Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, HInxton, Cambridge, UK
1st - 4th October 2008
Integrative Approaches to Brain Complexity October 1 - 5, 2008 Abstract Deadline - July 9, 2008Organizers: Seth Grant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK Nathaniel Heintz, HHMI/The Rockerfeller University, USA Jeffrey Noebels, Baylor College of Medicine, USA past program
The fourth Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust conference on Integrative Approaches to Brain Complexity will be held at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. The meeting will begin in the afternoon of Wednesday October 1 (2pm), and end with a banquet on Saturday evening, with departure on Sunday morning, October 5, 2008. Understanding the structural and functional complexity of the vertebrate nervous system is the theme of this meeting. Advances in genomics and proteomics are defining the molecular building blocks that underpin the structural complexity of the brain and it behavioural output. Combining genetic discoveries with anatomical, electrophysiological and behavioural findings, it is now feasible to integrate this knowledge. This meeting will address approaches ranging from molecular biology to behaving animal studies, from single gene to complex sets of genes, from synapses to networked brain functions. Emphasis will be placed on large scale approaches that generate accesssible molecular and biological databases. Strategies for acquisition of molecular, physiological and behavioural data on a large scale and the analysis and integration of this data will be addressed. In keeping with traditional Cold Spring Harbor meetings, the majority of oral presentations will be drawn from openly submitted abstracts. Tentative Topics Genetic technologies: QTL / Targeted gene mutation / Chemical mutagenesis / DNA microarrays / Proteomics Genomics and Bioinformatics Comparative neurogenomics Brain transcriptome & gene expression mapping Protein interactions & biochemical pathway mapping Brain atlases & anatomical pathway mapping Electrophysiological approaches Behavioural methods Databases and management Data integration and systems biology Clinical genetics
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Keynote Speaker (Francis Crick Lecture in Neuroscience) Nigel Unwin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Discussion Leaders: Edward Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA Winfried Denk, Max-Planck Institute, Germany Daniel Geschwind, UCLA Center for Autism Research, USA Sten Grillner, Karolinska Insitute, Sweden Arthur Konnerth, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Germany Anders Lansner, KTH/CSC/CB, Sweden Gilles Laurent, California Institute of Technology, USA Joseph LeDoux, New York University, USA Susana Lima, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Kyoto University, Japan Hannah Monyer, University of Heidelberg, Germany Lennart Mucke, University of California, San Francisco, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, USA Shigetada Nakanishi, Osaka Biosciences Institute, Japan Andreas Schaefer, Max-Planck-Institute, Heidelberg, Germany Erin Schuman, HHMI/California Institute of Technology, USA Peter Seeburg, University of Heidelberg, Germany Angus Silver, University College London, UK Jesper Sjostrom, University College London, UK Peter Somogyi, Medical Research Council, UK Stephen Williams, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
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