Program 2009
The scientific program will start with an Opening Lecture on Wednesday evening, August 19, 2009 and end in the evening of August 22. There will be bus transfer to the main ISN meeting in Busan on Sunday August 23.
The program will include lectures, oral and poster presentations by the students, and round-table discussions with the faculty.
Lecture program:
Acetylcholine receptor structure and dynamics
Francisco Barrantes
An Astrocyte Based Hypothesis of Motoneuron Disease: Pharmacological, Cellular and Molecular Insights relevant to Neurodegenerative Mechanisms
Philip Beart
Purine-mediated signaling in glial cells
Shumin Duan
Eckart D. Gundelfinger
Molecular mechanism of learning and memory
Bong-Kiun Kaang
Molecular organization of excitatory synapses: postsynaptic mechanisms
Eunjoon Kim
mTOR Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity and Behavior
Eric Klann
Oligodendrocyte/axon signaling in hypermyelinating mice
Wendy Macklin
Tau Pathology in Alzheimer Disease
Eva-Maria Mandelkow
Microtubules, Motors, MAPs, and Neurodegeneration
Eckhard Mandelkow
The Yin-Yang of prion protein biology
Marco Antonio Maximo Prado
The functional organization of axons in health and disease
Matthew N. Rasband
Role of muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the nucleus accumbens for the acquisition of drug reinforcement
Alois Saria
The role of perisynaptic extracellular matrix in synaptic signalling
Constanze Seidenbecher
The role of thyroid hormone in CNS development and function
Tomoko Tashiro

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