XXIX CONGRESO ANUAL DE LA
SOCIEDAD ARGENTINA DE INVESTIGACION EN NEUROCIENCIAS
Course “New mechanisms of neuro-glial interaction:
their contribution to nervous system development and repair”
September 29-October 3, 2014 – Huerta Grande, Córdoba, Argentina.
PROGRAM
Monday September 29th: Course DAY 1 .
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Welcome words by the ISN small conference organizers
9:30-10:15 Description of the general organization of the course and initial orientation for the Project-writing workshop for students
10:15-11:45 Lecture I: Gabriel Corfas, Children´s Hospital, Boston, USA. “Glia and the formation/plasticity of neural circuits”
11:45-12:45 Coffee Break and poster viewing I
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Lecture II: Flavia Gomes, UFRJ, Brazil. “Astrocytes: key function in the balance between excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs“
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break and poster viewing II
16:30-18:00 Lecture III: Luis Barbeito, Institut Pasteur, Montevideo, Uruguay. “Characterization of astrocytes phenotypes modulating disease progression in inherited ALS”
18:00-20:30 Group activity meeting I: Project writing workshop for students. Each student group will be coordinated by a speaker or organizer.
21:00 Dinner
Tuesday September 30th: Course DAY 2 .
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Lecture IV: Vladimir Parpura, UAB, USA. “Tripartite synapse: new glial roles”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and poster viewing III
11.00-12:30 Lecture V: Fernando Pitossi, Inst. Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina. “Functional role of microglial cells in Parkinson´s Disease”
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Lecture VI. Felipe Court, PUC, Chile. “The role of Schwann cells in degenerative and regenerative axonal programs”
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break and poster viewing IV
17:00-18:30 Project writing workshop meeting II.
18:30-20:30 Project writing workshop meeting: Student presentations.
20:30-21:30 Round table and final conclusions of the ISN symposium
21:30 Dinner
Wednesday October 1st: SAN MEETING DAY 1 .
09:00 Registration
10:00 Welcome by Organizers
10:10 Symposium I “The Good and the Bad of Neurotrophins”
Chair: Laura Montroull, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y
Tecnológicas, UNC-CONICET
Philip Barker, Montreal Neurological Institute – McGill University
Wilma Friedman, Department of Biological Sciences – RUTGERS University. Newark, NJ, EEUU.
Francisca Bronfman, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Daniel Mascó, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Tecnológicas,
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba-CONICET
12:40 Lunch
14:30 Short talks selected from poster abstracts (two parallel sessions in Rooms A & B)
16:30-19:15 Poster session I, Networking & Coffee break
19:15-20:15 Eduardo de Robertis Conference: Bernardo Sabatini, Neurobiology Department, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
20:15-20:45 Sten Grillner, IBRO Secretary-General, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SWEDEN
“IBRO Mission, IBRO Brazil 2015“
21:00 Dinner
Dinner activity: eat with the big shots I !
Students and postdocs can sign up to share the table with lecturers and symposia speakers
23:00 Teatro Científico Trashumante: “Hormigas al Poder”
Jóvenes Investigadores en Neurociencias (JINES), Córdoba
Thursday October 3rd: SAN MEETING DAY 2
09:00 Symposium II: Adult Neurogenesis and Repair in the CNS: A Functional Perspective
Chair: Alejandro Schinder, Fundación Instituto Leloir
Alejandro Schinder, Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina. “Introduction to adult neurogenesis”
Pierre Marie Lledo, Laboratory of Perception and Memory, Institut Pasteur, France. “Neurogenesis in the adult olfactory bulb”
Hongjun Song, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. “Neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus”
Pierre Vanderhaeghen, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research IRIBHM, Belgium. “Pyramidal neurons derived from human pluripotent stem cells integrate efficiently into mouse brain circuits in vivo”
11:30 Coffee break
12:00-12.30 SAN Award to the Best Doctoral Thesis in Neuroscience 2013 – Chair:
13:00 Lunch
15:00-17:30 Poster Session & Networking II
17:30-18:30 Sten Grillner, IBRO Secretary-General, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SWEDEN
“Networks in Motion – from ion channels to behaviour”
18:30-20:30 Young Investigator Symposium (15-min talks from senior postdocs and junior group leaders)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner activity: eat with the big shots II!
22:00 SAN Business Meeting
PARTY!!!!
Friday October 4th: SAN MEETING DAY 3 .
9:00-11:30 Symposium II: Ion channels from development to behavior
Chair: Nara Muraro, Fundación Instituto Leloir
Richard Baines, University of Manchester, UK
David Schulz, University of Missouri, USA
Diego Rayes, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Nara I. Muraro, Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
11.30 Coffee break
12:00 Ranwel Caputto Plenary Lecture – Chair:
13:00 Closing remarks by organizers and farewell barbecue
16:00 Meeting adjourns
