- IIAS Research Conference 2012
- Overview
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- Remarks from Participants
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- IIAS Research Conference 2011
- Overview
- Program
- Participants
- Remarks from Participants
- Photo Library
IIAS Research Conference 2011
"Frontiers in Neuroscience:From Brain to Mind"
Program
- Tuesday, December 6 -
- Wednesday, December 7 -
- Thursday, December 8 -
- Friday, December 9 -
| 14:00-15:00 | Registration |
| 15:00-15:10 | Opening Remarks Kazuo Oike (IIAS) |
| 15:10-16:10 | Opening Lecture Chair Person: Hitoshi Sakano (Univ. Tokyo) |
| 1.Deconstructing smell Linda Buck (Fred Hutchinson) |
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| 16:10-16:30 | < Coffee Break > |
| 16:30-18:30 | Olfactory System Chair Person: Lisa Stowers (Scripps) |
| 1.Molecular genetic dissection of olfactory neural circuitry in zebrafish Yoshihiro Yoshihara (RIKEN) |
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| 2.Evolution of olfactory receptor gene repertoires and function Sigrun Korsching (Univ. Cologne) |
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| 18:30-20:30 | Welcome Dinner |
| 9:30-12:30 | Axons and Wiring Chair Person: Sigrun Korsching (Univ. Cologne) |
| 1.The neural circuitry of emotion in flies and mice
David Anderson (Caltech) |
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| < Coffee Break > | |
| 2.Kinesin superfamily molecular motors (KIFs) as key regulators for intracellular transport and higher brain function
Nobutaka Hirokawa (Univ. Tokyo) |
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| Short Talks | |
| 1.Mapping the chemical circuitry of the brain: New neuromodulator sensor revealed dopaminergic gain-control of feeding behavior by starvation in Drosophila
Hidehiko Inagaki (Caltech) |
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| 2.Transformation from relative timing to firing rate in the central olfactory pathway Rafi Haddad (Harvard Univ.) | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-17:00 | Synapse Chair Person: Nicholas Spitzer (UCSD) |
| 1.Signaling networks that regulate synapse development and cognitive function
Michael Greenberg (Harvard Univ.) |
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| 2. Synaptic competition in the dendritic spines of CA1 pyramidal neurons
Haruo Kasai (Univ. Tokyo) |
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| < Coffee Break > | |
| 3. Circuit mechanisms for perceptual memory of the temporal sequence and time intervals of sensory events Mu-ming Poo (UC Berkeley) |
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| 4. Wired for sex: the neurobiology of drosophila courtship behaviour
Barry Dickson (IMP, Vienna) |
| 9:30-12:30 | Neural Circuit Chair Person: Ivan Rodriguez (Univ. Geneva) |
| 1.Enhancement of activity and plasticity in visual cortex Michael Stryker (UCSF) |
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| 2.Neuronal identity and circuit formation in the mouse olfactory system Hitoshi Sakano (Univ. Tokyo) |
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| < Coffee Break > | |
| 3.Activity-dependent neurotransmitter respecification: novel plasticity Nicholas Spitzer (UCSD) |
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| Short Talk | |
| 1.Decoding human brain signals Yukiyasu Kamitani (ATR) |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-17:00 | Pheromone-induced Behavior Chair Person: Yoshihiro Yoshihara (RIKEN) |
| 1.Diverse coding logic to encode olfactory-mediated behavior Lisa Stowers (Scripps Inst.) |
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| 2.Narrowly-tuned chemosensory reception for food and pheromone signals Kazushige Touhara (Univ. Tokyo) |
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| < Coffee Break > | |
| 3.Emergence of novel chemosensors: from the immune to the olfactory system Ivan Rodriguez (Univ. Geneva) |
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| 4.Calreticulin chaperones regulate functional expression of V2R pheromone receptors Hiroaki Matsunami (Duke Univ.) |
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| 17:00-18:30 | Poster Presentation |
| 18:30-20:30 | Dinner |
| 9:30-12:30 | Sensory Perception Chair Person: Hiroaki Matsunami (Duke Univ.) |
| 1.Genes that are selectively expressed in regions of primate neocortex: the functions and implication for cortical specialization Tetsuo Yamamori (NIBB) |
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| 2. Olfactory white: odorant mixtures containing many components converge towards a common percept
Noam Sobel (Weizmann Inst.) |
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| < Coffee Break > | |
| 3. Toward the circuit physiology of midbrain dopamine neurons: beyond stamp collecting Naoshige Uchida (Harvard Univ.) |
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| 4.Sensory experience-dependent reorganization of neuronal circuits in the olfactory cortex and olfactory bulb during postprandial sleep Kensaku Mori (Univ. Tokyo) |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-16:30 | Cognition and Behavior Chair Person: Tetsuo Yamamori (NIBB) |
| 1.A neandertal perspective on human origins Svante Pääbo (Max Planck) |
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| 2.Functional architecture of cerebral cortex Kenichi Ohki (Kyushu Univ.) |
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| < Coffee Break > | |
| 3.Functional division among prefrontal areas in macaque monkeys Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN) |
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| 4.Cognitive development in humans and chimpanzees Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Kyoto Univ.) |
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| 16:30-17:30 | Closing Lecture Chair Person: Sigrun Korsching (Univ. Cologne) |
| 1.Experimental and theoretical approaches to conscious processing Jean-Pierre Changeux (Collège de France) |
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| 17:30-17:35 | Concluding Remarks Yoshiro Shimura (IIAS) |