NevroNor conference - New Concepts in Neuroscience

The conference will bring together leading scientists on a broad range of topics across basic, cognitive and translational neuroscience, and hopes to be a vehicle for discovery and a source of inspiration!

Conference website: www.NevroNor2010.com

Conference secretariat: Camilla Rosenkilde, Kongress & Kultur AS

Email: office@kongress.no; Tel: +47 55553655; Fax: +47 55553656

Registration and abstract deadline: May 9, 2010

Sponsored by the Research Council of Norway NevroNor Initiative

Local organizing committee (University of Bergen):

C. Bramham (chair), A.Daltveit, J.Haavik, E.Hartveit, K.Hugdahl, A.Lundervold,

B.Srebro, A.Tjølsen

May 26

Arrivals all day

Mounting of posters.

18.00 Reception at Grand Hotel Terminus Opening: Prof. Nils Erik Gilhus, Head of NevroNor, University of Bergen

Screening of NevroNor movie “Norwegian Neuroscience”

Invited speakers:

• University of Bergen, Vice-rector for Education, Prof. Berit Rokne
• Helse Bergen, Managing Director, Stener Kvinnsland
• Nansen Neuroscience Network, Prof. Jon Storm-Mathisen and Project Leader Stein Lorentzen-Lund
• Research Council of Norway, Director, Arvid Hallen

Press conference

19.00 Entertainment: “The Science Fair” jazz ensemble

May 27

9:00-9:10 Welcome (Clive Bramham)

Morning session (Chair: Espen Hartveit)

9:10-9:50   Seth Grant - Sanger Genome Research Institute, UK
“Cognition and its origins in synapse evolution” 

9:50-10:30  Michael Ehlers – HHMI, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
“Membrane trafficking machinery of dendritic spines”

10:30-11:10  Michael Häusser - University College London, UK
“Dendritic computation”

Coffee – 20 min

11:30-12:10  Andreas Engel, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
“Communication through coherence: the role of neural oscillations for cognitive processes”

12:10-12:50  Kenneth Hugdahl – University of Bergen, Norway.
“The cognitive brain: cognitive conflict and cognitive control” 

LUNCH  (and poster session)

Afternoon session (Chair: Ingrid Agartz)

14:30-15:10 Gaute Einevoll -  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
”Computational neuroscience: bridging the gap from micro to macro”

15:10-15:50  Matt Wilson - MIT, Boston, USA.   
“Hippocampal memory reactivation”  

15:50-16:30  Vittorio Gallese - University of Parma, Parma, Italy
“Motor cognition and its role in intentional understanding”

 

Coffee – 20 min

16:50-17:30 Carol Barnes – University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA
“Understanding circuits critical for normal memory function: impact of aging”

17:30-18:10 Ezra Susser - Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
“Folate and neurodevelopment” 

20.00 Dinner at Fløyen mountain restaurant

(Group departure from hotel at 19:30)

May 28

Morning (Chair: Linda White)

09:00-09:50  Carmen Sandi - Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland
“Stress and the social brain”

09:50-10:30  Menno Witter  - Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
“Reflections on the architecture of the parahippocampal-hippocampal memory system. Functional consequences in the normal and diseased brain”

10:30-11:10  Jean Francois Démonet -  INSERM, Toulouse, France
“The writing brain”

Coffee – 20 min

11:10-11:50  Richard Morris – Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience,
University of Edinburgh, UK
“Memory consolidation: synaptic tagging and mental schemas“

11:50-12:30  Karl Deisseroth – Stanford Univeristy, CA, USA
“Optogenetics” 

LUNCH  (and poster session)

Afternoon (Chair: Bolek Srebro)

14:00-14:40  Edvard Moser –  Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
“Neural mechanisms for mapping and remembering the spatial environment”

14:40-15:20  Jeff Diamond – National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
“Parallel processing within single interneurons in the retina”

Coffee – 20 min

15:40-16:20  Kenneth Kosik  – Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA
“MicroRNAs and the regulation of synaptic plasticity”

16:20-17:00  Erin Schuman – Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
“Calcium-dependent dynamics of cadherin interactions at synapses and cell-cell junctions”

Closing comments