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The purpose of this multi-day symposium is to summarize the important contributions of neuroscience research using Gastropod Molluscs and to lay out ideas for future directions.
Gastropods such as Aplysia, Clione, Helisoma, Helix, Hermissenda, Limax,Lymnaea, Melibe, Pleurobranchaea, and Tritonia have served as important model systems in neuroscience. In particular they have been used for studies on learning, memory, development, ion channels, signal transduction, and the neural basis of behavior. This meeting will be an opportunity for researchers studying all aspects of gastropod neuroscience to gather and exchange ideas.
Tom Abrams, University of Maryland School of Medicine
"Molecular Mechanisms of Attention in a Marine Gastropod"
Paul Benjamin, University of Sussex
"Cellular and Molecular changes underlying reward conditioning in Lymnaea"
Kim Blackwell, George Mason University
"Computational approach to cellular mechanisms of associative learning"
Rob Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology
"A new perspective on "model system:" uniquely identifiable neurons as a substrate for validating theories of neuronal synchronization"
Jack Byrne, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
"Neural and Molecular Mechanisms of Operant Reward Learning"
Tom Capo, National Resource for Aplysia
"The National Resource for Aplysia - Life cycle, Production and Genomics"
Tom Carew, University of California, Irvine
"Molecules in memory formation: A molluscan tale"
Ronald Chase, McGill University
"Snails, slugs and sex"
Roger Croll, Dalhousie University
"Development and function of the larval nervous system in gastropods"
Rhanor Gillette, University of Illinois
"Neural network judo for decisions and hierarchies"
Len Kaczmarek, Yale University School of Medicine
"Long-lasting modulation of ion channels in neurons controlling reproductive behaviors"
Paul Katz, Georgia State University
"Nuidbranchs, Neuromodulation, Neural circuits, and Neuromics"
Annette Klussman-Kolb, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt
"Current issues in the phylogeny and evolution of Gastropods"
Leonid Moroz, University of Florida
"Genomic bases of neuronal identity and plasticity: insights from single-cell real time genomic profiling"
Louise Page, University of Victoria
"Evolution of Developing Gastropod Nervous Systems"
Vincent Rehder, Georgia State University
"Roles for nitric oxide in neuronal development and regeneration"
Richard Satterlie, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
"Swimming Speed Changes in a Predatory Mollusk"
Gaynor Spencer, Brock University
"Retinoid signaling during regeneration: what can Lymnaea growth cones tell us?"
Jonathan Sweedler, University of Illinois
"Techniques for Probing the Brain's Chemistry One Cell at a Time"
Klaude Weiss, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
"Dynamic Reorganization of the Feeding CPG of Aplysia"
Dennis Willows, University of Washington
"The Molluskan Geomagnetic Sensor"
Meeting Organizer: Paul Katz, Georgia State University
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