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Part-1 MOTONEURON DEVELOPMENT 1. ESTABLISHING THE MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF SPINAL MOTONEURONS Jeremy S. Dasen NYU Neuroscience Institute, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA 2. CHLORIDE HOMEOSTASIS IN DEVELOPING MOTONEURONS Pascal Branchereau and Daniel Cattaert Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, Bordeaux, France 3. NORMAL DEVELOPMENT AND PATHOLOGY OF MOTONEURONS: ANATOMY, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES, FIRING PATTERNS AND CIRCUIT CONNECTIVITY Joshua I. Chalif, and George Z. Mentis Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Cell Biology Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA 4. HOMEOSTATIC REGULATION OF MOTONEURON PROPERTIES IN DEVELOPMENT Peter A. Wenner, Dobromila Pekala Department of Cell Biology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30340. Part-2 MOTONEURON CONNECTIVITY AND FUNCTION 5. HOMEOSTATIC PLASTICITY OF THE MAMMALIAN NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION Kathrin L. Engisch, Xueyong Wang and Mark M. Rich Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 45435. 6. DIVERSITY OF MAMMALIAN MOTONEURONS AND MOTOR UNITS Marcin Baczyk, Marin Manuel, Francesco Roselli, Daniel Zytnicki Poznan University of Physical Education, Department of Neurobiology, Poznan, Poland Universit de Paris, SPPIN – Saints-Pres Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS, Paris, 75006, France Dept. of Neurology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)-Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany Neurozentrum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany 7. SYNAPTIC PROJECTIONS OF MOTONEURONS WITHIN THE SPINAL CORD Marco Beato and Gary Bhumbra Department of Neuroscience Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 8. RECRUITMENT OF MOTONEURONS Vatsala Thirumalai, Urvashi Jha National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065. 9. ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF ADULT MAMMALIAN MOTONEURONS Calvin C. Smith, Robert M. Brownstone Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 10. THE CELLULAR BASIS FOR THE GENERATION OF FIRING PATTERNS IN HUMAN MOTOR UNITS Obaid U. Khurram, Gregory E. P. Pearcey, Matthieu K. Chardon, Edward H. Kim, Marta Garca, and C.J. Heckman Departments of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL; Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL. 11. MOTONEURONAL REGULATION OF CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR AND NETWORK FUNCTION Melanie Falgairolle and Michael J. O’Donovan NCCIH,NINDS, NIH, Bethesda USA. 12. EXTRAOCULAR MOTONEURONS AND NEUROTROPHISM Angel M Pastor, Roland Blumer and Rosa R. de la Cruz Departamento de Fisiologa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Center of Anatomy and Cell Biology. Medical University of Vienna. Austria Part-3 MOTONEURON DISEASE 13. MOTONEURON DISEASES Francesco Lotti, Serge Przedborski Departments of Pathology & Cell Biology, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. 14. ELECTRICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF DEVELOPING MOTONEURONS IN POSTNATAL MICE AND EARLY ABNORMALITIES IN SOD1 TRANSGENIC MICE Jacques Durand, Anton Filipchuk Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT) P3M team, Aix Marseille Universit CNRS UMR 7289, 27 bd Jean Moulin 13385 cedex 05 France. Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), Department for Integrative and Computational Neuroscience (ICN), UMR9197 CNRS/University Paris Sud, CNRS Bldg. 22 32/33, 1 Av. de la Terrasse, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, 15. FROM PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES TO SELECTIVE VULNERABILITY OF MOTOR UNITS IN AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS Marcin Baczyk, Marin Manuel, Francesco Roselli, Daniel Zytnicki Poznan University of Physical Education, Department of Neurobiology, Poznan, Poland Universit de Paris, SPPIN – Saints-Pres Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS, Paris, 75006, France Dept. of Neurology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)-Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany Neurozentrum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany @font-face {font-family:”Cambria Math”; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536858881 -1073732485 9 0 511 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:8.0pt; margin-left:0cm; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}p.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph {mso-style-priority:34; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:8.0pt; margin-left:36.0pt; mso-add-space:auto; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}p.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst {mso-style-priority:34; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:36.0pt; mso-add-space:auto; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}p.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle {mso-style-priority:34; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:36.0pt; mso-add-space:auto; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}p.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast {mso-style-priority:34; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:8.0pt; margin-left:36.0pt; mso-add-space:auto; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:11.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}.MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:8.0pt; line-height:107%;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}ol {margin-bottom:0cm;}ul {margin-bottom:0cm;}
