PLENARY LECTURES
Saturday, July 3, 2010
18:00 - 19:00
L01 - Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, USA)
Probing neurons and brains with molecules and photons
Support contributed by Dutch neuroscience schools and institutes
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
08:30 - 09:30
L02 - Oscar Marin (Sant Joan D'Alacant, Spain)
Cortical interneuron development in health and disease
Support contributed by Dutch neuroscience schools and institutes
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
17:30 - 18:30
L03 - Michael Tomasello (Leipzig, Germany)
The human adaptation for culture
Support contributed by Dutch neuroscience schools and institutes
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Monday, July 5, 2010
08:30 - 09:30
L04 - Stanislas Dehaene (Gif Sur Yvette, France)
Brain changes due to reading: mapping literate and illiterate brains
Support contributed by Dutch neuroscience schools and institutes
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Monday, July 5, 2010
17:30 - 18:30
L05 - Melitta Schachner (Hamburg, Germany)
Recognition molecules in synaptic plasticity and regeneration
Support contributed by Dutch neuroscience schools and institutes
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
08:30 - 09:30
L06 - May-Britt Moser (Trondheim, Norway)
The brain's mechanisms for mapping and remembering space
Support contributed by Dutch neuroscience schools and institutes
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
17:30 - 18:30
L07 - Tobias Bonhoeffer (Martinsried, Germany)
How activity changes synapses in the mammalian brain
Support contributed by the Kavli Foundation
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
08:30 - 09:30
L08 - Maria Grazia Spillantini (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
What can protein aggregates tell us about neurodegenerative diseases?
Support contributed by Dutch neuroscience schools and institutes
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
13:05 - 14:05
L09 - Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (San Francisco, USA)
Regional specification of adult neural stem cells
Support contributed by Dutch neuroscience schools and institutes
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SPECIAL LECTURES
Sunday, July 4, 2010
12:30 - 14:00
Fondation IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity prize Award lectures: "Neuroendocrine control of behaviour"
SL01.1 - Thomas Insel (Bethesda, USA)
Neuropeptides and social behavior
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SL01.2 - Bruce McEwen (New York, USA)
Stress, sex, cognition and emotion: Role of neuronal remodeling and resilience
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SL01.3 - Donald Pfaff (New York, USA)
Generalized CNS arousal, sexual arousal and their relations to behavior
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
13:00 - 13:45
EBBS / Behavioural Brain Research Prize lecture
SL02 - John Aggleton (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
Bridging the gap between temporal lobe and diencephalic memory systems
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
13:00 - 13:45
Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation – K.J. Zuelch lecture
SL03 - David N. Louis (Boston, USA)
Malignant gliomas: Small steps and giant leaps
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Monday, July 5, 2010
13:00 - 13:45
Dargut and Milena Kemali Foundation lecture
SL04 - Jonas Frisén (Stockholm, Sweden)
Neural stem cells and neurogenesis in the adult central nervous system
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Monday, July 5, 2010
13:00 - 13:45
FENS invited lecture
SL05 - Tadashi Isa (Okazaki, Japan)
Extrageniculate visual system in the control of visually guided saccades
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Monday, July 5, 2010
13:00 - 13:45
ERA-NET Neuron excellent paper in neuroscience Award
SL06 - Heidi O. Nousiainen (Helsinki, Finland)
Mutations in mRNA export mediator GLE1 result in a fetal motoneuron disease
The second non-lecturing Award winner is Asya Rolls, Rohovot, Israel with her publication "Two faces of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan in spinal cord repair: a role in microglia/macrophage activation"
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
13:00 - 13:45
Hertie Foundation lecture
SL07 - Linda B. Buck (Seattle, USA)
Mechanisms of odor and pheromone sensing in mammals
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
13:00 - 13:45
Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award
SL08 - Fekrije Selimi (Paris, France)
Unraveling synapse specificity using genetically modified mice
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
13:00 - 13:45
EDAB - Max Cowan lecture
SL09 - Colin Blakemore (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Death and transfiguration in the development and function of the brain
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
12:00 - 13:00
FENS EJN Awards
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FENS EJN Award 2010
SL10.1 - Wolfram Schultz (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Subjective risky rewards
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FENS EJN Young Investigator Award 2010
SL10.2 - Pierre Paoletti (Paris, France)
Control of NMDA receptor activity: from molecular mechanisms to synaptic modulation
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Saturday, July 3, 2010
15:45 - 17:15
SE01 - EJN Special Feature: The ever-changing brain
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
12:30 - 14:00
SE02 - EC symposium: "FP7: EU-driven funding opportunities in brain research"
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
18:45 - 20:15
SE03 - ECNP symposium: "Is depression a neurodegenerative disorder?"
