Program
Wednesday, August 24
20.00 Welcome event
Thursday, August 25
Session 1: Students’ presentations
Short oral presentations by all students (3 min, 1 slide)
09.00 – 10.00 Students No. 1 – 15
Short break
10.15 – 11.15 Students No. 16 – 30
Short break
11.30 – 12.30 Students No. 31 – 45
Lunch break
Session 2: How do flies learn?
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture 1
Bertram Gerber, Leipzig, Germany
Pain-relief learning in flies and man
15.30 – 16.15 Lecture 2
Eftimios Skoulakis, Athens, Greece
Dependence of associative learning on habituation parameters in Drosophila
Coffee break
17.00 – 17.45 Lecture 3
Yi Zhong, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Gating of long-term memory formation
Dinner
20.00 Poster discussion I
Friday, August 26
Session 3: Rodent models I
09.00 – 09.45 Lecture 4
Martin Cammarota, Porto Alegre, Brasil
Molecular basis of memory consolidation
10.00 – 10.45 Lecture 5
Antonis Stamatakis, Athens, Greece
Influence of early life experiences on cognitive functions in adulthood: Rodent models
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Lecture 6
Marco Prado, W. Ontario, Canada
The role of cholinergic central pathways in cognitive functions
Lunch
Leisure time / Excursion
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Special Note
Philip Beart, Melbourne, Australia
The International Society for Neurochemistry: Portrait and Aims
20.15 - 21.45 Poster discussion 2 – Oral presentations Evening event – Round table discussion
Saturday, August 27
Session 4: Brain function and dysfunction in rodent models
09.00 – 09.45 Lecture 7
Tomoko Tashiro, Kanagawa, Japan
Roles of thyroid hormones in sustaining cognitive functions
10.00 – 10.45 Lecture 8
Eunjoon Kim, Daejon, S. Korea
Synaptic adhesion molecules and brain dysfunctions
Coffee break
11.30 - 12.15 Lecture 9
Claudia Bagni, Leuven, Belgium
Cellular and molecular aspects of mental retardation: what can we learn from the Fragile X Syndrome
Lunch
Session 5: Cognition in monkeys and man
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture 10
Atsushi Iriki, Tokyo, Japan
Neuroscience of Primate Intellectual Evolution
15.30 – 16.15 Lecture 11
Andreas Papassotiropoulos, Basel, Switzerland
Genetic Imaging of human cognition
Coffee break
17.00 – 17.45 Lecture 12
N.N., Magdeburg, Germany
(to be announced)
18:00 – 18.30 Concluding Remarks, comments from the students
Farewell party
Sunday, August 28
09.00 Transfer to Athens / 23nd Biennial Meeting of the ISN
