May 19th, Monday

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

May 20th, Tuesday
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 Ines 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

May 21st, Wednesday
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

Organizing committee:
Katarzyna Łukasiuk, The Nencki Institute, Poland
Leszek Kaczmarek, The Nencki Institute, Poland
e-mail: k.lukasiuk@nencki.gov.pl