Glia in Health & Disease
July 20 - 24, 2006
Abstract Deadline: April 26, 2006

Organizers:
Ben Barres, Stanford University School of Medicine
Martin Raff, University College London, UK

Typical Program

We are pleased to announce a new summer conference on Glia in Health & Disease, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 20, and will conclude with lunch on Monday, July 24, 2006. The proposed meeting will assemble the leaders in the field, together with junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, to discuss new, cutting-edge developments in the study of all aspects of glial biology in health and disease.

Topics and discussion leaders:

Glial Development
Sally Temple & Chuck Stiles

Genetic Analysis of Glial Function
Shai Shaham & Will Talbot

Myelinating Cells
David Colman & Jack Griffin

Astrocyte Function at Synapses and Blood Vessels
Richard Robitaille & Ulrike Gaul

Axon-Glial Interactions
Pierre Magistretti, Elior Peles & Jim Salzer

Reactive Gliosis and CNS Regenerative Failure
Marc Freeman & Zhigang He

Glia and Disease
Hugh Perry & Linda Watkins

New Approaches to Understanding Glia
Bosiljka Tasic & Wenbiao Gan

The format of the meeting will include eight oral sessions and two poster sessions. Each oral session will include invited speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts. For this reason, abstracts from accomplished junior and senior investigators are warmly invited. As usual at Cold Spring Harbor meetings, abstracts of both poster and platform sessions will be published in an abstract book. The abstracts should focus on new and unpublished data. The organizers will select abstracts for oral or poster presentations. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site (below) as soon as decisions have been made. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs.

We hope to see you at Cold Spring Harbor in July.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by the Cold Spring Harbor Corporate Sponsor Program

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.