Keio University 150th Anniversary Symposium on Neuroscience - From molecule to cognition -

Keio University 150th Anniversary Symposium on Neuroscience
- From molecule to cognition -

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 13:00 - 17:50

Place: Keio University, Mita Campus, North Building Hall

Admission:
Free and open to the public (online registration required)
Please note that a limited number of seats are available.

Hosts
Global COE "Centre for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility"
Global COE "Center for Human Metabolomic Systems Biology"
The Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS)

Contact
Keio University 150th Anniversary Symposium on Neuroscience Office
Email: [email protected]

Program

13:00-13:20
Opening remark
Professor Yuichiro Anzai, President, Keio University

13:20-14:20
Chair: Professor Kazunori Nakajima, Department of Anatomy, Keio University School of Medicine
"Promise and problems of molecular targeted therapiesin children: Lessons from Hedgehog pathway inhibitors"
Professor Tom Curran, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

14:20-15:20
Chair: Professor Shigeru Watanabe, Faculty of Letters, Keio University
"Regeneration of the damaged Central Nervous System"
Professor Hideyuki Okano, Department of Physiology, Keio University of Medicine

15:20-15:40
Coffee Break

15:40-16:40
Chair: Professor Shigeru Watanabe, Faculty of Letters, Keio University
"Imaging cognition and genetics"
Professor Richard Frackowiak, Vice-Provost (Special Projects), Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London

16:40-17:40
Chair: Professor Masato Yasui, Department of Pharmacology, Keio University School of Medicine
"Aquaporin water channels: from atomic structure to clinical medicine"
Professor Peter Agre, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

17:40-17:50
Closing remark
Professor Shigeru Watanabe, Faculty of Letters, Keio University

Speaker Profiles (in alphabetical order)

Professor Peter Agre
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

Professor Yuichiro Anzai
President, Keio University

Professor Tom Curran
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Professor Richard Frackowiak
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
UCL Institute of Neurology

Professor Hideyuki Okano
Department of Physiology
Keio University School of Medicine

Professor Shigeru Watanabe
Faculty of Letters
Keio University

To register online, please click on the link:

Deadline to register is July 9, 2008 (until midnight Japan time for online registration)

Upon registration, a notice will be sent to the email address provided.

Should you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected] .