Belgian Society for Neuroscience
The 4th bi-annual meeting 2001
Program of the meeting
Wednesday May 30, 2001
8:00 : Registration opens. Voting forms for board elections will be distributed.
8:30 : Welcome
E. De Schutter
8:40 : GLYCINE RECEPTORS ARE EXPRESSED BY POSTNATAL MULTIPOTENT NEURAL PROGENITORS
Nguyen, L., Malgrange, B., Belachew, S., Rogister, B., Rocher, V., Moonen, G. and Rigo, J.-M.
CNCM, University of Liège, Belgium
8:55 : DISTRIBUTION OF REELIN IMMUNOREACTIVITY IN THE BRAIN OF ADULT MALE EUROPEAN
STARLING (Sturnus vulgaris)
P. Absil (1), R. Pinxten (1), J. Balthazart (2) and M. Eens (1)
1. Dept. Biol., Univ. Antwerp UIA, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium, and 2. Univ.Liège, Ctr. Cell.
Molec. Neurobiol., B-4020 Liège, Belgium.
9:10 : EPHRINS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE PATTERNING OF NEURONAL CONNECTIONS IN THE DEVELOPING
NEOCORTEX
P. Vanderhaeghen, V. Depaepe, A. Dufour, L. Passante, S. Wart, Vassart G.
Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Brussels (U.L.B.).
9:25 : NEUREGULIN SIGNALING REGULATES NEURAL PRECURSOR GROWTH AND THE GENERATION OF
OLIGODENDROCYTES IN VITRO
B. Rogister (1), V. Calaora (2), K. Bismuth (2), K. Murray (2), H. Brandt (1), P. Leprince (1), M.
Marchionni (3) and M. Dubois-Dalcq (2)
1. Centre de Recherches en Neurobiologie Cellulaire et Molculaire, Université de Liège,
Belgium, 2. Neurovirologie et Régénration du Système Nerveux, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, 3.
Cambridge NeuroScience, Inc. Norwood, MA, USA
9:40 : GENERATION OF SUPPORTING AND HAIR CELLS FROM PROGENITORS ISOLATED FROM A NEWBORN
MAMMALIAN ORGAN OF CORTI
B. Malgrange, S. Belachew, M. Thiry, B. Rogister, M.-L. Alvarez, J.-M. Rigo, L. Nguyen, T.R. Van
De Water, G. Moonen and P.P. Lefebvre
CNCM, University of Liège, B-4020 Liège, Belgium; Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Biology,
University of Liège, B-4020, Liège, Belgium; Departments of Otolaryngology, AECOM, NY 10461,
USA.
9:55 : Coffee break
10:20 : PATTERNING THE EMBRYONIC BRAIN
A. Lumsden
MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, Guy's Hospital, London,
United Kingdom
11:10 : Poster session (all posters)
13:00 : Lunch break
14:30 : SHUNTING INHIBITION AND "HORIZONTAL" CONNECTIVITY: A
NECESSARY SILENT STEP IN VISUAL CORTICAL PROCESSING
Y. Fregnac
Unité de Neurosciences Intégratives et Computationnelles, Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred
Fessard, Gif sur Yvette, France
15:30 : MACAQUE INFERIOR TEMPORAL NEURONS ARE NOT SELECTIVE FOR ANTICORRELATED RANDOM
DOT STEREOGRAMS
P. Janssen, R. Vogels, Y. Liu, G. A. Orban.
Lab. Neuro-en Psychofysiologie, KU Leuven Medical School, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven,
Belgium.
15:45 : DISPARITY-SENSITIVE FMRI SIGNALS IN THE AWAKE FIXATING MONKEY
W. Vanduffel, D.Y. Tsao, D. Fize, K. Nelissen, P. Van Hecke, J.B. Mandeville, R.B.H. Tootell,
G.A. Orban.
Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U.Leuven Medical School; Radiologie UZ-Gasthuisberg K.U.Leuven;
MGH-NMR ctr., Boston, USA.
16:00 : Coffee break
16:30 : AREAS INVOLVED IN MOTION PROCESSING USING CONTRAST-AGENT
ENHANCED FMRI IN AWAKE FIXATING MACAQUES
D. Fize, W. Vanduffel, J.B. Mandeville, K. Nelissen, P. Van Hecke, R.B.H. Tootell, G.A. Orban
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U.Leuven Medical School; Radiologie
UZ-Gasthuisberg K.U.Leuven; MGH-NMR ctr., Boston, USA
16:45 : SENSITIVITY OF MACAQUE INFERIOR TEMPORAL NEURONS TO PARAMETRICALLY VARIED SHAPE
CHANGES
G Kayaert, R Vogels* and I Biederman.
Lab. Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, KULeuven Medical School, Leuven, Belgium and University of
Southern California
17:00 : MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF ADULT BRAIN PLASTICITY: GLUTAMATE AND BEYOND
L. Arckens, E. Vandergucht, I. Leysen, G. Vandenbergh, A. Massie, S. Clerens, K. Vandamme, F.
Vandesande
Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology and Immunological Biotechnology, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium
17:15 : End of the first day
Thursday May 31, 2001
8:00 : Registration opens. Voting forms for board elections will be distributed.
