Blood/Brain Barrier Physiology

The “Blood/Brain Barrier Physiology: Neural Boundaries and the Molecular Mechanisms of CNS Protection” will be held at Cold Spring Harbor, December 1st-4th.

This is a new meeting that will be centered on understanding all aspects of blood-brain barrier physiology. The unique goal of this meeting will be to bring together scientists who not only work on the blood-brain barrier itself, but those who work on all biological properties that may be important to understanding the blood-brain barrier including angiogenesis, tight junction formation, endocytosis, molecular transport, cellular polarity as well as those who work on analogous problems in different model organisms. Obviously disease related basic science insights and new screening methods (i.e. Genomic profiling) are welcome. Hopefully this model will not only allow blood-brain barrier researchers to learn about state of the art science in related fields, but also to demonstrate blood-brain barrier physiology as an important application to many different cell and molecular biology fields.

Neural Boundaries and the Molecular Mechanisms of CNS Protection


December 1 - 4, 2008
Cold Spring Harbor, New York


Abstract Deadline: October 3, 2008