Science Programme – Genetic approaches to study the neurobiology of learning and memory
Genetics Society Autumn 2014 Meeting
Thursday 27 November 2014
09:00 – 09:20 Registration
09:20 – 09:30 Welcome from the organisers
Speakers:
09:30 – 10:15 Sheena Josselyn (Sick Kids Toronto, Canada)
Making, breaking and linking memories
10:15 – 11:00 Scott Waddell (University of Oxford, UK)A memory found?
11:00 – 11:15 Selected Oral Presentation – Sophie Leacock (University College London, UK)Defective escape behaviour in DEAH-box RNA helicase mutants improved by restoring glycine receptor expression
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee/tea break
11:45 – 12:30 Danielle Posthuma (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)Genome-wide association studies in humans
12:30 – 13:15 Isabelle Mansuy (Brain Research Institute, Zurich, Switzerland)Non-genetic nuclear mechanisms of memory control regulated by protein phosphatases
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 14:30 Selected oral presentation – Karla Kaun (Brown University, USA)To drink or Not(ch) to drink: memory for cues associated with alcohol intoxication
14:30 – 14:45 Selected oral presentation – Jilly Hope (The University of Edinburgh, UK)Behavioural characterisation of a potential mouse model of severe intellectual disability and autism
14:45 – 15:00 Selected oral presentation – William Richardson (University College London, UK)Motor skills learning requires new central myelination
15:00 – 15:45 Ilana Witten (Princeton University, U.S.A.)Dissecting neural circuitry for reward processing and working memory
15:45 – 16:30 Hiromu Tanimoto (Max Planck Institute für Neurobiologie, Germany)Mushroom body circuits and memory formation
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee/tea break
Medal:
17:00 – 18:00 Elizabeth Murchison (Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK) – Podcast
Genome analysis of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils
18:00 – 19:00 Poster session and drink reception
19:15 – 22:00 Conference Dinner
Friday 28 November 2014
Speakers:
09:00 – 09:45 Matt Jones (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Sleep in your genes: psychiatric risk genes and memory consolidation
09:45 – 10:00 Selected oral presentation – Linda Katona (University of Oxford, UK)Sleep and movement segregate hippocampal network operations of distinct types of somatostatin-expressing GABAergic interneuron
10:00 – 10:15 Selected oral presentation – Nicholas Clifton (Cardiff University, UK)Postsynaptic Density Short Homer Proteins in Associative Learning
10:15 – 10:30 Selected oral presentation – Alexandros Rammos (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Polygenic Contribution of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Targets on Cognition in Narrow and Broad psychosis: The Use of Coding SNPs versus Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) Pruning
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 – 11:45 Naoshige Uchida (Harvard University, U.S.A.)Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward prediction errors
11:45 – 12:30 Thomas Preat (ESPCI Paris, France)Oscillating dopaminergic neurons gate aversive and appetitive long-term memory formation in Drosophila
12:30 – 12:45 Selected oral presentation – Suewei Lin (University of Oxford, UK)Neural correlates of water reward in thirsty Drosophila
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch and poster session
14:00 – 14:45 Kazu Nakazawa (University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.)Dysfunction of GABAergic interneurons and neuropsychiatric illnesses
14:45 – 15:30 Thomas McHugh (RIKEN Tokyo, Japan)Mapping & Remapping in CA2
15:30 – 15:45 Selected oral presentation – Aude Marzo (UCL, UK)Full synaptic recovery after reversible blockade of Wnt signalling in the hippocampus: implication for Alzheimer’s disease
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee/tea break
16:15 – 16:30 Selected oral presentation – Simon Lowe (University of Bristol, UK)Modelling neuronal dysfunction in Down Syndrome using Drosophila
16:30 – 17:15 David Bannerman (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)What causes aberrant salience in schizophrenia? A role for impaired short-term memory and the GluA1 (GRIA1) AMPA receptor subunit
17:15 – 17:30 Concluding remarks
17:30 Close of the meeting
