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PLENARY LECTURES
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Saturday, July 12
17:30 - 18:30
L01 - Thomas M. Jessell (New York, USA)
Neuronal identity and the assembly of spinal motor circuits.
Sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Sunday, July 13
08:30 - 09:30
L02 - Barry J. Dickson (Vienna, Austria)
Wired for sex: How the mating instinct is programmed into a fly's brain.
Sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Sunday, July 13
17:30 - 18:30
L03 - Riitta Hari (Espoo, Finland)
When time matters: Neuromagnetic approach to human brain function.
Sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell
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Monday, July 14
08:30 - 09:30
L04 - Magdalena Götz (Munich, Germany)
Glial cells generate neurons – new views on neurogenesis and neural repair.
Sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Monday, July 14
17:30 - 18:30
L05 - Barry Everitt (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from impulsive actions to compulsive habits.
Sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Tuesday, July 15
08:30 - 09:30
L06 - David Attwell (London, United Kingdom)
Brain power, and its failure in pathology.
Sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Tuesday, July 15
17:30 - 18:30
L07 - Elena Cattaneo (Milan, Italy)
Pathogenic mechanisms in Huntington's Disease.
Sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Wednesday, July 16
08:30 - 09:30
L08 - Daniel L. Schacter (Cambridge, USA)
Constructive memory: Remembering the past to envisage the future.
Sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Wednesday, July 16
13:00 - 14:00
L09 - Bert Sakmann (Martinsried, Germany)
Neurophysiology of decision making in the rodent brain.
Sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Sunday, July 13
13:00 - 14:00
EBBS-Behavioural Brain Research lecture
SL01 - Angela D. Friederici (Leipzig, Germany)
The neural basis of language comprehension: Structural and functional intra- and inter-hemispheric networks.
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Sunday, July 13
13:00 - 14:00
Hertie Foundation Lecture
Cancelled
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Sunday, July 13
13:00 - 14:00
GlaxoSmithKline Neural Stem Cell FENS Research Award
SL03 - Gerd Kempermann (Dresden, Germany)
What are neural stem cells good for?
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Sunday, July 13
19:30 - 20:30
Human Frontier Science Program lecture
SL04 - Nobutaka Hirokawa (Tokyo, Japan)
The intraneuronal transport and kinesin superfamily proteins, KIFs: from brain wiring and development to higher brain function.
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Tuesday, July 15
13:00 - 14:00
Max Cowan lecture
SL08 - James W Fawcett (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on axon regeneration and plasticity.
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Tuesday, July 15
13:00 - 14:00
The Dargut and Milena Kemali Prize Lecture
SL09 - Massimo Scanziani (La Jolla, USA)
Basic operations of cortical inhibitory circuits.
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Tuesday, July 15
13:00 - 14:00
Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award
SL10 - Pascal Fries (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Attentional selection through selective neuronal synchronization.
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Wednesday, July 16
11:30 - 12:45
FENS EJN Awards
FENS EJN Award 2008
SL11.1 - John O'Keefe (London, United Kingdom)
Theta oscillations and spatial processing in the hippocampal formation.
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FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize
SL11.2 - Thomas Klausberger (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Oscillations in identified circuits of the cerebral cortex.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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Saturday, July 12
12:30 - 16:30
SE01 - NEURON-CELL-Press Symposium
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Sunday, July 13
11:30 - 13:00
SE02 - EDAB Brain Awareness Week Reception: BAW and beyond
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Sunday, July 13
11:30 - 13:00
SE03 - FP7: EU-driven funding opportunities in brain research
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Sunday, July 13
15:45 - 17:15
SE04 - NENS Symposium
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Sunday, July 13
19:30 - 21:00
SE05 - EDAB symposium - Music and the Brain: Perception to Emotion
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Sunday, July 13
19:30 - 21:00
SE06 - Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences - Théodore Ott Prize 2008 Award Ceremony
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Monday, July 14
11:30 - 13:00
SE07 - FENS / European Brain Council symposium
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Monday, July 14
13:00 - 14:00
SE08 - Breaking news in neuroscience
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Monday, July 14
15:45 - 17:15
SE09 - Blue Brain Project Phase I: The neocortical column model.
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Tuesday, July 15
11:30 - 13:00
SE10 - Neuroscience and Human Culture
supported by the Evens Foundation
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Tuesday, July 15
15:45 - 17:15
SE11 - FENS/IBRO Alumni Symposium
Network oscillations in development, sensory processing and memory.
