasmus Petersen, University of Manchester
Clay Reid, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Massimo Scanziani, HHMI/University of California, San Diego
Nicholas Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical College
S. Murray Sherman, University of Chicago
Garrett Stanley, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karel Svoboda, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Harvey Swadlow, University of Connecticut
Masaki Tanaka, Hokkaido University School of Medicine
Martin Usrey, University of California, Davis
Robert Wurtz, National Institutes of Health
Multisensory integration provides an ideal model system in which to examine neural computations underlying statistical inference, and to understand how computations performed at the level of single neurons and neural populations mediate behavior. This conference will cover many of the latest advances in our understanding of the principles by which information from multiple modalities is combined in a range of model organisms. We will bring together researchers who are tackling this problem using behavioral, computational, neurophysiological and anatomical (connectomics) approaches. Talks will cover a range of topics, including: behavioral strategies underlying cue integration and causal inference, structural basis of multimodal integration, functional properties of multimodal neurons, computations performed by multisensory neurons and circuits, and models for probabilistic computation by populations of neurons.
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Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine
Gregory DeAngelis, University of Rochester
Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester
Marta Zlatic, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
Michael Beauchamp, University of Texas Medical School
Olaf Blanke, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Anne Churchland, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jiu-Lin Du, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Henrik Ehrsson, Karolinska Institutet
John Foxe, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Yeshiva University
Mark Frye, HHMI/University of California, Los Angeles
Marc Gershow, New York University
Jennifer Groh, Duke University
Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester
Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Andrew King, University of Oxford
Matthieu Louis, Center for Genomic Regulation
Wei Ji Ma, New York University
Pieter Medendorp, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Paolo Medini, Umeå University
Mayank Mehta, University of California, Los Angeles
Lizabeth Romanski, University of Rochester Medical Center
Philip Sabes, University of California, San Francisco
Charles Schroeder, Nathan Kline Institute and Columbia University Medical Center
Ladan Shams, University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Shore, University of Michigan
Mauro Ursino, University of Bologna
Leslie Vosshall, HHMI/Rockefeller University
Mark Wallace, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Mark Willis, Case Western Reserve University
Marta Zlatic, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Cell survival depends on molecular trafficking. Transport of macromolecules within neuronal axons and dendrites is one of the most remarkable examples of intracellular trafficking in biology, but many of the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Besides informing the logic of intracellular trafficking in general, an in-depth understanding of neuronal trafficking may also uncover vital clues related to human disease mechanisms. This meeting brings together aficionados of neuronal trafficking from around the world to share recent and unpublished insights into transport mechanisms, stimulating scientific discussions and collaborations. Additionally, we look forward to conveying our collective enthusiasm for this topic to students, postdoctoral fellows, and other junior investigators.
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Kang Shen, HHMI/Stanford School of Medicine
Erika Holzbaur, University of Pennsylvania
Subhojit Roy, University of California, San Diego
Invited Participants
Don Arnold, University of Southern California
Peter Baas, Drexel University College of Medicine
Gary Banker, Oregon Health & Science University
Frank Bradke, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Scott Brady, University of Illinois at Chicago
Anthony Brown, Ohio State University
Bianxiao Cui, Stanford University
Michael Ehlers, Pfizer
Ann Goldstein, Cell Press
Steven Gross, University of California, Irvine
Nobutaka Hirokawa, University of Tokyo
Peter Hollenbeck, Purdue University
Casper Hoogenraad, Utrecht University
Meredith LeMasurier, Cell Press
Andres Villu Maricq, University of Utah
Kelsey Martin, University of California, Los Angeles
Yasushi Okada, RIKEN
Franck Polleux, Columbia University
Frédéric Saudou, Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience
Thomas Schwarz, Harvard Medical School
Kang Shen, HHMI/Stanford School of Medicine
Zu-Hang Sheng, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
Iva Tolic-Norrelykke, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Bettina Winckler, University of Virginia School of Medicine
A half-century of in vivo electrophysiological recordings indicate that neurons in many areas of the CNS, including the visual system, become sensitive to increasingly specific characteristics of external cues as stimulus-evoked signals propagate centrally. However, recent studies provide evidence for neurons early in the visual pathway with highly selective receptive field properties, suggesting that the early representation of the visual scene is perhaps more elaborate than established models suggest. These new findings emphasize the need for a better understanding of the functional and anatomical organization of circuits throughout the visual pathway: (1) Which neurons comprise the circuit and how are they connected? (2) How do these neurons process and convey information to a subsequent synapse(s)? (3) How are signals transformed throughout multiple stages of processing?
