Drs. Xu Zhang, Shu-Min Duan and Xiang Yu were invited to attend the Gordon Research Conference on "Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology" held in Hongkong University of Science and Technology on June 8th to 13th. During the conference, Drs. Zhang, Duan and Yu gave invited talks entitled "Auto-inhibitory regulation of somatic afferent transmission", "Mechanism of glial transmitter release and its physiological and pathological relevance" and "Regulation of dendritic morphology and synaptic function by neural activity and Wnt signaling".