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SYMPOSIA
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| Sunday, July 13 |
| 09:45 - 11:15 |
| S01 | - | Genetic control of neuronal circuit assembly. |
| S02 | - | Recent advances in neurotrophin signaling at central synapses. |
| S03 | - | Epigenetic regulation of cognitive functions and behavior. |
| S04 | - | Cerebellar network function: new imaging and modeling approaches. |
| S05 | - | New insights into Cortico-Amygdala interactions: implications for disorders of emotion. |
| S06 | - | Mitochondrial transport and its emerging impact on synaptic transmission and neurodegeneration. |
| S07 | - | Molecular mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease and other synucleinopathies. |
| S08 | - | Antigen drainage out of the brain: A new role for microglia? |
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| 14:15 - 15:45 |
| S09 | - | Endocannabinoids in the developing brain. |
| S10 | - | Actin dynamics in synaptic transmission. |
| S11 | - | Zebrafish: A new model organism for behavioral neuroscience. |
| S12 | - | Entorhinal grid cells, navigation & memory. |
| S13 | - | Social brains: How we perceive and understand intentions and feelings in other people. |
| S14 | - | Molecular, cellular and circuit contributions to cognitive decline in normal aging. |
| S15 | - | Compartmental degeneration in Motor Neuron Disease: where does the end begin? |
| S16 | - | Structure, dynamics and in vivo functions of neurotransmitter transporters. |
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| Monday, July 14 |
| 09:45 - 11:15 |
| S17 | - | Cell adhesion molecules: from neural recognition to connectivity. |
| S18 | - | Subunit-specific NMDA receptor regulation. |
| S19 | - | Metaplasticity - From molecules to behavior. |
| S20 | - | Spontaneous activity in cortical networks. |
| S21 | - | Sleep, off-line reactivation and memory consolidation. |
| S22 | - | GABA and adult neurogenesis: from cell fate to synaptic plasticity. |
| S23 | - | Stress-protective effects of brain oxytocin: from animal to human studies. |
| S24 | - | Metabotropic glutamate receptor plasticity: roles in normal and abnormal brain function. |
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| 14:15 - 15:45 |
| S25 | - | Imaging development and plasticity in the visual cortex: from synapses to functional networks. |
| S26 | - | Presynaptic terminals: structural constraints and molecular dynamics. |
| S27 | - | Nicotinic receptor signaling in the brain: from molecules to cognition. |
| S28 | - | The neurobiology of choice and decision-making. |
| S29 | - | Synapse recycling, memory impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. |
| S30 | - | Computational and neural mechanisms for the control of goal directed movement in primates. |
| S31 | - | Pain: mechanisms and persistent symptoms. |
| S32 | - | G protein coupled inwardly rectifying K+ channels: from structure to function. |
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| Tuesday, July 15 |
| 09:45 - 11:15 |
| S33 | - | Wiring the developing brain: genes and activity in songbirds. |
| S34 | - | Translation regulation subserving memory and synaptic plasticity consolidation. |
| S35 | - | Glia-mediated synaptic plasticity. |
| S36 | - | Multiple hippocampi in one? Memory and beyond along the septo-temporal axis. |
| S37 | - | Tracing mental images in the brain. |
| S38 | - | Gene transfer for neurodegenerative diseases. |
| S39 | - | Role of sodium channels in idiopathic and chronic focal epilepsies. |
| S40 | - | New TRPips in mammalian thermosensation. |
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| 14:15 - 15:45 |
| S41 | - | Molecular mechanisms of whisker-to-barrel system development. |
| S42 | - | Regulation of neurotransmission by cytoskeletal dynamics. |
| S43 | - | Localizing memory traces - concepts, methods and organisms. |
| S44 | - | Modulation and metamodulation of motor control networks. |
| S45 | - | Neuronal network architectures and graphical processing in the neocortex. |
| S46 | - | Adaptive changes within the mammalian nervous system and functional recovery following injuries. |
| S47 | - | Stress: a neural disconnection syndrome, towards new molecular targets. |
| S48 | - | Molecular probes and switches for functional analysis of receptors, ion channels and synaptic networks. |
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| Wednesday, July 16 |
| 09:45 - 11:15 |
| S49 | - | Emerging functions of neuronal migration during brain development. |
| S50 | - | Molecular mechanisms of synaptic formation and function: insight for cognitive dysfunction. |
| S51 | - | Neuronal information processing in drosophila: genetics meets physiology. |
| S52 | - | Neuronal circuits of fear extinction. |
| S53 | - | Neuronal network oscillations in health and disease. |
| S54 | - | Neurogenesis and gliogenesis in brain repair. |
| S55 | - | Novel molecular mechanisms mediating cocaine addiction and its behavioral effects. |
| S56 | - | Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) in synaptic plasticity, memory and disease. |
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TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS
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| Saturday, July 12 |
| 13:30 - 16:30 |
| W01 | - | Investigating dendritic membrane potential with voltage sensitive dyes. |
| W02 | - | Integrated open-source solutions for data acquisition, management and dynamic analysis of cell structures in the nervous system. |
| W03 | - | Pre-clinical evaluation of stem cell therapy in stroke. |
| W04 | - | Emerging high-resolution in vivo technologies. |
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