COLD SPRING HARBOR ASIA NEURAL CIRCUIT BASISOF BEHAVIOR ANDITS DISORDERS Tel: +86-512-62729029; Email: [email protected] SUZHOU, CHINA Address: No. 299, Qiyue Road, Suzhou, China www.csh-asia.org MAY 12-16, 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Asia (CSHA) is the Asia-Pacific Organizers subsidiary of New York based Cold Spring Harbor Rui Costa, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, PORTUGAL Laboratory (CSHL). Inaugurated in 2010, CSHA is Guoping Feng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA dedicated to promote international scientific exchange in Yasunori Hayashi, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, JAPAN the Asia-Pacific Rim by offering scientific conferences and Minmin Luo, National Institute of Biological Sciences, CHINA advanced training courses with highest quality. CSHA is pleased to announce the meeting on Neural Keynote Speaker Circuit Basis of Behavior and its Disorders, which will Karl Deisseroth, HHMI / Stanford University, USA be held at the Worldhotel Grand Dushulake (CSHA’s exclusive venue) in Suzhou, China. Invited Speakers Guoqiang Bi, USTC, CHINA The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening Sumantra Chattarji, National Centre for Biological Sciences, INDIA of Monday May 12, and will conclude after lunch on Jiulin Du, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA May 16, 2014. Michael Fee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Wenbiao Gan, New York University, USA Michael Häusser, University College London, UK Jufang He, City University of Hong Kong, CHINA Weizhi JI, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research, China Major Topics Adam Kepecs, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA 1. Development and Genetics of Neural Circuits Eunjoon Kim, KAIST, SOUTH KOREA 2. Circuit Mechanisms of Perception, Cognition, and Jinhyun Kim, Korea Institute of Science & Technology, SOUTH KOREA Learning and Memory Anatol Kreitzer, University of California, San Francisco, USA 3. Neuromodulators in Circuit Function and Behavior Xiaoming Li, Zhejiang University, CHINA 4. Circuit Dysfunction and Psychiatric Disorders Ikue Mori, Nagoya University, JAPAN Shigetada Nakanishi, Osaka Bioscience Institute, JAPAN Michael Orger, Centro Champalimaud, PORTUGAL Abstract Deadline Extened to David Perkel, University of Washington, USA Kay Tye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA March 23, 2014 Zuoren Wang, Institute of Neuroscience, SIBS, CAS, CHINA The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session Zhiqi Xiong, Institute of Neuroscience, CHINA covering the latest findings across many topics in neural circuit Masashi Yanagisawa, Tsukuba University, JAPAN research. Abstracts with new and unpublished data are encouraged. Fengwei Yu, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, SINGAPORE Selection for short talks (10-20) and poster presentations will be made by the organizing committee on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Fellowships Again as a tradition of CSHL, we are eager to support as many junior scientists as possible. Certain number of presentations by graduate For more details, please visit students or postdocs in this conference will be evaluated for fellowship http://www.csh-asia.org/2014meetings/Circuit.html awards (USD $200-$500)..