SATURDAY MORNING
Chair: Session 1 - Liqun Luo (1992-1996) Stanford University
9:30 AM - 10:18 AM
Ethan Bier (1986-89) University of California, San Diego - "The implication of active genetics">
Tadashi Uemura (1987-89) Kyoto University - "We are what we eat: dietary responses governing animal growth"
Chun Han (2006-13) Cornell University - "Extracellular regulators of Drosophila space-filling neurons"
Jürgen Knobich (1994-97) Research Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna - "Building human brains in 3D culture
Chair: Session 2 - Udi Isacoff (1988-1992) UC Berkeley
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tom Schwarz (1983-89) Harvard Medical School - "Axonal Translation of PINK1 to Remove Mitochondria"
Blanche Schwappach (1997-2000) University of Gottingen - "Membrane protein targeting and proteostasis"
Paul Slesinger (1991-97) Mt. Sinai School of Medicine - "GIRK channels: a 25 year retrospective in 10 minutes"
Chen Gu (2001-05) Ohio State University - "Ion channel regulation in fast spiking and early-onset epilepsies"
Hee Jung Chung (2002-09) University of Illinois - "Dynamic regulation of ion channels in homeostatic plasticity & epilepsy"
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Chair: Session 3 - Matt Klassen (2009-present) UCSF
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Michael Caudy (1986-89) Knowledge Management Consultant- "Genetic and genomic analysis of DNA transcription codes for the Notch- HLH transcription pathway "
Erwin Frise (1993-97) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - "Mastery of spatial gene expression and other convoluted datasets"
Jim Berg (2008-12) Allen Institute for Brain Science - "The Allen cell types database"
Yang Hong (1999-2005) University of Pittsburgh - "Polarity and hypoxia"
Rolf Bodmer (1984-90) Burnham Institute for Medical Research - "Transgenerational lipotoxic cardiomyopathy"
Shan Meltzer (2011-present) UCSF - "Form follows function (introducing exciting science in the current Jan Lab)"
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Posters from the current Jan Lab
Chair: Session 4 - Hee Jung Chung (2002-09) University of Illinois
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Weimin Zhong (1995-99) Yale University - "Do Mammalian stem cells count number and time?"
Ye Zhang (2004-09) UCLA - "What do human astrocytes do?"
Woo-Ping Ge (2006-13) UT Southwestern - "Regression of brain vasculature in adult mammals
Hannele Ruohola-Baker (1989-93) University of Washington - "Decrypting pluripotency by novel computer designed proteins"
Yuh Nung Jan (1979-present) UCSF - "Max Delbrück's pig and the New Yorker's cartoon"
SATURDAY NIGHT BANQUET 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Hee Jung Chung (2002-09) Event Organizer
Tom Schwarz et al (1983-89) Open microphone
SUNDAY MORNING
Chair: Session 5 - Zhang Ye (2004-09) UCLA
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Fen-Biao Gao (1997-2000) University of Massachusetts - "From dendrites to dementia"
Wes Grueber (2001-05) Columbia University - "Dendritic tiling as a mechanism for modality-specific mechanosensing"
Jill Wildonger (2005-12) University of Wisconsin, Illinois - "Take me to the dendrites! A role for kinesin in polarized dendritic transport"
Sebastian Rumpf (2006-13) University of Muenster, Germany - "Pruning dendrites in San Francisco and Muenster"
Kassandra Ori-McKenney (2011-15) UC Davis - "Elucidating the signaling pathways of the Down syndrome critical kinase, MNB/DYRK1a, in dendrite morphogenesis"
Chair: Session 6 - Wes Grueber (2001-05), Columbia University
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Helen Lai (2000-06) UT Southwestern - "Elucidating the logic of proprioceptive networks"
Woojae Kim (2008-14) University of Ottawa, Canada - "A novel behavioral paradigm of interval timing in Drosophila"
Rebecca Yang (2003-09) Duke University - "Optogenetics-assisted reward rule learning in Drosophila"
Ed Giniger (1988-1993) NIH - "Why is it that we still don�t know how axons grow?"
Liqun Luo (1992-96) Stanford University - "Wiring specificity molecules"
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Chair: Session 7 - Rebecca Yang (2003-09), Duke University
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Ira Clark (1989-1996) UCLA - "Next generation science education � new approaches to retention & development "
Cheng-Ting Chien (1993-96) Academia Sinica, Taiwan - "Development of neuroscience program in Academia Sinica"
Yee-Ming Chan (1995-2000) Harvard Medical School - "Understanding the physiology of human puberty"
Dan Doherty (1989-1995) University of Washington - "Genetics of human hindbrain malformations"
Desiree Thayer (2008-2014) Amunix - "Application of XTEN for improved immunotherapies"
Chair: Session 8 - Jüergen Knoblich (1994-97) Research Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna
3:15 PM - 4:03 PM
Udi Isacoff (1982-1992) UC Berkeley- "Light on the brain"
Dan Minor (1996-2000-) UCSF - "How to handle stress and strain - Lessons from channels and the Jans"
Robin Shaw (2003-06) UCLA - "GJA1-20k: New uses of an old protein"
Lily Jan (1979-present) UCSF - Closing comments
