03.02.2014 - Symposium

Technical developments in modern neurosurgery

Joachim K. Krauss
Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Deep brain stimulation: state of the art and new developments

Athanasios Petridis
University affiliated Hospital of Neurosurgery, Duisburg, Germany
The role of polysialic acid inspinal cord regeneration after trauma

Martin Scholz
University affiliated Hospital of Neurosurgery, Duisburg, Germany
Modern endoscopic und ultrasound techniques in neurosurgery

01.04.14 & 02.04.14 - Conference

Receptors and ion channels: The molecular basis of synaptic signaling and modulation

Anne Stephenson, (keynote speaker)
UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK
NMDA Receptors and the MAGUK Family of Scaffolding Proteins

Bernd Fakler
Institute of Physiology, University Freiburg, Germany
The proteome of native AMPA-receptors and its significance for excitatory neurotransmission

Claus Pietrzik
Institute of Pathobiochemistry,
University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
The role of lipoprotein receptors on NMDA receptor activity

Philippe Lory
Institute of Functional Genomics (IGF), Montpellier, France
Molecular mechanisms underlying calcium channelopathies

Chris De Zeeuw
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam / Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creating patterns for cerebellar motor coordination

Jürgen Sandkühler
Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Synaptic effects of opioids

Helmut Kettenmann
Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany
Properties of microglial cells

Vidar Grundersen
Department of Anatomy, University of Oslo, Norway
Presynaptic localisation of NMDA receptors at hippocampal synapses

Frank Kirchhoff
Institute of Physiology, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
The role of glial glutamate receptors in vivo

Stephan Sigrist
Institute for Biology/Genetics, F U Berlin, Germany
Shedding light on the assembly and function of synaptic protein architectures

A. B. (Guus) Smit
Medical Center, V U Amsterdam
Proteomics analysis of synaptic signaling in health and disease

Dirk Trauner
Department of Chemistry, University of Munich, Germany
Photopharmacology and the Restoration of Vision

05.05.2014 - Symposium

Explorations into the Avian mind

Michael Colombo
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, New Zealand
Wither the primate pedestal

Richard Hahnloser
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
New approaches to vocal communication and learning in songbirds

Harald Luksch
Department of animal sciences, Center for Life Sciences Weihenstephan (WZW), Technical University Munich, Germany
The avian midbrain: Cells, Circuits, Concepts

01.09.2014 - Symposium

Animal models of psychiatric disorders

Susanne Wolf
Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany
Functional and epigenetic properties of microglia in a mouse model of schizophrenia

Christine Winter
Section of Experimental Psychiatry, Dept. Of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden at the TU Dresden, Germany
Neuromodulation in maternally immune stimulated rat

Astrid Friebe
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital , Ruhr-University Bochum
Microglia in animal models of depression

22.09.2014 - Symposium

Cellular and subcellular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease

Ella Bossy-Wetzel
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando / FL, USA
Regulation of mitochondrial fission and fusion in aging and neurodegeneration

Tara L. Spires-Jones
Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems and Euan MacDonald Centre, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
A central role for synapses in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

Patricia Szot
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Puget Sound Health Care System /
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, University of Washington, Seattle/WA, USA
The central noradrenergic system in Alzheimer's disease: Impacts on cognition and behavior

06.10.2014 - Symposium

The effect of environmental enrichment on hippocampal physiology and memory function

Abdul H. Mohammed
Karoliska Institute Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden
Experience-dependent Plasticity: from Flies to Philosophers

Thomas Foster
Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Effect of environmental enrichment on the aging hippocampus

Nicoletta Berardi
Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research, Child Health (NEUROFARBA), Florence University, Florence / Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
Environmental enrichment and brain plasticity

03.11.2014 - Symposium

Principles of Brain Wiring

Hermann Cuntz
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt, Germany
Modelling the formation of neural circuits

Stefan Rotter
Bernstein Center Freiburg & Faculty of Biology University of Freiburg, Germany
Spike Train Correlations Induced by Anatomical Microstructure

Dirk Schubert
Cellular Neurophysiology, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
Excitatory neuronal networks in the rodent somatosensory cortex:
what morphology of a neuron has to do with its function