Symposium on Learning about memory: cells, circuits and behaviour

International Symposium on “Learning about memory: cells, circuits and behavior”
February 15-16, 2009
Venue: LH1,NCBS

Understanding how cells and circuits in the mammalian brain encode, store and retrieve memories is a fundamental goal of neuroscience. To this end, a multidisciplinary approach using a combination of electrophysiological, pharmacological and behavioral tools has provided key evidence linking synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and its essential role in learning and memory. More recent advances in mouse genetics, along with in vivo recordings of neuronal activity in behaving animals, have provided further insights into how plasticity, transmission, and oscillations in hippocampal and cortical circuits relate to function at the behavioral level. This workshop will feature a series of lectures by neuroscientists who have made important contributions to this field of research.

Please click here Program Schedule.

Confirmed Speakers:
Tim Bliss, NIMR, UK
Graham Collingridge, University of Bristol, UK
Matt Jones, University of Bristol, UK
Thomas McHugh, RIKEN BSI, Japan
Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ole Paulsen, University of Oxford, UK

This symposium is primarily intended for senior graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Attendees are requested to submit online registration form and a brief write up of 250 words on their current research work before or by February 10, 2010. Poster presentation based on the applicants current research in neuroscience is mandatory.

Poster size: 5ftx4ft in landscape

Accommodation:
Attendees are requested to make their own arrangements. Limited accommodation may be available.
This meeting is funded by and is being organized jointly by NCBS and "The Science & Innovation Network"