PROGRAM
(Preliminary program as of May 16, 2011)
Day 1, Wednesday, May 25, 2011
18.00-19.00 Arrival at the Nobel Museum, Old Town, Central Stockholm
19.15 Dinner (at the Nobel Museum)
21.00 Joint departure to Sånga-Säby for the conference (arrival 22.00)
Day 2, Thursday, May 26, 2011
Session I:
Chair: Bertil Fredholm
09.00-09.30 Thomas Südhof
How presynaptic terminals release neurotransmitters – a miracle of speed and precision
09.40-10.10 Mu-ming Poo
Neurotrophins as regulators of axonal growth and synaptic function
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.20 Robert Lefkowitz
Seven TM Receptors
11.30-12.00 Gero Miesenböck
Optogenetics: observing and controlling neural activity with light
12.10-13.30 Lunch
Session II
Chair: Gunnar von Heijne
13.30-14.00 Roger Y Tsien
New molecules to image and manipulate neuronal function
14.10-14.40 Stefan W Hell
Nanoscopy with focused light
14.50-15.20 Jeff W Lichtman
Connectomics in the developing nervous system
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Session III
Chair: Roger Tsien
16.00-16.30 Thomas Jessell
Measured Motion: The Neurons and Networks of Spinal Motor Control
16.40-17.10 Daniel Geschwind
Transcriptional networks in human brain
17.20-17.50 Charles Zuker
Sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami: the receptors, cells, and coding logic for mammalian taste
18.00-20.00 Dinner
Session IV
Chair: Hans Jörnvall
20.00-20.30 Adriano Aguzzi
Prions and other deadly nanomachines
20.40-21.10 Susan Lindquist
Prion switches as molecular memories
21.20-21.50 Karen H Ashe
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease
Day 3, Friday, May 27
Session V:
Chair: Hans Jörnvall (first lecture), Eric Kandel (rest of the session)
09.00-09.30 Eric R Kandel
On the Perpetuation of Memory Storage
09.40-10.10 John O'Keefe
Two memory systems in the medial temporal lobes
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.20 Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser
Brain circuits for space
11.30-12.00 Wolf Singer
Dynamic coordination of distributed processes in the brain
12.10-13.30 Lunch
Session VI
Chair: Astrid Gräslund
13.30-14.00 Marc-Oliver Gewaltig
Computational Neuroscience of cortical processing and memory
14.10-14.40 Miguel A L Nicolelis
Principles of Neural Ensemble Physiology and How They Can be Used to Liberate the Brain from the Body through Brain-Machine-Interfaces
14.50-15.20 John Donoghue
Merging Minds and Machines: Brain Computer Interfaces to Restore Lost Function
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Session VII
Chair: Lars Bergström
16.00-16.30 Andrew Schwartz
A new look at motor control
17.20-17.50 Krishna Shenoy
Emerging directions for Higher Performance Brain-Machine Interfaces
18.00-20.00 Dinner
Session VIII
Chair: Albert Fert
20.00-20.30 Albert Fert
Electrons, spins and emerging directions in spintronics
20.40-21.10 Karlheinz Meier
Brain-inspired electronic circuits – a new paradigm for computing
21.20-21.50 Victor Erokhin
Organic memristors - synthetic pathways for bio-mimetic information processing
22.00-22.30 Vincent Derycke
Function learning with nanoscale memristors
Day 4, Saturday, May 28
Session VIIII
Chair: Ingemar Lundström
09.00-09.30 John J Hopfield
Collective neural dynamics: from attractor networks to mental exploration
09.40-10.10 David R Walt
Lessons from the Olfactory System Applied to Chemical Sensing
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.20 David Julius
From Peppers to Pit Vipers: Deciphering Molecular Mechanisms of Temperature and Pain Sensation
11.30-12.00 Christof Koch
Discovering the neuronal basis of consciousness
12.10-13.15 Lunch
13.15 Joint departure by bus to Stockholm and to Stockholm Arlanda airport
Last updated May 18, 2011