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Program

Wednesday, March 23, 2011
   
13:00 - 19:00 Satellite Symposium, Lecture hall of MPI for Experimental Medicine
2nd Schram Foundation Symposium „From the synapse to neurological disease“
Chair: Michael R. Kreutz and Britta Qualmann, Magdeburg and Jena
   
   
Thursday, March 24, 2011
   
09:00 - 12:00 Symposia I (S1 - S6)
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 1, Hall 9
Molecular mechanisms controlling neurogenesis and tumorigenesis in the CNS stem cells
Chair: Rainer Glass and Michael Synowitz, Berlin
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 2, Hall 10
Levels of olfactory plasticity in insects
Chair: Sylvia Anton and Wolfgang Rössler, Versailles (France) and Würzburg
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 3, Hall 104
Perspectives of small-animal PET and SPECT imaging in neuroscience
Chair: Heike Endepols and Jürgen Goldschmidt, Köln and Magdeburg
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 4, Hall 11
Principles of neural function – how theories inspire experiments
Chair: Jan Benda and Rüdiger Krahe, Martinsried and Montreal(Canada)
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 5, Hall 8
Neuropeptides and endocanna-binoids - Key players in the modulation of behavioral processes
Chair:  Markus Fendt and Michael Koch, Basel (Switzerland) and Bremen
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 6, Hall 105
Motor neuron disease models: Loss of function or gain of toxic function? Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives

Chair: Albrecht M. Clement and Christian Behl, Mainz
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
12:00 - 12:45 Special session on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the neurologist Richard Jung, Hall 102
Chair and Introduction: Hans-Joachim Freund, Ratingen
Ulf Eysel, Bochum
Richard Jung - Discoveries and impact of a German pioneer in neuroscience
12:00 - 13:00

CARE Workshop, Hall 101
Stefan Treue, Göttingen
Neuroscience research using animals: The legal, ethical and political situation

Further Information: fens.mdc-berlin.de/care

12:45 - 14:45

Poster Session I: Posters A
12:45 - 13:45 Odd serial numbers
13:45 - 14:45 Even serial numbers
13:00 - 14:00

Nanion Patch Clamp Workshop, Hall 6

Further Information: www.nanion.de

14:45 - 15:00 Opening Ceremony, Hall 11
15:00 - 16:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
(Opening Lecture)

Chair: Sigrun Korsching, Köln
André Fischer, Göttingen
The epigenome of neurodegenerative disease: Novel strategies to treat dementia
16:00 - 18:00 Poster Session II: Posters A
16:00 - 17:00 Odd serial numbers
17:00 - 18:00 Even serial numbers
18:00 - 19:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
(K. J. Zülch Lecture)

Chair:  Mathias Bähr, Göttingen
Wolf Singer, Frankfurt/ M.
Dynamic coordination of cortical functions
19:00 - 20:00 Cold Buffet in the Foyer
20:00 - 21:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
Chair:  Stefan Treue, Göttingen
John Maunsell, Boston (USA)
Neuronal mechanisms of attention in monkey visual cortex
21:00 NEURO-PARTY at Savoy Club Göttingen (Berliner Str. 5)
   
   
Friday, March 25, 2011
   
09:00 - 12:00 Symposia II (S 7 - S 12)
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 7, Hall 8
Adult neural stem cells in the physiology and repair
Chair: Jürgen Winkler and Dieter Chi-chung Lie, Erlangen and München
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 8, Hall 9
Peripheral mechanisms in olfaction
Chair: Benjamin Kaupp and Sigrun Korsching, Bonn and Köln
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 9, Hall 105
Plasticity in the human visual    system - Probing dysfunction with functional magnetic resonance imaging
Chair: Michael B. Hoffmann and Mark W. Greenlee, Magdeburg and Regensburg
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 10, Hall 11
Information technology meets brain research - New developents in neuroinformatics
Chair: Andreas Herz and Thomas Wachtler, Martinsried 
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 11, Hall 10
Development of fear and anxiety in humans: Behavioural, cognitive and neural changes
Chair: Paul Pauli, Würzburg
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 12, Hall 104
Epilepsy – a hyperexcitation syndrome with multiple causes
Chair: Carola Haas and Ute Häussler, Freiburg
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00 DFG-Seminar, Hall 101
Jan Kunze und Christoph Limbach, DFG
Starting your research career - DFG funding programmes and application procedures
13:00 - 15:00 Poster Session III: Posters B
13:00 - 14:00 Odd serial numbers
14:00 - 15:00 Even serial numbers 
15:00 - 16:00