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
18:45 - 20:15
SE04 - EDAB/Neuroethics Society/International Neuroethics Network symposium: "Global challenges in neuroethics"
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
18:45 - 20:15
SE05 - NENS (Network of European Neuroscience Schools) symposium
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Monday, July 5, 2010
18:45 - 20:45
SE06 - COST ACTION symposium: "Histaminergic system and pain - therapeutic opportunities for H3 and H4 receptor antagonists"
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
13:00 - 14:00
SE07 - New European Directive on animal research: Impact on European neuroscience
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
18:45 - 20:15
SE08 - FENS/IBRO Alumni symposium: "Encoding dynamic information in neuronal circuits"
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
12:00 - 13:00
SE09 - Breaking News in Neuroscience
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SYMPOSIA
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| Sunday, July 4, 2010 |
| 09:45 - 11:15 |
| S01 | - | Alzheimer’s disease – Translation of molecular mechanisms into diagnostic and therapeutic approaches (chaired by: C. Haass, Munich) |
| S02 | - | Shaping functional architecture by oscillatory alpha activity (chaired by: O. Jensen, Nijmegen; B. Händel, Nijmegen) |
| S03 | - | Endocannabinoids in the synapse: Molecular diversity and division of labor (chaired by: I. Katona, Budapest) |
| S04 | - | Neurobiology of motor learning (chaired by: J.C. Rothwell, London; J.B. Nielsen, Copenhagen N) |
| S05 | - | The making of neuronal circuits: Mechanisms promoting and preventing synapse formation (chaired by: C. Lohmann, Amsterdam; K. Gottmann, Düsseldorf) |
| S06 | - | Brain tumors: Recent insights from stem cell research (chaired by: N.E. Savaskan, Berlin; M. Synowitz, Berlin) |
| S07 | - | The neurobiology of syntax (chaired by: K.M. Petersson, Nijmegen) |
| S08 | - | Mechanisms of memory storage in neocortex (chaired by: G.T. Finnerty, London) |
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Sunday, July 4, 2010 |
| 15:45 - 17:15 |
| S09 | - | Tracking the fate of memories: Networks of memory consolidation and reconsolidation in the brain (chaired by: F.P. Battaglia, Amsterdam; S.I. Wiener, Paris) |
| S10 | - | Interplay between Rabs and SNAREs in neuronal vesicular trafficking (chaired by: T. Galli, Paris) |
| S11 | - | Targeting protein-protein interactions in neurological disorder therapy (chaired by: P. Marin, Montpellier; J. Bockaert, Montpellier) |
| S12 | - | Impairment and repair of motor networks after spinal cord injury (chaired by: T.G. Deliagina, Stockholm) |
| S13 | - | The microcircuitry of selective attention: Physiology, pharmacology and modelling (chaired by: L. Chelazzi, Verona) |
| S14 | - | Development of neural maps – from specification to function (chaired by: W.A. Harris, Cambridge) |
| S15 | - | Emerging mechanisms in neurodegenerative disorders - The role of spreading depression (SD) (chaired by: M. Lauritzen, Copenhagen; F. Bari, Szeged) |
| S16 | - | The temporo-ammonic pathway: What does it do and why is it important? (chaired by: S. Thompson, Baltimore) |
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Monday, July 5, 2010 |
| 09:45 - 11:15 |
| S17 | - | Molecular mechanisms controlling stem and progenitor cells in CNS development (chaired by: S. Atanasoski, Basel) |
| S18 | - | New developments in brain protection and repair after cerebral ischemia? (chaired by: D. Vivien, Caen) |
| S19 | - | The bad cop and the good cop: Regulation of neuronal function by the immune system (chaired by: S.A. Wolf, Zürich) |
| S20 | - | Biomarkers in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: inattentive and combined types (chaired by: R.D. Oades, Essen) |
| S21 | - | Large scale interactions in brain networks and new ways to study them (chaired by: P. Fries, Frankfurt) |
| S22 | - | Visualizing hearing (chaired by: J.G.G. Borst, Rotterdam) |
| S23 | - | Nogo receptor signaling and synaptic plasticity in health and disease (chaired by: L. Olson, Stockholm; C. Shatz, Stanford) |
| S24 | - | Cognition in a mini-brain: Systems neuroscience in drosophila (chaired by: G. Miesenböck, Oxford) |
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Monday, July 5, 2010 |
| 15:45 - 17:15 |
| S25 | - | The stressed brain: What makes us vulnerable? (chaired by: D.J.F.F. De Quervain, Basel) |
| S26 | - | Cross-modal reorganization in deafness (chaired by: A. Kral, Hannover) |
| S27 | - | Systems biology of the synapse: Concepts to understand the complexity of brain synaptic signaling (chaired by: E.D. Gundelfinger, Magdeburg) |
| S28 | - | Navigation and the head direction system: Insights from animals, humans and computational models (chaired by: T. Wolbers, Edinburgh) |
