Symposia
Happy New Year for 2022 and welcome to the ANS Developmental Neuroscience Forum (ADNF)! The mission of the ADNF is to provide year-long engagement for Australasian Neuroscience Society Members and our colleagues all around the world with an interest in developmental neuroscience.
We encourage you to sign up and join our mailing list to receive full details of presentations and speakers. You can also recommend a colleague or even nominate yourself to speak about your exciting project that is in pre-print, or recently published. We welcome your participation, as audience member as well as speaker!
Please see below for our next session. Also, please scroll down further for details and YouTube videos of previous presentations and/or subscribe to our ADNF YouTube channel!
With best wishes,
Your friendly ADNF team
(Nathalie Dehorter, Michael Piper, Kelly Glendining, Laura Fenlon, Julian Heng).
Our next session:
ADNF Symposium XVII
Date: Thursday, April 28th, 2022, 09:00 AM Brisbane (AEST) Time
Venue: ZOOM

Ben Emery (USA) – Loss of oligodendroglial support induces DLK-mediated degeneration of neurons
Carlie Cullen (Australia) – Do myelinating oligodendrocytes help us learn?
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Previous Symposia (2021, 2020)
ADNF Symposium XVI (Date: Mar 31st, 2022)

Emilia Favuzzi (USA) – Artisans of Brain Wiring: GABA-Receptive Microglia Selectively Sculpt Inhibitory Circuits (video here)
Ewoud Schmidt (USA) – Humanizing the mouse brain: reorganizing cortical circuits through modified synaptic development (video here)
Tracy Bale (USA) – Trophoblast mechanisms key in regulating neurodevelopment
Anastassia Voronova (Canada) – Regulation of neural stem cell fates by neuronal ligands
Umm, why are some seminars not available as YouTube videos? Some speakers have requested not to publish video recordings of their seminars because they discussed exciting unpublished data on the day. However, stay tuned to our programming as speakers can subsequently allow us to post their presentation when work is published. So, if you don’t want to miss out on the latest research from our speakers, grab a hot beverage and join us live for our next symposium!
ADNF Symposium XV (Date: Feb 24th, 2022)

Rachel Moore (UK) – Microtubules are not required to generate a nascent axon in embryonic spinal neurons in vivo (video to be published pending publication)
Michael Notaras (AUS)– did not present
Rachel Wong (USA) – Circuit assembly in the vertebrate retina
2021 Symposia
ADNF Symposium XIV (Date: Nov 25th, 2021)

Leanne Godinho (Germany) – Probing the mechanisms underlying cell fate in vivo in the developing retina (video here)
Gabriele Ciceri (USA) – Directing the timing of maturation in human pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons
Daniel Poppe (Australia) – Conserved and divergent features of DNA methylation in embryonic stem cell-derived neurons (video here)
ADNF Symposium XII: (Date: Oct 28th, 2021)

Laura Fenlon (Australia) – Time shapes all brains: timing of a conserved transcriptional network underlies divergent cortical connectivity routes in mammalian brain development and evolution
Laurent Nguyen (Belgium) – Regulation of cerebral cortex morphogenesis by migrating cells
Carol Ann Mason (USA) – Wiring the eye to brain for binocular vision: lessons from the albino visual system
Thomas Perlmann (Sweden) – Interrogating dopamine neuron development at the single cell level
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Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are the recorded presentations for Laura and Laurent. Contact details for speakers are listed within each video. Scroll further below to access recordings of seminars from previous symposia or subscribe to our YouTube channel for regular updates in our programming. Please enjoy!
ADNF Symposium XII: (Date: Sept 30th, 2021)

Isabelle Brunet (France) – Neurovascular development
Debby Silver (USA) – Dynamic post-transcriptional control of cortical development
Robin Vigouroux (France) – Evolution of binocular vision
Patricia Garcez (Brazil) – Beyond microcephaly: how Zika virus impacts brain development
Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are the recorded presentations for Robin and Patricia. Contact details for speakers are listed within each video. Scroll further below to access recordings of seminars from previous symposia or subscribe to our YouTube channel for regular updates in our programming. Please enjoy!
ADNF Symposium IX: (Date: June 24th, 2021)

Juliette Godin (France) – Pleiotropic activities of the (atypical?) kinesin KIF21B during cortical development
Lachlan Harris (Australia) – Distinct transcriptional programs regulate neural stem cell activation
Ruth Arkell (Australia) – Modelling the complex inheritance pattern of Holoprosencephaly using mouse experimental genetics
Simon Hippenmeyer (Austria) – Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression in Developing Cerebral Cortex
Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are the recorded presentations for Juliette Godin, Simon Hippenmeyer and Ruth Arkell. Contact details for speakers are listed within each video. Scroll further below to access recordings of seminars from previous symposia or subscribe to our YouTube channel for regular updates in our programming. Please enjoy!
ADNF Symposium VIII: (Date: May 27th, 2021)

