Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Session 1: Neural Stem Cells (Joint session with BMAP)
0900-0920 Welcome address by guest of honor
0920-0955 Stem cells and Parkinson's disease
Ernest Arenas
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
0955-1030 Regulation of neural fate in embryos and stem cells
Claudio Stern
University College London, UK
1030-1105 Neural Stem Cells and CNS-Repair
Hideyuki Okano
Keio University, Japan
1105-1125 Coffee break
1125-1200 Receptors regulating neurogenesis Gavin Dawe
NUS, Singapore
1200-1215 Speaker chosen from poster session
1215-1230 Speaker chosen from poster session
1230-1400 Lunch Break and Poster Viewing

Session 2: Neuron-glia interaction
1400-1435 Olfactory ensheathing cells, their role in CNS repair
Susan Barnett
Glasgow University, UK
1435-1510 Involvement of microglia in the arrest of oligodendrocyte maturation during demyelination
Kazuhiro Ikenaka
National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
1510-1545 TBC
Dominique Bagnard
Université Strasbourg, France
1545-1615 Coffee Break and Poster viewing
1615-1650 In vivo analysis of development of circumventricular organs in transgenic zebrafish
Vladimir Korzh
IMCB, Singapore
1650-1705 Speaker chosen from poster session
1705-1720 Speaker chosen from poster session