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Felice Dunn, University of California, San Francisco
Martin Meyer, King's College London
Gabe Murphy, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
Johann Bollmann, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
David Brainard, University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Briggman, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH
Jianhua Cang, Northwestern University
Gwyneth Card, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
E.J. Chichilnisky, Stanford University
Marlene Cohen, University of Pittsburgh
Lindsey Glickfeld, Duke University
Tim Gollisch, University Medical Center Göttingen
Judith Hirsch, University of Southern California
Greg Horwitz, University of Washington
Andrew Huberman, University of California, San Diego
Richard Krauzlis, National Eye Institute/NIH
Wei Li, National Eye Institute/NIH
Thomas Mrsic-Flogel, University of Basel
Cristopher Niell, University of Oregon
Michael Orger, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
Nicholas Priebe, University of Texas at Austin
Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute
Eric Shea-Brown, University of Washington
Eero Simoncelli, HHMI/New York University
Rachel Wong, University of Washington
Associative learning and memory are fundamental capacities of all animals with a nervous system. Invertebrates have been pivotal to the understanding of learning and memory at the behavioral, cellular and molecular level. Honeybees and fruit flies, in particular, have paved the way to the dissection of mechanisms underlying different forms of learning and memory. The identification of memory traces at various levels, including brain structures such as antennal lobes, mushroom bodies and extrinsic mushroom-body neurons, suggests a system consolidation of memories and requires focus at the network level. Given these recent significant advancements, we look forward to vigorous discussion by experts from around the world on the dynamic exchange and cross talk between structures and circuits during memory formation and retrieval.
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Dorothea Eisenhardt, Freie Universität Berlin
Martin Giurfa, University of Toulouse - CNRS
Troy Zars, University of Missouri
Invited Participants
Andrew Barron, Macquarie University
Ann-Shyn Chiang, National Tsing Hua University
Lars Chittka, Queen Mary University of London
Ron Davis, Scripps Research Institute, Florida
Jean-Marc Devaud, University of Toulouse - CNRS
Walter Farina, University of Buenos Aires
Bertram Gerber, Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology
Leslie Griffith, Brandeis University
Aike Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Randolf Menzel, Freie Universität Berlin
Alison Mercer, University of Otago
Frederic Mery, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Uli Müller, University of Saarland - Saarbruecken
Minoru Saitoe, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience
Jean-Christophe Sandoz, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Martin Schwaerzel, Freie Universität Berlin
Paul Shaw, Washington University
Efthimios (Makis) Skoulakis, Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center
Brian Smith, Arizona State University
Paul Szyszka, University of Konstanz
Hiromu Tanimoto, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Andreas Thum, University of Konstanz
Seth Tomchik, Scripps Florida
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford
Geraldine Wright, Newcastle University
Jerry Yin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Building on discussions from the first three meetings in this series, we will showcase the development of cutting-edge tools and technology for imaging, from cells to intact animals. Sessions will cover the design and discovery of new fluorescent proteins (and intriguing alternatives), and their incorporation into sensors for signaling molecules and cellular states. Innovative imaging modalities making use of such reagents, as well as biological discoveries gleaned from such experiments, will also be presented. It is our hope that the meeting can present a clear picture of how far these tools have come in recent years, and what additional reagents and capabilities are required to continue the advance of the Age of Light.
