Workshop
on: "Development and Plasticity of the Vertebrate Retina
and
Visual Pathway"
University
of Coimbra
Center for Neuroscience
April 16-20, 2001
Coimbra, Portugal
Location: Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Centro de Neurociências
e Biologia Celular, Coimbra
Coordinator:
Carlos B. Duarte, Ph.D.
Center for Neuroscience for Coimbra
Department of Zoology
University of Coimbra
3004-517 Coimbra
Portugal
Instructors:
Donald S. Sakaguchi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair,
Neuroscience Program
Department of Zoology and Genetics
Iowa State University, USA
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~zoogen/dssakagu/sakaguch.html
and
Michael J. Young, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Department of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School, USA
http://www.eri.harvard.edu/htmlfiles/training/young.html
Topics to be addressed:
1) Neurogenesis and synaptogenesis
in the vertebrate retina
2) Formation of retinotectal connections
3) Activity and the development of the vertebrate visual pathway
4) Neural transplants to repair the damaged CNS
5) Therapeutic strategies for retinal restoration
6) Stem cells: what are they and what can they do
Bioethics case-study on stem cells. (pdf
file)
Seminars:
Seminar title for D. Sakaguchi (Wed.);
Room: "Serviço de Química
Fisiológica", Faculty of Medicine, ground floor, Lecture
room.:
"Differential expression of SNARE
complex proteins SNAP-25, Syntaxin and VAMP during development
of the mammalian retina"
Seminar title for M. Young (Friday); Room: IBILI, Lecture room.:
"CNS stem cell transplants in rodent
models of retinal degeneration"
Laboratory Practicals:
Neuronal
tract-tracing
Isolation and culturing of neural stem cells
Click here for schedule (note: schedule is subject to change)
Updated: 4/29/2001
Comments to: D.
Sakaguchi
Visit Don Sakaguchi's
homepage
Background image is a photomicrograph of a Xenopus retina.