41st EBBS Meeting

September  14

September 15

September 16

September 17

September 18

8:30-10:30

Registration (8.30-19.00)
Atrium Lobby

2nd day of HSN Meeting
Nafsica

&

2nd Stress Satellite Symposium on “Mechanisms and consequences of early life stress: Lessons from the past five decades
In honour of the late Seymour “Gig” Levine”
8.30-17.00
Delphi

S1A. Learning-induced structural remodeling of hippocampal and cortical networks
Delphi

S3A. Neural bases of olfactory emotional learning: from learned fear to  maternal love
Delphi

S5A. Spatial representation and neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus
Delphi

S7A. Evolutionary neurobiology of social hierarchies: Studies in humans, monkeys and rodents
Delphi

S1B. Sex differences in brain plasticity and behaviour
Nafsica

S3B. Dissociating normal from pathological aging: Insight from human and rodents models studies Nafsica

S5B. An update on the functional role of the locus coeruleus in cognition
Nafsica

S7B. Environment and rhythmic behaviour
Nafsica

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

11:00-12:00

L2. The Social Brain and its  Failures
Uta Frith & Chris Frith
Delphi

L4. Interaction and communication between the cerebral hemispheres
Giovanni Berlucchi
Delphi

L6. Motivation and Executive control in the human prefrontal cortex
Etienne Koechlin
Delphi

L8. Watching a small and intelligent brain as it learns and remembers.
Randolf Menzel
Delphi

12:00-15:00

Poster Session (& Lunch)
Salon des Roses

Poster Session (& Lunch)
Salon des Roses

EBBS Executive Committee Meeting, 14:00-15:00

Poster Session (& Lunch)
Salon des Roses

Closing remarks-Presentation of the 2011 EBBS Meeting
Salon des Roses
12:00-12:30

15:00-16:00

L3. Electrical Microstimulation & fMRI
Nikos Logothetis
 Delphi

EBBS Annual General Meeting, 15:00-16:00

Elsevier Behavioural Brain Research Lecture
L7. Emotion value and the tyranny of choice
Ray Dolan
Delphi

16-16:30

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

16:30-18:30

S2A. Neurobiological bases of emotional memory: Adaptive vs. maladaptive memory processing
Delphi

S4A. Adult neurogenesis and hippocampal memory
Delphi

S6A. Neural circuitry and physiology of Pavlovian conditioning
Delphi

S2B. Subsecond dopamine changes in behaviour
Nafsica

S4B. Role of Oxytocin on Behavior
Nafsica

S6B. The parieto-frontal system: A multifaceted interface for cognitive and motor functions
Nafsica

19:00-19:30

Welcome   Delphi

19:30-20:30

L1. Functional and anatomical organization of lateral prefrontal cortex for memory
Michael Petrides
Delphi

Evening Lecture: The extraction of 3D shape in the primate visual system: a tale of gradients, neurons and images
Guy A. Orban
Delphi
18:45-19:45

20.00-21.00

European DANA Alliance for the Brain Public Lecture
L5. Memory Circuits in  the Brain
Michael Petrides

21:00-24:00

Welcoming Reception
Castle of the Knights-City of Rhodes

EBBS Banquet
Rodos Palace

23rd HSfN MEETING

September 13 Nafsica

11:00-11:15

Welcome

11:15-12:15

Plenary Lecture I

Mansuy I.
“Epigenetic regulation of cognitive functions”

12:15-13:45

Symposium I – Synaptic Function in Health and Disease

Kostopoulos G.
“EEG frequency transformation in sleep”
Plaitakis A.
“Gain-of-function variant in GLUD2 glutamate dehydrogenase modifies Parkinson’s disease onset”
Zagoraiou L.
“Cholinergic interneurons and motor control in the mammalian spinal cord”

13:45-15:00

Poster Session (& Lunch Break)
Salon des Roses

15:00-16:00

Plenary Lecture II

Carlos Ibáñez
“Trophic signalling in the nervous system”

16:00-17:30

Symposium II – Intracellular signalling

Tzartos S.
“Human nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in muscles and neurons”
Georgoussi Z.
“From G protein-coupled receptor signaling to novel therapeutic targets: the opioid receptor paradigm”
Leondaritis G.
“Spatiotemporal regulation of Ras/ERK intracellular signaling during neuronal differentiation: dissecting the role of the RasGAP neurofibromin”

17:30-18:00

Coffee break

18:00-20:00

Symposium III –
Plasticity

Angelatou F.
“The role of Dopamine and Dopamine/Glutamate interactions in neuronal plasticity processes”
Dalezios Y.
“Identifying the neurons of a network in the brain”
Poirazi P.
“Modelling memory functions in single cells and small networks”
Pavlopoulos E.
“Neuralized-1 regulates protein synthesis and enhances synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain: new insights into the role of ubiquitin ligases in memory storage”

September 14 Nafsica

9:00-11:30

Symposium IV – Neurodegeneration, Protection & Repair

Georgopoulos S.
“Investigating the role of cholesterol related genes in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis in transgenic mice”
Gravanis A.
“Neurosteroids as modulators of neurogenesis and neuronal cell fate”
Sklaviadis T.
“Immunization with recombinant murine prion proteins induces immune suppression but protects against Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies”
Thermos K.
“Somatostatin analogues as therapeutics in retinal disease”
Papastefanaki F.
“Ramon y Cajal Revisited: Peripheral Glia for Central Nervous System Repair”

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-13:00

Plenary Lecture ΙΙΙ

Roland Strauss
“Over Hill and Dale with Flies and Robots”

13:00-15:00

Poster Session (& Lunch Break)
Salon des Roses

15:00-16:00

Plenary Lecture IV

Tzavara ET
“Dopamine from synapse to behaviour”

16:00-18:00

Symposium V –
A debate on Genetic Polymorphisms as Predictors of Brain Disease.

Dikaios D.
“Methodological strengths and pitfalls in Psychiatric Genetics”.

Hadjigeorgiou G.
“Genetic Association Studies in Complex Diseases: The Paradigm of Parkinson's Disease”