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Loren Looger, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Ryohei Yasuda, Max Planck Florida Institute
Jin Zhang, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Participants
Eric Betzig, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Robert Campbell, University of Alberta
Adam Cohen, Harvard University
Bianxiao Cui, Stanford University
Oliver Griesbeck, Max Plank Institute of Neurobiology
Thomas Hughes, Montana State University
Stefan Jakobs, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Samie Jaffrey, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
Stefan Jakobs, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Kai Johnsson, EPFL Lausanne
Philipp Keller, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Jason Kerr, Research Center Caesar
Doug Kim, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Thomas Knopfel, Imperial College London
Michael Levene, Yale University
Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
Michael Lin, Stanford University
Evan Miller, University of California, Berkeley
Takeharu Nagai, Osaka University
Michael Nitabach, Yale School of Medicine
Amy Palmer, University of Colorado at Boulder
Erika Pastrana, Nature Methods
Vincent Pieribone, Yale School of Medicine
Mark Schnitzer, HHMI/Stanford University
Nathan Shaner, Scintillon Institute
David Tank, Princeton University
Vladislav Verkhusha, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Samuel Wang, Princeton University
Chris Xu, Cornell University
Jenny Yang, Georgia State University
Gary Yellen, Harvard Medical School
David Yue, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The social lives of animals involve a diverse and rich set of mechanisms mediating interactions among individuals. This conference will bring together groups that study different aspects of social behavior in a variety of organisms and use diverse tools to analyze the behaviors, circuits and genes that regulate them.
Roian Egnor, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Ulrike Heberlein, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Joel Levine, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Galit Shohat-Ophir, Bar-Ilan University
Invited Participants
Cori Bargmann, HHMI/Rockefeller University
Richard Benton, University of Lausanne
Guy Bloch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kristin Branson, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Melissa Coleman, Claremont McKenna College
Gonzalo de Polavieja, Champalimaud Neuroscience
Gül Dölen, Johns Hopkins University
Zoe Donaldson, Columbia University
Catherine Dulac, HHMI/Harvard University
Ofer Feinerman, Weizmann Institute of Science
Russell Fernald, Stanford University
Deborah Gordon, Stanford University
Hans Hofmann, University of Texas at Austin
Timothy Holy, Washington University School of Medicine
Weizhe Hong, California Institute of Technology
Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne
Barbara Konig, University of Zurich
Edward Kravitz, Harvard Medical School
Dayu Lin, NYU Langone Medical Center
Jocelyn Millar, University of California, Riverside
Mala Murthy, Princeton University
Rui Oliveira, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
Michael Platt, Duke Institute for Brain Science
David Queller, Washington University in St. Louis
Yi Rao, Peking University
Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elad Schneidman, Weizmann Institute of Science
Nirao Shah, University of California, San Francisco
Marla Sokolowski, University of Toronto
David Stern, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Joan Strassman, Washington University in St. Louis
Ofer Tchernichovski, City University of New York
Greg Velicer, Indiana University, Bloomington
Leslie Vosshall, HHMI/Rockefeller University
Sarah Woolley, Columbia University
Recent advances in next-generation sequencing techniques are transforming our ability to probe the molecular basis of neuronal function. The purpose of this meeting is to highlight sequencing approaches to scientific problems, including the molecular determinants of neuronal identity, transcriptional diversity among neuronal tissues, cells and sub-cellular compartments, and the molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity and neuropsychiatric disease. The meeting will also bring together experimental and computational biologists seeking to extend or develop new methods of measuring and interpreting genome wide changes in gene expression and genome structure in a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate systems.
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G. Lee Henry, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Sacha Nelson, Brandeis University
Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Invited Participants
Susan Ackerman, HHMI/The Jackson Laboratory
Gill Bejerano, Stanford University
Katja Brose, Neuron - Cell Press
Joseph Buxbaum, Mount Sinai Hospital
Mark Cembrowski, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Wei Chen, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin
Fred Davis, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Joshua Dubnau, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Catherine Dulac, HHMI/Harvard University
Jim Eberwine, University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Ecker, HHMI/Salk Institute
Jesse Gray, Harvard Medical School
Myriam Heiman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nathaniel Heintz, Rockefeller University
Oliver Hobert, HHMI/Columbia University
Ken Kosik, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kelsey Martin, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Nitabach, Yale School of Medicine
Len Pennacchio, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chris Ponting, University of Oxord
Antonella Riccio, University College London
Michael Rosbash, HHMI/Brandeis University
Hongjun Song, Johns Hopkins University
Ken Sugino, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford
Christopher Walsh, HHMI/Boston Children's Hospital
Hynek Wichterle, Columbia University
Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Larry Zipursky, HHMI/University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Zylka, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
A follow-up to the first meeting in 2009, this conference will focus on recent advances in the identification and characterization of the neural circuitry controlling reproductive behaviors. Invited speakers bring expertise from a variety of invertebrate and vertebrate systems. We look forward to vigorous discussions and fostering new collaborations among investigators studying sex-specific behaviors and those developing new tools and methods to dissect the underlying mechanisms.
