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7th EMBL/EMBO Joint Conference 2006 |
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Programme |
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| Genes, Brain/Mind and Behaviour |
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| Programme [PDF] |
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| Friday,
3 November |
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| 08:00-09:00 |
Registration |
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| 08:50-09:00 |
Welcome
address
Frank Gannon, Executive Director,
EMBO
Halldór Stefánsson, Science and Society Programme, EMBL |
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Session
I
Genes and Behaviour
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Chair: Erik Parens, Hastings Centre, New York, USA
Audio [7 MB] |
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| Lectures:
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| 09:30-10:00 |
Barry J. Dickson, IMP, Vienna, Austria
Genetic analysis of innate behaviours in Drosophila
Audio [26 MB] |
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10:00-10:30
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Ulrike Heberlein, University of California at San Francisco, USA
Drugs, flies and videotape: What can fruit flies teach us
about drug addiction?
Audio [34 MB] |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Turhan Canli, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
Genomic Psychology – An outlook for the next 100 years
Audio [32 MB] |
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Pierre L. Roubertoux, CNRS – Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
From DNA to the Mind: the meaning of the link
Audio [32 MB] |
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| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch Break |
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Session
II
From genes to brain/mind
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| Chair: Hannah Monyer, Department of Clinical Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
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Lectures: |
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| 13:30-14:00 |
Wolf Singer, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
The role of coherence in higher cognitive processes
Audio [31 MB] |
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| 14:00-14:30 |
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Making of the brain: genetic and epigenetic regulations -
from molecular biology to consciousness
Audio [32 MB] |
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Isabelle Mansuy, Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich/ETHZ, Switzerland
Molecular constraints on learning and memory
Audio [28 MB] |
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Rava A. da Silveira, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Sophisticated Visual Adaptation in the Retina
Audio [24 MB] |
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany
From Neuroethics to Consciousness Ethics: The Wider
Context
Audio [26 MB] |
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:30-18:00 |
Panel
discussion
Audio [76 MB] |
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| Chair: Nikos K. Logothetis, Max-Planck-Institute for Biologicial Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany |
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Klaus-Peter Lesch, University of Würzburg, Germany
Cornelius Gross, EMBL Monterotondo, Italy
Petra Störig, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
Steven Rose, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK |
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| 18:00-18:20 |
EMBO Award for communication in the Life Sciences |
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| 19:00-21:00 |
Conference Banquet |
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| Saturday,
4 November |
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Session
III
The mind/body shop: behavioral drugs and new neurotechnologies
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| Chair: Rainer Spanagel, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
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| 09:00-09:30 |
Thomas Dierks, University Hospital for Psychiatry, Bern, Switzerland
Neuroimaging techniques: possibilities and limitations with regard to normal and pathological brain function
Audio [26 MB] |
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| 09:30-10:00 |
Lars Sundstrom, Capsant Neurotechnologies, Southampton, UK
Drug discovery: Thinking inside the box
Audio [29 MB] |
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Michael Kosfeld, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Games in the Brain
Audio [32 MB] |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Ilina Singh, BIOS – London School of Economics, UK
Doing Bad and Feeling Good: Stimulant Drugs in Childhood
Audio [29 MB] |
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Paul Root Wolpe, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Bioethics, Biotechnology, and the Brain
Audio [37 MB] Presentation [1 MB] |
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| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch Break |
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Session
IV
From 'genethics' to 'neuroethics'?
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| Chair: Alex Quintanilha, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal |
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| 13:30-14:00 |
Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Neuroethics beyond genethics
Audio [30 MB] Presentation [3 MB] |
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| 14:00-14:30 |
Judy Illes, Stanford University, School of Medicine, USA
From Genetics to Neuroethics: Is Imaging "Visualising"
Human Thought?
Audio [15 MB] Presentation [14 MB] |
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Erik Parens, The Hastings Centre, New York, USA
Three Concerns about the Balkanization of Bioethics |
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Raymond G. De Vries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Firing the Neuroethical Imagination
Audio [30 MB] |
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Jackie Leach Scully, University of Newcastle, UK
The Ship Who Sang: the neuro-machine interface as
prosthetic, extension, and fantasy
Audio [29 MB] Presentation [2 MB] |
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:30-18:30 |
Panel
discussion
Audio [76 MB] |
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| Chair: Nikolas Rose, BIOS – London School of Economics, UK |
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Alison Abbott, Nature, Germany
Jörg Naumann, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Turhan Canli, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
Alex Quintanilha, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal |
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| 18:30-18:45 |
Closing remarks
Iain Mattaj, Director General, EMBL
Audio [18 MB] |
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