the Annual Meeting of the ENI-NET

European Neuroscience Institutes Network

May 19th-21st, 2008, Warsaw, Poland

14.00    city tour

17.45    welcome address, Prof. Neher, Prof. Kaczmarek

18.00    key note lecture

Włodzimierz Krzyżosiak, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań

            RNA in the pathogenesis and therapy of Triplet Repeat Expansion Diseases.

19.00    dinner

Session I

Chairperson: Ricardo Pardal

9.00 – 9.40       Matthew Warwick Jones, University of Bristol

Normalising naughty neuronal networks: abnormal oscillations in psychiatric disease models.

9.40 – 10.20       Humeau Yann, The European Neuroscience Institute at Strasbourg

Cerebellar synaptic transmission in the IL1RAPL1 KO-mouse, a model of X-linked Mental Retardation.

10.20 – 11.00     Inês M. Araújo, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Coimbra

                        Dual role of nitric oxide on the  proliferation of neural stem cells.

11.00 – 11.30    coffee break

Session II

                        Chairperson: Matthew Warwick Jones

11.30 – 12.10    Alberto Pascual,  The Neuroscience Institute at Seville

Absolute Requirement of GDNF for Adult Catecholaminergic Neuron Survival.

12.10 – 12.50    Ricardo Pardal, The Neuroscience Institute at Seville

Stem Cells with Glial Phenotype Sustain Neurogenesis During Physiologic Hypoxia in the Adult Mammalian Carotid Body.

12.50 – 13.30    Derek Garden, Centre for Neuroscience Research University of Edinburgh

Synaptic integration by entorhinal cortical neurons is tuned to the dimensions of grid fields.

13.30 – 15.00    lunch and poster session

General Assembly

15.00 – 17.00    General Assembly including a talk of Joachim Bormann, ENI coordination office, European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, on administration of ENINET and a presentation of the GSF Neuherberg Munich.

17.00 – 17.15    coffee break

17.15 – 19.15    Steering Committee

19.45                Dinner at the restaurant Pod Samsonem

Sesion III

                        Chairperson: Ola Hermanson

9.00 – 9.40        Andreas Frick, The Neuroscience Institute at Bordeaux

                        Dynamics of cortical dendrites and microcircuits.

9.40 – 10.20      Alberto Bacci, The European Brain Research Institute, Rome

                        Self-inhibiting neurons in the neocortex.

10.20 – 11.00     Helene Marie, The European Brain Research Institute, Rome

Identification of neuronal modifications that lead to increased memory formation

11.00 – 12.00    coffee break and poster session

Sesion IV

                        Chairperson: Helene Marie

12.00 – 12.40    Ola Hermanson, The European Neuroscience Institute at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

Leave no histone unturned. Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of neural stem cell state and fate.

12.40 – 13.20    Michel Barrot, The European Neuroscience Institute at Strasbourg

Treatment of neuropathic pain.

13.20 – 14.00    Grzegorz Wilczynski, The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw

                        Extracellular proteolysis in synaptic plasticity and epileptogenesis.

14.00 – 14.40    Jacek Jaworski, The International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw

Role of mTOR-regulated processes in dendritic arborization of hippocampal neurons.

15.00                Visit to the Nencki Institute and garden party

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