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Barry Dickson, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Catherine Dulac, HHMI/Harvard University
Nirao Shah, University of California, San Francisco
Invited Participants
Richard Axel, HHMI/Columbia University
Marc Breedlove, Michigan State University
Geert de Vriews, Georgia State University
Scott Emmons, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Russell Fernald, Stanford University
Stephen Goodwin, University of Oxford
Matthew Grober, Georgia State University
Roger Hanlon, Marine Biological Laboratory
Melissa Hines, University of Cambridge
Oliver Hobert, HHMI/Columbia University
Kim Huhman, Georgia State University
Yuh-Nung Jan, HHMI/University of California, San Francisco
Darcy Kelley, Columbia University
Tali Kimchi, Weizmann Institute of Science
Mala Murthy, Princeton University
Lauren O'Connell, Harvard University
Doug Portman, University of Rochester
Dragana Rogulja, Harvard Medical School
Cheryl Sisk, Michigan State University
Lisa Stowers, Scripps Research Institute
Daisuke Yamamoto, Tohoku University
Scott Young, National Institutes of Health
Conferences typically run for two and a half days, beginning Sunday evening and ending mid day on Wednesday.
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Janelia conferences range from small workshops for more intimate discussions to larger meetings of about 60 people.
Each conference normally has at least one external and one internal organizer (usually a Janelia lab head). Meetings are announced on the Janelia website each March and September and openly advertised so that interested members of the scientific community may apply online. The conference organizers invite participants based on their research abstract and ability to contribute to the scientific discussion. Presentations may include talks and/or posters.
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Travel costs are not normally covered, but there are some funds available to provide need-based travel assistance to a fraction of participants. If you wish to apply for travel support, please complete the "travel funds request" field during online registration.
In accordance with our conference travel policy, participants who have applied and been approved for support in advance of the meeting will be reimbursed up to a fixed amount based on the average cost of advanced-purchase, coach class air travel from the participant's geographical region to Janelia. If approved, participants must attend the entire conference in order to qualify for reimbursement. Download our detailed travel policy for more information.
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To facilitate interactions, all conference participants are asked to provide a short abstract on their research interests, which will be included in an electronic abstract book.
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For these reasons, participants are not permitted to record presentations or posters by electronic or photographic means without the express permission of the presenter. Given these assurances, presenters should speak openly and not allude to any data or experiments that they are not prepared to discuss in full.
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Janelia Conference Scholarships
Conference travel scholarships are available to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers whose labs do not have funding to support their travel to meetings and therefore would otherwise be unable to attend.
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Why do I have to submit an abstract and what should I write?
Abstracts for JFRC conferences serve several purposes: they help the organizers plan the meeting agenda, act as a scientific introduction for the attending participants who may not know your research well, and allow you to state your future research goals, which may elicit useful assistance or suggestions. We ask that all participants submit an abstract, even if it is short.
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How do I get to Janelia Research Campus?
Directions to Janelia. We recommend you use Washington Dulles International Airport when traveling, as it is a short cab ride from campus. Directions from Dulles Airport will be emailed one to two weeks prior to the start of the meeting. We suggest that you print all directions and have them on hand when using ground transportation to ensure that you do not get lost (printable directions from Dulles to Janelia). If you need additional assistance getting to campus, please call our main line at 571-209-4000 to reach the reception desk.
JRC does not offer transportation to campus, but does offer a shuttle service to Washington Dulles International at the close of each meeting. You may sign-up to use this service at check-in.
Please note JRC is a secure campus and you will not be allowed access prior to your scheduled arrival date.
Does Janelia pay for my travel expenses?
