Program & Locations
Locations
7 December 2011 (opening session)
Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Luisenstraße 58/59, 10117 Berlin
Map
8–9 December 2011
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch
Conference Center MDC.C, lecture hall “Axon”
Robert-Rössle-Straße 10, 13125 Berlin
Map
How to get to the Max Delbrück Center by public transport:
From Bahnhof Friedrichstraße, take S-Bahn line S2 direction Buch/Bernau to S-Bahn station Berlin-Buch. From there take Bus 351 (direction Campus Buch; bus stop to the left of the S-Bahn station) directly to the Max Delbrück Center ( last stop). Travel time: about 40 min. from S-Bahnhof Berlin-Friedrichstraße.
There is also a taxi stand upon exiting the S-Bahn station Berlin-Buch. The MDC is about twenty minutes’ walking distance from the station Berlin-Buch.
Program
Wednesday, 7 December 2011 (Berlin-Mitte)
OPENING SESSION / 18.00
Helmut Kettenmann > Opening Address
Stephan Sigrist > Introduction
Christian Lüscher > Opening Lecture
Addiction, the dark side of learning
Award of Master’s Diplomas and Doctoral Certificates
Annette Grüters-Kieslich > Dean, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Klaus Obermayer > Program Coordinator, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Cheese & Wine Reception >
Humboldt Graduate School, Luisenstraße 56, Festsaal, 2nd floor, 10117 Berlin
Thursday, 8 December 2011 (Berlin-Buch)
SESSION 1 / Molecular Neuroscience / 9.30–11.15
Frank Bradke > Keynote Lecture
Cytoskeletal mechanisms of axonal growth and regeneration
Ph.D. talks
Damir Omerbasic > Ablation of heat-gated TRPV1-currents by single amino-acid exchanges
Kristin Stock > Neural precursor cells induce glioma cell-death via stimulation of TRPV1
Chair > Jan Walcher
Introduction > Gary Lewin
11.15 Coffee break
SESSION 2 / Languages of Emotion / 11.45–13.30
Luiz Pessoa > Keynote Lecture
On the relationship between emotion and cognition
Ph.D. talks
Christoph Korn > Positively biased processing of social feedback
Soyoung Park > Adaptive coding of reward prediction errors in human brain
Timo Stein > Rapid fear processing relies on high spatial frequencies
Chair > Dorit Kliemann
Introduction > Hauke Heekeren
13.30–15.00 Lunch (+ coffee) & Poster presentations (even numbers)
SESSION 3 / Computational Neuroscience / 15.00–16.45
Adrienne Fairhall, Keynote Lecture
Deconstructing adaptive coding
Ph.D. talks
Jorge Jaramillo > Hippocampal coding and the inheritance of phase precession
Anne Porbadnigk > Towards EEG-based assessment of audio quality using machine learning
Vinzenz Schönfelder > Peering into the Black Box — using sparse feature selection to identify critical stimulus
Chair > Jan Clemens
Introduction > Susanne Schreiber
Friday, 9 December 2011 (Berlin-Buch)
SESSION 4 / Mind & Brain / 9.30–11.15
Kalanit Grill-Spector > Keynote Lecture
Re-thinking the functional organization of human high-level visual cortex
Ph.D. talks
Fatma Imamoglu > Changes in effective connectivity support conscious object recognition
Karin Ludwig > Persistent priming by challenging visual perceptions
Fernando Ramirez > Category selective encoding of orientation in the fusiform face area
Chair > Martin Hebart
Introduction > Philipp Sterzer
11.15 Coffee break
SESSION 5 / Medical Neurosciences / 11.45–13.30
Hermona Soreq > Keynote Lecture
Micro-RNAs in the interface between inflammation and neurodegeneration
Ph.D. talks
Odilo Engel > Parasympathetic activity dampens peripheral immune responses after stroke
Michael Kintscher > RIM1α controls short-term plasticity by setting release probability
Katyayni Vinnakota > TLR signaling modulates MT1-MMP expression in glioma-associated microglia and contributes to glioma growth
Chair > Katarzyna Winek
Introduction > Andreas Meisel
13.30–15.00 Lunch (+ coffee) & Poster presentations (odd numbers)
SESSION 6 / Learning & Memory / 15.00–16.45
Hans Markowitsch > Keynote Lecture
Memory and brain: neuropsychology, neurology, and psychiatry
Ph.D. talks
Gürsel Caliskan > Long-lasting increase in plasma corticosterone associated with changes in anxiety behavior and hippocampal gamma oscillations following fear memory reconsolidation
Jakob Gutzmann > Characterization of novel Arc/Arg3.1 Interaction Partners
Chia-Ling Chang > Identify the targets that involved in regulating synapse formation by MeCP2
Chair > Stephanie Wegener
Introduction > Jörg Geiger
16.45 Improv Comedy by Creative Heads (while evaluation for “Best Talk” and “Best Poster” goes on)
17.15 Award of “Best Talk” and “Best Poster” (prizes!)
BBD 2011 PARTY
Start > 20.00
Come early: Free drinks for conference participants for the first hour or so!
Location > Bar Babette, Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 10178 Berlin
http://www.barbabette.com