Program

Due to the schedule of one of the speakers, Prof. Xu Zhang’s lecture (session 4) was swapped with Prof. Harkany (session 2)

Day 1, 25 March 2019 (Monday)

09.00-09.05	Welcome by Tomas Hökfelt
Session 1: Molecular Regulation of Neural Circuits
Chair 1: Kwok-fai So (Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Hong Kong)
09.05-09.50	Toward the Mysteries of Sleep Masashi Yanagisawa (International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
09.50-10.35	Micro-Circuit Flexibility: 35 Years Post-Connectome in the Crab Stomatogastric System Michael Nusbaum (Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
10.35-10.55	Coffee
Chair 2: Wing-ho Yung (Gerald Choa Neuroscience Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10.55-11.40	Breathing Matters: Rhythm, Active Expiration, Sighs and Emotion Jack Feldman (Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA)
11.40-12.25	Neuropeptidergic Control of Stress-Induced Effects on Fear and Social Behavior Moriel Zelikowsky (Department of Biology & Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA)
12.25-14.00	Lunch break
Session 2: Integrative Approaches in Neuroscience
Chair 3: Tatia Lee (Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong)
14.00-14.45	Molecular Interrogation of Neuronal Identity and Wiring in the Hypothalamic Stress Circuitry Tibor Harkany (Department of Molecular Neurosciences, Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
14.45-15.30	Towards Organism-Level Systems Biology by Next-Generation Genetics and Whole-Organ Cell Profiling Hiroki Ueda (University of Tokyo & Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan)
15.30-15.50	Coffee

Day 2, 26 March 2019 (Tuesday)

Session 3: Memory, Ageing and Dementia
Chair 4: Jun Xia (Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
09.00-09.45	NMDAR-Controlled CCK Switches LTP and Memory Jufang He (Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong)
09.45-10.30	Impact of Age on Neural Circuits Critical To Memory Carol Barnes (Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
10.30-10.50	Coffee
Chair 5: Ying Li (Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong)
10.50-11.35	Understanding Synaptic Dysfunctions in Alzheimer's Disease: Insights for Therapeutic Development Nancy Ip (Division of Life Science & State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
11.35-12.20	Losing Connections: Synapse Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease is Modulated by the Genetic Risk Gene APOE4 Tara Spires-Jones (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK)
12.20-13.45	Lunch break
Session 4: Sensation, Cognition and Language
Chair 6: Ed Wu (Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing, The University of Hong Kong)
13.45-14.30	Somatosensory Neuron Types and Their Pathological Changes Xu Zhang (Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai, China)
14.30-15.15	Neural Coding of Real-World Sound Features in Natural and Electric Hearing: Pitch, Timbre and Location Jan Schnupp (Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong)
15.15-15.35	Coffee
Chair 7: Meichun Liu (Department of Linguistics & Translation, City University of Hong Kong)
15.35-16.20	Tracking Covert Decision States Through Neural Population Recordings in Primate Premotor Cortex William Newsome (Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, CA, USA)
16.20-17.05	Neural Systems Implicated in the Production and Perception of Human Vocalisations Sophie Scott (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK)
17.05-17.10	Concluding remarks by Colin Blakemore