Programme:
Preliminary Programme
The meeting will consist of a mix of platform presentations, short talks and poster sessions by researchers from diverse fields with a goal of fostering inter-disciplinary integration. Sessions will be arranged by broad themes that we hope will stimulate discussion across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
The programme will run 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.
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 |
A detailed daily programme will be provided soon for the main sessions. Submitted abstracts are invited for short talks and poster presentation