Friday, 11/23/2007

Session One – Clinical Research (Chairstudent: Melanie Flach)

10.00 – 10.45
Professor Andreas Schulze-Bonhage is head of the Epilepsiezentrum of the Freiburg university hospital. He is using diagnostical tools such as functional magnetic resonance imaging or electroencephalography to analyse the onset of epileptic diseases. Aditionally, A. Schulze-Bonhage´s lab is interested in the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation as a potential therapy for epilepsy. (Abstract)

10.45-11.30
Professor S. Sigristworks at the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology of the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. He focused on development of the neuromuscular junction in Drosophila, where Bruchpilot  and other molecules are highly important for the regulation of active zones. (Abstract)

Lunch break 11.30 – 13.30

Session Two – Glia (Chairstudent: Anna-Lena Steckelberg)

13.30 – 14.15
Professor Klaus-Armin Nave is head of the Department of Neurogenetics at the Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen. He works on neuron-glia interactions during myelination as well as on the role of regulatory helix-loop-helix transcription factors in neuronal plasticity. (Abstract)

14.15 – 15.00
Professor Volkmar Gieselmann was involved in the initiation of the study course Molecular Biomedicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn. His research focuses on metachromatic leukodystrophy which is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by severe demyelination. (Abstract)

Coffe break 15.00 – 15.45

Session Three – Neuronal Networks (Chairstudent: Stefanie Tang)

15.45 – 16.30
Professor Ad Aertsen is coordinator of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Freiburg. He works on neuronal network-simulations (e.g. focusing on neuronal dynamics and spike synchronisation) basing on electrophysiological recordings. (Abstract)

16.30 – 17.15
Professor Olga Garaschuk is interested in the biology of Alzheimer´s disease. In particular, she examines the connection between intracellular calcium-signaling and plaque formation by using in vivo 2-photon calcium-imaging. (Abstract)

17.15 – 18.00
Professor Aurel Popa-Wagner is head of the Department of Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Greifswald and focuses mainly on the physiological basis of chronical fear (e.g. synaptic plasticity in the amygdala), regulation of neural stem cells (e.g. to potentially regenerate ischemic areas of the brain after stroke) and epilepsy associated proteins such as the Rieske-Protein. (Abstract)

21.30 - 1.00:
Evening event – meet all the Professors in the Peterhofkeller of the University to talk, listen, learn and simply have a good time.