Conference organizers are allotted funds to provide travel scholarships to a fraction of participants. In accordance with our travel policy, travel expenses for these participants will be reimbursed up to a fixed amount based on the average cost of advanced-purchase, coach class air travel from the participant's geographical region to Janelia. Unless otherwise approved, you must attend the entire conference in order to receive your reimbursement. Download our detailed travel policy.
Can I drive to the meeting and park my car on campus?
Yes, but please let us know ahead of time so that we can arrange this with campus security.
How do I reach Janelia from Washington Dulles International Airport?
You will need to take a cab from the airport to Janelia. It is about a 15-minute, $30 ride.
How do I get back to Washington Dulles International Airport after the conference?
We provide free shuttle service from Janelia back to Dulles Airport. Three shuttles will leave at staggered times to accommodate all travelers. The trip takes approximately 15 - 20 minutes. You can sign up for a shuttle at the reception desk any time during your conference. If the shuttle times are not amenable to your flight schedule, you can request a cab by filling out the appropriate form at the reception desk. The cab ride to Dulles Airport is about $30.
How far in advance do I need to arrive at the airport for my return flight?
It is recommended that you arrive at the airport three hours in advance for international flights and two hours in advance for domestic flights. However, this time-frame is largely dependent on the day/time of your travel and whether you are checking baggage. We do provide a kiosk for printing your boarding pass before leaving Janelia Farm.
When can I arrive and check-in for my Janelia Conference?
We typically expect check-ins to occur after 3 pm on the first day of the conference, which is normally a Sunday. However, if your travel plans call for you to arrive earlier, we will do what we can to accommodate you. Our reception area is staffed 24 hours a day; however, if you have any questions regarding the conference, you must wait until the designated registration period to speak with a conference coordinator.
If you arrive early and would like to purchase refreshments, you may use the credit allotted on your room key. This credit is available to you throughout your stay and is intended for use in Bob's, our campus Pub.
What happens during check-in?
At check-in you will receive your room key, which also has credit applied to it for your use at Bob's Pub. You will also receive your conference abstract book and an updated agenda if any changes have been made. At this time, or any time during the conference, you can sign up for a shuttle or cab service back to Dulles Airport.
Where will I stay when I attend a Janelia Conference?
You will receive your room key to the guest house and conference materials at the registration desk upon your arrival. If you live locally and do not need accommodations, please notify conference management on the travel page of the registration process.
What are the rooms like in the Janelia guest house?
Each guest room has a private bath, queen size bed, desk, iron and ironing board, hair dryer, and alarm clock. Upon request we can provide bedrails, a portable crib, or a mini refrigerator for medications or dietary needs. The guest house features a 24/7 fitness center with locker rooms, free weights, and aerobic exercise equipment.
What will I eat while at Janelia?
We will provide you with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For snacks and other options, feel free to use the credit applied to your room key at Bob's Pub, which is open all day.
What if I have special needs regarding meals or accommodations?
Please notify us of any special needs you may have in the "special needs" section during the online registration. You may also e-mail Campus Services at firstname.lastname@example.com.
When will I receive the meeting agenda?
Those who are invited or who apply and are chosen to participate will receive a provisional agenda following registration, when it is available. A more current agenda will be sent along with directions from Washington Dulles International Airport about one week prior to the meeting. The agenda will also be posted on our web site.
How big are the poster boards?
Our poster board size is approximately 45 inches tall by 45 inches wide (1.14 meters x 1.14 meters).
Do I need to bring my own laptop?
No. We have both PCs and MACs available for your use, but feel free to bring your own if you wish. You can bring your presentation on a disc or other portable hard drive. Keep in mind that our optimal screen resolution is 1920 x 1080.
Do I have to attend the whole meeting?
Yes. By agreeing to participate in a Janelia conference, you agree to stay for the entirety of the meeting. Only in rare instances do we permit participants to arrive late or leave early.
What should I do if I am unable to attend the conference?
We are sorry you will not be joining us. Once you are logged into the Web system, under the "Conference Info" section you will find "Decline Registration." Please click the "Decline Registration" button. Once you have declined registration, we will note that you will not be attending and you will no longer receive any notifications regarding the conference.
Am I expected to present my work at the conference?
We do expect everyone to be an active participant, by presenting either a talk or a poster.
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