Overview
Date: 01–03 November 2010
The Berlin Brain Days 2010 start with an opening lecture by Edvard Moser on the evening of 01 November.
Edvard Moser (homepage)

Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Lecture: Brain maps for navigating and remembering space
November 2nd and 3rd are dedicated to five 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
Lutz Birnbaumer (homepage)

Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
Lecture: Signal Transduction by G Proteins: Focus on molecular aspects of activation and deactivation of regulatory GTPases
David Colman (homepage)

Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada
Lecture: Evolutionary origins and organization of the CNS synapse
Richard Miles (homepage)

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Cortex & Epilepsy Group, Paris
Lecture: Epileptiform activities of the human subiculum and of KA-treated animals
Eero Simoncelli (homepage)

Departments of Neural Science, Mathematics, and Psychology, New York University, USA
Lecture: Bayesian modeling of visual motion perception
Tor Wager (homepage)

Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Lecture: The origins of pain in the central nervous system: Insights from manipulations of expectation and affective value
Program and Locations
For details, please view the Program and Locations page.
Organizers
The Berlin Brain Days 2010 are jointly organized by six 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
