Membrane Biophysics Symposium
Symposium Program
Program (updated 03.12.2014)
Day 1, Monday, 30th Sept, 2013
latest update: 25th September, 2013| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – | Welcome to Göttingen Research Campus: Heyo Kroemer,
Dean of School of Medicine Opening remarks: Tobias Moser |
| 09:10 – 10:40 | Opening lectures: Joshua Singer
Henrique von Gersdorff "Synaptic transmission at retinal ribbon synapses" "Synaptic transmission at hair cell synapses" |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Poster and Coffee |
| 11:10 – 12:40 | Session 1: Molecular anatomy (Chair: Carolin Wichmann) |
| 11:10 – 11:45 | Saaid Safieddine “Molecular physiology of the inner hair cell synapse: clues from hereditary deafness” |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | Hernan Lopez-Schier “The centrioles govern synaptic ribbon biogenesis in hair cells” |
| 12:05 – 12:40 | Toshisa Ohtsuka “CAST and vesicle cycling at the ribbon synapses” |
| 12:40 – 13:40 | Lunch break |
| 13:40 – 14:30 | Poster and Coffee |
| 14:30 – 16:20 | Session 2: Transmission at retinal ribbon synapses I (Chair: Henrique von Gersdorff) |
| 14:30 – 15:05 | Frank Schmitz “Membrane trafficking proteins at the photoreceptor ribbon synapse” |
| 15:05 – 15:40 | Amy Lee “Voltage-gated Ca2+ channels at ribbon synapses” |
| 15:40 – 16:15 | Leon Lagnado “Gain control at the ribbon synapse of retinal bipolar cells” |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Poster and Coffee |
| 17:00 – 19:05 | Session 3: Transmission at ribbon synapse of inner ear and retina(Chair: Ian Russell) |
| 17:00 – 17:35 | Felix E. Schweizer “Diversity of Hair Cells” |
| 17:35 – 17:55 | Lena Sünke Mortensen “A ribbon synapse specific complexin regulates specifically synchronous transmitter release in retinal bipolar cells” |
| 17:55 – 18:15 | Jakob Neef “Quantitative nanophysiology of presynaptic Ca2+ signaling” |
| 18:15 – 18:50 | Paul A. Fuchs “Excitation of type II cochlear afferents” |
| 19:00 – | BBQ at MPIem Cafeteria |
Day 2, Tuesday, 1st Oct, 2013
| 08:30 – 10:20 | Session 4: Transmission at inner ear ribbon synapses I (Chair: Anna Lysakowski) |
| 08:30 – 09:05 | Ellen Reisinger “A mouse model for temperature sensitive hearing loss and auditory fatigue” |
| 09:05 – 9:25 | Albena Kantardzhieva “Quantitative analysis of ribbons, vesicles, and cisterns at the cat inner hair cell synapse: correlations with spontaneous rate” |
| 09:25 – 9:45 | Tanvi Butola “Role of Piccolo in high frequency transmission at the central auditory synapses” |
| 09:45 – 10:20 | Ruth Anne Eatock “Transmitting signals and making spikes in rodent otolith organs” |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Poster and Coffee |
| 10:50 – 12:20 | Session 5: Ribbon Synapse development, structure and function(Chair: Helmut Brandstätter ) |
| 10:50 – 11:25 | Petri Ala-Laurila “Vision at its ultimate limits: Does synaptic noise matter?” |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | Aaron Wong “Developmental refinement of hair cell synapses tightens the coupling of Ca2+ influx to exocytosis” |
11:45 – 12:20 | Haruhisa Okawa “Developmental mechanisms regulating axonal connections of retinal bipolar cells” |
| 12:20 – 13:20 | Lunch break |
| 13:20 – 14:20 | Poster and Coffee |
| 14:20 – 15:35 | Session 6: Transmission at retinal ribbon synapses II (Chair: Chair: Jeong Seop Rhee) |
| 14:20 – 14:55 | David Zenisek “Ribbon and extraribbon communication between rod-bipolar cells and AII Amacrine cells” |
| 14:55 – 15:15 | Matthew Van Hook “Fast replenishment of the cone photoreceptor ribbon is mediated by Ca2+/Calmodulin and sets the filtering properties of synaptic transmission” |
| 15:15 – 15:35 | Christina Joselevitch |
