This event is offered free of charge and is open to all members of the HSCI research community.  Light refreshments will be available.

Click here for a provisional schedule.

Guest presenters:
Jeffrey Macklis, MD, D.HST (MGH) - host
"Molecular Logic of Corticospinal Motor Neuron Development and Spinal Segmental Specificity"

Paola Arlotta, PhD (MGH)
"Development of corticospinal motor neurons and bulidng of local microcircuitry in the cerebral cortex"

Martyn Goulding, PhD (Salk Institute)
"Beyond the locomotor CPG:  Sensory control of locomotion"

Zhigang He, PhD, BM (CHB)
"Promoting CST regeneration by manipulating intrinsic growth ability"

John Martin, PhD (City College of New York)
"Harnessing Activity-dependent Plasticity to Reconstruct Damaged Corticospinal Motor Circuits"

Martin E. Schwab, PhD (University of Zurich)
"Rewiring the sensory-motor cortex after injury - roles for functional recovery and quest for molecular mechanisms"

Jerry Silver, PhD  (Case-Western)
"Functional Regeneration of Respiratory Pathways after Spinal Cord Injury"

Yutaka Yoshida, PhD  (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
"Regulation of neural circuit formation by semaphorin signaling in motor systems"