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Title

Systems Biology of the Brain

Dates

August 24-25, 2015

Lang EN Workshop language is English
Responsable de l'activité

Simon Sprecher

Organizer(s)

Prof. Simon Sprecher, UNIFR

Speakers

Confirmed speakers:
- Hubert Amrein, Texas A&M University, USA
- Stephanie Bertrand, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Banyuls-sur-mer
- Andre Brown, Imperial College London, UK
- Hector Escriva, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Banyuls-sur-mer
- Brigitte Galliot, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Volker Hartenstein, University of California Los Angeles, USA
- Gaspar Jekely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- Pedro Martinez, University of Barcelona, Spain
- Jan Pielage, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel
- Fabian Rentzsch, SARS Center, Bergen, Norway
- Attila Stetak, University of Basel
- Manuel Zimmer, IMP, Vienna, Austria

Description

The human brain remains one of the biggest mysteries in natural sciences. The complex network of nerve cells and its large number of unidirectional connections however provides the basis for any form of basic human behaviour to higher cognitive functions. In the recent years the advent of large-scale analysis techniques and genomic methods profoundly advanced the way we study the brain. Emergence of fields including neuromics, connectomics, neurogenetics and ethomics depict how the "omics-world" has taken an leading role in neuronscience. The two-day course with workshops will give an introductory overview of various aspects of analysis of the nervous systems. Lectures will include large-scale approaches to understand genes, neurons and synaptic connections in the brain. We will provide a broad overview on the evolving fields and reveal solutions of data handling. Moreover various genetic model systems from simple invertebrates such as insects and nematodes to higher mammals will be presented. The goal of the course consists in giving the students an overview into the emerging fields in neurosciences. Thus to provide all basic information of how novel techniques move the border of science and directly impact the approaches of how the complexity brain can be unveiled.

Location

University of Fribourg, 0.110 Auditorium Plant Biology, Rte A. Gockel 3

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Registration

CUSO PhD students: through your MyCUSO account.  External participants (non-CUSO PhD students, post-docs, etc...): use the icon "registration" at top of page and the last gray box "non-CUSO student" ("personne hors myCUSO").

Places

50

Deadline for registration 01.08.2015
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