Preliminary Scientific Programme as of June 30th, 2009
Sunday
Day1
16:00–18:00 Registration
18:00–20:00 Welcome reception and dinner
Welcome
address:
Alois
Saria (FENS Treasurer and Chairman
of the local Organizing Committee)
Michael
Madeja (Managing Director
Hertie Foundation)
Yehezkel Ben-Ari (Scientific Organizer)
20:00–21:00 Yehezkel Ben-Ari (Marseille, France)
An introduction to GABA and
the developing brain
21:00–21:30 Discussion
21:30–22:30 Students self-presentation and organization of working groups
Monday
Day2 GABA and migrating cells
08:15–09:15 Arnold
R Kriegstein (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Depolarizing GABA
regulates a critical developmental window for circuit formation
09:15–10:15 John L R Rubenstein (San Francisco, CA,
USA)
Transcriptional
regulation of interneuron development
10:15-10:45 Discussion
17:00–18:00
Gordon J Fishell (New York, USA)
The interactions between intrinsic genetic programs
and nascent activity in the determination of cortical interneuron subtype.
18:00–19:00 John G Parnavelas (London, UK)
Slit-Robo interactions in cortical interneuron
migration
19:00–19:30 Discussion
20:30–21:00
Roberto Caminiti (Roma, IT)
Overview on the new EU Directive on the use of animals
in scientific procedures
21:00–22:30
After dinner poster session I
Tuesday
Day3 GABA and immature neuronal populations
08:15–09:15
Nicholas C Spitzer (La Jolla, CA,
USA)
GABA specification in the embryonic nervous system:
Genes, activity and target-derived factors
9:15–10:15 Angelique F Bordey (New Haven, CT, USA) and Jean-Marc Fritschy (Zurich, CH)
Function
of GABAR on neurogenesis from the SVZ
10h15–10h45 Discussion
17:00–18:00 Zoltan Molnar (Oxford, UK)
The earliest cortical circuits
18:00–18:30 Oscar Marin (San Juan, Spain)
Cellular
and molecular mechanisms controlling the migration of cortical interneurons
18:30–19:00 Discussion
Wednesday
Day4 GABA and early networks
08:15–9:15 Rosa Cossart (Marseille, France)
Sequential maturation of network patterns
09:15–10:15 Rustem Khazipov (Marseille, France)
GABA signaling and its roles in patterning cortical network activity in
the neonatal rat in vivo
10:15–10:45 Discussion
16:0–17:00 Z Josh Huang (Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA)
GABA in activity-dependent development of inhibitory synapses and
circuits
17:00-18:00 Michael Hausser (London, GB)
Traveling waves mediated by asymmetric GABAergic
synaptic connections in the developing cerebellar cortex
18:00–18:30 Discussion
20:30–21:30 Liset M de la Prida (Madrid, Spain)
Cellular and
synaptic mechanisms of hippocampal population bursts
21:30-22:00 Discussion
Thursday
Day5 The GABA/chloride couple
08:15–09:15 Alain
Marty (Paris, France)
Excitatory effects of axonal GABA receptors in developing
cerebellar neurons
09:15–10:15 Atsuo Fukuda (Hamamatsu, Japan)
Chloride homeodynamics and GABA
modal-shifts during development or pathogenesis
10:15-10:45 Discussion
GABAergic
signaling at mossy fibers-CA3 synapses
17:00–18:00 Christian Hubner (Jena, Germany)
NKCC1 and early network activity
18:00-18:30 Discussion
Dynamic interactions between the cerebral hemispheres
in ontogenetic and evolutionary time scales
21:30–22:00 Discussion
Friday
Day6 GABA and seizures
08:15–09:15 Gabor Tamas (Szeged, Hungary)
Interneurons at the two ends of the functional
spectrum
09:15–10:15 Heiko J
Luhmann (Mainz, Germany)
The dual actions of
GABA in migration and excitability
10:15-10:45 Discussion
16:00–17:00 Kevin J Staley (Charlestown, MA, USA)
Neuronal ion transport and neonatal seizures
17:00–18:00 Richard
Miles (Paris, France)
Inhibitory and excitatory
signaling in seizure initiation
18:00-18:30 Discussion
Tangential and radial neuronal
migration disorders
21:30-22:00 Discussion
Saturday
Day7
08:15–09:15 Pasko Rakic (Yale, USA)
Evolutionarily expansion and elaboration of cortical GABAergic neurons:
Prospective from the studies in human, non-human primates and rodents
09:15–09:45 Discussion
10:00–16:00 Working
groups
16:00–17:30 Reports
from working groups I
17:30–19:00 Reports
from working groups II
Breakfast
and departure