McGovern Institute Symposium in Bejing, China
New Frontiers in Brain Research
Tsinghua University
Beijing China
February 24-25, 2009
http://bme.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/mcgovern_sym/
Day One
| 09:00 - 09:30am |
Introduction and Welcome: Bob Desimone (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 09:30 - 10:05am |
Bai Lu (National Institute of Health)
"Role of BDNF in cognitive function and dysfunction"
|
| 10:05 - 10:40am |
Yingxi Lin (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
yingxi@mit.edu
"Activity-Dependent Regulation of Inhibitory Synapses"
|
| 10:40 - 11:00am |
Break |
| 11:00 - 11:35am |
Lifang Wang (Peking University Mental Health Hospital)
"Whole Genome Association Studies of Autism"
|
| 11:35 - 12:10pm |
Zhiqi Xiong (ION):
xiongzhiqi@ion.ac.cn
"The role of Rett syndrome gene stk9 in dendrite development and synapse formation"
|
| 12:10 - 01:55pm |
Lunch |
| 01:55 - 02:30pm |
Yi Rao (Peking University School of Life Sciences)
"Molecular Biology of Social Behavior"
|
| 02:30 - 03:05pm |
Guosong Liu (Tsinghua University)
"Rejuvenation of brain"
|
| 03:05 - 03:25pm |
Break |
| 03:25 - 04:00pm |
Ed Boyden (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
esb@media.mit.edu
"Optical Control of Normal and Pathological Neural Circuit Computations"
|
| 04:00 - 04:35pm |
Jing Chen (Tsinghua) (talk title - biochips) |
| 04:35 - 05:10pm |
Ki Ann Goosens (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
kgoosens@mit.edu
"The stressed brain: new treatments for pathological fear and anxiety"
|
Day Two
| 09:00 - 09:35am |
Haishan Yao (ION):
haishanyao@ion.ac.cn
"Processing of Complex Spectral Signals in the Early Visual System"
|
| 09:35 - 10:10am |
Wu Li (State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University)
"Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning"
|
| 10:10 - 10:30am |
Break
|
| 10:30 - 11:05am |
Robert Desimone (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
desimone@mit.edu
"Neural Synchrony and Attention"
|
| 11:05 - 11:40am |
Zhaoping Li (University College London)
z.li@cs.ucl.ac.uk
"A bottom-up saliency map in the primary visual cortex --- theory and experimental tests"
|
| 11:40 - 12:15pm |
Lin Chen and Ke Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science and Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences):
"Interaction between topological perception and fear-emotion, and its neural correlation in amygdala and anterior temporal lobe"
|
| 12:15 - 02:00pm |
Lunch |
| 01:55 - 02:30pm |
Yi Rao (Peking University School of Life Sciences)
"Molecular Biology of Social Behavior"
|
| 02:00 - 02:35pm |
Li Liu (State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science):
"Functional Structure in central brain of Drosophila for visual pattern memory"
|
| 02:35 - 03:10pm |
Jia Liu (National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University)
"The brain network for face perception: its structure, behavioral significance, and development"
|
| 03:10 - 03:30pm |
Break
|
| 03:30 - 04:05pm |
Minmin Luo (NIBS):
"CO2 sensing by the nose"
|
| 04:05 - 04:40pm |
Michale Fee (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
fee@mit.edu
"The role of basal-ganglia-forebrain circuitry in vocal exploration and learning in the songbird"
|
| 04:40pm |
Symposium Ends
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