Dear All,
The Center of Excellence for Neural Plasticity and Brain Disorders: BRAINCITY, the Nencki-EMBL Partnership, cordially invites you to its first scientific symposium to be held on 22 July 2019 in the Nencki Institute Neurobiology Center Conference Hall.
The lecturers of the symposium will be the candidates for BRAINCITY group leaders. This interesting scientific meeting will run according to the following schedule:
08.30-09.00 Welcome coffee in the Neurobiology Centre Exhibition Hall
Session 1
Chair: Witold Konopka
09.00-09.40 Cemil Kerimoglu, German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Goettingen, Germany
Role of Neuronal Chromatin Regulation in Memory and Cognitive Disorders: Moving Towards Cell Type-Specific and Single Cell Resolution
09.40-10.20 Ali Jawaid, University of Zurich / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
A key role for metabolic and epigenetic factors in pathogenesis and inheritance of brain diseases
10.20-11.00 Jakub Mieczkowski, Nencki Institute, Poland
Systems biology approach to understanding how extracellular stimuli shape brain cells plasticity
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Session 2
Chair: Katarzyna Jednorog
11.30-12.10 Jan Kaminski, Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, USA
Single-neuron correlates of Working Memory in Humans
12.10-12.50 Marcin Szczot, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Uncovering molecular mechanisms of touch and pain
12.50-13.30 Lunch
Session 3
Chair: Katarzyna Radwanska
13.30-14.10 Patricio Opazo, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia
Optogenetic elimination of dendritic spines reveals their function in memory formation and disease
14.10-14.50 Gianfilippo Coppola, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Systems Biology of Human Diseases: an application to Autism research
14.50-15.30 Bogna Ignatowska-Jankowska, Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology, Japan
Emerging behavioral models: from 3D motion capture to behavioral transcriptomics
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
Looking forward to seeing you at the symposium,
Leszek Kaczmarek
Ewelina Knapska
