Meeting Program (October 3-5)

Wednesday, October 3^rd

08:00-09:30 Registration

09:30-10:00 Opening

10:00-13:00 Symposium I: Neurobiology of drug addiction: effects in animal models and a translational human.

Chair:  Dra. Liliana M Cancela

10:00-10:40 Dynorphins as modulators of stress and drug addiction: from mice to men. Andreas Zimmer, Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Germany.

10:40-11:20 To be announced.

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-12:20 Repetitive cocaine administration alters GABAergic  thalamocortical transmission. Francisco J. Urbano,  IFIBYNE-CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

12:20-13:00 Direct visualization of delta opioid internalization under physiological conditions. Dominique Massotte, Department of Neurobiology and Genetics, IGBMC, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.

13:15-14:30: Lunch

14:30-16:30 Young Investigators Colloquium I

16:30-17:00 coffee break

17:00- 19:30 Poster session I

19:30-20:30 Hector Maldonado Lecture

Channelopathies as a source of neurological disorders.

Osvaldo Uchitel, Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias. IFIBYNE-UBA-CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

20:30-22:00: Dinner.

22:00-24:00 Plenary meeting SAN. SfN local chapter

24:00: Bonfire.

 

Thursday, October 4^th

08:30-10:30 Young Investigators Colloquium II

10:30-10:50 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Poster session II

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:40-17:40 Symposium II: Vocal Interactions-A dialogue across species.

Chairs: Diego A. Laplagne and Juan E. Kamienkowski,

14:40-15:20 HUMANS: Coordination in Human-Human Dialogue. Agustín Gravano, Computer Science Department, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

15:20-16:00 NON-HUMAN PRIMATES: Nonhuman primate communication and the roots of human language. Julia Fischer, Research Group Cognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate Center, Goettingen, Germany.

16:00-16:20 Coffee break

16:20- 17:00 RODENTS: Ultrasonic communication in rodents – Going beyond emotion. Diego A Laplagne, Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

17:00-17:40 SONGBIRDS: Wired to cooperate: mechanisms for duet singing in wrens. Eric Fortune, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.

18:00-19:00 Ranwell Caputo Lecture

Deciphering the function of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels: From the molecular to the animal level.

Cecilia Bouzat, INIBIBB-CONICET, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

19:00-21:00: Poster session III

21:00-22:30 Dinner

23:00- Neuroparty.

 

Friday, October 5th

09:00-12:00 Symposium III Wnt signalling in nervous system development and functioning

Chair:  Silvana Rosso

09:00-09:40 Regulation of the Neuronal Function by Wnts. Nibaldo C. Inestrosa, Centre for Aging and Regeneration (CARE), Faculty of Biological Sciences, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

09:40-10:20 WNT signalling regulates neuronal polarization and maturation through different signalling pathways. Silvana Rosso, Laboratorio de Toxicología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

10:20-10:40       Coffee break

10:40-11:20 The life and death of the synapse: a role for Wnt signalling. Patricia C. Salinas, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK.

11:20-12:00 Dual role of Secreted Frizzled Related Proteins in CNS development. Paola Bovolenta, Department of Development and Differentiation, CBMSO, CSIC-UAM, and CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain.

12:15-13:15 De Robertis Lecture

Rethinking glia: their roles in neural circuit formation, plasticity and function

Gabriel Corfas, Children´s Hospital, Boston, MA.

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13:30-15:00 Barbacue lunch and fairwell.