8:30 : EMERGENCE OF HIGH-FREQUENCY OSCILLATION IN THE CEREBELLUM OF MICE LACKING
CALBINDIN
Cheron G. (1), Gall D. (2), Schurmans, S., Meyer, M. and Schiffmann, S. (2)
1. Lab of Electrophysiology, Univ. of Mons, and Lab of Movement Biomechanics (ULB), 2. Lab of
Neurophysiology, Univ. of Brussels (ULB), Belgium; IRIBHN, Univ. of Brussels (ULB) ,Dep.of
Neurochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry;
8:45 : PERIPHERAL STIMULI EXCITE CORONAL BEAMS OF GOLGI CELLS IN RAT CEREBELLAR CORTEX
R. Maex, A. Volny-Luraghi, B. Vos and E. De Schutter
Laboratory for Theoretical Neurobiology, Born-Bunge Foundation, Universiteit Antwerpen
9:00 : ALTERED ELECTRORESPONSIVENESS OF CEREBELLAR GRANULE CELLS IN MICE LACKING
CALRETININ
D. Gall (1), I. Susa (2), E. D'Angelo (4), P. Rossi (4), S. Schurmans (3) and S.N. Schiffmann (1)
1. Lab. de Neurophysiologie, 2. Unite de Chronobiologie Theorique, 3. Institut de Biologie et
de Medecine Moleculaire, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and 4. Department of
Molecular/Cellular Physiology, University of Pavia, Italy.
9:15 : PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY OF CEREBELLAR RADIAL GLIA
Leprince P., Chanas-Sacr G., Nguyen L, Thiry M., Rogister, B. and Moonen G.
Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, University of Liège, 17 Place Delcour, B-4020
Liège, Belgium
9:30 : LONG-TERM DEPRESSION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION IN A MULTI-COMPARTMENTAL MODEL OF A
CEREBELLAR PURKINJE CELL
V. Steuber and E. De Schutter
Laboratory for Theoretical Neurobiology, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp
9:45 : Coffee break
10:10 : Voting for board elections ends.
10:10 : DENDRITIC SIGNALING PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN CEREBELLAR LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC
DEPRESSION
G. Augustine
Dept. Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
11:10 : Poster session (all posters)
12:30 : Business meeting Belgian Society for Neuroscience
- results of the vote for the new board
- vote on change of statutes
- workshop or meeting in 2002
- FENS matters
- questions from the members
13:00 : Lunch break
14:00 : Meeting of new board of the BSN
14:30 : FUNCTIONAL PARCELLATION OF GESTURE-SPECIFIC VISUAL PROCESSES IN THE
OCCIPITO-TEMPORAL CORTEX
P Peigneux (1,3), E Salmon (1,2), G Garraux (1,2), S Laureys (1,2), J Aerts (1), G Del Fiore (1),
C Degueldre (1), A Luxen (1), M Van Der Linden (3)
1. Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege, Belgium, 2. Department of Neurology, CHU
Sart Tilman, Belgium, 3. Department of Neuropsychology, University of Liege, Belgium
14:45 : MENTAL IMAGERY OF SHAPE IN EARLY BLIND HUMANS PET STUDY INVESTIGATING CROSSMODAL
ACTIVATION
A. Vanlierde (1), A.G. De Volder* (1,2) M.C. Wanet-Defalque (1) H. Toyama (2) Y. Kimura (2) H.
Nakano (2) M. Mishina (2) K. Oda (2) K. Ishiwata (2) M. Kiyosawa (2) and M. Senda (2).
1. Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; 2. Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of
Gerontology, Tokyo 173-0015, JAPAN
15:00 : NEUROMODULATORY EFFECTS OF HYPNOTIC STATE ON PAIN PERCEPTION
M.-E. Faymonville, S. Laureys, N. Janssens, G. Del Fiore, C. Degueldre, M. Lamy, A. Luxen, P.
Maquet
Cyclotron Research Center, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Int. Care Med. and Dept. of Neurology,
University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
15:15 : HUMAN FMRI-DATA ANALYZED BY LOOKING AT THEIR SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS
P.A. De Maziere and M. Van Hulle
Laboratorium voor Neuro- and Psychofysiologie, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
15:30 : PLASTICITY OF VOLTAGE-GATED CHANNELS IN THE VESTIBULAR NEURONS IN RESPONSE TO A
SUPPRESSION OF THEIR LABYRINTHINE SYNAPTIC INPUT
L. Ris and E. Godaux
Department of Neurosciences, University of Mons-Hainaut, B-7000 Mons.
15:45 : Coffee break
16:15 : IDENTIFICATION OF GENES DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED IN THE
FRAGILE X KNOCKOUT MOUSE
I. Gantois, E. Reyniers, F. Kooy
Department of medical genetics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
16:30 : ASSESSING RESIDUAL BRAIN FUNCTION FOLLOWING ACUTE BRAIN INJURY. A PET STUDY OF
COMATOSE, VEGETATIVE, MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS AND LOCKED-IN PATIENTS
S Laureys, J Berre, S Antoine, M-E Faymonville, C Phillips, S Elincx, P Van Bogaert, X Detiege, J
Aerts, D Wikler, P Damhaut, F Damas, A Luxen, G Moonen, M Lamy, J-L Vincent, S Goldman , P
Maquet
Cyclotron Research Centre, Dept. of Neurology and Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine,
University of Liege; PET/Biomedical Cyclotron Unit, Dept. of Intensive Care Medicine, ULB Erasme,
Brussels; Dept. of Neurology, AZ-VUB, Brussels, Belgium.
16:45 : INACTIVATION OF ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTOR IMPAIRS LONG TERM POTENTIATION IN THE
ACCUMBENS NUCLEUS WITHOUT ALTERING BASAL SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION.
P. dAlcantara (1,2), C. Ledent (2), S. Swillens (2) and S. N. Schiffmann (1)
1. Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, and 2. Institut de Recherche
Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Nuclaire, School of Medicine, Universit Libre de
Bruxelles, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium.
17:00 : THE EFFECTS OF LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC
STIMULATION ON HABITUATION IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS
Bohotin V., Fumal A., Bohotin C., Schoenen J.
Univerity of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Liege, Belgium
17:15 : End of meeting