Sean Millard (Australia) – From brain wiring to synaptic physiology – reuse of a cell recognition molecule to carry out higher order nervous system functions
Patricia Jusuf (Australia) – Visual vertebrate pipeline for assessing novel human GWAS gene candidates
Victor Borrell (Spain) – Genetic evolution of cerebral cortex size determinants
Louise Cheng (Australia) – Non-autonomous regulation of neural stem cell proliferation in the Drosophila CNS
Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are the recorded presentations for Sean Millard, Patricia Jusuf, Victor Borrell (new in 2022!) and Louise Cheng. Contact details for speakers are listed within each video. Scroll further below to access recordings of seminars from previous symposia. Please enjoy!
ADNF Symposium VII: (Date: April 29, 2021)

Jenny Gunnersen (Australia) – New insights into mechanisms of excitatory synapse development
Tommas Ellender (UK) – Embryonic neural progenitor pools and the generation of fine-scale neural circuits
Thomas Marissal (France) – Parvalbumin interneurons: the missing link between the micro and macroscopic alterations related to neurodevelopmental disorders?
Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are the recorded presentations for Tommas Ellender and Thomas Marissal here. Contact details for speakers are listed within each video. Scroll further below to access recordings of seminars from previous symposia. Please enjoy!
ADNF Symposium VI: (Date: March 25th, 2021 – Break)
ADNF Symposium V (Date: Thursday, 25th February, 2021)

Song-Hai Shi (Tsinghua University, China): Assembly of the neocortex.
Lynette Lim (VIB, Belgium): Shared and Unique Developmental Trajectories of Cortical Inhibitory Neurons.
Alfredo Llorca Molina KCL, UK): Tuneable progenitor cells to build the cerebral cortex.
Tomasz Nowakowski (UCSF, USA): Charting the molecular ‘protomap’ of the human cerebral cortex using single cell genomics.
Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are the recorded presentations for Song-Hai Shi, Lynette Lim, Alfredo Llorca Molina and Tomasz Nowakowski. Contact details for speakers are listed within each video. Scroll further below to access recordings of seminars from previous symposia. Please enjoy!
ADNF Symposium IV (Date: Thursday, 28th January, 2021)

Helen Cooper (UQ, Australia): From neural tube to neocortex: the role of adhesion in maintaining stem cell morphology and function.
Jin-Wu Tsai (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan): In the search for new genes involved in brain development and disorders.
Isabel Del Pino (Instituto Principe Felipe, Spain): Regulation of intrinsic network activity during area patterning in the cerebral cortex.
Hongyan Wang (Duke-NUS, Singapore): Modeling Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Flies.
Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are the recorded presentations for Helen Cooper, Jin-Wu Tsai, Isabel del Pino, and Hongyan Wang. Contact details for speakers are listed within each video. Scroll further below to access recordings of seminars from previous symposia. Please enjoy!
2020 Symposia
ADNF Symposium III (Date: Thursday, 26th November, 2020)

Jan Kaslin (ARMI, Monash University) – Make do and make new: Fast tracking neural repair using precursor neurons.
Cathy Leamey (USyd) – Using environmental enrichment to unharness an endogenous mechanism that prunes miswired neural projections.
Dominic Ng (UQ) – Centrosomal mechanisms in mammalian forebrain development.
Louise Bicknell (Uni Otago) – Interesting patients and interesting mutations: novel insights into brain development.
Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are the recorded presentations for Jan Kaslin, Cathy Leamey, Dominic Ng and Louise Bicknell. Contact details for speakers are listed within each video. Scroll further below to access recordings of seminars from previous symposia. Please enjoy!
Liked what you watched, or have any questions or feedback? We welcome you to post questions and feedback in the comments section here, or you are welcome to communicate directly to each neuroscientist.
ADNF Symposium II (Date: Thursday, 29th October, 2020)

Stefan Thor, UQ/SBMS–“Selective Requirement for PRC2 in the Generation of Hypothalamic Dopamine and Hypocretin/Orexin Neurons”
Michel Picardo, INMED France- Coordinated activity in the developing region CA1 of the hippocampus: Focus on Twitches and Interneurons?
Natalia De Marco Garcia, Weill Cornell Medical College- Network Activity in the Development of Inhibitory Circuits
Owen Marshall, UTAS/Menzies Institute– New states of mind: epigenetics, development and disease in the fly brain
Missed the session? Don’t worry, Michel Picardo’s presentation was recorded here. We encourage you to contact the speakers directly should you have any questions from their presentation, or you are also welcome to send us your comments or questions through the registration box as well. Please enjoy!
ADNF Symposium I (Date: Thursday, 24th September, 2020)

Flavio Zolessi (UdlR, Uruguay) – Between epithelial cells and neurons: polarity and cell differentiation in the retina
Marija Kojic (UQ/IMB) – Elongator complex in neurological diseases: lost in translation?
Sean Coakley (UQ/QBI) – Protecting neurons from mechanical strain.
Lisa Foa (UTAS) – Serotonin in the developing brain: a neurotransmitter that guides growing axons?
Missed the session? Don’t worry, here are video recordings of the seminars presented as part 1 and part 2
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On behalf of the ADNF team, THANK YOU to our speakers for contributing to this forum!
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