COLLOQUIUM ON "NEURAL SIGNALING"

The Inaugural Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National
Academy of Sciences entitled "Neural Signaling", will be
held Friday through Saturday, February 16-17, 2001 at the
National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. This
Colloquium is being co-organized by Solomon H. Snyder and
Richard L. Huganir.

Recent advances in molecular neuroscience have revealed
links in signaling mechanisms between and within cells in
systems as diverse as neurotransmission, olfaction and
nerve growth. This colloquium will bring together leaders
who will integrate a panorama of signaling systems ranging
from elementary synaptic events to Alzheimer's Disease and
drug addiction.

The colloquium sessions will cover the following topics:

1. Inter- and Intracellular Signaling in the Nervous System
Pietro DeCamilli(Yale), Richard L. Huganir (Johns
Hopkins), Roger Nicoll (UCSF), Moo Ming Poo (UC-San
Diego)

2. Inter- and Intracellular Signaling in the Nervous System
(continued)
Lily Jan (UCSF), Michael Greenberg (Harvard),
Paul Greengard (Rockefeller), Cori Bargmann (UCSF)

3. Signaling in the Developing Nervous System
Richard Axel (Columbia), Marc Tessier-Lavigne (UCSF),
Corey Goodman (UC-Berkeley), Carla Schatz (Harvard)

4. Drugs and Disease and Signaling in the Nervous System
Eric Nestler (Yale), Marc Caron (Duke), Dennis Choi
(Washington U.), Dennis Selkoe (Harvard)

We hope that you will be able to attend this two-day
meeting. Attendance at the colloquium is limited to 250
registered participants. Please share this invitation with
graduate students, postdocs, and others.

The reduced registration fee of $150, which is available
until December 1, 2000, for general participants covers the
meeting, breakfast, lunch, dinner and breaks, and
transportation to and from the hotel. In addition, the
Colloquium will include a poster session open to
registrants.

For additional information (final program, registration
form, poster information, and travel/hotel information),
please visit our colloquium web site.

http://national-academies.org/nas/colloquia

Thank you in advance for your assistance. We hope you will
be able to attend.

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Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia Series of the
National Academy of Sciences
E-mail: colloquia@nas.edu
http://national-academies.org/nas/colloquia
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