Glia in Health & Disease
July 17 - 21, 2008
Abstract Deadline: May 9, 2008

Organizers:
Ben Barres, Stanford University School of Medicine
Beth Stevens, Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Typical Program

We are pleased to announce the second 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 17, and will conclude with lunch on Monday, July 21, 2008. 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:

Genetic Analysis of Glial Function
Rob Jackson & Ken McCarthy

Gliovascular Interactions
Brian MacVicar & Maiken Nedergaard

Myelinating Cells
Michael Simons & Wendy Macklin

Glial Development
Christian Klambt & Michael Wegner

Axon-Glial Interactions
Alison Lloyd & Klaus Nave

Astrocyte Function at Synapses
Cagla Eroglu & Shumin Duan

Microglia and Gliosis
Sergei Rivest & Michael Sofrieniew

Glia and Disease
Richard Reynolds & Pedro Lowenstein

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 The abstracts should focus on new and unpublished data.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

We have funds to provide partial scholarships for individuals who are US citizens/permanent residents from minority groups under-represented in the life sciences. Please provide justification in writing to beavers@cshl.edu and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those applying who submit abstracts to the meeting.

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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.