Wednesday August 28th
8.00-8.45:
Registration
8.45- 9.00:
Welcome remarks
9.00 -10.30: Symposium: Molecular architecture of synapses (Chair August Smit)
Jean-Philippe Pin (Montpellier) - Sensing mGlu receptor activation and modulation
Jean-Louis Bessereau (Lyon) - Extracellular scaffolds: an alternative perspective for post-synaptic
organization
Vladan Lucic (Martinsried) - Imaging neuronal synapses at molecular resolution by cryo-electron
tomography
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Symposium: Molecular architecture of synapses (Chair August Smit)
Radu Aricescu (Oxford) - Mind the gap: trans-synaptic protein networks to learn and remember
Stephen Smith (Stanford) - From brain maps to brain mechanisms: synapse molecular diversity
Short talks
Fekrje Selimi (Paris) - Two afferents, one target: what are the molecular pathways controlling their
specific connectivity?
Lydia Danglot (Paris) - Role of the vesicular SNARE TI-VAMP in post-synaptic receptors
distribution and traficking at hippocampal synapses.
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Posters session #1
15.00-16.30: Symposium: Presynaptic mechanisms and neurotransmitter release (chair: Michela Matteoli)
Timothy Ryan (New York) - Interplay of Ca and K channels in controlling presynaptic waveforms,
calcium influx and exocytosis
Matthjis Verhage (Amsterdam) - Docking, priming and fusion of dense core vesicles in mammalian
CNS neurons
Short talks
Elisabetta Menna (Milan) - The role of the actin capping protein Eps8 in synapse formation and
function
Mario Carta (Bordeaux) - Membrane lipids tune synaptic transmission by direct modulation of
potassium channels
16.30-16.45: short break
16.45-17.45: Symposium: Presynaptic mechanisms and neurotransmitter release
Mike Cousin (Edinburgh) - Control of synaptobrevin retrieval by synaptophysin in health and
disease
Zoltan Nusser (Budapest) - Quantitative molecular differences in presynaptic active zones
Thursday August 29th
9.00 -10.30: Symposium: Synaptic plasticity and networks (chair: Christophe Mulle)
Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (London) - Probing synaptic mechanisms of grid cell formation
Thomas Oertner (Hamburg) - Form follows function: reverse engineering of spine synapses
Short talks
Zafar Bashir (Bristol) - NMDA Receptor-mediated metaplasticity at schaffer collateral-CA1
synapses.
Kathalin Toth (Quebec) - Distinct pool of vesicles contributing to asynchronous release are
generated via bulk endocytosis
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Symposium: Synaptic plasticity and networks (chair: Christophe Mulle)
Laure Rondi-Reig (Paris) - Interaction between cerebellum and hippocampus in sequence learning:
anatomo-functional studies in human and mice
Christian Lüscher (Geneva) - Drug-evoked synaptic plasticity: from molecular mechanism to
behavioural correlates and back
Short talks
Jakob Von Engelhardt (Heidelberg) - CKAMP44 and TARP-γ8 modulate gating and promote
surface expression of AMPA receptors in dentate gyrus granule cells
Helmut Kessels (Amsterdam) - NMDA Receptor dependent long-term synaptic depression is
independent of ion flow through NMDA receptors
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Posters session #2
15.00-16.00: Symposium: Synaptic plasticity and networks (chair: Christophe Mulle)
Jeff Magee (Ashburn) - The high spine neck resistance in CA1 pyramids increases nonlinear input
interactions
Seth Grant (Edinburgh) - Deconstructing synapse complexity
16.00:
Free time
20.00:
Gala dinner for everyone at the restaurant “H 36”, 1 rue de la Gironde, Bordeaux
(Tram line B, stop “Bassins à flot”)
Friday August 30th
9.00 -10.30: Symposium: Trafficking and synaptogenesis (chair: Monica Di Luca)
Nathalie Sans (Bordeaux) - Regulation of glutamate receptor trafficking by scaffolding proteins of
the planar cell polarity signaling pathway
Peter Scheiffele (Basel) - Deconvolving molecular diversity of synaptic adhesion molecules
Short talks
Thomas Biederer (Yale) - Activity-driven changes in the synaptogenic potential of neurons
modulate memory processing
Fabrizio Gardoni (Milan) - A novel partner for GluN2A-containing NMDA receptors, RNF10: a
synapse-to-nucleus signal
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Symposium: Trafficking and synaptogenesis (chair: Monica Di Luca)
Eric Wanker (Berlin) - First interactome maps for synaptic proteins
Nicola Allen (San Diego) - Astrocyte regulation of neuronal glutamate receptors
Arnivan Gosh (Basel) - title missing
12.30-12.45: Concluding remarks and prospects for the ESM 2015
12.45-14.00: Farewell buffet lunch