Brain tumors and stem cells

Alexander von Holst
Cell Morphology & Molecular Neurobiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
"Brain Tumors: A Stem Cell Disease?"

Sascha Seidel
Neurological Institute (Edinger Institute), Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
"The tumor stem cell niche in malignant gliomas"

Björn Scheffler
Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, University of Bonn, Germany
"Stem Cell Pathologies"

Effects of Stress on the Brain: From Human Behaviour to Hippocampal Neurons

Oliver T Wolf
Cognitive Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
"Stress and memory in humans: Behavioural and Neuroimaging Findings"

Melly S Oitzl
Division of Medical Pharmacology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
"Animal models: stress and glucocorticoids in control of emotion and cognition"

Marian Joels
SILS-CNS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Stress hormone effects in the hippocampus: From minutes to months"

Regulation of Structure, neuro transmission and signalling in the nervous system

Carsten Theiss
Department of Cytology, Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
"Cytoskeletal dynamics in neurons"

Guiscard Seebohm
Receptorbiochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
"Stress dependent regulation of ion channels"

Doris Koesling
Institute of Pharmacology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
"Functional roles of the NO receptor isoforms in the nervous system"

Ralph Freeman
University of California, Berkeley, USA
"Neural and metabolic consequences of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)"

Stuart Mangel
Dept. of Neuroscience,Ohio State Univ. College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA
"Chloride Cotransporter Regulation of Visual Processing by the Retina"

Neural Correlates of Spatial and Feature-based Attention

Pascal Fries
F. C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
"Selective attention through selective neuronal synchronization"

Alexander Thiele
Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
"Acetylcholine contributes to attentional modulation in V1 by muscarinic receptors"

Gustavo Deco
ICREA Research Professor, Department of Technology, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
"The neuronal basis of attention: Rate vs. synchronization modulation"

The neuroscience of sleep and dreaming

Jan Born
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University Lübeck, Germany
"Sleep’s contribution to offline memory consolidation"

Sidarta Ribeiro
Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal (ELS-IINN), Natal, Brasil
"Molecular and electrophysiological substrates of memory processing during sleep"

Daniel Erlacher
Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaft, Universität Heidelberg
"The psychophysiology of (lucid) dreaming"

John I. Simpson
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
"Tales from the Most Numerous Neurons in the Brain -The Cerebellar Granule Cells"

Peter Hancock
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland
"How to improve human face matching"

Neurobiological aspects of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and its treatment

Georg Juckel
Dept. of Psychiatry, LWL-University Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum
"Introduction into the neurobiology of OCD"

Pierre Blier
Mood Disorder Research Unit, Institute of Mental Health Research,
University of Ottawa, Canada
"Neurobiological bases for the anti-OCD response"

Christine Winter
Dept. of Psychiatry, Charité Berlin
"Animal models of OCD"

Volker Sturm
Clinic for Stereotaxy and Functional Neurosurgery, University of Cologne
"Deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the nucleus accumbensfor treatment of therapy-resistant OCD"