Program & Locations
9 December 2009
18.00 – Registration
18.30 – Opening Address
Helmut Kettenmann
Opening lecture
Jörg Geiger (homepage)
Energetics and signal transmission in cortical non-myelinated axons
Chair: Dietmar Schmitz
Venue
Langebeck Virchow Haus
Luisenstraße 58/59, 10117 Berlin
See map
10 and 11 December 2009
Keynote lectures and accompanying Ph.D. presentations
Poster presentations by Ph.D. students
Thursday, 10 December
09.00 Introduction: Gary Lewin
Chair: Kerstin Stock (Helmholtz International Research School Molecular Neurobiology)
09.05 – Keynote lecture
Elly Tanaka (homepage)
Cellular and Molecular Control of Axolotl Spinal Cord Regeneration
10.05 – PhD Talks
10.05 – Valentina Mosienko Growth retardation, impaired autonomic control, and altered behavior in mice lacking brain serotonin
10.20 – Damir Omerbasic Molecular dissection of sensory phenotypes using the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)
10.35 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 Introduction: John-Dylan Haynes
Chair: Vinzenz Schönfelder (Modelling of Cognitive Processes, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin)
11.05 – Keynote lecture
Andreas Bartels (homepage)
Colour, Motion, and Natural Vision in the Human Brain
12.05 – Ph.D. talks
12.05 – Felix Bießmann Neurovascular coupling dynamics in primary visual cortex during spontaneous activity
12.25 – Thorsten Kahnt The neural code of reward anticipation in human orbitofrontal cortex
12.45 – Kerstin Hackmack Decoding Multiple Sclerosis from MRI Brain Patterns
13.00 – Lunch (and Coffees) (to 15.00)
13.45 – 15.00 Ph.D. poster presentations (odd numbers)
15.00 Introduction: Uwe Heinemann
Chair: Gürsel Caliskan (GRK 1123 Cellular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory)
15.05 – Keynote lecture
Gábor Tamás (homepage)
Single cell driven GABAergic volume transmission in cortical circuits
16.05 – Ph.D. talks
16.05 – Christian Barucker The ß-amyloid peptide (Aß) in processes of learning and memory: a possible role in the nucleus
16.25 – Benjamin Rost Mechanisms of presynaptic inhibition by GABA-b receptors
Friday, 11 December
09.00 – Introduction: Frank Heppner/Josef Priller
Chair: Stefanie Seifert (GRK 1258 The Impact of Inflammation on Nervous System Function)
09.05 – Keynote lecture
Thomas Möller (homepage)
Microglia in Huntington’s Disease – Good, Bad or Something Else Altogether?
10.05 – Ph.D. talks
10.05 – Gina Dji-In Eom Functional assessment of microglia in central nervous system homeostasis using a mouse model allowing selective ablation of microglia
10.25 – Dinah Nockemann Characterization of GIRK channels in peripheral sensory neurons of mice and rats
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 Introduction: Ulrich Dirnagl
Chair: Anna Maslarova (International Graduate Program Medical Neurosciences)
11.20 – Keynote lecture
Wolfgang Kuschinsky (homepage)
Regulation of Cerebral Blood Flow: A Story of Increasing Complexity
12.20 – Ph.D. talks
12.20 – Ana I. Oliveira-Ferreira Does Endothelin-1 induce cortical spreading depolarization (CSD) via a direct effect on the vasculature?
12.45 – Martina Füchtemeier Influence of Elevated Intracranial Pressure on Neurovascular Coupling
13.00 – Lunch (and Coffees) (to 15.00)
13.45 – 15.00 Ph.D. poster presentations (even numbers)
15.00 Introduction: John-Dylan Haynes
Chair: Radoslaw M. Cichy and Holger Gerhardt (Berlin School of Mind and Brain)
15.05 – Keynote lecture
Nancy Kanwisher (homepage)
Feedback of Visual Object Information to Foveal Retinotopic Cortex
16.00 – Ph.D. talks
16.00 – Holger Gerhardt How Does Prior Probability Influence Visual Perception?
16.15 – Radoslaw M. Cichy Decoding the what and where of object exemplars and categories across the hemifields
16.30 – Carsten Bogler Two modes of perceptual decision making with and without awareness
17.00 Award for “Best Poster”
BBD 2009 Party
22.00 Das Edelweiss (Berlin-Kreuzberg, in Görlitzer Park)
Location: Görlitzer Straße 1–3, 10997 Berlin
Enter the Park at Görlitzer Straße 69 or from the corner of Skalitzer and Görlitzer Straße
22.00 Award for “Best Talk”
Venue
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
Building: Conference Center MDC.C, Lecture hall “Axon”
Address: Robert-Rössle-Straße 10, 13125 Berlin
See map. How to get there.
Saturday, 12 December
10.00 – 12.00 Doctoral student meeting with Nany Kanwisher
Contact: Radoslaw Cichy
Venue
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Philippstraße 13, Haus 6
10115 Berlin