Wiring The Brain

Wiring the Brain Conference 2009

The conference was held in the fabulous village setting of Adare, Co. Limerick in Adare Manor. Adare is located in the South West of Ireland.

Image Gallery of 2009

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Programme:
The meeting consisted of a mix of platform presentations, short talks and poster sessions by researchers from diverse field, fostering inter-disciplinary integration. Sessions were arranged by broad themes that stimulated discussion across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
The programme will ran over 4 days, starting on the evening of April 21st 2009 with an opening reception and first keynote lecture and ending with a Gala dinner on the evening of the 24th.

View the Final Programme here (pdf 36KB)

Session topics:

Building the brain - mechanisms of patterning, cell migration and axon guidance and their implication in disease (e.g., schizophrenia, dyslexia).
Making connections - mechanisms of synapse formation and its implication in disease (e.g., autism, epilepsy).
The genetic architecture of psychiatric and neurological disorders - rare versus common allele disease models, de novo mutation, epistasis, methods to find risk genes for human disorders.
From genotype to phenotype - integrating cell biology, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, neuroimaging and behaviour from model organisms to humans.
Rewiring the adult nervous system - adult neurogenesis, synaptic plasticity, stem cells.
From brain to mind - understanding the structure and function of neuronal microcircuits and larger networks and how they mediate cognition, perception and behaviour.

Confirmed speakers
Stanislas Dehaene	INSERM 562, Paris (keynote)
John Rubenstein	University of California, San Francisco (keynote)
Daniel Weinberger	National Institutes of Mental Health (keynote)

Alain Chédotal	INSERM U592, Paris
Karl Deisseroth	Stanford University
Jonathan Flint	Oxford University
Al Galaburda	Harvard Medical School
Dan Geschwind	University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Gill	Trinity College, Dublin
Takao Hensch	Harvard University
Josh Huang	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
Annette Karmiloff-Smith	University of London
Mary-Claire King	University of Washington
Alex Kolodkin	Johns Hopkins University
David Linden	Bangor University
Oscar Marín	Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg	Heidelberg University
Henry Markram	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Kirsty Millar	University of Edinburgh
Bita Moghaddam	University of Pittsburgh
Jeffrey Noebels	Baylor College of Medicine
Luca Santarelli	Roche
Hongjun Song	Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Sudhof	University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Pierre Vanderhaeghen	University of Brussels
Fan Wang	Duke University, North Carolina
Marius Wernig	Massachusets Institute of Technology