| 15:35 – 16:15 | Poster and Coffee |
| 16:15 – 18:20 | Session 7: Transmission at inner ear ribbon synapses II (Chair: Christian Vogl) |
| 16:15 – 16:50 | Regis Nouvian “Spatio-temporal pattern of action potential firing in developing inner hair cells” |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Natalia Revelo Nuncira |
17:10 – 17:45 |
Jutta Engel “Splice variants of Cav1.3 Ca2+ channels and auxiliary alpha2delta subunits in mature mouse inner hair cells” |
17:45 – 18:20 |
Geng-Lin Li “Cooperative synaptic vesicle release at a hair cell ribbon synapse” |
18:20 – 18:30 |
Best Poster Award Ceremony |
Day 3, Wednesday, 2nd Oct, 2013
| 08:30 – 10:30 | Session 8: Transmission at inner ear ribbon synapses III (Chair: Mark A. Rutherford) |
| 08:30 – 09:05 | Rebecca Seal “Restoration of Hearing by Viral Gene Transfer” |
| 09:05 – 09:25 | Jianxin Bao “Calcium signaling important for noise-induced loss of ribbon synapse in the cochlea” |
| 09:25 – 09:45 | Lavinia Sheets “Synaptic-ribbon size in zebrafish lateral-line hair cells influences the latency of afferent responses to stimuli” |
| 09:45 – 10:20 | Jean-Luc Puel “Low spontaneous rate auditory nerve fibers: the hidden component” |
| 10:20 – 10:30 | Farewells: Helmut Brandstätter |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee break |
Posters
| Bourien Jérôme “A multiscale computational model of guinea pig cochlea to probe neuropathy mechanisms” |
| Buniello Annalisa “WBP2-Deficient mice show progressive high-frequency hearing loss and abnormal cochlear innervation” |
| Chakrabarti Rituparna “Role of Otoferlin in vesicle dynamics at the inner hair cell ribbon synapses” |
| Gabrielaitis Mantas “Response heterogeneity and efficiency of sound level encoding at inner hair cell ribbon synapses in an idealized biophysical model” |
| Jacobo Adrian “tba” |
| Jung Sangyong “The active zone protein Rim2α is required for normal synaptic sound encoding via promoting a large number of Ca2+ channels and readily releasable vesicles” |
| Katiyar Rashmi “Isolation of mouse photoreceptor to study trafficing at riboon synapses” |
| Löhner Martina “tba” |
| Mandad Sunit “Understanding the molecular mechanism of synaptic vesicle docking in ribbon synapses” |
| Meanhwan Kim “Synaptic gain changes in the inner retina via postsynaptic plasticity” |
| Mehta Bhupesh “Role of SynCAM 1 in rod bipolar cells ribbon function” |
| Neef Jakob “Quantitative nanophysiology of presynaptic Ca2+ signaling” |
| Panou Iliana “The tryptophan-rich basic protein (WRB) is required for hair cell exocytosis and hearing” |
| Picher Maria Magdalena “The impact of Ca2+ binding protein 2 on Inner Hair Cell Cav1.3 Ca2+ channel gating” |
| Regus-Leidig Hanna “Loss- and gain-of-function mutations in the Cacna1f gene differentially impact photoreceptor survival and ribbon synaptic function in the mouse retina” |
| Natalia Revelo Nuncira “Inner hair cells functionally separate synaptic vesicle recycling from constitutive membrane trafficking” |
| Rutherford Mark “Action Potential Generation in Spiral Ganglion Neurons” |
| Sendelbeck Anna “Complexins are involved in vesicle availability at the mouse photoreceptor synaptic ribbon” |
| Vogl Christian “Unconventional synaptic vesicle priming at inner hair cell ribbon synapses” |
| Nayak Subhashree “Morphological analysis of ribbon synapse function” |
| Van Hook Matthew “Fast replenishment of the cone photoreceptor ribbon is mediated by Ca2+/Calmodulin and sets the filtering properties of synaptic transmission” |
| Vincent Philippe “Probing the Ca2+sensitivity of otoferlin-dependent exocytosis in inner ear hair cells” |
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Full program, latest update: 25th Sptember, 2013)