SPECIAL EVENTS

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04/07/2010, 12:30 - 14:00
SE02 - EC symposium: "FP7: EU-driven funding opportunities in brain research"
Chaired by P. Tosetti (Brussels, Belgium)
Marin O. (ERC Scientific Council)
Individual research grants
Berkouk K. (EC Officer, MC Individual Fellowship Unit)
Marie Curie Actions
Tosetti P. (EC Officer, area "Brain and related diseases")
Cooperative research grants

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04/07/2010, 18:45 - 20:15
SE03 - ECNP symposium: "Is depression a neurodegenerative disorder?"
Chaired by W. Deakin (Manchester, United Kingdom), H.U. Wittchen (Dresden, Germany)
 
Wittchen H.U. (Dresden, Germany)
Depression over the life span: a major societal burden and research challenge
Deakin W. (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Cognitive neurobiology of gene-environment interactions in depression
Fossati P. (Paris, France)
Neuroimaging and neuropsychological evidence of cognitive deficits in depression
Castrén E. (Helsinki, Finland)
Neuronal plasticity, epigenetics, neurotrophic factors and depression

General discussion

Programme also available on the ECNP website.

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04/07/2010, 18:45 - 20:15
SE04 - EDAB/Neuroethics Society/International Neuroethics Network symposium: "Global challenges in neuroethics"
Chaired by C. Blakemore (Oxford, United Kingdom)
 
Illes J. (Vancouver, Canada)
Too busy for neuroethics?
Sahakian B.J. (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Cognitive enhancing drugs for young and old brains
Magistretti P. (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Neurotechnology inside and outside the laboratory
Snell E. (London, United Kingdom)
Global challenges in neuroethics

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04/07/2010, 18:45 - 20:15
SE05 - NENS (Network of European Neuroscience Schools) symposium
Chaired by D. Manahan-Vaughan (Bochum, Germany)
 
Manahan-Vaughan D. (Bochum, Germany)
The Network of European Neuroscience Schools (NENS): a FENS initiative to foster communication, mutual support and exchange at the graduate training level
Raulo E. (Helsinki, Finland)
The network of european funding for neuroscience research: Transnational activities for young investigator support
Granderath S. (Bonn, Germany)
German research foundation-funded international research training groups: strategies and implementation

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05/07/2010, 18:45 - 20:45
SE06 - COST ACTION symposium: "Histaminergic system and pain - therapeutic opportunities for H3 and H4 receptor antagonists"
Chaired by P. Chazot (Durham, United Kingdom), M. Smit (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
 
Passani B. (Florence, Italy)
Histaminergic system and the CNS
Medhurst A.D. (Harlow, United Kingdom)
Histamine H3 receptors and pain - a conflicting story
Alfón J. (Palau-Solita I Plegamans, Spain)
A novel Histamine 4 receptor antagonist for asthma devoid of CNS side effects in rat

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06/07/2010, 13:00 - 14:00
SE07 - New European Directive on animal research: Impact on European neuroscience
Chaired by R. Lemon (London, United Kingdom)
 
Festing S. (London, United Kingdom)
Background to the EU Directive and its current status
Treue S. (Goettingen, Germany)
Impact of the new EU directive on neuroscience research in Europe
Goldberg M. (New York, USA)
US perspective: Society for Neuroscience and the use of animals in neurosience research
Caminiti R. (Rome, Italy)
The FENS policy on the use of animals in scientific research

Questions to the panel and general discussion

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06/07/2010, 18:45 - 20:15
SE08 - FENS/IBRO Alumni symposium: "Encoding dynamic information in neuronal circuits"
Chaired by S.J. Sara (Paris, France), M. Stewart (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
 
Lorincz M.L. (Oeiras, Portugal)
Temporal framing of thalamic relay-mode firing by phasic inhibition during the alpha rhythm
Letzkus J.J. (Basel, Switzerland)
Encoding of associative fear memory in identified neuronal circuits of auditory cortex
Wyart C. (Berkeley, USA)
Optogenetic dissection of the role of spinal neurons in locomotion
Massobrio P. (Genova, Italy)
Long term network plasticity in cortical and hippocampal assemblies

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Last update: April 21, 2010