10:00-10:30    Registration & morning tea

10:30-10:40    Opening Remark

Chair: Dr. Chih-Cheng Chen

10:40-11:10 EMBO Global Lecture: Dr. John Wood (UCL, UK)

    From Genes to Drugs

11:20-11:50 Dr. Sung-Tsang Hsieh (NTU, TW)

    Connectome in neuropathic pain of nerve degeneration

12:00-13:00     Lunch

Chair: Dr. Tang K. Tang

13:00-13:30     Dr. Geoffrey Woods (Cambridge, UK)

    How the first gene to cause primary microcephaly was discovered; Microcephalin - and its link to ZICA

Chair: Dr. Yijuang Chern

13:40-14:10    Dr. Delphine Bichet (CNRS, FR)

   THIK group K2P channels involved in acute and inflammatory pain

14:20-14:50    Dr. Chun-Hsiang Tan (KMU, TW)

   TRP channels and thermosensation

15:00-15:30    Break

Chair: Dr. Hwai-Jong Cheng

15:30-16:00    Dr. Kuo-Shen Lee (AS, TW)

   LTMRs and their central circuits

16:10-16:40    Dr. Kathleen Sluka (U Iowa, US)

   Sex differences in the development of muscle pain

16:50-17:00    Closing Remark