EPFL Life Science Symposium 2007
"Neuroscience: Molecules, Systems and Diseases"
Wednesday to Friday
August 29th - 31st 2007
Program Overview
- Wednesday 29th
- Thursday 30th
- Friday 31st
EPFL Life Science Symposium 2007 Program
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(All sessions will be held in Room SG1, EPFL, Lausanne)
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | |
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| 10h00 to 15h00 |
Registration at EPFL |
| OPENING and SESSION 1 - Synapses & Networks | |
| 15h00 | Opening remarks: Patrick Aebischer, Brain Mind Institute, President of EPFL |
| Chair: | Ralf Schneggenburger and Henry
Markram Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 15h20 | Thomas Südhof Center for Basic Neuroscience, Dallas, U.S.A. "Presynaptic Determinants of Synapse Identity in Neural Networks" |
| 16h05 | Rob Malenka Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, U.S.A. "Control of Synaptic Strength and Plasticity by Molecular Scaffolds" |
| 16h50 | Coffee Break |
| 17h15 | Misha Tsodyks Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel "Modeling Neocortical Networks with Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity" |
| 18h00 | Jon Kaas Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Nashville, U.S.A. "Cortical Networks for Visual, Auditory, Somatosensory, and Sensorimotor Processing in Primates" |
| 18h45 | General discussion |
| 19h00 | Dinner at EPFL |
| Thursday, August 30, 2007 | |
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| SESSION 2 - Neurodegeneration | |
| Chair: | Ruth Luthi Carter and Hilal Lashuel Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 09h00 | Frank LaFerla University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. "Modeling and Studying Alzheimer Disease in Mice and its Translation to Humans" |
| 09h45 | Ted Dawson The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, U.S.A. "Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease" |
| 10h30 | Coffee Break |
| 11h00 | Chris Henderson Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. "Motor Neuron Cell Death in Development and Disease" |
| 11h45 | General discussion |
| 12h00 | Buffet Lunch and Poster Session A |
| SESSION 3 - Genes & Psychiatry | |
| Chair: | Carmen Sandi and Pierre Magistretti Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 14h30 | Michael Meaney Douglas Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, Canada "Epigenetic Programming of Gene Expression and Neuroendocrine Systems Through Variations in Maternal Care" |
| 15h15 | Christina Alberini Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, U.S.A. "Memory Reconsolidation and the Persistence of the Memory Trace" |
| 16h00 | Coffee Break |
| 16h30 | Jean-Louis Mandel Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch, France "Monogenic Form of Mental Retardation: the Example of the Fragile X Syndrome" |
| 17h15 | General discussion |
| Debiopharm Life Sciences Award | |
| 17h30 | President of Debiopharm |
| 17h45-18h15 | Winner's talk |
| 18h30 | Bus departure for the dinner cruise (approx. return to Lausanne, Ouchy: 22h15) |
| Friday, August 31, 2007 | |
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| SESSION 4 - Perception | |
| Chair: | Carl Petersen Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 09h00 | Charles Gilbert Rockefeller University, New York, U.S.A. "Brain States: Top-down Mechanisms in Visual Processing" |
| 09h45 | Ranulfo Romo Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico "Neuronal Correlates of Subjective Sensory Experience" |
| 10h30 | Coffee Break |
| 11h00 | Keiji Tanaka RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan "Monkey Inferotemporal Distributed Object Representation is Inherently Categorical" |
| 11h45 | General discussion |
| 12h00 | Buffet Lunch and Poster Session B |
| SESSION 5 - Consciousness | |
| Chair: | Olaf Blanke and Michael
Herzog Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 14h00 | Steven Laureys Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium "The Neurology of Consciousness: What Can We Learn from the Vegetative State" |
| 14h45 | Larry Weiskrantz University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. "Recent Developments in Blindsight Research" |
| 15h30 | Coffee Break |
| 16h00 | Shaun Gallagher University of Central Florida, Orlando, U.S.A. "Neural and Extra-Neural Contributions to Consciousness" |
| 16h45 | General discussion |
| 17h30 | Closing remarks: Henry Markram, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL |
