Berlin Brain Days 2009
Date: 09–11 December 2009
The Berlin Brain Days 2009 start with an opening lecture by Jörg Geiger on the evening of December 9th.
Jörg Geiger (homepage)
Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Neurophysiology, Germany
December 10th and 11th are dedicated to six keynote lectures and accompanying presentations by Ph.D. students. Throughout these two days, Ph.D. students also have the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions.
The keynote lectures will be given by
Elly Tanaka (homepage)
Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Germany
Lecture: Cellular and Molecular Control of Axolotl Spinal Cord Regeneration
Nancy Kanwisher (homepage)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Cambridge, USA
Lecture: Feedback of Visual Object Information to Foveal Retinotopic Cortex
Wolfgang Kuschinsky (homepage)
Heidelberg University
Institute for Physiology und Pathophysiology, Heidelberg, Germany
Lecture: Regulation of Cerebral Blood Flow: A Story of Increasing Complexity
Thomas Möller (homepage)
University of Washington
Department of Neurology, Seattle, USA
Lecture: Microglia and Huntington´s Disease
Gábor Tamás (homepage)
University of Szeged
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Group for Cortical Microcircuits
Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Neuroscience
Szeged, Hungary
Lecture: Single cell driven GABAergic volume transmission in cortical circuits
Andreas Bartels (homepage)
Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Lecture: Colour, Motion, and Natural Vision in the Human Brain
Program and Locations
For details, please view the Program and Locations page.
Organizers
The Berlin Brain Days 2009 are jointly organized by seven Berlin-based neuroscience Ph.D. training programs. For details, see Organizers.
The program committee is chaired by Prof. Dr. Helmut Kettenmann.
Contact
Lutz Steiner – International Graduate Program Medical Neurosciences
Phone: +49 30 2093–4582
E-mail: lutz.steiner (at) charite.de