The joint CSHA / NGF 2014 conference on “Nerve Growth Factor and Related Neurotrophic Factors: Emerging Concepts， New Mechanisms， Novel Technologies” 
In addition to the speakers below， approximately 15+ talks will be selected from Abstracts.
Brain Projects Bai LU (Tsinghua， China) China’s Brain Project Tadaharu TSUMOTO (RIKEN， Japan) Japan’s Brain Project Marc-Oliver GEWALTIG (EPFL， Switzerland) Europe’s Human Brain Project David TANK (Princeton University， USA)* USA Brain Initiative Emerging concepts I - pro-fragment – expression， function， signaling Barbara Hempstead (Weill Cornell Medical College) Masami Kojima (AIST， Ikeda， Japan) Emerging concepts II: Genetics and Epigenetics Yi Sun (UCLA/Tongji Univ): Transcriptome analysis of spinal cord injury José-Maria Frade (Cajal Institute， CSIC， Madrid) Tetraploidization & cognitive decline in AD M.J. During (Ohio State Univ， Columbus): The Brain Cancer Connection David Kaplan (Univ. Toronto， Canada): T
ranslational control of neurogenesis by autism-associated genes New mechanisms - signaling and function Mart Saarma (Finland) CDNF & Parkinsons’s disease Nancy Ip (Hong Kong) TBA Patrick Mehlen (France) TBA Michael Sendtner (Germany) TBA Carlos Ibanez (Karolinska & Singapore) TBA Mark Bothwell (Univ Washington， Seattle) Oxidative Stress controls p75NTR signaling HOT TOPICS Seven selected from the abstracts submitted Plasticity， Circuit， Behavior Hailan Hu (ION Shanghai): Neural circuit mechanism of emotional and social behaviors Sheng-Jia Zhang (Kavili Institute， Norway): Optogenetic dissection of entorhinal-hippocampal functional connectivity Minmin Luo (Beijing): Neural circuits of reward and stress behaviors Keri Martinowich (Lieber Institute， Hopkins):Promoter specific mutations and impact on circuitry， plasticity and behavior Novel technologies Fei Ann RAN (MIT & Harvard): CRISPR technologies Weizhi Ji (CAS): Use of CRISPR-Cas9 to produce double mutant monkeys Sunny Xie (Harvard): Live imaging of neurotransmitter release Bianxiao Cui (Stanford): Neurotrophin trafficking at single molecule resolution Hyun-Soo Je (Duke / Singapore): Activity-dependent synaptic competition Blood brain barrier (BBB) Angelina Angelova (CNRS， Univ Paris Sud): Neurotrophin delivery using nanotechnology. Neurological and psychiatric diseases Dr Hiroshi Kunugi (Japan): BDNF & Depression
Xiaoming Guan (GSK China): Neural repair strategy for neurodegenerative diseases Maxime Cazorla (CNRS， Institute Curie): Small molecule TrkB antagonist/agonist clinical studies William Mobley (Univ. California， San Diego): TBA
