• Opening remarks - Meyer Jackson, University of Wisconsin
• Plenary lecture 1 - Erwin Neher, Max Planck Institute
• Plenary lecture 2 - Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute

Discussion Leader: Don Faber, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences

• Bob Wilkinson, Washington University - Release site distribution at single boutons
• Antonio Malgaroli, University of Milan - Recordings at single-site hippocampal synapses
• Angus Silver, University College London - Presynaptic mechanisms of depression
• Steve Redman, Curtin Institute - Quantal analysis of synaptic plasticity

Discussion Leader: Larry Trussell, University of Wisconsin

• Kathryn Partin, Colorado State University - Molecular basis of desensitization of AMPA receptors
• Dwight Bergles, Vollum Institute - Glial transporters and the time course of extrasynaptic glutamate
• Gary Westbrook, Vollum Institute - Dendrodendritic inhibition in the olfactory bulb: AMPA and NMDA receptors reverse roles?

Discussion Leader: Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute

• Dan Johnston, Baylor College of Medicine - Channel distribution along dendrites
• Nelson Spruston, Northwestern University - Propagation of synaptic potentials in dendrites
• Indira Raman, Harvard University - Role of novel postsynaptic sodium channels in spontaneous firing
• Dejan Zecevic, Yale University - Spike trigger zones in molluscan neurons

Discussion Leader: Henry Lester, California Institute of Technology

• Louis DeFelice, Vanderbilt University - Single channel studies in dopamine transporters
• Michael Kavanaugh, Vollum Institute - Molecular biology and biophysics of glutamate transporters
• David Attwell, University College London - The role of glutamate transporters in synaptic transmission and in brain ischemia

Discussion Leader: Erwin Neher, Max Planck Institute

• Gerard Borst, Max Planck Institute - Calcium dynamics in calyces of Held
• Robert Fettiplace, University of Wisconsin - Calcium domains in hair cells
• Robert Zucker, University of California, Berkeley - Regulatory roles of postsynaptic calcium
• Amy MacDermott, Columbia University - Calcium dynamics at glutamatergic synapses

Discussion Leader: Kathleen Dunlap, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Richard Tsien, Stanford University - Ca channel subtypes and transmitter release
• Wade Regehr, Harvard University - Ca channel subtypes and presynaptic calcium increases
• Isabel Llano, Max Planck Institute - Max-Planck-Institute Gottingen - Modulation of transmitter release and calcium signaling at cerebellar inhibitory synapses

Discussion Leader: Tom Martin, University of Wisconsin

• Hugo Bellen, Howard Hughes Institute, Baylor College of Medicine - Genetic dissection of neurotransmitter release
• Dieter Bruns, Howard Hughes Institute, Yale University - The time course of transmitter release from small and large vesicles
• Rodolfo Llinas, New York University - Inositol phosphates and release at the squid giant synapse
• Y. Takai, Osaka University Medical School - Proteins having two C2 domains in neurotransmitter release

Discussion Leader: Gary Matthews, SUNY Stony Brook

• Martha Nowycky, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences - Plasticity of exocytosis in neuroendocrine cells
• Ruth Heidelberger, University of Texas at Houston - Kinetics of exocytosis from bipolar nerve terminals
• Tim Ryan, Cornell Medical School - Vesicle turnover in nerve terminals