| S29 | - | State dependent cortical processing (chaired by: S. Crochet, Lyon; J. Poulet, Berlin-Buch) |
| S30 | - | Investigating glia function in vivo (chaired by: T. Fellin, Genova) |
| S31 | - | Act and select: The role of the striatum in selection of behaviour (chaired by: J.P. Bolam, Oxford) |
| S32 | - | Morphogens in neural circuit formation (chaired by: P. Bovolenta, Madrid) |
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 |
| 09:45 - 11:15 |
| S33 | - | Fine-tuning the brain: MicroRNAs (chaired by: E. Vreugdenhil, Leiden; G. Schratt, Heidelberg) |
| S34 | - | Neurobiological factors determining high vulnerability to drug seeking and relapse (chaired by: T.J. De Vries, Amsterdam) |
| S35 | - | Rapid neuroendocrine response and synaptic plasticity (chaired by: S.L. Lightman, Bristol) |
| S36 | - | Prefrontal and parietal-premotor contributions to free choice selection (chaired by: B.M. De Jong, Groningen) |
| S37 | - | Sensorimotor integration in the whisker system (chaired by: P. Krieger, Stockholm; A. Groh, Munich) |
| S38 | - | Nitric oxide in sleep and sleep disorders (chaired by: T. Porkka-Heiskanen, Helsinki) |
| S39 | - | Cell-specific regulation of visual cortical plasticity (chaired by: T. Pizzorusso, Pisa; A. Maffei, Stony Brook) |
| S40 | - | Neuron-microglia interactions: A family matter from marriage to divorce (chaired by: M. Bentivoglio, Verona) |
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 |
| 15:45 - 17:15 |
| S41 | - | In vitro study of human epileptogenic cells and networks (chaired by: F. Bartolomei, Marseille; P. Kahane, Grenoble) |
| S42 | - | The choroid plexus: A gate for signalling into the brain (chaired by: J.A. Palha, Braga; I. Torres Aleman, Madrid) |
| S43 | - | Molecular, cellular and network basis of thalamocortical dynamics (chaired by: N. Leresche, Paris) |
| S44 | - | Striatal plasticity: From health to Parkinson’s disease (chaired by: E.C. Hirsch, Paris; P. Calabresi, Perugia) |
| S45 | - | The relation of ongoing brain activity, stimulus evoked responses and perceptual decisions (chaired by: A. Kleinschmidt, Gif/yvette) |
| S46 | - | Stress and the amygdala: From animal models to clinical implications (chaired by: S. Chattarji, Bangalore) |
| S47 | - | Interneuron development and function (chaired by: S. Butt, London) |
| S48 | - | Presynaptic short-term plasticity: Molecules, mechanisms and functions (chaired by: ; N. Brose, Goettingen) |
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
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| 09:45 - 11:15 |
| S49 | - | Dynamic processes underlying synaptic plasticity (chaired by: M. Kneussel, Hamburg; D. Choquet, Bordeaux) |
| S50 | - | Dopaminergic modulation of human decision making (chaired by: R. Cools, Nijmegen; M. Ullsperger, Cologne) |
| S51 | - | Recipe for solving the cerebellar mystery: 2 photons, 1 live mouse and a dash of Oregon Green BAPTA (chaired by: A. Konnerth, Munich; Y. Yarom, Jerusalem) |
| S52 | - | Neuronal cell death in motor neuron diseases (chaired by: A. Poletti, Milano; C. Miller, London) |
| S53 | - | How we come to experience that we own our body: from full-body illusions to cortical mapping (chaired by: H.H. Ehrsson, Stockholm) |
| S54 | - | Neuregulin signaling in neural development, function and disease (chaired by: A. Buonanno, Bethesda; J. Neddens, Graz-Grambach) |
| S55 | - | Temporal control of neuronal diversity (chaired by: V. Tarabykin, Goettingen; P. Vanderhaeghen, Brussels) |
| S56 | - | Deletion of memory (chaired by: T. Hucho, Berlin) |
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TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS
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| Saturday, July 3, 2010 |
| 12:30 - 15:30 |
| W01 | - | Imaging dynamic changes at the synapse (chaired by: J. Henley, Bristol) |
| W02 | - | Strategies for promoting peripheral nerve regeneration (chaired by: S. Geuna, Orbassano Torino; M.M. Sousa, Porto) |
| W03 | - | Novel methods for assessing transmitter release and effects during behaviour (chaired by: M.G.P. Feenstra, Amsterdam) |
| W04 | - | Neuroanatomical tracing and systems neuroscience: the state of the art (chaired by: J. Lanciego, Pamplona; F.G. Wouterlood, Amsterdam) |
| W05 | - | From neurons to networks – new approaches in electrophysiology (chaired by: H.R. Polder, Tamm; A. Draguhn, Heidelberg) |
| W06 | - | Structure, dynamics and function in large scale neuronal ensembles (chaired by: S. Marom, Haifa) |
| W07 | - | Optogenetic manipulations of synaptic transmission, plasticity, vision and behaviors (chaired by: A. Gottschalk, Frankfurt; T.G. Oertner, Basel) |
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