Belgian Society for Neuroscience
The 5th bi-annual meeting 2003
Program of the meeting
Monday May 19, 2003
8:00 : Registration opens
Voting forms for board elections will be distributed
8:40 : WELCOME
De Schutter Erik
8:55 : QUANTIFICATION OF CEREBRAL PERFUSION PARAMETERS IN DIFFERENT MOUSE MODELS UPON
NEURODEGENERATION USING IN-VIVO BOLUS TRACKING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI)
Vanhoutte Greetje
9:10 : SUBSTANCE P PROTECTS SPIRAL GANGLION NEURONS FROM APOPTOSIS VIA PKC-CA2+-MAPK/ERK
PATHWAYS
Lallemend Francois
9:25 : AREA-SPECIFICITY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THALAMOCORTICAL PROJECTIONS IS CONTROLLED BY
EPHRIN/EPH GENES.
Dufour Audrey
9:40 : NG2 PROTEOGLYCAN-EXPRESSING PROGENITOR CELLS ARE INTRINSICALLY MULTIPOTENT AND
GENERATE FUNCTIONAL GABAERGIC NEURONS IN THE ADULT DENTATE GYRUS
Belachew Shibeshih
9:55 : Coffee break
10:20 : invited talk : THE ORIGIN AND MIGRATION OF CORTICAL NEURONS
John G Parnavelas
University College London-Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology
11:10 : Poster session (all posters)
13:00 : Lunch break
14:30 : invited talk : CULTURE IN A PRIMATE'S BRAIN: NEUROIMAGING
STUDIES OF READING (no abstract)
Stanislas Dehaene
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale Service Hospitalier Frederic
Joliot
15:20 : FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING OF SONGBIRDS WHEN LISTENING TO SONGS A FUNCTIONAL
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (FMRI) STUDY
Van Meir Vincent
15:35 : THE PROCESSING OF 2D SHAPE IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX OF THE MONKEY AND THE HUMAN
Denys Katrien
15:50 : PROCESSING OF KINETIC BOUNDARIES IN MACAQUE V4 A SINGLE CELL STUDY
Mysore Santosh
16:05 : Coffee break
16:30 : ACUTE VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION (VNS) IN GENETIC ABSENCE EPILEPSY RATS FROM
STRASBOURG (GAERS)
Dedeurwaerdere Stefanie
16:45 : LONG-TERM AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPAL DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION FOR REFRACTORY TEMPORAL
LOBE EPILEPSY
Vonck Kristl
17:00 : C15O2-POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY ACTIVATION STUDY DURING VAGUS NERVE
STIMULATION IN PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY EPILEPSY.
Bosman Tommy
17:15 : End of the first day
Tuesday May 20, 2003
8:00 : Registration opens
Voting forms for board elections will be distributed
8:30 : SHORT TERM PLASTICITY OF COMPLEX SPIKE WAVEFORM IN PURKINJE CELL.
Laurent Servais
8:45 : VARIABILITY IN THE RESPONSE PATTERNS OF PURKINJE CELLS TO TACTILE STIMULATION
Shin SoonLim
9:00 : ALPHA NORADRENERGIC RECEPTORS MEDIATE DOPAMINERGIC EFFECTS IN THE QUAIL PREOPTIC
AREA
Cornil Charlotte
9:15 : IN VITRO AND IN VIVO CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EFFECTS OF THE NEW SK CHANNEL
BLOCKER METHYL-LAUDANOSINE
Seutin Vincent
9:30 : INVOLVEMENT OF GABAA RECEPTOR SUBUNIT D IN THE FRAGILE X SYNDROME
Gantois Ilse
9:45 : Coffee break
10:10 : invited talk : BRAIN GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTERS IN HEALTH AND
DISEASE
David I Attwell
University College London- Department of Physiology
11:00 : Business meeting Belgian Society for Neuroscience
- results of the vote for the new board
- results of competition for FENS fellowships
- FENS matters
- questions from the members
11:20 : Poster session (all posters)
13:00 : End of meeting