Wed 01 July:

PM - Arrival, Registration

Evening Lecture:

A. Lumsden: "History of developmental Neurobiology"

AM:
Practical Xenopus Neural induction
Organiser Grafts, Injections (Bell/Liu)

PM:
Practical Zebrafish Neuronal fate specification/Patterning
Imaging of neurulation/neurogenesis, Progenitor ablation+transplantation, Transgenesis (Clarke/Houart/Mason)

Evening Lecture:
B. Harris “Xenopus as model system”

AM:
Practical Zebrafish “Data Analysis” (Clarke/Houart/Mason)
Lunchtime Round Table discussion:
“Challenges in patterning and cell fate specification”

PM:

Practical Xenopus “Data Analysis" (Bell/Liu)

Evening Lecture:
S. Wilson “the zebrafish as a model for neuronal specification and circuit formation”

AM:
Practical Chick neuronal migration
Electroporation (Wingate, Guthrie), Graft (Lumsden/Teillet)

Lunch lecture:

N. Papalopulu 'Neuronal development in Xenopus"

PM:
Cell migration in mouse cortex
Demonstration:Mouse in utero electroporations  (Hindges)

Evening Lecture:
F. Guillemot “Neurogenesis”

AM:
Practical Chick “data analysis” (Wingate)

Lunchtime Round Table Discussion:
“Cell migration and axon outgrowth, similarities and differences”

PM:
Practical Mouse “Dissection/Analysis of electroporated material” (Hindges)

Evening Lecture:
“Adult neuronal stem cells” ( M. Gotz)

AM:
Practical Drosophila Axon Guidance
Preparation of reporter strains (Tear)

PM:
Practical Chick Axon Guidance
Dissection/Staining of electroporated embryos” (Guthrie)

Evening Lecture:
“Chick as a model for axon guidance” (E. Stoeckli)

AM:
Practical Drosophila Axon pathfinding
Imaging, time lapse (Ng)

Lunchtime Round Table Discussion:
“Axon pathfinding, a finished story?”

PM:

Practical Drosophila “Data Analysis” (Tear)

AM:
Practical Drosophila Dendritic remodelling
Dissections, set up assays (Williams)

PM:
Practical in vitro systems
Dissections and transformations of different neural populations (Eickholt/Gordon-Weeks)

Evening Lecture:
“Growth cones” F. Gertler

AM:
Practical in vitro assays “live cell imaging” (Eickholt/Gordon-Weeks)

Lunchtime Round Table Discussion:
“Circuit remodeling, challenges and breakthroughs”

PM:
Practical in vitro systems “Collapse assays, time lapse imaging” (Eikholt/Drescher)

Evening Lecture:
“C. elegans as model for dev. neurobiology” (O. Hobert)

AM:
Practical Zebrafish neuronal activity/arbour dynamics in vivo
DNA Injections (Meyer)

PM:
Practical Chick “Data Analysis” (Williams)

Evening:
London by night!

AM:
Practical Drosophila dendritic pruning “Imaging of larvae” (Williams)

Lunchtime Round Table Discussion: “Imaging neuronal activity in vivo, the final frontier”

PM:

Practical Zebrafish “Imaging of neuronal activity” (Meyer)

Evening Lecture:
“Arthropodes as model organisms”(J. Truman)

AM:
Practical C. elegans neuronal circuits
Detection/Imaging of different lines (Ch'ng)

PM:
Practical in vitro systems of neuronal circuits
Preparation of cultures (Burrone/Thompson)

Evening Lecture:
“Neuronal stem cells” (Y. Barde)

AM:
Demonstration “live recording in mice” (Thompson)

Lunchtime Round Table Discussion:
“Development of behaviours, when and how?”

PM:
Practical in vitro systems
“Synaptic markers, real time imaging of activity dependent processes” (Burrone/Thompson)

Evening Lecture:
“Zebrafish development of neuronal circuits” A. Schier

Banquet-Party