Awarding and Lectures, Hall 11
(Schilling Research Award Lecture)
Chair: Eckart Gundelfinger, Magdeburg
Shahaf Peleg, Göttingen
Memory consolidation during aging: The role of histone acetylation along gene-coding regions

(TILL Photonics Technology Award Lecture)
Chair: Ulrich Dirnagl, Berlin
Jan Klohs, Zürich, Switzerland
Non-invasive near-infrared fluorescence imaging of stroke pathophysiology

16:00 - 18:00 Poster Session IV: Posters B
16:00 - 17:00 Odd serial numbers 
17:00 - 18:00 Even serial numbers
18:00 - 19:00 Cold Buffet in the Foyer
19:00 - 20:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
(Roger Eckert Lecture)

Chair: Erwin Neher, Göttingen
Joshua Sanes, Cambridge (USA)
Visualizing circuits in the visual system
20:00 - 21:30 Japanese-German Social, Room MZG 1141
   
   
Saturday, March 26, 2011
   
09:00 - 12:00 Symposia III (S 13 - S 18)
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 13, Hall 9
Translational regulation in neurons and glial cells of the central nervous system
Chair: Martin Theis and Stefan Kindler, Bonn and Hamburg
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 14, Hall 8
Dynamic processes in the auditory system
Chair: Eckhard Friauf and Hans Gerd Nothwang, Kaiserslautern and Oldenburg
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 15, Hall 105
Light sensors in new light: A comparative and integrative view on photoreceptors, their function, differentiation and degeneration
Chair: Uwe Wolfrum and FrancoisPaquet-Durand, Mainz and Tübingen
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 16, Hall 104
Barrel cortex function: From single cells to behaving animals

Chair: Heiko Luhmann and Fritjof Helmchen, Mainz and Zürich (Switzerland)
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 17, Hall 10
Neurobiology of complex social behaviour: from bonding to autism
Chair: Inga D. Neumann and Sabine Herpertz, Regensburg and Heidelberg
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 18, Hall 102
ALS, Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease: From molecular pathogenesis to target  validation in aggregopathies
Chair: Jochen Weishaupt and Pawel Kermer, Göttingen
12:00 - 13:00 General Assembly of the German Neuroscience Society, Hall 11
13:00 - 15:00 Poster Session V: Posters C
13:00 - 14:00 Odd serial numbers
14:00 - 15:00 Even serial numbers
15:00 - 16:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
(Ernst Florey Lecture)

Chair: Monika Stengl, Kassel
Berthold Hedwig, Cambridge (UK)
Neurobiology of insect acoustic communication
16:00 - 18:00 Poster Session VI: Posters C
16:00 - 17:00 Odd serial numbers
17:00 - 18:00 Even serial numbers
18:00 – 19:00 Cold Buffet in the Foyer
19:00 - 20:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
(Otto Creutzfeldt Lecture)

Chair:  Rainer Schwarting, Marburg
Jan Born, Lübeck
The memory function of sleep
   
   
Sunday, March 27, 2011
   
09:00 - 12:00 Symposia IV (S 19 - S 24)
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 19, Hall 102
Neural cell adhesion molecule NCAM and its post-translational modifications at the crossroad of signalling pathways and neural functions
Chair: Alexander Dityatev and Evgeni Ponimaskin, Genova (Italy) and Hannover
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 20, Hall 104
Cellular actions of neuropeptides and biogenic amines in invertebrates
Chair: Wolfgang Blenau and Arnd Baumann, Potsdam and Jülich
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 21, Hall 10
Optogenetics in neuroscience: From basic principles to applications
Chair: Tobias Moser, Stefan Treue and Hartwig Spors, Göttingen and Frankfurt/Main
09:00 - 12:00  Symposium 22, Hall 105
Unravelling the activity-depen    dent mechanisms of network formation in the neonatal cortex
Chair:  Ileana L. Hanganu-Opatz and Kai Kaila, Hamburg and Helsinki (Finland)
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 23, Hall 8
The social brain - in health and disease
Chair: Markus Wöhr and Konstantin Radyushkin, Marburg and Göttingen
09:00 - 12:00 Symposium 24, Hall 9
How do neurodegenerative diseases develop and how to cure them: What can we learn from diverse animal models?
Chair: Roland Brandt and Rolf Heumann, Osnabrück and Bochum
12:00 - 13:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
Chair: Herta Flor, Mannheim
Sakiko Shiga, Osaka (Japan)
A neurobiological approach    towards insect photoperiodism
13:00 Departure