8:30 am - 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:15 am

Introductory Remarks by Chris Moore

9:15 am - 10:00 am

Giorgio Carmignoto (University of Padua)
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Astrocyte-mediated regulation of cerebral microcirculation in the normal and diseased brain

10:00 am - 10:45 am

Edith Hamel (McGill University)
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Cortical GABA interneurons in the neuro- vascular coupling responses to afferent pathways stimulation

10:50 am - 11:30 am

Break

11:15 am - 12:00 pm

Martin Lauritzen (University of Copenhagen)
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The effects of synaptic activity and neuronal firing on local changes in blood flow and oxygen metabolism

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Anna Devor (Massachusetts General Hospital)
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Neuronal transmission, glucose consumption and the hemodynamic response.

12:45 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunch & Poster Display

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Introductory remarks by Alan Jasanoff

1:45 pm - 2:30 pm

Robert Kraus (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
The prospect of direct neural imaging with ultra-low field MRI

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm

Elizabeth Hillman (Columbia University)
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Imaging neurovascular coupling in-vivo: from single neurons to BOLD

3:15 pm - 03:45 pm

Break

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm

Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann Institute)
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Dynamics of interactions between sensory- evoked electrical activity and hemodynamic responses in cortical micro vascular compartments

4:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Peter van Zijl (Johns Hopkins University)
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Multi-modality MRI approaches for the study of neurovascular coupling: What can we measure and what not?

5:15 pm - 5:30 pm

General Discussion

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Reception & Poster Session