Featured Topic:          Locomotor Pattern Generators: Developmental, Molecular and Cellular Organization in Vertebrates

 

Track:                         Neural Control of Locomotion: From Genes to Behavior

Saturday, 3:15 PM—5:15 PM, 28E

Chaired:                        Sten Grillner

 

3:15 PM                       Chair's introduction. The vertebrate locomotor system—a worthy challenge!. Sten Grillner. Karolinska Inst.

 

3:30 PM                       Physiological, anatomical and genetic identification of CPG neurons in the developing mammalian spinal cord. O. Kiehn. Karolinska Inst.

 

4:00 PM                       Physiological genetics of the developing locomotor network in zebrafish. Pierre Drapeau. McGill Univ.