This meeting is the Inaugural Symposium of CORTEX - a network of eight European Graduate Schools.

Program and registration:
http://www.helsinki.fi/fgsn/CORTEX/

 

Abstract deadline 30.4.2006
Registration deadline 22.5.2006

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 
 
Thursday, June 1st
 
09.00-09.15 Ulrich Dirnagl: (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

'Cooperation in Research and Training of European Excellence in the Neurosciences (CORTEX )'
 
09.15-09.35 Marja Makarow (Vice Rector, University of Helsinki)

'Bologna Process: a challenge for doctoral training'
 
09.35-10.05 Sakari Karjalainen (Director, Dept. Education and Science Policy, Ministry of Education)
'Doctoral training in Finland - recent developments'
 
10.05-10.30 Coffee
 
10.30-11.00 Denise Manahan-Vaughan (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
'Network of European Neuroscience Schools (NENS)'
 
11.00-12.00 Sten Grillner (Karolinska Institutet)
'The intrinsic function of a motor program - from ion channels to network and behaviour'
 
12.00-13.00 Lunch
 
13.00-14.00 Lydia Vargova (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
'Diffusion parameters of the CNS in health and disease '
 
14.00-15.00 Denise Manahan-Vaughan (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Title open
 
15.00-15.30 Coffee
 
15.30-16.30 Kai Kaila (University of Helsinki)
'GABAergic transmission: what is inhibition?'
 
Friday, June 2nd
 
09.00-10.00 Fritjof Helmchen (University of Zürich)
'Imaging neuronal and glial in vivo activity using two-photon microscopy'
 
10.00-11.00 Frances Edwards (University College London)
'Dendritic spines and synaptic plasticity'
 
11.00-12.00 Lunch
 
12.00-13.00 Riitta Hari (Helsinki University of Technology)
'Brains, bodies, and minds: Challenges of modern brain imaging'
 
13.00-14.00 Ulrich Dirnagl (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
'Brain - immune system interactions after stroke'
 
14.00-14.30 Coffee
 
14.30-15.30 Ole Petter Ottersen (University of Oslo)
'Aquaporin water channels in brain: physiological and pathophysiological roles'
 
15.30-18.00 Posters and refreshments
 
18.00 Get-together

Saturday, June 3rd
 
10.00-11.00 Mart Saarma (University of Helsinki)
'Identification of a novel, evolutionarily conserved neurotrophic factor family'
 
11.00-12.00 Petra Wahle (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
'Desparately wanted - a role for survival promoting peptide SPP/Y-P30 for cortex development'
 
12.00-12.30  Lunch
 
12.30-13.30 Mark Farrant (University College London)
Title open
 
13.30-14.30 Eva Sykova ( Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
'Migration and fate of adult and embryonic stem cells in brain and spinal cord injury'
 
14.30-14.45 Kai Kaila: Concluding remarks
 

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WELCOME!

More information from http://www.helsinki.fi/fgsn/CORTEX

 

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Helsinki, London, Oslo,
Prague, Stockholm, Zurich